27 Apr 2018
The German energy transition demands not only the expansion, but also the optimal use of the power grid, says the council of Germany's federal state governments (Bundesrat). Possible measures include power line monitoring, or the use of high ...
A fairer procurement of resources needed to manufacture renewable energy facilities would help the energy transition “make a real contribution to more global justice and climate protection,” says catholic relief organisation Misereor in a press release. ...
The Bavarian arm of the Industrial Union of Metalworkers (IG Metall) is calling for state support for a battery cell factory in the southern German state, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. “The state government should extend ...
28 Mar 2022, 12:49 Kerstine Appunn Gas 91tv Germany’s federal parliament (Bundestag) has passed legislation forcing gas infrastructure operators to fill storage facilities to certain levels throughout the year in order to avoid shortages ...
23 Mar 2022, 12:38 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 G20 & G7 Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany has a key role to play when it comes to getting governments across the world on board for the transition away from fossil fuels, said the country’s new state ...
In the debate about the controversial planned direct Russian-German pipeline Nord Stream 2 and its effects on Ukraine, the German federal government wants to help ensure that the requisite modernisation of Ukraine’s gas infrastructure takes place. Germany ...
22 Mar 2022, 13:00 Jessica Bateman Gas Security Zeit / Tagesspiegel / Handelsblatt Germany’s opinion writers have weighed in on the government’s liquid natural gas (LNG) deal with Qatar, concluding that the country has little choice but to accept an ...
31 Mar 2022, 13:51 Edgar Meza Transport Cars Cost & Prices 91tv Electric vehicles can save up to 300 euros a month compared to cars with diesel and petrol engines, according to a cost analysis report by Greenpeace. Despite temporary tax ...
25 Jan 2022, 13:24 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative ...
07 Mar 2022, 14:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv Several environmental groups are calling on Germany’s government to quickly present “a binding phase-out path for fossil gas” by 2040 in order to enable the country’s complete decarbonisation and ...
17 Feb 2022, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s government should soon introduce a so-called climate premium (“Klimageld”) to return the revenues from the national carbon price on transport and heating fuels to citizens, ...
20 Apr 2022, 13:39 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv Almost half of all new cars registered in Germany earlier this year were equipped with alternative fuel engines. The share of newly registered battery electric, hybrid, fuel cell, gas and hydrogen ...
04 Apr 2022, 14:01 Sören Amelang Cars Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A group of Volkswagen shareholders pushes Europe's largest carmaker to reveal its emissions regulation lobbying, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Seven institutional ...
China is the biggest market for e-cars with an additional 142,445 cars in the first quarter of 2018, followed by the US (54,000) and Germany (17,549) when it comes to the number of newly registered electric vehicles (pure electric and plug-in hybrid), ...
German electric air taxi startup Volocopter has presented a concept for the inner-city infrastructure needed to transport thousands of passengers with its autonomous and emission-free drones that take off vertically. “The vision integrates air taxis into ...
11 Mar 2022, 14:33 The rollout of solar panels and wind turbines is unlikely to be hampered by supply problems caused by the war in Ukraine, but the production of electric cars could take a hit, German business associations told 91tv. The ...
The Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) calls for an end of Germany’s Renewable Energy Act (EEG), which is aimed at supporting the expansion of renewable energy sources financially. In a press release on its “Agenda for ұԲ” for the year 2030, the vbw ...
The power distribution grid of German federal state Hesse is in part ready for the transition to over 90 percent renewables in power production and heating that Germany strives to attain by 2050, according to a study by the Fraunhofer research institute ...
The renewable energy sector will be competitive without financial support within the next four to five years, Germany’s Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier said on the sidelines of the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue. As an example, ...
Hard coal power station operator Steag, under pressure from strong wind energy production, is looking for a new investor after returning to profitability last year. Company CEO Joachim Rumstadt said at the annual press conference the company was looking ...
02 Mar 2022, 13:31 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Renewables Security 91tv Ensuring energy supply security can take priority over climate action, Germany’s economy and climate minister has said. Speaking to Deutschlandfunk (Dlf) radio, Robert ...
The approval processes for coal plants and mine expansions will not be halted while the upcoming multi-stakeholder commission on Germany’s coal exit – the so-called coal commission – discusses the country’s phase-out-path, indicates the economy ministry ...
11 Apr 2022, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Gas Funke Mediengruppe / 91tv Germany should look into the option of using fracking technology to extract domestic natural gas in light of the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia’s war against ...
A renewable, controllable power supply would be less expensive than producing electricity in new nuclear power plants in eastern Europe, a study conducted by Energy Brainpool and commissioned by power supplier Greenpeace Energy finds. Poland, Hungary, ...
The country’s lignite phase out needs another 20 years to avoid a “harsh structural break” for Germany’s coal regions – like it happened at the time of German reunification, Saxony’s state premier Michael Kretschmer told Leipziger Volkszeitung in an ...
Environmentally friendly technologies have become an important pillar of the German economy, the Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) says in a press release. According to the environment ministry’s new “GreenTech Atlas,” the sector accounted for 15 percent ...
German industry conglomerate Siemens and logistics company DB Schenker are among a group of prominent European companies calling for stricter EU emission limits for trucks and lorries, reports Markus Becker on Spiegel Online. In a letter addressed to ...
“As far as possible,” German carmakers themselves have to put right the “serious mistakes” made during the diesel crisis, said Chancellor Angela Merkel after a two-day cabinet retreat in Meseberg near Berlin. “The customer or taxpayer cannot be made ...
09 Mar 2022, 13:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Security 91tv The pivot away from Russian energy imports will require Germany to double down on its energy transition efforts and apply a speed similar to that of Tesla with its new ...
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the country’s “coal commission” tasked with finding a phase-out compromise should be headed by the ministry for economics and energy. After a cabinet meeting, she also said in addition to economy minister Peter ...
German consumers overwhelmingly support an open and competitive electricity market, while many blame the country’s green energy levy and additional taxes for rising electricity costs, Kathrin Witsch writes in Handelsblatt, citing a survey conducted by ...
In an interview with RP Online’s Jan Drebes and Kristina Dunz, German environment minister Svenja Schulze calls for an increase in subsidies for electric delivery vans in an effort to boost electromobility and clean the air. Schulze said she was working ...
Speaking to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’s Kerstin Schwenn, German transport minister Andreas Scheuer said Germany would see a transport turnaround as his ministry seeks to implement its “emergency programme for clean air,” which includes 1 billion ...
Bernd Westphal, energy policy spokesperson for Germany’s centre-left SPD party, is calling for a speedy reform of the costs related to the country’s Renewable Energy Act (EEG) and electricity levy system, Focus Online writes, citing a report by dpa. ...
15 Feb 2022, 13:24 Expert Federal Foreign Office Auswärtiges Amt International Security Paul Gordon Transport Government 91tv / RTL German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Green Party) wants to use regular scheduled flights more frequently ...
On the occasion of World Health Day on 7 April, medical doctors and climate protection proponents called for a coal exit in Germany by 2030. "We are firmly opposed to an economy that causes and tolerates illness," reads a declaration issued by ...
Renewable energy technologies hold significant potential in decarbonising industrial heating and cooling processes, writes the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) in a press release, based on a short study compiled by the Hamburg Institute. “As more ...
16 May 2022, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Rheinische Post / ARD / 91tv The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) have won the elections in Germany’s most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia by a wide margin, meaning ...
14 Feb 2022, 13:35 Paul Gordon Industry Policy 91tv A company alliance has called for closer cooperation on the capture, storage and transport of CO2 between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. In a joint letter, the signatories – among ...
Demand for subsidised electric vehicles in Germany remains far below the level hoped for. By the end of March 2018, authorities had received a total of 57,549 applications for an e-car buyer’s premium, the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export ...
14 Feb 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Security 91tv [Adds paragraph on related study about climate policy perception by science platform WPKS] The “increasingly tangible” threat of climate change and other risks at a global scale, such as the ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:12 Kerstine Appunn Finance International Security ARD / RND / POLITICO The European Union on Thursday announced wide-ranging economic sanctions against Russia in response to president Vladimir Putin’s military attack on Ukraine- but didn’t ...
US carmaker Tesla is back on a list of e-cars that are eligible for subsidies in Germany, website bild.de reports. The Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (Bafa) had argued that Tesla cars were too expensive to qualify for subsidies, ...
07 Feb 2022, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars 91tv Hybrid cars can make an important contribution to CO2 savings and also facilitate the switch from combustion engines to electric vehicles, German transport minister Volker Wissing said ...
Total EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) stationary emissions rose by 0.3 percent in 2017 compared to the previous year – the first rise in seven years, according to an analysis by British climate NGO Sandbag, based on provisional EU data. Lignite ...
07 Feb 2022, 13:51 Jessica Bateman Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cost & Prices 91tv Rising energy costs have led to a drop in approval ratings for Germany’s coal exit in eastern German mining regions, according to the Central Germany Monitor ...
German solar PV manufacturer SolarWorld Industries GmbH has filed for insolvency, writes Sandra Enkhardt for pv magazine. The announcement comes less than a year after SolarWorld AG filed for insolvency in May 2017. SolarWorld blames the planned phasing ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices EU 91tv The planned EU emissions trading system for transport and buildings (ETS 2) must be designed in a way that guarantees a socially acceptable burden-sharing, an analysis ...
The new government coalition in Germany’s northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein, has agreed on new regulations for wind energy expansion. This includes an increase of the minimum distance between turbines and the nearest settlement from 800 to 1,000 ...
28 Feb 2022, 13:42 Sören Amelang Gas Security 91tv Germany has agreed with its Western allies to oust Russian banks from the SWIFT global payments system in response to the war in Ukraine. The sanctions agreed by Germany, France, the European ...
18 Mar 2022, 13:48 Kerstine Appunn Gas Efficiency Security 91tv Germany can save enough energy to make itself almost independent from Russian gas within five years, but not entirely, a paper by think tank Agora Energiewende, consultancy ...
01 Feb 2022, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Jessica Bateman Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Wind pv magazine / Die Welt The total ...
New environment minister Svenja Schulze might be a “stroke of luck” for Germany’s climate policy, because she could narrow the gap between the political camps regarding the country’s coal exit, writes Kurt Stukenberg, co-chief editor of Greenpeace ...
Germany’s new economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said that the country will reach its 2030 climate targets if it starts to work towards them without delay. Addressing a joint press conference with North Rhine-Westphalia’s (NRW) state premier Armin ...
11 Apr 2022, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Security Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland Climate action must not be eroded as governments focus on Russia’s war against Ukraine and its effects on the economy, the head of Germany’s environment agency ...
Under a ruling by a regional court in Germany in favour of the country’s grid operators, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) cannot cut the guaranteed rate of return on power and natural gas grids, meaning that customers’ hopes for lower power prices ...
04 Jun 2015
04 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv BDI / IG BCE Industry Association joins forces with mining union to combat coal levy Leading German industry association BDI has thrown its weight behind mining union IG BCE ’s efforts to thwart ...
The energy transition in Germany, the Energiewende, has so far primarily focused on the decarbonisation of the power sector, but a greater emphasis on other sectors and synergies between sectors is necessary for the successful continuation of this ...
Germany’s new minister for the economy and energy, Peter Altmaier, wants to lower power prices for small and middle-sized companies. In an interview with Handelsblatt, Altmaier says companies that do not benefit from rebates for energy-intensive ...
Doctors in Germany should do more to promote the end of coal and oil in order to improve public health, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, head of the German Medical Association (Ärztekammer), says in an interview with movum magazine. “Climate change is real, it is ...
In their third grand coalition, Germany’s governing parties CDU/CSU and SPD are showing less interest in environmental protection than ever before, Veit Medick, Ralf Neukirch, Michael Sauga and Gerald Traufetter write in Der Spiegel. The coalition ...
The German government plans to ease regulations for marine geoengineering research, which could be used to bind carbon dioxide emissions by injecting certain substances into the world’s oceans that boost algae growth, Christoph Seidler writes on Spiegel ...
The state parliament in the northern German wind-power state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (MWP) has proposed a real estate tax for renewable energy installations that should be introduced across the entire country, Frank Pubantz writes in the Ostsee ...
08 Feb 2022, 14:48 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 International Die Zeit The EU’s Africa summit in mid-February is an ideal opportunity for Germany to look at how it can better support the continent in adapting to climate change, Olumide Abimbola, ...
More thant 30,000 new solar power storage devices have been installed in Germany last year, meaning the market volume has grown threefold over the past three years to a total of 80,000 devices, lobby association BSW Solar says in a press release. “We ...
01 Jul 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel can still hope to achieve substantial progress in climate protection as she enters difficult talks with the leaders of the world’s largest economies at this week’s G20 summit in Hamburg, John J. Kirton ...
The conflict between citizens’ right to clean air and car owners' right to protection from depreciation on diesel vehicles could be solved by introducing a “blue badge” with a transition period for older cars, Eric Heymann, analyst at Deutsche Bank ...
03 Feb 2022, 13:46 Jessica Bateman Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Background The new German government has not yet agreed on a joint position for the EU’s car emissions reduction plans, business newspaper Handelsblatt reports. The ...
Germany’s next government must introduce an “Emergency Programme for Climate Protection” to reach the goal of reducing greenhouse gases by 40 percent by 2020, write several Green Party and Green parliamentary group members in a paper seen by the Clean ...
24 Feb 2022, 12:59 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch ...
19 Jan 2022, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen G20 & G7 Germany will use its presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) major economies this year to turn the group into “a nucleus of an international climate club,” said German chancellor Olaf Scholz at the ...
German environmental NGO NABU says the boom in cruise ship tourism warrants a better control of the ships’ emissions and calls for a ban of “especially dirty cruise ships” in German harbours to reduce air pollution. In a press release, NABU head Leif ...
The current passionate discussions about diesel cars, air quality and driving bans should be used to kick-start a wide mobility transition dialogue between politicians, the car industry, citizens and environmentalists, writes Martin Gropp in an opinion ...
The opening of the low and medium-level nuclear waste final storage facility in the retired iron ore mine Schacht Konrad, near the German town of Salzgitter, will be postponed to 2027, writes Susanne Ehlerding in an article in Der Tagesspiegel. It was ...
03 Nov 2017, 00:00 Negotiations at the upcoming climate conference in Bonn are about “the heart of the Paris Agreement”, because the delegations will shape the transparency rules on how states measure and report their progress in climate mitigation, says ...
Representatives of the electricity and gas grid industry in Germany are looking for solutions to run their businesses in an “all-electric world” where the sectors of power generation, transport and heating are linked, a gathering at the Treffpunkt Netze ...
The energy policy official of the German Chancellery, Winfried Horstmann, will likely succeed Rainer Baake as state secretary for energy in the economy ministry, the Rheinische Post reports. Horstmann is said to be “a capable civil servant who is unlikely ...
The head of Germany’s largest carmaker VW, Matthias Müller, has said his company is of “systemic” relevance for the country and therefore must not be financially overburdened with costs accruing from a retrofitting of manipulated diesel cars, Daniel ...
Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has started the second auction for onshore wind power in 2018. The tendered volume is about 670 megawatt and bids can be submitted until 1 May, the BNetzA says in a press release. The maximum support level is 6.3 ...
The coming EU budget must “lead the way for investments in climate action” and set an example for “ steering investments in the right direction ”, Germany’s environment minister Barbara Hendricks says in a press release by the environment ministry (BMUB). ...
In a document named Energy Agenda 2030, the Economic Council of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU has issued a “list of demands” for designated economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier. A “readjustment” of Germany’s energy and climate ...
To help protect the climate, members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) should vote in favour of a grand coalition government with Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance, writes Benjamin von Brackel in an opinion piece for klimaretter.info. “A ...
In 2016, private households in Germany used 665 billion kilowatt hours of energy for housing purposes, a 1.4 percent increase on 2015, writes the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) in a press release. The figures are temperature adjusted and do ...
Germany’s energy transition is not yet perceived as a model for other countries to follow, but a successful implementation could still make it a success story and an inspiration, according to the study ’Energiewende, an interim review – International ...
German energy company Uniper’s Board of Management has proposed to increase the dividend more than planned to 74 cents per share for 2017 for a total of about 271 million euros, the company writes in an ad-hoc announcement. The total dividend amount would ...
09 Feb 2022, 13:20 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Handelsblatt The slur of programmes and initiatives aimed at boosting Germany’s emissions ...
The German government and five so-called model cities in the country have agreed on a scheme to tackle air pollution caused by vehicle exhaust fumes, the German environment ministry (BMUB) says in a press release. The proposals made by the cities Bonn, ...
The European Commission approved Germany’s 70 million euro scheme to encourage public transport operators to replace conventional diesel buses with electric or plug-in hybrids running on renewable electricity under state aid rules, the Commission writes ...
Chinese carmaker Geely chairman Li Shufu’s investment in Daimler should be seen as an opportunity for the German company to “develop a new path” into the Chinese market – despite the "justifiable cautiousness", writes Kirsten Ludowig in an ...
15 Feb 2022, 14:11 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Business & Jobs dpa / Der Spiegel German economy and climate protection minister Robert Habeck said hydrogen would soon establish itself as a key component of the energy transition, according to a dpa report ...
12 Dec 2015, 00:00 Countries have agreed to a new global deal to limit global warming and address climate change impacts / “Paris will forever be connected to this historic watershed,” says Chancellor Merkel / “Climate neutrality” still in the text, just ...
German battery company sonnen wants to equip electric car users with a new charging box that not only allows them to draw electricity from solar panels on their homes, but also connects them to other users, making them part of a larger battery pool. The ...
08 Mar 2022, 13:33 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Government Clean Energy ...
US carmaker Tesla has outstripped Germany’s premium carmakers in sales of luxury cars in Europe for the first time, Nick Gibbs writes in Automotive News Europe. “Tesla's Model S outsold the luxury flagships of Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi,” Gibbs ...
A referendum in Hamburg, Germany’s second largest city, seeks to ban the use of coal power for heating and electricity generation by 2030, Sven-Michael Veit writes for the Tageszeitung (taz). “We in Hamburg have to take the coal exit in our own hands,” ...
Sea level rise is a major consequence of climate change that will continue long after emissions of greenhouse gases have stopped, and today’s mitigation action is important to limit long-term risks, according to a study conducted by the Potsdam Institute ...
04 Feb 2022, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen EU Tagesspiegel Background Europe and Africa should intensify their cooperation on renewables like wind and solar as well as green hydrogen production, which would have benefits for both sides, ...
17 Jan 2022, 12:09 Julian Wettengel Wind 91tv Military obstacles and air traffic control systems often stand in the way of the much-needed expansion of onshore wind power in Germany, but the problem could be resolved quickly, said wind energy ...
Environmentalists suspect trees that provide a habitat for protected birds of prey have been cut down to make way for a wind farm in the German costal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Maik Baumgärtner writes for Spiegel Online. Wildlife NGO Nabu ...
17 Jan 2022, 12:11 Jessica Bateman Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A number of industry heads are calling on Germany’s new government to lower electricity prices for industry, Handelsblatt reports. Volker Backs, CEO of aluminium producer Speira, ...
A surge in e-car purchases in Germany has led to bottlenecks at manufacturers and waiting times of up to a year for vehicles to be delivered, car industry magazine Automobilwoche reports. “After a long period of e-mobility failing to get off the ground, ...
The German government has no concrete plans to make public transport free of charge. The government proposal of free public transport, contained in a letter to the EU aiming at avoiding financial penalties for exceeding pollutions limits, is just one ...
Battery manufacturers say so-called gigafactories for battery production won't be economically viable in Europe for years, Daniel Wetzel writes for Die Welt. The car industry must first agree on a standard, Christian Riedel, spokesperson of Johnson ...
20 Jan 2022, 13:42 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 91tv Germany narrowly managed to meet its emissions budget for 2020 under the EU’s climate action targets for sectors such as transport and buildings (Effort Sharing Decision), the final ...
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA has won exclusivity for the supply and service of turbines for Ørsted’s 1,386 megawatt Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm in British waters, the company has announced in a press release. This offshore wind farm will ...
As a result of the diesel crisis, used car sales were down 1.9 percent in 2017, compared to the previous year, according to the German Association for Motor Trade and Repair (ZDK). “Auto dealers are deeply unsettled," ZDK president Jürgen Karpinski ...
08 Feb 2022, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The strict minimum distance rules for new onshore wind turbines in Bavaria need to be relaxed to ensure a faster expansion of the renewable power source, the state’s economy minister Hubert ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:19 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv The poorest households in Germany pay the highest share of their available income for energy, ...
14 Jan 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Government 91tv / Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland The ambitious energy transition plans by new German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck have drawn criticism from the opposition, ...
The Munich Security Conference included climate change and emissions pollution as some of the biggest issues for international security in its 2018 report. “In the end, few experts doubt the long-term effects a changing climate will have on international ...
03 Mar 2022, 12:55 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Security 91tv The German government is releasing oil reserves from the country’s Petroleum Stockholding Association (EBV) in an effort to calm the oil market. The move follows a decision on Wednesday ...
The coalition treaty agreed by Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) is filled with promises and vaguely worded provisions on climate, energy and transport and it remains to be seen if 2030 climate targets will ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:15 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Grid Renewables Hydrogen Policy 91tv The separate planning procedures for electricity, gas, and hydrogen infrastructure must be combined to pave the way towards a low-carbon economy, ...
14 Apr 2022, 12:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security Tageszeitung (taz) Europe’s energy dependence on Russia is not limited to fossil fuels but also extends to nuclear power, and German company Siemens Energy’s continued cooperation with Russia ...
25 Mar 2022, 13:34 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Government The German state’s climate action measures lack a targeted approach to achieving its greenhouse gas reduction goals, the Court of Auditors (Bundesrechnungshof) has found in ...
A coalition of several German environmental and energy federations urges the next government to introduce a price for emitting CO 2 to safeguard the country’s contribution to the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. The current low oil price “makes ...
The council of federal state governments in Germany (Bundesrat) wants to counter “undesirable developments” in the country’s auction system for onshore wind power by changing the rules for citizens’ energy projects, the Bundesrat says in a press release. ...
14 Feb 2022, 14:15 Jessica Bateman Society Süddeutsche Zeitung Film industry leaders and politicians in Germany have announced plans for climate standards in film production, Süddeutsche Zeitung Online reports. Speaking at a panel event during the ...
The contentious Nord Stream 2 Russian-German natural gas pipeline project has cleared an important hurdle, reports the news agency dpa. Mining authority Bergamt Stralsund has granted a permit for the construction and operation of a 55-kilometre section of ...
20 Jan 2022, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Grid Handelsblatt Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), in charge of regulating the power grid and overseeing the country’s grid expansion planning, will reportedly get the prominent head of the Federal Consumer ...
German carmaker BMW has bought the shares of car rental service Sixt in their joint car sharing service DriveNow, clearing the way for a merger with rival Daimler’s service Car2Go, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by the Frankfurter ...
Former US Vice President and environmentalist Al Gore has called on Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU union and the Social Democrats (SPD) to agree on a coal phase-out by 2030 during their ongoing coalition negotiations. In two messages, Gore said that ...
Germany’s environment minister Barbara Hendricks has asked the EU Commission for more time to implement binding legislation for ensuring better air quality in inner cities, Zeit Online reports. At a meeting in Brussels, Hendricks said Germany would ...
22 Apr 2016
22 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv UBA Record high CO2 measurements in Germany Germany’s Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has measured the highest annual CO2 concentrations ever in 2015. In its research stations on ...
Ten German cities considerably exceed EU nitrogen oxide (NOx) limits, making diesel driving bans more likely in 2018, according to calculations by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), reports Der Tagesspiegel. “Our results for 2017 show that neither ...
14 Mar 2022, 13:56 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Gas Tagesspiegel Germany's coalition government ponders the possibility of new drilling for gas and oil in the North Sea as a step ...
01 Jun 2022, 14:19 Expert Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv / ARD A raid on the offices of Deutsche Bank’s asset management subsidiary DWS over alleged greenwashing activities has shaken ...
Swedish state-owned utility Vattenfall posted a pretax profit in 2017 despite sluggish electricity demand, helped in part by new wind power capacity, writes news agency Reuters. Vattenfall started operation of two new wind parks in 2017, one of them the ...
04 Feb 2022, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Utilities WirtschaftsWoche The plans by large and small utilities to decarbonise their businesses are not enough for Germany to reach its climate targets, writes WirtschaftsWoche about a report published by consultancy ...
10 Jan 2022, 13:26 Edgar Meza Gas Security WirtschaftsWoche As energy prices in Germany continue to rise, the chairman of the German Bundestag’s climate committee, Klaus Ernst, is pushing for the controversial Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline to begin ...
25 Nov 2014
25 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Dow Jones Newswires "Gabriel's coal proposal: utilities keep calm" German utilities are prepared to shut down some power stations, reports Dow Jones Newswires. They agreed to Economy ...
03 Mar 2022, 12:42 Edgar Meza Gas Heating 91tv German households can help reduce gas consumption by up to 75 percent, according to non-profit consulting company co2online, which campaigns for the reduction of CO2 emissions. By reducing their ...
Fossil-fuel utility RWE has called for compensation if Germany opts for a quick coal exit. “If there is a desire, socially, that a coal exit should come very quickly we have to be compensated for it,” company CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz told an industry ...
The fact that power prices in Germany occasionally turn negative and lead power producers to pay their customers for absorbing excess electricity should be no cause for concern but rather for celebration, energy think tank Agora Energiewende’s* head, ...
Greenpeace energy has called on the German government to follow Austria’s lead and take the EU to court over its approval of billions of euros in subsidies for the planned Hungarian nuclear reactor Paks II. Greenpeace says the Russian-designed nuclear ...
13 Jan 2022, 14:32 Expert BASE- Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management Bundesamt für die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung Nuclear phase-out Edgar Meza Nuclear phase-out EU Handelsblatt / dpa / Die Zeit Germany’s Federal Office for ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:32 Sören Amelang Society Government 91tv / Der Tagesspiegel Climate activists' repeated blockages of motorways in Berlin and other German cities have sparked a debate among government parties about the legitimacy of these ...
The German financial system urgently needs a revamp to adapt to the decarbonisation of the economy, according to a report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and the Hub for Sustainable Finance Germany, which ...
The Green parliamentary group in the German Bundestag (parliament) has introduced a motion calling on the government to give “top priority” to Germany’s target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020, initiating a debate in the plenary. ...
Unconventional fracking, the gas drilling by means of chemicals, is a chance not only for supply security, but also for the climate, Michael Theurer, deputy leader of the Free Democrats (FDP) parliamentary group, told Der Spiegel. Using more natural gas ...
Like other recent studies, the German Industry Association’s (BDI) study shows that cutting emissions by 80 percent by 2050 is technically and economically feasible, writes Andreas Mihm in an editorial in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. But the ...
28 Feb 2022, 13:46 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Policy International Security The German government will push the construction of what would be the country’s first two liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals as part of ...
German industry believes the world’s fourth largest economy can boost its status as a manufacturing powerhouse by protecting the climate. Reducing emissions by 80 percent by 2050 is good for the economy even if Germany goes it alone, the Federation of ...
The German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has announced that over 90 percent of projects approved for the third round of bidding for ground-based photovoltaic plants have been built. Of the 40 winning tenders, four missed deadlines to file their ...
24 Jan 2022, 12:32 Jessica Bateman 91tv 91tv Coal dpa Only a fraction of the promised financial aid for coal regions has been distributed, triggering worries that a just transition is being put at risk, reports newswire dpa in an article ...
07 Mar 2022, 13:52 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & ...
Germany’s next government must ramp up expansion targets for wind power to meet the country’s climate targets and secure stable conditions for the industry, trade union IG Metall Küste says in a press release. IG Metall called on state premiers, ...
Coal will continue to be an important component of Germany’s power supply for at least another three decades, Saxony’s state premier Michael Kretschmer told news agency Reuters. As an industrialised country, Germany “cannot afford to do without this ...
19 May 2022, 12:04 Julian Wettengel EU Security 91tv European Union countries must support each other during the current energy crisis exacerbated by Russia’s war against Ukraine, said German chancellor Olaf Scholz in a government statement ...
21 Feb 2022, 13:49 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices Policy Handelsblatt / dpa The German government wants to ensure by law that the planned elimination of the country's renewables levy exclusively benefits consumers and not power providers, saying it ...
12 Jan 2022, 12:00 As some of the richest democracies in the world, the Group of Seven (G7) have the opportunity to strike a “grand bargain” with developing nations on combatting climate change at the same time as health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
Germany has crossed a symbolic milestone in its energy transition by briefly covering around 100 percent of electricity use with renewables for the first time ever on 1 January. At around 06:00 am on 1 January, a combination of strong winds and low demand ...
In a “ decisive year ” 2018, the next German government must determine the course for the country’s exit from coal-fired power generation, and deal with the looming failure to reach its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in ...
The parties currently in talks to form Germany’s next government have agreed to speed up the roll-out of renewable energies and start the phase-out of coal-fired power generation. Contrary to a draft leaked earlier this week, the blueprint agreement ...
24 Jan 2022, 13:31 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Renewables Policy dpa / Stern The German coalition government has promised to accelerate the country's landmark energy transition and other core legislation procedures, newswire dpa report s in ...
22 Dec 2021, 12:40 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The majority of German consumers support a faster transition from ...
08 Feb 2022, 14:44 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Focus Online E.ON objects to a study arguing the German utility and many other large companies fall short of their net-zero carbon promises, news website Focus Online reported. The ...
15 Mar 2022, 14:02 Edgar Meza Cars Cost & Prices dpa / Der Spiegel While high petrol and diesel prices are causing consternation among German consumers, they are not slowing down motorists, according to a dpa report carried by Der Spiegel. Citing an ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:40 Kerstine Appunn Storage Resources & Recycling Tageszeitung (taz) Tentative steps in Germany to initiate a domestic sourcing of lithium are not making much progress, leading to concerns over their profitability, Michael Bartsch ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 91tv German consumers saw the greatest rise in prices ever recorded for electricity, gas and heating oil in 2021, comparison website Verivox has said. The price for gas climbed by almost ...
The European Commission has endorsed German exemptions from the renewables levy (EEG surcharge) for all existing self-suppliers of electricity (i.e. those that entered into operation before August 2014), as well as for new self-suppliers using renewable ...
Train ticket prices are increasing faster than the cost of using cars for passenger transport, Allianz pro Schiene (Pro-Rail Alliance) has calculated from data collected by Germany’s statistical office. While the costs of driving a car have remained ...
The looming EU fines for excessive emissions after 2020 make it cheaper for the car industry to develop electric cars than to cling to the diesel, argues Markus Fasse in a commentary in the business daily Handelsblatt. In recent years, the car industry ...
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) report Coal 2017 shows that the world will continue to be “addicted” to coal for its energy supply for the coming years- Germany’s contribution to climate protection should be researching and testing new carbon ...
The European Commission has rejected to approve exemptions from the renewables surcharge for operators of highly efficient combined heat and power (CHP) plants in Germany, Andreas Mihm reports for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Since 2014, ...
03 May 2022, 12:30 Edgar Meza Efficiency 91tv Germany’s Viessmann Group, has said it plans to invest 1 billion euros in the next three years to expand its heat pump and green climate product portfolio and broaden its manufacturing footprint ...
18 Mar 2022, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Utilities 91tv Energy company RWE plans to build an ammonia terminal at the site of the planned import harbour for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the northern German city of Brunsbüttel to ...
30 Mar 2022, 12:05 Edgar Meza Heating 91tv The electrification of the heating sector could be a key component in making Europe become less dependent on Russian gas, according to an internal report by S&P Global Commodity Insights. The ...
Construction has begun on the pilot project of Germany’s first e-highway for trucks using catenaries (overhead electrical wires) on motorways, reports Jutta Rippegather in Frankfurter Rundschau. In 2019, five test trucks will start using the 5 kilometre ...
13 Jan 2022, 14:01 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Utilities Handelsblatt / 91tv The wave of short-notice contract cancellations ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv Together with French manufacturer Alstom, German railway company Deutsche Bahn is going to start trial runs with the country’s first battery-powered passenger train. Test operation of the so ...
The bid by Danish energy supplier Ørsted, formerly known as Dong, to build offshore wind farms in German waters without guaranteed remuneration is a “ giant strategic bet ” that is going to be profitable, Ørsted CEO Henrik Poulsen says in an interview ...
Authorities in the German city of Stralsund have issued the first partial permit for construction of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project, public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) reports. The local mining authority licensed construction ...
The natural gas network plan for 2018 to 2028 will include plans for Germany’s first national liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) said in a press release. BNetzA said supply security was a “priority” in the agency’s ...
Germany is due to close its last hard coal mine next year, and the affected regions prepare for the transition, for example by considering renewable energy projects or tourism, Valerie Hamilton reports in a feature for Public Radio International (PRI). ...
20 Jan 2022, 12:01 Germany's onshore wind power capacity is recovering from years of depressed expansion, but is still not close to levels necessary for the country’s renewables targets for 2030, the country's wind power industry said in its ...
The EU and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation will work together on an initiative to drive research and innovation in agricultural and food systems in developing countries, Georgi Gotev reports for EurActiv. EU Commissioner for International ...
The Social Democrats (SPD) have compiled a list of 11 topics to be addressed during talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives on renewing a grand coalition of Germany’s two largest political camps. Talking point number 11 is entitled “For ...
07 Jan 2022, 11:54 Kerstine Appunn International ARD The escalation of violence in Kazakhstan is causing concern among German businesses who were planning to tap into the country’s rich potential for developing climate-friendly technologies, renewable ...
10 Jan 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government dpa / t-online With a set of immediate measures, Germany’s new economy and climate minister Robert Habeck wants to kickstart the government’s ambitious plans for fast emissions reduction and ...
14 Dec 2021, 13:07 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband ...
BMW plans to increase its plug-in hybrid and battery car sales by 50 percent to about 150,000 in 2018, reports Elisabeth Behrmann for Bloomberg. “We’ll definitely boost sales by a mid-double digit amount,” Klaus Fröhlich, who heads development for BMW, ...
21 Dec 2021, 12:45 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Society 91tv Domestic tourism in Germany caused 24.6 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents in 2019, accounting for 2.6 percent of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions that year, according to a ...
Electric cars produced by US manufacturer Tesla have been removed from the list of e-cars eligible for subsidies in Germany because Tesla’s Model S was “too expensive” to qualify for the support, Business Insider reports on its website. A spokesman for ...
15 Feb 2022, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables dpa / Volksstimme The five eastern German states want to become trailblazers in the country’s energy transition plans and greatly expand their capacity and infrastructure for renewable power production and ...
06 May 2022, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Wind Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that laws requiring wind park operators to give neighbouring residents or communities the opportunity to share in the profits are ...
03 Feb 2022, 12:32 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Jessica Bateman Transport Business & Jobs 91tv Germany’s national railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has announced it is investing a record €13 ...
The price of emitting one tonne of CO 2 in Europe should be at least 25 to 30 euros “for a start”, Johannes Teyssen, head of German utility E.ON, says in an interview with Spiegel Online. Teyssen’s proposed price would be up to four times higher than the ...
Germany must immediately cut its lignite power capacity if it wants to achieve its 2020 climate target of reducing emissions by 40 percent compared to 1990 levels, climate scientist Mojib Latif says in an article on Spiegel Online. “But what is lacking ...
Successful bidders in Germany’s auction system for onshore wind power projects should be subject to penalty payments if they fail to implement their accepted projects in time, Hilke Wilts and Ruth Delzeit write in a policy brief by the Kiel Institute for ...
The German industry heavyweight Siemens has signed contracts worth about 700 million euros with the government of Libya to build two gas-fired power plants in the war-torn north African country, news agency Reuters reports. The company, which recently ...
German car maker BMW has rebutted accusations by environmental organisation Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) that it manipulated diesel cars to have lower emissions under lab test conditions than in real life use. Klaus Fröhlich, Member of the Board of ...
Germany’s mining labour union IG BCE has called on the parties of the so-called grand coalition to pursue a “reasonable” energy and climate policy, news agency dpa reports. IG BCE head Michael Vassiliadis said “more realism” and a “modernisation boost” ...
The German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency (DENEFF) has praised the strengthening of efficiency rules by the industry and energy committee of the European Parliament. “Investment in energy efficiency needs planning security,” said DENEFF ...
03 Feb 2022, 12:36 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Jessica Bateman Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv ...
Power storage devices need a clearer legal definition in German law to create a better investment environment for the industry, BSW Solar says in a press release. “Many disputes and uncertainties stem from the fact that storages sometimes count as ...
Wind power generation in Germany in the first nine months of 2017 has exceeded the amount of electricity generated in coal and nuclear plants for the first time, Bloomberg Technology reports. Bruno Burger, professor at Fraunhofer ISE said that this was ...
14 Jan 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Germany’s offshore wind industry is placing great hope on the new government’s ambitious renewables expansion plans, after no turbines were added to German waters throughout the whole ...
17 Feb 2022, 12:03 Edgar Meza Cars Cost & Prices WirtschaftsWoche Germany’s economic and climate ministry is looking to take action against the export of electric cars subsidised with up to 9,000 euros shortly after the required holding period of six ...
20 Jan 2022, 12:09 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background A legal opinion commissioned by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has concluded that the German government’s Fuel Emissions Trading Act (BEHG) does not ...
01 Dec 2021, 13:54 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Efficiency Tagesspiegel Background Germany's funding programmes for environmental innovation and energy efficiency lack measurable targets that can quantify their effectiveness, the country' ...
A long-term policy approach to achieving the climate protection effects required by the Paris Agreement is crucial for the successful transformation of the affected economic sectors, but progress in this field varies considerably across different ...
The German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU), which advises the German government, has called for an e-car quota to push the energy transition in the transport sector. At least 25 percent of new cars and light trucks should be pure electric by ...
05 Jan 2022, 13:47 Edgar Meza Carbon market Cost & Prices 91tv The German government raked in a record 12.5 billion euros from European and national emissions trading programmes in 2021, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) reported. ...
Germany’s Green Party has made the closure of seven gigawatts (GW) of coal power a deal-breaker if it is to enter government, Arthur Neslen writes for online climate news site Climate Home, citing an interview with the Green Member of European Parliament, ...
The expansion of Germany’s solar power capacity must be accelerated if the country does not want to miss out on one of the global energy transition’s most important trends, the German solar power industry warns in the Erneuerbare Energien magazine. ...
Two-thirds of Germans say that the commitment by the government to get past the diesel scandal was bad or very bad, according to a survey conducted by pollster Kantar Emnid, and commissioned by the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv). Sixty ...
Disagreements over energy and climate policy were not the ultimate reasons for the collapse of coalition talks to form a new government, representatives of three of the parties involved said at the annual congress of the German Energy Agency (dena) in ...
11 Jan 2022, 13:36 Edgar Meza Gas Cost & Prices Der Spiegel Dutch economic affairs minister, Stef Blok, has expressed concern about Germany’s large appetite for natural gas sourced from the Netherlands’ northern Groningen province, where its continued ...
A vast majority of Germans broadly support the Energiewende’s aim to decarbonise the economy but a large proportion also says that the associated burden is not shared equally, the Social Sustainability Barometer study by the Institute for Advanced ...
In 2016, renewable energy sources were the most important power source in the southern German state of Bavaria for the first time ever, the Bavarian State Ministry for the Economy & Energy says in a press release. With a total of 35 terawatt hours and ...
The German village of Immerath, located in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) not far from the venue of the ongoing UN climate conference COP23 in Bonn, is about to disappear in order to make way for the expansion of an open pit coal mine, ...
Over 80 percent of Germans aged between 18 and 67 say the country needs to step up its efforts to reduce the transport sector’s impact on the environment, a survey conducted by the government-owned financing institution KfW suggests. Almost 90 percent of ...
A farmer from Peru, who has sued Germany’s major utility RWE over the effects of its decade-long greenhouse gas emissions, has achieved a stage win after a German appeal court ruled his claim was “admissible”, Deutsche Welle reports. “A court in the ...
Renewable energy sources are booming in Germany as much as anywhere else but the country’s simultaneous rise in coal use and carbon emissions nevertheless make it “a dangerous role model” for countries setting out to emulate the German energy transition, ...
The joint communiqué from July’s G20 summit in Hamburg was a “major success” for multilateralism, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s economic advisor and G20 sherpa Lars-Henrik Röller said at an event on the sidelines of the UN climate conference in Bonn. ...
Maria Krautzberger, head of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), says Germany should introduce a road charge linked to mileage for all vehicles, to cut emissions from the transport sector. “There has been no emissions reduction whatsoever from the ...
Citizens of Munich have voted to shut down the city’s single largest source of CO 2 emissions ahead of schedule, klimaretter.info reports. Around 60 percent voted in favour of close the Munich Nord heating plant by 2022, instead of 2035 as planned by the ...
Germany must start phasing out coal-fired power generation as the next step of its energy transition, and the matter was also on the agenda of the talks to form a new government coalition in Berlin, the state secretary in the economy and energy ministry, ...
08 Dec 2021, 14:40 Jessica Bateman Carbon market Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A more flexible CO2 price would be beneficial for consumers and also make it harder for oil-exporting countries to undermine it, a former German government advisor has ...
Germany will raise its contribution to the climate change adaptation fund by 50 million euros, the environment ministry announced on the opening day of the COP23 climate summit in Bonn. The development cooperation ministry pledged an additional 50 million ...
Drones and digital technologies can be harnessed in order to increase the reliability of producing, transmitting and distributing energy, writes management consultancy PwC in its study “Clarity from above”. The use of drones could bring down costs for ...
Germany’s Green Party is open to discuss its prominent election campaign demand to ban combustion engines in newly registered vehicles by 2030, Claudia Kade, Birger Nicolai, Philipp Vetter write in Die Welt. “We Greens are not determined to phase out ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Gas Government EU 91tv / Reuters / ZDF Climate and energy policy has emerged as a key issue for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and members of his cabinet on their first official trips abroad. Scholz ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:18 High energy prices continue to keep Germany’s new government busy, and the coalition parties are debating ways to ease the burden on struggling consumers. A possible short-term remedy could be an earlier end to the country’s renewable ...
Germany is likely to miss several of its energy transition goals by 2020, including greenhouse gas reduction and transport sector goals, writes an expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German Energiewende in a short interim ...
Germany’s environment minister Barbara Hendricks says drivers of large Super Utility Vehicles (SUVs) living in cities should opt for a different model next time they buy a car. Drivers of large cars could be “looked at with disapproval in cities, similar ...
The United Nation’s warning about a “worrying” gap between climate pledges and emissions cuts needed ahead of the climate conference in Bonn could provide the Green Party with tailwind in the ongoing talks to form a new government coalition, writes ...
An internal federal government paper calls for an “honest debate about possible consequences” from learning that the country will likely miss its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target by a wide margin, report Klaus Stratmann and Thomas Sigmund in ...
25 Oct 2017, 00:00 Germany is hosting this year’s international climate summit (COP23) in Bonn. The conference will be about establishing the trust in mutually agreed rules on climate protection, says Carsten Rolle, head of the energy and climate policy ...
15 Dec 2021, 13:44 Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Renewable energy made up approximately 42 percent of the electricity consumed in Germany in 2021, according to preliminary calculations by the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen ...
The German electronics industry has called on the next German government to speed up the country’s energy transition, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by wallstreet-online.de “The Energiewende must finally regain its momentum,” Michael ...
Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to expand his campaign to phase out coal-fired power production from his home turf in the US to Europe, the Guardian reports. The billionaire and UN special envoy on climate change announced he will spend 50 ...
11 May 2022, 12:48 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Business & Jobs 91tv The ...
Wind generation is forecast to climb to a record on Sunday, creating more output than needed and driving electricity prices below zero, reports Jesper Starn for Bloomberg. It would be the first time this year that the average price for a whole day is ...
A technology think-tank is calling for an overhaul of legislation, to unlock the huge potential of digitalisation to catapult Germany’s energy transition to a new level. A paper by Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV) says digital solutions can make the ...
15 Dec 2021, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Gas EU Security 91tv The contentious Russian-German pipeline project Nord Stream 2 is not a suitable instrument to penalise Russia in case it attempts to invade neighbouring Ukraine, said German government ...
The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has published demands for the coming legislative period in the form of a 10-point plan. It calls for new ways to finance renewables expansion, tax-based support for energy-efficient building renovation, grid fee ...
Consumer grid fees rose by nine percent last year, and are unlikely to decrease much next year, according to a market report drafted by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), which is due to be published soon and was leaked to the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
72 percent of Germans want the new government to implement a step-by-step exit from coal-fired power generation, according to a survey by YouGov for WWF and green power provider LichtBlick. YouGov polled 2052 people in September 2017. 41 percent said they ...
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) and China Beijing Environment Exchange (CBEEX) will form a strategic partnership to jointly develop the world’s largest carbon market in China, German-based EEX writes in a press release. EEX and CBEEX will evaluate how ...
17 Dec 2021, 12:27 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Vattenfall Germany ...
In a second round of coalition talks, representatives from CDU, CSU, FDP and the Green Party agreed on “a common working basis” in the areas of budget, finances and taxes, Green leader Cem Özdemir said in a video message after the meeting. A paper ...
The pro-business FDP and the environmentalist Green Party have held their first meeting on forming Germany’s next coalition government together with the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, Markus Decker reports in the Frankfurter Rundschau. The two smaller ...
Consultancy Energy Brainpool has analysed Germany’s aspiring government coalition parties’ manifestos on their energy policy positions. The group derived five major challenges that can serve as a basis for common action. A so-called Jamaica coalition of ...
The Green Party in Germany’s most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) held a symbolic wreath-laying ceremony to protest the state government’s restrictive wind power policy, Rheinische Post reports. The state’s governing coalition of the ...
German industry fears the next government coalition could make “rotten compromises” on energy and climate policy, Klaus Stratmann writes in Handelsblatt. While the Greens are adamant on climate protection and shutting down coal plants, its potential ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:36 Kerstine Appunn Carbon market Electricity market Cost & Prices 91tv The German wholesale power price more than tripled in 2021 to an average of 97 euros per megawatt-hour (MWh) compared to the previous year, pushing it ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:33 Edgar Meza Digitalisation 91tv Increased digitalisation in the energy sector can offer significant but limited opportunities to save greenhouse gases, according to a new report by the Institute for Ecological Economic ...
The global shift to electric mobility will reach a critical point in a little over 10 years, according to VW head Matthias Müller. “We will see a global tipping point around 2030,” Müller said at an annual car industry summit organised by business daily ...
Germany’s economy ministry (BMWi) has often seen its scope of responsibility altered by government coalition agreements, and this time is no different, Dorothea Siems writes on Welt Online. The ministry could become a bargaining chip in upcoming ...
14 Jan 2022, 13:36 Sören Amelang Industry Hydrogen Reuters / Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German steelmaker Salzgitter wants to shift its entire steel production from blast furnaces to low-emission technologies by the middle of the next ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry Business & Jobs 91tv The executives of companies worldwide are becoming increasingly concerned about climate change, but in Germany less so in global comparison, said ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Renewables Wind 91tv / Handelsblatt The demand for zero-support renewable electricity is booming and the latest sign is a large-scale power purchase agreement (PPA) energy company EnBW concluded with ...
Implementing the Paris Climate Agreement must be a priority in the upcoming coalition talks, according to German economic cooperation and development minister Gerd Müller (CSU). Müller set out a 5-point plan for climate protection in Bild am Sonntag. He ...
04 Jan 2022, 11:00 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Kerstine Appunn Solar 91tv / pv magazine Germany saw the installation of 240 ...
03 Mar 2022, 13:50 Kerstine Appunn Renewables International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German renewables stocks have surged amid prospects of an accelerated energy transition after the government emphasised plans to speed up renewables expansion as a ...
Germany's Monopolies Commission, which advises the government on competition policies, is calling for a shift from renewables support to a price on CO2 emissions to finance the country's energy transition. In a new report on the electricity and ...
18 Jan 2022, 12:37 Jessica Bateman Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen EU Tagesspiegel Background German industry association BDI has criticised the EU’s natural gas taxonomy plans due to conditions regarding the share of climate-friendly gases in newly built ...
11 Jan 2022, 13:44 Edgar Meza Transport Cities Die Zeit / 91tv The proliferation of electric kick scooters in European cities in recent years cause more damage than benefits for the environment, Daniel Reck, a researcher with the Swiss ...
07 Dec 2021, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Bioenergy 91tv The potential of cannabis for climate action and sustainability should be included in the new German government coalition’s plans, the German Cannabis Industry Association (BvCW) ...
An announcement by Germany’s largest carmakers that they will substantially increase the share of electric vehicles in their product portfolios has turned the tide in the market for e-car charging stations, Axel Höpner writes for Handelsblatt. Large ...
08 Dec 2021, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Tageszeitung (taz) / Der Tagesspiegel The novel climate and economy ministry in the new German government has the potential to become a “super ministry” that combines two crucial ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics International 91tv In the context of the formation of Germany’s new government, former environment minister Svenja Schulze moves on to lead the country’s development ministry (BMZ) ...
The Free Democrats’ (FDP) leader, Christian Lindner, has said his party will strive for “a reasonable energy policy” if it is going to be part of Germany’s next government. The economic liberal FDP could become part of a coalition with Chancellor Angela ...
The effects of lignite mining on the water supply of the Rhenish area in western Germany will be felt for another 300 years, according to an expert report by German utility RWE, writes public broadcaster WDR. RWE has allocated 165 million euros to repair ...
Finnish power utility Fortum will launch an 8 billion takeover offer for German energy company E.ON’s fossil spin-off Uniper after Fortum has secured the agreement of its biggest shareholder and former parent company, writes Richard Milne in an article ...
Climate protection enjoys widespread backing in Germany but when it comes down to the details of how it can be done, support often turns into resistance, Andreas Mihm writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’s website faz.net. “The past four years ...
Energy and financial policy in Europe could be substantially affected by a government participation of the Green Party and the economic liberal FDP in the next German government under Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative alliance of CDU/CSU, Ambrose ...
07 Dec 2021, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Elections & Politics 91tv Designated German climate and economy minister Robeck Habeck has said that faster construction of new wind turbines and solar panels will be a “core task” for his ...
21 Feb 2022, 13:58 Edgar Meza Renewables Business & Jobs Handelsblatt In order to achieve Germany’s ambitious energy transition targets, the pace of wind and solar power expansion is expected to quadruple in the coming years, but a lack of skilled ...
While the current government coalition has largely shielded the coal industry, any coalition involving The Greens would at least start the process of phasing out coal as a power source, according to an election overview by energy news provider S&P ...
German households on average paid 6 percent less on heating in 2016 than in 2015, according to the study “Heating Monitor 2016” by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). This was not due to sinking consumption, but to falling prices for heating ...
E.ON needs the money of a potential Uniper sale for investments in wind and solar energy, and to compete with energy start-ups and the likes of Google, write Jürgen Flauger und Franz Hubik in an article in Handelsblatt. The company is accountable to its ...
A series of interviews conducted by the European Commission among over 27,900 Europeans in March reveals that Germany’s strong support for climate action is no longer “a unique feature” of the country compared to its European neighbours, Dagmar Dehmer ...
While the Green Party has steered clear of proposing certain impositions on the population– such as higher fuel prices – during the current election campaign, such actions by the government are ultimately indispensable to protect the climate, writes ...
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière has called for the revival of the “spirit of the generation of 1989-90” to tackle current challenges like the Energiewende or globalisation, Leipziger Volkszeitung reports. At an event celebrating the 25 th ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:40 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Society Der Spiegel German consumer advocates are calling for a fair distribution of the energy transition's costs after the next government announced more ambitious climate plans. "If ...
Germany’s state-owned nuclear repository operator EWN delays overhauling the security standards of its nuclear repository in northern Germany which are required to protect it from terrorist attacks, Silke Kersting writes on Handelsblatt Online. The ...
A group of trade unionists, regional economics and energy ministers and industry leaders has called for Germany to increase its offshore capacity to at least 20 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, and at least 30 GW by 2035, Craig Richard reports for Windpower ...
Volkswagen plans to invest more than 20 billion euros in zero-emission vehicles by 2030, Reuters reports. The carmaker said on Monday it would roll out 80 new electric cars by 2025, up from a previous goal of 30, with plans to offer electric versions of ...
Six major German energy industry associations have called on the country’s next government to implement a storage strategy and make storage facilities “the fourth pillar” of the energy system, Sandra Enkhardt writes in pv magazine. The letter, co-signed ...
The “ill-prepared” ‘diesel summits’ organised by the federal government are not the right platform for dealing with the “dynamic” developments of the car emissions fraud scandal, Baden-Wuerttemberg’s Green state premier Winfried Kretschmann told the ...
Hurricanes such as Irma and Harvey are a “wake-up call for resolute climate policy” and it is alarming that climate is playing no role in the current German federal election campaign, writes environmental and development NGO Germanwatch in a press release ...
Free Democratic Party (FDP) head Christian Lindner sees “high hurdles in energy policy” for a possible government coalition of conservatives (CDU/CSU), Free Democrats and the Green Party after the German general elections, he told FOCUS Magazin in an ...
The sudden price drop for winning bids in Germany’s onshore wind power auctions raised questions about the much higher returns wind park operators could bank on in recent years, writes Jakob Schlandt in Berliner Morgenpost. A study by Deutsche WindGuard ...
Munich start-up Lilium has secured financing worth 90 million dollars from prominent funders to pursue its project of building an electric five-seat autonomous air taxi that takes off vertically. “This investment is a tremendously important step for ...
Germany’s new search for a final nuclear repository officially began yesterday with environment minister Barbara Hendricks insisting “mistakes of the past will not be repeated”, Paul Reimar writes in Der Tagesspiegel. But critics are convinced that the ...
The German government has increased funds to support the introduction of Deutsche Post DHL Group’s electric delivery van in cities most affected by air pollution, the federal environment ministry announced in a press release. Funds will be increased from ...
The German government praises diesel technology as an important component of climate protection in the transport sector- but this claim is more and more contested by transport and climate researchers, Bernhard Pötter writes in Tageszeitung (taz). Claiming ...
German carmakers are keeping up in the international race for electro mobility, even though it remains a niche market in Germany itself, the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW Köln) says in its weekly newsletter. “Germany is not the leading ...
The new German system for tendering renewable energy projects to the cheapest bidder urgently needs to be amended to avoid severe planning insecurity for the wind industry, the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) says in a press release. The reduction of ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:19 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Die Zeit Germany is lagging behind in climate action and the country is likely to miss its sectoral targets for emission reductions this year, the country's new climate and economy "super ...
72 percent of Germans say that the next government should decide on a timetable for the country’s coal exit, according to a representative survey by Kantar Emnid, commissioned by Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). 59 percent of respondents said that ...
The environment and the energy transition is not among the most important topics for Germans in the upcoming general elections, according to a survey by YouGov. 53 percent of respondents called it extremely or very important for their decision who to vote ...
Germany’s political system lately displays a questionable tendency towards prescribing the economy what to do by means of mandatory quotas, whether it is about the share of women in the management of companies or about the share of electric cars on the ...
07 Dec 2021, 12:54 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Jessica Bateman Coal Grid 91tv The new German coalition government’s goal of a 2030 coal exit, eight years earlier than initially planned, will require a ...
German environment minister Barbara Hendricks says the software updates for diesel cars exceeding emission limits agreed on at the national “diesel summit” in early August can only be “a first step” and need to be followed by technical retrofitting of the ...
Most Germans use their car to get to their workplace, according to Germany’s Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). More than two thirds (68 percent) use the car, while just 14 percent routinely take public transportation services such as buses or trains ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:50 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Germany’s revamped climate neutrality target, which the Bundestag brought forward to 2045 earlier this ...
The power grid in southern German states Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg is not ready to cope with a large increase of electric vehicles, news agency dpa says in an article carried by website General-Anzeiger online. Industry experts estimate that the ...
04 Feb 2022, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Consumers must fully benefit from any potential early end to Germany’s renewables levy, the top-up to power prices ...
10 Feb 2022, 14:18 Jessica Bateman Coal n-tv The state premier of easterm German coal mining state Saxony Anhalt has said he believes the goal for an earlier coal phase-out date in 2030 is unlikely to be achieved, news website n-tv reports. Speaking ...
Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the German environment ministry, said he expected the European Union to come forth with a proposal for a European quota for emission-free cars this autumn, reports news agency dpa in an article carried by Frankfurter ...
23 Dec 2021, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s economy ministry has plans to establish a so-called digital “solidarity platform” on which gas can be made available to those who need it most at times of scarcity ...
Green power provider NATURSTROM offers combinations of solar PV arrays and power storages for lease, reports Sandra Enkhardt in pv magazine. “Consumers can now use home-made power without having to stem the initial costs or worrying about maintenance”, ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:23 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International 91tv Germany should put more emphasis on international cooperation in the fight against climate change, the country's Council of Economic Experts has ...
15 Feb 2022, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv Climate action and the protection of biodiversity need be more closely linked, according to a German scientist contributing to the UN’s climate change report, which ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables dpa / Die Zeit Amid the debate between France and Germany over the use of nuclear power in the EU’s emissions reduction plans, the Green Party in southwestern German state Baden-Württemberg ...
22 Nov 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Wind Süddeutsche Zeitung The leader of four German states have asked the European Commission to pass a special wind energy quota for the country's South, arguing that the expansion of wind energy needs to “pick up ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:22 Expert FÖS- Green Budget Germany Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Jessica Bateman ...
Germans are almost all in favour of expanding the use of renewable energy, despite the fact that government subsidies for renewables mean that Germans pay high electricity prices in relation to other European countries, writes David Meyer in an article ...
02 Feb 2022, 13:42 Kerstine Appunn Heating 91tv Deep geothermal energy can make a major contribution to the decarbonisation of Germany’s heating sector, a paper published by researchers from the Fraunhofer and Helmholtz associations shows. ...
German car manufacturers “outbid each other” with buyer’s bonuses for customers switching away from an old diesel car, writes Henrik Mortsiefer for Tagesspiegel. Volkswagen launched its “environmental programme”, promising up to 10,000 euros on purchasing ...
03 Dec 2021, 13:21 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Gas EU Energate messenger, 91tv The 27 EU energy ministers have failed to ...
06 Dec 2021, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling Hamburger Abendblatt Copper producer Aurubis from Hamburg will enter the budding e-car battery recycling market and plans to open an industrial-scale pilot plant within the next five years, ...
In an article with many photographs, Elian Hadj-Hamdi for Deutsche Welle takes a look at the impact of coal mining on people and nature in coal mining regions in western Germany. Read the article in English here. For background, read the 91tv factsheet ...
German sports car manufacturer Porsche is looking at the possibility to phase out the diesel version for its SUV Cayenne with the upcoming new model, writes Susanne Preuß for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “In regards to diesel, we are examining ...
08 Aug 2017, 00:00 Since Germany’s Energiewende shifted into gear in the early 2000s, the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors have created over a million jobs, many of them in technical branches, such as renewable energy production, power ...
The EU Commission is not planning to introduce e-car sales quotas, said a Commission spokesperson in reaction to reports by German daily Handelsblatt, writes news agency Reuters. Read the article in English here. Find background material on the carmakers ...
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25 Jan 2022, 13:38 Jessica Bateman Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The new German government’s ambitious climate and construction goals could be held back by a shortage of skilled workers, newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reports. ...
11 Nov 2021, 13:22 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Freight 91tv The electrification of road freight transport is not only already possible in the short term but also promises economic advantages for companies that adopt it, according to a ...
A consortium led by Germany’s Siemens was picked by the Turkish government as the winning bidder for a one billion US Dollar wind power project, which will increase Turkey's wind energy production by 17 percent, reports Ercan Gurses for Reuters. Read ...
The effect on the German economy of the bid to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 will be small and positive, according to an unpublished study by Boston Consulting Group and Prognos, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ...
Germany’s energy transition, or Energiewende, has transformed Germany into a global poster child for green energy, writes Emma Bryce in an article for online environmental magazine Ensia. Germany’s handling of the exit from coal-fired power generation ...
Germany’s reset of its search for a final nuclear repository, with a new law approved in March 2017, is inhibiting the development of geothermal energy projects and is thus “blocking the way for the heating transition and climate protection”, writes Erwin ...
The Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA) has received 26,589 applications for the e-car buyer’s premium since the official launch on 2 July 2016, according to a statement. The government aims to reach the critical mass of 400,000 ...
German energy start-up Fresh Energy from Berlin has obtained three million euros in initial funding from renewable utility innogy, itself a carve-out of energy provider RWE, entrepreneurial news site WirtschaftsWoche Gründer reports. Fresh Energy aims to ...
Germany’s rising consumption of oil, gas and lignite in the first half of 2017 indicates that the country of the Energiewende will see another increase in emissions in 2017 after a rise in 2016, said Agora Energiewende * head Patrick Graichen. “The data ...
10 Feb 2022, 13:57 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out EU Der Tagesspiegel Germany's economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has denounced France's focus on nuclear power as "outdated." The neighbouring country was pursuing a " ...
Civil protection units in the eastern German city of Dresden “intensively train for a large-scale blackout ”, Thomas Baum-Hartwig writes in Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten. Dresden’s mayor Detlef Sittel said the energy transition had made grids far more ...
Driving restrictions for cars that aim to cut down on air pollution in certain areas are permissible, a German court has ruled, according to a Reuters report. "Safeguarding health is more important than the right to property and the general liberty ...
One of Germany’s most famous children’s TV characters weighed in on the car emissions debate, swapping its combustion engine car for a bicycle in a video posted on Twitter. German public broadcaster WDR posted the video which shows the animated mouse from ...
The German government’s decision to determine support payments for bioenergy plants by auctions has almost amounted to “a slam on the brakes” for their operators, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Handelsblatt Online. Horst Seide, head of ...
Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) called for the removal of five gas grid development measures from current plans because the expansion of the German-Russian pipeline Nord Stream was “still too uncertain”, the agency said in a press release. The ...
27 Jan 2022, 12:50 Jessica Bateman 91tv 91tv Society 91tv Young Germans supported by an environmental NGO have filed a new lawsuit with the country's highest court to force the government to further step up its climate ...
14 Dec 2021, 12:12 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Gas 91tv A new report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions conducted by the International Institute for Sustainability Analysis and Strategy (IINAS) on behalf of renewable energy consultancy DWR ...
04 Nov 2021, 14:09 Finding sources of funding for climate action and ensuring a fair distribution of benefits and costs among different groups in society look set to become the main challenges for negotiators of a new German government coalition. While ...
22 Nov 2021, 13:13 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics Tageszeitung (taz) Leaders of the three parties currently negotiating the coalition treaty for the next German government are confident that they will reach an agreement early this week. For the ...
German car manufacturers are willing to pay for certain upgrades and retrofitting to reduce their diesel cars’ nitrogen oxide emissions and help avoid driving bans, Peter Fahrenholz writes in Süddeutsche Zeitung. BMW and Audi signalled to the Bavarian ...
SPD deputy chairman Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel has called for close cooperation between carmakers and the state to protect jobs as the sector shifts away from fossil fuels, Stephan Haselberger reports for Tagesspiegel. “We have to ensure that e-cars are ...
German discount supermarket chain Aldi Süd has been honoured by German environment minister Barbara Hendricks for its efforts to integrate climate protection into its business practices, the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) said in a press ...
The European Commission is beginning to lose patience with carmakers and member states over the diesel emissions fraud, Markus Balser and Josef Kelberger write for Süddeutsche Zeitung. EU Industry Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska is calling all cars with ...
German Social Democrat leader Martin Schulz has unveiled a ten-point plan for a better Germany in his quest to unseat Chancellor Angela Merkel in the 24 September elections. The party’s goals include massive investment in infrastructure, including in ...
Mandatory CO 2 standards for newly registered trucks and buses in the EU could reduce emissions by about one-quarter, a study conducted by the Berlin-based International Council on Clean Transportation Europe (ICCT) has found. The study argues that there ...
In order to push implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, France and Germany have agreed on setting up a joint programme for climate and energy research for 50 scientists from around the world, the German ministry of education and research (BMBF) ...
A pilot project by energy provider EWE for solar panels on the balconies of tenant flats has shown that residents use the vast majority of the generated electricity for private use instead of selling it on the market, Michael Fuhs writes in pv magazine. ...
The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), with the support of the federal economy ministry (BMWi), will invest about 18 million euros in a research project on possible effects on human health by power lines, BfS said in a press release. “So far, ...
German utility EnBW is to equip the country’s most frequented motorway (Autobahn) service stations with charging stations for e-cars, Bernd Freytag and Susanne Preuß write in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The company wants to have set up 1,000 stations ...
Germany’s two biggest utilities E.ON and RWE, together with smaller energy providers EnBW and Vattenfall, paid over 24 billion euros in June to “finally rid themselves of the consequences of the government-induced nuclear exit”, Thomas Klemm writes in ...
29 Mar 2022, 12:06 Edgar Meza Coal Der Spiegel A state court in North Rhine-Westphalia has ruled in favour of German utility RWE in a land dispute linked to the expansion of its Garzweiler lignite opencast mine located in the western German hamlet of ...
Consumer protection association Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has filed lawsuits against regulatory authorities in ten cities in order to withdraw roadworthiness of VW vehicles affected by the carmaker’s emissions fraud scandal, the association has ...
The G20 summit’s G19 outcome on climate is “quite acceptable” as Donald Trump was unlikely to change his mind on pulling out of the Paris Agreement, writes Christoph Seidler for Spiegel Online. Little has therefore changed as the countries’ commitments ...
For Germans, climate change topped the list of the most pressing global issues for G20 to fix, a poll by public broadcaster ZDF showed. Thirty-three percent put solutions to climate change at the top of the list, 29 percent said the migrant crisis was the ...
For Germans, climate change topped the list of the most pressing global issues for G20 to fix, a poll by public broadcaster ZDF showed. Thirty-three percent put solutions to climate change at the top of the list, 29 percent said the migrant crisis was the ...
The average diesel passenger car on Europe’s roads emits less CO₂ than a comparable petrol car, but the compliance cost of meeting the European Union’s CO2 reduction target for new cars by 2025 would be up to 280 euros per vehicle lower with fewer diesel ...
08 Nov 2021, 14:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Finance Funke Mediengruppe / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany will work towards an exclusion of nuclear power from the EU taxonomy for sustainable investments, the country’s environment minister ...
US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are set to miss the G20 leaders’ discussion on climate and energy as they have scheduled their first personal meeting during the working session, German news website Spiegel Online ...
US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are set to miss the G20 leaders’ discussion on climate and energy as they have scheduled their first personal meeting during the working session, German news website Spiegel Online ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her chief task during Germany’s G20 presidency is to “work on options for an agreement and not contribute to speechlessness". In an interview with weekly newspaper Die Zeit ahead of this year’s G20 summit in ...
The lack of a consensus at the G20 could become actually a success for the German presidency, if it succeeded in building alliances for individual topics, in essence breaking with the forum’s convention of consensus-based decision-making, Dennis Snower, ...
The Hamburg summit must send out the clear signal that the “overwhelming majority” will now implement the Paris Climate Agreement – with or without the US, says environmental NGO Germanwatch in a press release. “The G20 has a special responsibility for ...
The city of Hamburg, host of this week’s G20 summit, has joined the international network Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, according to a press release. “Cities and communities are key to reaching international climate targets. Especially after ...
G20 member states are beginning to decarbonise their economies, but the required investment in fossil fuels remains so high that the “well below 2°Celsius” global warming reduction target will be “missed by a wide margin”, according to the Brown to Green ...
The G20 should boost the innovative strength of industry and accelerate technology development, so that it can “make its maximum contribution to climate protection,” writes Kurt Bock, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors and CEO of BASF, and ...
Germany’s shift from fossil and nuclear power generation to an energy system based on renewables and energy efficiency offers big opportunities for the country’s roughly 900 municipal utilities (or Stadtwerke), writes Jürgen Flauger in the business daily ...
German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble cited the fact that the large majority of G20 countries showed clear commitment to the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement in the Hamburg summit talks as proof that the summit was a success. In an ...
G20 member states are beginning to decarbonise their economies, but the required investment in fossil fuels remains so high that the “well below 2°Celsius” global warming reduction target will be “missed by a wide margin”, according to the Brown to Green ...
03 Nov 2021, 13:47 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices EU 91tv Germany’s prospective next government coalition will likely support EU plans to introduce a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), said Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:36 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Efficiency 91tv Three quarters of German buildings are ...
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has warned the global community against the anti-climate course of the United States and urged leaders to stick to the Paris climate agreement in an interview on the environmental magazine movum.info. “For the US ...
03 Jan 2022, 14:09 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv The weather in Germany last year may have been average overall, but severe rainfall in July led to the worst flooding in decades, with “catastrophic consequences”, according to Germany’s ...
Germany’s chief climate diplomat Karsten Sach has stressed the need for China and Germany to show joint “pragmatic” leadership in climate protection in light of new disorder in international climate diplomacy following the decision of US President Donald ...
Social Democratic (SPD) head of the federal parliamentary group Thomas Oppermann called on Chancellor Angela Merkel to forge a “19:1 alliance” against US President Donald Trump on climate policy, reports news agency dpa. In a speech in the German ...
29 Jun 2017, 00:00 European Union leaders have underscored their commitment to work towards a joint solution on climate issues at the G20 summit in Hamburg. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it would not be easy regarding questions such as climate ...
German state secretary in the economy ministry Rainer Baake welcomed the EU energy ministers’ agreement on energy savings targets, but said that Germany would have wished for binding provisions, writes Hendrik Kafsack in an article for Frankfurter ...
Climate policy should be integrated with the G20 finance ministers’ agenda in order to stay below the 2 degrees Celsius guardrail set in the Paris Agreement, a team of authors including Ottmar Edenhofer, director of Mercator Research Institute on Global ...
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Germany’s environment minister Barbara Hendricks has shunned calls for making a clear commitment to initialising the country’s exit from coal-fired power production. At a press conference by government members of her Social Democratic Party (SPD), ...
Germany’s transport ministry (BMVI) and the country’s carmakers have agreed to form a joint institute to ensure more “transparent” and “realistic” exhaust emissions tests, the BMVI has said in a press release. The institute, dubbed DIVEM (German Institute ...
The German government and the country’s nuclear plant operators will sign a long-awaited contract about the funding for the final storage of nuclear waste today, Andreas Mihm writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The contract formally ensures that ...
East German federal states Saxony and Thuringia have turned to the country’s federal government as well as the European Union to garner support for their ailing solar power industry, Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten reports. Both states’ economy ministers ...
Germany’s parliament (Bundestag) has voted to allow tenants to directly source their electricity from solar panels on their roofs, the parliament has said in a press release. The so-called “tenant electricity” concept says that landlords receive a premium ...
17 Dec 2021, 12:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Freight ARD German courier company Deutsche Post has said it would like to stop using domestic flights for deliveries but would need political assistance to do so by relaxing the mandatory delivery speed for ...
The United States’ insistence to include a reference to fossil fuels in the section on climate policy in the G20 communiqué remains the final sticking point to finish the document, news agency Reuters reported. Sources close to the process confirmed to ...
10 Dec 2021, 14:02 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv The ...
07 Apr 2022, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Efficiency 91tv After keeping pleas to the public to use less energy to a minimum amid the Ukraine war and the ensuing energy crisis so far, the German government has published efficieny advice ...
German utility E.ON’ chief operating officer for grids and renewable energies, Leonhard Birnbaum, demands a change to the country’s onshore wind power auctions to ensure that professional wind power project developers cannot benefit from advantages given ...
An international group of 45 private foundations and philanthropic organisations has called on the G20 to make the implementation of the UN agreements on climate protection and sustainability their core responsibility. “If necessary, this must be enforced ...
The city of Berlin has set out concrete steps to achieve its goal of drastically reducing its CO2 emissions by 2050, the city council said in a press release. Its new Energy and Climate Protection Programme 2030 (BEK 2030) contains around 100 efficiency ...
Conflict of interests between wind power production and wildlife protection is “marginal if we look at the alternatives,” the head of the German Green Party’s parliamentary group, Anton Hofreiter, says in an opinion piece for Der Tagesspiegel Online. ...
Germany’s most powerful industry federation BDI regards a fundamental reform of the country’s Renewable Energies Act (EEG) as necessary to ensure competitiveness, BDI president Dieter Kempf said in a press release. Kempf said energy policy should be made ...
30 Nov 2021, 13:51 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 International ...
Pope Francis has urged German Chancellor Angela Merkel to stand firm over international climate protection and protect the Paris Climate Agreement against dissenters, news agency Reuters reports. "The Pope encouraged me to continue to fight for ...
18 Apr 2018, 00:00 German ministers and European Commissioners will be among those explaining why an energy transition is a good idea for the world, at the fourth Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue on 17-18 April 2018. The 91tv will give a ...
Central German federal state Hesse is about to inaugurate its 1,000th wind turbine, putting it firmly on its way to ending the state’s reliance on nuclear power, Hesse’s economy minister Tarek al-Wazir told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “We’ll tear ...
25 Nov 2021, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Gas International dpa The European Commission is planning measures against methane emissions from the oil and gas industry in the EU, according to a draft law proposal seen by German news agency ...
13 Oct 2021, 13:25 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
The European Commission has approved under EU state aid rules the transfer of radioactive waste liabilities to a new public fund in return for the payment of about 24.1 billion euros by nuclear power plant operators in Germany, the Commission said in a ...
German utility EnBW is reportedly ready to dispatch the first barge carrying nuclear waste casks along the River Neckar in the south-west of the country, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said. Anti-nuclear activists have protested against the impending ...
Germany will miss its climate targets unless the next federal government steps up its efforts, according to non-profit environmental and consumer protection association Environmental Action Germany (DUH). In a list of 85 measures for the energy, heating ...
05 Nov 2021, 12:21 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs COP26 91tv Instead of distributing increasing amounts of their profits to shareholders, publicly-listed German corporations should invest more in climate protection, development and aid NGO ...
In the race for developing the best storage technology for electric vehicles, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s strategy is “not trying to overtake the mighty Asian competitors” in conventional lithium ion-battery technology “but forging ahead with a ...
Eastern German states Saxony and Brandenburg demand at least 1.2 billion euros in federal funds to finance the economic transformation of their shared coal-mining region Lusatia, Jens Blankennagel writes in Berliner Zeitung. “ The end of coal mining there ...
The German Federal Constitutional Court's decision to declare the country’s nuclear fuel tax law invalid has outraged many Green politicians, but could turn out to be beneficial for some of their fellow party members, Daniel Wetzel writes in the ...
12 Oct 2021, 13:09 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & ...
Eastern German regions will receive 1.23 billion euros over the next five years for the recultivation of former lignite mines, according to the federal finance (BMF) and environment (BMUB) ministries. The federal finance and environment ministers signed ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Coal 91tv / Hamburger Abendblatt The city of Hamburg needs to immediately start reducing the use of coal in its two main heat and power stations to be in line with the city-state’s coal phase-out plan for ...
29 Oct 2021, 13:39 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Renewables Policy 91tv Long-term company contracts for the supply of renewable energy, known as green power purchase agreements (PPAs), should become a central part of Germany's ...
23 Nov 2021, 14:23 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Elections & Politics 91tv The new German government should enable ...
07 Apr 2022, 13:51 Expert Energy Brainpool Energy consultancy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv Letting existing nuclear plants run longer will lead to large amounts of renewable energy ...
06 Oct 2021, 12:16 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 EU 91tv As political leaders debate the European Commission’s Fit for 55 package of proposals to reduce emissions by 2030, German NGOs are calling for both the incoming and current governments ...
21 Oct 2021, 13:28 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 EU 91tv Germany should think ...
German energy company E.ON has hired Goldman Sachs to explore options for the sale of the group's remaining stake in its legacy fossil fuel business Uniper, Reuters quotes company sources. E.ON is currently Uniper’s largest shareholder, with a 46.65 ...
The need for, and costs of, power grid stabilising measures decreased significantly in 2016, mainly due to lower production of wind and solar power and improved grid management, says the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in its report on grid and system ...
Environmental and development NGO Germanwatch is “relieved” that all leaders except US President Donald Trump clearly committed to the Paris Climate Agreement and there was no “weakening or re-interpretation” of the accord, the organisation writes in a ...
The lack of emotional advertising by carmakers is an important reason for the slow uptake of e-cars in Germany, writes Thomas Fromm in a commentary for Süddeutsche Zeitung. “If only they had worked on the image of hip e-cars on time, instead of constantly ...
The search of Daimler offices last week by prosecutors reveals that the diesel engine has become the biggest and most dangerous problem for German carmakers, writes Grischa Brower-Rabinowitsch in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. The companies ...
Think20 (T20), which brings together research institutions and think tanks from the G20 countries, presented key policy recommendations for G20 policy makers at the T20 Summit in Berlin. The proposals include recommendations on climate policy, such as ...
07 Dec 2021, 12:55 Jessica Bateman Cars Business & Jobs 91tv Following a "mixed technology approach" in the decarbonisation of Europe's transport sector could deliver significant CO2 emissions reduction while simultaneously ...
Onshore wind energy will become much cheaper in Germany over the coming years, with power costs dropping to 3 to 4.5 eurocents per kilowatt hour at top sites, according to a new study conducted by the think tank Agora Energiewende.* Find a press release ...
01 Dec 2021, 14:02 Expert Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Most of the money put into so-called sustainable funds in Germany is not invested in projects that differ significantly from ...
03 Nov 2021, 13:44 Kerstine Appunn Coal 91tv Germany’s federal government has spent 16.3 billion euros supporting projects to help coal mining regions with the transition away from the fossil fuel industry, a first report by the federal ...
Denmark is the only European country where customers pay more for power than in Germany, Michael Höfling writes in weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Danes pay about 31 euros for 100 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity – one euro more than the Germans and ...
A clear majority of voters in Switzerland have opted for a new energy law that aims to promote renewable energy, bans construction of new nuclear plants and fosters greater energy efficiency, Urs Geiser writes on swissinfo.ch. About 58 percent of Swiss ...
Germany’s cabinet has adopted a draft regulation for the introduction of common tenders for solar and onshore wind power installations, the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) said in a press release. The tenders will be tested in a “pilot ...
28 Oct 2021, 13:30 Governments from across the world will descend on Glasgow next week for the UN climate change conference COP26, with the UK presidency’s key objective as keeping the goal of limiting temperature increase to 1.5°C within reach. It is set ...
The Social Democratic Union (SPD) wants a nationwide alignment of grid fees, SPD’s energy politician and member of the Bundestag Hubertus Heil told news agency Dow Jones. The grand coalition’s (CDU/CSU, SPD) federal cabinet had introduced a draft for a ...
18 Nov 2021, 13:25 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen 91tv Germany will not be able to import enough renewable hydrogen to reach the targets laid out in its national hydrogen strategy, according to an analysis conducted by the ...
21 Dec 2021, 13:29 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Business & Jobs Focus Online Germany's massive industry of car suppliers faces a wave of insolvencies because the companies are unprepared for the shift to electric mobility, ...
17 Nov 2021, 12:49 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Agriculture 91tv The recent hot and dry summers have caused massive damages to Germany’s forests, according to a ...
The presidency of this November’s UN Climate Change Conference, the government of Fiji, is “very optimistic” about the outcome of COP23, while the US administration still has not decided on its international climate policy positions. “The rest of the ...
20 Oct 2021, 10:40 From large car manufacturers to globally operating logistics companies – the number of businesses pursuing net-zero targets and wanting to reduce their carbon footprint is growing. As many of the companies cannot or do not want to ...
The leaders of the G7 must fully commit to climate protection and the implementation of the Paris Agreement, and industry “needs more than a minimum consensus”, said Dieter Kempf, president of Federation of German Industries (BDI), in a press release. “No ...
The invsolvency of Germany’s last solar cell maker, SolarWorld, is a failure of the country’s support for renewables, Patrick Bernau writes in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He argues that the scheme distorted the market. “The solar ...
The federal economy ministry (BMWi) plans to phase out support for heating systems that run entirely on fossil fuels by 2020, as part of its new “Energy efficiency and heat from renewable energies” strategy. Industry opposition to the plans is inevitable, ...
29 Mar 2018, 00:00 A new government with fresh faces for environment, energy, and transport policy is supposed to bring Germany's dented reputation as a climate policy pioneer back on track. Critics point out that apart from ambitious announcements, ...
Europe’s former biggest PV panel producer SolarWorld will file for insolvency, the company said in a press release. “Due to the ongoing price erosion and the development of the business,” SolarWorld is now “over-indebted” and lacks a positive prognosis, ...
08 Dec 2021, 14:48 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics 91tv Two and a half months after the general elections, Germany officially has a new government. Olaf Scholz was elected chancellor by parliament with 395 out of 707 votes, making ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices EU 91tv The German chemical industry says the European Commission’s proposals to fight the energy price crisis in Europe may be sufficient to fight energy poverty but are not likely to help ...
The insolvency of former German PV champion SolarWorld is first and foremost down to CEO Frank Asbeck’s inability to find an appropriate business strategy to react to cheap Chinese competition, Daniel Wetzel writes in Die Welt. Most European PV companies ...
04 Mar 2022, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Society International ARD A majority of Germans support the measures governments are taking against Russia even if they lead to problems with energy supply, a survey by infratest dimap commissioned by public broadcaster ...
The UK Conservative Party’s proposal to put a price cap on standard energy tariffs could “really ruin things” for the business of German energy company E.ON in the UK and “not end up benefiting consumers”, according to the company’s chief financial ...
03 Nov 2021, 14:30 Kerstine Appunn Coal 91tv / dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s most populated state and home to some of the largest still operating lignite mines and coal power stations could phase-out the fossil fuel as early as 2030, ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Germany will support green hydrogen projects in other countries with up to 350 million euros by 2024 and has published a directive with the relevant guidelines, the economy ministry said in a ...
21 Dec 2021, 13:04 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices 91tv Germans spend a much lower share of their income on energy bills than many other EU citizens, according to the German Economic Institute (IW). German households pay ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany’s Federal ...
German environment minister Barbara Hendricks will travel to Washington from May 15-17 to meet her US counterpart, EPA head Scott Pruit, and talk about climate and environmental protection, the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) said in a press ...
27 Oct 2021, 16:14 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Elections & Politics WDR / 91tv / Die Zeit Conservative CDU politician Hendrik Wüst has been voted in as new state premier of Germany’s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia ...
Hamburg is the first German city to ban older diesel cars from main thoroughfares all year round to improve local air quality, reports Nils-Viktor Sorge for Spiegel Online. Even though only two roads are affected, the decision “has a highly symbolic ...
21 Dec 2021, 12:31 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Transport Freight 91tv Despite increasingly ambitious climate targets, truck traffic in Germany reached a record level last year, according to pro-rail group Allianz pro Schiene. The market ...
The energy transition is one of the world’s largest modernisation and investment projects, and intensive research will remain key to the endeavour, writes Germany’s economy and energy minister Brigitte Zypries in a guest commentary in newspaper ...
21 Dec 2021, 14:21 Energy consumption in Germany has increased in 2021, as the economy recovered from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the country weathered a cold winter. At the same time, a year of depressed wind power production let the ...
Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) have issued a paper outlining the party’s economic policy ideas meant to substantiate their candidate Martin Schulz’s position in his bid to become German chancellor, Henrike Roßbach writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
Power grid operator Tennet and household power storage provider Sonnen plan to use a network of small-scale batteries to help reduce costs caused by grid bottlenecks between Germany’s windy North and the power-hungry South, reports Michael Bauchmüller in ...
The first quarter of 2017 has seen a new record for e-car registrations in Germany, the scientific foundation Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Wuerttemberg (ZSW) said in a press release. A total of 11,624 electric vehicles was ...
13 Oct 2021, 13:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices WirtschaftsWoche / Der Spiegel / manager magazin Media reports show that rising prices for energy and especially for natural gas across Europe could start to hamper German companies’ ability to ...
13 Oct 2021, 13:23 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv The tax cuts for company cars in Germany are undermining the country’s efforts to get a ...
The Green Party has put out a “Clean Car Roadmap” with detailed proposals aimed at speeding up the move towards a low-carbon transport sector. The goal remained to end production of combustion engine cars by 2030. The paper urges a number of immediate ...
03 Nov 2021, 13:43 Kerstine Appunn COP26 91tv New pledges made at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow mean that wealthy nations will almost deliver on their promise to provide 100 billion US dollars per year in climate finance to ...
29 Nov 2021, 13:13 Expert BBH- Becker Büttner Held energy law firm Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & ...
Researchers at Fraunhofer IWES have created a new wind index for Germany’s North Sea coast that shows the deviation of wind energy output from the long-term average, the institute announced at the Hannover Messe, Germany’s largest industry trade fair. The ...
German car part supplier Continental increasingly bets on electric engines as an emerging business, Stefan Menzel writes on Handelsblatt Online. “The shift to the e-car will come, it can’t be stopped anymore,” Menzel writes, saying Continental will expand ...
In 2016, the German government spent only 1.6 billion euros of its 2.4-billion-euro Energy and Climate Fund on projects to save energy, according to an unreleased finance ministry report, seen by Berliner Morgenpost. “The economy ministry simply let 800 ...
Car manufacturer VW has made an agreement with transmission grid operator Tennet to provide weather data automatically collected by VW vehicles in Germany, Daniel Wetzel writes on Welt Online. “Using built-in rain, light, and sun sensors, the cars will ...
03 Nov 2021, 12:33 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 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv ...
07 Jan 2022, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany has veered off its path towards reaching its 2030 climate target, as the country’s greenhouse gas emissions increased by 33 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents (t CO2 eq) in ...
18 Oct 2021, 13:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics ARD / 91tv / n-tv The possible new German coalition government of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic party (FDP) could install a “new climate ...
23 Dec 2021, 12:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv / Handelsblatt More than 40 percent of all cars newly registered in Germany between January and October 2021 came with an alternative engine, the country’s federal energy agency dena said in its ...
The EU needs to take a leadership role in addressing fossil fuel subsidies and the G20 platform is “an obvious way for EU leaders and ministers to showcase their efforts and actions to eliminate” them, writes Maeve McLynn, finance and subsidies policy ...
Prioritising efficiency measures that cost less or deliver more value than planned investment in supply resources and infrastructure is “a crucial building block” for Germany’s Energiewende, writes Andreas Jahn of the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) ...
Exemptions from taxes and levies on energy use for large German companies amounted to 17 billion euros in 2016, according to estimates in an analysis by NGO Green Budget Germany (FÖS). “About 11.5 billion euros were financed directly by other power ...
Green Party and parliamentary group leaders Cem Özdemir and Anton Hofreiter call on Chancellor Angela Merkel to act on pollution in German cities, reports news agency dpa. The pair ask Merkel in a letter to support the introduction of “blue badges” that ...
A capacity market in Germany could cost two billion euros annually, RWE’s new CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz said in an interview with Rheinische Post. “Two billion euros is not a lot considering that the power consumer receives supply security for all those ...
24 Nov 2021, 12:14 Jessica Bateman Industry The Federal Environment Ministry in Germany (BMU) is funding two projects researching alternatives to fossil fuel use in the glass industry. Glass manufacturer Schott, based in Mainz, will receive around 4.5 ...
27 Oct 2021, 13:33 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport 91tv Germany's new government must agree on a wide variety of policy instruments to achieve the 2030 climate target in the transport sector, a report by consultancy ...
The German government spent 876 million euros on energy research last year, a slight increase over 2015, reports Dagmar Dehmer in Tagesspiegel. Two thirds of the money went into renewables and efficiency research, followed by nuclear fusion and nuclear ...
Industry and energy production emissions reduction in Germany has been below the EU-average for the tenth year in a row, according to figures released by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). With 453 million tonnes of CO 2 equivalent, combined emissions ...
At first, the government of the German state of Baden-Württemberg bristled at French energy company EDF ’s decision to postpone the decommissioning of the Fessenheim nuclear plant until at least 2019 – but it has now emerged that there could be “a ...
