20 Feb 2020, 13:39 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Cars Die Welt German drivers are choosing cars with more and more horsepower, which poses a challenge for carmakers who must comply with EU emissions regulations, Olaf Preuß writes in the newspaper Die ...
13 Jul 2020, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Politics 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background More than two years after quitting his job due to differences with the new government at the time, Rainer Baake, former German state ...
06 Apr 2020, 12:36 Rachel Waldholz Cost & Prices 91tv / pv magazine The drop in electricity demand driven by the coronavirus pandemic will likely lead to more hours of negative wholesale electricity prices in Germany this year, according ...
16 Apr 2020, 13:02 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Capital Siemens might have to delay the spin-off of its subsidiary Siemens Energy due to the corona crisis, reports Bernd Ziesemer in Capital magazine. Officially, ...
09 Jan 2020, 13:35 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s climate package to reach 2030 targets ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:28 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung The number of newly installed wind power ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:50 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, ...
02 Apr 2020, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany’s 1,850 stationary facilities covered under the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) emitted about 363 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents (CO₂eq) in 2019, a drop of ...
24 Jun 2020, 14:20 Expert World Energy Council Germany Weltenergierat Electricity market Fossil fuels Kerstine Appunn Technology EU 91tv More and more countries and businesses have set the goal of becoming climate neutral but few of them have ...
03 Jul 2020, 12:37 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Edgar Meza Cars 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background New car registrations in Germany fell 35 percent in the first half of 2020 to 1.21 million cars, reaching ...
16 Mar 2020, 14:19 Germany’s carbon emissions have fallen sharply in 2019 for the third year in a row, bringing the country closer to climate targets it had already written off. But progress in emissions reduction is heavily tilted towards the energy and ...
11 Feb 2020, 14:18 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility Institut für Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilität Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv German ...
12 Mar 2020, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The environmental impact of offshore wind turbines remains a hotly contested subject in Germany. German offshore wind farm operator association BWO said a study found that populations of loon ...
07 Feb 2020, 12:55 Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv German carmaker Opel, a subsidiary of French PSA, plans to manufacture enough battery cells for half a million e-cars annually in a new factory in western German Kaiserslautern from 2024. Opel ...
08 Jan 2020, 12:30 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv Decarbonising Germany’s economy while safeguarding the country’s prosperity will require "massive" investments by the state, for example in infrastructure, write economists at the ...
26 Feb 2020, 13:52 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Sören Amelang Wind Germany's economy ministry has ...
12 Feb 2020, 13:27 Sören Amelang Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Long-term company contracts for the supply of renewable energy – also called corporate green power purchase agreements (PPAs) – are already often cheaper than conventional ...
26 Feb 2020, 13:55 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Sören Amelang Electricity market Gas Hydrogen Frankfurter ...
20 Jan 2020, 13:23 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Freja Eriksen Coal Tagesspiegel Background Critics of Germany's roadmap for phasing out lignite-fired power plants have ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:23 Rachel Waldholz Cars Handelsblatt Just a few years after being hit with massive fines for its role in the emissions cheating scandal, Volkswagen is hoping to re-brand as the climate-friendly alternative in the American market, Astrid ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:26 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv / Die Welt Germany’s hard coal power plant operators criticise the ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv Power generation with solar panels and bioenergy plants has reached a new record level in Bavaria, the German state's economy ministry has said. Final data for 2018 ...
03 Mar 2020, 13:44 Rachel Waldholz Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt Tesla could break ground on its new e-car factory outside Berlin as soon as this month, and the company could be eligible for 280 million euros in subsidies from the ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:49 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Sören Amelang Grid Tagesspiegel Background German operators of key energy infrastructure including power stations, gas and electricity grids have stepped up ...
27 Aug 2020, 11:48 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity ...
18 Feb 2020, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry 91tv Germany's government plans to use the country's EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020 to advocate a common European maritime economy strategy aimed at strengthening the ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:19 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv The demand for solar power panels in Germany has ...
01 Apr 2020, 15:14 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Sören Amelang Mobility Transport Hydrogen 91tv Trains with alternative propulsion systems have a large market potential in ...
11 Mar 2020, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv Some countries are likely to wait and see whether U.S. President Donald Trump wins another four years in office in November before committing to stepping up their ...
12 Mar 2020, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv The four seasons in Germany have been shifting over the last decades due to climate change, resulting in shorter winters and earlier summers, phenological data of plant growth ...
30 Jan 2020, 13:43 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's ...
11 May 2020, 13:46 Freja Eriksen Electricity market Grid Tagesspiegel Background Germany's single power price zone could come under threat as the coronavirus has practically slowed power grid expansion to a standstill, reports Steven Hanke in the ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Spiegel Online / energate messenger Germany's ambassador to the EU, Michael Clauß, has warned that the German EU Council presidency cannot take place as planned due to the coronavirus pandemic, ...
04 May 2020, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Solar 91tv / pv magazine Solar ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:18 Rachel Waldholz Cars Hydrogen 91tv The number of electric cars on German roads increased significantly last year, while major markets like the U.S. and China recorded slower growth. That's according to a survey by the ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Aachener Zeitung The case of a new wind farm in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that took nine years to complete illustrates the difficulties project developers across the country face when trying to ...
07 May 2020, 14:01 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Mobility 91tv The coronavirus crisis has added a new "feelgood factor" to private cars at the expense of public transport in Germany, according to a survey conducted by the ...
07 May 2020, 13:56 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Solar pv magazine Germany's market for solar energy and home storage systems will collapse if the government doesn't deliver on its promise to remove the existing cap for support payments, ...
13 Jan 2020, 13:54 Expert German Trade Union Association Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Bundesvorstand Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs 91tv Labour unions are necessary for organising the collective ...
12 May 2020, 13:19 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Freja Eriksen Coal Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Coal's share in Germany's net public power production fell to around 16 ...
09 Jun 2020, 12:48 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:16 Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Solar Cities 91tv Many of Germany's biggest cities are squandering vast renewable energy ...
17 Dec 2019, 13:19 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Transport ...
26 Feb 2020, 13:50 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Transport Tagesspiegel The German state-owned railway Deutsche Bahn has no plans to bring back sleeper cars despite their potential to provide a climate-friendly alternative to flying, the newspaper ...
06 Feb 2020, 12:45 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Rundschau It will be much tougher for the European Union to reach climate targets without climate “poster child” UK after Brexit, ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs manager magazin The dieselgate scandal in which carmakers from Germany and other countries manipulated the engines of their vehicles to cheat on emissions tests has severely damaged the ...
30 Apr 2020, 13:50 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas WirtschaftsWoche The fall in natural ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:30 Preview 2020: The fate of coal-fired power production in Germany has been sealed with the agreement of a government-appointed commission to phase-out the fossil fuel no later than 2038. But the proposal so far has not been translated ...
26 May 2020, 12:40 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Cost & Prices ...
31 Jan 2020, 14:06 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices 91tv Higher energy prices have pushed inflation up in Germany. On average, retail prices were 1.7 percent higher in January compared to a year earlier, after an inflation rate of 1.5 percent ...
05 Mar 2020, 15:08 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv German carmakers VW, BMW and Daimler are set to overtake Chinese rivals to become global market leaders for electric cars from 2021, according to business consultancy McKinsey. The German trio will ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:29 Expert Mojib Latif Head of the Research Division: Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sports federations like the German Football Association ...
06 Feb 2020, 12:48 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Freja Eriksen Solar 91tv / Handelsblatt Green energy provider Naturstrom has said it will provide households directly with power ...
07 Jan 2020, 16:05 A sharp drop in coal use put a break on Germany's CO2 emissions last year and pushed the country "surprisingly” close to its 2020 climate target, writes energy think tank Agora Energiewende in its 2019 review. But a rising CO2 ...
03 Dec 2019, 13:51 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen Technology 91tv Synthetic substitutes for conventional oil and gas will ...
26 Feb 2020, 13:47 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Rachel Waldholz Coal Climate & CO2 Zeit Online / Der Spiegel / 91tv Environmental activists occupied part of the ...
09 Dec 2019, 12:58 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party ...
21 Jan 2020, 13:21 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Germany's four ...
22 Apr 2020, 15:05 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Sören Amelang Solar 91tv The business confidence of Germany's ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance International Handelsblatt The German business association CDU Economic Council, associated with Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, opposes plans by the European Central Bank (ECB) to make ...
17 Jan 2020, 13:48 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
02 Mar 2020, 13:50 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Expert ZVSHK- German Sanitation, Heating and Air Conditioning Association Business & Jobs Heating Rachel Waldholz Heating 91tv About one in ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities dpa / Focus Online The share price of German energy company RWE has reached the highest level in seven years, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by website Focus Online. RWE's share price ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:48 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Industry Handelsblatt / Der Spiegel Carbon emissions and air pollution are expected to decline in Germany and worldwide because of the coronavirus pandemic, but experts warn the decrease could be ...
18 Dec 2019, 14:05 Germany has seen a second year of significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, as coal use fell by more than 20 percent and energy production from renewables increased, preliminary calculations by energy research group AG ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:24 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Freja Eriksen Agriculture 91tv / Der Tagesspiegel Both climate action and adaptation to climate change must be given "higher priority" ...
11 Nov 2019, 13:04 Expert Stefan Bratzel Director Cars Transport Freja Eriksen Cars Spiegel Online Small manufacturers of e-cars say their business could be threatened by the German government's increased buyer's premium intended to boost sales ...
04 Nov 2019, 14:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport International 91tv The governments of India and Germany have agreed on close cooperation to promote a climate-friendly transition in the energy and transport sectors. On a visit to India, German ...
15 Nov 2019, 13:44 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Claudia Kemfert German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Electricity market Energiewende Business ...
05 Mar 2020, 14:35 Rachel Waldholz Coal Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt Germany’s largest coal state, North Rhine-Westphalia, says it cannot accept the federal government’s proposed coal exit law without major amendments, arguing that ...
29 Jul 2020, 13:31 Expert Nordex Renewables Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs NDR / Recharge News Wind turbine manufacturer Nordex might be seeking help from the German government to cover losses in earnings due to ...
01 Apr 2020, 15:12 Sören Amelang Renewables Solar pv magazine The combined capacity of Germany's solar pv installations rose to almost 50 gigawatts (GW) in February, further approaching the controversial government cap of 52 gigawatts, reports ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:28 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Wholesale electricity ...
22 Nov 2019, 12:04 Expert Ottmar Edenhofer Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC, Director of MCC, Deputy Director and Chief Economist of PIK Climate & CO2 Energiewende Technology Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...
28 Oct 2019, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Tagesspiegel / dpa The German parliament's council of elders has decided that CO2 emissions of duty travel of MPs will have to be compensated through a "climate levy", news ...
23 Oct 2019, 13:24 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate ...
29 Nov 2019, 14:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cities Frankfurter Rundschau The city of Frankfurt is struggling to reduce its energy use as the growth in internet data traffic boosts power demand in Germany's most important computing centre, ...
14 Aug 2020, 14:27 Utilities Tagesspiegel Background Major German energy companies are making “rapid progress” with their green energy transition thanks to renewables becoming clear profit-makers that are attractive to investors, Jakob Schlandt writes in ...
06 Nov 2019, 13:35 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility Institut für Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilität Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv The carbon ...
06 Mar 2020, 10:27 Germany's massive policy push to reach 2030 climate targets is insufficient, two studies commissioned by the government have found. Despite the agreement on a coal phase-out, the introduction of a CO2 price and a host of other ...
21 Nov 2019, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Businesses' necessary adaptation to climate change and potentially disruptive policy decisions in the move to a climate-friendly low-carbon economy are the biggest risks global warming ...
18 Feb 2020, 13:55 Sören Amelang Industry Start-ups 91tv Germany's strong position in the global market for environmental technologies is at risk, warns the country's environment agency (UBA). "Germany's international ...
10 Dec 2019, 13:24 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Rose-Anne Clermont Climate & CO2 91tv In time for the UN climate conference COP25 being held in Madrid, the German Federal Statistical ...
06 Dec 2019, 15:06 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung A position paper by Germany's environment agency UBA calls for a drastic ...
09 Dec 2019, 13:08 Rose-Anne Clermont Cars 91tv Electric passenger cars are being given too much focus as a way of reducing carbon emissions, analysts at Deutsche Bank Research said in a paper, titled ' E-mobility: Without subsidies ...
22 Jul 2020, 13:32 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Cars International manager magazin / Reuters Car-makers Volkswagen and Ford say that a legal battle between two South Korean battery manufacturers in the United States could hamper the production of ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Energiewende 91tv The government’s recently adopted comprehensive climate package will have little effect on the Germany economy in 2020, says Deutsche Bank Research in its outlook for the ...
27 Nov 2019, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs The emissions reduction targets of several major German companies would violate the Paris Climate Agreement 's goal of keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius, a ...
04 Dec 2019, 13:41 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv Danish offshore wind company Orsted and German chemical maker Covestro have signed the world's biggest purchase agreement for an offshore wind farm planned without support payments. ...
11 Mar 2020, 14:13 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv The number of German energy companies that consider the energy transition good for business has risen considerably, according to a survey by business consultancy Horvath & ...
15 Jan 2020, 14:17 Sören Amelang Cars International Die Welt At the Las Vegas consumer electronics show CES, technology "made in Germany" only plays a supporting role, while real progress happens elsewhere, report Stefan Beutelsbacher and Thomas ...
13 Feb 2020, 13:33 Sören Amelang Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Reinsurer Munich Re has joined the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, promising to make its asset portfolio climate-neutral by 2050. "We extend our climate strategy with this step, ...
13 Feb 2020, 13:26 Sören Amelang International 91tv The EU must commit to new climate targets this spring in order to increase the chances of success at this year's crucial climate conference COP26, an alliance of German environmental ...
15 Jan 2020, 14:02 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv The German rail service Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the country's transport ministry (BMVI) have sealed a contract ...
23 Apr 2020, 13:46 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Sören Amelang Cars Hydrogen Technology ntv / electrek Daimler subsidiary ...
28 Feb 2020, 13:45 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate ...
30 Oct 2019, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv / Financial Times The German central bank (Bundesbank) has to maintain market neutrality and cannot become a proactive advocate of climate action, Bundesbank head Jens Weidmann said at a ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:10 Rachel Waldholz Nuclear phase-out dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau / Neues Deutschland Environmentalists are raising concerns about the planned transport of reprocessed nuclear waste from England back to Germany, newswire dpa reports. Last ...
03 Dec 2019, 13:40 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture 91tv German Chancellor Angela Merkel has invited representatives of the country's agricultural sector to a ...
18 Nov 2019, 13:33 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende 91tv The amount of packaging waste accruing in Germany has reached a new record high, the Federal ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:18 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:31 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Start-ups Finance 91tv Twenty-odd venture capital providers active in Germany have teamed up to introduce a sustainability clause in new ...
12 Dec 2019, 13:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband ...
29 Oct 2019, 14:10 Sören Amelang Transport Policy Die Welt Germany's plan to introduce a climate levy on airline tickets to finance a decrease in train fares violates an EU-US aviation treaty, according to US airlines. "The cross-subsidization ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:53 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the ...
02 Dec 2019, 13:38 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 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Spiegel Online / ...
24 Jan 2020, 14:08 Expert YouGov Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Society 91tv Despite a slump in the expansion of onshore wind power in Germany, most people in the country remain fundamentally in favour of the renewable energy ...
20 Jan 2020, 12:37 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Electricity market ...
28 Oct 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal 91tv Compensating German coal plant operators for taking their facilities off the grid during the country's coal exit could violate EU state aid rules and therefore significantly reduce the ...
27 Nov 2019, 14:08 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Renewable Energies Agency ...
06 Mar 2020, 14:24 Sören Amelang Transport Wirtschaftswoche Germany should postpone the introduction of an aviation levy designed to lower emissions because the sector has already been dealt a blow by the coronavirus, Klaus-Peter Willsch, aviation expert ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:38 Storage Cars 91tv A test of power consumption in electric cars shows that they consume between 10 and 25 percent more electricity than their on-board computers show, largely due to charging station losses, car drivers' ...
07 Oct 2019, 14:34 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Government Clean ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:52 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy Bonner General-Anzeiger The head of energy company RWE, Rolf Martin Schmitz, has said his company is "shouldering the biggest burden ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:22 Expert BAFA- Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle Fossil fuels Renewables Expert Federal Motor Transport Authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt Cars Transport Benjamin Wehrmann ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:59 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Rachel Waldholz Utilities 91tv / Handelsblatt Finnish state-owned utility Fortum has officially completed its purchase of a majority stake in German utility company Uniper, the company ...
24 Oct 2019, 12:13 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 ...
27 Jan 2020, 13:46 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities dpa / Donaukurier Authorities in four German cities with active driving bans for diesel cars have registered over 15 ...
16 Jan 2020, 14:28 Expert IAB- Institute for Employment Research Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Business & Jobs 91tv Germany's climate package will create more jobs than a business-as ...
02 Jul 2020, 13:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Kerstine Appunn Society 91tv The government must make ...
10 Dec 2019, 13:27 Rose-Anne Clermont Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv As part of a revised industrial energy strategy drafted by economy minister Peter Altmaier (CDU), the German government contemplates capturing and storing ...
01 Nov 2019, 15:35 Green and sustainable finance in Germany is not thinkable without the country's state-owned development bank KfW. The bank installed after the Second World War to finance reconstruction in Germany has become a major funder of ...
29 Nov 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv Global climate action and environmental protection can only work with an active Russian engagement, Germany's development minister Gerd Müller said at the German ...
27 Sep 2019, 13:44 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Renewables Solar 91tv The expansion of renewable power generation in Germany's urban areas has ...
28 Oct 2019, 13:50 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv Carmaker Daimler plans to end the use of diesel engines in heavy duty vehicles over the next two decades, promising "CO2 ...
05 Feb 2020, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society CORRECTIV / Frontal21 Conservative US policy think tank The Heartland Institute supports climate science deniers from Germany and other European countries, write German non-profit investigative ...
06 Apr 2020, 13:58 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen ...
04 Feb 2020, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices International Handelsblatt The carbon border adjustment mechanism envisioned by the European Commission as part of its landmark Green Deal package is problematic and could lead to trade disputes with ...
28 Feb 2020, 13:48 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Wind 91tv / Tagesspiegel ...
23 Oct 2019, 13:32 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Federal Network Agency for ...
21 Oct 2019, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Market forces will drive Sweden's fossil fuel phaseout and ultimately determine the fate of nuclear energy, said the country's energy minister Anders Ygeman in an ...
24 Feb 2020, 13:42 Rachel Waldholz Coal Transport Zeit Online The state-owned German railway Deutsche Bahn has tried to distinguish its service in recent years as a climate-friendly form of transit, highlighting its reliance on renewable power. But a 2007 ...
26 Sep 2019, 13:55 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare ...
09 Dec 2019, 12:55 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Coal 91tv / ...
09 Dec 2019, 12:56 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Rose-Anne Clermont Climate & CO2 91tv The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) outlined measures that demonstrate how EU ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen International Die Welt The importance of Russian gas for Germany is set to grow further amid the latter country's energy transition, economy minister Peter Altmaier said at a German-Russian industry ...
24 Jan 2020, 14:21 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Freja Eriksen Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany's CO2 price in the transport and buildings sector starting at 25 euros per tonne in 2021 is "too low", Herbert ...
07 Feb 2020, 13:02 Expert Prognos Consultancy Energiewende Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen 91tv E-mobility in Germany, including the charging infrastructure, is growing faster every year and “is gradually leaving its niche role behind”, writes ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:09 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 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International ...
16 Mar 2020, 14:09 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Security 91tv The far-reaching measures taken in Germany and across ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv Consumption of natural gas by Germany's private households and industry customers increased in 2019, while domestic production of the fossil fuel continued to decline, the national ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security WirtschaftsWoche Russia is defying threats from the U.S. over the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, making plans to finish the German-Russian project despite American pressure on companies working ...
07 May 2020, 13:58 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices 91tv Household electricity prices in Germany are the second highest in Europe, topped only by prices in Denmark. While Danish households paid 29.2 euros per 100 kWh on ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:08 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Electricity prices have risen particularly high for Germans with a low level of consumption due to a rise in basic costs of 30 percent from 2014 to 2019, according to an analysis by ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:25 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Freja Eriksen Efficiency 91tv "Practically all" of Germany's three-million non-residential building stock will have ...
10 Oct 2019, 13:46 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Coal 91tv / Spiegel Online Five ...
16 Dec 2019, 12:41 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen 91tv Battery electric cars are more climate-friendly over their full lifecycle than ...
04 Nov 2019, 14:13 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv The beginning of serial production of Volkswagen's e-car flagship model ID.3 in a factory in Zwickau marks a "system change" for Germany's ...
30 Jun 2020, 13:44 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Clean ...
09 Oct 2019, 17:06 The German government cabinet has adopted the country’s first framework climate law and a detailed programme of measures to reach national and European targets for 2030. Against the backdrop of climate action protests by the Extinction ...
04 Nov 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars Hydrogen 91tv Expanding Germany's e-car charging infrastructure and more support for electric mobility options will be key issues at a meeting between Germany's government and ...
04 Nov 2019, 14:01 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The expected dismantling of thousands of old wind turbines in Germany could overburden ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:39 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Freja Eriksen Transport 91tv The German transport ministry (BMVI) will ...
12 Nov 2019, 12:36 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Efficiency 91tv The final energy use for heating rooms and water in Germany's 22 ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Welt Online The boom of SUVs continues unabated in Germany, topping one million newly registered vehicles in a single year for the first time in 2019, Philipp Vetter writes for the Welt Online. The Center for ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:54 Julian Wettengel Coal Bloomberg Germany’s government has allocated less money for closing coal-fired power plants than the utilities that own them expected, reports Bloomberg. A government official told the news outlet that Chancellor ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Focus Online The head of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Werner Hoyer, says the EIB will turn into a "climate bank" and expand the share of climate-related activities in its portfolio to 50 ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:39 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Renewables Heating 91tv The share of renewable energy in German ...
26 Nov 2019, 13:04 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Expert TenneT Grid operator ...
13 Dec 2019, 13:13 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Freja Eriksen Hydrogen Industry 91tv Industry produced 55 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in Germany in 2018, meaning local units of ...
11 Dec 2019, 12:56 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid 91tv In response to several strains on the ...
11 Nov 2019, 12:56 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost ...
08 Jan 2020, 12:31 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv German media have commented on the news that a sharp drop in coal use put a break on Germany's CO2 emissions last year and pushed the country "surprisingly” close to its ...
25 Oct 2019, 14:20 Opposition parties have strongly criticised the German government coalition’s climate policy package in a first parliamentary debate on key legislative elements, such as the planned major climate action law. The first reading in the ...
05 Nov 2019, 13:52 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 ...
25 Nov 2019, 12:33 Julian Wettengel Solar Wind 91tv Solar power projects again secured the entire volume of capacity available in the fourth joint auction for new solar and onshore wind, as no onshore bids were submitted, the German Federal ...
19 Sep 2019, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Voters in Germany would have supported a coal phase-out much earlier than 2038, the date proposed by the country's coal exit commission earlier this year, according to a ...
11 Nov 2019, 12:58 Expert Enercon GmbH Wind turbine manufacturer Wind Business & Jobs Technology Freja Eriksen Wind Business & Jobs dpa German wind turbine maker Enercon has announced it will cut up to 3,000 jobs, saying the federal government& ...
05 Nov 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv Achieving a 100-percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is possible for Germany without relying on controversial technology like nuclear power and carbon capture and ...
26 Sep 2019, 14:01 Sören Amelang Renewables Technology Bizz Energy Europe dedicated less money to energy research and development last year, resulting in the US and China outspending the EU and its member states "for the first time", bizz energy ...
21 Oct 2019, 13:07 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen ...
01 Oct 2019, 13:50 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices International 91tv Germany's ruling Christian Democrats (CDU) ...
06 Dec 2019, 15:18 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Rachel Waldholz Coal Electricity market ...
09 Sep 2019, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Elections & Politics The Bavarian conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) – sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU – has agreed on what it calls a " ...
08 Nov 2019, 14:04 Sören Amelang Solar Cars 91tv / Die Welt Bavarian energy storage company Sonnen, which was taken over by oil company Shell earlier this year, is entering the e-mobility market. The company said it will launch a ...
29 Oct 2019, 17:41 Germany is headed for second consecutive year of substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as a sharp drop in coal consumption is driving a decline of the country’s overall energy use in 2019. If this trend continues, the ...
17 Oct 2019, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv The implementation of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is happening "too slowly", German environment ministry state secretary Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter said ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:44 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Freja Eriksen Heating 91tv German energy efficiency ...
05 Mar 2020, 14:39 Rachel Waldholz Cars 91tv Over one third of German car owners (36 percent) say they could imagine buying an electric car in the next five years, but more than half say it’s not an option, in large part because of the cost. ...
24 Oct 2019, 12:06 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal 91tv Leading environmental NGOs have called on the government of western German mining region North Rhine-Westphalia to protect ...
31 Jan 2020, 14:01 Sören Amelang Mobility Wirtschaftswoche / 91tv Europe's largest coach service, FlixBus, has said it will discontinue many rural connections because the government only supports train travel with tax cuts, reports ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:45 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 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
29 Nov 2019, 14:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government 91tv The council of federal state governments (Bundesrat) has greenlit Germany’s Climate Action Law and the planned national emissions trading system for transport and ...
29 Nov 2019, 13:58 Expert Enercon GmbH Wind turbine manufacturer Wind Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Germany's leading wind turbine producer Enercon says the first major crisis in the company& ...
18 Sep 2019, 12:24 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 Julian Wettengel Digitalisation Clean ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Augsburger Allgemeine The end of nuclear power production in Germany in 2022 will not compromise the electricity supply of southern economic powerhouse state Bavaria, the state's ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:44 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Storage Hydrogen Efficiency Clean ...
18 Oct 2019, 11:38 France and Germany have backed the goals put forward by the incoming EU commission in a joint declaration, calling for a rapid adoption for the proposed European Green Deal. German chancellor Angela Merkel stressed in a speech to ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:22 Julian Wettengel Coal Society 91tv The European Union “will not leave the people of Lusatia behind”, as structural economic change brought on by the transition to a low-carbon world is a “European challenge”, said European ...
19 Aug 2019, 13:03 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport 91tv The most effective way to reduce CO₂ emissions from air travel are investments in efficiency, says the German Aviation Association (BDL) in a paper. At the same time, ...
25 Sep 2019, 14:08 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
24 Sep 2019, 14:01 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, ...
11 Sep 2019, 13:58 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Euractiv / Tagesspiegel Background A commitment to making Europe "the world’s first climate-neutral continent" will be "at the heart" of President-elect Ursula ...
07 Oct 2019, 14:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars manager magazin Carmaker VW is emptying its stocks of older e-car models ahead of the launch of its new ID 3 model, bringing the price for the electric version of its successful Golf model below that of the ...
04 May 2020, 13:49 Freja Eriksen Grid 91tv Germany made important progress in expanding the power grid in 2019, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) says in its annual report. Of 7,700 kilometres of planned grid expansion, 1,300 km have been ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:20 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv People have to do “everything humanly possible” to deal with global warming, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in her New Year’s speech 2020. “It is still possible,” said the ...
23 Jan 2020, 13:23 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 91tv Germany's emissions fell stronger in 2018 than originally assumed, the country's ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:45 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Oxfam Germany Climate & CO2 COP21 Freja Eriksen Climate & ...
09 Aug 2019, 13:42 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Heating 91tv Germany's armed forces are phasing out the use of hard coal for heating. The last heating system ...
27 Aug 2019, 16:42 Addressing climate change and the pros and cons of renewable power have dominated German public debate for almost two decades, but the role of the finance sector in emissions reduction has taken a back seat. Many countries have already ...
05 Sep 2019, 16:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices Investments in renewable energy were halved in Germany in 2018 compared to the year before, landing the country in fourth place in global renewable investments, said Ulf Moslener, ...
27 Sep 2019, 13:39 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ ...
21 Apr 2020, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv Germany’s Federal Network Agency ...
05 Aug 2019, 13:11 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & ...
07 Jan 2020, 14:03 Expert Federal Motor Transport Authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt Cars Transport Freja Eriksen Cars 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine The number of pure electric new car registrations in Germany rose by more than 75 percent in 2019 ...
04 Sep 2019, 13:12 The expansion of Germany's most important renewable energy source, onshore wind, has almost come to a standstill. Bureaucratic hurdles and resistance to new turbines from different interest groups mean that only a handful of new ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Focus Online The premier of the eastern German state of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, has criticised the federal government's climate action package, arguing that it "discriminates ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:36 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin ...
25 Oct 2019, 14:06 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal Reuters / 91tv German energy company RWE rejected an analysis by financial think tank Carbon Tracker saying the German power firm would ...
20 Sep 2019, 13:03 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology 91tv A new research project aimed at solving one of the major technological difficulties of the energy transition is seeking to use the energy from wind turbines' moving rotors and ...
17 Feb 2020, 14:09 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The German Bundesrat, the council of state governments ...
31 Oct 2019
31 Oct 2019, 13:32 Sören Amelang Reuters / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel UPDATE- Former member of coal commission tells Tagesspiegel announcement could be "bluff" German utility Uniper has been given the green light to start ...
09 Sep 2019, 12:00 Citizens have been a crucial driver of Germany's energy transition and many regard sustainability and especially environmental action a crucial feature of sound investments. Yet, the vast majority of savings in the country are not ...
03 Sep 2019, 17:45 Following key regional elections in eastern German Saxony and Brandenburg, the conservative parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel's grand coalition – the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) – have ...
05 Sep 2019, 12:30 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert SPD- Social Democratic ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:11 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions in relatively new diesel cars are still much higher ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:51 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Transport Technology 91tv Civil airlines should be required to use at least two ...
14 Feb 2020, 13:22 Sören Amelang Coal Climate & CO2 91tv Germany must exit coal much quicker than planned to comply with the Paris Climate Agreement, according to a report by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). "A coal ...
24 Jul 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Rheinische Post / Die Welt The German fund for nuclear waste management is set to make a profit in 2019, putting the long-term disposal of radioactive waste on a financially sound basis, the fund’s ...
06 Sep 2019, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Storage Hydrogen NDR / Die Welt / 91tv The city of Hamburg in Northern Germany aims to become home to the world's largest hydrogen electrolysis plant with a capacity of 100 megawatts, reports the ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:25 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Storage 91tv The total power storage capacity ...
08 Nov 2019, 14:09 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv The number of permits issued for onshore wind turbines in Germany has dropped by more than 70 percent within three years, says German utility association BDEW. "Whereas three years ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:57 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities 91tv Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution in Germany's inner cities is declining, but many urban ...
10 Feb 2020, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal International Tagesspiegel The gradual phase-out of coal power in Germany over the next two decades does not at all guarantee a parallel drop in European greenhouse gas emissions, as the so-called waterbed effect ...
05 Dec 2019, 13:13 Expert German Investment Funds Association Deutscher Fondsverband Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv The volume of assets managed in retail funds under sustainability criteria in Germany has doubled over the past five ...
05 Dec 2019, 12:47 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv The German auto industry association VDA has warned against the new European Commission's push for ...
13 Aug 2019, 13:37 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution ...
15 Oct 2019, 12:27 Germany’s renewable energy surcharge (EEG surcharge) that is paid by consumers with their electricity bill and supports wind, solar, biomass and hydro power installations will rise by about 5 percent to 6.756 cents per kilowatt hour (ct ...
24 Jul 2019, 14:16 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Transport Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Die Welt The German Green party is calling for higher taxes on domestic flights and lower taxes on train tickets and an eventual end of domestic flights. A paper ...
30 Aug 2019, 14:21 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv German agriculture minister Julia Klöckner has plans for large-scale reforestation projects to improve the "grave state" of German forests, she announced at a ...
10 Oct 2019, 13:57 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices 91tv / Montel News Transmission system operators (TSO) in Germany are considering splitting the country's single power market bidding zone into different zones as the first step of ...
27 May 2020, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Green stimulus 91tv Dealing with the coronavirus crisis will be the main priority of the German EU Council presidency in the second half of 2020, chancellor Angela Merkel told leaders of the European ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv The production of solar power modules in Europe can be made economically viable again if production sites are planned sufficiently large, a study by research institute Fraunhofer ISE and ...
15 May 2020, 14:21 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Transport Der Spiegel Largely due to the coronavirus crisis, German railway service Deutsche Bahn (DB) has an 11-billion-euro hole in its budget, ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:48 Corrects headline:Daimler will enlist several wind farms, not thousands of wind turbines, as previously stated. Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cars Süddeutsche Zeitung German carmaker Daimler is signing agreements with wind farm operators ...
19 Sep 2019, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cars 91tv The German Monopolies Commission has warned that the breakthrough of electric cars and the expansion of onshore wind power in the country both suffer from a lack of competition that brings ...
26 Aug 2019
26 Aug 2019, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Handelsblatt Six German industry associations have claimed that the country's coal-fired power plants would be in danger of "abrupt shutdowns" if the federal environment ministry introduces stricter ...
22 Jul 2019, 14:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society 91tv Increased regulation threatens German citizens’ energy cooperatives, according to a survey by the national cooperative association DGRV. The cooperatives, which allow independent ...
17 Jul 2019, 12:50 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen H2 Mobility Deutschland / Fraunhofer ISE For cars with ranges higher than 250 kilometres, hydrogen fuel cell drives are ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:32 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture Deutschlandfunk / Die Welt As German forests continue to suffer from heat damage and bark-beetle infestation, the country’s “most important ally for climate action” is in danger, writes ...
16 Apr 2020, 12:58 Sören Amelang Heating 91tv The coronavirus lockdowns have significantly pushed up heating use across Europe, according to intelligent thermostat maker tado. In Germany, where lockdown measures started on 22 March, the use ...
28 Apr 2020, 12:26 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Zeit Online / 91tv An unusually dry spring has subjected German forests to an "enormous stress test", ...
31 Jul 2019, 13:57 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Rheinische Post The federal government is “frightening” the population with the debate about climate action measures such as higher prices for fossil car fuels and domestic ...
09 Aug 2019, 13:54 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Grid Renewables Wind Costs for maintaining a ...
20 Aug 2019, 14:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv / Handelsblatt Influential German ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:27 Freja Eriksen Grid 91tv The first grid development plan (NEP) based on Germany's target of 65 percent renewables in gross power consumption and planned coal exit has been approved by the German Federal Network Agency ...
16 Sep 2019, 14:08 Edgar Meza Cars Deutsche Welle / Der Tagesspiegel Tens of thousands of protesters descended on the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt on Saturday demanding more ambitious climate action and an overhaul of transport policy, ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:22 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Expert KfW Bank KfW- government ...
13 Aug 2019, 13:40 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Coal Handelsblatt Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has come out against ...
16 Sep 2019, 12:31 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv Germany’s transport transition is largely dependent on the adoption of widely circulated concepts based on new technologies and planned infrastructure developments, Deutsche Bank Research says in a ...
23 Oct 2019, 13:26 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv German millennials' attitudes towards cars are less sceptical than generally assumed, according to a survey by business advisory Duff & Phelps. The use of cars is more prevalent among ...
21 Oct 2019, 13:15 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Wind Tageszeitung (taz) The German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) has warned that new ...
12 Jul 2019, 13:16 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv Twelve EU member states have already set a price on CO2 and all opted for a tax solution as Germany continues discussions on the ...
08 Oct 2019, 13:59 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy ...
08 Nov 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The rising price for emissions allowances in the EU's trading system ETS is increasing the price of cement, giving German building material giant ...
02 Aug 2019, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Solar Technology 91tv New textile-based solar cells woven into truck tarps could soon be producing the electricity needed to power cooling systems or other onboard equipment, writes Fraunhofer Institute for ...
01 Jul 2019, 13:51 Sven Egenter Grid Digitalisation Tagesspiegel Germany’s grid operators are working on their defenses against hacker attacks on their critical infrastructure, Christian Schaudwet writes for energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
08 Aug 2019, 14:10 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 The Guardian Heat, drought and storms, as well as beetle and fungi plagues, have damaged an area of German forest the size of 200,000 football fields this year, leading politicians to raise the issue to a ...
29 Jul 2019, 13:39 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Storage 91tv The production of so-called power-to-x fuels must be regulated in ...
14 Nov 2019, 13:46 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Electricity market Grid 91tv Germany is ranked ...
23 Sep 2019, 13:49 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Edgar Meza Coal Utilities 91tv Government auctions aimed at shutting down Germany ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / Rheinische Post The “clear recommendations” on CO₂ pricing given by Germany’s top economic advisers “mark a milestone”, Klaus Stratmann argues in an opinion piece in ...
30 Aug 2019, 14:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government 91tv New barrages and sluices in the Rhine are a possible solution to keep Germany's most important waterway working if recurring dry spells drain water levels below the ...
02 Sep 2019, 13:08 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices dpa Economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said he aims to lower German electricity prices in the country's climate cabinet, where key decisions on German climate action legislation ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Spiegel Online Climate action belongs in Germany’s Basic Law as a “binding state task”, a majority (59%) of respondents in an online climate policy survey by Spiegel Online say. About 70 percent of ...
16 Aug 2019, 12:11 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 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar pv magazine The ...
19 Sep 2019, 13:23 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Transport ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:27 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Freja Eriksen Wind 91tv Leading global wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has won an order to build a 29 megawatt (MW) wind power plant at a steel ...
20 Sep 2019, 12:58 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics 91tv / Spiegel Online / Süddeutsche Zeitung Elections in the eastern German states of Brandenburg and Saxony left established parties severely weakened and have resulted in coalition ...
21 Aug 2019, 11:57 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Citizens' energy Tagesschau The expansion of renewable electricity ...
06 Aug 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Policy 91tv The German finance ministry (BMF) is pondering a review of the federal budget based on sustainability criteria in order to prepare the issuing of a green state bond, a ministry source ...
02 Jul 2019, 14:09 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 91tv For the first time, solar energy topped the list of sources for Germany’s net public electricity ...
29 Aug 2019, 12:25 Edgar Meza Finance Handelsblatt Sustainable investment is much more than a fashionable trend, and while the hype surrounding it will lead to disappointment, it’s nevertheless the right path, Michael Maisch writes in an opinion piece in ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:51 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Julian Wettengel Transport 91tv The number of passengers using long-distance rail services in Germany grew 1.9 percent in 2019 to a record 151 ...
10 Jul 2019, 12:53 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kennedy Nyavaya Grid Wind 91tv Several European grid operators have proposed to build at least ten artificial “energy islands” as wind power hubs in the North ...
13 Aug 2019, 13:43 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & ...
27 Jun 2019, 12:30 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices ...
11 Sep 2019, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Wind 91tv The German coal exit can only be carried out safely if the country raises its current offshore wind power expansion plans, a meta-study commissioned by offshore industry association BWO has ...
20 Apr 2020, 13:39 Freja Eriksen Electricity market 91tv European CO2 emissions from power production could fall by 15 to 20 percent as a result of lower demand on electricity due to the coronavirus, says an analysis by DNV GL, an independent ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:46 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Freja Eriksen Citizens' energy Renewables Cars 91tv Most households in Germany "not only support the energy transition ...
21 Aug 2019, 12:01 Freja Eriksen Citizens' energy Solar 91tv / Handelsblatt Work has begun on the first crowdfunded solar park in Germany with a capacity of about 1.3 megawatts, energy company BayWa r.e. and online energy market place ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Wind Hydrogen NDR Germany's northern coastal states are set to expand their efforts to bring hydrogen production from wind power to an industrial scale and better use the turbines' energy potential, ...
21 Aug 2019, 17:10 Angela Merkel's grand coalition government may survive yet another election debacle in the upcoming East German state votes – despite ongoing leadership problems, says political scientist Gero Neugebauer. The Social Democratic ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv A system to trade CO₂ emission allowances, rather than a carbon tax, is the better way to steer Germany towards climate neutrality in the long run, Chancellor Angela ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:51 Sören Amelang Policy International 91tv The EU Commission has warned EU countries including Germany that draft national plans for the coming decade are insufficient to achieve the bloc’s 2030 energy and climate targets. ...
18 Jul 2019, 13:36 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Policy German Institute for International and Security ...
02 Jul 2019, 17:48 Germany’s power grid was strained at several moments in June because too little electricity was fed into the system, according to the four power transmission grid operators (TSO). Power market experts said the reason for the “very tense ...
16 Sep 2019, 14:03 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Rheinische Post / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Süddeutsche Zeitung The ideas the German government's climate cabinet members and government parties have put on the table so far "will hardly be ...
28 Feb 2020, 13:54 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Die Zeit Climate action and the European Green Deal are at the "top of the list" of the Federal ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:09 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert IG Metall-Industrial Union of Metalworkers IG Metall Transport Business & Jobs Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv The number of flights taken in Germany to domestic as well as international destinations continues to rise, the Destatis national statistical office has found. In the first half of 2019, the ...
22 May 2019, 13:19 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 Julian Wettengel Coal Elections & ...
19 Jun 2019, 12:01 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv / ...
18 Nov 2019, 13:30 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Julian ...
23 Jul 2019
23 Jul 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann dpa / Die Welt Two economically powerful southern German states, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, have announced that they will join forces to set up a new battery cell research centre, news agency dpa reports in an ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:46 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv A scheme to boost solar power production in ...
14 Feb 2020, 13:14 Sören Amelang International 91tv Eight European nations have agreed on a programme to make the river Rhine and its tributaries more climate-resilient. Germany, France, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, ...
25 Oct 2019, 15:22 The share of renewable energy in Germany's gross power consumption reached a record of almost 43 percent in the first nine months of 2019. But a near halt in the country's onshore wind power expansion overshadows the ...
03 Sep 2019, 13:38 Expert Commerzbank Finance Freja Eriksen Cars 91tv German automotive suppliers are increasingly focusing investments on electric vehicles and CO2 reduction strategies in order to avoid EU fines, as production figures have ...
19 Jun 2019, 12:00 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Utilities 91tv German energy companies RWE and innogy are jointly looking into large-scale production of green hydrogen and ...
30 Jul 2019, 13:50 Freja Eriksen Start-ups Handelsblatt / 91tv German start-up Ecoligo has created a crowd investment structure to encourage the expansion of solar power in developing countries, writes business daily Handelsblatt. The two ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:00 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The proportion of peole in Germany who consider climate change to be "the single most serious problem facing the world" has doubled since 2017 to 30 percent, the latest ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:18 Expert DIE- German Development Institute Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International G20 & G7 German Development Institute Support for multilateral commitments, especially those ...
02 Aug 2019, 12:18 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 ARD A majority of Germans (72 %) say incentives are a better way of persuading the population to adopt more climate-conscious behaviour, while just 15 percent said bans were most effective, according to a ...
27 Nov 2019, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Cost & Prices 91tv No single energy company can currently claim any dominance over Germany's electricity market, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and the federal antitrust ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Transport Agriculture 91tv Germany, Finland, France and Portugal’s National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) drafts include ambitious goals but “lack details and concrete measures” to ensure ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables dpa / Focus Online Solar power systems and wind turbines in Germany fed 39.3 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity into the public grid from June to August, a 10 percent increase compared to the same ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:01 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Grid 91tv The German power grid ...
23 Jul 2019
23 Jul 2019, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv Most residents of German apartment buildings are unable to charge an electric car at home, according to a study by influential drivers’ club ADAC. Only 4 percent of apartment buildings assessed had a ...
09 Jul 2019, 11:57 CORRECTION: This article previously stated that Gerd Müller is Germany's environment minister. That was a mistake. He is Germany's development minister. Planting huge amounts of trees across the globe could be an effective way ...
01 Jul 2019, 13:35 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv / Financial Times Environmental and development organisation Germanwatch has said it is “relieved“ that 19 of the G20 countries at ...
22 May 2019, 13:21 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv ...
05 Aug 2019, 13:17 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ ...
28 May 2019, 13:25 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union ...
23 Jul 2019, 13:53 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 dpa / Handelsblatt Online Germany’s ...
04 Sep 2019, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind Süddeutsche Zeitung The expansion of renewable electricity facilities, such as wind and solar PV parks, is the crucial challenge currently facing Germany's energy transition (Energiewende), ...
21 Jun 2019, 13:27 Just days after the German government signalled it was ready to ramp up climate action at home and across Europe, the European Council dealt a blow to greater climate ambitions by failing to agree on the goal of net-zero emissions in ...
19 Nov 2019, 13:42 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs G20 & G7 Reuters / Passauer Neue Presse / Handelsblatt / 91tv ...
23 Jul 2019, 13:52 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices 91tv A German court has ruled to revoke the so-called mixed-price system used to set prices on the energy balancing market. The Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf’s decision follows a ...
04 Jul 2019, 12:45 Electricity supply in Germany is secure even as the country is phasing out coal-fired power generation, according to a monitoring report which sets new standards for supply security from the economy ministry. The report also changes the ...
04 Jun 2019, 13:27 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Washington Post If Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel is really serious about her promise to make the country climate-neutral by 2050, her first step would be to reverse the end of nuclear power by 2022, ...
01 Aug 2019, 09:00 Germany’s fleet of lignite power stations has likely lost more than 600 million euros in the first half of 2019, as profits “collapsed” and fixed costs could not be covered, according to modelling by Sandbag. The climate change think ...
05 Jun 2019, 12:31 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Die Welt Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has launched a verbal ...
02 Aug 2019, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv Germany needs a “national master plan” to save its forests as carbon sinks and the federal government should provide 800 million euros over the coming four years to states ...
02 Sep 2019, 13:15 The elections in Germany's eastern federal states Saxony and Brandenburg have dealt a blow to the country's governing parties, CDU and SPD, and brought huge gains for the far-right AfD. Even though the climate change-denying ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:16 Sven Egenter Cars Süddeutsche Zeitung German drivers do not want electric cars because these do not offer the same range as any gasoline car at a competitive price, e-mobility pioneer Günther Schuh says in an interview with Süddeutsche ...
15 May 2019, 12:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A Climate Action Law in Germany that spells out clear sectoral emissions reduction targets is in the interest of energy-intensive industries like steel, environment ...
17 Dec 2019, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv / Spiegel Online The German rail service Deutsche Bahn (DB) is going to make the biggest investment in its vehicle ...
02 Apr 2020, 13:39 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv The initial enthusiasm of early electric car drivers has given way to increasing frustration as the technology has started to enter the mass market, according to a survey by Consultancy UScale. Of ...
12 Nov 2019, 12:47 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Business & Jobs Technology 91tv Germany’s largest steelmaker thyssenkrupp has launched a series of tests into the use of hydrogen in a working blast furnace aimed at reducing CO2 emissions ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:34 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal Climate & CO2 91tv German energy company RWE's opencast ...
20 Aug 2019, 13:55 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport 91tv / AP German airline Lufthansa is launching a platform that allows customers to purchase CO₂-neutral synthetic plane fuel to compensate for the emissions caused by their ...
07 Aug 2019, 14:01 Sören Amelang International 91tv Germany has to step up its climate ambitions so Chancellor Angela Merkel doesn’t travel to the UN Climate Action Summit in New York on 23 September empty-handed, according to Climate ...
24 Jul 2019, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Die Welt Carmaker BAIC has become the second major Chinese investor in Daimler, bringing its electric mobility know-how to the German firm, Florian Gehm reports for Die Welt. BAIC sold nearly 165,000 e-cars in ...
23 May 2019, 12:22 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Coal Climate & CO2 ...
24 May 2019, 13:24 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Technology Policy Spiegel Online The goal of becoming a ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:04 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The leader of the Germany's governing ...
24 May 2019, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Italian energy company Enel has announced it will enter the growing market for e-car charging stations in Germany, Kathrin Witsch reports for business newspaper Handelsblatt. “The ...
02 May 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Technology 91tv Germany is interested in finding an agreement with neighbouring Switzerland on how the Alpine country could contribute to German and European power supply security, the German ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Finance 91tv The new advisory council on sustainable finance established by Germany’s government has held its first meeting to debate how the country’s financial sector can better ...
18 Jul 2019, 13:43 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:00 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics ARD / Handelsblatt / Zeit Online German media commentators described Ursula von der Leyen, candidate for the European Commission presidency and German defence minister, as ...
24 May 2019, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Reuters The investment fund subsidiary of Germany’s Deutsche Bank, DWS, wants to increase the share of sustainable investments, with a greater focus on the so-called ESG criteria for asset selection, which ...
18 Sep 2019, 12:21 Expert DIE- German Development Institute Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Climate commitments made by cities, regions and businesses could push some of the world' ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:15 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Gas Hydrogen Technology Wirtschaftswoche French oil major Total keeps an eagle eye on German projects that use ...
11 Jun 2019, 13:26 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & ...
04 Feb 2020, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Germany’s power supply is secure at the moment, but continued grid expansion delays would pose a great challenge, the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) said in a press release accompanying its 8th ...
29 May 2019, 12:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics CNN The results of the European elections mean that Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) must give better answers on the climate issue, the German ...
25 Feb 2020, 13:28 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Nuclear phase-out ...
05 Jun 2019, 14:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Policy dpa / Spiegel Online The governing conservative CDU/CSU alliance in Germany considers to end the tax exemption for kerosene in a bid to reduce the aviation sector’s impact on carbon emissions, news ...
10 Jul 2019, 13:01 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport WDR / Die Welt / Neues Deutschland France’s plans to introduce an eco-tax of between 1.50 and 18 euros on flight tickets got mixed reviews from commentators in the German media. “The new ...
09 Aug 2019, 13:59 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Freja Eriksen Utilities German fossil utility Uniper cited rising costs for carbon allowances as a main reason for declining ...
04 Jun 2019
04 Jun 2019, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv The influential industry lobby group BDI has criticised Germany’s government for damaging the economy with unclear and erratic policymaking in areas such as climate, energy and taxation. “There has to ...
06 Sep 2019, 13:34 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The expansion of onshore wind power in ...
04 Sep 2019, 12:11 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Freja Eriksen Heating 91tv ...
08 Nov 2019, 14:02 Expert ZEW- Centre for European Economic Research Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government 91tv A price on CO2 emissions in Germany's buildings ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:50 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Clean ...
15 Oct 2019, 12:24 Expert FÖS- Green Budget Germany Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables ...
08 Jul 2019, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany must review its climate change adaptation strategy as an early heatwave this year has shown that extreme weather events happen more frequently, said German Chancellor Angela ...
28 May 2019, 13:21 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency ...
28 Jun 2019, 12:38 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 COP24 tageszeitung (taz) / Clean ...
30 Apr 2019, 13:15 Transport Business & Jobs Reuters France and Germany have asked the European Commission to approve state subsidies for a cross-border battery cell consortium, including carmaker PSA with its German subsidiary Opel and French battery ...
22 May 2019, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture Spiegel Online Drained moorland is considered a major climate issue in agriculture which causes at least as much CO₂ emissions as livestock farming, writes Susanne Götze in an article for ...
11 Nov 2019, 08:07 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 91tv No G20 country has a climate strategy in line with the Paris Agreement’s ambitious end of its main target- to limit global warming to 1.5°C- although most are technically capable and have ...
19 Jun 2019, 16:33 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv European leaders will ultimately agree on the goal of climate neutrality by 2050 for the European Union – if not at the European Council in Brussels this week then at ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:31 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Freja Eriksen Grid Spiegel Online / dpa Five ...
07 Aug 2019, 13:51 Sören Amelang Storage 91tv The rapid spread of home batteries in Germany has brought the European residential storage market to an economic tipping point, according to a report by energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie. “Germany ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:41 With a new sustainable finance strategy, Germany's government hopes to better align financial policies with climate targets and to ensure the country moves from a cautious to a more proactive role in the budding green finance ...
30 Sep 2019, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Welt am Sonntag Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has made its critique of policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to protect the global climate a ...
20 May 2019, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt The production of Volkswagen’s highly-anticipated low-cost e-car ID could be relocated to a factory in Eastern Europe and not take place in the company’s factory in Emden in ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Finance Tagesspiegel The operator of Germany's stock exchange, Deutsche Börse Group, is profiting from increasing climate action activities through its energy trading branch EEX, the newspaper ...
31 Jul 2019, 13:55 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
13 May 2019, 14:12 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices A CO₂ price can be a useful building block of a package of climate ...
27 Jun 2019, 12:24 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv German Chancellor Angela Merkel has come out against putting a price on CO₂ emissions by expanding the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) to the transport, building and agriculture ...
19 Jun 2019, 12:07 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 91tv Germany’s third solar PV ...
25 Sep 2019, 14:02 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Digitalisation 91tv While three quarters of German energy companies expect artificial ...
03 May 2019, 13:20 Sören Amelang Storage Hydrogen Technology A German consortium has launched a research platform to store renewable hydrogen in a salt cavern. Following a two-year research project, the partners of the HYPOS alliance plan to build the ...
18 Sep 2019, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas 91tv The switch from coal-fired power generation and oil-fired heating to natural gas increases the greenhouse effect of energy supply by around 40 percent due to methane emissions, ...
12 Jul 2019, 13:07 Sven Egenter Transport Die Welt The environment minister of the city state of Hamburg has called for the introduction of a tax on airplane fuels and said that domestic flights should ultimately be banned, the newspaper Die Welt reports ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:58 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Cars 91tv The number of public ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:01 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market ...
25 Jun 2019, 13:44 Sören Amelang Cars BMW has accelerated its plans for the roll-out of electric models in a bid to convince investors it is capable of catching up with rivals, according to a Financial Times report. The company said it will release 25 ...
09 Oct 2019, 10:44 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Technology 91tv It is possible for the German chemical industry- ...
11 Sep 2019, 13:55 The German wind power industry has warned of the "precarious" situation of the country's dominant renewable power technology. As the industry gathered in the northern German town of Husum for one of the sector’s most ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:43 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv The intensifying public debate over climate change in ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:17 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Rachel Waldholz Grid Renewables reNews / Handelsblatt The German grid operator 50Hertz reported delivering a record 60 terawatt hours of renewable electricity ...
09 May 2019, 14:06 Sören Amelang Gas Storage Technology Forbes Germany’s share of renewable energy continues to rise but the capacity of the national grid is constrained, putting a spotlight on power-to-x technologies to store the renewable energy, ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Coal Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s government must implement the key recommendations given by its coal exit commission, but the proposal should not be followed to the letter to maintain necessary flexibility in ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:56 The nomination of Ursula von der Leyen as president of the European Commission has come as a surprise for many political observers in Germany and across Europe. Little is known about the incumbent German defence minister's climate ...
21 May 2019, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv Household electricity prices in the European Union (EU) on average have increased to 21.1 cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) in the second half of 2018, a 3.5 percent increase over the ...
20 Sep 2019, 12:54 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Renewables 91tv Renewable energy sources in Germany generated a total of 56 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity that was ...
22 Jul 2019, 14:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The protection and expansion of German forests is becoming increasingly important to climate protection, as prolonged droughts have begun ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:43 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert SPD- Social Democratic ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:39 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
12 Apr 2019, 13:20 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs WWF Germany Environmental organisation WWF Germany has published a background paper on the climate ...
02 Mar 2020, 13:34 Rachel Waldholz Cars Handelsblatt / Der Spiegel VW has decided not to develop new natural gas vehicles, just two years after predicting that cars fueled by compressed natural gas (CNG) could eventually account for up to 10 percent of ...
08 Jul 2019, 13:26 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Augsburger Allgemeine / FAZ / General Anzeiger Commentators are debating the effect of increasing existing taxes on petrol, diesel, heating oil and natural gas as proposed by federal ...
06 May 2019, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Handelsblatt At the beginning of his term, Germany’s energy and economy minister Peter Altmaier said he wanted to reduce the power price burden for small and medium industrial companies, but a year ...
17 Jul 2019, 12:47 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert WindGuard Deutsche WindGuard Renewables Julian Wettengel Wind Deutsche WindGuard / VDMA German offshore ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:17 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Freja Eriksen Renewables Wind 91tv Wind energy carried from the North Sea by transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT rose by 16 percent in the first half of ...
11 Jun 2019, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Coal Social Europe There is a wide gap between environmental rhetoric and climate action in Germany, as displayed by the “inadequate compromise” found by the coal exit commission, which “does not amount to a coherent ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International Security Bloomberg / Politico US Vice President Mike Pence has reiterated his administration’s criticism of the controversial German-Russian Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project in the Baltic ...
13 Mar 2020, 14:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv The measures outlined in the German government's climate package last year will likely not be sufficient to meet the country's 2030 climate targets, a study ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:22 Expert Ottmar Edenhofer Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC, Director of MCC, Deputy Director and Chief Economist of PIK Climate & CO2 Energiewende Technology Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics ...
26 Sep 2019, 13:56 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 91tv The German government's newly agreed climate action ...
11 Mar 2019, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Finance 91tv German reinsurance heavyweight Munich Re has introduced an insurance for operators of battery storage installations that shields them against the risk of their products not performing ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:19 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 International Bild The collapse of the climate system is resulting in refugees that Europe “of course” has to take in, German Sea-Watch captain Carola Rackete said in an interview with BILD. Rackete was ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:20 Freja Eriksen Renewables Hydrogen International 91tv The German city of Hamburg and Japanese prefecture of Fukushima want to strengthen their cooperation within the development and use of renewable energies. Hamburg hopes ...
25 Sep 2019, 14:04 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Sören Amelang Cars 91tv / New York Times New dieselgate troubles complicate the profound overhaul needed at German carmakers for the ...
01 Jul 2019, 13:42 Freja Eriksen Storage Cars 91tv Germany is stepping up research in the battery cell sector with a new institute, in a bid to break the dependence on Asian battery cell makers. “We will not leave this field to others, but ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:06 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Sven Egenter Solar Society 91tv An overwhelming majority of people in Germany continue to support the expansion ...
23 Sep 2019, 13:56 Freja Eriksen Coal 91tv Germany has joined the international Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) but withheld fully endorsing the PPCA declaration, which would commit OECD countries to phase out unabated coal no later than ...
26 Jun 2019, 12:55 Julian Wettengel Coal Cost & Prices 91tv The largest part of Germany’s government support to coal and coal-fired power production and consumption goes to measures focusing on the transition away from the fossil fuel, ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Tagesspiegel Berlin-based carbon-offsetting non-profit organisation atmosfair has increased its revenues by more than 40 percent in 2018, as more and more flight passengers use its services ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:30 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
10 Jul 2019, 12:58 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv In a broad alliance, industry associations and workers’ unions have developed joint “Guidelines for CO₂ pricing” in Germany. In a position paper, energy industry ...
29 Mar 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Policy 91tv The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that Germany's system of financing its renewables build-up through a surcharge on power bills does ...
11 Jun 2019, 13:24 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert SPD- Social Democratic ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cities 91tv A citizen initiative in Hamburg has succeeded in pushing for the end of coal heating by 2030 in the northern port city. “The use of coal in district heating has to be avoided as quickly ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Electricity market Utilities 91tv The European Commission has approved ...
28 Aug 2019, 14:02 Edgar Meza Coal Government 91tv Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet on Wednesday adopted a draft law submitted by Germany's economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier aimed at strengthening coal regions following the ...
09 May 2019, 16:55 Sören Amelang Cars Efficiency Reuters [CORRECTION: We apologise for misspelling the author's name. The Reuters article is by Caroline Copley.] German automotive supplier Bosch plans to become fully carbon neutral by 2020, making it ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:48 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & ...
11 Jul 2019, 10:30 The German candidate for the top job in the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen told European parliamentarians that tackling climate change is a top priority for the EU. She said the bloc's emission reduction goal could be ...
27 Mar 2019, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Reuters Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said he wants to extend tax incentives for buyers of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids for another decade, news agency Reuters reports, ...
19 Jul 2019, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Reuters Growing concern over global warming in Germany has seen the Green party rise to record popularity in polls, and made a Green chancellor a real possibility, Madeline Chambers writes for ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:43 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Government Employing multi-stakeholder task forces like Germany’s coal exit ...
29 May 2019, 12:57 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s climate cabinet has announced it will make key decisions about climate action legislation and measures in September and adopt these by the end of ...
09 Jul 2019, 12:45 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics International tageszeitung (taz) / 91tv The German members of the Green group in the European Parliament (EP) said they would only support German defence minister Ursula von der ...
15 Apr 2019, 12:08 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 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Frankfurter ...
26 Apr 2019, 12:56 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background German refineries have adequate oil stocks if import flows on the Russian Druzhba pipeline were to be halted, a spokesman for industry group MWV ...
07 May 2019, 13:32 Expert Ottmar Edenhofer Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC, Director of MCC, Deputy Director and Chief Economist of PIK Climate & CO2 Energiewende Technology Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate ...
06 Aug 2019, 14:12 Sören Amelang Society International 91tv Germans consider "the environment, climate and energy" the most important issue facing the country at the moment, according to a EU poll. 36 percent of respondents named it ...
20 May 2019, 13:08 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 ...
09 Jul 2019, 12:40 Sven Egenter Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Deutsche Bank Research / 91tv A coalition between Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Green Party following snap elections in case of a breakdown of the ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:25 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 91tv In 2019, Germany experienced its third-warmest year since the beginning of regular ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:33 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 International Handelsblatt / Guardian A “climate-neutral, prosperous and equitable” European economy is possible by 2050, said EU commissioner for climate action and energy Miguel Arias Cañete in an ...
21 Aug 2019, 11:59 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Sören Amelang Cars Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German utility EnBW plans to order up to 14,000 electric cars for its employees, ...
04 Jun 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Policy 91tv The German government will decide whether to follow a sectoral emission reduction approach or a general pricing of carbon emissions in its bid to get on track in achieving the ...
14 Oct 2019, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Renewables Transport 91tv [CORRECTION: DB says it seeks 500 gigawatt hours (GWh) of green electricity, not 500 GW.] Germany’s ...
30 Apr 2019, 13:10 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 dpa Germany’s main conservative party (CDU) will present its own concept for a CO2 pricing scheme ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Transport Cars Welt Online The EU Commission has criticised the German government for not making sufficient progress on setting up a countrywide network of service stations offering charging ...
17 Jun 2019, 12:48 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities 91tv The level of air pollution, mostly due to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions from traffic, has ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars Government Süddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel summoned the leaders of the country’s transport commission and several cabinet members to make sure the body ...
16 May 2019, 14:02 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables 91tv A new law that is aimed at ...
10 Jan 2020, 11:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv Only one out of ten onshore wind turbines in Germany is built in woodlands and the effect of the renewable energy technology on the country's forests is "small and locally limited," ...
27 Jun 2019, 10:20 Germany’s engineering prowess and excellent support programmes have spawned a world-leading scene of start-ups dedicated to pushing the energy transition with innovative ideas, according to start-up expert Klaus Fichter. There are ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:02 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Grid Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Süddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The government of the western German coal state and industrial ...
30 Jan 2020, 13:55 Sören Amelang Electricity market Renewables 91tv The volume of new renewable energy projects backed by a purchase power agreement (PPA) in Germany trails that of other European countries, according to a report by energy ...
25 Feb 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Policy Welt Online Kay Scheller, president of Germany’s Court of Auditors (Bundesrechnungshof), says the government should “seriously consider introducing a CO2 price” to meet the country’s emissions ...
02 Sep 2019, 13:13 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Renewables Wind Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany's "green fairy tale is in danger" as wind power expansion in the country has almost come to a "complete standstill," writes Michael ...
