13 Jan 2020, 14:20 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities 91tv German energy company RWE aims to become carbon neutral by 2040 and plans the requisite renewables investments ...
27 Mar 2019, 12:24 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Federal Environment Agency (UBA) The share of renewables in Germany’s final energy consumption ...
16 Apr 2019, 14:27 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Utilities Süddeutsche Zeitung German coal plant and lignite mine operator RWE has seen its share price increase by almost 40 percent since ...
21 May 2019, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv Using residues from industry production in the making of cement can substantially reduce the basic material’s carbon footprint, a group of researchers from the University of Halle ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv / Reuters The investments in emission reductions by Germany's government need a "restart" that ends the current approach of "small measures" based on ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Wind rbb Municipalities in the north-eastern German state of Brandenburg are to receive a share of the profits generated by wind farms, reports public broadcaster rbb. The state government adopted a law which obliges ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Storage Business Wire Bavarian energy storage group Sonnen is building a virtual power plant from private storage systems as part of a joint project with US energy supplier Rocky Mountain Power and the Wasatch ...
12 Jul 2019, 13:49 Freja Eriksen Cars 91tv Germany is rising to become the world’s third largest electromobility market, having outpaced Norway for the first time in absolute sales figures in 2019, the Center of Automotive Management’s (CAM) ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:58 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs International Bloomberg Germany sounded a note of caution as energy ministers from EU member states debated a proposal to aim for net-zero emissions from the bloc by the middle of the century, reports ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:22 The new 'climate cabinet' consisting of ministers responsible for Germany's emissions reduction record will help to make sure that the country introduces its much-awaited Climate Action Law still in 2019, Chancellor ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Cars 91tv The influential lobby group Federation of German Industries (BDI) has said that a “blockade mentality” by environmental NGOs has prevented a compromise within Germany ...
22 Mar 2019, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Rheinische Post Germany’s new climate cabinet is proof that policymakers can look ahead only as far ahead as the next election, and are unable to make decisions that might cause upset, ...
12 Mar 2019, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Aachener Nachrichten A court in the western German city of Cologne has started to hear a case by NGO Friends of the Earth (BUND) against the clearing of the embattled Hambach Forest, news agency dpa ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:29 Sören Amelang Transport Cars 91tv Germany needs a profound shift to a renewable transport system to improve local air quality instead of ineffective diesel driving bans, according to Germany’s National Academy of Sciences ...
22 Jul 2019, 13:54 Freja Eriksen Coal Renewables Cost & Prices Reuters Coal importers’ group VDKi expects Germany to import 10 percent less hard coal this year than in 2018. VDKi forecasts hard coal imports of between 39 million and 43 million tonnes ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:28 Renewables' growing raw material needs could become the energy transition's "Achilles' heel", warns Germany's environment agency UBA. It calls for better ecological and social mining standards to become an ...
09 Apr 2019, 13:29 The speed of energy transition innovations led by start-ups around the world continues to exceed expectations and is our biggest hope in the fight against climate change, according to Christoph Frei, secretary general and CEO of the ...
31 Jan 2020, 14:15 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Sören Amelang Efficiency 91tv Germany's heat pump ...
11 Apr 2019, 12:59 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Agriculture Climate-Alliance ...
23 Aug 2019, 13:23 Sören Amelang Electricity Climate & CO2 91tv Droughts caused by climate change pose a growing risk to the power supply in Germany and around the globe, according to a report by WWF Germany. 90 percent of global ...
12 Dec 2019, 13:30 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Freja Eriksen Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine The volume Germany's green bond will be in the region of ten billion euros, the country's ...
08 Aug 2019, 13:51 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt An increasing number of MPs from Germany's governing parties are in favour of abandoning the target of a balanced budget in order to finance the fight against climate ...
25 Mar 2019, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Energiewende International World Economic Forum The global energy transition has stalled, partly because of the continued use of coal power worldwide and slower-than-necessary improvements in energy intensity, according ...
02 Jul 2019, 13:39 Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv The likely next government coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and the Left Party in Germany’s smallest state Bremen wants to declare a ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:50 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Der Spiegel Right-wing populist parties could make major gains in the coming European elections, with many of them bringing a new climate scepticism to the chamber and making it ...
08 May 2019, 13:16 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Sören Amelang Gas Wind Business & Jobs Reuters German engineering conglomerate Siemens is spinning off its gas and power business, which has dragged on the firm’s performance as the rise of ...
30 Aug 2019, 14:12 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany's ...
15 Mar 2019, 13:32 The German government has agreed to install a “climate cabinet” to coordinate emissions reduction efforts across various ministries to reach the country's 2030 climate targets. Environment minister Svenja Schulze said the climate ...
23 May 2019, 12:19 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Cars Reuters / Daimler Daimler’s outgoing Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche has announced a sweeping cost review as he bid farewell to shareholders following more than a ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Gas Freight 91tv A maritime energy transition in line with the Paris Climate Agreement is only possible with the help of liquefied natural gas (LNG), says the Maritime LNG Platform in a press release. LNG ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:33 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Renewables Solar 91tv / pv magazine Germany's ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:40 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 Ecologic Institute ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:12 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Germany covered over one third of its entire net electricity ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:53 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid dpa / Handelsblatt Expansion of the German power grid is ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Grid Frankfurter Rundschau The southern German states of Hesse and Bavaria are passing the buck to each other on who should provide its territory for completing much-needed grid expansion plans, ...
27 Jun 2019, 12:28 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Elections & ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:12 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 Grid Handelsblatt Germany ...
10 May 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society YouGov / ZDF Attitudes toward a tax on carbon emissions in Germany strongly depend on age, with older people in general being much more sceptical of such a policy, a survey by pollster YouGov ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:26 German environment minister Svenja Schulze has sent a first draft of the planned Climate Action Law to the chancellery for “early coordination”, even as conservative politicians continue to criticise key elements and demand for it to be ...
08 Apr 2019, 12:46 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Edgar Meza Coal Energiewende 91tv German industrial trade ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:12 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs International 91tv German carmaker Daimler has teamed up with China’s Geely to develop the Daimler brand Smart into a “leader in premium-electrified vehicles,” the companies say in ...
15 Mar 2019, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Cars Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv A meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel, ministers from her cabinet and leaders of the country’s transport commission tasked with ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Finance Handelsblatt The operators of Germany’s coal plants should receive some compensation for closing facilities in line with the exit plan proposed by the country’s coal commission, but demands must be ...
07 Aug 2019, 13:58 Freja Eriksen Grid 91tv A fourth high-voltage, direct-current line going from northern to southern Germany is required to enable the country’s planned transition to renewable energy, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has ...
29 May 2019, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Gas Die Welt The German government has promised financial support for the construction of Germany’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, but one potential site has run into a hurdle, reports Die Welt. The ...
29 May 2019, 12:12 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Süddeutsche Zeitung The Energiewende (energy transition) is the linchpin of German climate policy, but the governing parties do little to deal with opposition, explain the ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Coal Climate & CO2 Deutschlandfunk Exceptionally low power production from coal plants in the first half of 2019 shows that price signals are an effective way to protect the climate, Theo Geers writes in an opinion ...
30 Aug 2019, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal 91tv A major lignite (brown coal) mine in eastern Germany will have to halt regular operation on 1 September after a court ruled the mine's owners failed to prove its environmental safety. The ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:06 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Transport Freight Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Süddeutsche Zeitung The CEO of German rail company Deutsche Bahn, Richard Lutz, has set a ...
19 Jun 2019, 11:58 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Transport Business & Jobs 91tv Siemens plans to cut 2,700 jobs at its gas and power business over the course of several years in addition to the 10,400 it is already ...
21 May 2019, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background The expansion of onshore wind power capacities is turning into a highly controversial issue for the regional elections in the three eastern German states Thuringia, ...
27 Feb 2019, 16:36 An expert panel advising the German government has called for a price on CO2 to spur the development of new technologies that are key for the energy transition. “Innovations are driven into the ground without a CO2 price signal,” said ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung France and Germany should collaborate more intensively on key projects regarding climate action and energy transition policy and together “define a ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Hydrogen Business & Jobs dpa / Focus Online An exclusive focus on supporting the development of battery electric mobility would be a risky strategy for German carmaker Daimler as it neglects other promising ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Most people in Germany are ready to implement changes to their lifestyle in order to reduce their individual impact on the climate, a survey commissioned by the European ...
11 Apr 2019, 14:13 The German government is exploring the introduction of a CO2 price to get the country back on track to reach its ambitious targets for emission cuts. In a turning point in the government's approach to CO2 reduction, Chancellor ...
24 Jan 2019, 12:11 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Cars Economic Trends Research Taxes and other regulatory burdens are much lower for electric cars than for other low-emission vehicles that run on biofuels or synthetic fuels, according to a ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Utilities Reuters / 91tv RWE, Germany’s largest power producer, reported a 20 percent increase in core profits in the first half of 2019, boosted by a stronger than expected performance at its energy ...
08 Apr 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 Green Party Bündnis 90/ ...
02 Apr 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Finance 91tv The majority of German insurance companies do not regard sustainability reporting on their business activities as worthwhile enough to produce a very informative document, a ...
12 Mar 2019, 14:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Grid International Tagesspiegel In order to achieve the best possible climate action in ...
17 May 2019, 12:48 Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende NABU / Wuppertal Institute It is possible to reduce Germany’s energy-related greenhouse gas emissions by up to 100 percent by 2050 while at the same time maintaining a high level of nature ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Freight dpa / airliners.de The emissions caused by the growing volume of global air travel are a problem that needs to be addressed more vigorously to minimise the effect of international tourism on ...
03 Jun 2019, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Cost & Prices Frankfurter Rundschau High prices for domestic coal-fired power production turned Germany into a net importer of electricity at the end of April after years of being an export champion, Frank ...
04 Apr 2019, 14:03 The influential German industry association BDI wants the country to opt for the lower end of its 2050 climate ambitions. The lobby group says a 95 percent reduction in line with the Paris Climate Agreement is currently “totally ...
04 Apr 2019, 14:09 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Gas Hydrogen Technology 91tv German steelmaker Salzgitter has expressed confidence that policymakers will provide the support necessary to realise a large-scale hydrogen project to ...
26 Mar 2019, 13:28 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s energy transition and integration of renewable power sources ...
22 Jul 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Society 91tv Construction of more than 2,000 onshore wind turbines in Germany-- with a combined capacity of nearly 10 gigawatts (GW)-- is on hold due to bureaucratic hurdles and delays in ...
30 Apr 2019, 13:12 Kerstine Appunn Transport 91tv Germany’s federal council of state governments (Bundesrat), the second legislative chamber, today debates the use of e-scooters on pavements and cycle lanes. While federal transport minister ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:51 Sören Amelang Gas Business Hydrogen Start-ups Technology 91tv The cosmetics industry is increasingly interested in using renewable hydrogen, according to German electrolysis start-up sunfire. Hydrogen made with renewable ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy Some six months after Germany’s coal exit commission tabled its proposal to phase out the fuel by 2038, commission members have criticised the government’s lack of progress on implementing the plan. ...
05 Feb 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Süddeutsche Zeitung / Welt Online The embattled Hambach Forest, which has become a symbolic place for anti-coal protesters in Germany, might not be cut down to make room for a nearby lignite mine, Rolf Martin ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Electricity market Cost & Prices Tageszeitung Germany’s export surplus of electricity reached a new monthly record level in January, Bernward Janzing writes in the Tageszeitung (taz). ...
28 May 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Efficiency 91tv A majority of companies in the energy efficiency industry are not satisfied with the work of the federal government, according to a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:48 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 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv ...
19 Aug 2019, 13:09 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Julian Wettengel Storage Hydrogen Technology 91tv Researchers in Germany have combined ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:21 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Solar Wind Federal Network Agency ...
18 Feb 2019, 13:33 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Coal Business & Jobs dpa / Rheinische Post German utility RWE estimates costs of 1.2 billion euros for each gigawatt (GW) of ...
09 May 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal 91tv The German coal exit will likely be completed before the 2038 end-date agreed on by the country’s coal exit commission, environment minister Svenja Schulze has said. “This will happen much faster ...
19 Aug 2019, 12:59 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Freja Eriksen Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Clean Energy ...
24 Jul 2019, 14:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars rbb24 The government of the federal state of Berlin has decided to ban older diesel cars from eight roads in the city and create dozens of zones with a 30 kilometre per hour speed limit, public ...
09 Jul 2019, 12:43 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s federal government “should finally come clean” and tell citizens that climate action on the required scale is impossible without higher costs, writes ...
05 Feb 2019, 13:40 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 91tv 91tv ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Utilities 91tv Hambach Forest in western Germany could be saved following the German coal exit commission’s agreement, but only at great cost, RWE head Rolf Martin Schmitz said ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices Spiegel Online Preferential treatment of energy-intensive industries in Germany cost households and non-privileged companies up to eight billion euros in 2017, Stefan Schultz ...
18 Jul 2019, 17:05 A fuel switch from coal to gas cut emissions from German fossil fuel power plants by a third in June 2019 as compared to the same month the year before. Lower gas prices and higher costs for CO2 allowances are part of the explanation. ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Coal RP Online The German state is not liable to compensate coal plant operators over the coal phase out, Birgit Marschall says in an article for RP Online. The federal parliament’s research service concludes that while ...
13 Feb 2019, 13:19 Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Cars Die Welt Diesel cars are regaining market share in Germany for the first time since the ‘dieselgate’ scandal broke in 2015, Nikolaus Doll reports for Die Welt. In January, more than 34 percent ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Journal of Animal Ecology Many migrating birds have learned to avoid potentially deadly wind turbines, but this behaviour equals a loss of habitat for the animals, researcher Ana Teresa Marques and others write in ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:43 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Sören Amelang Fossil fuels International 91tv A majority of ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:49 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Elections & Politics ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:33 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Technology Handelsblatt German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp plans to phase out CO₂-intensive coke-based steel production and replace it with a hydrogen-based process by 2050, ...
25 Apr 2019, 13:04 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Süddeutsche Zeitung As new warnings of drought show that "the climate crisis is intensifying", the German ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:28 Rachel Waldholz Business & Jobs International The Hill / Bloomberg Opinion Opinion writers are invoking Germany’s Energiewende in their arguments over US proposals for a Green New Deal (GND). Germany’s experience proves the Green ...
15 May 2019, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv There is so far little evidence that German companies whose CO₂ emissions are limited by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) are responding by setting up ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:21 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Transport Cars Frankfurter ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:39 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Technology 91tv Discarded chicken eggshells can be used in electro-chemical energy storage systems, an international group of researchers has found. Maximilian Fichtner from the ...
17 Apr 2019, 13:35 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Bild Zeitung German transport minister Andreas Scheuer ...
25 Apr 2019, 13:06 Kerstine Appunn Gas Renewables Hydrogen 91tv A group of utilities, researchers and the state energy agency of Hesse want to establish a green hydrogen project in the industrial and business hub of the Rhine-Main area near ...
27 Nov 2019, 14:01 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Rheinische Post The German government must fast-track legislation for the country's coal power phase-out, Armin Laschet, state premier of Germany's most populous ...
25 Jan 2019, 14:23 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Gas Reuters Norway, one of Germany’s top three gas suppliers with Russia and the Netherlands, could make further inroads into the German market as the country phases out coal, a top executive ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:20 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Sören Amelang Coal Finance International 91tv German government-owned business and development bank KfW stops financing all coal ...
12 Feb 2019, 14:14 Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen 91tv German power grid operator Amprion and gas grid operator Open Grid Europe (OGE) are planning to build a 100 megawatt (MW) power-to-gas plant along with hydrogen infrastructure, a project they ...
21 Feb 2019, 14:36 The vast majority (90%) of Germans are supportive of the country's energy transition. However, more and more are losing faith in the government’s ability to pursue this landmark project in a socially just way, a new survey finds. ...
22 May 2019, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology French manufacturer Alstom plans to deliver 27 hydrogen fuel cell trains to subsidiary fahma of regional public transport provider RMV in the central German state of Hesse by 2022, ...
06 Mar 2019, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Electricity market Renewables 91tv Germany’s northern states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein – both of which generate more renewable electricity than they can use within their ...
11 Mar 2019, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Government 91tv Most homeowners in Germany support the country’s transition towards a low-carbon economy but are unhappy with the project’s slow progress, a survey commissioned by heating ...
01 Apr 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 91tv Power customers in Germany paid the highest power prices ever registered in the country during the first three months of 2019, price comparison website Verivox says. With 29.42 cents ...
19 Jul 2019, 13:52 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Security BNetzA / Handelsblatt The German Federal Network ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:15 Much of Germany’s renewable power capacity is facing uncertainty regarding its business models as generous feed-in tariffs for many wind, solar and biogas plants end in the 2020s. With the country needing more, not less, renewable power ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:36 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cars Technology manager magazin German car companies BMW and Porsche have introduced a super-fast charging station for e-cars that can provide enough energy for a ride of 100 kilometres in three ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:35 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy ...
22 Mar 2019, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Cars WirtschaftsWoche A first draft of the final report by Germany’s transport commission does not include sufficient measures to bring the country’s transport emissions down in line with ...
13 Jun 2019, 13:43 Sören Amelang Renewables Business & Jobs 91tv Germany lags behind many other countries in the global trend to finance renewable power installations via power purchase agreements (PPAs), according to a paper by ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:07 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Background While the government’s financial pledges for mining regions have paved the way for an agreement on structural support, ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:21 German utility and lignite mine operator RWE has agreed to refrain from clearing the embattled Hambach Forest in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) until autumn 2020, said state premier Armin Laschet in a parliamentary ...
10 Jan 2019, 14:00 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 International Bloomberg A dispute pitting two groups of nations led, respectively, by Germany and Brazil is holding up work on creating a global market for trading carbon pollution, which is one of the ...
German battery maker VARTA has sealed a research agreement with the Fraunhofer Institute to lay the groundwork for the mass production of lithium-ion battery cells for electric cars as it seeks to take on Asian leaders in the sector, reports Ilona ...
16 Apr 2019, 13:59 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv [Update adds comment by environment ministry spokesperson] By the end of 2019, the German government will decide whether to introduce CO ₂ pricing to reach its 2030 ...
01 Jul 2019, 13:46 Sven Egenter Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Germany’s right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) wants to appeal to people who dislike consequences of climate policy and the energy transition measures such as ...
24 Jun 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Wind International 91tv The German Wind Energy Association (BWE) has called on the government to stand by the aim of achieving net-zero emissions across Europe by 2050 and urged concrete ...
06 Mar 2019, 13:32 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Both the new state secretary in the energy ministry, Andreas Feicht, and CDU-head Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer have made tentatively positive remarks about a price on carbon ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Gas 91tv / Bizz Energy A group of environmental NGOs in Germany has intensified its resistance to the construction of the country’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:45 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv The EU can meet its 2030 climate targets and even ratchet up its commitments in time for the 2020 UN climate summit, writes energy transition think tank Agora Energiewende* in a ...
28 Jun 2019, 12:42 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 91tv The condensation trails forming behind airplanes at high altitudes do more damage to the climate than their CO2 emissions and the climate-harmful effects will triple by 2050, according ...
28 Jun 2019, 12:40 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Freja Eriksen Coal 91tv The German Aerospace Center (DLR) will establish an institute dedicated to decarbonising industrial ...
05 Aug 2019, 13:09 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Wind Frankfurter Rundschau Sluggish power grid expansion ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:33 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG ...
15 Apr 2019, 12:01 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Grid Agora Energiewende With the new offshore grid fee ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:00 Sören Amelang Grid Renewables Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany’s federal states have decided on a joint approach in climate policy, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. State premiers agreed to push ahead with the ...
20 May 2019, 13:12 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Policy Hamburger Abendblatt / 91tv The idea by socialist EU Commission ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:25 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Agriculture Frankfurter Rundschau Any serious discussion on climate action ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:39 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Wind Cost & Prices ...
18 Feb 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Efficiency 91tv / dpa / Handelsblatt The German government has put back plans to set up a commission tasked with ne gotiating possible measures for reducing ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:17 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Automobilwoche / Electrive / Electrek VW subsidiaries Porsche and Audi are planning to ramp up production capacities for their first fully electric models in ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:57 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices RWI The ...
07 Jan 2019, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Politics WirtschaftsWoche Germany’s economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has disappointed many observers with what they consider an “erratic and sluggish” administration of his department, ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:09 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Renewables 91tv Germany must pay more attention to the impact of renewable power development on habitats and species, the country’s Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) says. ...
19 Mar 2019, 13:53 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Storage GreenTech Media Researchers in Germany are exploring possibilities to turn the country’s coal plants into ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Tageszeitung The Climate Action Law proposed by Germany’s environment ministry is “a planned economy approach” that could “paralyse the country without making progress on climate action,” ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Energiewende 91tv The advanced stage of Germany’s energy transition has led the country to understand that a broader change of economic structures is necessary to complete the ...
09 Jan 2019, 13:53 Municipal utility chief executive Andreas Feicht will take on the role as Germany's energy state secretary on 1 February. With his appointment, economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier fills a position crucial to the progress of ...
21 Jun 2019, 13:30 Sören Amelang Solar Utilities ntv Two thirds of all people who own a PV array generate enough electricity to become self-sufficient if they have access to storage, according to German utility E.ON. “66 percent of our clients with a ...
Germany’s energy retail companies face rising costs for purchasing power at the wholesale market, the energy industry lobby group German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) says in a press release. In 2016, energy companies on average paid ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:32 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables 91tv Renewable energy sources are set to contribute about 38 percent to Germany’s gross power consumption in 2018, a two-point increase over the previous year and a new ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 91tv Household prices for electricity and natural gas in Germany have risen substantially in March 2019 compared to the same month in the previous year, price comparison website Verivox ...
22 Oct 2019, 14:09 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Efficiency 91tv The number of full-time employees working in the environmental protection sector rose from 251,222 in 2016 to 263 ...
13 Feb 2019, 13:39 Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Transport Technology 91tv Airport operator Fraport AG and German start-up Volocopter have announced plans to explore the use of autonomous flying taxis at Germany’s Frankfurt Airport. ...
28 Nov 2018, 16:16 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cars Cost & Prices Fraunhofer ISI The growing number of electric cars in Germany could in the long run bring down household power prices, the research institute Fraunhofer ISI says in a press ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Handelsblatt The planned exit from coal-fired power generation in Germany may require large-scale construction of gas-fired power plants, but the necessary investments in the technology still remain wanting, ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:22 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Utilities Reuters Municipal shareholders in RWE have called on Germany’s biggest power producer to drive a hard bargain in ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:45 Rachel Waldholz Gas Grid Hydrogen 91tv Producing hydrogen from renewable energy is already cost-competitive in niche markets and likely to be competitive in industrial-scale applications within a decade, according to a ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:40 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Energiewende Financial Times Agreeing on a phase-out plan for German coal was hard, implementing it will be harder still, writes Tobias Buck in an article for the Financial Times. Buck uses the ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:30 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 Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace ...
30 Sep 2019, 13:41 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal dpa The last two of a group of eight lignite power plant units are entering Germany’s security standby, reports news agency dpa. RWE’s unit C at ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:11 Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel Germany’s coal exit will have economic impacts well beyond the coal industry and regions, Andreas Mihm writes in a commentary in the ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:01 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs Utilities Reuters German utility E.ON forecast largely stable operating earnings of around three billion euros for 2019 thanks to rising renewables and network profits, reports ...
05 Apr 2019, 12:40 New legislation passed yesterday by Germany’s federal parliament is to ensure the timely completion of crucial power grid connections that transport renewable electricity throughout the country. This law will bring the energy transition ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables dpa / Welt Online Several German states and the federal government have reached an agreement on key aspects of the country’s much-needed transmission grid expansion, news agency dpa reports in an ...
31 Oct 2019, 13:30 Sören Amelang Wind 91tv A stable majority of people in Germany support the continued rollout of wind power in the country, according to a survey conducted by pollster forsa and commissioned by the agency for onshore wind ...
22 Mar 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities The Guardian In a long article, British newspaper The Guardian explores the history of the dieselgate scandal, which involved most German carmakers. Author Beth Gardiner argues that the companies worked ...
14 Nov 2019, 13:33 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 91tv Outdoor air pollution contributed to over 44,800 premature deaths in Germany in 2016, more than 8,000 of which were linked to coal, says a policy briefing on Germany based on the Lancet ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:09 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Bloomberg While Germany is phasing out hard coal mining by the end of 2018, the country will continue to rely on imports for power production for some time, write William Wilkes, ...
30 Oct 2019, 13:47 Sören Amelang Electricity Renewables energate Germany's government expects the country will use less electricity in 2030, even though renewable power is meant to replace fossil fuels in many sectors from transport to heating, ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:40 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars 91tv VW customers in Germany are once again placing more orders for diesel vehicles. Europe’s largest automaker said the share of new orders for diesel vehicles rose from 39 percent ...
05 Mar 2019, 15:32 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Start-ups Business & Jobs 91tv Berlin e-car charging startup ubitricity has raised 20 million euros from new partner Honda and existing shareholders including French utility EdF ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:33 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Policy Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The so-called ‘yellow vests’ protest against higher taxes on fuel and heating oil in France are a major disappointment for all who advocate a tax on ...
25 Apr 2019, 13:05 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Digitalisation Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German government isn’t doing enough to support the country’s digital infrastructure, data-centre operators told Inga Janovic in an article for ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:50 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Grid dpa / Die Welt Around 2,200 people in the states of ...
Bavarian conservative parties Christian Socialist Union (CSU) and Free Voters have signed a coalition treaty for the coming five years in Germany’s southern economic power house and largest federal state. The alliance aims to make climate protection a ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:02 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society RP Online In many western industrialised countries, environmental policy is widening the gap between wealthy elites and poorer people, as the latter suffer most from ...
03 Jan 2019, 11:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Electricity market Cost & Prices ...
Any date for abandoning coal agreed by Germany’s coal exit commission must be linked to specific conditions- and these must be fulfilled to actually implement the agreement, the state premier of Germany’s most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia ...
15 Mar 2019, 13:49 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Utilities Handelsblatt Germany’s economy and energy ...
09 Apr 2019, 17:18 Innovation to make the use of energy cleaner, more flexible and efficient is the central quest of the global energy transition. At the Berlin Start-up Energy Transition Tech Festival, the German Energy Agency (dena) promotes start-ups ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cost & Prices Greater emphasis on large-scale solar power plants built on open land could cut the costs of Germany’s energy transition by up to 3.5 billion euros by 2030, according to a study commissioned by ...
14 Jan 2019, 13:37 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International tageszeitung (taz) Germany and Europe lack an answer to China's economic ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:39 Rachel Waldholz Storage 91tv German industrial conglomerate Siemens has launched its first battery storage system geared toward private homes. Homes that generate their own electricity from sources like solar panels will be ...
03 Dec 2018, 14:40 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 COP24 Die Welt “Without a doubt”, Germany – once a role model in international climate protection – is a “total failure” at the UN climate change conference COP24 in Poland, ...
17 Dec 2018, 13:17 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Politics Rheinische Post / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung At least two German federal states are considering legal action against carmakers for compensation because the dieselgate scandal has ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:55 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Storage Business Government Handelsblatt The German government’s decision to subsidise domestic battery cell production has encouraged formerly wary German companies to rethink their stance on ...
03 Jun 2019, 14:04 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Electric cars are unlikely to reduce Germany’s carbon footprint by any ...
11 Apr 2019, 12:56 Julian Wettengel Finance International ICIJ / Urgewald The World Bank is touting investments in solar parks and other climate-friendly projects but has continued to finance oil and gas exploration, pipelines and refineries that ...
21 Dec 2018, 15:08 Germany plans to use its diplomatic clout during its two-year term on the UN Security Council to ensure that climate change concerns are an integral part of UN security policy. People who are most vulnerable to global warming, such ...
01 Apr 2019, 13:42 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 Renewables Policy Clean ...
03 Apr 2019, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Frankfurter Rundschau Germany’s largest emissions drop since the 2009 recession is a success, but it should not be overvalued considering the country’s ambitious ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:37 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Cities Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The ruling by the European Court of Justice allowing cities to ban a new generation of “cleaner” diesel cars is “the next round in the witch hunt on drivers ...
After heavy losses for her conservative CDU/CSU alliance in regional elections in Bavaria and Hesse, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that she will not seek re-election as party chairwoman. She also said she would not run for chancellor again. ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:53 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Storage 91tv German education and research minister Anja Karliczek has urged the country’s business community to get on with large-scale domestic battery cell production. Batteries are a ...
14 Oct 2019, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Coal Cost & Prices 91tv The German coal exit could lead to a “strong increase” in wholesale power prices, unless the framework conditions in the energy sector are adapted quickly, said consultancy ...
05 Nov 2019, 13:58 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs 91tv The number of jobs in Germany will increase if the country pursues ambitious emissions cuts, according to a study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), which is affiliated with the ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:12 A state-driven closure of coal-fired power plants over the next 12 years would lead to higher power prices, which consumers have to be compensated for, say industry associations the Federation of German Industries (BDI), the Association ...
19 Mar 2019, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Retrofitting manipulated diesel cars with hardware that reduces their output of harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx) can greatly increase a vehicle’s fuel consumption and, consequently, ...
In a further setback for government efforts to get the diesel crisis under control, the regional administrative court in Western German city Cologne has ordered city authorities in Cologne and in neighbouring Bonn to introduce driving bans for older ...
18 Mar 2019, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv A string of windy weeks has led to a very high share of nearly two-thirds renewables in Germany’s power production mix since the beginning of March. Average net electricity production ...
06 Mar 2019, 13:37 Rachel Waldholz Transport The Brussels Times / Spiegel Online Belgium has proposed an EU-wide tax on commercial air travel to reduce carbon emissions. The proposal, made during a meeting of EU environment ministers, drew support from ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:34 Kerstine Appunn Energiewende International 91tv The European Commission has published its fourth report on the state of the Energy Union, the EU’s framework to overhaul its energy and climate policy to ensure a secure, ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:10 Julian Wettengel Renewables Business & Jobs IRENA Eleven million people were employed in renewable energy worldwide in 2018, most in China (4.1 million), the European Union (1.2 million) and Brazil (1.1 million), writes the ...
27 Jun 2019, 12:27 Expert German Advisory Council on the Environment Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv In ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:27 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution in German cities – mainly ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:36 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Efficiency Government Tagesspiegel The new draft law on the energy efficiency of buildings, proposed by Germany’s interior (BMI) and economy and energy (BMWi) ministries, does ...
07 Feb 2019, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Storage 91tv The batteries of electric cars can make a significant contribution to keeping the power grid stable as power generation shifts towards intermittent renewable energy sources, carmaker ...
09 May 2019, 13:53 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 International 91tv The CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion decreased by 2.5 percent in the European Union in 2018 compared to the year before, partly driven by a decrease of 5.4 percent ...
Giving in to eastern German coal states by delaying a coal commission agreement would bury hopes of a reasonable phase-out compromise, writes Bernhard Pötter in a commentary for the Tageszeitung (taz). “This is why environmental NGOs, participating ...
18 Mar 2019, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage International 91tv The governments of Poland and Germany have agreed on pooling their efforts to establish an independent battery production in Europe. At the bilateral German-Polish economy forum ...
08 Jul 2019, 13:30 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die ...
17 Oct 2019, 13:38 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Deutsche Post Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Storage Transport Freight 91tv Renewable ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal WDR The end of coal-fired power production in Germany is set to cause problems for the disposal of toxic waste – such as sewage sludge, used oil and refinery waste – which is often burned at coal plants, Jürgen ...
31 Jan 2019, 11:58 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars VW wants to establish its newly developed underlying platform for electric cars as an industry standard by licensing it to competitors. “We want our Modular ...
12 Nov 2018, 14:15 Germany's environment minister Svenja Schulze continued her push for a price on CO2 emissions, announcing plans to team up with fellow Social Democrat Olaf Scholz's finance ministry in order to prepare a concept in line with ...
12 Dec 2018, 17:52 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:31 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal International Project Syndicate A German commitment to phase out coal by 2038 could have ripple effects far beyond the nation’s borders, Johan Rockström and Owen Gaffney of the Potsdam ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:43 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 91tv Energy supplier EnBW has given the green light to build Germany’s largest solar park in ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:42 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Transport Cars Society 91tv A large majority of Germans say that public transportation services should be offered free of charge, ...
30 Sep 2019, 13:37 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Cars Financial Times / Deutsche Welle The first hearing of a landmark collective lawsuit in Germany over emission test cheating against carmaker Volkswagen, involving more than 400 ...
15 Jan 2019, 11:57 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Technology Handelsblatt Germany must take responsibility for fighting climate change by continuing research into nuclear fusion, Julian Olk writes in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:24 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International 91tv Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has set out on a tour of South and Central America that retraces the steps of the famous 19th century ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Solar Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Transmission grid operator Tennet has certified the solar power home battery producer Sonnen to become a control energy provider for the German power grid, ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Die Welt By supporting the call for climate neutrality in the EU by 2050, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has practically also tightened national climate goals, writes Daniel Wetzel in an opinion piece ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:31 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Sören Amelang Cars Hydrogen Business & Jobs Technology dpa / Focus Online BMW, Daimler and VW have settled a dispute over how to manage the transition to green ...
10 Jan 2019, 13:32 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Efficiency Die Welt Increasing efficiency is crucial for the success of Germany’s energy transition, but there has been little progress on the issue, which is strongly neglected in comparison to ...
A court in the western German city of Gelsenkirchen has ordered the first driving ban for older diesel cars on an Autobahn, the German highway famous for its long sections without speed limits. The court ruled that the city of Essen in federal state North ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:00 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel / dpa German finance minister Olaf Scholz said it is “perfectly clear” that the German government will have to invest much more money ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:36 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Efficiency Society Spiegel Online Germany’s largest residential property company, Vonovia, has said it will reduce its investments in building modernisation by 40 percent, citing a “dramatic ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv Curbing CO2 through the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has not hurt the profitability of companies or jobs in Europe between 2005 and ...
Germany’s power and natural gas customers face “considerable” price rises in 2019 as more than 200 suppliers have announced to charge 4.4 percent more for energy, the price comparison website Verivox says in a press release. For a household with an annual ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Politics Society 91tv The German far-right nationalist party AfD is among the most climate-sceptical of European populist parties, explicitly denying that humans impact the global climate ...
10 Jan 2019, 13:46 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Efficiency 91tv German companies’ recent spending on energy efficiency and their plans for efficiency investments are higher than ever before, according to a survey conducted by ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:56 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Prognos Consultancy Energiewende Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv Total ...
A proposal by environmental NGOs working in Germany’s coal exit commission to retire 16 gigawatt (GW) of coal capacity by 2022 has led to “harsh disputes” in the body tasked with devising a plan for the fossil fuel’s total phase-out, Malte Kreutzfeldt ...
28 Mar 2019, 13:25 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 ...
12 Feb 2019, 13:01 Sören Amelang Grid Storage Spiegel Online German grid operators plan to build three gigantic batteries with combined discharge capacity of 900 megawatts (MW) to relieve grid congestion from 2025, Manuel Berkel reports for Spiegel Online ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:36 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Freight Hydrogen Technology NDR German airline Lufthansa will start sourcing ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs Süddeutsche Zeitung Shares in German wind turbine maker Senvion have lost almost 90 percent of their value since May 2018, due to fierce competition and falling prices in the sector, Alexandra ...
10 Dec 2018, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society ARD The UN is unlikely to find a solution to the world’s climate crisis, most Germans believe according to a survey commissioned by the public broadcaster ARD. In the ...
10 Jan 2019, 13:49 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices 91tv Germany has the highest electricity prices in Europe both for households and industry, according to EU data. German households are the only ones in the EU which ...
25 Feb 2019, 14:02 Rachel Waldholz Wind International Welt Online Munich’s plans for 100 percent renewable power have run into opposition from a remote quarter: Norwegians. The city cannot produce enough wind and solar power within its own borders, and ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:28 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal International The hard coal exit in Europe gathers pace as renewables increasingly displaced the fossil fuel in Germany and France in 2018, but a phase-out of lignite has barely begun, according ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:41 Julian Wettengel Coal Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels International 91tv While it remains unclear whether the coal exit commission will present parts of its plan for the fossil fuel’s phase-out ahead of the UN climate change ...
10 May 2019, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cost & Prices 91tv Energy company BayWa Re says it will build Germany’s first large-scale solar power installation to be operated outside the system of state-mandated incentives. The company says ...
07 Oct 2019, 14:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Der Spiegel Hundreds of companies may have used a loophole in Germany's Renewable Energy Act to avoid paying their share of the country's renewables support- and passed on the energy ...
04 Mar 2019, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology Tagesspiegel The plan to build an artificial island in the North Sea that will serve as a hub for offshore wind turbines with a capacity of more than 100 gigawatts is making good progress, Pieter van ...
Germany and other industrial nations have in the past set ambitious climate targets, but failed to decide and introduce concrete instruments and measures to reach these, writes Klaus Stratmann in an opinion piece for German business daily Handelsblatt. ...
05 Feb 2019, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Handelsblatt The parliamentary group leader of the German Greens, Anton Hofreiter, has criticised French President Emmanuel Macron's policy approach of environmental protection measures ...
The business-friendly camp of Angela Merkel’s Conservatives (CDU) has warned the coal phase-out might result in a heavy burden on taxpayers, reports newswire dpa. “The proposals must remain within the clearly delineated budget framework,” said Joachim ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and its Social Democrat (SPD) partners have agreed to keep their promise to speed up the expansion of renewable power installations, ending months of wrangling, reports Thorsten Severin for Reuters. ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:31 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Security Zeit Online New tensions between Russia and the Ukraine have reinvigorated critics of the natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, linking Russia and Germany via the Baltic Sea, ...
29 Nov 2018, 12:35 The rise of populism and unilateralists like US President Donald Trump increasingly challenge the rules-based international order and put global climate action as pledged in the Paris Agreement at risk. Still, a changing mind-set in ...
Peter Altmaier’s track record as Germany’s economy and energy minister lacks actions, particularly in energy policy, Antje Höning and Birgit Marschall write in the Rheinische Post. “The energy transition resembles a construction site, and the planned coal ...
Global greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced by using algae that convert carbon dioxide into a raw material for producing carbon fibre, researches at the Technical University of Munich have found. The algae remove CO 2 from the atmosphere and turn it ...
09 Jan 2019, 12:18 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Society Tageszeitung German police are preparing a new round of evictions from tree houses built in protest against lignite mining in Hambach forest, reports Anett Selle in the ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:26 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International G20 & G7 91tv The German government wants to build on last year’s G20 final declaration regarding climate provisions, but the outcome of ...
15 Jan 2019, 11:55 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Society Die Welt Activists’ elevation of the Hambach Forest, which energy company RWE wants to cut down to expand ...
06 Mar 2019, 11:26 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Transport 91tv Missing its 2030 climate targets for the transport sector could cost Germany billions of euros, according to a report by the NewClimate Institute ...
Solid state batteries could be the “ holy grail ” of EV development and Germany is well placed to pioneer the technology, according to an article by Ben Kilbey for S&P Global Platts. "Germany and Europe are much better positioned with respect to ...
07 May 2019, 12:30 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Clean Energy ...
German transport minister Andreas Scheuer will meet the country’s carmakers at the end of next week to thrash out a deal on who pays for hardware retrofits to lower nitrogen oxide emissions from diesel cars, industry sources told German newswire dpa. ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:22 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Grid Cars Spiegel Online The roll-out of electric vehicles in Germany could lead to grid overload in ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:21 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Government 91tv Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a candidate to succeed her at the helm of the ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:15 The German government is playing down US threats against companies involved in the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project connecting Germany to Russia. Energy minister Peter Altmaier said the government was “not impressed” by ...
In the second joint renewables auction for solar power and onshore wind power in Germany, solar power bidders have secured the entire auctioned volume of 201 megawatts (MW) at an average support rate of 5.27 eurocents per kilowatt hour (kWh), the Federal ...
19 Dec 2018, 13:55 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The new EU car fleet emission limits will likely push carmakers to the limit, argues Hendrik Kafsack in an editorial for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung entitled ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:09 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Policy Handelsblatt / Süddeutsche Zeitung The stagnation in Germany’s task force on a coal exit is mainly due to neglect or even obstruction by policymakers, writes Klaus Stratmann in a ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:30 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Cost & Prices 91tv Prices for heating oil have increased by 37 percent over one year in Germany while gas prices only climbed by one percent, price comparison ...
24 Apr 2019, 17:27 Power production from renewable sources in Germany hit a new record high on Easter Monday when renewable installations such as wind and solar PV generated 77 percent of net public electricity supply thanks to strong winds and abundant ...
02 Apr 2019, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind Handelsblatt The regions singled out by the government to slow wind power expansion because of lacking grid capacities do not match the areas where a curtailment is needed most, according to grid operators, ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Efficiency Die Welt The sluggish emissions reduction in Germany’s heating sector could mean the country will face severe financial sanctions by the European Union for failing to ...
16 May 2019, 14:26 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs 91tv The business climate index of ...
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04 Dec 2018, 15:32 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv EurActiv Germany will not withdraw its political support for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with Russia, its foreign minister said, as some lawmakers suggested curtailing the project to punish Moscow ...
Tesla sold more cars than Audi in the US in September and October in a first for Germany’s luxury carmakers, rounding off a bleak weak for the companies, reports Nikolaus Doll in Die Welt. Tesla delivered 21,800 cars to US buyers in October, a lead of 36 ...
28 Feb 2019, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International Security Handelsblatt Russian energy minister Alexander Novak’s announcement that Ukraine may no longer serve as a transit country for gas exports to Western Europe has irritated German policymakers, ...
01 Apr 2019, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Society 91tv No other country in Europe is as sceptical of the success of e-mobility as Germany, an international survey commissioned by energy company E.ON has found. About one third of respondents ...
14 Dec 2018, 10:55 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The Association for the German Language (GfdS) has made the term “Heißzeit” (hot age) its Word of the Year 2018, saying it neatly conveys a topic that ...
Germany’s biggest carmaker VW has substantiated plans to transform its product line and drastically scale-up the share of electric cars by revealing plans for a major e-car factory in the eastern German city Zwickau. VW said in a press release it wants to ...
Germany’s coal exit commission must deal with the question of new jobs for workers in the lignite regions before looking for an end date for coal, according to economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier. “We need a restructuring plan for each lignite ...
The greenhouse gas reduction target set for the energy sector in Germany’s Climate Action Plan 2050 and the resulting accelerated coal exit will cut the total workforce connected to the lignite industry almost in half by 2025, according to a study by the ...
German industry has sharply criticised that support for thermal building insulation is not included in the environment ministry’s current budget. “By omitting this instrument, the government is negligent. If building renovations are not sped up, the 2030 ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Transport 91tv The German government has set aside 45 million euros for research in zero-emission ship engines to “make a significant contribution to the energy ...
16 Aug 2019, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Energiewende International Die Zeit The German government's energy policy often lacks an appropriate and necessary coordination with European neighbours, writes Michael Thumann in an opinion piece in Die Zeit. ...
The technologies required to drastically cut road freight emissions in Germany are readily available, but policies to incentivise the transition are urgently needed, according to a study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:48 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Handelsblatt Carmaker VW is planning the climate-neutral production of its upcoming electric model ID Neo, which is the successor to the company’s best ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:12 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables 91tv More than 55 percent of power consumed last year in the area of north-eastern Germany covered by grid ...
Germany’s surcharge paid for the roll-out of renewable energy sources, the EEG-surcharge, will “noticeably decrease” in 2019, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. According to the article, the renewables levy will decrease to 6.4 cents ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:52 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Storage Lausitzer Rundschau Eastern German lignite mine operator Leag, a subsidiary of Czech energy company EPH, plans to build a large-scale battery near its power station in Schwarze ...
Energy and climate policy must be key policy areas for Germany’s government in 2019 in order to significantly reduce carbon emissions and make a substantial contribution to limiting climate change, Social Democratic (SPD) energy and climate politician ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:30 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv Private households in Germany could save 9 billion euros and 18 million tonnes of CO 2 each year by following electricity saving advice, according to a survey ...
More than three-fifths of Germans believe that their government is not doing enough to limit the country’s impact on climate change, a survey commissioned by the solar power lobby group BSW Solar has found. In the survey, conducted by pollster YouGov, ...
Lignite mining regions in Germany received at least 13.8 billion euros in state support between 2013 and 2017 to help them cope with the challenges of structural economic change, the German government says in an answer to a parliamentary inquiry initiated ...
The economy minister of Germany’s affluent southwestern region of Baden-Wurttemberg, Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, warns against constructing a German battery cell factory “in the middle of nowhere” as this would make “no sense from an industry perspective.” ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:53 Sören Amelang Coal Financial Times Environmental NGOs have criticised the German Coal Commission’s proposal to phase out coal use by 2038 as too slow, but the process could happen a lot faster than that, Nick Butler says in a op-ed for ...
03 Dec 2018, 14:37 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Politics Der Spiegel / 91tv German magazine Der Spiegel has run a cover story on the climate crisis and the proposal by German economic and ...
06 Feb 2019, 14:10 Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices An ambitious and ...
10 Jan 2019, 09:15 The German coal exit commission is set to deliver its final recommendations for the country’s coal exit in February 2019, but this report is likely to be only the beginning of a long and controversial policymaking process in the country ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:39 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Storage Technology 91tv The German Engineering Federation (VDMA) says power-to-x technologies are a “key element in reaching Germany’s and Europe’s energy policy goals,” but need ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:25 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Handelsblatt When presenting the European Commission’s plans for a carbon-neutral EU in 2050, energy commissioner Miguel Arias Canete’s remark that certain ...
The first smart meter in Germany has received a license from the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) two years after the government decided on a large-scale roll-out, Jakob Schlandt writes in energy policy newsletter Tagesspiegel Background. The ...
The German government cabinet has decided a collection of energy law amendments, which include the introduction of additional renewables auctions in 2019-2021, the economy ministry (BMWi) said in a press release. The press release – while not giving many ...
29 Aug 2019, 12:29 Edgar Meza Storage International dpa / Handelsblatt A European battery cell production initiative is well under way with more than 20 companies involved in two projects, German economy minister Peter Altmaier told reporters in Paris on ...
06 Feb 2019, 13:38 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 91tv 91tv ...
18 Dec 2018, 13:57 Expert RAG German Coal RAG Deutsche Steinkohle AG Coal Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Deutsche Welle After the closure of Germany’s last hard coal mine on 21 December, the legacy ...
10 Dec 2018, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has urged delegates at the UN climate conference COP24 in Poland to ensure progress is made in ...
03 May 2019, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Policy ZDF Germany’s economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier is sceptical of the idea of introducing a tax on CO₂, he said on Maybrit Illner, a political television talk show by ...
The management of car maker Volkswagen will soon make a decision over which Asian partner it will build up a battery cell production with in Germany, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes, citing unnamed sources from within the company. A report in ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Solar Business & Jobs Cost & Prices ICIS / Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background German chemicals producer Wacker has complained that rising energy prices caused by the progressing phase-out ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Elections & Politics 91tv Germany’s coal exit should follow the Coal Exit Commission's final report as closely as possible, according to the commission’s co-chair ...
12 Dec 2018, 12:05 Negotiations on the “markets article” (Article 6) of the Paris Agreement are a bit on the side lines of the talks at COP24. While representatives of many countries and regions, e.g. the one of Canadian British Columbia don’t tire to ...
10 Dec 2018, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Finance Focus Online The trade in emissions certificates has brought Germany more money than ever in one year in 2018, the news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Focus ...
Around 70 partners, including grid operators, power producers, consumers, and traders in eastern Germany, have launched a trial to find cheap and efficient ways of resolving costly grid congestion on windy days, for example by using demand flexibility, ...
11 Sep 2019, 14:03 Sören Amelang Cars Xinhua Continental, Germany’s second largest car industry supplier, is planning to be CO2-neutral "in all of its production processes" by 2040, company CEO Elmar Degenhart announced at the International ...
26 Sep 2019, 13:59 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) are prepared to ...
15 May 2019, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Chancellor Angela Merkel’s announcement to have the climate cabinet debate ways towards climate neutrality by 2050 is first and foremost “a nod to Paris”, writes Andreas Mihm in an ...
The problem with being in power for a long time is that it becomes possible to judge a politician by whether they fulfilled their promises, writes Cerstin Gammelin in an op-ed for Süddeutsche Zeitung. Angela Merkel in her 13 th year as chancellor is ...
It has become more uncertain than ever whether the government will manage to introduce financial incentives for the thermal insulation of buildings as promised in the coalition treaty, writes Klaus Stratmann in business daily Handelsblatt. A finance ...
19 Dec 2018, 14:19 Diesel driving bans in numerous German cities are a major blow to many car drivers, the country’s carmakers, and its leading politicians. Now, the NGO that set the ball rolling on the bans is eyeing legal steps to end the world-famous ...
Having received state support for twenty years through the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), the German wind power industry “still cannot stand on its own feet,” writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In the current ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:30 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Renewables Solar 91tv Almost 3,000 ...
Germany will reach a deal by the end of the year on a deadline and way to exit coal-fired power generation, according to mining union IG BCE, reports Nathan Witkop for Montel. Union head Michael Vassiliadis told an industry association conference he was ...
Germany is running the risk of investing too much money in grid extensions, according to grid operator Tennet. Company CEO Lex Hartman warned of stranded assets because artificial intelligence would play an increasingly important role for the power grid, ...
Carmaker VW will accept hardware retrofits for manipulated diesel cars that have lower exhaust levels on the test stand than on the road, Gerald Traufetter writes on Spiegel Online. According to the article, Germany’s largest carmaker is the first in the ...
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03 Dec 2018, 14:38 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv 91tv German environment minister Svenja Schulze has called on the international community to use the UN climate change conference in Poland to show willingness to raise ambitions in ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:40 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Government 91tv Germany’s coal commission can conclude its work soon if the country’s finance minister puts enough money on the table, the head of the ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:25 Expert German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation Stiftung Offshore-Windenergie Renewables Freja Eriksen Renewables Wind 91tv / dpa / Focus Online Germany's northern states and federal government want to nearly triple the ...
Better insulation for existing buildings to make them more energy efficient is the cheapest and most promising way to reach 2030 climate targets in Germany’s building sector, according to a study by energy think tank Agora Energiewende* and the European ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:02 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Security Bloomberg / Handelsblatt Global Support within German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition for the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea gas pipeline is slipping as frustration with the Kremlin’s ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:54 Rachel Waldholz Solar Cities Tagesspiegel Berlin is in the midst of a school construction boom, but so far none of those new schools will have solar power systems, Christoph Stollowsky reports in Der Tagesspiegel. That’s despite the ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:25 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Storage Hydrogen Technology pv magazine Two power-to-gas projects in Germany promise to boost the technology, Sandra Enkhardt reports for pv magazine. Utilities Edis and Gasag want to transform ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:22 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv Germany must urgently address a whole range of difficult choices to get the country’s energy transition on track for 2050 targets by triggering rapid investments in low ...
17 Jun 2019, 12:47 Sven Egenter Coal Elections & Politics Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s planned exit from coal-fired power generation by 2038 is “too late from a climate policy perspective”, said Markus Söder, the Bavarian state premier and leader of ...
05 Dec 2018, 14:00 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Politics International Social Europe German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision not to run for re-election will create a vacuum in international negotiations on global warming, ...
Gas suppliers received an average 3.42 cents per kilowatt hour for the gas they sold to final consumers in 2017, a decrease of three percent on 2016. Germany’s statistics office said households on average paid 4.96 cents, a decline of 4.4 percent. ...
14 Dec 2018, 11:00 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail to meet its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for ...
25 Sep 2018, 14:33 Europe needs a common standard for sustainable finance and investment regulation to ensure that the financial sector contributes to the transition to a low-carbon economy, financial industry representatives said at a green finance ...
Power generation from coal, oil and gas, and transport produce the largest share of emissions in the vast majority of G20 countries and none of these economies’ climate pledges are on a 1.5˚C-compatible pathway, according to the Brown to Green Report 2018 ...
German household power prices will remain largely unchanged in 2019 as higher grid fees and wholesale prices outweigh a dip in the surcharge paid for the roll-out of renewable energy sources. The German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) expects the ...
12 Apr 2019, 13:40 Expert Hans-Josef Fell Politician Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Energiewende Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Cost & Prices Energy Watch Group / LUT University A global energy system fully based on ...
The energy transition offers plenty of opportunities for German businesses, but the current government coalition has done little to solve key issues for the industry, writes the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) in its 2018 ...
Reducing emissions across all sectors in Germany and gearing the energy system towards renewables and greater efficiency will be a “long-distance run that you can hardly practise for”, Anton Berger writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in a ...
12 Oct 2018, 16:30 The surge of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a strong showing of the Green Party look set to end the absolute majority of conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavarian state elections on 14 October. The CSU is a ...
A majority of Germans want the federal government to do more for climate protection, according to a representative survey by public broadcaster ARD, conducted by Infratest dimap. 74 percent of respondents said the government should do more, 22 percent ...
Energy company EnBW wants to increase the acceptance of new wind farms in Germany by inviting private citizens to acquire a share in the projects even though the company does not need any financial capital, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. EnBW ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:30 Kerstine Appunn Coal Utilities Rheinische Post / Süddeutsche Zeitung Utility company Steag, which operates 5.5 gigawatt of hard coal power plants in North Rhine-Westphalia and Saarland and abroad, and is owned by several western German ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has announced the next round of auctions for solar and wind power installations in Germany. In a press release, the agency said the auctions, with a capacity of 670 megawatts (MW) for wind and 182 MW for solar power, ...
07 Dec 2018, 10:05 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Fossil fuels Low water levels on the Rhine and other rivers following the extremely dry summer continue to have a strong impact on Germany’s coal power supply, according to an argus report. “The ...
05 Dec 2018, 14:48 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Business & Jobs Institute for Employment Research (IAB) The shift to electric cars will lead to the loss of more than 100,000 jobs in Germany in the long run, according to a study by the ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:21 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Deutsche Welle / Quartz Coal mining workers in the Rhineland have mixed feelings about the pending coal exit, Gero Rueter reports in a feature for Deutsche Welle. The ...
22 Oct 2018, 16:34 Eating and producing less meat is one way to curb emissions from the agriculture sector, but giving up sausages and schnitzel is a tough sell in Germany – not just for consumers but also for farmers and the government. There are a lot ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:31 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Gas International Security Handelsblatt The looming escalation of an armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia has reinvigorated critics of the planned Russian-German natural gas pipeline project ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:20 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International 91tv A new alliance of companies, banks, insurers, and environmental organisations wants to invest in projects in emerging and developing countries in ...
German carmakers are ill-prepared for the shift to electric mobility, according to Karl-Thomas Neumann, former head of German carmaker Opel, which used to be a GM subsidiary and is now part of French PSA Group which also makes Citroen and Peugeot cars. ...
06 Dec 2018, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Cars German Association of the Automotive Industry The German carmaker association VDA says the share of diesel cars has to rise again in Germany in order to meet the country’s ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:35 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Energiewende YaleEnvironment360 Germany has long been a global leader in developing and deploying low-carbon technologies, but now faces mounting criticism for failing to significantly reduce its ...
It is technically feasible and may also be economically beneficial for Europe to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, says a report published jointly by the European Climate Foundation (ECF) and Climact. However, reaching this goal ...
The plenary debate in the German Parliament about Germany’s 2019 budget for environmental policy on 12 September centred on the country’s coal exit. Referring to the current situation in the embattled Hambach Forest, which energy company RWE wants to cut ...
11 Oct 2019, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv German car manufacturers Daimler and BMW, utility RWE and building materials company HeidelbergCement are among the world's most influential lobbyists against ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:18 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Society 91tv Independence from oil and gas imports is an important goal of the energy transition, according 86 percent of Germans responding to a recent representative survey ...
22 Jan 2019, 17:31 Germany and France have signed an update to their landmark 1963 post-war Élysée friendship treaty, showcasing their commitment to European cooperation in the face of Brexit and growing nationalism in several member states. The treaty ...
11 Jan 2019, 10:27 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Renewables Security The global energy transition and the shift to renewables from fossil fuels is likely to reduce energy-related conflicts, says a report published by the Global Commission on the ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:52 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 91tv The natural resources humans can consume sustainably this year will be used up by Monday 29 July, according to calculations by the Global Footprint Network. If all the world’s population ...
The global energy transition will require the presence of a sizeable international market for synthetic fuels and Germany will have to import significant amounts of green fuels created by converting renewable energy with so-called power-to-x technologies, ...
24 Jan 2019, 12:08 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Cars Manager Magazin Germany’s ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:47 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal International Sydney Morning Herald Australia faces similar challenges to Germany when it comes to phasing out coal and might want to follow Germany’s example by setting up a commission to work ...
The global transformation towards a decarbonised energy system has positive effects for human security, such as reducing the dependence on fossil resources supply chains, strengthening the access to energy as an economic factor, and thus increasing ...
Offering municipalities financial incentives for building new power lines needed for the energy transition does not change the acceptance rate of the local population, according to a study by Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI Essen ...
01 Feb 2019, 14:08 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Germany's grand coalition government is almost certain to accept the coal exit commission 's recommendation and transpose it into law, but if the first phase-out deadline of 2022 is ...
The plans for wind power expansion in Germany are “illusory” since the growing density of turbines across the country is set to diminish the yield per installation so much that power production targets can no longer be met by simply increasing the number ...
27 Nov 2018, 14:00 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs The exceptionally dry weather that has gripped Germany over ...
Thousands of people have protested against coal use in Germany, some blocking a railway line leading to the Hambach lignite mine, others occupying an excavator there, reports Deutsche Welle. A court has recently ordered that clearing operations at the ...
The German government has agreed to implement a decision by the European Commission on emission limits for power plants and industry facilities by 2021, meaning that many coal plants will have to undergo costly retrofitting, Jakob Schlandt writes in ...
26 Sep 2018, 13:14 The German Football Association (DFB) has included a sustainability concept in its bid to host the 2024 European Football Championship. UEFA is set to select the host country this week. The DFB says it wants the tournament to contribute ...
It was “tactically unwise” for social democratic environment minister Svenja Schulze not to coordinate her initiative for a price on CO₂ emissions better with finance minister and party colleague Olaf Scholz, writes Jan Drebes in an opinion piece in ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Grid 91tv Germany’s ...
Germany’s environment minister Svenja Schulze has reiterated her opposition to the clearing of Hambach Forest for the expansion of a nearby lignite mine while the country’s coal exit commission discusses the end of the fossil fuel in Germany, the ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:10 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels 91tv Germany’s domestic extraction of oil and natural gas has slumped last year, further increasing the country’s already heavy dependence on imported fossil fuels. ...
In a bid to avoid the decision to implement climate protection steps such as introducing a price on CO₂ emissions, politicians often hide behind citizens who supposedly do not want such measures, Director and Chief Economist of the Potsdam Institute for ...
Energy start-up Lumenion, Vattenfall Energy Solutions and Berlin-based housing company Gewobag have kicked off a steel storage pilot project in Germany’s capital to store excess regional wind and solar power, the companies announced in a press release. ...
10 Jan 2019, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Efficiency Policy 91tv Getting the energy transition in Germany’s heating sector off the ground will be difficult since most investments have to be made by private citizens rather ...
German environment minister Svenja Schulze will argue for limiting CO 2 car emission cuts to 30 percent by 2030 at today’s decisive meeting with her EU counterparts, despite believing the proposal by the EU commission falls far short of what’s necessary ...
EU-funded carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects have failed in the past largely because of a lack of coordination and long-term strategies that scared away investors, according to a report by the European Court of Auditors, reports Sam Morgan for ...
18 Jan 2019, 13:19 Sören Amelang Storage Business & Jobs pv magazine German battery storage supplier Sonnen has received a 25-million-euro loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB), reports Marian Willuhn in pv magazine. The EIB said supporting ...
A number of German states want the federal government to push for including synthetic fuels as an option to lower CO 2 emissions from passenger cars in the upcoming EU trialogue on new emission targets for car fleets, Klaus Stratmann writes for the ...
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Unless Germany quickly phases out coal-fired power generation, diesel cars will continue to be better for the climate than e-cars, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess told the Süddeutsche Zeitung in an interview. For this reason, Germany will need diesel cars ...
The heads of the work councils of the utility vehicle branches of German carmakers Daimler and VW have criticised the EU’s plans for CO 2 emissions reduction for heavy-good vehicles as “excessive and existence-threatening” for their sectors, news agency ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany should not push for more ambitious EU car fleet emission limits. “I think the [European] Commission’s proposal forms a reasonable basis” for the upcoming negotiations, Merkel said at an event hosted by the ...
18 Dec 2018, 09:35 The role of gas – both in its natural form and as a CO2-neutral variety made with renewable power – will be one of the hottest topics on Germany's 2019 energy transition agenda, according to Carsten Rolle, secretary of the World ...
The dual phase-out of nuclear and coal power in Germany means the country has to increasingly rely on natural gas to complement its power production from renewable sources but unlike other major European countries, the world’s second largest gas importer ...
10 Dec 2018, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Westfälische Nachrichten The end of coal-fired power production in Germany will pose great challenges for the country’s most populous state, North Rhine ...
The German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Stuttgart University aim to store renewable power in the form of heat on a “power plant scale,” reports Sandra Enkhardt in pv magazine. The institutes agreed to build the ...
09 Jan 2019, 12:03 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Bloomberg Volkswagen is setting up its own charging and electricity unit in a bid to make the German manufacturer’s upcoming battery-powered cars more attractive to buyers, reports Oliver ...
The German government has been fighting for weaker EU climate targets, car emission standards and coal pollution rules, writes Zach Boren for the Greenpeace journalism project Unearthed. “The widely reported fight for the [Hambach] forest may be the ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:24 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 CarbonBrief If the German government adopts the commission recommendations for a coal exit by 2038, coal capacity would barely fall faster than a business-as-usual pathway over ...
A price on CO₂ in Germany would bring a push in innovation from which German companies could profit in international competition, Ottmar Edenhofer, designated director of The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), told Spiegel in an ...
About 10,000 people gathered at the Hambach Forest over the past weekend to again protest against the forest’s clearing to make way for a nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. At a protest event on Sunday, environment expert Peter Wohlleben told ...
Investors should get rid of coal company shares, such as those of German utility RWE, as these are risky at times of planned coal-exits around the world, writes Jan Erik Saugestad, CEO of Storebrand Asset Management, Norway's largest private asset ...
There is much detail work to be done until the UN Climate Change Conference will start in Polish Katowice on 2 December, said the German environment ministry after a preparatory meeting in Kraków. However, the will of governments to agree on a rulebook ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Elections & Politics dpa / Rheinische Post The planned German ‘ climate cabinet ’ that aims to improve coordination among climate-relevant ministries to put the country on track to meet its ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:30 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Politics Society Süddeutsche Zeitung French President Emmanuel Macron might have made several mistakes when introducing a new tax on petrol and heating oil but “he shows a level ...
06 Dec 2018, 14:18 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Transport Cars Cost & Prices Agora Verkehrswende A transition of the German transport sector towards carbon-neutral mobility will not be possible without a comprehensive and “socially ...
Germany needs a clear phase-out plan for combustion engine vehicles to increase pressure on carmakers to heavily invest in the development of e-cars and batteries, writes Jan Schmidbauer in an opinion piece in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Unfortunately, the ...
04 Jan 2019, 11:00 German climate and energy policy must urgently become more proactive in 2019 to increase companies’ planning and investment security, says Mario Ohoven, president of the German Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses (BVMW). ...
Armin Laschet, premier of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany’s largest federal state, is not willing to act as a mediator in the negotiations between environmental activists and the energy company RWE over the clearing of a forest near the Hambach ...
An abrupt end to coal-fired power generation in Germany would damage the steel industry’s competitiveness by pushing up electricity prices, the head of the country’s steel association, Hans Jürgen Kerkhoff, said at the National Steel Summit, Reuters ...
The ongoing conflict between anti-coal protesters and energy company RWE at the Hambach Forest is but one of several recent examples that illustrate the indecisiveness of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s fourth government coalition, Germany’s largest tabloid, ...
19 Dec 2018, 14:21 Germany’s energy-related CO₂ emissions dropped by more than six percent year-on-year as the country consumed “significantly” less energy in 2018, but with a greater share of renewables than last year, said energy market research group ...
A state-managed fund for dealing with the financial legacy of lignite mining in Germany is the wrong way to ensure that the extraction’s long-term effects are dealt with properly, Antje Höning writes in a commentary for the General Anzeiger Bonn. Contrary ...
The climate talks in Bangkok must lead to tangible results that make this year’s COP24 UN climate conference in Poland a success, NGO Germanwatch says in a press release. “Robust rules for the Paris Climate Agreement, improved climate goals for countries ...
09 Jan 2019, 11:59 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Grid Utilities Reuters Energy group Uniper is building a gas-fired power plant in Germany, the country’s first in a decade, to serve as a “safety cushion” for grids coping with intermittent ...
The proposed goal by EU ministers to cut the average CO₂ emissions of new passenger cars by 35 percent by 2030 is “not mature,” the head of the metal industry union IG Metall Jörg Hofmann told Alfons Frese in an interview with the Tagesspiegel. “I can& ...
Several German NGOs have filed a lawsuit against a possible prohibition of a large anti-coal protest at the Hambach Forest over the weekend, public broadcaster WDR reports. “This is about thwarting a peaceful and non-violent protest,” said Greenpeace ...
The German Social Democrats (SPD) have made climate policy one of the key topics during a special conference ("debate camp") following defeats in two state elections in which the federal government coalition party suffered major voter losses, ...
German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier will discuss options for closer cooperation with its neighbour Poland on battery cell production for electric cars, Welt Online reports. On a working trip to Poland next week, Altmaier will meet the Polish ...
10 Dec 2018, 14:06 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Tageszeitung There’s a “silent consensus” surrounding the international climate action negotiations that “capitalism has to stop the climate catastrophe,” ...
The German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), the country’s most populous state and home to numerous emissions-intensive heavy industries, has launched an initiative to examine options for bringing down industry’s carbon footprint, the NRW ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:33 Rachel Waldholz Utilities Reuters / Handelsblatt The European Commission announced Tuesday that it will not raise antitrust objections to a major part of the deal between German utilities RWE and E.ON, Reuters reports. The approval ...
Implementing pathways away from coal-fired power production in line with the Paris Climate Agreement is feasible in the major coal-using economies within 20 to 30 years, according to a comparative study on six countries, including Germany, Australia, ...
After several hours of negotiations on diesel emissions and immigration, the federal government coalition also agreed that it would decide to implement special renewables auctions “to contribute to closing the gap in the 2020 climate target” in a cabinet ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:56 Sören Amelang Bioenergy 91tv Germany is unlikely to reach its target of covering 65 percent of its electricity consumption with renewables by 2030 unless it stabilises bioenergy production, German bioenergy associations say ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Welt Online EU competition watchdogs' green light for the deal to merge parts of German utility E.ON’s business with that of fellow utility RWE has led to energy industry fears of a ...
19 Dec 2018, 10:10 Germany must face several fundamental energy and climate decisions in 2019 to save the country's Energiewende and its international standing, according to Greenpeace head Jennifer Morgan. Most importantly, the promised Climate ...
The German government has to carefully moderate the many differing interests in order to successfully make security policy implications of climate change a key topic during its two-year term as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, writes ...
14 Jan 2019, 13:29 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Security Reuters The United States has warned German companies involved in the Russian-led Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline they could face sanctions, reports news agency Reuters. US ...
05 Jun 2019, 12:34 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv With a turnover of 49.4 billion euros, climate protection made up more than half of ...
28 Mar 2019, 13:23 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Rachel Waldholz Utilities Reuters / 91tv German utility EnBW will invest billions of euros in its power grids and other ...
14 Jan 2019, 13:35 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Electricity market Cost & Prices Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) German consumers on basic supply contracts paid around 1.15 billion euros more for gas and power in 2017 than they would have ...
