Germany’s environment minister Barbara Hendricks says the country is lagging behind in developing electric mobility. “It’s no secret that Germany is no frontrunner when it comes to electric vehicles,” Hendricks said in a speech at the international ...
Germany’s electricity industry is at the cusp of a tide of transactions and new models of cooperation, a study by consulting agency PwC has found. Due to “dwindling profits and rising cost pressure”, market conditions for both larger private and smaller ...
In terms of e-mobility technology, Germany has moved into a leading global position, but in industry, China has taken over the lead thanks to its higher production levels and value creation, according to business consultancy Roland Berger’s E-Mobility ...
German coal plants on last Sunday contributed the lowest amount of electricity to the country’s power mix ever recorded in recent times, energy think tank Agora Energiewende* said in a press release. Power production from coal and lignite plants stood at ...
Investing in German solar power plants can yield returns up to more than four percent, Hermann Klughardt, director of green energy fund voigt & collegen, said in an interview with WirtschaftsWoche. While governments in Spain and Italy cut feed-in ...
Volkswagen plans to drop diesel vehicles in the United States and refocus on sport utility and electric vehicles, reports Andreas Cremer for Reuters. The move, announced by VW brand chief Herbert Diess, breaks with earlier suggestions it could return to ...
The state government of Brandenburg was involved in sales talks concerning Vattenfall’s former German lignite operations much sooner and more intensively than previously thought, according to Greenpeace Germany. And it failed to use its legal options to ...
The passing of a new law on the “Digitalisation of the Energiewende” in the second house of the German parliament, the Bundesrat, has been overshadowed by the vote on the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), according to an article in pv magazine. ...
German power plant operators would likely not be overburdened by a partial coal exit aimed at meeting the country’s climate targets, but emissions would shift to neighbouring countries, according to a new study by British consultancy Aurora Energy ...
The diesel engine has little reason to celebrate its 125 th birthday, Welt Online reports. “ Cheating software, driving bans, and declining prices ” all tarnish the image of an invention Rudolf Diesel filed with the Imperial Patent Office in late February ...
The VW emissions scandal has plunged the entire German car industry into its worst post-war crisis, writes Caspar Busse in a commentary for Süddeutsche Zeitung. “But something good comes out of it, because it finally leads to a fundamental rethink. The ...
The German constitutional court's intricate judgement on the country’s accelerated nuclear exit has caused confusion at the stock exchange, writes Malte Kreutzfeldt for taz. Although nuclear plant operators were granted “adequate” compensation by the ...
Luxury carmaker BMW aims to increase the share of pure electric vehicles of its total sales to 25 percent by 2025, BMW board member Klaus Fröhlich told Focus magazine. “That is more than half a million vehicles,” he said. He added that his company will ...
The German federal government proposes a partnership on resource efficiency for G20 member countries. “We need a strong partnership of all large economic powers so that we don’t keep exceeding our planet’s limits,” said federal environment minister ...
23 Nov 2015
23 Nov 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) / Green Budget Germany (FÖS) “Energiewende in transport a long time coming” Fundamental political steps to relocate and avoid traffic and push alternative fuels and engines are ...
Carmakers' plans to set up a brand-independent e-vehicle charging network along Europe’s long-distance routes is not only smart but necessary, writes Martin Gropp in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “Those who move in the premium ...
Representatives of the opposition Green and Left parties criticised the planned reform of the Renewable Energy Act in the first Bundestag debate on the federal government’s proposed draft. “It would have been more honest to talk of an energy transition ...
The German town Saerbeck’s citizens’ energy project ‘Climate Community’ shows that local, small-scale ownership could be the key to a successful energy transition, writes Audrea Lim for National Observer. With a large community described as PIMBYs ( ...
27 Jan 2016
27 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “E-car collision in the coalition” The Social Democrats’ parliamentary group wants to push e-mobility with incentives worth billions, reports Andreas Mihm in the ...
07 Dec 2015
07 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Still up in the air” There are still many hurdles to an agreement in Paris and there is a real danger of disappointment, writes Klaus Stratmann in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. ...
The strength of the Greens in this autumn’s federal elections will depend on the party’s results in the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in May, says the state’s Energiewende minister and Green politician Robert Habeck in an interview with Welt am ...
In the first half of the year gas power plants produced 18 percent more electricity than in the same period last year, according to an internal report by the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), Manuel Berkel writes in Bizz Energy. ...
In 2016, Germany will again have exported a record amount of electricity, as levels have already exceeded the 2015 total, writes Bernward Janzing in tageszeitung (taz). The country will have exported about 50 billion kilowatt hours by year’s end, most of ...
25 Feb 2016
25 Feb 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Fraunhofer ISE “Germany’s electricity export surplus brings record revenue of over two billion euros” Net electricity exports earned Germany a record 2.07 billion euros last year, according to think tank Fraunhofer ISE. ...
17 May 2016
17 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Der Tagesspiegel / Vattenfall “Around 3,000 participants end blockade” As part of the worldwide protests “Break free from fossil fuels” around 3,000 demonstrators from all over ...
Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions rose to 906 million tonnes in 2016 (from 902 million tonnes in 2015), making it unlikely that the country will reach its 2020 emission reduction target, according to preliminary data by the Federal Environment Agency ...
30 Dec 2015
30 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Government puts pressure on municipal utilities” Germany’s municipal utilities have criticised the federal government’s plans for digitalising the Energiewende and its ...
German utility innogy aims to bolster its position in photovoltaics and energy storage with the acquisition of the German solar and battery specialist BELECTRIC Solar & Battery GmbH. The transaction, announced in August 2016, has been completed, ...
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) hopes to engage developing countries in mobilising green finance projects with a new investment platform, according to NAMA News. Around 25 countries involved in the “dialogue” ...
09 Feb 2016
09 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Rheinische Post “We can’t cope with a premature lignite exit” The Paris Agreement has no consequences for Germany, because the country already has the most ambitious climate targets, according to ...
Low carbon prices within the EU have helped coal power plants remain competitive, and put German emissions targets in danger, writes Angela Macdonald-Smith for Australian Financial Times. The “political argy-bargy” surrounding the approval of the ...
30 Mar 2016
30 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Reuters/SMA Solar “SMA Solar returns to profit on foreign demand” SMA Solar, Germany’s largest solar group, posted its first operating profit in three years thanks to strong foreign ...
12 Feb 2016
12 Feb 2016, 00:00 91tv 91tv Energytransition.de “Gas makes a (small) comeback in Germany” There are signs that gas turbines have become profitable again in Germany, even though they continue to produce very little power, Craig Morris reports ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has suggested lowering the equity interest rate for operators of power grids and gas networks as of 2018/19, it said on Wednesday. The lower rates mirror current low interest rates on financial markets, BNetzA president ...
Germany plans to split the common power price zone with its neighbour Austria in July 2018, according to a press release by the federal economy ministry (BMWi). This did not mean a split of the countries' power markets, said state secretary Rainer ...
Incoming US president Donald Trump could have many indirect effects on international climate policy, according to Ottmar Edenhofer, Director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). “Trump could try to drive the ...
11 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Hydrogen WirtschaftsWoche " Utilities could buy their way out of nuclear responsibilities for 49 billion euros” WirtschaftsWoche reports on a study from the German Nuclear Power Commission proposing two ...
The Energiewende deeply affected not only fossil power plant operators like RWE and the old E.ON, but also companies involved in their construction, such as Siemens and US-rival General Electric, reports Martin Wocher in business daily Handelsblatt. The ...
Greater energy efficiency, sector coupling and digitalisation are going to be core areas in energy policy that Germany’s next government will likely have to focus on, according to federal economy ministry state secretary Rainer Baake. During a speech at a ...
Just 1,231 new electric vehicles were registered in November, down 10 percent on the same period last year, Die Welt reports. Part of the reason may be that a subsidy introduced in June boosted sales slightly in the following weeks and resulted in long ...
German-American energy storage company Younicos says it landed contracts during 2016 to build systems able to hold 75 megawatts (MW) of electricity, which if completed would mean a 60 percent increase in systems either installed or under construction. The ...
EU Member States must together reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 percent by 2030 compared to 2005 for the transport, buildings, agriculture, waste, land-use and forestry sectors, according to a proposal by the European Commission. The Effort ...
The protest against lignite mining in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia turns increasingly violent, writes Reiner Burger in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In the area of the open pit lignite mine Hambach, “a small group of self ...
The rapid rise of renewable energy systems in recent years could signal that “the world is entering an era of clean, unlimited and cheap power,” The Economist writes. But while it was “about time” renewables played a more important role, the “dirty secret ...
04 May 2016
04 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Reuters “Germany to exit coal power 'well before' 2050- draft document” Germany’s use of coal-fired power should come to an end “well before” 2050, a draft document from the ...
It is high time for a finance transition- in addition to the energy, transport and agricultural transformations- to protect the climate, write Green Members of the German Bundestag Annalena Baerbock and Gerhard Schick in a guest commentary in Frankfurter ...
Germany’s Climate Action Programme 2020, initiated in 2014 to ensure the country meets its 2020 greenhouse gas emission targets, is likely to be less effective than expected, the Environment Ministry (BMUB) said in a press release. Projections for the ...
Germany remains in fifth place in business consultancy Ernst & Young’s (EY) renewable energy country attractiveness index (RECAI). EY ranks 40 countries on their attractiveness for renewables investment and deployment opportunities, based on energy ...
31 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Hydrogen dw.com “Lobby battle over Energiewende” There is a lot of pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers to hammer out a compromise at tonight’s ...
14 Mar 2016
14 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Green Budget Germany / Frankfurter Rundschau “Ten million tonnes more CO2” Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions increased again in 2015, compared to 2014, researchers from Green Budget Germany (FÖS) say. ...
Political stalemate has caused the turnover of Germany’s domestic oil and gas industry to shrink considerably, Franz Hubik writes in Handelsblatt. Revenues in the industry fell to 1.8 billion euros in 2016 – a year-on-year drop of almost 40 percent – ...
Schleswig-Holstein’s state energy minister Robert Habeck wants to prohibit further oil test drillings off the coast of Germany’s northernmost state, writes Sven-Michael Veit in tageszeitung (taz). Detonations, drillings and other invasions of the national ...
28 Jan 2016
28 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt “Government wants to kill the engine” Onshore wind power is the backbone of Germany’s energy transition, but government reform plans for the Renewable Energy Act risk slowing down its ...
Power demand across Germany is likely to grow after 2030 as increased sector coupling facilitates the shift from other energy sources, research institute Fraunhofer ISI has found in an analysis commissioned by transmission grid operators. In all scenarios ...
30 Sep 2015
30 Sep 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv FAZ/World Economic Forum “Praise for German competitiveness” According to the World Economic Forum’s new Global Competitiveness Report, Germany is one of the most economically competitive countries in the world, ...
The EU Commission should admit that it did little to ensure its own anti-pollution rules were enforced, and that carmakers were long suspected of using technology to get around emissions rules, says Sebastian Schöbel, ARD radio correspondent in Brussels ...
German utility Uniper has been legally authorised to finish construction of a hard coal plant that a court stopped in 2009, the company said in press release. Authorities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia issued the permission after resolving ...
The Philippsburg nuclear power plant’s second generating unit near the German city of Karlsruhe will stay offline longer than planned, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. According to a spokesperson of Baden-Württemberg’s federal state ...
Thuringia, the state of Berlin, and Rhineland-Palatinate are the German pioneers regarding sustainable mobility, according to the Federal State Index Mobility and Environment 2016/17 by Allianz pro Schiene, Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) and the ...
Eastern German coal-fired power plants proved to be flexible in unstable weather conditions over the holidays, writes Simone Wendler in Lausitzer Rundschau. The plants had to quickly be powered down or restarted at times of volatile wind power feed-in ...
The head of the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) has warned government against giving up gas. Ahead of an energy industry conference organised by the Handelsblatt newspaper in Berlin Tuesday, Katherina Reiche said that for climate protection, ...
When it comes to heating, there is “enormous potential” for cooperation between the housing sector and the energy industry, according to a new study commissioned by the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). The results show that ...
07 Mar 2016
07 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Federal Motor Transport Authority Number of e-cars on German roads rises to 25,502 The number of pure electric vehicles on German roads rose to 25,502 at the beginning of the year, an increase of 35 percent compared to ...
Europe’s first ever cross-border solar tender sees five Danish solar developers snapping up 50 megawatts in a German tender for construction of five solar projects in Denmark, reports Ian Clover in pv magazine. Winning bids of EUR 5.38 cents/kWh were ...
Even if the German government approves a climate plan similar to the latest drafts that became public, it would not be enough to reach climate targets set out in the Paris Agreement, writes Hans-Josef Fell, former member of the German Bundestag and ...
18 Nov 2015, 00:00 Days before the UN climate conference in Paris, Germany is taking stock of its national climate protection efforts. The government says the country is making “good progress” with its energy transition, but independent experts warn that ...
BMW wants to boost e-car sales by two-thirds next year to 100,000 vehicles, according to a Reuters report based on a Süddeutsche Zeitung interview with BMW CEO Harald Krüger. The luxury automaker is offering more battery-powered models and expects to ...
Current plans for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the USA could threaten central instruments of Germany’s the energy transition, Greenpeace says in a press release. According to a leaked EU Commission draft, ...
German Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL announced a collaboration on hydrogen and fuel cell research. “The objectives of this collaboration are to ...
04 Mar 2016, 00:00 On 13 March, three German states go to the polls in regional elections. Last time these states voted, energy policy was the hot topic, and Germany elected its first Green state premier. Now, energy and the climate have been completely ...
Companies in Germany used about 9,347 tonnes of fluorocarbons in 2015, up by around 72 tonnes, or 0.8 percent, on the previous year, Germany’s statistics agency Destatis says in a press release. In 2014, the particularly harmful greenhouse gas accounted ...
Germany ranks 11 th in business consultancy PwC’s Low Carbon Economy Index 2016 because the country’s carbon intensity fell 1.1 percent in 2015. The Paris Agreement implies that Germany’s carbon intensity must fall 3.1 percent per year between 2015 and ...
It remains to be seen if the other member states will support Chancellor Angela Merkel’s agenda for Germany’s G20 presidency starting on 1 December, write Jan Hildebrand and Martin Greive in Handelsblatt. “The Chancellor aims to rope in the G20 to ...
A German exit from coal-fired power generation “must really happen very, very fast – maybe by 2025, 2030” if the country wants to be a pioneer in international climate protection, Niklas Höhne of think tank NewClimate Institute said in an interview with ...
11 Sep 2015
11 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt “There’s no alternative to a nuclear fund” In the fight over who will provide the billions of euros needed for nuclear decommissioning and storage, the utilities always seem to be two ...
A new emissions test by German car club ADAC shows that most diesel engines meet legal standards level only on the test bench – falling short on the road, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports. The biggest problem for most diesel engines was high nitrogen oxide. Of ...
16 Mar 2016
16 Mar 2016, 00:00 “A Reporter’s Guide to the Energiewende” offers journalists covering energy and climate policy an overview of key stories, experts/decision-makers and facts on Germany’s landmark energy transition. Click on the attachment on the left to ...
Regional differences in grid fees increased the power price disparities between German federal states in 2016, according to comparison website Verivox. “[The Energiewende] not only has a direct impact on the power bill through the rising Renewable Energy ...
The transition to a low-carbon economy cannot be brought about by subsidising clean energy sources and will unfold by itself if market forces are allowed to come into play, Helmut Stalder writes in Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). “Germany ...
15 Oct 2015, 00:00 The levy to finance green power investment, which is added to Germans' electricity bills, will rise slightly in 2016 after falling this year for the first time since its 2000 introduction, German power grid operators said Thursday. ...
The Green Party seems to have “learned nothing new” and is living up to its image of “the prohibition party”, writes Silke Kersting in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt about the party’s proposal to ban diesel and petrol engines for newly-registered cars ...
Introducing a national minimum CO 2 price of 75 euros per tonne would enable Germany to meet its target of reducing emissions in the energy sector by 61 to 62 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, energy market analyst company Energy Brainpool has said ...
Despite US president Donald Trump’s negative view of wind power, German energy companies are confident their investments in renewables in the US are not going to suffer from Trump’s policies, Jürgen Flauger and Franz Hubik write in the Handelsblatt. “We ...
German innovators have come up with an award-winning idea for a cooling system using water instead of environmentally harmful coolants, writes Katrin Terpitz in Handelsblatt Global Edition. “What’s innovative is the cooling agent – tap water that is ...
18 Nov 2015
18 Nov 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) Balance Sheet of Energiewende Germany has published an assessment of its national climate protection efforts. The government says Germany is making “good ...
13 Oct 2015
13 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv (Modifies headline to clearify sourcing) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “The VW scandal calls Brussels into action” Even after the VW emissions cheating scandal, it appears the German government is trying to ...
German utility EnBW starts construction of its first off-shore wind farm in the North Sea ten years after receiving permission, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. The largely state-owned utility will cooperate with Canadian pipeline company ...
The Renewable Energies Agency has published the 2016/17 status report on the energy transition in the individual German federal states. “The federal states have an important ‘hinge function’ and can significantly advance the Energiewende through setting ...
The German government might not have been persistent enough in the past in questioning emissions data from German carmakers, economy minister Sigmar Gabriel said in a hearing before a Bundestag committee of inquiry. “We have to ask ourselves whether we ...
Germany will not be able to reach its greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target of 40 percent, compared to 1990, according to a draft of the federal environment ministry’s Climate Protection Report 2016, seen by Tagesspiegel. The targets set for the transport ...
The German Climate Action Plan 2050 shines a light on the German position during the EU Emisions Trading System (ETS) revision for the market’s rulebook after 2020, according to a blog post by Ecofys consultants Marcus Ferdinand and Moritz Schäfer. “It ...
More than one year after the start of the VW scandal over illegal emissions manipulations, Europe’s largest carmaker has made slow progress in retrofitting affected cars in Germany, reports Süddeutsche Zeitung. According to the government, the use of the ...
26 Oct 2015
26 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy “Gabriel: Brown coal agreement is important contribution to reaching climate targets” Coal power plant operators will gradually transfer 2.7 ...
21 Sep 2015
21 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung “Worried about the climate” The very hot and dry summer of 2015 was a sign of climate change, 46 percent of Germans believe. In contrast, 40 percent told ...
A shift to electric mobility from the combustion engine could significantly reduce the number of jobs in Germany’s car-making industry because the production of e-cars and batteries requires less workers and a different skill-set, writes Guido Bellberg in ...
08 Dec 2015, 00:00 EU and African-Caribbean-Pacific group join forces / Review, finance, ambition – differentiation is key / Germany with “moderate” ranking in climate index Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear ...
Power plants of the mining and manufacturing sectors produced 10.4 percent of Germany’s gross electricity in 2015, with 50 terawatt hours (TWh), reports Germany's statistics agency Destatis. Most power of the industrial plants is used for self ...
The British government’s decision to approve the nuclear power plant Hinkley Point is a step “forward into the past,” despite the “laudable” goal to reduce carbon emissions, writes Björn Finke in an opinion piece for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. However, ...
The populism by the Christian Social Union in Bavaria has delayed the grid expansion by years and increased costs by billions of euros, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He says that the Bavarian government had ...
23 Oct 2015
23 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “An energy concept that electrifies no one” Bavaria will have to import 40-50 percent of its consumed electricity in 2025, Daniela Kuhr writes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The ...
It has been unclear for a long time whether offshore wind turbines can produce power without subsidies, writes Franz Hubik in business daily Handelsblatt. But the industry is about to reach competitiveness, and hopes this will lead to a growth spurt, ...
Stuttgart is the first German city to introduce a ban on older diesel cars to improve air quality. The home of Mercedes-Benz and Porsche will ban diesel cars which do not meet the latest emissions standards from entering the city on days when pollution is ...
A record 359,319 German households had their power cut off at some point in 2015, equal to 0.9 percent of all household customers, the website strom-report.de reports based on the Federal Network Agency's (BNetzA) annual monitoring report. A total of ...
The German federal government’s decision to unilaterally terminate the contract on German-Austrian power market could be imminent, German government sources told weekly magazine Der Spiegel. “Federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) urged Vienna to ...
Germany is lagging behind other European countries in sales of e-cars, Welt reports. According to a survey by the CAR-Center for Automotive Research at Duisburg University cited by the paper, e-cars and plug-in hybrids had a market share of 0.7 percent ...
Experts say the renewables surcharge will likely only rise to slightly below 7 euro cents per kilowatt hour (KWh), says Bild, based on a report by news agency dpa. The surcharge paid by consumers via electricity bills is currently 6.354 cents per kWh. ...
28 Dec 2015
28 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Car and internet companies conquer the power sector” Utilities face massive new competition as the transformation of Germany’s energy landscape attracts powerful new players from the IT and car ...
The boom years for wind power in Germany are over, but the market will stay stable over the coming years, according to Commerzbank. While globally the growth will largely shift to the Asian market, Germany’s market growth- which was at around 9 percent in ...
Business associations comprising medium-sized companies are complaining about the burdens of Germany’s green power support system on their member companies, which – unlike energy intensive industries – are not exempt from levies like the renewables ...
The fondness of Germans for firecrackers released about 4,000 tonnes of particulate matter during New Year celebrations – about 15 percent of what vehicles in the country emit during an entire year, Christoph Behrens writes in Süddeutsche Zeitung. On New ...
Germany’s federal states continue to disagree on the planned reform of the country’s electricity grid fee structure, writes Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. It follows economy minister Sigmar Gabriel’s backtracking on plans to standardise fees across the ...
Germany’s grid fees on average will increase in 2017, but regional disparities and those based on the consumption volume will grow, according to a short analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende.* Consumers in rural areas with strong renewables ...
01 Dec 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty have kicked off in Paris. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The 91tv ...
Citizens’ primary motive to get involved in energy cooperations is not personal financial gain, reports Craig Morris on energytransition.de. A new study by researchers from Leuphana University reveals that “personal profits are one of the least important ...
29 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
21 Apr 2016, 00:00 On 26 April 1986 a nuclear meltdown at a Soviet reactor in today’s Ukraine sent radioactive particles across Europe and shockwaves through the political debate over nuclear safety. 30 years on from the Chernobyl accident, Germany is in ...
16 Sep 2015
16 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv /sites/default/files/files/article/media-utility-shares-slump-criticism-coal-plant-export-financing/clew-reporters-guide-2015.pdf Süddeutsche Zeitung “Why shares of E ...
European Union Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič hopes to be able to present the planned package with proposals to change the EU’s energy and climate regulations before the end of the year. The comprehensive energy union package would include ...
The anticipated net immigration of about 2.5 million people by 2020 will boost Germany’s power consumption by roughly 650 million kWh or 0.5 percent of current household power consumption, according to economic research institute RWI Essen. “This increase ...
German utility RWE said the planned initial public offering (IPO) of shares in its renewables, retail and network unit Innogy would also include some of the parent's existing shares, reports Reuters. It added that the exact number of shares to be ...
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 Europe’s power grids are supposed to become increasingly integrated – but right now the opposite seems to be happening. Germany’s eastern neighbours complain that the country’s renewable power production is putting a strain on their ...
In order to push the energy transition in heating, the Green Party’s think tank, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, proposes a tax reform that takes into account emissions caused in the sector. “Germany ranks at the bottom in Europe in terms of taxation” of ...
08 Dec 2015
08 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv DENA "Only one third of households know their electricity bills exactly" Only about one third of German households know the exact amount they pay for electricity, a survey by the German ...
Under a new agreement, Russia's Gazprom will have greater access to the German OPAL connection pipeline in eastern Germany, removing a key hurdle to Gazprom’s plan to double Nord Stream capacity in Nord Stream 2, writes EurActiv. “The latest ...
07 Dec 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty are underway in Paris. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The 91tv ...
23 Dec 2015
23 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv 'Frohe Weihnachten' from the 91tv newsroom Our best wishes for a joyous holiday season. We will publish our next News Digest on 28 December and take another short break from ...
05 Nov 2015
05 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Power market reforms are mainly “emergency repairs” German energy minister Sigmar Gabriel says the reforms passed in cabinet yesterday train the power market for the ...
02 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 3 at the UN climate conference: Today's official theme is resilience, with divestment and renewables featuring in others of the many side events / Germany insists on strong monitoring mechanism in agreement / ambitious pace for ...
10 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
The cooling water in many of Europe’s nuclear power plants is pre-heated to prevent brittle steel in reactor pressure vessels from breaking, writes Michael Bauchmüller in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “It continues to become more complicated to reach exactly the ...
Baden Württemberg’s Green environment minister Franz Untersteller has suggested partly replacing the renewable surcharge with taxpayers’ money. The high costs of early solar development shortly after the year 2000 should be financed separately by a fund, ...
As more and more electricity suppliers are established and comparison websites recommend changing contracts to save money, traditional utilities need to find new ways to compete in the market, writes Michael Ashelm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. More ...
German customers are being misled by inaccurate labelling of the origin of their electricity, the energy provider LichtBlick writes in a press release. Suppliers are obliged by law to indicate an averaged share of green electricity in their tariffs, even ...
21 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
E.ON subsidiary Uniper will debut on the stock exchange on 12 September and analysts say the share may see some ups and downs, due to pressures on the utility’s coal, gas and hydro power business, according to an article in Wirtschaftswoche. The share ...
EU Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic has welcomed political efforts in Germany to decarbonise road transport, reports bizz energy. In an interview with the magazine, Sefcovic left open whether he would support the initiative by the council of the ...
08 Oct 2015
08 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) “Average duration of power supply cuts per consumer and year less than 12 minutes for first time” The average power consumer in Germany ...
Environmental organisations have responded to a government proposal to decarbonise the economy with outrage. They say the Climate Action Plan 2050 will fall well short of meeting climate targets, and accuse the environment ministry of caving in to ...
There is a “creeping revolution” causing financial market actors to re-think their approaches, incorporating climate protection and sustainability as profitable investment strategies, write Green politicians Reinhard Bütikofer and Anton Hofreiter in a ...
Germany suffered as an industrial location because its businesses were affected by the EEG-surcharge, while companies in the important European economies profited from low wholesale power prices, writes Klaus Stratmann in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. ...
31 Aug 2015
31 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “EU considers penalties for excessive CO2 emissions” The EU Commission is considering the introduction of binding regional climate targets for the development of ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel was dealt a regional election blow in her constituency of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as her Christian Democrat Union (CDU) came third behind the Social Democrats (SPD) and the anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Read ...
European wind power companies are in danger of being overrun by competitors from Asia – as was the case with the solar industry, writes Franz Hubik in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. Research and development (R&D) efforts become more important as ...
European governments’ efforts to re-design support schemes for wind power – such as Germany’s switch from set feed-in tariffs to tenders – are “driving a rush to the market” by companies hoping to benefit from the old systems, according to a study by ...
05 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
RWE’s majority-held subsidiary innogy is advertising its renewable energy in the Rhineland, a campaign completely at odds with RWE's own o peration of lignite power plants in the region, says Greenpeace energy expert Karsten Smid i n the Handelsblatt ...
The Carbon brief published an interactive map on power generating capacity in Germany as well as a series of charts that show how the coal problem reveals the challenge of decarbonising heat, transport and industry in the country. The map and an ...
The federal economy ministry plans to introduce a common transmission grid fee across Germany, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Grid fees currently differ depending on the region and are higher where the development of renewables ...
Germany’s energy transition is leading to an increased number of houses being renovated and insulated, which can inflate rents, Tobias Lill says in an opinion piece in the Huffington Post. The growth of renewables has also led to higher power prices that ...
The Detroit Car Show is testimony to the close alliances forged between carmakers and IT companies in order to beat Google, report Max Hägler, Claus Hulverscheidt and Joachim Becker in Süddeutsche Zeitung. BMW is cooperating with Intel and Israeli sensor ...
05 Sep 2016
Germany’s power supply security has improved despite the nuclear phase-out, according to a study by think tank Energy Brainpool on behalf of green energy provider Greenpeace Energy. The number of power outages has decreased significantly since the ...
Enterprises in German industry (excluding construction) invested 1.6 billion euros in measures to use renewable energies in 2014- an increase of 14 percent compared to 2013, according to Germany's statistics agency Destatis. A total of 7.9 billion ...
Federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel is backtracking on plans to standardise electricity grid fees across the country, angering several state governments, writes Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). “If the economy ministry’s ...
In spite of the Trump administration’s apparently benevolent stance towards fossil fuel companies, the persisting “carbon bubble” continues to pose a risk to capital markets, Markus Frühauf writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). According to a ...
Germany and Norway have started construction on NordLink, the first direct power line between the two countries that will allow the exchange of renewable energy from 2019 on, reports dpa. The 620 kilometre long, mostly underwater transmission line showed ...
Germany and Belgium have signed an agreement on improving the exchange of information on nuclear security, the federal environment ministry announced in a press release. The neighbouring countries also instituted a nuclear commission that will meet at ...
Germany and other European countries need to “move ahead” with their climate commitments and should “intensify their efforts” following the election of Donald Trump, which has made international climate diplomacy far less predictable, said climate policy ...
Governments around the world have committed to the “historic” Paris Climate Agreement – and now it is time for businesses to follow suit, writes Rüdiger Grube, chairman of the board of Deutsche Bahn (DB) in a guest commentary in Handelsblatt. German rail ...
The debate about banning new conventional car registrations in 2030 seems detached from technical obstacles, writes Holger Appel in a commentary for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Appel wonders how 40 million cars in Germany alone could be powered by ...
The number of free emissions allowances allocated to industrial companies competing at a global level under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) should not be rigidly restricted, because too few allocations may result in carbon leakage, according to a ...
German companies on average evaluate the influence of the energy transition on their competitiveness as marginally positive, according to an online survey of German businesses conducted by Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK). ...
It is increasingly clear that carmakers have become serious about electric mobility as the German car industry reinvents itself, writes Nils-Viktor Sorge in manager magazin. Suppliers and employees focusing on combustion-engine technology face an ...
Empowering individuals by allowing and enabling citizens’ energy projects could help “fill the gap left behind” by utility giants reluctant to invest in domestic renewable energy facilities, write Craig Morris and Arne Jungjohann for the US edition of The ...
The German and Moroccan governments together with the World Resources Institute (WRI) have initiated a partnership programme to help developing countries create and implement their national climate plans to meet commitments made in Paris last year. “Any ...
The German government continues to assume that a planned security standby of lignite plants will result in costs of about 230 million euros over seven years, it said in an answer to a parliamentary inquiry by the Green party. The security standby is also ...
01 Oct 2015
01 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW)/Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) “Wind power generation 2015 already exceeds last year’s level” Thanks to strong winds and the addition ...
ٳܱǰ for strengthening the EU ETS through unilateral measures by member states appears to have grown within the German government, according to a new draft climate plan,” Carbon Pulse writes. Find the article (behind paywall) in English here. ...
VW, Germany’s biggest carmaker, has specified its ambitions to become the “world market leader in e-mobility”. The company’s “TRANSFORM 2025+” strategy foresees making “e-cars the new trademark” of the core VW company. It also aims to sell one million e ...
Germany is the European champion when it comes to electricity exports, but this was mainly based on overcapacities of coal-fired power stations, according to Green politician Bärbel Höhn, writes Petra Pinzler in Die Zeit. “The success of solar and wind ...
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and its French counterpart CNES signed a cooperation agreement to realise the Franco-German climate satellite MERLIN. From 2021 onwards, the satellite will measure the concentration of the greenhouse gas methane in the ...
The German federal government and the states have agreed to allocate 7.3 million euros over the next four years to help the eastern German Lusatia region cope with the structural changes resulting from a “gradual adaptation process in lignite-based power ...
The German constitutional court’s judgement on the country’s accelerated nuclear exit in 2011 has dashed hopes of the affected nuclear plant operators to cash in on an assumed violation of the constitution, Varinia Bernau writes in Süddeutsche Zeitung. ...
In light of fluctuating supply and congestions in the power grid, the wind power sector has to increase its focus on surrounding infrastructure and technology, such as storage, smart grids and data streams, to cope with the challenges of the Energiewende, ...
The project “enera” in the rural North-Western German region of Eastern Frisia could become the next step on the way to establishing smart energy grids across Germany, writes Angela Schmid in WirtschaftsWoche. “enera” is aimed at steering energy flows so ...
17 Jul 2015
17 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) "European Commission has missed the opportunity for innovation in CO2 intensive materials" The EU Commission’s proposal for carbon leakage ...
For an article on Renewable Energy World, Loukia Papadopoulos sought energy experts' opinion on the current state of Germany’s Energiewende. Mark Jacobson, director of the Atmosphere and Energy Program at Stanford University, Carl Pope, former ...
01 Sep 2015
01 Sep 2015, 00:00 Institute of Renewable Energy Industry (IWR) “Additions of new solar arrays speeds up in July – Total capacity exceeds threshold of 39,000 MW” The addition of new PV-systems has increased significantly in July compared to June, but not ...
24 Jul 2015
24 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Prisoners of the atom” The share of nuclear power in France’s power generation is to be reduced from 75 percent today to 50 percent in 2025. But it’s wrong to think that the ...
The expansion of the gas pipeline Nord Stream, linking Germany and Russia via the Baltic Sea, angers Poland and the Baltic States as they fear Russia’s influence in Europe will be made stronger by the project, WirtschaftsWoche Online reports. “This is no ...
The switch from set feed-in tariffs to an auction-based system for renewables support next year puts small wind park operators at a disadvantage compared to large utilities, writes Jens Tartler in Der Tagesspiegel. Cost efficiency would become more ...
07 Jul 2015
07 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Headwind” The rapid increase in the number of wind turbines is leading to rising resistance in many rural areas in Germany’s north, reports Süddeutsche Zeitung in a full-page report on the ...
Many Central and Eastern European countries have reacted extremely sceptical to Germany’s energy transition, but they have been proven wrong, writes Jan Ondrich in a blog post on energytransition.de. Germany’s grid remains one of the most stable in Europe ...
The federal government has prolonged a legal statute that regulates support for “interruptible loads”, i.e. power consumers who can reduce their electricity consumption in times of scarcity in order to stabilise the grid. Read the government press release ...
While Germany is perceived by experts to be the world’s top green economy performer, the country comes in fifth for its actual performance, according to development and green growth communications consultancy Dual Citizen LLC. The consultancy’s 5 th ...
The German and Indian utilities Uniper and India Power Corporation Limited have agreed to set up a 50:50 service company joint venture, India Uniper Power Services, to offer services including the operation and maintenance of power stations. The venture ...
A new research project by Fraunhofer institute IWM in Freiburg is going to investigate the secure use of hydrogen in natural gas pipelines. The project will run for 4 years and cost 9.4 million euros, 1 million of which will be contributed by the federal ...
04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv BDEW / afp “The power price turn-around” Electricity has become cheaper for private consumers for the first time since 2000, the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) reports. ...
Despite their massive size, offshore wind farms only contribute 1.3 percent to Germany’s power supply because they are expensive and grid connections are problematic, writes Jürgen Döschner in a commentary for public regional broadcaster Radio Bremen. ...
07 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations about a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean ...
The planned extension of the Nord Stream gas pipeline that links Germany with Russia via the Baltic Sea has come under fierce criticism from environmental and conservation organisations, the dpa news agency reports. Doubling the number of pipelines would ...
The economic ministry’s proposal to counteract low energy prices by raising energy taxes in its Green Paper on energy efficiency is suitable, according to a paper by environmental NGO Green Budget Germany (FÖS). Low energy prices harm the Energiewende and ...
Major German utility EnBW confirmed its forecast for the year 2016 of an operating profit (adjusted EBITDA) five to ten percent below last year’s result [2.1 billion euros], the company said in a press release. After the first nine months of the year, the ...
The Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) claims that cruise ship companies operating in Europe are 'greenwashing'. “For years now, the shipping companies have proclaimed wholeheartedly that they want to become more environmentally ...
14 Aug 2015
14 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Network Agency / German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) 33 successful bids in second PV auction round Germany’s second-ever photovoltaic tendering round has resulted in 33 successful bids ...
Social Democrat state premier of Brandenburg Dietmar Woidke warns that certain coal related provisions in a late draft of the environment ministry’s climate plan could endanger power supply security in Germany, reports Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. In a ...
In a long feature, author Mark Rowe reports on Germany's efforts to revolutionise its energy sector. However, the “colossal project” is not without its difficulties, Rowe writes. Even though renewable power production is on the rise, Germany is still ...
Several German start-ups prepare to revolutionise the national energy market, writes Helmut Bünder in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “We’ll get rid of established suppliers” for instance is the slogan of Sonnen GmbH, a high-tech company from the German ...
The whole of the transport sector must switch to renewable energy by 2035 at the latest to reach the Paris Climate Agreement 1.5C target, Greenpeace’s transport expert Daniel Moser told news agency dpa. Moser also warns that Germany would “lose its ...
Continued power production from lignite in Germany is in stark contrast to the country’s reputation “as a pioneer of clean, green energy”, writes Tom Morton for ABC News. “The energy transition has a dirty secret. Renewables have been so successful that ...
Oil and natural gas will continue to play a crucial role in Germany’s energy consumption in the coming decades, writes Regine Palm in Handelsblatt. The two fossil combustibles will contribute about 60 percent to the country’s energy mix in 2040, according ...
Germany has accused Italian carmaker Fiat of using illegal software for its emissions treatment systems, according to a Reuters report. A transport ministry letter to the European Commission, seen by Reuters, said that tests by German authorities could ...
Grid operators have to intervene ever more often to stabilise the grid due to the rapid expansion of wind power, writes Franz Hubik in business daily Handelsblatt. The blackout prevention cost 1 billion euros in 2015 and the grid agency warns that annual ...
German automaker VW will not start its own e-car battery cell production because the company believes it would be too expensive. “That would be a joke,” said VW CEO Matthias Müller after months of speculation on the issue, according to German news agency ...
German transport minister Alexander Dobrindt has suggested communes should ban the use of diesel cars when nitrogen oxide levels are high, report Michail Hengstenberg and Gerald Traufetter in Spiegel Online. In a reply to a question by the Green party, ...
Divesting the capital of German foundations – about 100 billion euros in total – from fossil fuels would send a “strong and effective signal to the capital markets” and to the government to implement the Paris Agreement, writes Matthias Fiedler in ...
The Munich-based start-up Sono Motors has invented a small e-car that produces its own power through solar cells spread all over the vehicle, writes Wolfgang Kempkens in WirtschaftsWoche. Peak capacity is at about 1 kilowatt, which is supposed to last for ...
In 2014, 17.3 percent of German start-ups contributed to an environment and climate-protective economy with their products and services, according to the Green Economy Start-up Monitor 2015 by Borderstep Institute, writes WirtschaftsWoche. 86 percent of ...
Volkswagen denies it breached European legislation by installing defeat devices in its vehicles that deliver lower pollutant emissions on a test stand than in regular traffic, write Claus Hulverscheidt, Klaus Ott and Katja Riedel in the Süddeutsche ...
German utility STEAG has announced the decommissioning of five coal-fired generating units due to a low wholesale electricity price, Handelsblatt Online reports. The shutdown will affect hundreds of jobs on the sites in the regions of North-Rhine ...
In an interview with Gitta Düperthal, Manfred Maresch, head of the district German mining union in the lignite coal town of Alsdorf, says the union is not against the Energiewende. Instead, he says, it is concerned about the social implications of ...
Facilities generating electricity from sewage gas have produced 1,395 gigawatt-hours of power in Germany in 2015, the federal statistics office Destatis reports. This was 3.6 percent more than in 2014, and enough to supply a large city like Frankfurt am ...
German utility EnBW has acquired independent service provider Connected Wind Services with the aim of becoming a “significant player” in the wind turbine service and maintenance market, the company said in a press release. With the acquisition, “EnBW is ...
The German government plans to put the brakes on wind power development in the country’s windy north because the electricity grid could not be extended quickly enough, writes Philip Oltermann in The Guardian. “Some analysts argue that while Germany is ...
Germany’s transformation from conventional to renewable energies (Energiewende) is creating conflict with nature conservationists, writes Oleg Ködding-Zurmühlen on Deutsche Welle. In Bremerhaven on the North Sea coast, Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) ...
02 Nov 2015
02 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Greenpeace “Greenpeace excluded from Vattenfall bidding process” Citigroup has excluded Greenpeace from the sale process of Swedish utility Vattenfall’s German lignite operations. The bank said the ...
The European Commission is aiming to reform emissions trading but faces strong opposition from German industry and power companies, Klaus Stratmann writes in Handelsblatt. The cost of emission allowances have remained low for years and that’s something ...
China and the USA have ratified the climate treaty but not much has happened in Germany, writes Petra Pinzler in a commentary for Zeit Online. There is no doubt that Germany and its European neighbours will eventually follow suit, but it seems ...
02 Jul 2015
02 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Die Zeit "Energiewende: Coalition agrees to put coal plants on reserve" Many German media reported the government decision to place 2.7 gigawatts-worth of coal-fired plants into a reserve for use when ...
Germany is building the world’s biggest ‘bicycle autobahn’ to connect 10 cities and remove 50,000 cars from the road, reports Renate von der Zee for the Guardian. “Together with the booming popularity of the electric bike, the highway could lead to a new ...
VW management have announced plans to reduce the number of employees, according to media reports. "We are facing a tough fitness programme," VW human resources chief Karlheinz Blessing said at a staff meeting, according to a Reuters report. ...
VW has released new design sketches of its first electric-only model ahead of its full reveal at the Paris motor show next week, reports Autocar. The images show a five-door hatchback with sliding rear passenger doors. VW’s electric vehicle plans are ...
The state of Hesse is offering mediators to communities likely to oppose wind turbines to allow parties to discuss issues in a fact-based and target-oriented manner, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. More than 35 councils have used the mediators ...
22 Aug 2016
In a long article in Welt am Sonntag, Daniel Wetzel writes about the dangers of wind turbines for birds and the resulting clash between nature and climate protection advocates. A wind power project in the south of Germany could set a legal precedence: ...
The German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies is to strengthen its position as a supplier of electric cars with the acquisition of US chip manufacturer Wolfspeed, reports Süddeutsche Zeitung. Among other things, the California-based company& ...
25 Jun 2015
25 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Gabriel takes on the energy sector” Energy minister Sigmar Gabriel was given a chilly reception by the Chairwoman of the Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) in ...
29 Sep 2015
29 Sep 2015, 00:00 Carl Morris 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Carmakers must not end up like RWE and E.ON” In an interview with business daily Handelsblatt, transport expert Anton Hofreiter- one of the Green party’s parliamentary leaders- argues ...
17 Aug 2015
17 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv dpa / Süddeutsche.de “Raid on Garzweiler” Hundreds of activists entered the open cast lignite mine of Garzweiler, in North-Rhine Westphalia, on Saturday, the German press agency dpa reports. Some ...
Global wind capacity is set to hit 500 gigawatts (GW) by the end of 2016, according to a report by the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA). Germany is among the top three countries regarding both total and newly installed capacity in the first half of ...
Even though new power transmission lines in Bavaria are going to be buried underground, environmental organisation Friends of the Earth (BUND) is still opposing the grid expansion in the southern state, dpa writes. There was no need for new large power ...
There will be no official ban on combustion engines soon, despite the recent resolution of Germany’s upper house of parliament (Bundesrat) that new cars should be emission-free in the EU by 2030, writes Nikolaus Doll in Die Welt. Transport minister ...
Installing PV arrays on private homes and consuming the generated electricity is financially attractive, but will not have a large effect on Germany’s power system as a whole, according to a study by consultancy Prognos commissioned by energy think-tank ...
Tenants in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) will be able to benefit from solar PV panels installed on the rooftop of the buildings they live in. The state government has introduced a support programme for self-consumption power ...
The world’s first four-seat passenger aircraft powered solely by a hydrogen fuel cell system took off on its first official flight from Stuttgart Airport, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) announced in a press release. The HY4 flies without generating any ...
The head of carmaker Daimler AG's works council, Michael Brecht, says the move from conventional cars to e-cars could threaten jobs in the coming years, Reuters reports. "The number of staff you need to build a combustion engine is roughly ...
Cheap German power exports hinder neighbouring countries’ energy transitions, Austrian environment minister Andrä Rupprechter told German weekly Der Spiegel. “Germany produces too much cheap electricity that other countries like Austria have to accept. ...
Local financial benefits of a community-owned wind farm are eight times greater compared to one run by international firms, a study by the Institute for Distributed Energy Technologies (IdE) has found. International firms give fewer contracts to local ...
German carmakers’ grand promises on going electric may be more about buying time than a complete shift of focus, writes Jack Stewart in Wired. A big part of the problem is that customers are not clamouring for electrics, while regulators around the world ...
In the first quarter of 2016, there wasn’t a single application to build a wind turbine in Bavaria, the Bavarian government has said, and the same goes for the second quarter, according to information obtained by the website energyload.eu. This comes ...
Germany’s coal sector remains strong enough to noticeably hinder the energy transition, writes Stefan Bößner of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in a research paper. He examines the coal sector in Germany amid the Energiewende with the goal of ...
E.ON CEO Johannes Teyssen’s reversal of tone on the Energiewende could be seen as simple pragmatism, or shirking responsibility, writes Christoph Eisenring in an opinion piece in Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Teyssen used to criticise Germany’s transition away ...
08 Jul 2015
08 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Tricky Exit” Getting rid of a nuclear power station after decommissioning it is as complex as building it in the first place, writes Thomas Hahn in Süddeutsche Zeitung. A public hearing ...
The Renewable Energy Act (EEG) should be ditched and replaced by a carbon tax, writes Dieter Dürand in an opinion piece in WirtschaftsWoche. “It is time for a clear cut: get rid of the EEG. In its place could be a simple tax on CO 2,” writes Dürand. “This ...
The “well-meant experiment” to protect the climate by using biofuels in Germany and other EU countries has failed, writes Silvia Liebrich in an opinion piece in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. “There is no reason to continue to cling to blending quotas, as long ...
German engineering giant Siemens is among the top companies listed on the global clean energy ranking “Clean 200,” reports Andrea Vittorio for Bloomberg. The “Clean 200” by California non-profit As You Sow and researchers Corporate Knights, ranks ...
25 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Greenpeace Energy “Power-to-gas reduces costs for Energiewende by billions and enables 100-percent renewable power supply” By using technology to store excess wind and solar power as ...
Citizen energy projects and the development of wind power will suffer most from the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) reform passed by both chambers of the German parliament, writes Hans-Josef Fell in a guest commentary for pv magazine. “The wind sector will ...
The new Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 contributes little to solving environmental problems, writes Dagmar Dehmer in an opinion piece for Der Tagesspiegel. “Not using the federal transport infrastructure plan as an element of a climate concept ...
The federal government wants to give 100 million people in the global south access to sustainable, renewable energy by 2030, they have stated in an answer to parliament. This is to be achieved through a range of new bilateral and multilateral energy ...
The federal government thinks Germany will increasingly be vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, writes Spiegel Online. Trade would be especially affected, according to the economy ministry’s reply to a parliamentary enquiry by the Green group ...
In an interview with the Handelsblatt, the head of power network operator Tennet, Lex Hartmann, says that the company will invest 22 billion euros in the next 10 years, with the lion’s share in network expansion in Germany. Regulatory hurdles for ...
Thanks to renewables, we don’t need nuclear energy to protect the climate, nor coal power to enable the nuclear exit, argues Rüdiger Haude, spokesperson of a solar support association, in politics weekly der Freitag. But several reforms of the Renewable ...
While generous subsidies have made Germany a clean power leader, helping to increase the country’s share of power generation from renewable sources from 3.6 percent in 1990 to 30 percent last year, the country continues to face challenges in implementing ...
The German commercial and industrial, as well as utility-scale storage markets, are surprisingly weak compared to the booming residential storage market, writes Julian Spector for Greentech Media. The weakness comes “in part because of its regionally ...
Germany’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) filling station for trucks has been opened in the city of Ulm. Energy company Uniper and transporter manufacturer Iveco operate the test facility. Uniper announced that it envisaged building a network of LNG ...
Out of 650 megawatts of ground-mounted photovoltaic projects tendered since 2015, 100 megawatts have so far been realised, pv magazine writes. After obtaining detailed information on Germany’s pilot PV auctions from the Federal Network Agency (BnetzA), ...
The lack of flexibility in conventional power plants is a “key problem of the Energiewende”, writes Jakob Schlandt in Hamburger Abendblatt. While conventional plants continue to run at times of grid congestion, “whole wind parks are being switched off ...
The switch to auctions in the reformed Renewable Energy Act is reasonable, but the reform effectively puts the breaks on the amount of renewable development, writes Georg Ehring in a commentary for public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk. He argues a limit of ...
Germany’s eastern European neighbours and Russia are not following the phase-out of nuclear energy that is part of Germany’s energy transition, writes historian Anna Veronika Wendland in a guest article for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Eastern ...
A BMW TV spot airing on U.S. television pokes fun at electric vehicle maker Tesla and its ongoing problems while promoting its own e-car, Sebastian Viehmann writes in Focus Online. Tesla is facing technical difficulties with its autopilot feature, ...
Germany boasts the best framework conditions (e.g. financing) and with 41.5 gigawatt has the biggest onshore wind power capacity in Europe, but the industry has not achieved considerable price cuts compared to other European countries, writes Christian ...
Several states have created their own environmental regulations because they are dissatisfied with federal laws and plans, writes Angela Schmid in WirtschaftsWoche. “The federal government’s lip service in Paris doesn’t do anything for the world climate. ...
Germany’s power consumption decreased by 0.2 percent in the first six months of 2016 compared to the same period last year, the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) reports. The association said that during a time of “unchanged robust ...
The effect of Brexit will be “controllable” for German energy company E.ON, which is also one of the largest power suppliers in Britain, CEO Johannes Teyssen told the Bild Zeitung in an interview. The devaluation of the British Pound is a risk, he said, ...
24 Sep 2015, 00:00 UPDATE 24 Sept | The European grid regulator has recommended that the Austrian-German electricity trading zone should be partially disconnected. Countries including Poland and the Czech Republic have called for the split, to prevent ...
Troubled German energy company E.ON is listing its conventional power division Uniper but the move lacks a convincing plan, Angela Hennersdorf writes in WirtschaftsWoche. Uniper comprises commodity trading operations and more than 300 coal and gas power ...
The federal government is “increasingly without ambition” regarding concrete steps to fight global warming – with the exception of environment minister Barbara Hendricks – writes Silke Kerstig in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt. Hendricks so far is ...
While more than 90 percent of Germans support the country’s energy transition, only 22 percent of households have switched to a provider of 100 percent green electricity despite having had the opportunity for the past 15 years, Craig Morris writes on ...
There is growing opposition within the federal government to the Energiewende and bold climate targets, writes Malte Kreutzfeldt in tageszeitung (taz). Last week, the EU Commission called for greater commitment from German ministries to cutting ...
Siemens has launched a new offshore wind turbine with a capacity of 8 megawatts, promising a 10 per cent increase in annual energy production compared to its previous 7MW model, reports BusinessGreen. The German engineering giant, currently in the process ...
Unions want to push car industry managers to speed up the transition to emission-free mobility, reports weekly magazine Der Spiegel. Powerful metalworkers’ union IG Metall plans to publish a paper on “Cutting CO 2 pollution in individual transport”, write ...
19 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv taz – die Tageszeitung “Among energy pioneers” Chancellor Angela Merkel should use her visit to Brasilia this week as an opportunity to breath fresh wind into the political dialogue concerning ...
09 Oct 2015
09 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Nuclear Energy? Never Again!” The history of nuclear energy in Germany is a total fiasco, write Jürgen Flauger and Klaus Stratmann in a “closing balance sheet” in business daily Handelsblatt. The ...
Germany is struggling with ‘cognitive dissonance’ in agreeing on the details of its climate protection plan, writes Hermann Falk of the German Association for Renewable Energy (BEE) in a guest commentary in the Frankfurter Rundschau. Various competing ...
The rise of car sharing and self-drive electric vehicles could drastically reduce the number of cars on urban roads, according to Christian Hochfeld, head of new transport think tank Agora Verkehrswende*. “If a city’s entire car fleet was shared and self ...
PV magazine “Own consumption after feed-in payments run out will stimulate storage market” More than half of solar PV installation operators in Germany want to use their generated power themselves once their 20-year feed-in remuneration runs out, a study ...
Germany could work as an example to Mexico concerning the social challenges and consequences of a transition from fossil to renewable fuels, writes Juliana Fregoso for Forbes Mexico. Mexico could learn from German Energiewende experiences that energy ...
22 Apr 2015
22 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online Resistance among Christian Democrats against power market law Four senior members of Angela Merkel’s ruling Christian Democrats (CDU) have send a letter to all members of the CDU-CSU ...
With the most photovoltaic capacity in Europe, Germany has started to store excess solar energy to enhance local usage. In doing so, the country is piloting a renewable energy strategy that will benefit the rest of the world, Jeffrey Michel writes in ...
A worldwide coal exit will be difficult as coal remains the easiest and often cheapest source of base power and many jobs still depend on the fossil fuel, writes Eduardo Porter in a column in New York Times. In Germany, “only about 63,000 jobs are ...
While Germany’s energy transition has achieved some impressive results with renewables accounting for around a third of electricity, the lavish subsidies available in the renewable energy sector have also given rise to get-rich-quick schemes that can end ...
While major corporations like E.ON, Volkswagen and Siemens may come to mind when discussing Germany’s energy transition, the real champions behind the country’s ambitious plans are its 3.67 million small and medium-sized enterprises, Roy L Hales writes in ...
Hamburg offers little open space for renewable energy plants, but the city is developing a plan – known as “New 4.0” – to tap renewable energy being increasingly produced in the neighbouring state of Schleswig-Holstein, Olaf Preuss and Julia Witte gen. ...
Volkswagen AG has begun discussions with German solar energy group SMA Solar Technology AG about a possible collaboration on energy storage, James Ayre writes in Clean Technica. Talks so far appear to be in the early stages, however. SMA has said it is ...
Maize crops in Germany have risen by 73 percent since 2000, driven by biogas production, and critics say it is causing problems for the environment and eroding the diversity of crops, writes Sebastian Balzter in the Frankfurter Allemeine Sonntagszeitung. ...
Many producers showcased their storage devices at the Intersolar Europe trade fair in Munich. Jonathan Gifford, pv magazine global editor, and Götz Fischbeck, CEO of company Smart Solar Consulting, visited the exhibits and conducted a series of interviews ...
The cabinet decision on a new law to regulate the financing of nuclear decommissioning and waste storage will be postponed until the end of August, writes WirtschaftsWoche. According to the unsourced report, utility RWE said it would not be able to ...
09 Sep 2015
09 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Summer, sun and sorrows” There has never been more green energy in Germany’s grid than in the first half of this year, state secretary Uwe Beckmeyer from the Ministry for ...
07 Sep 2015
07 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) “German people want more renewable energies” People in Germany are still very much in favour of the Energiewende, a representative survey by TNS Emnid shows. Phasing ...
Hans Bünting, COO Renewables of RWE International SE (Innogy), sees no reason for the German utility to hold back on renewables investments in the UK following the Brexit vote. “On the basis of the currently available information, the UK is and will ...
The much-lauded stock market launch of RWE’s green subsidiary innogy could still become a disappointment for investors despite the strong book-building that values the company at 20 billion euros, Frank Stocker and Daniel Wetzel write in Die Welt. With an ...
The Paris Climate Agreement clearly implies speeding up the Energiewende, but the Renewable Energy Act reform will have the opposite effect, writes Werner Eckert in a commentary for public broadcaster SWR. Instead of trying to solve the problems ...
The transport ministry took more than two months to publish devastating results from its own diesel emission tests, report Klaus Ott and Katja Riedel in Süddeutsche Zeitung. The ministry said it first led many talks with various carmakers to check the ...
20 Dec 2016, 00:00 German energy-related CO₂ emissions rose almost 1 percent in 2016, despite a fall in coal use and the ongoing expansion of renewable energy sources, according to first estimates by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen. A rise ...
Vattenfall’s lignite business results ahead of the sale of its coal mining and production facilities in eastern Germany offer some insight into why the Swedish utility is selling. They also raise the question of why Czech investor EPH is interested in the ...
With a new sub-brand, Mercedes-Benz is planning its own line of electric vehicles, write Elisabeth Behrmann and Christoph Rauwald for Bloomberg Technology. The German carmaker will challenge BMW and Tesla Motors Inc. with two sport utility vehicles and ...
23 Apr 2015, 00:00 Bids for solar panel auctions were well-received, Germany is not exiting coal, and the country should consider its European electricity trading partners when designing the new power market, a key member of the economics ministry said at ...
20 Apr 2015, 00:00 German chancellor wants to push for commitment for ambitious climate targets from G7 as climate activists call for strong leadership. Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv International Security Climate & CO2 Ambitious climate ...
26 Jun 2015
26 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Berliner Morgenpost /dpa “Vattenfall stops resettlement plans near lignite mine in Nochten” Energy utility Vattenfall has stopped plans to resettle around 1700 people near its open cast lignite ...
13 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
Shares in E.ON fossil power spin-off Uniper started trading at just over 10 euros at its market debut, toward the upper end of a range between 5.50 and 13.00 euros given by analysts, reports Reuters. “The closely watched listing, under which E.ON is ...
German energy group E.ON is bracing for more bad news as its Uniper division, which comprises the company’s fossil fuel assets and is being spun off in September, is widely expected to report a loss in the billions on August 22, Jürgen Flauger writes in ...
10 Oct 2016
The total cost of the German energy transition in the electricity sector until 2025 will amount to more than 520 billion euros, according to a study commissioned by industry lobby group Initiative New Social Market Economy (INSM). The largest part of the ...
A team of scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have published a comment in Nature Climate Change entitled “Why the right climate target was agreed in Paris”. It highlights that the Paris goal of reducing the temperature ...
German economics minister Sigmar Gabriel’s controversial proposal of placing a flexible tax on fuel that would rise and fall according to oil prices is a good idea and it should not be abandoned despite the loud opposition to it, Mark Schieritz writes in ...
02 Jun 2015, 00:00 Europe must deliver on its own targets for a successful climate summit in Paris at the end of this year, the head of the German Chancellery, Peter Altmaier, told a business conference on Tuesday. At the same time, he stressed that the ...
04 Aug 2015
04 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “With greetings to Paris” The German environment ministry and several NGOs welcomed President Obama’s clean power deal as increasing the chances of achieving an effective ...
Lithium-ion batteries, currently used in electric cars, are reaching the limits of their technical capabilities and companies around the world are looking for alternatives, write Lukas Bay, Martin Kölling and Franz Hubik in a report in Handelsblatt Online ...
To be able to avoid high re-dispatch costs for grid stabilisation, German researchers are testing a new system to better predict power generation of wind and solar PV parks, writes the science journal nature. With the research project EWeLiNE, Fraunhofer ...
While German automakers are eager to invest billions in electric vehicle production, the deployment of charging stations is lagging, Jürgen Flauger and Daniel Delhaes write in Handelsblatt. The carmakers are hurrying to catch up to U.S. rival Tesla Motors ...
20 Aug 2015
20 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung "Incapable of acting" The market value of RWE, Germany’s largest power producer, is shrinking so fast it is reminiscent of a company on the way to bankruptcy, writes ...
Emission reduction from new cars in Germany is slowing down despite ambitious climate targets and “alleged efforts” of the car industry, writes Nikolaus Doll in Die Welt. A study by the Center of Automotive Management (CAM) showed that low petrol prices ...
Several German municipalities reject the idea that non-highly radioactive waste from decommissioned nuclear power plants is stored at their local landfills over radiation fears, write Michael Bauchmüller and Thomas Hahn in Süddeutsche Zeitung. Most of the ...
Do not believe any tests you haven’t faked yourself, is the lesson from the car emissions scandal, writes Jan Heidtmann in a commentary for Süddeutsche Zeitung. He says it is welcome news that the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) will conduct its own ...
09 Apr 2015
09 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv German Centre for Energy Resources Freiberg (DER) Germans deeply split about coal Germans are deeply split about the mining and use of coal, a study from the German Centre for Energy Resources ...
In an interview with Angela Schmid in WirtschaftsWoche, Daniela Jacob, head of Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), said Germany’s phase out of nuclear energy would result in a short-term increase in carbon emissions because coal cannot be substituted ...
Grid operators such as utilities are protesting plans by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) to lower grid fees by decreasing the return on equity operators invest in Germany’s grid infrastructure, write Jürgen Flauger and Klaus Stratmann in the ...
08 Jun 2015, 00:00 The G7 has published its final communiqué after the summit in Elmau in southern Germany. 91tv presents reactions from Germany to the results of the meeting of major industrialised countries. Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Clean Energy ...
20 May 2015
20 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) “The godmother of climate receives visitors” The Petersberg Climate Dialogue is Angela Merkel’s reaction to the failed climate summit of Copenhagen ...
12 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
29 May 2015
29 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv AG Energiebilanzen “Demand for energy in heating increased- less coal and more power from renewables” The use of hard coal and lignite fell in the first quarter of 2015 compared to last year, ...
A single judge granted supplier Hemlock Semiconductor Corp's claim for damages amounting to 585 million US dollars plus interests of 208 million US dollars in the litigation with SolarWorld, says SolarWorld in an ad-hoc announcement. “In spite of ...
16 Mar 2015
16 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Bild am Sonntag “Getting the green light?” Germany’s transition to a low-carbon economy is not very environmentally friendly and doesn’t make economic sense, argues Olaf Wilke in a seven-sentence ...
The German steel industry has remained stable in a difficult global environment, according to a report by the Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI). “The capacity utilisation of the steel industry increased to 89 percent in the first ...
German carmaker Daimler AG is to swiftly develop its e-vehicle portfolio in preparation for the wave of e-mobility in the coming years, said chairman of the board of directors Dieter Zetsche in an interview with WirtschaftsWoche. Zetsche said timing was ...
25 Feb 2015
25 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Brave new world” The single market for European energy that EU citizens have been waiting for for years, is now called the Energy Union, Thomas Ludwig writes in an opinion piece for ...
The federal government’s “Climate Action Plan 2050" is “a continuation and intensification of a purely national climate policy,” says German economist Joachim Weimann in a guest commentary in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The emissions avoided in ...
30 Aug 2016
The leaders of the leading industrialised and emerging economies will discuss ways to funnel capital into financing climate measures at the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 4 and 5, a German government official said on Tuesday. The Chinese ...
15 May 2015
15 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt “RWE fights for brown coal” Power company RWE is toughening its stance on energy minister Sigmar Gabriel’s proposal for a climate levy on old coal ...
27 Mar 2015
27 Mar 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv European Commission “Commission refers Germany to Court over coal power plant in Moorburg” The European Commission is taking Germany to court over its newly open Moorburg power plant near Hamburg, saying the ...
20 Mar 2015, 00:00 The German energy ministry has opted for a reformed energy only market (EOM), in which back-up power stations are financed through sharp peaks in power prices. Utilities insisted that a decision on the market's design- either an ...
17 Jun 2015, 00:00 The shared electricity market between Austria and Germany was seen as a major achievement in 2002 but now it is coming under pressure from Germany’s increasing generation from renewables, showing the disintegrative side effects the ...
The approval of the sale of Vattenfall’s German lignite plants and mines to Czech utility EPH showed that Germany and Sweden were not willing to implement the Paris Climate Agreement, says Johan Rockström, executive director of the Stockholm Resilience ...
18 May 2015
18 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Tagesspiegel / Petersberg Climate Dialogue VI Merkel wants carbon trading scheme for the whole world Environment ministers from around the world meet in Berlin today and tomorrow to discuss and ...
The new Climate Action Plan 2050 being prepared by Germany pursues an “absolute priority” of climate protection, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion-piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The plan is still vague but postulates targets which nobody is ...
26 Mar 2015, 00:00 Encouraged by federal legislation such as the Renewable Energy Act, the governments of many German states have worked hard to make the Energiewende a success, as well as a business opportunity for their citizens. Others have been slower ...
With 967.5 million euro, German utility EnBW has achieved a 24.2 percent lower operating result in the first six months of 2016 than in the same period in 2015. The company expects results for the whole year to be five to 10 percent lower than last year. ...
20 Mar 2015
20 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt / Die Welt “Federal government disappoints power station operators” Operators of fossil-fuelled power stations should only receive very limited funds for keeping power ...
There are limits to a national energy transition in Germany, writes economy professor Andreas Löschel, from the University of Münster, in a guest article for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. If a few countries like Germany and the UK decide to phase-out coal ...
19 May 2015, 00:00 UPDATE: Angela Merkel weighs into the dispute about the proposed climate levy on old fossil-fuelled power stations and summons ministers to the chancellery on Wednesday. The climate levy could be reduced and special rules applied to ...
01 Apr 2015, 00:00 Fracking is to be banned in all protected areas and near aquifers in Germany, a government draft law proposes. Unconventional fracking in upper rock layers is only permitted for scientific purposes or in individual cases. Environmental ...
12 Oct 2015
12 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Reuters “Germany says firms set aside enough nuclear decommissioning funds” According to the government, stress tests show that nuclear power plant operators have set aside enough funds to pay for decommissioning ...
Germany’s ‘green energy account’ had a surplus of 3,688,937,633.01 euros in June 2016, according to new figures published by the four transmission grid operators (TSOs). This is about 500 million euros less than in June 2015. The TSOs provide a balance of ...
The G20 group of countries, whose energy ministers are going to meet in Beijing this week, are responsible for around 75 per cent of global energy consumption and energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. State secretary Rainer Baake, who is going to ...
15 Jan 2016, 00:00 We have compiled our 2014/2015 dossiers (long-reads) in a comprehensive PDF format, ready for you to download. The articles in the yearbook showcase the Energiewende’s shifts in policy and the challenges it faced in the past year. Sven ...
04 Mar 2015
04 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) “No capacity payments to coal- and gas-fired power plants” Additional payments to operators of coal- and gas-fired power plants are currently not ...
German carmakers haven't taken electric mobility seriously, but suddenly it is even dawning on faithful VW drivers that cars with fossil combustion engines will be phased out at some point, writes Henning Peitsmeier in the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
Despite looming debt and the heavy financial burden from the nuclear clean-up, the CEO of electricity utility RWE, Peter Terium, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that the company is on solid financial ground. “We have many billions of euros ...
23 Jun 2015
23 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv World Energy Council/Roland Berger “Energiewende requires new financing models” Traditional utilities can no longer shoulder the huge infrastructure investments necessary for the Energiewende, ...
09 Jan 2015
09 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) "A year full of superlatives for ecologic power" German consumers paid almost 23 billion euros for renewable electricity in 2014, the FAZ writes, ...
24 Mar 2015, 00:00 German utilities say plans to cut 22 millions tonnes of CO2 emissions from the energy sector by demanding additional emissions trading allowances from older power plants amount to an exit plan for the brown coal industry. But despite ...
14 Apr 2015
14 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) “Germany as a business location: Energiewende beats Industry 4.0” A majority of companies in the electrical industry is ...
26 Jan 2015
26 Jan 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Online “Aigner under pressure” Writing for Süddeutsche Online, Frank Müller reports on tensions between Bavarian energy minister Ilse Aigner and state prime minister Horst Seehofer, as Aigner prepares ...
12 May 2015
12 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung / Die Welt “Energiewende show on the high seas” Germany’s energy minister Sigmar Gabriel invited his G7 counterparts to visit a new offshore wind converter platform in the North ...
13 Apr 2015
13 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv neue energie “230,000 new jobs – if the Energiewende succeeds” A new and as yet unpublished study by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy concludes that renewables are a boon for ...
29 Jan 2015
29 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau Minister sees Bavaria as showcase for the Energiewende Bavarian economy minister Ilse Aigner says that far from blocking the energy transition, her state is a driver of the ...
Many pro-Energiewende politicians are complaining bitterly about plans to rein in renewables expansion through the reform of Renewable Energy Act, but in reality, the government is still going ahead with plans for a 45 percent renewables share in 2025, up ...
22 Jun 2015
22 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Reuters “German govt clashes with Bavaria over nuclear storage site plan” The German government has put forth a plan for storing nuclear waste that has been processed and stored in France and the ...
07 Jan 2016, 00:00 Record renewables growth in 2015 meant Germany exported more coal-generated electricity than ever before, hampering the country's efforts to protect the climate, according to energy policy think tank Agora Energiewende. The data ...
17 Apr 2015
17 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung "Powered out" The German nuclear power sector's final battle is currently being fought on paper, writes Markus Balser in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The likes of E ...
10 Feb 2015
10 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Reuters “Study – Germany spends billions on export of coal technology” Germany and France are the EU’s biggest sponsors of the export of coal technology, according to a confidential OECD study ...
29 Apr 2015
29 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Residual Risk” There are worrying parallels between the current E.ON split into two separate companies and the finance industry’s spinning off of risky assets into bad banks in ...
08 Apr 2015, 00:00 Regardless of recent squabbles about new power lines and rising electricity prices, Germans remain staunch supporters of the principles behind the Energiewende. Survey after survey shows a large majority of the population is in favour ...
Germany has seen a net addition of onshore wind capacity of 1,892 megawatt (MW) in the first half of 2016, the BWE and VDMA report. That is 73 percent more than in the same period in 2015 when 1,093 MW were added. Wind energy association BWE and industry ...
15 Oct 2015
15 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Bloomberg “Germany considers emissions levy as CO2 reduction target wobbles” Germany may have to introduce a tax on emissions in order to meet its target of cutting CO2 emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by ...
05 Jun 2015
05 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Carbon Tracker Initiative "Coal: caught in the EU utility death spiral" New coal-fired power plants fail to generate positive cash-flows even under the most optimistic ...
07 Jan 2015
07 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Dow Jones Newswires “E-Mobility project: Municipal utilities are looking for a common business model” A new federal research project called “econnect Germany” aims to demonstrate the opportunities ...
01 Apr 2015
01 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Environment Ministry (BMUB) “Cabinet decides on extensive restrictions on fracking” The German government has published a law proposal regulating the use of fracking for gas and oil exploitation. ...
05 May 2015
05 May 2015, 00:00 PV Magazine “Accepted photovoltaic projects between 8.48 and 9.43 cents per kilowatt-hour” Solar array bids accepted in Germany’s recent auction were between 8.48 and 9.43 cents per kilowatt-hour, averaging out at 9.17 cents, according ...
02 Mar 2015
02 Mar 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Vattenfall connects coal-fired power plant Moorburg to the grid” After trial runs lasting over a year, the controversial coal-fired Moorburg power plant in Hamburg has begun commercial operation, ...
02 Apr 2015
02 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt Fracking law: “German Angst” There is no rational explanation for the resistance against fracking among German parliamentarians, Thomas Sigmund writes in an opinion piece for the ...
24 Feb 2015, 00:00 A vote in the European Parliament on the reform of the EU's emissions trading system has prompted applause by some and disappointment from others. The 91tv has compiled some of the reactions out of Germany to the ...
12 Feb 2015
12 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Windmesse/Handelsblatt “GE and Deutsche Telekom join forces for energy transition” US industrial conglomerate General Electric and Deutsche Telekom will cooperate to offer new solutions for smart ...
19 Jan 2015
19 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Utopian targets” The development of renewable energies is fast-paced in Germany but that is no reason for euphoria, writes Jürgen Flauger in the Handelsblatt. Germany will miss its ...
12 Jan 2015
12 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv E.ON Press Release E.ON sells Italian coal and gas operations E.ON said Monday it would sell its coal and gas-fueled electricity operations to the Czech energy company Energetický a Průmyslový ...
02 Jan 2015
02 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt / dpa “Solar boom continues to ebb“ Germany built 1.95 gigawatts-worth of solar installations in 2014 – 43 percent fewer than the year before, the Handelsblatt writes, reporting ...
22 May 2015
22 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Destatis “G7 in Figures” Germany’s Federal Statistical Office Destatis has published a booklet ahead of the G7 summit in Bavaria this June, including data on energy and climate protection efforts ...
02 Oct 2015, 00:00 (Update with new calendar page in PDF) “A Reporter’s Guide to the Energiewende” offers journalists covering energy and climate policy an overview of key stories, experts/decision-makers and facts on Germany’s landmark energy transition. ...
29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt “Steel before a great exodus” The EU’s plans for a reform of the emissions trading system might lead to a mass exodus of steel companies from Europe, reports Carsten Dierig in Die Welt. ...
30 Jan 2015
30 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Zeit Online "Germany warns against overly strict thresholds for cars" Under EU regulations, by 2021 CO2 emissions from new cars must not exceed an average of 95 grams per kilometre. By ...
27 May 2015
27 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv BEE / BWE “Germany risks missing binding EU target for renewables” If Germany sticks to current policies, it will miss its official target of 18 percent renewables in final energy consumption by ...
06 May 2015, 00:00 The growing share of renewables forced German wholesale electricity prices down to among the lowest in Europe last year, according to a study by grid operator TenneT. And government figures indicate that consumers are benefitting too, ...
12 May 2015, 00:00 G7 energy ministers agree on increasing efficiency as a no-regret measure to achieve energy security and greenhouse gas reductions. Joint action planned on cybersecurity for the electricity sector and a transparent gas market. Expert ...
11 Mar 2015
11 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Reuters “E.ON paves way for spin-off following record loss” Germany’s biggest utility, E.ON, booked its largest ever annual loss, as a result of its ailing power plants, Reuters reports. The ...
03 Feb 2015
03 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Bavaria does not need two grid extensions” The southern German state of Bavaria, one of the country’s industrial powerhouses, has completed a three-month “Energy Dialogue” ...
15 Jun 2015
15 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Merkel’s expensive targets” “Climate chancellor” Angela Merkel’s promise to put 1 million e-cars on German roads by 2020 might cost taxpayers dearly, writes Holger ...
21 May 2015
21 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Coalition doesn’t get together in coal politics” A meeting between Chancellor Angela Merkel and energy minister Sigmar Gabriel on the additional levy on old coal ...
02 Feb 2015, 00:00 Germany’s population has great sympathy for the transition to a low-carbon economy and the nuclear phase-out, also known as the Energiewende. Nevertheless, some of the key projects, such as new infrastructure, face resistance and are ...
03 Dec 2015
03 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Energy Transition/Fraunhofer ISE “Wind power #1 electricity source in November” Stormy weather pushed Germany’s wind power production to a new record in November, covering a full quarter of domestic demand. It ...
20 May 2015, 00:00 Industrialised countries’ business associations have urged to make the Paris climate summit a success. “The world climate conference in Paris in December offers a chance to greatly advance global climate politics. The world must use ...
23 Jul 2015
23 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn tagesschau.de “More eco and a little less nuclear” Many German media are reporting about France’s new energy transition law, passed on Wednesday. The law says energy usage must be halved by 2050 and nuclear’s share of ...
11 May 2015
11 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv dpa “Gabriel wants to convince G7 of Energiewende” At today’s meeting of G7 energy ministers in Hamburg, the German government hopes to convince other industrialised nations that renewables can ...
04 Mar 2015, 00:00 The consultation period for the government's green paper on power market reform is over and submissions reveal stakeholders' different ideas and priorities for a redesign. Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Electricity ...
03 Mar 2015
03 Mar 2015, 00:00 Correction: Corrects spelling of Marijn Dekkers, CEO of Bayer and President of the German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI). Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Greetings from the Stone Age” The new Moorburg ...
20 Nov 2014
20 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Zeit online "Billions for utilities" If coal fired power stations were retired, everybody could profit: the climate, consumers and utilities, writes Marlies Uken for Zeit online. The problem is, none of the ...
26 May 2015
26 May 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Berliner Morgenpost “Climate debate splits government” The discussion about how Germany can achieve its climate goals has raised tensions within the government, reports the Berliner Morgenpost. Armin Laschet, ...
08 Jan 2015
08 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Dow Jones Newswires “Renewable development leads to uncertainty for municipal utilities” Dow Jones reports on a study by the University of Leipzig for Commerzbank and the municipal utility ...
06 Jun 2015
06 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Oxfam / E3G “Let them eat coal” Five of the G7 countries are burning more coal now than before the Copenhagen climate change conference in 2009, while the G7 coal plants together emit ...
18 Feb 2015
18 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Öko-Institut Study: Up to 700,000 e-cars could be run profitably in commercial car fleets by 2020 Large numbers of e-cars could already be profitably operated in commercial car fleets, according to ...
20 Jan 2015
20 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Attack on coal” // Interview with Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel Germany’s Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy has "ended the debate over capacity payments to fossil-fuelled ...
29 Dec 2014
29 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Hamburger Abendblatt “Hamburg puts focus on development of green energies” The city-state of Hamburg is profiting from Germany's Energiewende in the form of investment and new jobs, the ...
27 Nov 2014
27 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Tageszeitung (taz) "Trade union association DGB gets on side with coal" What started off as an appeal by industry and energy unions is now supported by most German trade unions (apart ...
03 Aug 2015
03 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Germany- a good climate country?” It is questionable whether Germany’s energy transition is a good example for other countries to follow, writes political science ...
07 Jan 2015, 00:00 Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany dropped in 2014 to the second-lowest level since 1990, a sign that the country’s ambitious Energiewende project is back on track, German think-tank Agora Energiewende* said on Wednesday. Kerstine ...
22 Oct 2014, 00:00 Germany is to push for a triad of targets for 2030 at the EU climate summit on 23-24 October with broad backing from the public, and some concerns on the part of industry. Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der ...
28 Oct 2015
28 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv dpa “Workers’ representatives and politicians advocate German production of e-car batteries” Germany’s sole car battery producer, car manufacturer Daimler, will discontinue production this year, ...
02 Dec 2014, 00:00 An annual report from Germany's grid regulator highlights developments in the German power sector. The report shows a high degree of grid stability in 2013 and only a small increase of average prices paid by households as ...
19 Nov 2014
19 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv German Institute for Economic Research “Shutting down old coal-fired power stations could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 23 million tones and stabilise the power market” A new study by the German ...
16 Dec 2014
16 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Study: Federal Environmental Agency (UBA) “Environmentally harmful subsidies amount to over 52 billion euros” Even as Germany focuses much effort and funding on climate protection measures, it ...
30 Mar 2015
30 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Der Spiegel “Energy transition causes controversy between chancellor and state premiers” An alliance of three state premiers have informed Chancellor Angela Merkel about their concerns ...
10 Oct 2014
10 Oct 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv German Statistical Office Average power price has risen by one third since 2000 The average price for power for all consumer rose by one third between January 2000 and August 2014 due to higher levies and as ...
03 Dec 2014, 00:00 The government approved what it claims to be the largest climate action package in the country’s history. Most observers applauded the commitment to emissions reduction goals by 2020. But environmentalists criticised the lack of a ...
19 May 2015
19 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Bloomberg / Handelsblatt “Germany, France Seek Curb on Fossil Fuel Pollution This Century“ To control the risks of climate change, Germany and France want to almost completely forego the use of ...
13 Nov 2014
13 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Der Tagesspiegel “Germany’s problems with climate protection“ Draft versions of Germany’s Climate Action Programme (Aktionsprogramm Klimaschutz), designed to reduce greenhouse gas ...
31 Oct 2014
31 Oct 2014, 00:00 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Stuttgarter Nachrichten "The transition works" The cut in retail power prices announced by EnBW- one of the four largest utilities in Germany- for most of its 2.5 million customers, shows an ...
11 Nov 2014
11 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online "Energy efficiency in companies: Hidden chances for climate protection" Greater energy efficiency efforts by companies could help Germany save nearly a quarter of the CO2 emissions necessary to ...
06 Jan 2015
06 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Wirtschaftswoche "Wind power breaks one record after another" Between 3400 and 3700 megawatts of new wind power capacity have been built in Germany in 2014, Mario Brück writes in the ...
14 Oct 2014
14 Oct 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv German Ministry of Economy and Energy Norway approves construction of NordLink power cable with Germany Norway has granted the required licenses to grid operator Statnett to build its part of a German-Norwegian ...
28 Oct 2014
28 Oct 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv AG Energiebilanzen Mild weather bridles German energy use in 2014 Mild weather in Germany has curbed energy use for heating so far this year and should result in a 5 per cent drop in primary energy usage for 2014 ...
16 Oct 2014
16 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Öko-Institut Research on the Energiewende – inter-active map goes online A new online-platform brings together the output of 33 research projects funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research ...
03 Dec 2014
03 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) / NPE “Extraordinary write-downs for electric cars demanded” The National Platform for Electromobility (NPE) suggested in a progress report that achieving scale in the ...
13 Oct 2014
13 Oct 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv Der Spiegel “Energy transition: Gabriel to put more pressure on utilities” German Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel plans to put more pressure on utilities by taking 10 gigawatts of coal-fired power ...
06 Nov 2014
06 Nov 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv SolarServer “Survey: Energiewende little known in neighbouring countries, but support for goals” Public awareness of the Energiewende – or energy transition – among some of Germany’s immediate neighbours is low, ...
07 Nov 2014
07 Nov 2014, 00:00 Spiegel Online “Protest against climate policy: Greenpeace dumps 8 tonnes of coal in front of Gabriel’s ministry” Enivronmental group Greenpeace dumped eight tonnes of lignite coal in front of the German Economics Ministry on Thursday, ...
21 Oct 2014
21 Oct 2014, 00:00 Der Tagesspiegel "Greenpeace enters roof of Willy-Brandt-House" Activists from environmental campaign organisation Greenpeace have protested against the climate policy of German Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel at ...
26 Feb 2015
26 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Tagesspiegel “Energy Union: In concert, not solo” One of the main priorities of the EU Commission's Energy Union framework is the development of renewable energies – but the commissioners in ...
30 Sep 2014
30 Sep 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt / Die Welt Underground power lines costly, complicated alternative to pylons Laying underground power lines underground in order to avoid pylons is difficult, costly and requires extensive ...
17 Dec 2014, 00:00 The latest figures on Germany’s energy consumption and electricity generation for 2014 suggest that the country’s recent rise in greenhouse gas emissions could be coming to an end. Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 ...
04 Nov 2014
04 Nov 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Controversial power lines: Network operators want to considerably lengthen transmission routes” Germany’s four big electricity network operators want to expand new transmission lines that will ...
13 Jan 2015
13 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt/Süddeutsche Zeitung “’Elon’ und ‘Felix’ cost consumers millions”/ “Stormy times on the power market” Heavy winds from two low pressure systems created an enormous oversupply of wind power ...
28 Apr 2015
28 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv E.ON E.ON to move headquarters, founds "Uniper" Germany’s top utility E.ON announced details of its planned split into two companies, one focused on renewables, power grids and energy ...
06 Oct 2014
06 Oct 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv Der Spiegel “Expensive power in the south” Power prices in Germany may eventually be as much 10 percent higher in Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg if the two southern German states do not get access to cheap ...
05 Jan 2015
05 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Reuters “Gabriel pushes Bayern to decide on power network” Bavaria risks a weakening of its economy and higher electricity prices unless it agrees to the two planned power lines transporting wind ...
14 Nov 2014, 00:00 Even as critics claim wind turbines are ruining the view at Germany's tourist spots, some destinations are making green energy infrastructure a focal point for visitors. Expert German Tourism Association Deutscher Tourismusverband ...
10 Nov 2014
10 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Der Spiegel “Conflict between SPD ministers Gabriel and Hendricks puts climate action plan at risk” Fellow Social Democrats Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel and Environment Minister Barbara ...
23 Oct 2014
23 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Energy policy: backwards roll” It is not just Germany undertaking an energy transition, writes Cerstin Gammelin in an opinion piece for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, other European ...
30 Dec 2014
30 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel / BMUB “Germany produces fewer carbon emissions” Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions are likely to have fallen by three percent in 2014, according to Environment Minister ...
22 Oct 2014
22 Oct 2014, 00:00 Stuttgarter Zeitung "EnBW offers stakes in wind parks" German utility Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) is asking citizens to participate in the financing of wind parks after offering stakes in wind farms to local communities ...
07 Jun 2015, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel has voiced optimism that Germany can find a way to cut emissions from coal-fired power plants. Merkel, who seeks to convince other leaders of major industrialised countries to commit to ambitious climate action ...
08 Jun 2015, 00:00 G7 leaders made a commitment to limit global warming to 2 degrees at their meeting in southern Germany. In order to achieve this goal, the group of seven industrialised countries said they would push for a decarbonisation of the global ...
27 Oct 2014
27 Oct 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Eon and Vattenfall join forces in nuclear power lawsuit” German taxpayers may shoulder as much as 9 million euros in fees from a US lawsuit filed by Swedish energy group Vattenfall against ...
