15 Mar 2021, 13:38 Sören Amelang Mobility Cars dpa German transport minister Andreas Scheuer wants throw a lifeline to combustion engine cars by scaling up the use of synthetic fuels and fight more stringent EU emission rules. "Our target must be the ...
22 Aug 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Efficiency n-tv / 91tv Germany’s construction minister has opposed stricter energy efficiency requirements for new housing in order to boost the struggling sector. As Germany reaches ...
The German government tries to bring the headquarters of the envisaged European joint venture for battery cell production to Germany, a press release by Germany’s economy and energy ministry (BMWi) says. At a meeting of the European Battery Alliance in ...
13 Jul 2023, 13:40 Oil majors BP and TotalEnergies pledged to pay a combined 12.6 billion euros for the right to build wind farms in the North and Baltic seas in the world’s largest ever offshore wind auction. Environmentalists hailed the result as a ...
21 Jul 2023, 13:45 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Handelsblatt The slow development of Germany’s ...
25 May 2020, 12:40 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale ...
31 Aug 2023, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv German state subsidies are set to increase to 67 billion euros in 2024 from 38 billion euros in 2021, mainly driven by efforts to green the economy and the energy ...
The European Commission wants to exert stricter control over how car manufacturers determine the emissions of their cars, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. EU Commissioners suspect that carmakers have found a loophole in the Commission’s targets ...
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13 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Bundesregierung / dpa-AFX “Federal and state governments stall on green electricity reform” Chancellor Angela Merkel and the state premiers postponed a decision on contentious issues ...
04 Aug 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland / 91tv / Welt / BR The German nuclear power phase-out “will not be revised” as a result of the current gas supply crisis, the co-leader of the ...
29 Apr 2025
29 Apr 2025, 13:45 91tv Team Bloomberg: Spain slowly returning to normal after crippling blackout Spain and Portugal were returning to some semblance of normality early on 29 April, with many questions remaining about what caused one of Europe’s worst ...
22 Dec 2021, 13:50 Germany’s new government coalition is set to markedly strengthen the country’s European and international climate policy efforts and use the presidency of the G7 next year to advance the establishment of a global “climate club” and new ...
23 Apr 2025
23 Apr 2025, 10:57 91tv Team Reuters: German regulator plans to cut 1.5 billion euros of power grid fee costs Germany's energy grid regulator BNetzA said the payments are no longer necessary because green power has now reached such high volumes that ...
12 May 2020, 13:16 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Wind 91tv ...
Making electricity cheaper and heating and transport fuels more expensive would be a first step towards successful sector coupling in Germany, writes Stefan Schultz in an opinion piece for Spiegel Online. Renewables expansion costs for consumers would be ...
09 Aug 2021, 12:48 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:51 The German government has refused to sign on to a COP26 climate summit declaration on zero emissions cars and vans because the transport and environment ministries could not agree on whether to include e-fuels in the country’s ...
26 Apr 2023, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Renewables 91tv By mapping the areas in Germany where renewable power is likely to be distributed in the future, energy researchers hope to help transmission system operators (TSOs) plan a forward ...
12 May 2021, 13:53 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Technology Policy Handelsblatt German education and research minister Anja Karliczek is calling for immediate investment in research and development of technologies to remove CO2 from ...
27 Jan 2021, 13:29 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv The ...
16 Jun 2023, 13:45 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv The premiums for insuring residential buildings could double over the coming decade in the face of increasing damages caused by climate change, the German insurance ...
27 Nov 2020, 13:53 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Green stimulus 91tv The economic impact of the coronavirus crisis is pouring cold water on ...
23 Sep 2022, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics WirtschaftsWoche The energy crisis forces Germany to rapidly rearrange its energy policy plans and will make a faster coal phase-out by 2030 impossible, Stephan Weil, state premier of ...
03 Aug 2021, 14:52 Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics If they are part of a future government, the German Greens want to install a climate ministry that has the right to veto other ministry’s plans in case they are not compatible with the Paris ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:20 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv Achieving the 2030 and 2050 climate targets will benefit Germany’s economy, according to a multi-institute study commissioned by the environment ministry. ...
Germany's Council of State Governments (Bundesrat) has expressed fears that lignite mine operators have not set aside enough money to cover the future costs of decommissioning, demolishing, and renaturing mined land, spurring more widespread concern, ...
15 Oct 2021, 11:32 Edgar Meza Agriculture Bioenergy 91tv The German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) are increasingly relying on certified sustainable palm oil in its procurement of food as part of an effort to counter new rainforest destruction by ...
German energy company EWE AG wants to test using an underground gas storage cavern for storing hydrogen produced from wind and solar power, as the need for regular natural gas storage has declined over the past years – a trend that is bound to continue ...
The European Commission is calling on the German government to change aspects of its support scheme for combined heat and power (CHP) facilities to an auction-based system, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In the future, support for ...
28 Mar 2023, 11:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv The governments of Germany and the Netherlands have agreed on closer cooperation to connect their respective hydrogen pipeline networks in the future, they said in a joint statement. “We ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:36 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Energiewende ...
05 Apr 2019, 11:37 The head of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Conservatives has criticised a key proposal for reaching Germany's 2030 climate targets, signalling major negotiations are still needed before the highly anticipated Climate Action Law ...
14 Jul 2022, 13:15 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Transport Heating 91tv The government action programmes for bringing the high-emitting transport and buildings sectors back on their emission reduction trajectories, has been criticised for ...
19 Jul 2021, 13:35 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Germany should refurbish its ...
28 Nov 2014
28 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv RBB Info Interview with Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks With the Climate Action Programme, due to be passed by cabinet next week, Germany is on track to reach its greenhouse gas reduction ...
16 Dec 2021, 12:26 Julian Wettengel EU 91tv German politicians, NGOs and industry representatives have generally welcomed the second part of the European Commission’s “Fit for 55” package of energy and climate legislation, but criticised ...
04 Aug 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Süddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt / Zeit / FAZ German media commentators have taken a closer look at the Green Party’s climate action emergency programme for the first 100 ...
German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier and Maroš Šefčovič, vice President of the EU Commission and head of the "Energy Union" project, say Europe has to develop joint battery production capacities to ensure the continent retains its ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv Planned German state support will make a heat pump cheaper than a new gas boiler, even in comparatively energy-inefficient buildings, said environmental NGO WWF Germany. Consultancy firm ...
Most Germans say the costs for renewable energy expansion are not fairly distributed across the country, Thüringische Landeszeitung reports. A representative survey by pollster Kantar Emnid found 59 percent of respondents said the costs paid by power ...
15 Jul 2021, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt The rapid increase in e-car purchases in Germany and other countries could thwart existing calculations for the industry supply of lithium, a key raw material for the ...
01 Oct 2021, 12:51 Expert IG Metall-Industrial Union of Metalworkers IG Metall Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German government’s current hydrogen strategy is insufficient, according to the ...
05 Jun 2020, 13:22 Sven Egenter Cars Hydrogen Green stimulus Tageszeitung (taz) / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Süddeutsche Zeitung The German government’s decision to focus its 130 billion euro economic stimulus programme on future, more climate ...
25 Apr 2025
25 Apr 2025, 12:30 91tv Team Politico: German coalition member backs US easing Nord Stream sanctions in Russia peace talks One of Germany's leading Social Democrats said Thursday that a potential U.S. move to ease sanctions on Russian energy could be ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:24 Germany is starting a novel subsidy programme worth billions of euros in a bid to make its prized heavy industry climate neutral. Following a preparatory phase beginning in early June, the country plans to introduce so-called Carbon ...
Sweden’s Vattenfall has signed a supply contract with German carmaker BMW for batteries – normally used in BMW’s i3 – which the utility plans to use for storage projects in wind farms in Hamburg, near Amsterdam, and in Wales, Vattenfall said in a press ...
21 Apr 2023, 13:21 Sören Amelang Adaptation Policy 91tv Cities and municipalities must act urgently to better protect children against UV radiation, which is increasing as a result of climate change, Germany’s environment ministry and the ...
23 Apr 2021, 12:17 The governing coalition parties in German parliament have agreed on higher tender volumes for next year's wind and solar PV installations. But parliamentarians did not make headway on a new renewables target for 2030, which has ...
05 Nov 2024, 12:57 Expert BASE- Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management Bundesamt für die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung Nuclear phase-out Ruby Russel Nuclear phase-out 91tv / ARD The BGE (Federal Company for ...
Rail industry associations and key companies have presented their joint vision of a climate friendly, cost-effective regional rail transport of the future, so that it can “bid farewell to the diesel drive”, writes the transport alliance Allianz pro ...
Large-scale expansion of public transportation, integrated mobility concepts and charging infrastructure could offset job losses associated with a shift towards e-cars in Germany, Beate Willms writes in a commentary for taz. “Of course these jobs are ...
02 Jun 2022, 08:34 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Countries like Germany should endeavour to find new, additional sources of natural gas as they are trying to wean themselves off Russian supply, instead of crowding out weaker competition on the ...
14 Apr 2025, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Handelsblatt / ARD Railway and road infrastructure are priority areas for Germany’s major investment package for infrastructure and climate neutrality, the country’s chancellor-in ...
Germany’s biggest carmaker VW has proposed a European alliance for battery cell production to counter the current dominance of suppliers from East Asia, manager-magazin.de reports. It would be “desirable” that German and European industry actors stepped ...
The use of 930 terawatt-hours of renewable gases could provide enough flexibility to sustain a greenhouse-gas neutral energy system in Germany by 2050, a study by energy advisors (enervis) for the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) and the association ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:38 Sören Amelang Gas Heating Welt / 91tv / Zeit / taz Germany’s gas industry has welcomed the coalition government’s compromise on the transition to climate-friendly heating, while some media commentators and environmental ...
The governments of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, two of Germany’s northernmost federal states, have announced the goal to supply the region with 100 percent renewable power by 2035, reports Andreas Dey in Hamburger Abendblatt. Hamburg Mayor Peter ...
14 Mar 2023, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Zeit Online Germany’s buildings minister has promised social cushioning, sensible transition periods and technology openness on the path towards the decarbonisation of the heating sector. The law should allow ...
Modifying the power grid so that it can cater to an increasing number of electric cars will require investment to the tune of 11 billion euros by 2030, a study authored by the Munich-based consultancy TCW for ABB, a supplier of products and solutions for ...
03 Jun 2021, 12:16 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Climate Neutrality Foundation Stiftung Klimaneutralität Climate & CO2 Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Industry ...
15 Jun 2020, 08:46 The independent expert commission in charge of monitoring Germany's energy transition says the European Green Deal requires the country to do more to fight climate change. The government advisors say a quicker-than-planned coal ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar ZfK / Montel Cloudy weather conditions expected for the Easter weekend have alleviated fears by grid operators in Germany that a high supply of solar power during a period of low consumption could lead to ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:42 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Business Company climate claims 91tv Large food retailers in Germany have a long way to go to make good on their sustainability promises, according to a report by Dutch think tank Questionmark. ...
13 Aug 2020, 13:48 Germany’s government has set out to accelerate planning procedures for infrastructure projects linked to the energy transition with a focus on speeding up onshore wind power expansion in particular. Utilities welcomed the streamlining ...
08 Apr 2025
08 Apr 2025, 11:31 91tv Team Copernicus: Warmest March in Europe and lowest Arctic winter sea ice The average temperature over European land for March 2025 was 6.03°C, 2.41°C above the 1991-2020 average for March, making it the warmest March for Europe. ...
01 Nov 2017, 00:00 Germany is likely to miss several of its energy transition goals by 2020, including greenhouse gas and energy consumption reduction, writes an expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German Energiewende in a short ...
27 Nov 2020, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv / NDR The German parliament's budget committee has set aside 135 million euros for supporting the development of a liquid natural gas (LNG) tank vessel infrastructure. "This is how we ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Heating Elections & Politics 91tv / DW A large majority of German voters say that they do not feel well-informed about plans by the federal government to move to climate-friendly heating, shows a survey ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Cost & Prices 91tv / dpa A drop in energy prices has led to an overall reduction in production prices in Germany over the past twelve months, the country’s statistical office Destatis has ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:50 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Efficiency Heating Der Spiegel Gas boilers sold as "hydrogen ready" deceive consumers and are set to cost buyers dearly, according to German consumer organisations. Hydrogen produced with renewables will ...
28 Oct 2021, 14:34 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Grid 91tv Germany's existing power grid could handle much more electricity ...
15 Apr 2025
15 Apr 2025, 11:55 91tv Team Copernicus/WMO: European State of the Climate Report- 2024 warmest year on record During the year, there was a striking east-west contrast in climate conditions, with extremely dry and often record-warm conditions in the east, ...
09 Nov 2021, 12:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The possible next German government’s plans to dedicate two percent of the country’s land area to wind power generation will need to be backed by a wide range of additional activities to ensure ...
17 Apr 2025
17 Apr 2025, 11:28 91tv Team Euronews: "The West as we knew it no longer exists," von der Leyen argues amid Trump tensions "We don't have bros or oligarchs making the rules," European Commission head says in interview. Bloomberg: ...
29 Apr 2022, 13:15 Sören Amelang Coal Utilities 91tv / Handelsblatt A vast majority of RWE shareholders have rejected a request to force management to start preparations for a spinoff of the company's brown coal activities, but major ...
10 Aug 2023, 13:02 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions fell nine percent in the first half of the year as a weakening economy deflated energy use, according to an analysis by climate and energy ...
12 Dec 2019, 13:36 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Rose-Anne Clermont Transport Cars 91tv The National Platform Future of ...
29 Jun 2020, 13:06 Industry Handelsblatt Politicians must urgently implement EU-wide mechanisms that help Germany’s heavy industry to continue to be successful while transitioning to greenhouse gas neutrality, says Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Business & Jobs 91tv With a new factory for building electrolysers in Berlin, Germany’s Siemens Energy and France’s Air Liquide hope to lay the groundwork for a flourishing hydrogen economy in ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Aniket Narawad Electricity Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv / dpa Germany's net exports of electricity in the first half of this year were significantly lower than in the same period in 2022. The ...
The future design of the EU Emissions Trading System is of "existential importance" for the steel industry, according to the German Steel Industry Association (Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl). The association says in a press release that the ...
11 Oct 2023, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU 91tv France and Germany could soon agree on a reform of the EU electricity market, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz have said after their meeting in ...
03 May 2023, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Industry Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Reuters / Handelsblatt / Merkur German chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and finance minister Christian Lindner (FDP) have criticised plans by the economy ministry to subsidise ...
Solar power generation can play an important role in securing Afghanistan’s future energy supply, the German Solar Industry Association (BSW) says in a press release. Together with the Afghanistan Renewable Energy Union (AREU), the BSW studied the war ...
17 Jun 2021, 13:02 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Elections & Politics 91tv The possible impact of the next German government's climate policy is dividing the corporate sector into two equally strong camps, according to a survey of ...
By opposing stricter EU car emission limits, Germany’s government delays the transition to renewable mobility and risks isolating the country, according to Green MP and transport expert Cem Özdemir. “France, Denmark, Luxembourg and Netherlands have ...
Germany’s environment minister Barbara Hendricks regards the new US administration’s sceptical view of climate protection as a monition for Germany and Europe to foster international efforts to curb global emissions, Dana Heide writes in Handelsblatt. ...
04 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Europe must debate a framework to ramp-up a hydrogen economy on the continent as a key element of its move towards climate neutrality, said German energy industry association BDEW. “There ...
19 Nov 2021, 13:15 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Carbon removal Technology Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) technologies will be required on a large scale in a climate-neutral economy, but these only make sense in combination with direct air ...
03 Jun 2024, 13:33 Germany is still set to miss its emissions reduction targets until 2030 and lacks a real strategy for the years that follow, said the country's key government advisors on climate policy. Recent official projections – which had seen ...
18 Aug 2023, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Start-ups Business & Jobs 91tv / Die Welt A lack of skilled workers makes it increasingly difficult for German companies to bring innovative technologies and procedures to the market, according to ...
A coalition of German industry associations, together with the federal economy ministry (BMWi), is demanding changes in the European Commission’s plans to reform the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). The group wants to “find the balance between the two ...
21 Oct 2021, 13:24 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility 91tv / dpa Several environmental organisations are calling for an immediate end to short ...
More than 30 foundations from eight countries have initiated the Foundations Platform (F20) “to further shape the political discourse on future sustainability measures before, during and after the G20 summit” on 7-8 July in Hamburg. The goal is to ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Business & Jobs Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung French energy company TotalEnergies says it plans to stay on its expansion course in Germany, welcoming the CDU/CSU and SDP coalition deal that will continue ...
01 Jul 2015
01 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Dirty deal” At a high-level meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel tonight, the German government looks set to abandon plans for an additional levy on old coal-fired plants and instead adopt ...
14 Apr 2025, 13:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Technology 91tv Electric vehicles (EVs) tend to function more reliably and have fewer breakdowns than internal combustion engine cars (ICEs), the German Automobile Club (ADAC) has found in an ...
28 Apr 2025
28 Apr 2025, 13:45 91tv Team Euronews: Spain, Portugal and parts of France hit by massive power outage A nationwide power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday, leaving millions without electricity. Reports indicate issues with the European electric ...
German chancellor Angela Merkel wants to make battery cell production a “ strategic European development ”, she said during a speech at an event on e-mobility in Berlin. “Someone like me, who once studied physics, is incredibly sad that we cannot produce ...
11 May 2021, 13:30 Edgar Meza Industry 91tv The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) has opened a new research facility in the eastern state of Brandenburg that will focus on alternatives to fossil fuels as part of its efforts to decarbonise ...
28 Mar 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background, 91tv With the development of green hydrogen forming a key part of Germany’s energy transition, leading research institutions have thrown their support behind the idea of ...
29 Jul 2021, 13:35 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 91tv Germany’s environment ministry wants to start systematically collecting data about damage caused by climate change in a register, following the recent devastating floods that hit the ...
The need for reform in German energy policy is “piling up” under the current grand coalition government, said Oliver Krischer, deputy leader of the Greens parliamentary group in a plenary debate on the economy and energy budget for 2019. Economy minister ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:00 Strong popular demand for climate action and a push towards more energy autonomy in the wake of the war in Ukraine have led Hungary’s populist leader Viktor Orbán to describe himself as an advocate of climate-friendly power generation. ...
09 Apr 2025
09 Apr 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: German power prices to stay high as link to gas seen stronger Electricity prices in Germany will remain elevated as their link to natural gas is poised to strengthen over the coming years, analysts say. DPA: Trump ...
07 Nov 2023, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices ARD / 91tv The nationwide public transport ticket for Germany will still be available in 2024 but its monthly price may go up, the federal government and the country’s 16 states ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:45 Jennifer Collins Mobility Tagesspiegel Background Germany is set to open the way for bidirectional charging of electric vehicles, which enables car owners to both withdraw power from the grid and to supply it back when the car is idle, ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity 91tv German companies and public authorities should use a mix of renewables, battery storage, fuel cells and microgrids in the event of a power cut, the Federal Office of Civil Protection and ...
09 Feb 2023, 15:22 The spread of corporate net zero targets is starting to make itself felt across the world – not only among businesses, but also far beyond. An increasing number of companies have started to scan- and then reduce- the climate impact of ...
05 Apr 2023, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims 91tv Climate Action Germany (DUH) has won a lawsuit against TotalEnergies over “climate-neutral” and “CO2-compensated” heating oil claims, the environmental NGO announced. DHU had ...
11 May 2023, 13:11 Edgar Meza Policy Security Handelsblatt / 91tv Economy minister Robert Habeck has warned against over-reliance on China and called for the broadening of supply chains while reassessing “the opportunities and risks of our ...
German carmakers are the main culprits behind the problems with emissions, writes Nikolaus Doll in an opinion piece for Die Welt. “Not all, but important companies have lied, deceived and in the end will not manage to comply with the future limit,” Doll ...
Utilities should expand their product range beyond power, gas, water and heat to sell innovative services or even electric appliances, according to an online survey for the study “The future of energy: What consumers really want” by consultancy AXXCON. ...
16 Mar 2023, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility 91tv The number of e-bikes sold in Germany might overtake conventional bikes for the first time in 2023, cycling industry associations ZIV and VDZ said. Last year, almost every second bicycle sold ...
Climate policy must take into account all the affected people, empower them, hold those responsible for climate change accountable, and create both global and national prospects for the future, according to the German Advisory Council on Global Change ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal 91tv Limited capacity and environmental risks mean that carbon storage in the German North Sea should only be used for residual emissions that remain unavoidable, said ...
10 Oct 2023, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Handelsblatt / Süddeutsche Zeitung One day after being thrashed by voters in two state elections, the three parties of Germany’s federal government coalition went into damage ...
11 Apr 2025
11 Apr 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Politico: Friedrich Merz’s cabinet: Who will lead Germany’s key ministries? Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives and their Social Democratic Party (SPD) counterparts have struck a coalition deal, but party ...
16 Apr 2025, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Wind Handelsblatt The sweeping tariffs introduced by US president Donald Trump could lead to higher electricity prices around the world, said Hendrik Andersen, CEO of Danish wind turbine manufacturer ...
11 Apr 2025, 13:21 Joey Grostern Adaptation 91tv Topsoil across much of Germany is significantly drier than usual for the beginning of April which could impact crop yields, with some of the driest springtime conditions since records began, ...
14 Dec 2021, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Finance Government 91tv / FAZ / taz / Rheinische Post / Tagesspiegel Germany’s new government cabinet has passed a supplementary budget to boost the country’s climate and transformation fund with debt ...
25 Sep 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv Propelled by a rapid transformation in the heating sector, Germany’s demand for natural gas looks set to plummet by one third by 2030 and by another third in the following decade, consultancy ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:17 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 ...
07 Apr 2025, 13:15 Sören Amelang Transport Industry 91tv Climate-neutral industrial alcohol made with renewable electricity appears to be the most suitable synthetic fuel to decarbonise international shipping, researchers from the Institute ...
The software updates offered by VW for diesel cars affected by emissions manipulation are completely inadequate to reduce the vehicles’ pollution levels to below legal limits, according to Environmental Action Germany (DUH). “We don’t need ‘Mickey-Mouse ...
Carmakers should not count on combustion engine sales in Germany beyond 2030, according to Environment minister Barbara Hendricks. Even without a ban, the companies won't be able to find buyers for the technology in the future, Hendricks said at an ...
11 Jan 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Digitalisation Tagesspiegel Background A lack of IT specialists is becoming a cyber security risk for German energy industry companies, reports newsletter service Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity. “Electricity grid ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:41 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Edgar Meza Technology Society 91tv Despite the impact of the coronavirus crisis, 92 percent of German households continue to see ...
A majority of engineering companies believe the Energiewende is good for their own business and good for Germany as a business location, according to a poll by the German Engineering Federation (VDMA). Approval rates rose considerably last year, with 63 ...
12 Feb 2021, 13:54 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert IG Metall-Industrial Union of Metalworkers IG Metall Transport Business & Jobs Expert PIK- The ...
02 Apr 2025, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv Europe could reduce its spending on security and defence by cutting its reliance on fossil fuels – thereby starving Russia of funds from oil exports which are critical ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:31 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Wind Hydrogen 91tv Engineering conglomerate Siemens, oil giant Shell and German grid operator TenneT have called for stepping up the country’s plans to roll out offshore wind, in ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:41 Sören Amelang Adaptation Society Die Welt / Main Post One of Germany’s final traditional wooden sled manufacturers is halting production because of climate change, report ed daily paper Die Welt. “The fact that there is virtually no ...
06 Jul 2021, 13:01 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Edgar Meza Bioenergy 91tv The use of renewable biomethane is on the rise, resulting in increasing ...
Financial support for pv installations in Germany has fallen slightly for plants starting operation in the second quarter of 2017, the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) said in a press release. Remuneration for small pv plants fell from 12.30 to 12.27 cents ...
08 Sep 2022, 13:00 Products labelled as “climate neutral” deceive consumers and undermine progress in reducing emissions, argues Environmental Action Germany, an NGO specialising in fighting environmental cases in court. “They are totally ...
The planned construction of a second Baltic Sea natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, known as Nord Stream 2, is not necessary to secure natural gas supplies for Germany and Europe, according to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research ...
01 Apr 2025, 12:20 Edgar Meza Resources & Recycling 91tv / MDR / epd / Tagesspiegel Background UK mining and metals company Zinnwald Lithium could begin lithium mining operations in Germany’s Eastern Ore Mountains as soon as in 2030 in ...
31 Mar 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity 91tv Germany’s Federal Court of Auditors (BRH) has criticised the government for its “inadequate” management of the energy transition. In a new report, the BRH argues that the economy ministry ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Welt Online / WirtschaftsWoche / 91tv Citing high energy costs, too much bureaucracy and a lack of skilled workers, the heads of industry associations have warned of a bleak future for Germany if ...
State support for combined heat and power with a capacity of 1-50 megawatts that are used for self-consumption will be abolished, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. This would hit energy-intensive industries especially hard because ...
German utility innogy is well prepared for the time when a transition to electric drives gains momentum, the company’s CEO Peter Terium told the Süddeutsche Zeitung in an interview. “The future belongs to e-mobility, that’s clear. […] I believe that the ...
02 Apr 2025
02 Apr 2025, 11:06 91tv Team IEA: Promising new technologies face market uncertainty in pivotal moment for global energy innovation New IEA report highlights recent progress and emerging risks across the energy innovation landscape worldwide, with ...
Politicians and citizens in Saxony-Anhalt have discussed the future of the region after the closure of lignite mine Profen in 2035. Local politicians and business representatives are worried about the 3,000 employees that work for coal company Mibrag and ...
27 Mar 2023, 13:51 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv German revenue from the European and national emissions trading schemes could amount to 227 billion euros for the years 2021-2030, said researchers from the ...
31 Mar 2025, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Der Spiegel / Die Welt Germany’s carmakers have fallen behind competitors from Japan and the US in sales and profits throughout 2024, an analysis by consultancy EY has found. Volkswagen, ...
07 Apr 2025, 13:13 Sören Amelang Renewables Solar 91tv Following a rapid rise in household solar panel installations, Germany’s total number of PV arrays has passed the five million “milestone,” according to industry association BSW-Solar. ...
All German energy-related taxes and levies should be substituted by a national price on greenhouse gas emissions (CO₂ levy), which would increase continuously over the coming years, according to a proposal by the newly-founded association for a national ...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has grossly underestimated the growth of renewables in its influential World Energy Outlook (WEO) forecasts for political reasons in the past, green energy proponents have told the Deutsche Welle. “Fossil and nuclear ...
15 Oct 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Households in Germany face an abrupt rise in gas prices at the beginning of next year as grid fees increase in 2025, an analysis by price comparison website Verivox has found. ...
24 Apr 2025, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Solar Tagesspiegel The number of sunshine hours registered in Germany has constantly been on the rise over the past few decades, data by Germany’s Meteorological Service (DWD) has shown. Between 2011 ...
The Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) has called on the new German government to "reboot" financing of the energy transition. The costs of building up renewable capacity and updating the grid must be more fairly distributed, the ...
15 Oct 2024, 12:58 Jack McGovan Wind Cost & Prices taz The German Wind Energy Association (BWE) has proposed a statutory maximum limit on prices for land use among industry complaints that rents for wind farms continue to rise, newspaper Tageszeitung ...
15 Dec 2023, 11:31 Industry and grid investments must be at the heart of the follow-up to the landmark European Green Deal policy package after the 2024 EU elections, says Bas Eickhout, member of the European Parliament. The results of the vote will shape ...
11 Apr 2023, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 91tv Depending on federal state, German private households see differences of over a quarter in electricity consumption and costs, non-profit consultancy co2online found. While households ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:59 Poland is emerging from a long election cycle- from parliamentary elections last October that brought a change of government to local ballots in April, and finally the European Parliament elections earlier this month. All these bring ...
The unexpected deal between Germany’s two largest utilities E.ON and RWE to divide RWE’s spin-off innogy between them and focus on two different fields of the energy industry in the future is more than a mere reshuffling of Germany’s power market, Angela ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:50 Expert Federal Foreign Office Auswärtiges Amt International Security Climate & CO2 Security dpa / n-tv The United States has, for the moment, put a halt to Germany’s ambitions to set up a system to monitor climate change-related ...
14 Apr 2025
14 Apr 2025, 12:20 91tv Team UN: Countries reach historic deal to cut shipping emissions Under new system, ships exceeding emissions limits need to acquire remedial units to offset excess pollution. BBC: Race to keep furnaces burning at British Steel ...
23 Jun 2023, 13:13 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Technology 91tv Germany’s research ministry, which is led by the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), wants to accelerate research into nuclear fusion with a new funding programme. “The energy ...
Major German utilities E.ON and RWE, both highly indebted and struggling to adapt to the new energy environment, could see a positive turnaround, according to an article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Future growth could be spurred by rising ...
03 Apr 2025
03 Apr 2025, 10:35 91tv Team Reuters: Deutsche Bank-owned asset manager DWS fined €25 million for greenwashing German prosecutors have fined asset manager DWS 25 million euros after a lengthy probe found the firm guilty of greenwashing, or making ...
11 Feb 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Solar Business & Jobs dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Investors appear uninterested in the main factory of Germany’s formerly biggest solar panel manufacturer Solarworld, which filed for ...
14 Oct 2024, 14:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Resources & Recycling 91tv The expansion of Germany’s electricity grid in line with the growing share of renewable energy sources will require the build-up of greater national production ...
22 Oct 2020, 12:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Hydrogen Süddeutsche Zeitung The German car industry lobby group VDA and its biggest member, Volkswagen, are continuing their internal argument over whether combustion engines in passenger cars still have a future ...
The Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT) is set to test the storage of large amounts of power in Germany’s largest battery, the Fraunhofer ICT says on its website. A wind turbine with a capacity of 2 megawatt will feed electricity into the ...
04 Apr 2025
04 Apr 2025, 11:05 91tv Team NYTimes: Volkswagen to add ‘import fee’ to cars sold in US The company’s move is one of the first and clearest examples of automakers using price increases to deal with the 25 percent tariffs President Trump imposed on car and ...
Mining Union IG BCE, which represents many workers at car industry suppliers and is a fierce opponent of a quick coal exit, has called for a “future commission transport transition” shortly after the upcoming elections, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
25 Oct 2021, 13:37 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Coal dpa / Stern Germany's mining labour union and the premier of a lignite mining state have warned against speeding up the country's coal exit under a new government. In their current ...
03 Jun 2021, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Cars EU 91tv A ruling by the EU’s top court that Germany failed to clean up the air in several cities for years is a “slap in the face” for the government, said NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH). The ...
31 Mar 2025
31 Mar 2025, 13:48 91tv Team DLR: Harvesting the sun, protecting the vines – innovation for sustainable agriculture Agrivoltaic pilot project in Spain combines photovoltaics with sustainable, organic viticulture and improves water and energy efficiency. ...
10 Jun 2020, 16:10 Germany places a large bet on hydrogen produced using renewable energy in its highly anticipated national hydrogen strategy that serves to underpin the country's ambitions to become a global leader in the technology. The strategy ...
German carmakers are trying to prove they can re-invent the automobile, report Matthew Karnitschnig and Janosch Delcker in Politico. “With strong brands and deep pockets, German car companies argue they are perfectly placed to seize the opportunity to ...
13 Jul 2020, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices International Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The European Union should introduce a carbon border tax on imports as a source of income to finance the bloc's coronavirus recovery programmes ...
The natural resources Germany can use sustainably in 2018 have been consumed entirely as of 2 May, public broadcaster ARD reports, citing calculations by climate action organisation Global Footprint. The fact that the date was reached about one week later ...
Concrete measures to improve air quality in Germany’s most polluted cities are one of her new government’s first tasks, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Klaus Kleber in an interview with broadcaster ZDF. “The new transport minister – but I myself will ...
26 Feb 2021, 12:20 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Grid Renewables EU 91tv A largely CO2-free German and European power supply by 2050 with renewable energy as ...
The EU’s fleet emission limits for 2030 will have an effect similar to a quota for electric cars, according to Volkswagen. The new limits will be so low that carmakers could only reach them by selling a certain percentage of electric vehicles, said Stefan ...
16 Feb 2023, 13:10 Sören Amelang Cars DPA / Tagesspiegel The city of Hamburg is the first German state to ban new registrations of combustion engine taxis from 2025, reports newswire DPA in an article published in Tagesspiegel. "We hope that this ...
23 Jan 2020, 15:45 The expansion of offshore wind power capacity in Germany has exceeded that of onshore turbines for the first time ever last year. This is both due to a particularly bad year for onshore expansion and the increasing competitiveness of ...
Stefan Kapferer, managing director of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), has called on the German government to show “a clear commitment to gas” in the country’s energy supply system, writes Dagmar Dehmer in Tagesspiegel. The ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:32 As Germany strives for a renewable-driven power sector, regulators should enable a more flexible electricity demand, says Nicolas Leicht, energy market expert at Aurora Energy Research. Incentives such as locational price signals, as ...
Opposition to the planned Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 is growing as Denmark drafts a new law that would allow the government to prevent the construction on the country’s continental shelf, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
22 Jun 2020, 12:40 Edgar Meza Hydrogen dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s push for greater hydrogen use is gaining momentum. Some 50 representatives from business, science and government have come together to promote 25 projects in northern Germany that ...
17 Apr 2024, 13:30 The election victory of the pro-EU coalition led by former European Council president Donald Tusk in late 2023 stirred high hopes for the start of serious climate policies in Poland after an eight-year lull during the rule of the right ...
25 Mar 2025
25 Mar 2025, 11:25 91tv Team The Guardian: German parliament sits for first time with AfD as main opposition Germany’s new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday with the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) the strongest opposition faction, ...
14 Sep 2023, 13:36 Increasing international competition in the transition to a more sustainable economy will require tight-knit cooperation among EU countries and a tough stance on defending the bloc from unlawful trade subsidies abroad, the economy ...
Should the next German government decide to seek a coal exit, it must also care for the workers' and mining regions’ future, said Michael Vassiliadis, head of Germany’s largest mining trade union IG BCE and one of Germany's most prominent ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Water levels at Lake Constance are nearing a historic low point following a lack of rain and reduced snow meltwater coming from the Alps, reported public broadcaster ARD. While low water ...
27 Mar 2025, 10:12 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal Industry 91tv / Table Media [UPDATES article to include support for scheme in coalition talks.] The European Commission has approved a support scheme worth five billion euros to help ...
27 Mar 2025
27 Mar 2025, 12:11 91tv Team Bloomberg: Trump unveils 25% auto tariff, threatens new levies on allies The new tariffs, which will hit German automakers in particular, will take effect on 3 April — one day after a broader range of so-called reciprocal ...
19 Aug 2021, 13:35 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Manager magazine The German government has created a one billion euro fund to support the car industry's shift to low-emission mobility. A "future fund" earmarked for this purpose ...
27 Mar 2025, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility 91tv People in Germany's cities are completing more journeys by bicycle or foot, while the dominance of cars is decreasing, the latest 'Mobility in Germany ' report commissioned by ...
Carmakers in Germany need to embrace a global “disruptive” shift in mobility by adjusting their production to the looming dominance of e-cars, Peter Altmaier, Chief of the German Chancellery, said at the “ Agenda 2017 ” conference of Tagesspiegel in ...
08 Oct 2024, 13:41 Expert Federal Foreign Office Auswärtiges Amt International Security Julian Wettengel International Security 91tv The climate crisis is “the biggest security crisis of our time,” said German foreign minister Annalena ...
Remarks by China’s vice economy minister on banning combustion engines in the foreseeable future spell trouble for German carmakers like VW, Daimler and BMW, Max Hägler writes in an op-ed for Süddeutsche Zeitung. German carmakers are still struggling to ...
08 Oct 2024, 13:57 Aniket Narawad Storage Technology International 91tv Germany is set to join the Global Battery Alliance, chancellor Olaf Scholz announced at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference. Highlighting the critical role of batteries ...
This summer’s record-breaking temperatures and forest fires have demonstrated to the public the enormous threat climate change poses to humanity, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and co-author ...
04 May 2021, 12:08 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Clean Energy ...
Germany should follow the Swiss example and take a huge step towards future mobility with a policy offensive. This would include an all-encompassing mobility ticket covering all forms of public transport, as well as car- und bike-sharing, write Green ...
03 Apr 2025, 11:46 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Agriculture 91tv Regions in Poland, Belarus and Ukraine are at a high risk of experiencing a drought in 2025, as an "extremely dry" winter could not regenerate ...
The Paris Climate Agreement is unlikely to be the right way to reach the goal of limiting global warming, according to the federal economy ministry’s independent academic advisory board, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). In a ...
10 Sep 2020, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cost & Prices 91tv Energy market experts have debated the future design of offshore wind power auctions in Germany in a parliamentary hearing. Many have railed against the government's idea ...
02 Apr 2019, 09:50 The German government is examining the possibility of CO₂ pricing across economic sectors, according to media reports. Several newspapers report the chancellery has asked leading German research institutes to explore socially acceptable ...
26 May 2021, 10:29 The EU's bid for climate neutrality puts a big question mark over the future of generating electricity by incinerating waste. The fiercely disputed process emits CO2 and toxins, although its proponents point out that it prevents ...
19 Dec 2018, 13:49 EU institutions have agreed on new rules for the internal electricity market, including capacity mechanisms, coal subsidies, cross-border power flows and access for more market actors who are free to set their own prices. The German ...
16 Apr 2025, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 91tv Germany has seen its driest February to mid-April months since 1931, according to the country's meteorological service DWD. DWD recorded about 40 litres of rain per square ...
Utility Vattenfall wants to sell its Hamburg coal power plant Moorburg, according to a report by daily tageszeitung. Vattenfall CEO Magnus Hall did not rule out a sale within five years, as the company did not need Moorburg in the long term. A Vattenfall ...
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26 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: Vattenfall to build Germany's largest offshore wind farm Swedish power utility Vattenfall said it has made a final investment decision for two wind farm projects in the German North Sea, Nordlicht 1 and 2, the ...
13 Jan 2023, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv Germany is facing a severe skills shortage to key economic transformation efforts, in areas such as e-mobility and renewable energy, the Association of German Chambers of Industry ...
VW CEO Matthias Müller said the internal combustion engine “will continue to be needed in a transition period towards e-mobility”. Following talks with German environment minister Barbara Hendricks at his company’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, Müller said ...
05 May 2023, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Fossil gas use by private households, industry and power stations in Germany fell 23 percent in the second half of 2022, compared to the same period in the previous year, according to a report by ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:46 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany’s national weather service has said that the country should prepare for ...
17 May 2021, 09:59 Germany’s target of achieving greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045 has a very important sub-goal: The expansion of renewable energy capacity to provide green power for transport, heating and making hydrogen. But running such an integrated ...
06 Mar 2023, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Energiewende Security 91tv Germany will have to build new gas-fired power plants and introduce additional measures to avoid electricity supply shortages during peak demand periods as the ...
05 Jan 2024, 10:00 The German government must stop relying too much on giving out subsidies for climate action from 2024, and instead tackle the country’s system of fossil fuel taxes, says energy analyst Andreas Schröder from commodity intelligence ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:32 Edgar Meza Mobility Transport 91tv More than 25 percent of Germans have poor access to local public transport, according to a report by Greenpeace, which is calling on the government to improve the situation. Based on data ...
13 May 2020, 13:21 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Electricity market Grid 91tv Following severe ...
10 Jul 2023, 13:00 Germany is bracing for summer heat and drought, as temperatures across Europe reach record levels and the rest of the world faces unparalleled extreme weather events. With the first heat warnings, dropping water levels in major rivers, ...
11 Jan 2021, 12:51 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country’s 16 states and the federal parliamentary elections in autumn. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:24 Jennifer Collins Cars Business & Jobs Die Welt Every second e lectric car sold in Germany in the first quarter of 2025 was made by Vol kswagen, while two out of three newly register ed e-vehicles came from German manufacturers, ...
19 Mar 2025, 13:06 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Government n-tv There are not enough skilled workers to carry out infrastructure modernisation improvements set out in Germany's historic investment agreement, the Association of German ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv Germany announced an additional 84 million euros to support Pakistan as part of both countries’ climate partnership at an international conference, in the wake of ...
30 Sep 2024, 13:43 Sören Amelang Electricity Gas Cost & Prices 91tv German household gas prices remain around three quarters higher than before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. During the first half of this year, households paid 11.87 cents ...
In a guest commentary published by the business daily Handelsblatt, Franz Untersteller, environment minister of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, and Green member of the federal parliament Oliver Krischer call for a CO₂ price to be set for energy sources ...
German utility EnBW’s CEO, Frank Mastiaux, said a coal exit decided by Germany’s next government would “not be an existential problem" for the company. In an interview with Greenpeace Magazin, Mastiaux said his company had “already included” a ...
14 Apr 2025, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables RBB East German energy company LEAG plans to put a major lignite plant in partial reserve from May to September due to the projected high output of renewable power installations in that period, public ...
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20 Mar 2025, 14:00 91tv Team AP: Jury finds Greenpeace USA must pay over $660 million in case over Dakota Access protest activities NGO plans to appeal and had said earlier that a large award to the Texan pipeline company could threaten to bankrupt the ...
04 May 2021, 12:12 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Security Handelsblatt / 91tv German politicians have said that Ukraine could have “a key role” in Europe’s future supply with hydrogen, reports business daily Handelsblatt. Germany and Europe had ...
As Germany’s coal exit commission uses the summer to devise a plan for the end of coal-fired power production in the country, eastern German lignite mining company MIBRAG has welcomed its 1,000th trainee since the company was formed in 1995. “We need ...
20 Mar 2025, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Tagesspiegel / 91tv In the landmark climate litigation case brought by a Peruvian farmer against German energy company RWE, the judge responsible for the case at a German ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Handelsblatt German transport minister Volker Wissing has been accused of breaking the country's Climate Protection Act in an expert report, newspaper Handelsblatt reports. According to the report ...
23 Jan 2019, 17:36 Developed countries have the responsibility to establish “technologies from which others can benefit”, such as forms of renewable energy production, after they emitted a lot of CO₂ during the industrialisation, German Chancellor Angela ...
15 Sep 2020, 14:34 Coal Die Zeit Coal workers in the mining region of Lusatia in eastern Germany are preparing for an uncertain future as the country’s coal exit moves forward, writes Anna Saraste in Die Zeit. With a variety of operations in the area, ...
17 Jan 2023, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv Germany imported around 62 billion euros of Norwegian natural gas, oil and condensates in 2022 and has become the country’s number one goods importer, said the German-Norwegian chamber ...
23 May 2023, 13:44 Carolina Kyllmann Politics Society Tagesspiegel / 91tv Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz labelled the protest actions from climate activist group Last Generation, who glue themselves to artwork or roads, as “completely nutty ...
Germany’s largest industrial company Siemens has sent an unofficial working paper to members of the Green Party in which it calls for “an accelerated end of coal-fired power production” coupled with a European carbon floor price. In the four-page document ...
07 Mar 2023, 12:28 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Transport Company climate claims Welt Climate action is set to play an increasingly important role in the travel industry, according to the German Travel Association (DRV). “I'm sure the CO₂ footprint ...
27 Sep 2024, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv High temperatures pose an increasing health risk in Germany as climate change progresses and younger children are more likely to suffer, said a report by German health insurance ...
27 Apr 2021, 13:45 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Nuclear phase-out Finance ...
Two-thirds of employees in the German lignite sector are older than 45 years (2015 data), according to a report published by the Institute for Applied Ecology (Ökoinstitut) for the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Therefore, 63 percent of the employees ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:38 Edgar Meza Business 91tv The majority of Germany’s large companies expect that the transformation to a climate neutral economy will have no negative or even positive effects on their international competitiveness, and ...
19 Jul 2019, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Policy Rheinische Post The leader of the conservative CDU party’s parliamentary group, Ralph Brinkhaus, has called for “hundreds of billions of euros” to be invested in climate action over the next ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:46 Edgar Meza Industry EU 91tv Germany’s Institute for Economic Research (ifo) has urged the European Union to refrain from further debt-financed subsidies as a response to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). "The EU ...
16 Jul 2021, 13:04 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv International 91tv Germany and the U.S. have entered a partnership aimed at strengthening climate ambition and deepening the countries’ collaboration on policies and sustainable ...
03 Mar 2021, 12:20 Expert Ferdinand Dudenhöffer Professor and Director, Center for Automotive Research (CAR) Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv Germany should double the price for diesel and petrol fuel ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:30 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour ...
02 Mar 2023, 14:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices dpa / Handelsblatt The scooping up of windfall profits of energy companies in Germany should end by mid-2023, economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has said. The measure that ...
The Moorburg coal power plant in Hamburg wastes the energy equivalent of 36 tonnes of hard coal per hour during normal operation because environmental organisations and citizen initiatives prevent it from using waste heat for district heating, Olaf Preuß ...
19 Jul 2022, 14:23 Hannah Naylor Gas Hydrogen General Anzeiger Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pledged to assist Germany’s move towards independence from Russia by supplying natural gas and agreed on a green hydrogen partnership during a meeting ...
06 Jan 2023, 13:15 Sören Amelang Cars AFP / heise online The German government wants to stick to the development of synthetic fuels despite the planned phaseout of combustion engines at EU level by 2035. €1.9 billion have been earmarked to support the ...
German business association CDU Economic Council, associated with Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), called on Germany and the EU to work towards a global regime to reduce CO₂ emissions “like the ETS” (European Union Emissions Trading ...
24 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv As Germany’s hydrogen (H2) economy takes shape, a double supply gap is emerging in the country’s south, a report by consultancy PWC found. While the north is well positioned, the country’s ...
30 Jun 2021, 13:50 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & ...
In an effort to promote energy efficiency in the heating sector, the federal economy ministry (BMWi) today started two programmes to support highly efficient heating pumps and fuel-cell heaters, according to a press release. “We are bringing energy ...
Armin Laschet, state premier of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), has unsuccessfully called for the early shutdown of two nuclear reactors near the Belgian-German border in a meeting with Belgium’s Prime Minister Charles Michel, reports Moritz Küpper for ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Government International 91tv Several climate and environmental NGOs have called on the German government to step up its leadership efforts and remain a reliable climate protection advocate ahead of the ...
11 Nov 2020, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Freight Bayerischer Rundfunk / AFP / 91tv Germany’s transport minister Andreas Scheuer continues to pursue a ‘cash for clunkers’ scheme for old lorries. Since large lorries with alternative drive systems, ...
23 Sep 2024, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal G20 & G7 91tv The Group of Seven (G7) large industrial democracies can be a key forum for “pioneering new cooperation” on carbon dioxide removal (CDR), wrote researchers from Germany and ...
26 Jun 2020, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Tagesschau / Frankfurter Rundschau Shareholders of Germany's Lufthansa have accepted the conditions of a multi-billion euro bailout which gives the government a stake in the company and – according ...
26 Jul 2023, 13:36 The German government coalition has presented a long-expected update to its National Hydrogen Strategy with the aim of speeding up the development of a market for the fuel, which it sees as essential on the path to climate neutrality by ...
The demand for raw materials needed for the production of renewable energy sources, e-cars and other energy transition technologies could exceed supply by 2035, the German government says in its reply to a parliamentary inquiry filed by the Free Democrats ...
20 Jul 2021, 13:12 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Zeit Online Charging an electric vehicle at a public charging point can be significantly more expensive than doing it at home, Zeit Online writes. The price of electricity at a public charging station can be ...
25 Jun 2019, 13:42 Sören Amelang Cars Policy BR / Tagesspiegel Background A high-profile meeting between Chancellor Angela Merkel and car industry representatives has yielded few tangible results, according to media reports. The ’car summit‘ lasted more ...
03 Feb 2023, 13:36 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 91tv Solar PV expansion in Germany jumped ...
02 Jul 2021, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv The European Green Deal should be expanded to also include African states as partners in the bid to achieve a climate-friendly economic recovery after the downturn caused by the ...
Battery-powered urban buses will eventually replace combustion engines in Germany’s public transportation systems, writes Christoph M. Schwarzer in Die Zeit. He says they will be cleaner and become significantly cheaper in the near future. “Rapidly ...
04 Nov 2020, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Opposition parties in Germany have criticised energy minister Peter Altmaier for insisting that the country will consume less electricity in 2030 than it does today, ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Digitalisation Security Digitalisation offers an opportunity to make power grids more resilient during transition to renewable power sources but may also make the energy system more vulnerable, researchers of the tech ...
26 Jan 2023, 13:05 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Transport Cars 91tv Germany's strategy for transport infrastructure development is not oriented towards the country’s climate and environmental goals, according to an analysis conducted by ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:47 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Utilities 91tv More than two-thirds of municipal utilities in a survey by the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) consider the country's target to reach climate neutrality by 2045 ...
12 Mar 2025, 13:20 Edgar Meza Grid Society 91tv Berlin-based think tank Zukunft KlimaSozial has called for alternative methods to finance electricity grid expansion in Germany. The current financing of electricity grid expansion via grid fees ...
12 Oct 2021, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The reconstruction of villages destroyed in the extreme floods in western Germany in July does not adequately provide protection from similar events ...
Phasing out German lignite in the Lusatia region by 2030 can be financed by future owner EPH in a way that avoids a taxpayer-funded lignite bailout, according to a new report by Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). According to ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Hydrogen Deutsche Welle The German government wants to promote a culture of innovation to develop CO₂-neutral aviation, reports Deutsche Welle. "We want to make Germany a leading ...
09 Jul 2020, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics tageszeitung (taz) Chancellor Angela Merkel must now walk the walk when it comes to making sure climate action “tops” the German EU Council presidency agenda and ensuring that ...
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24 Mar 2025, 12:30 91tv Team IEA: Growth in global energy demand surged in 2024 to almost twice its recent average IEA’s Global Energy Review is the first global assessment of 2024 trends across the energy sector. Based on the most recent data, it covers ...
26 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating Spiegel / 91tv The sale of German heat pump manufacturer Viessmann to U.S. air conditioner maker Carrier Global has sparked fears amongst German trade unionists and politicians over the ...
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04 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Federal Network Agency / TenneT New law on underground cables in the transmission grid German parliament has passed a law detailing that new direct current transmission lines will be put underground – this will be ...
13 May 2019, 14:14 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 91tv Two weeks before the European Parliament elections, German voters have said that climate and environment protection are the biggest challenges for the future of the European Union, a ...
20 Jan 2021, 13:27 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv ...
16 Feb 2018, 00:00 A group of energy transition researchers will present their findings on the transformation of the German energy system at the world’s largest general scientific conference organised by the American Association for the Advancement of ...
03 Nov 2022, 13:10 Boasting about “climate neutral” products or vague plans to become “net zero” is turning into a legal risk for companies, as activists drag firms into courts over deceiving consumers with questionable climate pledges. A raft of landmark ...
The Green Party is “still ready for talks” on becoming part of a possible government coalition in Germany, the party’s parliamentary group co-leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt has said in an interview with Welt Online. She said that her party would be ready ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:52 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Hydrogen Die Welt German car industry heavyweights Volkswagen and Bosch are at odds over the use of hydrogen in mobility, with the world's largest carmaker clinging to a ...
18 Mar 2025
18 Mar 2025, 12:02 91tv Team BETD: German government hosts 11th Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue Event brings together representatives from over 130 countries to discuss the financing and roll-out of the global energy transition. S&P Global: Gascade ...
15 Apr 2021, 14:13 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Mobility 91tv A broad alliance of labour unions, environmental and social organisations, as well as the protestant church, has called on the German government to speed up the transition ...
30 Jun 2021, 14:52 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Driven by the rise in European carbon prices, electricity prices in Germany are climbing, shaking the confidence among industrial companies after a year and a half of the pandemic, ...
25 Aug 2022, 13:32 Sören Amelang Bioenergy 91tv Germany is betting on more biogas production in order to save natural gas with a view to possible shortages during the winter. The government will remove regulatory hurdles to an increase of ...
06 Jun 2019, 17:11 Germany continues to be off track regarding many of its energy and climate targets according to the economy ministry’s latest progress report on the energy transition. In an accompanying opinion, government advisors lament that the ...
19 Sep 2022, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Cars Handelsblatt The boom of battery electric cars could face a significant hurdle next year as rising power prices and the end to state support could eat up cost advantages compared to combustion engine vehicles, ...
06 Apr 2023, 13:42 Sören Amelang Company climate claims 91tv Following growing criticism and a wave of court cases against product labels promising climate neutrality, German certifier ClimatePartner is withdrawing its ‘carbon neutral’ label. ...
02 Aug 2017
02 Aug 2017, 00:00 German carmakers have pledged to update the software in some 5 million diesel cars to lower emissions at the so-called "diesel summit", where leaders of the industry met with federal ministers and heads of federal states. ...
05 Nov 2019, 14:43 The German government believes hydrogen is key not only for a successful energy transition, but also for the future of the country's famed industry. This is why Germany must beat Asian countries – in particular China and Japan – to ...
14 Mar 2025
14 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Economist: Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany? Bombshell fiscal package—currently under negotiation—represents more than just the start of deficit spending on defence. It is the beginning of a new European growth ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:15 10 years after the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima that prompted Germany to confirm its prior nuclear phase-out decision, the environment ministry has published further steps necessary to reduce nuclear risk, including the use of nuclear ...
Federal Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel is against establishing a commission to set a date on the phase-out of coal in Germany. Gabriel objected to the proposed commission as it would not address the situation of coal sector workers, saying it was ...
02 Jul 2020, 13:03 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Gas Hydrogen Clean ...
The co-chairman of Germany’s Green Party, Robert Habeck, says a sweeping reform of taxes and levies for renewables and other energy sources is needed to make clean energy production cheaper vis-à-vis carbon-intensive sources, the Lübecker Nachrichten ...
18 Jan 2023, 12:59 Carolina Kyllmann Government Handelsblatt The conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group opposition is calling on the German government to accelerate planning and approval procedures and greater investment in the expansion of ...
Michael Liebreich, founder of renewable energy research organisation Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), has called the zero-support bid in German offshore wind power auctions “ a risky and brave move.” Successful bidders EnBW and Dong Energy were ...
05 Jun 2020, 13:07 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Green stimulus Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The heads of state of Germany, Austria and Switzerland have warned against neglecting climate protection during the pandemic and urged an economic restart with ...
18 Mar 2025, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Security 91tv / rbb Germany’s outgoing economy minister, Robert Habeck from the Green Party, has warned that the next government must not create new energy dependencies and should instead ...
By 28 March Germany had already used up its annual CO₂ budget for 2018, one week earlier than last year, according to the natural gas industry initiative Zukunft Erdgas. “The reason for this is the climate strategy of the government, where the measures ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:09 Sven Egenter Climate & CO2 Technology Handelsblatt The European Union should make the fight against climate change one of its top priorities and turn such leadership into an economic opportunity, the head of German engineering ...
Electric car batteries could become twice as efficient as they currently are by 2025, researcher Martin Winter of the University of Münster says in an article written by Jürgen Pander on Spiegel Online. This means that e-cars could soon have a standard ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:12 Jack McGovan Renewables Business & Jobs 91tv The proportion of advertised jobs related to the energy transition rose from 1.8 to 3.8 percent between 2019 and 2024 in Germany despite multiple economic crises during that ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:53 Jessica Bateman Gas Society Süddeutsche Zeitung Local activists in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein are protesting the government’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure construction plans, newspaper Süddeutsche ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Industry FAZ / 91tv The German government is continuing its push for carbon capture and storage technologies with the draft of its planned Carbon Management Strategy, reported Frankfurter ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:44 Jack McGovan Transport 91tv / Spiegel Air taxis and other electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) are not useful mass transport technologies for the energy transition, according to a report by the Leibniz ...
05 Feb 2020, 13:20 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Industry Clean ...
German utility EnBW reports a 1.8 billion euros net loss after already fully incorporating in the 2016 financial statements an expected payment of 4.7 billion euros into the country’s nuclear clean-up fund. “Due to the law of reorganising responsibility ...
18 Mar 2025, 13:57 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 International 91tv / ZDF A landmark court hearing initiated by a Peruvian farmer and ...
Allianz Leben, the life insurance arm of Allianz in Germany, is ensuring the sustainability of its investments by using a scoring system developed in cooperation with NGOs, the company announced in a press release. "We want to invest in sound, future ...
05 Mar 2025
05 Mar 2025, 11:25 91tv Team European Commission boosts European automotive industry's global competitiveness As part of an action plan for the sector, the Commission proposed to weaken CO2 limit rules for carmakers. Bloomberg: Europe’s EV market ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Industry International energate messenger / Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv German energy and industry representatives have expressed concern over the new tariff announcements by US president Donald Trump, ...
10 Aug 2023, 14:20 Nearly halfway through its four-year term, Germany’s government faces increasing public discontent over its switch from two years of energy crisis management to controversial climate policies. The coalition government of the Social ...
13 Mar 2025
13 Mar 2025, 12:02 91tv Team Reuters: German parliament debates borrowing bonanza as clock ticks down Germany's outgoing lower house of parliament began a special session on Thursday (13 March) to debate a 500 billion euro fund for infrastructure and ...
09 Sep 2024, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics ntv / 91tv The industrial jobs that will be lost due to the end of coal-fired power production in Germany’s eastern mining region Lusatia have already been replaced by new ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:28 Expert BVG- German Geothermal Association Bundesverband Geothermie e.V. Renewables Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Renewables 91tv Germany needs a masterplan for deep geothermal energy in order to reap the technology' ...
The German government is considering providing financial support to the construction of what would be the country’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, according to spokesperson Steffen Seibert. While private investors are currently examining ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Energy prices for German households have dropped markedly in early 2023 but remain at a high level overall since the start of the energy crisis, price comparison website Check24 ...
07 Feb 2019, 13:37 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Utilities Bloomberg The push to scrap the use of coal as a power generation fuel by Germany and other European countries could make Finnish energy company Fortum think twice before launching a bid ...
07 Mar 2025
07 Mar 2025, 11:28 91tv Team Politico: Germany’s Merz has 2 weeks to deliver historic spending revolution Losing faith in Washington as a military ally, Berlin wants to rip up the old fiscal orthodoxy. But it’s now a race against the clock. DW: Peruvian ...
05 Mar 2025, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The German offshore wind power industry has proposed a range of measures for the country’s next government that could set off “a Germany-wide economic miracle at sea” by boosting the output of ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background Green parliamentary group head Katrin Göring-Eckardt has called for an ecologic stimulus package as news of Germany's economy shrinking in the second ...
01 Apr 2025, 12:50 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Germany is already experiencing the consequences of climate change and undergoing accelerated warming, according to a report by the country’s National Meteorological Service (DWD). The DWD ...
04 Mar 2025, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Heating Elections & Politics 91tv Germany’s next coalition government should push to decarbonise the country’s heating systems, said a wide alliance of sector associations in a joint appeal. The ...
07 Mar 2025, 15:00 Winter may finally be on the way out but Italy is still grappling with high electricity prices, with average wholesale prices in February among the highest in Europe. Under increasing pressure to halt further rises, the government ...
27 Sep 2021, 09:30 Germany is heading towards a three-party federal government with a significant climate action focus as the Social Democrats scored a thin victory in the federal elections following an unexpected comeback, and the long-ruling ...
16 Feb 2023, 13:27 Sören Amelang Adaptation 91tv Building construction on land at high risk of flooding is continuing apace in Germany and must stop, the country’s insurers have warned. "Only climate-adapted construction can reduce the ...
23 Jun 2023, 13:11 Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background / Handelsblatt / pv magazine Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck announced there will be new government funding to rebuild the country’s solar industry, ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:30 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables ...
Audi, BMW, and Daimler hit the bull’s eye by managing to enlist Intel and Asian investors for their mapping service HERE, which is central to their autonomous driving ambitions, writes Michael Kröger for Spiegel Online. “For the German makers of premium ...
05 Nov 2020, 14:17 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture 91tv German farmers have understood the need for making agriculture more sustainable and integrate food production in ...
A reform of Germany’s system to finance the country’s Energiewende is needed to distribute costs more fairly and push renewable electricity use in heating and transport, writes a cross-sector alliance of associations in a joint statement. In comparison to ...
In this year’s second auction of onshore wind power capacity, not enough bids were submitted to cover the 670 megawatts (MW) on offer, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) says in a press release. “The moderate undersubscription of an auction confirms a ...
18 Mar 2020, 13:45 Freja Eriksen Utilities 91tv / taz Eight European financial institutions have criticised the Finnish state-owned utility Fortum for endorsing the opening of the German coal-fired Datteln 4 power plant, set to be the last ...
28 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025, 11:48 91tv Team Bloomberg: Porsche has nowhere to hide as Trump unleashes next tariff wave While Mercedes and BMW have some flexibility due to factories in the US, Porsche has no plants in North America. Bloomberg: German minister says Trump ...
31 Jan 2023, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv At his first meeting with the newly elected Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, German chancellor Olaf Scholz has focused on joint efforts to protect the ...
04 Sep 2024, 13:49 Jennifer Collins Storage Cars Table.Media / Focus The German government is opposing new draft EU rules that could make it more difficult for battery production factories to scale up in the country, according to a letter to the EU ...
19 Jul 2019, 13:56 Freja Eriksen Storage Hydrogen Technology 91tv Hydrogen projects are one of the key themes of 20 test projects selected for funding by the German government. Germany ultimately plans to put 100 million euros per year into ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:50 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Stuttgarter Nachrichten / 91tv Regional transmission system operator Terranets bw in Baden ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Grid Renewables 91tv Dividing Germany’s single power price zone into several individual regions could reduce final electricity prices for consumers across the country, said a report by ...
27 Apr 2021, 13:48 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator ...
06 Jan 2023, 13:13 Sören Amelang Transport dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung An increasing number of cruise ships have switched their propellant from liquefied natural gas (LNG) to diesel fuel because of high LNG prices, reports newswire dpa in an article ...
01 Nov 2019, 13:29 Germany can become largely carbon-neutral by the middle of the century at tolerable cost by overhauling its entire economy, but in order to do so must specify its 2050 emissions target as soon as possible, according to a study by ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:15 The two most influential members of the EU, Germany and France, agree on the urgent need to jointly decarbonise Europe’s energy system and put supply security on a safer footing after the tumultuous energy crisis year 2022. Russia’s war ...
Germany’s buyer’s premium for e-cars is obstructing energy transition in the transportation sector, as it fosters the sale of private cars rather than sustainable mobility concepts, a study commissioned by Greenpeace has found. In order to ensure that e ...
04 Oct 2019, 13:42 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German steel industry should receive billions in ...
20 Oct 2020, 12:34 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Wind Handelsblatt German electricity transmission grid operator 50Hertz wants to see a more aggressive expansion of wind power in the Baltic Sea than currently ...
Cities play a vital role in the implementation of the Paris climate accord, Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, writes in an opinion piece in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. By ...
17 Dec 2020, 14:08 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv Clarification: The analysis is by BCG, the comments on the study by Stiebel Eltron. The German government's "unpredictable" climate policy leads to ...
28 Apr 2020, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Osnabrücker Zeitung / taz / RND The coronavirus crisis recovery programmes being worked out all over the world present a “great opportunity” to push climate action, the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung's Uwe ...
02 Sep 2024, 13:26 Jennifer Collins Transport dpa Electric scooter schemes are seen as a scourge in many cities, with Paris even banning them, but in Germany demand for vehicles is growing, according to Plattform Shared Mobility, an association that ...
The diesel summit is “a beacon of Germany’s lack of digitality” and shows that the country tends to place too much value on improving instead of renewing, writes Sascha Lobo in an article for his column on Spiegel Online. “It is not about the car of the ...
05 Oct 2018, 17:00 Clearing operations at the embattled Hambach Forest to make way for a coal mine have to be halted to decide whether the forest is protected by EU environmental rules, a German court has decided. The judges said energy company RWE did ...
13 Nov 2020, 14:53 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG Government pv magazine / 91tv The German government this week rejected a range of changes to the draft reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), which had been proposed by the the ...
28 May 2021, 13:46 Charlotte Nijhuis Business International Tagesschau / Wirtschaftswoche The German government has come to an agreement on the supply chain law, which aims to ensure human rights and the protection of the environment in production along ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:21 Julian Wettengel EU Politico / 91tv / Reuters The European Union as a business location is set to profit from additional infrastructure investments planned by the likely next German government, Philipp Jäger of the Jacques ...
23 May 2023, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The buildout of onshore wind power in Germany can be doubled in 2023 with respect to the previous year and set the country on track towards its ambitious renewable power goals, economy ...
06 Jan 2017, 00:00 Germany’s Energiewende – the country’s double shift to a low-carbon and nuclear-free economy – yielded mixed results in the past year, according to an analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende. Thanks to a partial switch from ...
10 Mar 2025
10 Mar 2025, 11:30 91tv Team E3G: Europe’s competitiveness push and what it means for climate action In its first 100 days, the European Commission has put into motion a series of flagship plans intended to boost the EU’s economy in difficult times. So ...
04 Mar 2025, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv Following a 27 percent reduction in sales of new battery electric cars (BEV) in Germany in 2024, a total of 1.65 million BEVs were registered in the country by 1 January 2025, showed existing ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating Handelsblatt / 91tv Chemicals company BASF has started tests in the depths of the Upper Rhine Plain to explore the potential of using geothermal energy, business daily Handelsblatt ...
30 Aug 2024, 12:42 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Joey Grostern Adaptation Cities 91tv Campaigners from the NGOs German Environmental Aid (DUH) and German Children’s Aid (DKHW) have ...
16 Dec 2020, 15:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars electrive.net / Der Spiegel Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess has prevailed in an internal power struggle at Germany's largest carmaker, allowing him to pursue the company's ambitious e-mobility agenda as ...
13 Jun 2019, 13:40 Sören Amelang Transport 91tv Marking “groundbreaking progress,” a German pilot project has made kerosene using concentrated sunlight, water and CO2 for the first time, according to the German Aerospace Center (DLR), which ...
26 Mar 2015
26 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue Ministers and energy experts meet at international energy conference in Berlin Under the slogan “towards a global Energiewende” the first Energy Transition ...
08 Dec 2022, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background The German state acted as a “de facto speculator” by supplying state funds and instructing Trading Hub Europe (THE) earlier this year to buy gas to fill the country’s storages quickly, ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:23 Julian Wettengel International 91tv / Reuters The German state secretary Jochen Flasbarth has said the government regretted the U.S. withdrawal from international partnerships to support major global polluters’ socially ...
25 Apr 2023, 13:43 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany must avoid building too many new gas power plants in the country’s efforts to secure electricity supply at times of little wind or sunshine, said renewables association BEE during an online ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:44 Edgar Meza Industry Policy EU 91tv Expectations among industrial players and environmental NGOs are high for the EU’s highly anticipated Clean Industrial Deal, a follow-up to the European Green Deal that aims to build on ...
The members of the German government disagree over the country’s position on future EU car emission limits, according to media reports. The ministries of economic affairs and transport both reject the environment ministry’s call for more ambitious targets ...
29 Aug 2024, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv Insurance companies expect damages from extreme weather events in Germany to amount to at least seven billion euros by the end of 2024 and are calling on the government to ...
Russia will continue to be an important trading partner also in a future that gradually substitutes fossil energy sources with renewables, Germany’s economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said at a the German-Russian Resource Conference in Potsdam ...
In a new analysis, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) looks at how different types of renewables support regimes can effectively keep costs low for transforming the energy system. Uncertainty about future power prices is now the main risk ...
28 Oct 2022, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Wind 91tv Long approval procedures and insufficient land designation mean the expansion of wind power capacity across Germany is too slow to meet climate targets, a report by the federal and state ...
The German Solar Association (BSW) and the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) “regard the first joint auction [for onshore wind and solar power] as a failure,” and call for separate auctions to be held in the future, the two organisations write in a ...
28 Aug 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv / RBB / NDR A court in Germany has imposed a nearly two-year sentence for a road block climate protest by the activist group Last Generation (Letzte Generation). The local ...
28 Aug 2024, 13:58 Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Technology 91tv Lightweight construction that reduces emissions in the different sectors contributes up to four percent of German total economic output, says a report by the economy ministry ...
21 Jun 2021, 12:25 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics Spiegel, Tagesspiegel Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU)/Christian Social Union (CSU) alliance is set to name few climate policy details in its joint election ...
13 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) State secretary Baake says Germany must stop registering fossil fuel vehicles by 2030 At a panel discussion Tuesday, ...
20 Mar 2023, 12:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society ZDF / 91tv Several German cities are considering, or are already brokering, deals with climate activists from the group Last Generation to end their disruptive protests in ...
10 May 2024, 15:00 Poland saw a change in power last autumn when a pro-EU coalition led by former European Council president Donald Tusk took over after eight years of rule by the right-wing populist Law and Justice party (PiS). Since then, however, the ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Policy Oldenburger Onlinezeitung / Die Welt / RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland The suggestion by Saxony's state premier Michael Kretschmer that Germany should keep the door open for future uses of ...
19 Mar 2025
19 Mar 2025, 10:40 91tv Team Reuters: Germany's energy use dropped 1.1% in 2024, AGEB says Germany's energy use dropped 1.1 percent in 2024 on mild weather and a weak economy, but the decline slowed its pace after an 8 percent drop in 2023 ...
16 Jan 2020, 13:14 Freja Eriksen Energiewende 91tv Only a mix of centralised and decentralised technologies can make German energy supply "climate-friendly, secure and affordable," say researchers from three of the country's ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Energy sector experts as well as industry representatives have warned that a shortage of constantly available electricity capacity could lead to new short-lived but ...
22 Feb 2021, 12:29 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Cars Handelsblatt / Financial Times German carmaker Daimler is considering an earlier end to the combustion engine for its Mercedes brand than the currently envisaged ...
Many companies in Germany have understood that a more sustainable way of making business will dominate the economy of the future, Green politician Julia Verlinden writes in a guest commentarty in the Frankfurter Rundschau. But some of the country’s ...
The federal government will demand at the diesel summit on Wednesday that German carmakers pay for software updates for Euro-5 and Euro-6 diesel cars, according to the draft for the final summit statement, reports Daniel Delhaes in Handelsblatt. It will ...
28 Oct 2021, 13:37 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas 91tv / EurActiv Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Olaf Scholz (SPD) has re-iterated that the country must build new gas-fired power plants to complement renewables and guarantee ...
08 Aug 2019, 13:53 Sören Amelang Storage Cars 91tv Continental, one of Europe's largest automotive suppliers, is increasing e-mobility investments but has decided against entering battery cell production. “The future is clearly electric. ...
13 Oct 2022, 13:30 Edgar Meza Digitalisation 91tv The green and digital transition in the European Union will further widen the gap between major cities and high-tech regions on one side and rural areas and regions with CO2-intensive industry ...
22 Dec 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza Society Government Süddeutsche Zeitung German Green Party co-leader Ricarda Lang has welcomed criticism from climate activists about the government coalition's climate policies in its first year in office, saying their ...
11 Feb 2021, 13:29 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv In ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:36 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU Münchner Merkur Europe's largest car brand Volkswagen will end the sale of combustion engine cars in the region by the middle of the next decade, branch manager Klaus ...
21 Feb 2025, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Carbon removal EU 91tv EU scientific advisors have called for a rapid scale-up of methods to take CO2 out of the atmosphere. Both nature-based carbon removal solutions, such as plants, and modern ...
21 Feb 2025, 15:00 Croatia is exploring the possibility of constructing small modular nuclear reactors, a technology not yet commercially available. The economy ministry has set up a taskforce to investigate possibilities and locations, as well as ...
23 Jan 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv Germany and France have reiterated their wish to work together on the energy transition, technological sovereignty, supporting industry in the transition to climate neutrality and ...
15 Jul 2021, 14:02 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU taz / FAZ / Volksstimme The European Commission’s legislative proposals to reach the new 2030 climate target have elicited mixed reactions from German media. The farewell to the conventional ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:16 Bennet Ribbeck Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv Progress of German energy transition continues to be mostly stagnating, a report by research centre Prognos carried out on behalf of the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) said ...
The maximum support rate for onshore wind power installations in Germany’s renewables auctions scheme has been raised to 6.3 cents per kilowatt hour to ensure competition among bidders and a continuous expansion of the energy source, the Federal Grid ...
04 Jan 2023, 13:39 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Süddeutsche Zeitung German transport minister Volker Wissing has triggered a fresh debate over the government decision to switch off the country’s remaining nuclear plants ...
15 Mar 2019, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Energy company RWE has substantiated its claims for a high compensation for the decommissioning of its coal power capacity, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ...
27 Feb 2025, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Heating Handelsblatt / 91tv Germany could continue to emit greenhouse gases past its 2045 deadline to become climate neutral, with Norwegian certification company DNV forecasting emission ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Cars Financial Times The German state of Saarland, home to major suppliers for combustion engine cars, shows the vulnerability of the country’s car industry in a future driven by all-electric vehicles, report Guy Chazan ...
19 Aug 2024, 13:26 Germany's coalition government has agreed a draft federal budget for 2025, which cuts funds earmarked for climate action and has come under fire for what researchers criticise as "optimistic assumptions without secure ...
09 Nov 2020, 13:14 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Kerstine Appunn Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany should not solely ...
03 Feb 2021, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany's coal plants provided the bulk of the country’s power consumption amid a period of cloudy short days and little wind in early January, foreshadowing the ...
29 May 2019, 12:15 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
13 Nov 2019, 12:01 Freja Eriksen Gas Finance Der Tagesspiegel / Euractiv Former secretary-general of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has called on the German government to back the proposal to ban all fossil fuels projects, including natural gas, from ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:56 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv The hasty buildout of Germany’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) import infrastructure is turning into a ...
Germany’s transport minister Alexander Dobrindt told magazine Focus that the Green Party’s plan to end the production of combustion engines by 2030 was “utter nonsense” because it would massively cost jobs in Germany’s core industrial sector. Organising ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:35 Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Freight taz The EU’s first-ever emission standards for trucks and buses, announced this week, are not enough for real climate protection, writes Bernhard Pötter in a commentary for the daily ...
10 Oct 2019, 13:56 Germany’s economy minister Peter Altmaier has said that hydrogen will be a key element of the country’s future energy system, as a zero-carbon or carbon-neutral energy source. However, natural gas would play a significant role over the ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Gas Grid Hydrogen Technology 91tv Renewables-based gases such as hydrogen and synthetic methane will be increasingly important for Germany’s to reach climate targets, say gas transmission grid operators ...
Germany could import liquefied natural gas (LNG) via its neighbouring countries, but this depends on the wholesale market prices of both LNG and pipeline gas, said Stefan Kapferer, head of utilities association BDEW, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ...
The world’s largest supplier of diesel technology Bosch will build a new chip factory for around one billion euros to produce future mobility technology in Germany, writes Susanne Preuß in a commentary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “The new ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Hydrogen 91tv The national infrastructure for producing and using green hydrogen in Germany is beginning to take shape, as the government seeks to support market scale-up for the renewable fuel. ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Digitalisation Der Spiegel Almost 500 of the 879 companies that operate metering points in Germany are still to install their first smart meter, news magazine Der Spiegel reported. The Federal Network ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:30 Germany's environment ministry has warned that climate-neutral fuels made with renewables must not become an excuse for neglecting the domestic roll-out of renewables, increasing efficiency and other efforts to cut emissions. " ...
The parties negotiating a new grand coalition government in Berlin seem to prefer to delegate important climate policy decisions – such as finding a date for a coal exit – to a future commission, rather than taking on the responsibility themselves, writes ...
08 Feb 2019, 14:10 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The contentious Russian-German gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 is a political issue – contrary to what some German industry representatives say – and ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:05 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The German coal commission’s agreement to gradually phase out coal power has left investors and ...
18 Dec 2014, 00:00 A leaked document outlines plans to transfer some provisions German utilities have put aside for nuclear decommissioning and waste disposal to a state-managed fund. The 91tv spoke to two policy analysts about the ...
07 Feb 2019, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Reuters The radical shift in strategy by Germany’s biggest carmaker Volkswagen towards electric vehicles is “a radical and risky bet” that stems from the turmoil caused by the company’s emissions fraud scandal, ...
24 Feb 2025, 13:22 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 91tv Households in Germany continue to pay higher energy prices compared to pre-energy crisis levels, price comparison website Verivox said on the three-year mark of Russia's war of ...
15 Aug 2024, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Renewables Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung Low wholesale electricity prices are causing a hefty increase in the federal funds required to pay renewables operators the legally agreed upon support amounts in 2024, show ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:42 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity ...
01 Sep 2022, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Digitalisation 91tv The German government has said its new digitalisation strategy will help in the fight against the climate crisis and in efforts to transform the economy. Environmental data and ...
17 Feb 2025
17 Feb 2025, 12:30 91tv Team Jacques Delors Centre: One month into Trump: Europe’s hour New U.S. president means dangers for rest of the world by demolishing rules-based international system, disdain for environment. Building defensive and dissuasive ...
Differing views on Germany’s future energy system are emerging as a major source of contention between the parties attempting to establish a new German federal government, Andreas Mihm writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The Greens want Germany ...
14 Aug 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Several environmental NGOs have said they will take legal action against a partial permit for a planned controversial gas extraction project off the coast of Germany and the Netherlands in the ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:18 Edgar Meza Grid Storage Handelsblatt Sales of large-scale battery storage units are booming in Germany but their role in facilitating and advancing the energy transition appears to have been impeded by their increasing use for profit, ...
12 Jul 2022, 12:20 Jessica Bateman Business & Jobs 91tv Germany should respond with more and faster climate action to the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia’s war against Ukraine, said the German CEO Alliance for Climate and Economy ...
19 Nov 2019, 13:39 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables Hydrogen Handelsblatt ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:05 The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) – the second strongest polling party ahead of Germany's snap elections on 23 February – is the only major party to outright reject the scientific consensus behind human-induced climate ...
A large-scale roll-out of electric vehicles in Germany could overstrain the power grid, and the country should invest billions of euros to prevent a breakdown in the future, Jürgen Flauger and Franz Hubik write in the Handelsblatt. According to ...
At their special congress held on 21 January, 56 percent of SPD delegates voted to enter formal negotiations to renew Germany’s grand coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU block, reports Reuters. SPD leaders vowed to ...
It could be cheaper to connect future German North Sea wind parks to the Dutch power grid rather than running the cables to, and through, Germany, Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT suggests in its half-year report published on Wednesday. ...
13 Jul 2022, 11:48 Hannah Naylor Gas EU Security 91tv Climate ministers Robert Habeck and Leonore Gewessler of Germany and Austria, respectively, said European solidarity is “more important than ever” amid the ongoing gas crisis in Europe, ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Technology Heating 91tv Research institute Fraunhofer IGE is setting up a research laboratory for geothermal energy generation in western German North Rhine-Westphalia, the country’s most populous state. ...
29 Oct 2020, 17:50 The German car industry has committed to climate-neutral mobility by 2050 for the first time, but continues to reject a sole focus on electric mobility. Following a fierce quarrel within the lobby group, industry association VDA said ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Politics Spiegel Online Despite coming second way behind chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU/CSU coalition in current polls, Germany’ Greens have a chance of becoming the strongest party and winning the ...
17 Mar 2023, 12:21 German government officials have welcomed proposals by the European Commission to boost net-zero industries and the competitiveness of European companies in an effort to keep up with other regions of the world, such as the U.S. and ...
09 Apr 2019, 12:44 Kerstine Appunn Transport Cars Tagesspiegel German transport minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) doesn’t want a decision for “transport technology of the future” to be made prematurely, Henrik Mortsiefer writes in Tagesspiegel. “To only ...
21 Feb 2025
21 Feb 2025, 12:18 91tv Team E3G: German election – What’s at stake? Next government must develop joint EU strategy for competitiveness and decarbonisation. DW: German election: Parties face off over Ukraine, NATO, Trump Top German politicians traded ...
23 Feb 2023, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv Germany is unlikely to face gas shortages next winter, the Institute for Economic Research (DIW) has said in a report. Following a halt of Russian gas deliveries into Germany in September 2022, ...
21 Feb 2025, 13:38 Expert Allensbach Institute The Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach (IfD Allensbach) Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Der Spiegel Most German citizens still believe the energy transition is ...
The German government has launched a new advisory panel in order to reduce emissions in the transport sector. The cabinet agreed on Wednesday on the “National Platform Future of Mobility” that will replace the National Platform for Electric Mobility (NPE) ...
04 Dec 2020, 10:43 The use of hydrogen in transport, climate-damaging subsidies and new motorway constructions will be among the most important clean mobility topics in the run up to Germany's general elections in 2021, says Jens Hilgenberg, who ...
The only way to enable “Chancellor [Angela] Merkel’s next government to reach the 2020 climate target is to exit from coal-fired power generation,” writes Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International in a guest commentary in the ...
22 Dec 2023, 08:48 Germany made dealing with the consequences of climate change more binding in 2023, and it must now use this momentum to step up implementation, says Christian Kind, adaptation head of programme at think tank adelphi. Spreading the costs ...
14 Feb 2025
14 Feb 2025, 10:50 91tv Team Eurelectric: Europe needs an energy security strategy based on clean electrification A new report demonstrates the need for a new approach to energy security based on clean electrification to reduce fuel imports dependence, ...
18 Feb 2025
18 Feb 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany set to scale down climate ambitions- Billions in climate subsidies have been frozen for months- Main parties focusing on security, migration before election CNBC: Wind energy just had a record year in ...
Coal-fired power generation does not have a future in Germany’s energy transition, write the environmental NGO WWF Germany and the green power provider LichtBlick in a joint report, seen by the 91tv. In their report “Dead end coal – Why coal ...
24 Apr 2020, 09:30 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Green stimulus 91tv The European Union’s planned coronavirus “recovery fund” should be used to make substantial investments ...
Amid rising prices for carbon emissions and coal, Germany’s wholesale power price for one-year futures has reached its highest level in six years, Nora Kamprath Buli writes for Montel News. At 50.10 euros per megawatt hour (MWh), prices reached their ...
05 Nov 2020, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International Focus Online Contrary to many countries and major cities around the world, Germany has not yet announced plans to phase out combustion engines in passenger cars, the news website Focus Online writes. ...
19 Mar 2019, 14:08 Sven Egenter Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Elections & Politics 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany needs e-mobility to reach its 2030 emissions reduction targets in transport, Chancellor Angela Merkel told an audience of think ...
