Getting the energy transition on track has been a difficult task with many setbacks, but conditions for 鈥渁 second wave of Energiewende are pretty favourable,鈥� Martin Brough writes in a new issue of Deutsche Bank Research鈥檚 magazine Konzept under the title ...
08 Aug 2024, 14:06 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out 91tv / Zeit Online 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ongoing hunt for a final repository for highly radioactive nuclear waste could last until the 2070s, a report has warned. However, the country鈥檚 environment ...
06 Mar 2025
06 Mar 2025, 11:29 91tv Team Reuters: Germany's nuclear lobby says up to six reactors could restart Germany's nuclear engineering lobby said up to half a dozen nuclear power stations could, in theory, be reopened despite closing in 2023 as a ...
20 Apr 2020, 13:35 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Freja Eriksen Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / Handelsblatt / 91tv Daimler will stick to its CO2 goals and aims to use ...
07 Aug 2024, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Society 91tv Austria鈥檚 branch of the 鈥淟ast Generation鈥� (Letzte Generation) climate action group has announced its dissolution, arguing its direct action protests cannot be successful. In an open聽 letter ...
Europe鈥檚 most important industries should get more support for innovation to cope with structural change, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 trade union for the mining, chemicals and energy industries (IG BCE) says in a press release. 鈥淲e鈥檙e picturing a future 蹿耻苍诲,鈥� for example ...
10 Feb 2025, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Solar 91tv Bids for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest solar photovoltaics (PV) support tender exceeded the auctioned total capacity by more than twice, said the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in a press release. Projects ...
25 May 2023, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen International 91tv In cooperation with German investors, Namibia has commissioned Sub-Saharan Africa鈥檚 largest green hydrogen production project. The government cabinet approved the entry into the 10 ...
12 Feb 2025, 13:55 Jack McGovan Renewables Wind 91tv Germany has started a multi-year campaign to measure wind speeds around 280 kilometres off the German Noth Sea coast to prepare the expansion of wind farms in the area. The government is ...
17 May 2021, 12:31 Edgar Meza Transport Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel As 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 election year campaigning heats up, political leaders hoping to succeed chancellor Angela Merkel are taking aim at cheap flights and domestic air travel as they ...
15 Feb 2023, 12:59 Expert Allensbach Institute The Institut f眉r Demoskopie Allensbach (IfD Allensbach) Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility Cars 91tv Decarbonisation in the mobility sector is the most important area for ...
Rejecting a European quota for electric vehicles by simply denouncing the idea as 鈥� not well thought out 鈥� is an inadequate answer by Chancellor Angela Merkel, Antje Sirleschtov writes in a commentary for Tagesspiegel. There were indeed many reasons to ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industrial heavyweight Siemens did not anticipate the rapid decline in renewable energy prices, particularly solar photovoltaic (PV) power, and consequently it had to implement significant layoffs in its conventional energy branch to compensate ...
The German Wind Energy Association (BWE) has called the dominance of citizens' energy cooperatives in the first round of onshore wind power tenders a "surprise"聺 and a "pleasant signal". Citizens' cooperatives increased wind ...
18 Jan 2023, 13:01 S枚ren Amelang Heating 91tv The electrification of heating is gathering pace in Germany as sales of heat pumps increased by more than half last year. Sales rose 53 percent to 236,000 units, making heat pumps the technology ...
04 Oct 2019, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Hydrogen International 91tv The economy ministers of Germany and the Netherlands, Peter Altmaier and Eric Wiebes, have signed a joint declaration at the sidelines of joint cabinet consultations ...
05 Aug 2024, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Gas NDR 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 controversial new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Baltic Sea island of R眉gen is ready to start commercial operations 鈥� but the project lacks demand, reports regional public broadcaster NDR. ...
German and Austrian energy regulators have agreed to cap peaks in the exchange of power from October 2018 to reflect lagging grid development between the two countries, announced Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and E-Control in separate press releases. ...
07 Sep 2020, 14:16 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 f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare ...
12 Feb 2025, 13:39 Bennet Ribbeck Cost & Prices Policy Most Germans say that the country鈥檚 landmark energy transition is not implemented in a socially just way as the burdens are not fairly distributed (63%), and they have little trust in politicians ...
21 Feb 2023, 13:22 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency 91tv In its efforts to alleviate Germany's housing shortage, the government should focus on building renovations to maximise avoided emissions and prevent an unnecessarily high consumption ...
02 Nov 2022, 13:31 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv German railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has begun to electrify rail lines in the north of the country with an innovative new electrical infrastructure that will charge battery-powered trains and ...
17 Aug 2020, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Society 91tv A clear majority of people in Germany say that the environment must not be damaged in order to increase economic growth, a major survey by the country's ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Green Party is calling for power, heat and transport to be integrated as part of its聽 鈥済reen future plan鈥� published on Monday. 鈥�For the successful energy transition, we will not only switch our electricity supply to 100-percent renewable, but ...
21 Feb 2025, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics ZDF Most of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leading parties say they are committed to the country鈥檚 2045 climate neutrality target. In the last major聽 TV debate 聽on public broadcaster ZDF before ...
25 Jul 2022, 14:35 Hannah Naylor Gas inFranken.de / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Bavarian breweries concerned about possible gas shortages are developing contingency plans to avoid a complete halt of beer production, reports regional news website inFranken.de. ...
痴奥鈥檚 future will be sealed in the coming weeks during negotiations between management and unions about a 鈥�future pact鈥� to make the company fit for the pending mobility transformation, writes Carsten Germis in a commentary for Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
10 Feb 2025, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Industry WirtschaftsWoche Parties鈥� failure to agree on final details of a reform to allow carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Germany ahead of the election on 23 February will set efforts back significantly, industry ...
The German government must take precautions to secure citizens鈥� acceptance for future wind power expansion, as it is a central pillar of the country鈥檚 energy transition, writes the energy think tank Agora Energiewende* in a report. Municipalities located ...
German rail operator Deutsche Bahn hopes to operate a fleet of autonomous vehicles in the future to bring clients to the nearest train station, according to CEO R眉diger Grube. 鈥淲e will offer our door to door services in the future: Call a bike, car to go ...
Western 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal mining regions have long profited from mining companies鈥� cash flow into local communities but in exchange have tacitly agreed not to talk about immediate effects on the environment, disappearing villages, and emissions, Burkhard ...
13 Feb 2025, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Security 91tv Climate change poses the greatest threat to German and European security because it destabilises states, undermines food security, increases conflicts over resources like water, according to ...
11 Aug 2020, 11:43 Expert ifeu- Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Edgar Meza Transport Freight 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg (ifeu) has published ...
18 Dec 2019, 13:25 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Hamburger ...
21 Apr 2020, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Cars Green stimulus dpa / Handelsblatt / taz / FAZ / WirtschaftsWoche Several German newspapers have run commentaries critical of a proposed buyer鈥檚 premium on cars. The premium would support the car industry in dealing ...
02 Aug 2024, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Carmaker Volkswagen is facing 鈥渆normous efforts鈥� to meet its own business targets due to high costs and decreasing revenue, said the company鈥檚 CEO Oliver Blume. ...
24 Feb 2020, 13:56 Freja Eriksen Gas Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt The Netherlands has identified Germany as its main ally in building Europe's future hydrogen structure,聽 writes the business daily Handelsblatt. "Our aim is to intensify ...
14 Sep 2022, 13:48 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Policy 91tv Energy-intensive small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany will receive government support to cushion the impact of high gas and electricity costs on the companies as ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ambitious goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 can only be achieved through a comprehensive and multi-layered approach that includes ...
26 Sep 2022, 12:04 The spread of unregulated company publicity involving 鈥渘et zero鈥� or 鈥渃limate neutral鈥� claims has become a systemic barrier to achieving climate targets, argues ClientEarth, an NGO focussing on using laws to advance environmental ...
Asked about the future of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 car industry, politicians 鈥渙nly get frank in confidential off-the-record conversations,鈥� Miriam Meckel writes in an opinion piece for WirtschaftsWoche. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 when you see very concerned faces.鈥� Politicians often ...
German auto supplier Bosch has announced a vastly improved diesel technology as it strives to draw a line under an emissions scandal that has tarnished the diesel car industry, reports the news agency Reuters. The company鈥檚 new technology could enable ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:55 The German Green Party unveiled Annalena Baerbock as their candidate for chancellor, touted as the party's first ever serious contender to lead the government in Europe's largest economy. In her nomination speech as the only ...
The German government should quickly narrow down its mid-century greenhouse gas reduction goal because energy policy decisions in the here and now depend on it, said German Energy Agency (dena) head Andreas Kuhlmann. 鈥淢y recommendation to the government ...
25 Sep 2023, 13:33 Faced with a crisis in the construction sector and a housing shortage, the German government has decided to suspend the tightening of new building efficiency rules initially planned for 2025. Climate activists decried the agreement as a ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:53 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut f眉r Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy S枚ren ...
28 Feb 2025
28 Feb 2025, 11:54 91tv Team AP: UN talks end in Rome with nations backing $200 billion a year plan to protect nature Global negotiators concluded an extended session of the United Nations biodiversity conference, COP16, with key commitments on funds ...
28 Jan 2020, 13:50 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany's gas industry plans to establish a pipeline network measuring 5,900 kilometres to enable the large-scale use of hydrogen in the country. According to a plan seen by business daily ...
19 May 2022, 12:11 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Society 91tv Some 66 percent of German households are in favour of raising the top tax rate to finance climate action, according to a survey conducted by the ifo Institute in cooperation with ...
31 Jul 2024, 13:43 Edgar Meza Adaptation Cities 91tv The majority of cities in Germany do not adequately protect people from the increasing incidence of extremely high temperatures associated with the climate crisis, according to a聽 report ...
05 May 2022, 13:58 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices 91tv Even with significantly higher CO2 prices on transport and heating fuels, Germany will not reach targets set in the country鈥檚 Climate Action Law, shows a report commissioned by the German ...
31 Jul 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar Handelsblatt / 91tv The fast pace of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 solar PV expansion is causing concerns among energy companies about the buildout鈥檚 effect on the grid, business daily Handelsblatt聽 writes. 鈥淚f ...
06 Oct 2020, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann International Security 91tv German defence minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has said the country's military needs to better adapt to the challenges posed by climate change and improve its equipment ...
10 Nov 2020, 14:00 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv The state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is accelerating the development of a future-oriented hydrogen economy, energy minister Andreas Pinkwart announced on Monday. By 2025, NRW is set to have its ...
23 Dec 2022, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv In order to bolster the capacity for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG), Germany will support the construction of three so-called LNG bunker vessels. Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang Coal Grid Nuclear phase-out Renewables Germany will not experience an electricity shortage as a result of an exit from coal and nuclear power generation if it rolls out renewables as planned, even if the country鈥檚 power ...
07 Feb 2025
07 Feb 2025, 11:27 91tv Team Climate Home: UN gives countries more time to submit 鈥渜uality鈥� climate plans for 2035 The head of the UN climate change body has urged countries to submit new 鈥渇irst-rate鈥� climate targets by September, after only a handful of ...
15 Sep 2022, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Cars 91tv The number of cars in Germany has risen to a record high, illustrating the obstacles the country faces on the way to sustainable mobility. 鈥淐ar density has risen continuously in the past ten ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:22 Joey Grostern Wind 91tv Germany looks set to exceed its 2030 onshore wind power target by 2.6 percent, according to an analysis by the Google-backed think tank Goal100. Considering the number of applications and permits for ...
Despite a surge in clean energy production, German utility RWE will continue to rely on coal and gas plants for the foreseeable future, Handelsblatt online reports. RWE CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz said conventional power plants were irreplaceable as long as ...
24 Jan 2023, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society 91tv The introduction of a so-called climate premium (鈥淜limageld鈥�) to return the revenues from Germany's national carbon price on transport and heating fuels to citizens will ...
11 Dec 2020, 13:07 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Frankfurter Rundschau 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government and parliament are struggling to complete the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), the law that guides the ...
03 Feb 2025, 13:35 Jennifer Collins International K枚lner Stadtanzeiger / Tagesspiegel / 91tv / Politico The German government has warned U.S. president Donald Trump against starting a trade war with Europe, saying that if the country imposes ...
The German government is still a long way from finding a common position on future EU car fleet emission limits, report Till Hoppe and Silke Kersting in the business daily Handelsblatt. German car makers鈥� works councils and the top brass of metalworkers鈥� ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Long-distance bus service provider FlixBus insists on being included in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned monthly 49-euro ticket for nationwide public ...
24 Jun 2019, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Government Handelsblatt / Stuttgarter Nachrichten / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung After a series of meetings with high-profile car industry representatives in recent years to deal with the fallout of the so ...
26 Nov 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices 91tv German power consumers will save some 5.6 billion euros on their electricity bills once they stop paying the renewable surcharge as of 2023, the new government says in its coalition ...
22 Mar 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Grid Energate The higher renewable targets of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government will require a faster expansion of the power grid, Tim Meyerj眉rgens, COO of transmission grid operator TenneT, has told Energate. Connecting the ...
At the next UN climate conference in Poland, the German government can credibly call on the international community to put more effort into climate protection only if it successfully manages its own coal exit, write Ottmar Edenhofer and Hans Joachim ...
10 Feb 2025
10 Feb 2025, 13:25 91tv Team Reuters: Baltic states switch to European power grid, ending Russia ties The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a switch from Russia's electricity grid to the EU's system, severing Soviet-era ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv The upcoming snap election in Germany will bring a 鈥渃hoice of direction鈥� for the country鈥檚 energy transition, as energy and climate policy positions vary among the different ...
22 Feb 2016
22 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt Industry softens Energiewende-bashing At the latest meeting of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU party鈥檚 economic council (CDU Wirtschaftsrat), business leaders softened their ...
The decision by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) to increase the maximum support rate for onshore wind power installations in renewables auctions to 6.3 cents per kilowatt hour was 鈥渁 first step to correct undesired developments鈥� in the tender ...
16 May 2022, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Transport 91tv The number of buses with emission-free, electrified drives on Germany's roads doubled from 2020 to 2021, heralding the 鈥渄ecade of the e-bus,鈥� said consultancy and accounting firm PwC. ...
Germany will strive to get parliamentary approval for the ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement before the next climate summit gets underway in Marrakech in November 2016, environment minister Barbara Hendricks said at the opening press conference ...
22 Jul 2020, 13:48 After four days of negotiations, the EU member states have agreed on an unprecedented funding package to cushion the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and secure the bloc's budget until 2027. The 27 governments greenlighted a ...
20 Feb 2025, 13:45 Jack McGovan Electricity Heating 91tv Corrects third paragraph to specify share of heat pump sales compared to all heating sytems sold, a previous version of the article incorrectly stated this was the share of heat pumps ...
21 May 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit Parties which stand for election in the European Parliament vote this weekend may face a "historic opportunity" to set the continent on track for ambitious ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:22 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 dpa / Handelsblatt Germany's Green Party is proposing a plan to make the country's energy-intensive industries like steel and cement more climate-friendly, using a comprehensive package of ...
04 Feb 2015
04 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Tageszeitung "Wind turbines that can float" The Dresden-based Gicon group is producing a prototype for a floating wind turbine (see picture above), Bernward Janzig from the taz reports. ...
25 Jun 2020, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Coal tageszeitung (taz) / Tagesspiegel Background / Rheinische Post German media commentators have said that the draft contract between the state and lignite operators presented by the cabinet on 24 June keeps open the ...
20 May 2019, 13:30 Expert RWI 鈥� Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI 鈥� Leibniz-Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities 91tv A group of 30 ...
25 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Grid Rheinische Post German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has called for faster progress on updating the country鈥檚 energy grids as this was essential to a coal-free energy system. In an interview with the ...
15 Jun 2022, 12:20 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen 91tv Germany should be able to import green hydrogen from Australia at competitive prices, a feasibility study has revealed. German industry association BDI and the National Academy of Science and ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:04 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Policy EU 91tv Germany will focus its upcoming EU Council presidency on the dual challenges of overcoming the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and making the continent more ...
06 Apr 2020, 12:33 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation ...
The challenges that the US state of Ohio will face with its power grid will be similar to those that Germany is dealing with today, a situation that could provide some lessons learned, writes Kathiann Kowalski for US non-profit news site Midwest Energy ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:41 Jennifer Collins Fossil fuels 91tv The G7 group of industrialised nations failed on a 2016 pledge to phase out "inefficient fossil fuel subsidies" by 2025, according to a report commissioned by NGO Greenpeace ...
20 Mar 2023, 17:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv The world is on track to surpassing the crucial target of limiting global warming to 1.5掳C and should prepare accordingly, said Oliver Geden, senior fellow at the German Institute for ...
08 Nov 2022, 14:08 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv The southern German state of Bavaria is set to invest 500 million euros in renewable energy and hydrogen production projects, the state鈥檚 economy minister, Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters), ...
24 Jun 2020, 17:30 Germany is one step closer to finalising legislation on the planned coal exit by 2038 at the latest, as the government approved a draft contract between the state and companies to flesh out the country鈥檚 farewell to lignite. Among other ...
22 Jul 2024, 13:08 Edgar Meza Transport Freight Technology 91tv The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is working with industry partners and research institutions to develop a megawatt charging system that would enable battery-powered ...
03 Feb 2020, 13:47 Freja Eriksen Nuclear phase-out Spiegel Online The committee for economics, jobs and taxes of chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has proposed that Germany participates more intensively in the European ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:13 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Coal Storage Hydrogen Reuters Siemens plans to build an 鈥渋nnovation campus鈥� for hydrogen technologies at the company鈥檚 site in G枚rlitz, reports Reuters citing sources close to the company ...
While the German and Californian transport transitions face common challenges, German lawmakers could derive valuable best practices from the US state鈥檚 鈥渕ore advanced stage鈥�, according to a report by the Ahead project, a joint initiative of the Potsdam ...
20 Feb 2018
Germany will definitely miss its goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020, which is a 鈥渂itter defeat for climate politicians,鈥� said Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the environment ministry, at the annual conference of the German ...
20 Apr 2022, 13:33 Paul Gordon Society 91tv The majority of football clubs in the German Bundesliga have not yet set themselves a climate neutrality target with concrete steps for the 2021/2022 season, according to a survey from non-profit ...
05 May 2023, 14:28 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs 91tv In a bid to greatly improve ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics 91tv The next German government must restructure climate policy to make sure the whole population can participate in the transition, the Climate Neutrality Foundation ...
31 Jan 2025, 11:50 Joey Grostern Wind Society SWR A group of about 6,660 people are behind a slew of over 440,000 letters objecting to plans for wind farm developments in 40 areas in the Neckar-Alb region of Baden-W眉rttemberg, according to reporting from ...
24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025, 10:30 91tv Team DW: German election results explained in graphics Here's a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats in parliament, possible coalition outcomes and voter demographics. Bloomberg: German Social Democrats ditch Scholz ...
04 Feb 2020, 13:45 Freja Eriksen Elections & Politics 91tv / MDR Th眉ringen [UPDATE note: In a surprise result, 罢丑耻谤颈苍驳颈补鈥檚 parliament on 5 February 2020 elected Thomas Kemmerich from the business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP) as ...
11 Feb 2025
11 Feb 2025, 11:00 91tv Team PIK: Research institute compiles 85,000 individual studies about climate policy, offering "wealth of evidence" Over a quarter of studies reviewed from 2020 or later; Potsdam Institute for Cliamte Impact Research ...
German luxury and utility vehicle producer Daimler is weighing its options as it searches for the best possible engine for its heavy-duty vehicles in the future, testing potential solutions like electric engines, hydrogen, synthetic and natural gas, ...
11 Sep 2019, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said protecting the climate and digitalisation are the two key challenges that Germany faces in the future. Her comments ...
29 Sep 2022, 14:02 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Transport Cost & Prices 91tv German railway group Deutsche Bahn (DB) has announced an increase in average fares for long-distant ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:17 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 ...
German car suppliers are in good shape thanks to the current global success of the country鈥檚 carmakers, but the industry faces an uncertain future, write Imelda Flaig und Inge Nowak in Stuttgarter Zeitung. The international move to electric and shared ...
24 Jun 2022, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn Cars Deutschlandfunk Environment minister Steffi Lemke (Green Party) remains optimistic that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government cabinet will find a common line on the ban of internal combustion engine cars in the EU, despite recent ...
The German car industry will likely book record sales in 2018, but a whole range of challenges makes prospects for future business uncertain, the Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) says in a press release. Tougher car emissions standards in the ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:41 Expert German Steel Federation Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Industry 91tv A new " steel strategy " for establishing low-carbon ...
10 Nov 2022, 13:34 Expert DBV- German Farmers鈥� Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv A new protection strategy for moorlands adopted by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government aims to better ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:20 Leading German economists have urged more innovation and investments to put the country that is still grappling with the fallout of the energy crisis and inflation back on a growth track. The German Council of Economic Experts forecasts ...
16 Sep 2019, 17:01 Gaseous energy sources will play a "crucial role" in Germany's long-term energy supply and industrial production, with CO鈧�-neutral or carbon-free gases, such as green hydrogen, being a key element, according to a draft ...
21 Feb 2024, 13:43 Franca Quecke Cars Cities 91tv Following the decision by the citizens of the French capital Paris in a recent referendum to triple the parking fees for SUVs, NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has announced formal ...
01 Mar 2021, 14:33 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Cities 91tv Climate activists have protested at a coal-fired heating plant in Hamburg that could be converted to use imported wood as a fuel due to the coal-phase out plans of Germany's second ...
17 Jul 2024, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Transport Freight 91tv / Electrive German transport minister Volker Wissing has said that the government will launch first auctions for the right to set up electric truck charging infrastructure along the ...
07 Nov 2022, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Resources & Recycling BR The great reliance on hardware supply from China is causing concern among 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 solar power industry, public broadcaster BR reports. About 95 percent of the solar cells installed ...
12 Feb 2025, 13:33 Bennet Ribbeck Climate & CO2 Adaptation 91tv Extreme droughts and floods hit Italy, Greece and Spain more than most other countries across the globe in the past 30 years, causing many deaths and high economical losses, ...
14 Jul 2022, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Gas Security 91tv Europe will be faced with gas shortages until new import infrastructure, a reduction of gas consumption, as well as better coordinated cooperation between European countries are in place to ...
12 Nov 2020, 14:26 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gas demand is set to increase significantly from 90 billion cubic metres (Bcm) today to 110 Bcm by 2034 as the country exits both nuclear and coal, said the energy research company and ...
18 Aug 2022, 14:40 Hannah Naylor Transport Cost & Prices dpa / Der Spiegel The popular 9-euro nationwide public transport ticket in Germany is set to end on 31 August, after running for three months, and many passengers will face the shock of an ...
14 Jun 2022, 13:02 Edgar Meza Gas Hydrogen 91tv The German state of Bavaria and Scotland have signed an agreement aimed at the joint development of green hydrogen. The letter of intent expands cooperation on business and science. Bavarian ...
29 Jan 2025, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Society 91tv The energy transition is placing an uneven financial burden on Germany鈥榮 poorest households 鈥� and transition costs related to heating are impacting these citizens ...
18 Mar 2022, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Efficiency Policy dpa The German government has announced a comprehensive programme for energy savings as part of its push to reduce Germany's dependence on fossil fuel imports. "As the federal government, we ...
16 Jun 2023, 13:49 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Cities Tagesspiegel / Berliner Zeitung The conservative Cristian Democrats (CDU) who lead the new government coalition of the city of Berlin aim to freeze all new cylce lane projects if their construction ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:30 Jennifer Collins Heating Elections & Politics Rheinische Post Ahead of Germany's snap elections, economy minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) has warned that overturning a law aimed at reducing stubbornly high heating emissions ...
17 Mar 2023, 13:31 Supermarket shelves have increasingly been flooded with products featuring green claims like 鈥渃limate neutral鈥� or 鈥減ackaging reusable,鈥� but a lack of regulation means many of these can be vague, misleading or even factually wrong 鈥� ...
24 Jan 2025, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv German households had to pay significantly less for heating in 2024 than in the previous year, as the prices for gas and heating oil fell during this period and the weather ...
Expanding the capacity of renewable energy sources in Germany should be focussed on long-term stabilisation effects on the energy system rather than cutting costs by maximising output, a study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) suggests. ...
12 Mar 2019, 14:10 Rachel Waldholz Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Cost & Prices IWR Online 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 鈥済reen energy account鈥�, 聽which funds the country鈥檚 renewable roll-out, currently shows a record surplus of 5.7 billion euros, according to ...
27 Jul 2022, 12:32 Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv / ARD The German government has decided to reduce support for e-cars and increasingly limit it to fully electric cars, ending subsidies for plug-in hybrids, said the economy ministry. E-mobility ...
31 Jan 2025, 13:06 Joey Grostern Carbon market Business EU 91tv Around three quarters of German companies are not able or only partially able to report emissions data from their suppliers outside of the EU, with two-thirds fearing that this ...
18 Apr 2019, 12:20 S枚ren Amelang Utilities Reuters German utility RWE expects to spend heavily in the US green energy market as it maps out its future in global renewables after its pending asset swap with peer E.ON, Tom K盲ckenhoff, David French, and Vera ...
13 Apr 2023, 11:38 Even 15 years after its first climate adaptation strategy, and despite deadly floods and droughts, Germany is still failing to integrate climate adaptation into everyday decision-making at all levels. Insurers have sounded the alarm ...
24 Jan 2025
24 Jan 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: German power grids need higher earnings to fund energy transition, TSO says Grid operator Amprion argues regulator should raise the cap on returns on infrastructure spending. Germany Trade&Invest: Germany Earns ...
12 Jul 2024, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Industry Policy 91tv / WirtschaftsWoche The German government鈥檚 plans for a so-called capacity market, which would reward power plant operators for providing generation capacity rather ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:34 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology 91tv A new project in northern Germany aims at establishing "the world鈥檚 first" power ...
23 Mar 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 states have understood the importance of renewable energy for the future of local industry as they gear up for a fast expansion of onshore wind power, economy and climate ...
31 Jan 2025
31 Jan 2025, 11:39 91tv Team Euractiv: Norway鈥檚 governing coalition breaks over EU energy rules row Norway is bound to adopt EU energy laws as a member of the European Economic Area 鈥� which the eurosceptic Centre Party has opposed. FT: 脴rsted replaces ...
23 Feb 2023, 13:44 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling EU 91tv Circular economy principles have not yet made an impact in the EU building sector due to the relatively recent concept still being applied in a fragmented and incomplete ...
Neither the addition of gas-fired power plants in southern Germany nor a sharp decrease in power production from lignite in eastern Germany would limit the need for new power grid infrastructure, a study by Prognos AG, RWTH Aachen, E-Bridge and FGH on ...
13 May 2022, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv With the current legal framework for energy and climate policy, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 building sector climate target would be missed by a wide margin, said energy industry association BDEW in a report. The ...
The German Green Party has made a strengthened commitment to climate protection and energy transition a prerequisite for joining a future coalition after September鈥檚 parliamentary elections. 鈥淲e are ready for talks with any party鈥�, but there had to be a ...
10 Jul 2024, 14:01 S枚ren Amelang Grid Cost & Prices Policy 91tv Leading energy economists have called for splitting Germany into different electricity price zones to reflect regional differences in power availability, and to stop ...
26 May 2016
26 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv IRENA 鈥淕ermany remains highest EU renewables employer鈥� Germany remains the highest EU renewables employer with about 355,000 jobs, despite a 4 percent decline in employment in the ...
31 Jan 2025, 11:49 Joey Grostern Storage 91tv Almost 600,000 new stationary battery storage systems were installed across Germany in 2024, increasing the country鈥檚 storage capacity by 50 percent year-on-year, according to preliminary data ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Construction Handelsblatt / 91tv With a new label for low-carbon cement, Germany's industry aims to ramp up production and sales of the climate friendlier construction material, business ...
02 Mar 2022, 13:36 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Security Germany might ...
16 Dec 2019, 10:24 Germany will miss its climate targets without leaps in technological innovation, even taking into account the recently agreed climate package, says Georg N眉脽lein, deputy parliamentary group head of chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 ...
18 Dec 2020, 14:35 Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Transport Germany is to increase the greenhouse gas reduction quota for transport fuels from currently six to 22 percent in 2030, an environment ministry bill which has been approved by the other ministries ...
04 Jun 2020, 14:06 The German government coalition has decided to reboot Europe's largest economy with a 130 billion euros stimulus package that contains steps to further the country's landmark energy transition. Aside from comprehensive actions ...
10 Jul 2018, 11:52 Chinese battery maker CATL plans to build a large factory in the eastern German state of Thuringia to supply manufacturers in the birth country of the automobile with battery cells to facilitate the transition to low-emission mobility. ...
09 May 2019, 14:08 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Utilities Rechargenews / Reuters German utility EnBW plans to spend 12 billion euros by 2025 in generation and infrastructure, with renewable expansion being a strategic priority, reports Bernd Radowitz for ...
The combustion engine does not have a future, but a ban would be counterproductive, writes Lukas Bay in an analysis in business daily Handelsblatt. 鈥淭丑别 assumption that [a ban] would make German carmakers crisis-proof for a post-fossil age is wrong. The ...
24 Jan 2025, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics BR / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Merkur A controversial decision by the government of Bavaria to delay the German state鈥檚 climate neutrality target to 2045 has drawn heavy criticism ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:14 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government aims to amend legislation that would allow the state to take stakes in companies severely affected by rising costs of imported fossil gas, such as Europe鈥檚 largest importer of Russian gas, Uniper. The cabinet ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business Utilities 91tv A lower power production from coal and nuclear plants, as well as lower wholesale power prices, have dented the profits of German RWE, the energy company鈥檚 annual balance sheet ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Wind 91tv / dpa / Handelsbatt Offshore wind farms in the German North Sea generated around eight percent more wind power last year compared to 2023, transmission system operator TenneT said. At 20.8 ...
26 Mar 2019, 13:20 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Technology Handelsblatt / 91tv Engine manufacturer and Volkswagen (VW) subsidiary MAN Energy Solutions shows a firm commitment to sustainable hydrogen ...
23 Jan 2025, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU 91tv French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz have vowed to uphold close Franco-German cooperation to ensure European sovereignty in key industrial areas as the new U ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv A large number of industrial companies in Germany will have a hard time coping with the changes brought about by the transition to a low-carbon economy and by digitalisation, ...
24 Jan 2025, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Die Welt / Handelsblatt The slow uptake of electric mobility by German motorists could get a boost in 2025 thanks to changing attitudes and the availability of more affordable electric vehicles ...
14 Jul 2022, 11:51 Germany must better prepare for the impacts of climate change, environment minister Steffi Lemke said, as a heat wave is sweeping across Europe exactly one year after deadly floods killed hundreds of people in Germany and neighbouring ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:19 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & ...
05 Jul 2024, 14:29 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Gas 91tv The German government will hold the first round of tenders for hydrogen-ready gas fired power plants by the end of 2024 or beginning of 2025, the economy ministry (BMWK) has ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:51 Julian Wettengel Gas Politics Handelsblatt German chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed the buildout of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export infrastructure and increased efforts to extract fossil fuels in the U.S. in聽 an interview with ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:46 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU Handelsblatt Excessive EU regulation is stalling the development of competitive hydrogen infrastructure in Europe, the head of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's economy ministry expects the country's GDP to rise 0.3 percent in 2025, according to its annual report. A report from autumn put growth at 1.1 percent, however, ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Resources & Recycling 91tv To succeed in the energy transition, Germany will focus on warranting secure supply chains and reliable production capacities required for renewable ...
13 Mar 2019, 11:10 The Hambach Forest in western Germany has become a symbol for climate activists, who are seeking to prevent energy company RWE from razing it to expand a nearby coal mine. A lawsuit by the environmental NGO BUND last year temporarily ...
26 Jul 2022, 11:23 S枚ren Amelang Gas 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plans for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to replace Russian supplies exceed requirements and put the country鈥檚 and European climate targets at risk, argues a report commissioned by ...
25 Oct 2022, 14:03 Kiprotich Koros Digitalisation 91tv A successful transition to renewables will only be achieved if there is a comprehensive digitalisation of the whole energy sector, a report by research institute Fraunhofer IEE has ...
20 Jan 2025, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Security Welt am Sonntag / 91tv A new law planned for the better integration of solar energy sources into 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity system bears the risk that foreign powers gain control over relevant ...
02 Feb 2024, 14:01 Franca Quecke Heating Tagesschau / 91tv German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has called for more transparent and fairer prices for district heating customers, reports Tagesschau. "You can't change ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Heating 91tv Sales of heat pumps in Germany dropped by almost half (46%) in 2024 but the industry is confident that support mechanisms will quickly lead to a strong increase in ...
02 Jul 2024, 13:42 Ruby Russel Heating 91tv Industry groups have criticised recommendations by Germany's Monopolies Commission to keep the consumer cost of district heating in check 鈥� claiming the proposed measures would actually ...
03 Mar 2020, 14:13 S枚ren Amelang Energiewende Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt German ministries continue to be divided over plans for a hydrogen economy, delaying publication of the country's highly anticipated strategy to lower emissions in high ...
30 Apr 2019, 13:14 S枚ren Amelang Cars Hydrogen Bloomberg Bosch, the world鈥檚 largest auto-parts supplier, says it continues to believe that hydrogen fuel cell trucks and cars will play a key role in future mobility, and has taken a further step to advance ...
05 Aug 2022, 14:00 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cities 91tv Traffic regulations in Germany need a comprehensive reform to make the ...
26 Aug 2022, 14:12 Julian Wettengel Transport Cost & Prices 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 9 euro nationwide public transport ticket, which will end next week, affected mobility behaviours as much as the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:38 Ruby Russel Renewables 91tv Eurelectric corrects figures: Power demand in the EU decreased by 5.1% in the first half of 2023, compared to 2022, and was 4.8% lower in the first half of 2024, compared to 2022. 聽 Electricity ...
03 Feb 2025, 13:36 Jennifer Collins Solar Cars Heating 91tv Around two-thirds of homeowners in Germany plan to have a solar power system installed by 2029, according to a survey commissioned by Munich-based climate NGO Initiative ...
15 Nov 2023, 13:53 A ruling by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 highest court on the government鈥檚 budget planning has declared the current funding mechanism for tens of billions of euros in climate policies is unconstitutional. The judges ruled that chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 ...
After years of rising hard coal import volumes due to the closing of domestic mines, Germany seems to decrease its reliance on the fossil fuel, Andreas Macho writes in business weekly WirtschaftsWoche. While Germany continues to be Europe's biggest ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:18 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv The conversion and expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grid is going 鈥渘owhere as fast as necessary for the transformation,鈥� the new economy ...
21 Jul 2020, 13:34 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Wind Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German energy company Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg (EnBW) is running trials of a floating wind turbine ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society Rheinische Post / WDR The villages around Germany's open-cast lignite mines in federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) that are slated for demolition to make room for expanding the mines see ...
16 Nov 2015
16 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online 鈥淕rid Agency: About 350,000 households had their power cut off鈥� The number of power cut-offs in Germany rose by two percent to a new record in 2014, reports Spiegel Online. According ...
18 Feb 2022, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Utilities 91tv German energy company RWE has a dominant position among the country鈥檚 electricity suppliers, the country's competition authority said in its report on last year鈥檚 power market. An ...
Germany will significantly miss its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels unless the government quickly implements additional measures beyond its Climate Action Programme from 2014, according to a study by ...
21 Apr 2021, 16:38 German politicians have welcomed the deal concluded by EU lawmakers on a climate law that enshrines the goal of climate-neutrality 2050 and a more ambitious 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target. However, conservatives and industry ...
21 Sep 2021, 13:56 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Jessica Bateman Transport Rail and bus passenger numbers in Germany in the first half of 2021 were less 42 percent of pre-pandemic levels, statistics ...
03 Sep 2019, 13:34 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & ...
21 Jan 2015, 00:00 Environment minister Barbara Hendricks looks forward to the UN climate summit and the role of Germany's climate action programme, hails the global contribution made by German renewable technology and doubts the economic sense of ...
27 Mar 2019, 12:19 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv ...
27 Jun 2024, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Der Spiegel Germany's highly anticipated government strategy for constructing gas power plants as a backup for rapidly increasing renewable generation will be delayed by one year, news magazine Der ...
19 Aug 2021, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 91tv Stocks of Baltic cod, a popular white fish, have collapsed due to overfishing and climate change and are unlikely to recover, researchers have聽 said. Western ...
28 Jan 2025
28 Jan 2025, 11:44 91tv Team Reuters: Germany election 2025: Parties, polls and key issues Here are the main parties contending, their poll standings, and the key policy issues ahead of a snap national election on 23 February. Bloomberg: Germany fears ...
28 Jan 2019, 12:43 Kerstine Appunn Transport Bild am Sonntag The freedom to choose your speed on German motorways has proved itself and introducing a speed limit would only save a small amount of CO2, federal transport minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) told ...
06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Reuters: Year begins with warmest January despite shift towards cooling La Nina Last month was the world's warmest January on record, continuing a streak of extreme global temperatures despite a shift towards the cooling ...
01 Jul 2022, 13:08 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv Transmission grid operator Amprion has announced that it will cut CO2 emissions in its operations by a minimum of 63 percent by 2032. ...
20 Sep 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza Transport Cars 91tv More than half of all newly registered trucks in Europe, the US and China will be electric by 2035, according to a new study by McKinsey & Company presented at this year鈥檚 German car show ...
04 Mar 2019, 13:40 Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development Climate & CO2 Policy Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Policy Zeit Online The Climate Action Law proposed by ...
17 Jan 2025, 15:00 Energy prices are becoming increasingly expensive for Italian businesses and households due to delays in the development of renewables and increases in the cost of gas on international markets. The rise in energy costs will be, along ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables Energiewende 91tv Germany will use auctions to ensure new gas power plants are built, which the government sees as necessary to secure supply at times when renewable energy does not deliver ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:24 Edgar Meza Coal Renewables 91tv German energy group LEAG, the country鈥檚 second biggest electricity producer and a key lignite company, plans to build the country鈥檚 largest renewable energy site in the eastern Lusatia coal ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:13 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU dpa / t-online The sales of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in Germany must grow by about 75 percent this year compared to 2024 for carmakers ...
22 Dec 2021, 12:46 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 91tv Climate change is increasingly becoming a danger for churches, historic buildings, parks and other cultural heritage sites, the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) has said ...
22 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Reuters: Europe extends hand to US, warns of 'race to bottom' German chancellor Scholz voices cautious optimism after first contact with Trump administration. Politico: EU鈥檚 Clean Industrial Deal to cover 6 themes ...
02 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
01 Jun 2022, 14:16 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv Renewable energies will be at the heart of supply security in Germany in the future, but the country will continue to need gas and must 鈥渢hink big鈥� when it comes to ramping up hydrogen, ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Nuclear phase-out Germany shutting down the last of its nuclear power plants by 2022 could force the country to use more coal power- temporarily pushing up emissions- even ...
13 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025, 11:50 91tv Team Science Direct: CO2-tax on emission-intensive agricultural goods could cut German agricultural emissions by 22.5% The CO2-tax could generate over 8.2 billion euros in annual revenue, analysis finds. Bloomberg: Europe threatens ...
01 Feb 2022, 13:25 Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv Grid operator TenneT has started using 17 wind farms in the North Sea to prevent grid bottlenecks, the company that runs a large section of the German transmission grid ranging from the coast to ...
03 Jul 2015
03 Jul 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Ruby Russell Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy State secretary Baake: power market 2.0 guarantees supply security 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and energy ministry is proposing a reform of the power market based on an energy ...
24 Mar 2022, 12:26 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 91tv Germany's environment ministry has launched a plan for immediate action on climate change adaptation. In a press release, the ministry said it will be supporting municipalities ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Fossil fuels Cost & Prices RND / Tagesspiegel Background Germany is reducing its fossil fuel imports even as the cost of buying them has increased from 2021 to 2023, according to a report by the 脰ko-Institut ...
23 Mar 2022, 12:37 Kerstine Appunn Coal Hydrogen 91tv The site of the closed-down coal power station Moorburg in the city state of Hamburg would lend itself to producing green hydrogen at a capacity of up to 500 megawatt (MW), a feasibility ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The German government is open to partnering with African countries on fossil gas projects, as well as blue hydrogen production (made from fossil gas, ...
21 Jun 2024, 12:52 Julian Wettengel Wind 91tv Two investors have bid a total of more than 3 billion euros for permits to build offshore wind parks in the German North Sea, said the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in a press release. The two ...
16 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025, 12:00 S枚ren Amelang World Economic Forum:聽 These are the biggest risks we face now and in the next 10 years "Extreme weather events" rank second in the short term of two years and first in the long term of 10 years. Bloomberg: ...
20 Jun 2022, 12:23 Edgar Meza Wind Security Der Spiegel Growing tensions between the West and China are leading to increasing concern over the role of Chinese companies in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy sector, particularly in the wind power segment, Spiegel reports. A ...
23 Sep 2021, 12:45 鈥淎chieving net-zero鈥� emissions by the middle of the century is a goal that few would fault. But when it comes to reaching a balance of greenhouse gases and carbon removal 鈥� as not all emissions from food and industrial production can be ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:42 Jennifer Collins Grid 91tv / Wirtschaftswoche / taz / Reuters Berlin has ditched plans to buy the German business of Dutch electricity grid operator TenneT after tough negotiations, citing stretched public finances. Opinion ...
04 Feb 2025
04 Feb 2025, 12:00 91tv Team EEA: EU maritime transport: progress made but environmental, sustainability challenges persist Europe鈥檚 maritime sector is making progress towards greater sustainability but will need to increase its efforts over the coming ...
11 May 2022, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Finance Frankfurter Rundschau / ARD Major shareholders of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest airline Lufthansa have criticised the company鈥檚 management for failing to introduce a credible strategy that outlines how the ...
08 Jan 2025, 13:02 Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices Efficiency Heating 91tv Some 10 percent of 30 million households in Germany still reliant on fossil fuels for heating are unable to adequately warm their homes or are "heavily ...
16 Dec 2021, 11:11 Discussions about climate action tend to centre around the need for mitigation 鈥� reducing greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit global warming. But even if we get on track to limiting warming to 1.5C, scientific projections show ...
02 Jun 2022, 13:53 Edgar Meza Renewables Business & Jobs Der Tagesspiegel The planned structural transformation of the former East German states towards more sustainable industry 鈥� including renewable energy generation-- holds great potential but it ...
16 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
21 Jan 2025, 12:45 Edgar Meza Storage Start-ups 91tv Industrial cold storage facilities could become more efficient and be transformed into cost-saving energy storage facilities that contribute to grid stability,聽 the German Federal ...
16 Jan 2025, 13:09 S枚ren Amelang Technology Heating NDR The northern German city of Flensburg has commissioned one of the world鈥檚 largest seawater heat pumps to supply climate-neutral heat through its district heating system, reports regional public ...
21 Jan 2025
21 Jan 2025, 11:00 91tv Team AP: Trump signs executive order directing US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement 鈥� again Move is blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the U.S. from its closest allies. Ursula von ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:37 Jennifer Collins Cars 91tv / Handelsblatt Registrations of new plug-in electric cars in Germany fell by more than a quarter in 2024 compared to the previous year, while the average CO2 emissions of newly registered ...
Germany will have to invest between 30 billion and 60 billion euros per year over the next three decades if it is to achieve a near-complete decarbonisation of its energy system, technical academies Leopoldina, Acatech and Union say in a joint statement. ...
14 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025, 11:26 91tv Team Reuters: German premium carmakers' sales battered in China and Germany amid slowdown Germany's top-end carmakers took a battering at home and in China in 2024, sales volume data showed, as wealthier consumers held ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:24 Norway now provides about half of the fossil gas flows to Germany, putting a spotlight on energy security. Industry experts warn that Europe's biggest economy is not prepared for a disruption of supply, for example due to sabotage ...
18 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
03 Aug 2022, 13:37 Russia is ready to use 鈥減retexts and invented reasons鈥� to obstruct Europe鈥檚 energy supply, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said as his government prepares for a possible full halt to natural gas trading with the country鈥檚 most ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:30 Burning less coal and an increase in renewable electricity has helped cause a drop in greenhouse gas emissions of three percent in Germany last year, said think tank Agora Energiewende. Preliminary calculations show that real ...
22 Jul 2022, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Rural districts in Northern Germany have the country鈥檚 largest potential for green hydrogen production due to their windpower capacities, according to a 鈥� Hydrogen Atlas ...
03 May 2022, 12:28 Edgar Meza Bioenergy Frankfurter Rundschau 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister is planning further reductions in biofuel production in view of growing food shortages due to the war in Ukraine, Frankfurter Rundschau reports. The war is 鈥渁 ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 criticism of the current US administration鈥檚 stance on the Paris Climate Agreement, as well as her call for greater European assertiveness, have met with broad support from German politicians and business representatives, ...
17 Jan 2025, 13:14 S枚ren Amelang Heating 91tv Germany must systematically collect building efficiency data like all other EU countries, which would boost its lagging efforts to make its housing stock climate-neutral,聽 according to 聽the ...
17 May 2019, 12:58 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) / Tagesspiegel Background As ...
25 Nov 2022, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Croatia could become an important gas supplier for the southern German state of Bavaria by providing liquefied natural gas (LNG) and also hydrogen to the economic powerhouse state, the ...
05 Jul 2018, 13:29 The climate advantage of natural gas can contribute to immediate CO鈧� reduction by replacing coal and oil in the power sector and in heating, says J眉rgen Fuhlrott, Head of Business Development at 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest gas transmission grid ...
23 Jan 2025, 14:07 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Almost three years after the peak of Europe鈥檚 energy crisis in 2022, many people in Germany are ...
While 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission has already started its work, the commission tasked with finding a concept for the future of mobility in the country still lies in a 鈥渟ummer slumber,鈥� Kerstin Schwenn writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:44 Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's revenue from carbon pricing rose to a record 18.5 billion euros in 2024, up around 100 million euros from the previous year, said the country's Federal Environment ...
03 Nov 2020, 13:40 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Hydrogen 91tv ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cities Der Tagesspiegel A report by the German parliament鈥檚 scientific service has backed Berlin鈥檚 city government in its rejection of a motorway project that cuts right through the eastern centre of the ...
25 Apr 2022, 12:44 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Efficiency Capital Economist and government advisor Andreas Loechel has said the German government鈥檚 plan to provide guarantees and sureties for companies hit by high energy prices offers the wrong ...
08 Oct 2021, 11:59 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Capturing, using and storing CO2 emissions on a large scale will be necessary for Germany to reach its target of climate neutrality by 2045 and the next national government should ...
30 Nov 2021, 13:53 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv Climate policy is a cross-sectoral task that requires a reform of its mode of governance, researchers from the state-supported Ariadne project write in a policy paper directed ...
11 Jun 2024, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann EUElections2024 EU Zeit Online Germany's government coalition parties- chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party, and the Free Democratic Party (FDP)- have laid out conditions for ...
17 May 2024, 15:00 Just as France is marking the biggest drop in its greenhouse gas emissions in almost a decade, the debate about the country鈥檚 future energy policy continues in full swing. This applies to almost all sectors of the economy 鈥� and the ...
10 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025, 10:21 91tv Team Copernicus Climate Change Service: 2024 鈥� a second record-breaking year, following the exceptional 2023 Multiple global records were broken, for greenhouse gas levels, and for both air temperature and sea surface temperature, ...
10 May 2022, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv The business confidence index for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 solar power industry has reached a new all-time high, as solar PV installations become more and more popular among house owners and the government鈥檚 ...
22 Dec 2015
22 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt 鈥淪everal companies dig for Vattenfall's brown coal鈥� The timing of the sale of Vattenfall鈥檚 lignite operations, only days after the end of the Paris Climate Summit, could hardly be worse, writes ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal The state premier of Germany's most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Armin Laschet, has called for a "week of decisions" regarding the country's planned coal phase-out, ...
20 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
13 Jan 2020, 13:57 Expert NPE- German National Platform for Electric Mobility Nationale Plattform Elektromobilit盲t Transport Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv The self-reliance of Germany's carmakers for producing ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:09 S枚ren Amelang Heating Elections & Politics 91tv Electrical and IT companies in Germany have called on Germany's parties to not discredit the energy transition in the federal election campaign leading up to the vote ...
24 Oct 2022, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Finance Company climate claims 91tv Sixty percent of the top 20 DAX companies 鈥� major German businesses trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange 鈥� have set themselves net-zero greenhouse gas emission ...
07 Jan 2025, 14:01 Jennifer Collins Heating dpa / 91tv More than a third of Germany's municipalities are working on municipal heat planning to help phase out fossil fuel systems, with 13 percent already finished with their plans, reports ...
08 Mar 2022, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind EU 91tv The energy and economy minister of the southern German state Bavaria, Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters), has called on the federal government to remove bureaucratic hurdles at the EU level that ...
03 Nov 2020, 14:10 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Agriculture Clean ...
22 Jun 2022, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU 91tv Germany's finance minister has said the country will not back EU plans that amount to a ban on the sale of new combustion engine cars from 2035, arguing such a move would shut the door ...
06 Jan 2025
06 Jan 2025, 10:43 91tv Team HydrogenInsight: German chancellor calls on EU to shelve 'excessively strict' green hydrogen definition Scholz argues that planned projects cannot compete based on what the European Commission will accept is a ...
22 Aug 2022, 13:07 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen Rheinische Post / 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz and economy minister Robert Habeck want to deepen 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy ties with Canada during a three-day state visit, with a particular focus on future ...
03 Sep 2021, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics ARD / DW 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance of current chancellor Angela Merkel has reached a record low in the well-known Deutschlandtrend survey by infratest dimap, commissioned by public ...
13 Jan 2025, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Electricity Cost & Prices Elections & Politics 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background With just six weeks to go before 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parliamentary elections in late February, several parties have specified their ...
09 Jan 2025
09 Jan 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Northvolt owners back battery output as funding search continues EV supplier has been seeking investors post-Chapter 11 filing in US Swedish law requires shareholder assent after equity declines Bloomberg: Amundi, ...
13 Jun 2024, 13:30 This year's G7 leaders' summit in Italy, to be held in a secluded luxury resort in the Puglia region on 13-15 June, has been largely sidelined in the country's public discourse as the focus is firmly on the campaign for ...
06 Jun 2024, 14:00 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International 91tv ...
02 Jun 2016, 00:00 The latest reform of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable energy law is taking shape 鈥� on Tuesday the federal government and the heads of the 16 states reached an agreement on essential aspects of a reformed bill, such as the amount of onshore wind and ...
06 Jun 2024, 14:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Cost & Prices Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung / 91tv / Rheinische Post A nationwide mandatory insurance against natural hazards will be 鈥渁n important topic鈥� at an upcoming meeting between 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
09 Feb 2022, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Government 91tv The federal government in Germany has to rethink its role in supporting public transport systems and change its approach from pouring money into new projects to instead creating ...
06 Nov 2017, 00:00 The UNFCCC conference in Bonn needs to see more states make ambitious climate mitigation pledges, Sabine Nallinger, Managing Director of the Foundation 2掳- German Businesses for Climate Protection, tells 91tv. The outcome could spur the ...
07 Sep 2020, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Elections & Politics 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 achievements in the field of climate and energy policy mustn鈥檛 mean that the country becomes complacent now, Olaf Scholz, finance minister and the ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv Climate-friendly heating technologies may now be predominant in new builds in Germany but the country鈥檚 existing buildings continue to rely on fossil fuels, shows a report by the German Energy ...
07 Jan 2025
07 Jan 2025, 10:12 91tv Team E3G: Four tests driving EU politics in 2025 鈥� and what they mean for climate action Think tank E3G's 2025 EU climate policy briefing, includes timeline of events and developments. ICIS: Net imports of LNG from Russia into ...
03 Jun 2024, 14:08 For years, Germany's government heavily lobbied for the completion of an additional direct natural gas link to Russia, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, while publicly calling it a "private sector project", internal documents ...
04 Apr 2022, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Die Zeit Slow climate action has increasingly risked missing the world鈥檚 climate targets and also keeps Europe and Germany dependent on energy imports from Russia, UN climate panel IPCC ...
03 Jun 2024, 13:19 Edgar Meza Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv / Augsburger Allgemeine Catastrophic flooding following heavy and long-lasting rainfall in southern Germany over the first weekend in June has led to calls for ...
27 Mar 2019, 11:14 91tv is stepping up its coverage of how business is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world鈥檚 fourth largest economy, we have launched a series on start-ups that ...
15 Mar 2024, 13:21 Germany is largely on track to reaching its national target to reduce total greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent by 2030, but is set to fail its EU goal for sectors such as transport, buildings and agriculture, according to ...
16 Dec 2020, 15:59 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Society Die Zeit / Der Spiegel The fight against a planned resettlement of five villages due to expansion of a lignite mine in West Germany continues, writes newspaper die Zeit. In a state parliament hearing, the ...
29 Nov 2019, 14:00 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Siemens Business & Jobs S枚ren Amelang Renewables Hydrogen ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:19 Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has announced the government will extend the current e-car buyer鈥檚 premium programme to the end of 2022, as promised in the coalition treaty. From ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:14 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Finance Elections & Politics 91tv Germany's next federal government can finance the necessary climate protection measures despite聽a聽return to the聽so-called 鈥渄ebt brake鈥�,- the ...
28 Jul 2017, 00:00 On 2 August, the CEOs of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 major car manufacturers will meet with federal and state government representatives to discuss ways to reduce pollution from diesel cars. Recent cartel allegations shed a new light on the meeting鈥檚 ...
22 Mar 2022, 15:21 U.S. e-car company Tesla has inaugurated its first European production hub with the gigafactory near 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 capital Berlin. Opened only two and a half years after Tesla鈥檚 bombshell announcement for the location in the birth country ...
22 Dec 2023, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Green Party lawmakers in federal parliament (Bundestag) want the country to use carbon capture and storage (CCS) or capture and use (CCU) in sectors where 鈥� with ...
14 Jun 2022, 12:11 Kerstine Appunn Industry Business & Jobs 91tv The German government has set up a new 鈥淭ransformation Alliance鈥� between the chancellery, several ministries and representatives from businesses and trade unions, research ...
31 May 2024, 12:54 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv / dpa / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's economy minister has awarded steelmaker ArcelorMittal 1.3 billion euros to drive the decarbonisation of its production sites in the states of ...
06 May 2020, 13:29 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Grid Renewables 91tv Germany's electricity supply can remain secure until 2050 as renewable energy installations and decentralised units such as storages will be able to contribute ...
31 May 2024, 12:52 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Policy 91tv An alliance of environmental NGOs, a motorist club, trade unions and various labour unions and associations has called on Germany's finance minister Christian Lindner to slash ...
24 Jun 2022, 13:19 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics ARD / WDR 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state will be governed by a coalition of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Green Party for the next five years, the leading politicians in North ...
20 Oct 2021, 13:18 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 91tv The German federal government and state governments have reached an agreement about the protection of moorlands. Environment minister Svenja Schulze and agriculture minister Julia ...
30 May 2024, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Cars 91tv / n-tv Large petrol station companies will need to offer at least one fast charging point for electric vehicles from 2028, according to a draft law agreed by Germany's government ...
06 Jan 2025, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Solar 91tv The German solar industry marked a milestone at the turn of the year, as the total capacity of all installed solar power systems surpassed 100 gigawatts (GW), said industry association BSW Solar. ...
29 May 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility 91tv The share of cycling in short trips in Germany could triple by 2035, from 13 percent today to 45 percent, if consistent measures are taken to make cycling more attractive, a report by ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 likely failure to meet 2020 climate targets highlights the question of what direction energy policy should take in the future, according to the Institute for Economic Research (ifo). A collection of short papers by contributors such as Claudia ...
Germany will need to reduce transport emissions without prescribing particular technologies, according to transport minister Andreas Scheuer. 鈥淚n some instances, it will be an electric car, and in other cases a hydrogen engine or synthetic fuels,鈥� Scheuer ...
02 Mar 2022, 12:15 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Heating 91tv In view of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its impact on the security of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy supply, the Wuppertal Institute sustainability research think tank is calling for increased ...
29 Nov 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The premiers of Germany's five northern coastal states demand a renegotiation of the controversial 1,000-metre minimum distance rule from residential areas for onshore wind turbines included ...
23 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Reuters Nuclear commission wants utilities to supplement clean-up provisions The commission on payments for the nuclear clean-up insists that nuclear power station ...
22 Oct 2019, 14:17 Edgar Meza Finance Handelsblatt While 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal government has welcomed the increase in 鈥済reen investment鈥�, the country鈥檚 central bank remains unsatisfied with the term and is calling for a clearer definition of what constitutes ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv Natural disasters worldwide caused losses of 320 billion U.S. dollars in 2024, up from an inflation-adjusted 268 billion in 2023, of which around 140 ...
11 Jun 2015
11 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv DPA / Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau 鈥淐oal levy threatened鈥� The levy on emissions from old coal-fired power stations is on the brink of failure, insiders have told German press agency DPA. ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars dpa / Ingenieur U.S. carmaker Tesla, which is headed by highly controversial CEO Elon Musk, registered the biggest slump of new registrations among all electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers in Germany last year. ...
01 Oct 2021, 12:50 Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen 91tv Regulation that will enable green hydrogen production in the North Sea entered into force on 1 October. With the new ordinance, the German government facilitates the testing of hydrogen ...
The government in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) promotes the development of a coal mine into a pumped storage power plant after the mine's closure in 2018, it said in a press release. NRW environment minister Johannes Remmel said during a visit to the ...
21 Sep 2022, 13:23 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Wholesale electricity prices in Germany will be significantly higher in the next few years than they were during the 2019-2020 period due to the country鈥檚 energy mix and their continued dependence on gas ...
08 Jan 2025, 13:08 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 91tv In 2024, Germany recorded the highest surface temperatures in its North Sea since records began, with temperatures rising by up to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the long-term average, ...
01 Jun 2017, 00:00 According to several US media reports, the Trump administration has decided to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. The US President said on Twitter he would announce his decision on Thursday. The USA would be the first country to ...
08 Jan 2025, 10:08 Jennifer Collins Electricity Renewables 91tv The share of renewable energy in net public electricity generation in Germany in 2024 reached a record high of 62.7 percent, with solar power smashing government expansion ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:12 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Nuclear phase-out pv magazine / Clean ...
24 May 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Security Tagesspiegel Background A string of apparently targeted cyberattacks on German wind farms has led to worries that the country鈥檚 main future power source is not聽 sufficiently protected, Simon Frost reports ...
08 Dec 2021, 14:36 Jessica Bateman Elections & Politics Government S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new foreign minister, Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock, will head up international climate policy for the first time in the ministry鈥檚 history, ...
14 Dec 2017, 00:00 The energy transition has profound implications for Germany's preparations for an "unlikely but possible" large-scale power blackout, civil protection experts say. While renewable energy sources could replace fuel depots ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:32 Kerstine Appunn Carbon removal Ten projects researching different techniques for carbon direct removal (CDR) from the atmosphere will receive a total of 20 million euros in funding from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal science and education ministry ...
22 May 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv Using public procurement contracts and quotas for climate-friendly basic materials could help drive demand for climate-friendly products like green steel or cement, the German economy ministry ...
14 Dec 2020, 11:13 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid expansion is making headway 鈥� despite the Covid19 pandemic 鈥� but the power market is in need of a thorough overhaul if the country is to pursue its ambitious electrification targets while keeping up high levels of supply ...
21 May 2024, 14:05 Jack McGovan Renewables Government 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background A law reform agreed by lawmakers from Germany's government coalition would speed up approval processes around the planning and construction of new ...
16 Dec 2021, 12:22 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Edgar Meza Cars 91tv Thanks to government subsidies, fully electric cars have become an economical alternative to ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid operators fear that from 2020 the country may have to import electricity in extreme cases of adverse weather, as more and more conventional power plants are taken offline, Daniel Wetzel writes for Die Welt. The four transmission grid ...
23 Aug 2023, 09:00 The German coalition government鈥檚 Climate Action Programme 2023 is insufficient to meet 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets- and overestimates its total potential to lower emissions, said the country鈥檚 Council of Experts on ...
15 Apr 2021, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Wind Seven European transmission grid operators (TSO) have launched an initiative for interconnecting offshore wind platforms across Europe. The aim of 鈥淓urobar鈥� is to securely and efficiently ...
The planners of future grid extensions in Germany must pay more attention to new technologies, according to grid operator Tennet. The company鈥檚 CEO, Lex Hartmann, said that the increasing digitalisation of power grids could replace the construction of ...
26 Sep 2022, 12:14 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Company climate claims Society 91tv Products advertised as 鈥渃limate neutral鈥� mislead consumers ...
The future of coal-fired power generation is going to be one of the coalition talks鈥� most delicate matters, Michael Bauchm眉ller says in an article for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淎ll other energy policy issues pale in comparison to the coal question,鈥� he writes ...
05 Jul 2021, 12:57 Kerstine Appunn Citizens' energy 91tv Citizen energy cooperatives are planning fewer new projects than in previous years, a survey conducted by the German Cooperative and Raiffeisen Confederation (DGRV) showed. Thirty ...
20 Dec 2024, 13:07 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Wind power output in Germany is not at risk of increasingly being decimated by so ...
15 Sep 2022, 13:46 S枚ren Amelang Solar Policy dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The German government is introducing tax breaks for the operation of small-scale photovoltaic systems and removing other bureaucratic hurdles to speed up the ...
Rainfall is increasing due to climate change and more people will become victims of floods than previously thought in the near future, according to a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) published in Science Advances. ...
The option for a so-called Jamaica government coalition of CDU/CSU, Greens and Free Democrats (FDP) should be used if there was a majority for it after the general elections in September, according to CDU parliamentary state secretary in the finance ...
01 Feb 2022, 13:27 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Constitutional Court has declined to accept eleven constitutional complaints directed against existing state climate action laws and the lack of CO2 reduction paths ...
05 Oct 2022, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt A new gas pipeline that would connect the Iberian peninsula with northern Europe through the Pyrenees is causing a stir in France, Spain and Germany amid the energy crisis, business daily ...
21 Dec 2022, 10:51 The uptake of net zero targets among India鈥檚 industrial giants is unlikely to translate into rapid emissions reductions given a lack of adequate policies, funding and regulatory oversight. On the contrary, the country's steelmakers ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars 91tv The contentious debate about a general speed limit on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 famed Autobahn (motorway) has flared up again as the campaign for the country鈥檚 snap election on 23 February gets underway ...
09 Nov 2022, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann International dpa / Handelsblatt / 91tv Politicians and business representatives from France and Germany have stressed the need for a sound and extensive cooperation of the two key EU members to maintain ...
10 Jan 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv / Die Welt At 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first mobility summit under Olaf Scholz on 10 January, the German chancellor aims to renew efforts to tackle the country鈥檚 lagging emissions reduction in the ...
16 May 2024, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal 91tv Technological measures to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere face significant economic and institutional hurdles in Germany said a research team led by the Helmholtz Centre for ...
16 May 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann EU Table.Media Members of parliament from France and Germany have called for intensifying efforts to create a more coherent energy policy together with Poland, Table.Media reported. The three major EU member states ...
10 Feb 2022, 13:48 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU 91tv European imports ...
20 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024, 12:00 91tv Team Ember: EU generated record 30% of electricity from wind and solar in first half of 2024, surpassing fossil fuels for first time Ember's 2024 review shows highlights of energy transition's development. The Guardian: & ...
15 May 2024, 12:32 Jack McGovan Citizens' energy Energiewende 91tv Convincing those living in rural areas of the importance of the energy transition is a 鈥渂asic requirement鈥� for transforming the energy system successfully, according to a ...
15 May 2024, 12:31 Julian Wettengel Transport FAZ The European Union is set to fail its target to have 1.2 percent of all aviation fuels available at EU airports comprised of synthetic fuels like e-kerosene by 2030, because global production lags behind, ...
Europe gave the world some of its top automakers, but it鈥檚 losing out to China in the race to define the industry鈥檚 future, writes Daniel Chane for CNN business. 鈥淚t may be too late to catch up,鈥� according to Chane. Energy analyst Simone Tagliapietra from ...
19 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024, 11:48 91tv Team Eurostat: Renewables account for 24.5% of EU energy use in 2023 In 2023, 24.5 percent of gross final energy consumption in the EU came from renewable sources, up by 1.4 percentage points compared with 2022. IISD: Fossil fuels ...
01 Dec 2015
01 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv RWE / Handelsblatt Utility RWE follows E.ON example, to split in two One of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest utilities RWE will split in two, the company announced on Tuesday. Renewables, grids and retail activities in Germany ...
13 May 2024, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal 91tv German forests are in a poor state, as four out of five trees of the most common species 鈥� spruce, pine, beech and oak 鈥� are damaged, said the agriculture ministry' ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:53 Kerstine Appunn Heating 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany should include hydrogen for heating houses in its energy transition to successfully decarbonise the heating sector, gas grid operator umbrella organisation FNB ...
27 Nov 2023, 13:43 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal ARD / Der Spiegel The German Green Party has finalised its manifesto for the 2024 EU elections, including a promise for rules to allow capturing and storing carbon emissions (CCS) from ...
29 Sep 2021, 13:42 Olaf Scholz has led Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) to an unexpected win in the country's 2021 elections. The finance minister of chancellor Angela Merkel's outgoing government has led a campaign based on continuity with ...
08 Jan 2025
08 Jan 2025, 10:14 91tv Team Reuters: Automakers to pool CO2 emissions with Tesla, Polestar to meet EU 2025 rules Automakers facing tougher European Union 2025 emissions rules are planning to buy carbon credits from electric vehicle companies including ...
15 Mar 2022, 13:44 Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG Coal Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Eastern German lignite company LEAG has accepted a loan of over five billion euros from ...
17 Feb 2020, 14:11 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Der Spiegel / 91tv The unresolved question of future ...
The German natural gas sector is demanding changes to the government鈥檚 forthcoming Climate Action Plan 2050, saying the current draft fails to recognise the potential of natural gas on the way to decarbonise 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy. A 鈥榥atural gas exit鈥� would ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:15 Next year will be a difficult one for climate policy, says Susanne Dr枚ge, head of climate protection and energy at the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Governments will have to show whether they are still committed to strong climate ...
16 Dec 2024, 14:02 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Society S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Many people in Germany associate climate policy with state control and the fear of being financially overburdened due to decisions made by the departing coalition government, ...
Battery-powered transport is only a transitional technology and hydrogen-powered fuel cells are the 鈥渞eal solution鈥� for the future of mobility, writes Aldo Belloni, CEO of German chemical company and hydrogen supplier Linde Group in a guest commentary in ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 decision to phase-out nuclear power and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the same time is posing difficulties for the country, which will miss its 2020 CO 2 reduction targets, Paola Tamma writes on Politico. Both the IPCC鈥檚 new 1.5 degree ...
10 May 2024, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann International Security 91tv Germany has vowed to support the reconstruction of war-torn Ukraine鈥檚 power grid, which has been greatly damaged by missile attacks over the past two years in the context of ...
26 Nov 2021, 13:16 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 future coalition government is planning the implementation of a 鈥渃oal foundation鈥� to ensure an earlier coal phase-out. 鈥淭丑别 establishment of a foundation or company that organises the ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:53 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv In addition to electrification and a massive ramp-up of renewables, a greater use of diverse technologies such as seasonal heat storage or feed additives that reduce methane emissions from ...
18 Feb 2019, 13:28 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Cars Business & Jobs Der Spiegel / Electrek / Bloomberg Volkswagen plans to introduce an internal CO2 levy in a drive to reduce the ...
09 Jul 2015
09 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Die Zeit 鈥淲e have to exit within 25 or 30 years鈥� German environment minister Barbara Hendricks expects coal to be phased out in Germany by 2045 at the very latest. 鈥淲e have to exit the burning of coal step by step ...
03 Feb 2020, 13:44 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Gas ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:03 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv Germany might need to drastically rethink its climate policy if it wants to reach its emission reduction targets, government advisors have warned. It is 鈥渜uestionable whether ...
19 Jan 2016
19 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Ministry for Energy and Economic Affairs (BMWi) Gabriel says wants round table on future of coal 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy minister Sigmar Gabriel has said he wants to establish a round table on the ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Onshore wind power auctions held in November in Germany have led to a new record in submitted bids, the country鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. Bidders submitted ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas 91tv / Tagesspiegel / WDR The construction of new gas-fired power plants that are supposed to provide backup capacity for the German electricity system amid the transition to renewable power needs ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Transport Cost & Prices 91tv Germany has to reform its transport sector taxes to help reach climate targets, but also to ensure sufficient revenue in a climate-friendly mobility future, says a report ...
19 Feb 2021, 13:55 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Transport Following the pandemic, one third of business trips in Germany could be replaced by video conferences, a survey 聽conducted by the Borderstep Institute on behalf of the Ecological ...
17 Dec 2024
17 Dec 2024, 12:28 91tv Team Reuters: Europe's carmakers discount EVs, hike petrol car prices as new emissions rules loom The European Union will drastically lower its cap on automotive carbon dioxide emissions from Jan. 1, meaning at least one-fifth ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Der Spiegel / 91tv The decommissioning of local gas grids in German cities should be flagged ten years in advance to allow households to prepare accordingly and avoid the purchase ...
18 Mar 2022, 13:41 Julian Wettengel International Security 91tv The climate crisis and its effects on people鈥檚 lives around the world will be at the heart of the National Security Strategy being developed by the German government, said ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Resources & Recycling 91tv / ARD Serbia鈥檚 president Aleksandr Vucic visited a lithium mining project in eastern Germany together with German chancellor Olaf Scholz in a bid to underline the two ...
31 Jan 2022, 13:39 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three-party government coalition is pressing ahead with plans to quickly end the support to renewable energy operators directly via consumers鈥� power ...
10 Dec 2024, 13:33 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs 91tv Achieving climate neutrality before mid ...
10 Dec 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The steel industry is 鈥渙f geopolitical importance鈥� for German industry and will therefore receive assistance from the government in mastering its ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:36 A sudden and sharp electricity price spike during a day of very little wind and solar power output in Germany has prompted the country鈥檚 grid regulator to investigate a possible market manipulation. Fossil backup plants that are meant ...
23 Feb 2017, 00:00 Against a backdrop of general elections later this year, a debate about a general overhaul of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 much-imitated system for renewables support is gathering pace. Many proponents of replacing the current Renewable Energy Act (EEG) ...
31 Mar 2022, 13:53 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv Transnational cooperation in the development of a common hydrogen market and the construction of hydrogen infrastructure can strengthen the Netherlands and Germany in the decarbonisation of their ...
09 Dec 2024, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas dpa / Die Welt A legislative standstill in plans to build new gas-fired power plants poses a threat to the transformation of East German coal-mining regions, the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) has said ...
16 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024, 10:45 91tv Team The Guardian: Germany: parliament to declare no confidence in chancellor Olaf Scholz Chancellor triggered path to elections, due to take place on 23 February, by firing finance minister Christian Lindner last month. DeSmog: ...
23 Sep 2022, 14:02 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit盲t zu K枚ln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International S枚ren Amelang Gas Security Clean ...
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11 Dec 2024, 11:42 91tv Team France24: Germany's Scholz calls for European EV subsidy plan Chancellor's call comes as country's flagship auto industry struggles with the transition to battery-powered cars. WEF: The Cost of Inaction: A CEO ...
12 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024, 13:23 91tv Team Financial Times: Norway campaigns to cut energy links to Europe as power prices soar Country鈥檚 energy minister describes 鈥榮hit situation鈥� as domestic prices hit highest level since 2009. Electrive: Germany's economy ...
The future government coalition of Christian Democrats (CDU) and Free Democrats (FDP) in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) wants to slow down wind power expansion and keep energy generation from fossil fuels as 鈥渂ridging technologies for the foreseeable future ...
28 Jul 2017, 00:00 [CORRECTION, due to mistake in transcription: in reply to 4th question, diesel cars have "always been allowed to emit more NOx than petrol cars", not CO2] On 2 August, the CEOs of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 major car manufacturers will meet ...
02 May 2024, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Renewable energy capacity has increased rapidly in Germany in the past year, but the expansion must be accelerated further for the country to meet its target of sourcing ...
07 Jul 2022, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government 91tv German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ruled out an extension of the runtime of the country鈥檚 three remaining nuclear plants as a way to stabilise the energy system amid an ...
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02 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淭丑别 end of dinosaurs鈥� In the end, the large dinosaurs who had ruled the world disappeared 鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 big energy companies face a similar fate, writes Markus Balser in the ...
With the future of e-mobility being decided in China, German carmakers have to get a move on to not fall behind, writes Sebastian Schaal for WirtschaftsWoche. An 鈥渁ctively shaped, distorted technology race鈥� was unfolding in China, according to Sebastian ...
28 Oct 2022, 13:11 Kiprotich Koros Gas Industry 91tv African governments run the risk of stranded investments if they respond to the EU's short-term need for natural gas in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a report by the ...
Energy policy analyst and Green Party member Arne Jungjohann presents different scenarios for a coal phase-out in Germany, depending on the result of the general election and government coalition constellation in an article on chinadialogue. Read the ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:43 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 forests can provide the annual sink capacity needed to achieve ...
24 Apr 2017, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Germans to go beyond a rational take on the Energiewende and develop 鈥渁 certain passion and joy鈥� for the country鈥檚 generational project. Speaking at an event by her conservative CDU/CSU group in the ...
27 Sep 2019, 13:42 Expert Energy Brainpool Energy consultancy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Expert Wuppertal ...
30 Apr 2024, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Handelsblatt An alliance of industry associations, trade unions and farmers has called on Germany's government to halt planned underground electricity grid expansion projects and instead build three ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Government Tagesspiegel / 91tv An earlier phase-out of coal-fired power production in Germany by 2030 is unlikely if the country does not manage to install sufficient alternative backup capacity to ...
30 Nov 2021, 10:50 The three "traffic light coalition" parties have agreed to form Germany's next government and tabled a coalition treaty that they promise will put the country on a path compatible with Paris Climate Agreement 's ...
The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) plans to initiate its own programme to measure emissions from diesel vehicles in real-life conditions, setting up parallel structures to those of the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA), reports S眉ddeutsche Zeitung ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Utilities dpa / n-tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 local utility association VKU has called for public support to finance the decommissioning of the country鈥檚 natural gas grid and avoid high fees for customers, news agency dpa ...
The future of the internal combustion engine and car manufacturing in Germany will be central topics at the International Motor Show (IAA) 2017 in September, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her annual summer press conference in Berlin. 鈥淗ow do ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv The German network agency BNetzA has approved the route for the first section the key electricity transmission power line SuedOstLink, which is set to transport offshore wind power from the ...
A joint report by the International Renewable Energy Agency and the International Energy Agency, on investment needed by 2050 to transform the world鈥檚 energy supply in line with Paris Climate Agreement targets, shows competing visions of a clean energy ...
Decentralised renewable energy sources increase the importance of local distribution grids for making 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition work, a new study on municipal utilities by consulting agency Ernst & Young (EY) says. Distribution grid operators become ...
18 Jun 2018, 14:58 Social justice should be a guiding principle of modern climate policy, German environment minister Svenja Schulze said at the opening of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin. Samantha Smith of the International Trade Union ...
Once a world leader in renewables, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition progress has stalled and the 2020 targets are out of reach unless the next government realigns its policies, writes energy economist Claudia Kemfert in an article in Nature. The country should ...
15 Jun 2022, 15:01 German states will have to actively look for areas that can be designated for wind farm construction in order to meet government targets. The cabinet is forwarding another set of draft laws aimed at accelerating the country鈥檚 energy ...
11 Aug 2021, 13:49 Kerstine Appunn Finance 91tv One of the main objectives of this year鈥檚 UN Climate summit in Glasgow (COP26) should be reworking the details of international climate finance and include more links to reciprocal efforts in ...
22 Feb 2021, 12:27 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Gas Heating ...
06 Jan 2025, 12:45 Jennifer Collins Grid Hydrogen dpa / 91tv The buildout of crucial energy infrastructure in Germany is making progress: The first 525 kilometres of Germany's hydrogen core grid will be built in 2025, with gas operators ...
15 Dec 2021, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Renewables Government 91tv The new German government's plan to more than double power production from renewable sources by 2030 presents a 鈥済igantic task鈥� for the country, said Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...
05 Aug 2021, 12:18 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Rheinische Post / 91tv Chancellor candidates Armin Laschet (conservative CDU/CSU) and Olaf Scholz (Social Democrats 鈥� SPD) have come out against the Green Party proposal to install ...
08 Nov 2017, 00:00 Following intense lobbying by German carmakers, the EU has proposed car emission targets that will be insufficient to meet the country鈥檚 climate targets in the transport sector, according to environmental organisations. Critics said the ...
05 Dec 2024, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics ARD The leader of Germany's largest opposition party, Friedrich Merz, has ruled out helping the minority government of chancellor Olaf Scholz to get major policy projects across the line ...
05 Dec 2024, 13:05 S枚ren Amelang Electricity Industry Hydrogen 91tv German industry demand for electricity will rise steeply during the sector鈥檚 decarbonisation even if it opts for intensive use of hydrogen, according to a聽 report 聽by a ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:19 Edgar Meza Coal Society rbb 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 eastern states are set to greatly benefit from the country鈥檚 energy transition due to the high number of future-oriented companies based there and to the coal exit compromise, which will see the ...
10 Oct 2022, 13:41 The German state should support households and businesses with about 90 billion euros by early 2024 to lower gas bills, said an expert commission charged by the government with drawing up a plan to relieve gas consumers affected by ...
17 Oct 2022, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government Bild / Der Spiegel The dispute over delaying the completion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear phase-out drags on within the country鈥檚 coalition government. A meeting between chancellor Olaf Scholz from ...
06 Dec 2021, 13:49 With the last minister choices announced and the Greens' and Social Democrat's (SPD) party basis confirming the coalition agreement, Germany's next government is set to be elected on Wednesday, 8 December. The SPD will ...
09 Dec 2024
09 Dec 2024, 13:40 91tv Team Reuters: Germany's Scholz not ruling out Berlin taking stake in Thyssenkrupp steel Chancellor meets top representatives of ailing steel sector to discuss high energy prices, cheap competition and shift to decarbonisation. ...
18 Dec 2024, 13:06 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 91tv Temperatures in Germany will this year be the hottest since records began for the third consecutive year, the country鈥檚 weather service DWD said. "Never since the end of the ...
01 Sep 2021, 13:21 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Gas Table Media 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 LNG import terminals are under pressure as technical issues and a wait for approval from the European Commission regarding state aid could lead to months-long disruptions, reported news service ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:11 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Renewables Resources & Recycling Rising metal prices could slow the shift towards a low-emission energy system, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) said in a聽 report. "If we ...
12 Mar 2021, 13:39 Charlotte Nijhuis Transport 91tv The sales of bicycles and e-bikes in Germany increased by 16.9 percent in 2020 compared to the year before, amounting to 6.44 billion euros, the German bicycle industry association (ZIV) ...
04 Jun 2021, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Cars dpa German carmaker BMW has announced it wants to reduce supply chain CO2 emissions in China by 20 percent from 2019 levels by 2030, reports news agency dpa. 鈥淢any people believe that the biggest source of ...
22 Sep 2021, 13:46 Jessica Bateman 91tv 91tv Society 91tv Seventy percent of Germans would support a ban on short haul flights in order to better protect the climate, a survey has found. A聽 poll 聽carried out by YouGov on behalf ...
The Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW) proposes replacing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables levy (EEG-surcharge), paid by power consumers with their electricity bill, with a surcharge on income and corporate taxes. IW today published a paper that ...
06 Dec 2024, 12:56 S枚ren Amelang Society Elections & Politics 91tv Climate action has dropped in German voters鈥� priorities vs economic growth over the course of the past five years, according to a聽 survey 聽conducted by the Konrad Adenauer ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:04 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG ...
Many investors increasingly doubt that further investments in fossil power plants make sense and ask for ever more detailed justifications, for example regarding the modernisation of old facilities, writes WirtschaftsWoche in a long article. This could ...
06 Dec 2024, 12:50 S枚ren Amelang Cars Electrive The average price of newly registered electric cars rose by around 4,000 euros to 56,669 euros in Germany this year, slowing the transition to climate-friendly mobility, according to the Center of Automotive ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:30 Industrialised countries are taking pains to convince developing nations at the 13th Petersberg Climate Dialogue that they will live up to their emission reduction and climate finance commitments despite the fallout from the Russian war ...
06 Dec 2024
06 Dec 2024, 12:28 91tv Team S&P Globa l: Spain's Grenergy sees Germany, US as prime markets for battery storage expansion "Fantastic opportunity in Germany for stand-alone [battery] projects," chairman says. AFP: Europe's oldest ...
Smart distribution grids are a pre-requisite for the success of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transition to a low-carbon energy system, according to a press release from Westnetz, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest distribution system operator. While 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition has been ...
18 Jan 2022, 12:36 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture 91tv The German ministries of environment and agriculture, which have so far often pulled in different directions, are now planning to jointly reform the country鈥檚 farming policies to ensure the ...
The energy ministers of Turkey and Germany have agreed to cooperate more closely on the issues of renewable energies, energy efficiency, infrastructure, integrated energy (sector coupling) and regulation, their letter of intent signed at the second German ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal elections in September will also be a decision 鈥渙n the direction of the country鈥檚 energy policy鈥� and a lot depends on which parties form a government coalition, Arne Jungjohann writes on website China Dialogue. With near-term [climate ...
German battery manufacturer Sonnen is the first small & medium enterprise to win the 1.5 million-dollar Zayed Future Energy Prize. The annual award has become one of the most prestigious in the cleantech industry. Sonnen called the prize the 鈥淥scar of ...
29 Nov 2024, 11:00 Military and energy security are key priorities for Poland as it prepares to assume the EU鈥檚 rotating presidency in January 2025. The country plans to achieve these targets by pushing for nuclear energy, sanctions on Russia, and EU ...
