A new online platform by German utility association BDEW and business consultancy PwC aims to share experiences with alternative mobility and integrated city concepts, BDEW said in a press release. The website eco-mobility.org introduces the latest ...
30 May 2022, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU Der Tagesspiegel / 91tv The German foreign ministry’s special envoy for international climate action, former Greenpeace head Jennifer Morgan, has said she supports the idea of higher import ...
26 Oct 2021, 17:29 High gas, petrol and power prices are set to play a part in the ongoing negotiations to form the next German government coalition, which will shape the country’s energy transition policy for years. The election winner Social Democrats, ...
10 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024, 12:00 91tv Team RWE: Head of German energy company "not concerned" about Trump's effect on renewables "It’s not all down to politics," says CEO Krebber, expects U.S. green power business to flourish. dpa: Ford's ...
25 May 2021, 13:20 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Welt am Sonntag Audi boss Markus Duesmann is calling for a clear political commitment to electric cars from German politicians, Welt am Sonntag reports. Instead of building a hydrogen infrastructure and ...
Germany must “expand the lessons it has learned to the European level” and integrate the German and European energy systems in order to make the energy transition a durable success, writes Thomas Cunningham in an in-depth paper for the Global Energy ...
14 May 2021, 14:16 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Coal Utilities Reuters German energy company Uniper has agreed to consider an earlier than planned shutdown of its controversial coal-fired power plant Datteln 4, Reuters reports. "Should future ...
Aligning lending standards of development banks with the Paris Agreement’s emissions reduction targets would help achieve a quicker and more sustainable modernisation of the recipient countries’ economies, according to a working paper by NGO Germanwatch. ...
30 Nov 2023, 15:00 [CORRECTION: Earlier version of the article misstated the number of members in the climate club. The club's website says 36 countries are members.] On the first day of the UN climate change conference COP28 in Dubai, Germany and ...
12 Nov 2021, 13:37 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Nuclear phase-out Handelsblatt The operators of Germany’s six remaining nuclear power stations, utilities E.ON, RWE and EnBW, have rejected calls to keep the plants in operation beyond their scheduled ...
15 Apr 2024, 12:33 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal 91tv Germany cannot realistically reach climate neutrality by 2045 without using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, several research academies have said in a ...
27 Aug 2021, 13:33 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 91tv Heavy rainfall in Germany will become more frequent and more intense due to rising ...
15 Apr 2024, 12:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Der Spiegel / 91tv The German parliament (Bundestag) has given the green light for the construction of a 9,700-kilometre pipeline network to transport hydrogen across the country and to its ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:30 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Corporate decision makers in Germany have voted hydrogen technologies as the most important field of action for energy ...
09 Dec 2024, 13:58 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background It remains unclear whether Germany’s planned reform of its carbon storage law will make it through parliament ahead of the snap election in February 2025, ...
Diesel engines will have “ a renaissance in the foreseeable future ” and shed its currently-tarnished image as a particularly polluting technology, VW head Michael Müller said at the important trade fair Geneva International Motor Show, the Frankfurter ...
The vast scale at which ‘negative emissions technologies’ that suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere would need to be implemented raises ethical concerns, writes a group of researchers from the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate ...
German utility EnBW has purchased German battery storage provider Senec in a bid to strengthen its position in a decentralised and renewable energy system, pv magazine reports. Senec Managing Director Maximilian von Grundherr said that the move will allow ...
Electric cars will be needed both as a greener form of transport and as storage devices for a power grid that relies on intermittent renewable energy sources if Germany is to hit its Paris Climate Agreement targets, Michael Neißendorfer writes in the ...
23 Aug 2021, 13:32 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Transport 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany lacks the infrastructure to ...
29 Apr 2021, 12:00 Kerstine Appunn Grid Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s power transmission grid operators (TSO) have said that the construction of key electricity lines will likely be delayed by several years, reports Jakob Schlandt in Tagesspiegel ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:33 Europe's largest car fair IAA is set to become a showdown between climate activists and an automotive industry eager to prove its green credentials when it takes place next month. The show, which has been moved from Frankfurt to ...
18 Dec 2024, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv Primary energy consumption in Germany dropped to a new low in 2024 amid warmer weather, a continued weakness of the country’s economy, and ongoing efficiency gains, the Federation of ...
26 Nov 2024
26 Nov 2024, 11:15 91tv Team Reuters: Germany's Scholz: disagree with EU fines for carmakers who miss CO2 limits German chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday there should be no fines in the European Union for car companies that do not comply with ...
25 Oct 2021, 13:53 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Coal International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany could play a decisive role in the global transition to renewable energy, Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA ...
02 Aug 2019, 11:51 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Cars Reuters / 91tv German luxury car maker BMW’s earnings in the second quarter of 2019 fell by a fifth to 2.2 billion euros (2018: ...
01 Apr 2022, 12:57 Sören Amelang Transport Freight 91tv Discount supermarket chain Lidl is switching the entire battery-electric vehicle fleet of a logistics hub to fuel cells powered by green hydrogen, making it the first of its kind in ...
11 Apr 2024, 13:21 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Wind EU 91tv The Federation ...
The German government has chosen Ingolstadt to try out flying taxis in cooperation with Airbus and carmaker Audi, which is based in the Bavarian city. Transport minister Andreas Scheuer said flying taxis are no longer a pipe dream of the future. Instead, ...
02 May 2022, 13:43 Sören Amelang Grid Security Germany has raised its power plant backup reserve to ensure a stable winter electricity supply due to grid extensions not keeping pace with the country's renewables rollout. "The delays in grid ...
In a letter addressed to Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leading negotiators in the ongoing government coalition talks between the CDU/CSU and the SPD, several German NGOs, including BUND, WWF, and NABU, call for a clear commitment to the 2020 climate ...
Germany is far from phasing out coal use for its energy supply – despite its political commitment to a low-carbon economy, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) writes in a report on “The role of coal in Europe’s power mix”. The country’s dependence on ...
10 Apr 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Heating Focus Online The eastern German city of Cottbus in coal mining region Lusatia plans to use an artificial lake in a former open pit mine for the installation of a large heat pump that could cover up to 40 ...
Future prospects for the German solar sector are “rather good”, according to almost two thirds of business and research experts surveyed by R&D for Photovoltaics, a research initiative financed by the economy (BMWi) and education (BMBF) ministries. 62 ...
10 Dec 2021, 14:00 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics ...
09 Apr 2024, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel / 91tv The first major city in Germany, Augsburg, has announced plans for ending the use of natural gas in its heating system and informed customers ...
German utility E.ON has finalised the sale of its fossil power spin-off Uniper to Finnish energy company Fortum, E.ON has said in a press release. Company CEO Johannes Teyssen said the sale marks the end of a chapter in E.ON's history. “We wish ...
08 Apr 2021, 12:42 Edgar Meza Society 91tv / Tageszeitung (taz) The Scientists for Future organisation and the Bürgerbegehren Klimaschutz (BBK) climate action group have launched a citizen's climate council. The NGOs have assembled a ...
German industry association BDI has warned that an e-car boom could put pressure on the availability of raw materials for German industry, Welt am Sonntag reports. “Without a sufficient supply of cobalt, graphite, manganese and lithium there won’t be ...
22 Nov 2024, 13:13 Ruby Russel Cars Business & Jobs 91tv / Reuters Demand for jobs in the German car industry has reached a new low, according to a data analysis by the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) in cooperation with online job ...
08 Apr 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Renewables Germany’s ministries for the economy, the environment and construction have released a draft for translating the EU’s renewable energy directive (RED) into German law to speed up the roll-out of ...
08 Apr 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices Deutsche Verkehrszeitung Germany has only spent about ten percent of the 1.8 billion euros earmarked for the expansion of electric mobility charging infrastructure in its Climate and ...
13 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024, 12:03 91tv Team Carbon Brief: State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming Strong El Niño event contributed to exceptionally high global temperatures early in the year. IEA: Technology breakthroughs are unlocking ...
21 Nov 2024, 13:11 Ruby Russel Freight 91tv Battery-electric trucks are the best option to reduce emissions from road freight transport, and market forces are working in their favour, according to a report by the German Institute for Economic ...
28 Nov 2024, 11:55 Ruby Russel Renewables 91tv [UPDATE adds FA Wind survey] The vast majority (80%) of people in Germany support the country's ongoing transition to renewable energy, a survey commissioned by the German Renewable Energy ...
03 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 4 at the UN climate conference: EU and G77 + China clash over differentiated responsibilities / A 2°C slogan translates into a 1.5°C target / Government compensation for CO2 emissions in transport Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for ...
03 Dec 2024, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Adaptation Spiegel Germany’s government had aimed to reform several laws to improve flood protection in the country, but environment minister Steffi Lemke told news magazine Spiegel that the reform is no longer possible ...
21 Jul 2022, 14:03 Kerstine Appunn Gas Security 91tv Gas has started to flow through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Russia to Germany following a 10-day closure for annual maintenance work. The lower utilisation at around 40 percent of ...
10 Nov 2017, 00:00 Tough talks- but not yet reason to worry / EU remains steadfast on pre-2020 action and inflexible on Adaptation Fund / "No jobs on a dead planet"- trade unions / Climate-smart agriculture / Effects of climate change in Germany ...
13 Dec 2024, 13:38 Unusually low wind power output has caused another 'Dunkelflaute' period in Germany with significantly reduced renewable power production and extreme price hikes in short-term electricity trading. Most customers are shielded ...
11 Nov 2019, 14:46 Expert Heinrich Böll Foundation Green policy think tank Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Society Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices 91tv The challenge of finding and funding a final repository for ...
07 Mar 2022, 13:56 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Clean Energy ...
26 Nov 2024, 13:21 Jack McGovan Electricity market 91tv Energy company RWE has been found for the fifth time in a row to be in a dominant position in the German electricity market, according to a report by the Federal Cartel Office. Although ...
22 Nov 2024
22 Nov 2024, 10:56 91tv Team Bloomberg: VW union calls for December walkouts in dispute over cuts Labour leaders and management are struggling to agree on how to cope with a drop in demand for electric vehicles, higher operation costs and increasing ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a “huge mistake“ when she argues that the question of ending coal-fired power generation should only be dealt with after ensuring the economic future of the affected workers, Green Party co-head Annalena Baerbock told ...
28 Nov 2024
28 Nov 2024, 10:30 91tv Team BPIE: EU buildings sector significantly off track to meet 2030 and 2050 climate goals Overall, the four key indicators of the EU Buildings Climate Tracker – CO2 emissions reduction, final energy consumption, renewable energy ...
13 Jun 2019, 13:38 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Security Nature Intensifying climate change will increase the future risk of violent armed conflict within countries, according to a study published in the journal Nature co-authored by an ...
The German Wind Energy Association (BWE) demands a governmentally-carried public debate among politicians, the industry and unions on a future energy concept for Germany to ensure a “basic consensus” in the society. In a press release, the BWE criticises ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:04 Jack McGovan Industry Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv Many German companies introduced energy efficiency measures and some shifted towards renewable power sources due to higher energy prices in the aftermath of ...
05 Apr 2024, 11:52 Edgar Meza Solar 91tv Germany has significantly more potential for the expansion of ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) systems on open spaces than current requirement estimates for a completely renewable electricity system, ...
The price for emitting one tonne of CO 2 has more than tripled since the beginning of the year and now stands at 17 euros, Bernward Janzing writes in the taz. There is now hope that this climate action measure is finally working. When prices rise above 15 ...
18 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024, 11:15 91tv Team Bertelsmann Stiftung: Climate neutrality: The OECD and EU countries best equipped to lead the way The analysis compares the effectiveness of national policies in climate protection, energy transition and circular economy ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:51 Edgar Meza Mobility Cars Handelsblatt Electric cars will need to account for most new registrations in Germany in just four years and the end of new combustion engine cars will have to begin in 2030, says a report by the National ...
17 Mar 2021, 13:02 Sören Amelang Mobility Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung VW subsidiary Audi has abandoned the development of new combustion engines. "We will no longer develop a new combustion engine, but will adapt our existing combustion engines to ...
The locations for battery cell production will shape the geography of the auto sector for decades to come, because the choice will determine in large part where the cars of the future will be built, writes Nick Butler in an opinion piece in the Financial ...
In an opinion piece in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Andreas Mihm argues that the government is responsible for Germany’s high power prices, as it does not use the state budget to finance desired support like that for renewables, but passes the costs on ...
19 Jan 2016, 00:00 Germany’s energy minister Sigmar Gabriel wants to establish a round table on the future of coal in the country of the Energiewende this year. He said only factual discussions, rather than emotional debates, could provide the long-term ...
08 Jul 2022, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv Both the federal parliament (Bundestag) and the council of state governments (Bundesrat) have passed this year’s first major batch of energy ...
Key IT projects necessary for the digitalisation of the German energy transition are making no headway, endangering the “ambitious large-scale project”, journalist Peter Welchering told German radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk. These projects included ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Coal Renewables 91tv The incoming coalition government in the eastern German state of Brandenburg has said it aims to continue the expansion of renewable energies to make the region surrounding the country ...
07 May 2021, 13:45 Electric cars have long been touted as key to a more sustainable future, but their contribution is clouded by the climate impact of making and disposing of them. As part of an industry-wide bid to roll out entirely CO2-neutral vehicles, ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv / Handelsblatt Germany’s constitutional court has ruled that the government’s use of renewable energy operators' windfall profits to co-finance electricity price ...
25 Nov 2024
25 Nov 2024, 11:00 91tv Team DW: Bosch to cut 5,000 jobs with car industry in crisis The car parts manufacturer said some 3,800 of the layoffs are to be made in Germany. Reuters: VW brand boss: layoffs, plant closures needed to fix carmaker's ...
Banking on the combustion engine technology in Germany would be a “dangerous obstacle to innovation for an industry that largely depends on exports to future international markets,” Cem Özdemir, Green politician and new chair of the transport committee in ...
02 Feb 2022, 13:43 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Heating Society 91tv The German government has agreed to review applications by home builders under a controversial funding programme set up by the previous administration. Its aim is to pacify ...
09 Jun 2016
09 Jun 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Federal government Gabriel rejects commission with exclusive focus on coal exit Germany's economy minister Sigmar Gabriel said he will not convene a commission ...
22 Aug 2022, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out dpa / Zeit Online Extending the runtime of Germany’s three remaining nuclear power plants will do very little to help the country weather the looming gas supply crisis, economy and climate minister ...
The prevailing mood at the WindEnergy Hamburg international trade fair shows how the industry is reinventing itself: the era of subsidies is coming to an end, Kathrin Witsch writes in the Handelsblatt. “We expect that power purchase agreements (PPAs) will ...
Germany’s renewables levy could be lowered even further next year if exemptions for energy intensive industries were financed via the federal budget, instead of with the levy, writes the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) in a press ...
24 Jan 2022, 13:33 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas EU 91tv Utilities have welcomed the German government's pro-natural gas stance in its feedback to the European Commission’s sustainable finance taxonomy plans, but ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:08 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Handelsblatt / ...
29 Sep 2022, 13:41 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 91tv Leading players in the ...
24 Nov 2021, 13:06 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture 91tv The European parliament has passed the rules for funding European farmers but German NGOs and farmers associations insist that the new German government has to make changes to its ...
08 Dec 2021, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Society 91tv A slight majority of respondents from Germany in a survey on the future of nuclear power in climate policy conducted by pollster YouGov in several European countries, have ...
China, Germany, Denmark, Mexico and other countries plan to form an international Energy Transition Coalition this year “for accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy future”, writes International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in a press ...
18 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024, 13:20 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany’s would-be leader touts his recipe for a growth miracle Merz wants voters to back a distinctly pro-business agenda Political compromises may water down what he can achieve DW: Germany approves more ...
Germany’s radioactive waste will probably stay in castor casks above ground near (former) nuclear power stations for a century, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. A final underground repository is unlikely to be filled before the year 2117, Wetzel says. ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:50 Charlotte Nijhuis Start-ups 91tv The next German government should provide more financial support for the founding and scaling of climate tech start-ups, argues the German Energy Agency (dena) on the basis of a new report ...
Extreme weather events like the heat wave currently gripping Germany are expected to become more frequent in the future, necessitating both meaningful climate protection and adaptation to the inevitable consequences of global warming, federal environment ...
07 Sep 2021, 14:01 Expert Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Better company reporting, more good examples set by ...
Munich-based firm Siemens could be left shouldering costs for a Finnish nuclear power plant as its partner in the project, the French Areva Group, is broken up by the French state, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports. Finnish power plants operator TVO is calling ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Solar ARD / Tagesspiegel Background The head of Germany's treasury, finance minister Christian Lindner, has reiterated his opposition to more state support for Germany's domestic solar industry. In an ...
15 Nov 2024, 15:00 Large parts of northern Italy were devastated by the country’s fourth floods within a year, triggered by intense rainfall on 19 and 20 October. Parts of Sicily, in the south, were also severely impacted. The floods came as Italy’s ...
27 Jul 2022, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Nuclear phase-out 91tv / RTL Germany should rethink its approach towards domestic fossil fuels and nuclear energy as prices rise and the country is facing potential shortages, fuelled by the ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:44 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv If the global temperature rise is to be limited to 1.5°C, Germany has nearly or fully used up its "fair share" of the remaining global CO2 emissions budget, the German ...
German utilities RWE, E.ON, and EnBW should use the nuclear fuel tax refunds to prepare their companies for the future, writes Jürgen Flauger in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt. “The one-off effect comes at exactly the right moment and could help ...
02 Oct 2015
02 Oct 2015, 00:00 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Support for nuclear plant operators” The home region of battered utilities RWE and E.ON has suggested the companies should receive state aid if their provisions for nuclear decommissioning prove too small ...
05 Dec 2024
05 Dec 2024, 10:30 91tv Team Corporate Europe Observatory: How frontline communities are impacted by the EU’s green extractivism Europe’s scramble for green hydrogen in South Africa will have a devastating impact on local communities, report says. ...
11 Nov 2024
11 Nov 2024, 11:24 91tv Team Guardian: The collapse of Germany’s government will delight Trump – and his European friends The German dream of centrist, stable government has been dashed by geopolitical forces and the cult of balanced budgets, writes Paul ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:34 Edgar Meza Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt The mobility transition will have a positive effect on employment in Germany, particularly in three regions, Handelsblatt reports, citing a report by the Institute for Employment Research ...
Germany’s transition to an auction-based system to stabilise renewable development is the right way forward, writes David Wortmann, head of renewable consultancy DWR eco, in an op-ed in Wirtschaftswoche. But the government gets in the way of the planning ...
25 Feb 2021, 13:14 Expert FÖS- Green Budget Germany Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Cost & Prices Society 91tv If ...
26 Nov 2024, 13:19 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv Businesses in Germany invested 85 billion euros in measures to reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, a 12 percent increase over the previous year, shows a survey ...
28 Jun 2022, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Cars Efficiency EU 91tv European energy ministers have agreed on reaching a share of 40 percent renewables in the EU’s energy mix by 2030, thus increasing the previous 32-percent target and ...
22 Mar 2024, 13:19 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Heating 91tv More than 200 climate and energy organisations have warned German municipalities against falling prey to gas industry lobbying for including hydrogen in their obligatory local plans for ...
25 Mar 2015, 00:00 The protests against government proposals for a carbon emissions levy for older power plants are gaining momentum in Germany’s coal mining regions. Unions warn the plans put tens of thousands of jobs at risk because they will make ...
A court in Lower Saxony ruled against objections by environmental organisations and decided that chemical company Dow may build a coal-fired power plant in the northern German state, reports Gernot Knödler in the tageszeitung (taz). The plaintiffs had ...
VW is considering including the iconic Beetle in its electrification plan, Automobile reports. “There have been no decisions so far,” Volkswagen’s head of design Klaus Bischoff told the publication at the Detroit auto show, “but it’s possible the Bug’s ...
19 Oct 2015
19 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv National Geographic “Germany Could Be a Model for How We’ll Get Power in the Future” In a long feature for National Geographic, Robert Kunzig takes an in-depth look at the “epochal transformation” ...
21 Nov 2024
21 Nov 2024, 11:00 91tv Team AP: Ford, facing economic headwinds and weak EV sales, to cut 4,000 jobs in Europe Of the total, 2,900 jobs would be lost in Germany, 800 in Britain and 300 in other European Union countries. Reuters: Volkswagen enters third ...
17 Sep 2021, 12:45 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations ...
13 Nov 2024, 13:39 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Elections & Politics ...
Once a leader on climate protection, Germany is now falling behind, former US Vice President Al Gore said in an interview with Politico Europe. Its continued reliance on coal to power its economy endangers not only its international reputation but also ...
Germany’s energy transition is no longer a political project that can be steered by the government as independent customers have started pushing ahead with the project themselves, E.ON’s CEO Johannes Teyssen said at a conference in Berlin. “The times of ...
20 Mar 2024, 13:43 Sören Amelang Edgar Meza Gas Grid 91tv The German government has kickstarted the planning for a gradual decommissioning of the country’s gas distribution network in order to organise a smooth transition to climate-neutral ...
19 Nov 2024, 13:31 Ruby Russel Mobility Cost & Prices Politics Berliner Morgenpost The city of Berlin has agreed to cancel its 29-euro monthly public transport ticket in a bid to cut government spending. Scrapping the budget subscription price is part ...
Germany needs a vision for the transport system of the future, writes Alexander Möller, managing director of Germany’s largest automobile club ADAC, in a guest commentary in Handelsblatt. “We don’t think big enough and seldom visionary. We need a target ...
With the world’s largest production plant for lithium-ion batteries in Nevada, Tesla is forcing German car manufacturers to decide if they need their own fuel-cell factory, writes Handelsblatt Global Edition. “A battery triumph by Mr Musk would leave ...
20 May 2021, 13:34 Germany’s first movers in hydrogen generation using electricity will be supported by lower power prices and a wide definition of “green” hydrogen, the government has decided. By creating “clear and pragmatic” requirements for green ...
Tackling carbon emissions in the transport sector is the necessary and logical next step for Germany following from its energy transition, said the former head of the UN environment programme (UNEP) Achim Steiner at the launch event of the Agora ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:28 After shying away from the debate for a long time, Germany's political leaders are finally considering putting a price on CO2 to help reach the country's climate targets. Chancellor Angela Merkel and her " climate cabinet ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall wants to grow in Germany after selling all of its lignite activities in the country, report Vera Eckert, Christoph Steitz and Tom Kaeckenhoff for Reuters. The company counts on promising heat operations in its largest foreign ...
While the city state of Berlin is to become climate neutral by 2050, Reinickendorf, one of the city’s boroughs, is well on its way to meeting that target, Gerd Nowakowski reports for Der Tagesspiegel. In the past eight years 13,500 apartments in the area ...
14 Nov 2024, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Construction 91tv Programmes supporting climate friendly construction in Germany could become severely affected by the break-up of Germany’s coalition government, the building owner protection ...
18 Nov 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv In order to reach climate neutrality in the most affordable way, Germany must ensure it can transport energy across its regions by expanding its electricity and hydrogen grids, ...
If the Paris Agreement’s targets are to be met, future CO₂ emissions must be kept within a finite budget, and the more this budget is overrun, the more relevant carbon dioxide removal technologies will become – and those come with great uncertainties,” ...
04 Dec 2018, 15:29 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Politics COP24 Federal Environment Ministry For the start of the UN climate change conference in Poland, German astronaut Alexander Gerst has called for increased action to protect ...
German renewable power company sonnen has said it will offer e-car charging infrastructure free of charge with flat rate electricity contracts to customers switching to the provider, reports Henning Peitsmeier in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “We ...
The joint power-to-gas (PtG) project by power and gas transmission grid operators Amprion and Open Grid Europe (OGE) should not come as a surprise, as especially the gas industry worries about its future in a decarbonised Germany, writes Andreas Mihm in ...
02 Dec 2024
02 Dec 2024, 11:47 91tv Team Reuters: Nine Volkswagen plants on strike as labour battle escalates Strikes could escalate into 24-hour or unlimited strikes if a deal is not struck in the next round of wage negotiations. Politico: The powerlessness of ...
21 Mar 2016
21 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Reuters / EnBW “Germany's EnBW cuts dividend, sees lower profits in 2016” Germany’s third largest utility EnBW posted a 125-million-euro net profit in 2015, but the adjusted operating result ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background The German government supports plans for a first domestic LNG import terminal, but the volatile global market is complicating existing endeavours, writes Christian Schaudwet in Tagesspiegel ...
11 Nov 2020, 13:18 Expert FÖS- Green Budget Germany Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv If Germany gradually reduced ten particularly climate ...
12 Jul 2021, 12:20 Germany's upcoming general election adds fuel to the debate about whether combustion engines have a future in the birth country of the automobile and whether a general speed limit should be introduced on its famed autobahns. Given ...
Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) would not agree to a minimum CO₂ price as part of a coalition deal following September’s national election, according to the energy policy spokesman of the CDU parliamentary group Joachim Pfeiffer, ...
27 Nov 2024, 13:00 Julian Wettengel Solar 91tv Germany will grow its solar PV capacity by an annual record of around 17.5 gigawatts (GW) by the end of 2024, said energy industry association BDEW. This would bring total installed capacity in ...
Schleswig-Holstein’s state energy minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) has said NordLink – a direct power connection between Norway and Germany, currently under construction – is an important step for the European energy transition, Olaf Preuß reports for ...
European agriculture often harms the environment, thus half of all subsidies allocated from the EU budget should be dedicated to measures that help protect it in the future, writes Jörg-Andreas Krüger in an opinion piece in the tageszeitung (taz). Krüger ...
28 Jan 2022, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government 91tv / Tagesspiegel The new German government’s supplementary budget that includes the rededication of about 60 billion euros of credit authorisations from the country’s ...
20 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024, 09:53 91tv Team NewClimate Institute: Climate Change Performance Index 2025 Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK take the lead in this year. Germany drops two places to 16th in this year’s CCPI. Bloomberg: EU considers changes to carbon border ...
04 Nov 2024, 13:46 A position paper in which German finance minister Christian Lindner calls for fundamental economic policy changes has sparked outcry from coalition government partners, further destabilising an already weakened alliance. The paper was ...
19 Nov 2024
19 Nov 2024, 12:00 91tv Team DW: How has Germany's collapsed coalition scored on climate? Germany has long been regarded as a leader on climate action, but the outgoing coalition leaves a mixed legacy. G ov'ts of Germany, Singapore: Joint ...
14 Feb 2022, 13:31 Sören Amelang Cars EU Spiegel Online The German transport ministry wants to prevent attempts to step up the climate ambitions of the EU's future car fleet emission targets, reports Der Spiegel. According to documents seen by the ...
13 Mar 2024, 13:39 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv The twelve largest chemicals production sites in Germany caused ...
Renewable energy generation in Germany is being disadvantaged by the practice of leading utilities RWE, E.ON and Vattenfall of selling electricity well into the future, Germany’s Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR) reports. By ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:39 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cars Technology Spiegel Online Carmakers in Germany are increasingly ramping up their activities in the Formula E racing series as a “technology laboratory” for new developments in electric ...
01 Dec 2021, 14:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics Der Spiegel Conservative (CDU) state premier Michael Kretschmer from Saxony, an Eastern German coal mining state, has encouraged labour unions to protest against plans by the prospective ...
10 Jan 2022, 13:18 Edgar Meza Coal Business & Jobs Süddeutsche Zeitung The German government’s stated goal of moving the country’s coal exit deadline forward from 2038 to 2030 has sparked concern in the Rhenish lignite mining region in western Germany ...
09 Jul 2018, 15:15 Natural gas is needed to complement renewable energies today and will increasingly be replaced by ‘green gases’, enabling the continued use of existing infrastructure, says Timm Kehler, head of the gas industry initiative Zukunft ERDGAS ...
12 Mar 2024, 14:07 With a novel subsidy system that supports energy-intensive industries in Germany switch to more climate-friendly production processes, the country counts as a pioneer in Europe by linking climate action with increased competitiveness, ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:47 Jessica Bateman Business 91tv Private sector employees in Germany are largely in favour of their companies opting for tougher climate protection measures but are sceptical about their implementation, a survey commissioned ...
04 Sep 2020, 16:24 Swedish utility Vattenfall wants to shut down its youngest and most efficient coal-fired power plant in Germany because it is unprofitable. After participating in the first hard coal phase-out tender, CEO Magnus Hall said that if his ...
Because orders from the German market are subsiding, wind turbine manufacturer Enercon, located in the German state of Lower Saxony, will focus more on international customers, Jens Heitmann writes in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. This will cost ...
10 Mar 2023, 11:27 Despite its reputation as a nation at the forefront of green technologies like wind power, Denmark has been slow to focus on climate adaptation. Since a cloudburst shocked the capital Copenhagen with massive flooding in 2011, some steps ...
04 Aug 2021, 12:26 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics ...
An international arbitration court in Washington, DC will decide within the coming weeks whether or not the German government must pay billions in damages to Swedish utility Vattenfall, writes Corinna Budras in a long background article in the Frankfurter ...
25 Oct 2021
25 Oct 2021, 14:08 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv 91tv Germany lags far behind other European countries in the electrification of its railway network, according to railway lobby group Allianz pro Schiene. With only 61 percent of its ...
23 Sep 2021, 13:40 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen 91tv One year on from the National Hydrogen Strategy launch, Germany’s government and industries are divided over its implementation. While the government’s interim report ...
Powering a large country like Germany entirely with renewable energy is possible, and could even be cheaper than conventional energy sources, according to a study by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Technical solutions for all of the well ...
In contrast to some recent analyses and arguments brought forward regularly in the energy policy debate, the need for storage is not an obstacle to the progress of the energy transition, according to a study published by the German Institute for Economic ...
12 Nov 2024
12 Nov 2024, 12:00 91tv Team ICCI: State of the Cryosphere 2024 – Lost Ice, Global Damage 50 leading cryosphere scientists warn that current climate commitments, leading the world to well over 2°C of warming, would bring disastrous and irreversible ...
08 Oct 2021, 12:00 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
15 Nov 2024
15 Nov 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Eurostat: Euro area industrial production down 2.8% in September 2024 over one year ago Largest annual decreases recorded in Ireland (-7.3%), Luxembourg (-6.3%), Hungary (-5.3%) and Germany (-4.5%). The Guardian: Gas prices at ...
Business prospects for the German car industry remain strong despite the ongoing debate about the future of the diesel engine, the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) said in its release on the ifo business climate index, the closely watched indicator ...
12 Apr 2021, 13:53 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Technology 91tv German energy provider EWE has completed the first stage of a test project to see whether the safe storage of green hydrogen in underground caverns is possible. The ...
German car industry hotspot Stuttgart plows a path forward to an electrified future powered by renewable wind and solar energy, writes Kyle Field in an article for Clean Technica. He explores Stuttgart’s “clash between the old world and industries that ...
13 Dec 2023, 14:38 Germany will earmark billions of euros less for climate and transformation projects every year until 2027 in order to make the government budget comply with constitutionally enshrined limits on borrowing. One month after a seminal ...
27 Apr 2020, 13:10 In the fight against climate change, hydrogen made with renewable electricity is increasingly seen as a silver bullet for sectors with particularly stubborn emissions, such as heavy industry and aviation. As a result, the emission-free ...
Europe’s largest coach service, Flixbus, will use fully electric buses on the 150-kilometre route between Paris and Amiens, the company said in a press release. Flixbus says this will be the world’s first trial of e-buses on a long-haul route. “At the ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:25 Sören Amelang Policy Security Tagesspiegel Background The German government has agreed to hand extra power to the country’s grid agency to improve the protection of critical energy infrastructure. The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is ...
The “arrogance” of German utility innogy in late 2017 has given way to a “ newfound modesty ” at the beginning of 2018, Helmut Bünder writes in a commentary for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The company’s announcement of a cost-cutting action across ...
Wind and PV power systems installed in Germany produced about 12.5 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) in March, reports Sandra Enkhardt in pv magazine. This is the largest production from wind and solar energy sources ever registered in the country, according ...
18 Nov 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating Construction dpa / Spiegel Bad insulation and the use of gas- or oil-based heating systems increasingly eat into the market value of residential property in Germany, according to a report by ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:30 In a bid to improve Germany's poor emission reduction record and to identify economic perspectives for people employed in the waning coal industry, the grand coalition government in 2018 set up a commission tasked with managing the ...
The Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut) has published a fact check answering frequently asked questions on electro-mobility. Questions include ‘Do e-vehicles have a positive carbon footprint over the course of their life span, compared to ...
German government support for domestic battery cell production is the right step and thankfully, carmaker VW looks set to establish its own gigafactory in cooperation with Korean specialist SK Innovation, writes Stefan Menzel in an editorial in business ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:38 Sören Amelang Adaptation Society 91tv Citizens expect the German government to take decisive action against the consequences of climate change, and are calling for the greening of inner cities to counter increasing heat, as ...
05 Feb 2021, 14:02 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Society 91tv The majority of people living near the central German coal mining region are in favour of the country's coal phase-out and as well as accompanying structural changes to local job ...
08 Nov 2024
08 Nov 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany's looming snap vote throws wrench into energy goals Energy was key area of contention within three-party coalition. Industry warns political crisis mustn’t delay key measures. Bloomberg: Spain’s ...
04 Dec 2024
04 Dec 2024, 11:44 91tv Team Argus: Germany's 2030 coal phase-out ambitions called into question Earlier phase-out target is being reassessed owing to likelihood of further delays to power plant security act, which is meant to secure back-up capacity ...
11 Jan 2019, 14:06 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt Germany’s BASF plans to become a green pioneer of the chemicals industry, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. CEO Martin ...
30 Jul 2021, 11:23 Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s largest parties call for the abolishment of the EEG surcharge – the levy power consumers pay with their electricity bills to help finance ...
29 Nov 2024
29 Nov 2024, 11:05 91tv Team Bloomberg: German government plans about €2 billion in new chip subsidies- Part of a push to build chip supply resilience in Europe- Intel recently delayed a 30-billion-euro chip factory in Magdeburg EU: ...
01 Feb 2021, 13:50 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Most Germans are willing to pay higher prices and taxes to fight climate change, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) reports citing the ...
30 Oct 2024, 11:48 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Current plans for gas networks in European countries largely fail to account for the necessary decline in gas consumption in the coming years as states try to reach climate targets, according to a ...
Germany energy company E.ON has said it has reached the first “major decisions” in the planned integration of former rival company innogy into its own company structures. In a press release, the company said it would continue to run by the name E.ON in ...
German energy company Uniper’s sale of its share in a Russian gas field is “nothing but an emergency sale of the silverware”, writes Helmut Bünder in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Uniper had no choice in light of its debt-reduction ...
10 Sep 2021, 14:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cost & Prices 91tv The latest round of offshore wind power auctions in Germany has led to three bids claiming zero support for their operations wining the tender, the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) ...
05 Mar 2024, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Cars EU 91tv Germany's alliance of centre-right conservative parties CDU/CSU is aiming to reverse the ban on new combustion engine cars from 2035, which the EU decided on last year, according to a ...
07 May 2020, 08:58 The performance of Germany's electricity system during the coronavirus pandemic offers important lessons for the future of the country's landmark energy transition, says Hanns Koenig from consultancy Aurora Energy Research. ...
04 Nov 2024
04 Nov 2024, 13:17 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany’s shaky coalition heads for a €75 billion budget reckoning Top judges to scrutinize levy on high earners and businesses. The ruling could bring the fragile coalition to the brink of collapse. S&P Global: ...
19 Nov 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Handelsblatt Gas supply in Germany at the beginning of winter is stable and storage facilities are well stocked as the heating season gets underway, business daily Handelsblatt reported. The risk of a tight gas ...
05 Mar 2024, 12:17 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Renewables Energiewende 91tv Germany's performance has improved slightly in consultancy McKinsey's biannual "Energy Transition Index," with targets now deemed " ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:18 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Gas 91tv Oil and natural gas production in Germany continues to decline sharply, shows an annual report for 2020 published by the Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG). It ...
German carmakers must prove the effectiveness of the measures for better air quality promised at the diesel summit, writes Silke Kersting in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt. “The government must also act” and be strict regarding on-road emissions tests. ...
04 Mar 2024, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has confirmed plans by electricity grid operators to build five additional large-scale power transmission lines across several regions to support the ...
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche is wrong to say consumers will ultimately decide the fate of diesel cars in China, Hendrik Ankenbrand writes in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. China is not a market economy and the government has decided in ...
09 Mar 2021, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Kerstine Appunn Transport 91tv / Tagesspiegel Germany’s railway operator Deutsche Bahn and airline Lufthansa are planning on making rail travel to ...
There is still a long way to go until the financing mechanisms of the German energy transition are transferred into a sustainable market design, writes Felix Matthes, research coordinator for energy and climate policy at Öko Institut, in a guest ...
13 Sep 2021, 13:53 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Kerstine Appunn Mobility Cars 91tv / tagesschau.de The first IAA mobility motor show held in Munich which closed on Sunday was deemed a success by industry ...
Germany’s forests could take in three times the amount of CO₂ from the atmosphere by the end of the century if they are better protected and used more ecologically than is the case today, says Greenpeace Germany, based on a study conducted by the ...
01 Apr 2021, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Grid 91tv The conversion of large parts of the German gas infrastructure to reflect changing supply is well underway, the country’s gas grid operators write in their implementation report for the ...
Germany’s renewable support levy paid by consumers as part of their power bills will fall slightly below 6.8 cents from the current 6.88 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2018, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has learned from an industry source. Nevertheless, ...
04 Nov 2024, 13:53 Sören Amelang Electricity market Society 91tv Half of German households have never heard of dynamic power pricing, only months before it will be introduced in the country. In a survey by consumer organisations federation ...
Price comparison website verivox has looked at Germany’s parties’ election programmes and examined the different proposals on how electricity is to be kept affordable in the future, the company said in a press release. It is striking that “especially the ...
The German Green Party wants to write climate protection into the country’s constitution, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. At a Green campaign event in the central German federal state of Hesse, where state elections will take place on 28 ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:54 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Edgar Meza Agriculture Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German Farmers’ Association (DBV) is demanding a surcharge on domestic agricultural products to be ...
16 Apr 2015
16 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv IG BCE / Friends of the Earth Germany Supporters and opponents of coal gear up for mass protests The heated debate over the future of coal in Germany will be taken to the streets next weekend, as ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:41 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Wind Handelsblatt Energy company Vattenfall would like to expand its involvement in wind energy in Germany, Jürgen Flauger writes in the ...
07 Oct 2021, 12:17 Germany can reach its target of climate neutrality by 2045 but enormous tasks such as the massive expansion of renewable energy and transformation of whole industries have to be initiated as quickly as possible by the country’s next ...
19 Nov 2021, 13:10 Expert PwC Electricity market Transport Cars Business & Jobs Efficiency Heating Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport Freight 91tv Many German shipping companies are reluctant to implement emissions reduction ...
12 Nov 2024, 14:05 Jack McGovan Electricity Society Süddeutsche Zeitung Environmental groups from Germany and Austria have come out in opposition to two proposed hydropower projects in the Alps, emphasising their negative impacts on biodiversity, ...
The growth of renewables, while slowed, continues throughout Europe and is putting pressure on the price of electricity, Frank-Thomas Wenzel writes in Frankfurter Rundschau. What could happen is a stronger reduction of overcapacity, such as the large ...
30 Oct 2024
30 Oct 2024, 10:49 91tv Team IEA: Global market for key clean technologies set to triple to more than 2 trillion USD over the coming decade as energy transitions advance IEA analysis shows complex interplay between energy, industrial and trade policies as ...
29 Jun 2015
29 Jun 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung “Unemployment benefit for coal” The apparent death of the levy on old coal-fired power plants is bad news because the alternative presented by major utilities and mining ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:30 Germany takes first tentative steps towards a change away from area-based farming subsidies to payments made depending on the environmental performance of farmers. The government cabinet has agreed on how to implement European rules ...
EU environment ministers want to find a compromise on future car emission limits today, but car giant and Energiewende pioneer Germany creates confusion instead of playing a leading role in the negotiations, write Markus Becker and Gerald Traufetter on ...
29 Jun 2022, 13:00 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Sören Amelang Cars 91tv / Reuters Germany will ...
05 Nov 2024
05 Nov 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Ember: Nominated EU Commissioner for Energy is being put to the test in the EU Parliament Think tank Ember agrees with candidate Dan Jorgensen's stated aim to prioritise grid modernisation. T&E: Our take on the EU ...
01 Nov 2024, 16:30 As the world heads to the international climate summit COP29, the European Union is in a tricky position. The Brussels machine is still getting back up and running after the June elections, with the European Commission chiefs yet to be ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv The majority of employees in German companies are satisfied with the speed with which their employer is promoting sustainability efforts and say it is increasingly gearing its business ...
29 Feb 2024, 13:51 Jennifer Collins Grid Solar Handelsblatt Germany's energy industry has urged for a standardisation of renewables' grid connections in order to speed up the process. Industry association BDEW said that grid operators had " ...
12 Dec 2014
12 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Data-Project: Fraunhofer-ISI / Öko-Institut / Enerdata et al. "Research for more climate protection through buildings" Around 60 percent of the EU’s total energy consumption comes from ...
02 Aug 2017, 00:00 German carmakers VW, Daimler and BMW – under pressure to act after the diesel emissions scandal – pledged to install emissions control software updates in about 5 million diesel passenger cars, offer buyer’s premiums for customers ...
28 Feb 2024, 13:14 The German government is aiming to introduce a 2060 target for net-negative greenhouse gas emissions, as well as intermediate targets for technical carbon sinks, as key elements of its contribution to the Paris climate targets. By the ...
German transport minister Andreas Scheuer is pushing ahead with the expansion of hydrogen fuelling stations, continuing a strategy that is not only wrong but one that also distracts from the failure of the electric car in Germany, Benedikt Becker and ...
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 The first block of a large coal-fired power station has just gone online in Hamburg, even as two thirds of German fossil-fuelled facilities fail to turn a profit and their operators are applying for many to be mothballed. So is the ...
Environmental groups called on participants of the UN’s Climate Change Conference in the German city of Bonn to not be sidetracked by the “distracting fire” of US President Donald Trump, reports Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Details of ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:29 Edgar Meza Industry Handelsblatt German conglomerate thyssenkrupp finds it increasingly difficult to spin off its troubled steelmaking division, Kevin Knitterscheidt and Martin Murphy write in Handelsblatt. In order to successfully sell ...
Conventional power plants that run on coal, gas, and nuclear energy are a fundamental part of Germany’s energy transition, Lars Kulik, board member at utility RWE’s lignite branch, writes in a guest article for financial market newspaper Börsen-Zeitung. ...
To compensate for loss of revenue after Brexit, EU Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger proposes that member states could transfer part of their tax revenues to the EU, including revenues from taxes on CO₂ emission rights, he told German weekly Der ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Gas Handelsblatt Several large energy companies say that a potential bottleneck for components needed for gas turbines in power stations could threaten Germany's plans for expanding gas-fired power generation in ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The completion time of the high voltage power line Nordostlink in northern Germany is set to be completed around one year faster thanks to government efforts to ...
29 Oct 2024, 13:18 Jack McGovan Energiewende 91tv Local communities should be involved in making decisions about the energy transition in order for the shift to clean energy to be successful, concluded researchers from the Research Institute ...
Car suppliers whose sales depend largely on the combustion engine face a difficult future after the emissions scandal and analysts predict stock prices will remain relatively unchanged over the coming year, writes Martin Gropp in Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
01 Nov 2024, 11:27 Julian Wettengel Utilities Correctiv / Wirtschaftswoche Many of Germany’s large local utilities continue to bet on fossil gas for heating and stall the transition to more climate-friendly ways to heat homes, found business weekly ...
07 Apr 2022, 11:20 Germany wants to fight the climate crisis and its heavy dependence on fossil fuel imports by speeding up the rollout of renewables with a massive overhaul of key energy legislation. In the “biggest energy policy reform in decades,” the ...
21 May 2021, 10:32 Germany has increased the emissions reduction targets in its transport sector. Following changes introduced by parliament, the sector has to reach a share of 32 percent renewables by 2030. The use of biofuels made from palm oil will be ...
26 Feb 2024, 13:30 Sören Amelang Industry Hydrogen 91tv The European Commission has approved 1.3 billion euros of German state aid to help multinational steelmaker ArcelorMittal make its operations in the country more climate-friendly. The ...
Until now, there has not been a “reasonable concept for the Energiewende”, which is needed to secure Germany’s economic strength and make it more climate-friendly, Rudolf Staudigl, president and CEO of German chemical company Wacker Chemie AG, told ...
The Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW) proposes replacing Germany’s renewables levy (EEG-surcharge), paid by power consumers with their electricity bill, with a surcharge on the income and corporate tax, reports Handelsblatt. In a paper, seen by ...
21 Nov 2014, 00:00 Ten days before the plan to fix Germany’s "climate gap" is set for cabinet approval, it is still unclear how much the power sector will contribute toward the carbon emissions target of a 40 percent cut by 2020. Expert BMWi- ...
It is wrong to focus the debate about the future of transport solely on switching from diesel and petrol cars to e-mobility, writes Joachim Wille in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau. “Besides climate-friendly engines, we need a comprehensive ...
In Germany, electric cars could cost the same as cars with conventional engines by 2025, Henning Kagermann, head of the country’s new “ National Platform Future of Mobility ” says in an interview carried by the energy policy newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
The biggest battery storage in Europe with a capacity of 48 megawatt (MW) started operation in the northern German town of Süderlügum in June, the Renewable Energy Industry Initiative (IWR) reports. The lithium-ion battery storage can store the equivalent ...
An asset swap deal between German utilities E.ON and RWE took a step forward after energy corporation innogy reached agreements with the two companies "for a fair integration process," Reuters reports. innogy will no longer be an independently ...
Current discussions about the future of transport tend to revolve around electric cars, but many German research projects are focusing on renewable liquid fuels, which are likely to play an important role for freight transport, shipping and aviation, ...
01 Nov 2024, 11:30 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany’s National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) to reach 2030 targets is “insufficient” and in violation of EU law, said NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH), and filed a lawsuit ...
06 May 2022, 14:04 The effects of the war in Ukraine will have a major impact on Germany’s most important state election this year, making next week’s vote in heavy industry heartland North-Rhine Westphalia another gauge of the public’s view of the ...
22 Jan 2016
22 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv BDEW “Taxes and fees reach a new record high” The power price remained steady at the beginning of 2016 compared to a year ago, the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) reports. ...
Stefan Kapferer, managing director of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), welcomed the agreement by the EU member states’ energy ministers on the Union’s future energy policy, because it meant that the existing power price zones ...
The German coal-mining state Brandenburg will present fellow EU regions a variety of different projects aimed at steering the regional economy away from fossil power generation. As part of the Europe-wide “coal platform”, Brandenburg will show possible ...
The small town of Wolfhagen near Frankfurt in central Germany “has taken a big step into the future over the past few years” by becoming one of the country’s first municipalities to cover 100 percent of its power demand from renewable sources, Austin ...
24 May 2022, 07:59 Germany could support Senegal in efforts to exploit fossil gas resources off its coast, chancellor Olaf Scholz said during a visit to the western African country. As Germany seeks alternatives to Russian fossil fuel imports, Scholz said ...
German carmakers might have been late to embark on the electrification of passenger cars, but, according to a recent study by patent law office Grünecker, “are very well positioned when it comes to e-transporters and e-trucks,” Thomas Fromm writes for the ...
01 Sep 2021, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics EU 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung Friedrich Merz, a prominent politician of the governing conservative CDU/CSU who stands a chance to become a minister in Germany's next government ...
26 Nov 2021, 13:25 As Germany's first climate "super minister", Green politician Robert Habeck will play a key role in fulfilling the future government's promise to get the country on a path compatible with the 1.5°C global warming ...
The lignite industry is central to the local economy in the Lusatian town of Boxberg, reports Carla Mattern in regional newspaper Sächsische Zeitung. Of its population of around 4,750, 1,882 are employed in the town’s large lignite power station or its ...
18 Aug 2020, 14:15 Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development Climate & CO2 Policy Renewables 91tv / pv magazine A decentralised model for European renewable power generation would ...
Dark and calm winter days have led some commentators to suggest that renewables are unsuitable for providing a secure energy supply, reports Tamsin Walker for Deutsche Welle. Utility association BDEW argues this weather pattern proves flexible gas and ...
Municipal shareholders have stressed the importance of utility RWE ’s dividend payouts to the communal coffers at the company’s annual general meeting, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. CEO Martin Schmitz’s speech was repeatedly interrupted by ...
Schleswig-Holstein’s state Energiewende minister and Green politician Robert Habeck calls for abolishing the electricity tax, reforming grid fees and lowering the Renewable Energy Act (EEG)-surcharge to relieve consumers of high power costs, report dpa ...
20 Jan 2016, 00:00 Germany needs a pathway for exiting coal by 2050 at the very latest, according to Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks. She welcomed Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel's announcement of a round table on the thorny issue, and said a ...
17 Jun 2022, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security ARD / Tagesspiegel The increasing pressure on Germany’s gas supply system could lead the government to tighten its grip on gas distribution and enforce savings by law, economy and climate minister Robert ...
05 Nov 2024, 12:48 Ruby Russel Business & Jobs International 91tv The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is likely to promote German exports rather than harming them, the German Economic Institute (IW) has found. The economists, however, ...
Dismantling Germany’s nuclear power plants is a lucrative business for companies carrying out the task, and final costs are hard to predict, writes Konrad Fischer in WirtschaftsWoche. “Nobody has experience with such a task, so how is one supposed to ...
The latest leaked drafts of the coalition treaty show that the possible future government partners CDU/CSU and SPD know where the difficulties lie in Germany’s energy system, but they shy away from making important decisions, writes Jakob Schlandt in an ...
20 Feb 2024, 14:08 Jack McGovan Wind Society 91tv More than three-quarters of the German population (81%) think the use and expansion of onshore wind energy is important or very important, according to a new analysis published today by the ...
The biggest dilemma of the new rules to be set for finding a final repository for nuclear waste in Germany is between “time and thoroughness”, writes Michael Bauchmüller in an op-ed for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. On the one hand there has to be a fair ...
04 Feb 2021, 11:15 Germany will increase the share of renewable energies in its transport sector to 28 percent by 2030, the government cabinet decided today, agreeing on draft legislation proposed by the environment ministry. The greenhouse-gas reduction ...
South Korean carmaker Hyundai has agreed a deal with Volkswagen Group’s Audi to collaborate on hydrogen car technology, hoping to boost an energy segment that has lagged behind battery electric vehicles, news agency Reuters reports. “The fuel cell is the ...
29 Oct 2024
29 Oct 2024, 12:06 91tv Team 10 New Insights in Climate Science: Leading scientists review the most pressing findings New report responds to calls for policy guidance during a climate-critical decade. UN Climate Change: New climate change report shows ...
20 Feb 2024, 13:44 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy ...
25 Oct 2024, 16:00 Poland’s new government has updated the country’s energy strategy, which it says is more ambitious, but implementation remains uncertain as it depends on how coal miner unions react. In its push to increase nuclear power generation, the ...
10 Dec 2015, 12:00 The question is no longer whether Germany’s future will be nuclear-free – or even when, since the government is committed to completing the phase-out by 2022. But the logistics of pulling the plug on what was until recently one of the ...
06 Feb 2020, 12:47 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Industry Süddeutsche Zeitung The protest against Siemens’ involvement in the Adani coal mine project in Australia and the company’s handling of the situation is a cautionary example ...
06 Aug 2021, 14:00 Germany’s upcoming national election is the first in which climate and energy policy have truly taken centre stage. In the agriculture sector, droughts and new policies aimed at bringing out the sector’s potential for eco-system ...
31 Oct 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Germany should consider the import of direct reduced iron as a way to produce the hydrogen that is needed to generate electricity in its planned backup power plants, says a report by Norwegian ...
30 Oct 2024, 11:41 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Germany’s coal consumption continued its downward trend in 2024, helping to reduce the country’s climate-damaging CO2 emissions, said energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) based ...
14 Mar 2018, 00:00 The 2017 September election results have led to unprecedented difficulties in forming a new government in Germany. After the longest government building process in modern Germany, Angela Merkel was re-elected as chancellor of a renewed ...
The next German government – possibly a Jamaica coalition of CDU/CSU, FDP and Green Party – must get Germany’s climate policy back on track, writes Holger Dambeck in an opinion piece for Spiegel Online. “Above all, the future government parties must dare ...
08 Feb 2021, 13:16 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Agrarheute / dpa The 16 German federal states have been unable to find a solution on how to spend farming subsidies allocated to ...
While the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) was well-suited to supply necessary financing to kick start the expansion of renewables, it should now be replaced by a functioning European emissions trade in all sectors, Reinhold von Eben-Worlée, president of the ...
19 Feb 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt Growing demand for minerals needed in renewable power installations, electric vehicles and other green technologies could trigger a lasting price increase for ...
06 Nov 2024
06 Nov 2024, 13:24 91tv Team Euronews: Thousands of jobs to go at German car parts maker Schäffler The company is downsizing at 10 locations in Germany and five other sites in Europe, further illustrating the challenges facing the European car industry. ...
21 Oct 2024, 13:49 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Policy Tagesspiegel Background The German government will evaluate methods for CO2 removal and storage in its first online consultation on a planned long-term strategy for negative emissions to help ...
Germany’s 2020 climate target is practically out of reach, and the country now needs an emergency programme to reach its 2030 targets, Andreas Kuhlmann, head of the German Energy Agency (dena), told the Frankfurter Rundschau. In their blueprint for ...
31 Oct 2024
31 Oct 2024, 10:27 91tv Team The Guardian: Record levels of heat-related deaths in 2023 due to climate crisis, report finds Almost half of global land area saw extreme drought for at least one month, according to Lancet Countdown. EEA: EU greenhouse gas ...
If future power needs are around 600 terawatt-hours, Germany would need 97 gigawatt (GW) of onshore wind, 25-35 GW offshore wind and 102 GW solar PV capacity, Schleswig-Holstein’s energy transition minister and head of the federal Green Party Robert ...
26 Jan 2021, 12:06 Edgar Meza Industry Handelsblatt Industrialist Sanjeev Gupta, the only bidder for German conglomerate Thyssen-Krupp's loss-making steel business, plans to convert the mills to produce green steel if he’s successful, reports German ...
01 Dec 2022, 12:20 One year after taking over Germany’s government, chancellor Olaf Scholz’s “traffic light” coalition looks back at some turbulent first twelve months in office that were overshadowed by Russia’s attack on Ukraine and the subsequent ...
The installed capacity of pv power plants in Germany grew by 450 MW in December, almost a third of the 2016 total of roughly 1,500 MW, Sandra Enkhardt writes in pv magazine. According to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), 14 new solar power parks were ...
The non-governmental Global Climate Action Summit in California brings together representatives of private companies and cities from around the world and adds pressure on the German government and the European Union to step up their efforts to comply with ...
The need to protect the climate and remain profitable will continue to exert pressure on coal-fired power generation businesses, and German energy company EnBW will continue to review its power plants, EnBW’s CEO Frank Mastiaux told Handelsblatt in an ...
30 May 2016
30 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Die Welt “EU wants to split Germany into two power price zones” The European Commission “is threatening to split [Germany] into two power price zones,” which would make power more ...
25 Jan 2019, 14:25 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Renewables Handelsblatt / Wuppertal Institut As members of the coal exit commission debate a concrete timetable for ...
28 Sep 2021, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv The Green Party and the Free Democrats (FDP) were the two most popular parties among young voters in the German elections, an analysis conducted by research institute ...
14 Nov 2024, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / 91tv The collapse of Germany’s coalition government could threaten important energy transition projects across the country if no precautions are taken ...
16 Feb 2024, 12:28 Franca Quecke Transport Freight electrive The German government has terminated two subsidy schemes for electric trucks and buses, the transport ministry (BMDV) told specialist publication electrive. The cancellation applies to two ...
The slight fall of Germany’s renewables levy in 2018 is no reason for the government to sit back, writes Klaus Stratmann in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. The decrease would save a one-person household “a mere 1.32 euros annually”, and the surcharge is ...
A global transition in the transport sector is inevitable – “with our without German products” – and the German government should use the good economic situation to stimulate change in the relevant industries, writes Petra Pinzler in an opinion piece in ...
28 Oct 2024
28 Oct 2024, 12:00 91tv Team WMO: Record-breaking greenhouse gas levels surged again in 2023 World Metorological Organisation 's lastest stocktake finds CO2 levels have increased by more than 10% in just two decades. Eurostat: Germany has h ighest ...
16 Feb 2024, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv The European Union has given Germany and six other EU countries the green light to provide a total of 6.9 billion euros in state support to companies for 33 projects along the hydrogen ...
19 Feb 2024, 09:49 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv / Handelsblatt The European Commission has approved a subsidy scheme by the German government worth 4 billion euros to help reduce emissions from industry production. Support would be given ...
The decisive message of the German Industry Association’s (BDI) study is that climate protection can be an economic success story, writes Ekkehard Rüger in an editorial for the Westdeutsche Zeitung. “To hear this wake-up call not just from ...
A household near Berlin has commissioned Germany’s 100,000 th residential battery storage system. At an official ceremony, state secretary Thomas Bareiss called the threshold an “ important milestone ” for the country’s energy transition. “Storage systems ...
18 Jan 2021, 13:50 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv ...
04 Oct 2021, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background German parties shared a few details only on the ongoing exploratory coalition talks after the national election, but said that climate action, ...
Ministerial discussions between Ukraine, Russia, and the EU regarding the future delivery of Russian gas to Western Europe began yesterday in Berlin, Tagesspiegel reports. Economy minister Peter Altmaier is “optimistic” that a resolution to the dispute ...
13 Nov 2024, 12:02 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv / Tagesspiegel More than half of companies in Germany’s most important stock indices are lagging behind on their self-imposed targets for emission reductions, ...
29 Jun 2020, 13:07 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy ...
23 Sep 2015
23 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Carl Morris 91tv 91tv Die Welt “The German government knew the cheating technology” The German ministry for transport has known for a long time that car manufacturers are using technologies that interfere ...
22 Sep 2021, 15:08 The conservative CDU has been heading Germany's government since 2005- and used its time in power to lay the groundwork for making the country the first climate-neutral industrialised nation before the middle of the century, says ...
Against resistance from the German government, the EU Commission continues to seek participation in negotiations over Nord Stream 2, the gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, Daniel Brössler and Alexander Mühlauer report for Süddeutsche Zeitung. The EU ...
05 Jul 2021, 13:06 Expert BTU- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg Renewables Hydrogen Technology Efficiency Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches ...
14 Feb 2024, 14:00 Ruby Russel Industry Business & Jobs 91tv A survey by consulting firm EY has found that only one in five companies considers Germany a compelling place to decarbonise production – with excessive bureaucracy the biggest ...
13 Nov 2020, 15:01 Charlotte Nijhuis Cars 91tv The majority of driving license holders in Germany would consider buying an electric car, a survey by E.ON shows. “In principle, 64 percent would consider purchasing such a vehicle,” says Jonas ...
Natural catastrophes like hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria will cost the insurance industry a record amount of 135 billion US dollars in 2017, according to a review by German reinsurance company Munich RE. This meant that less than half of the overall ...
17 Oct 2014
17 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Die Welt “ Energy transition: think-tank proposes new green power surcharge” Green electricity is priced so cheaply that these renewable facilities will have to be paid a “capacity premium” in the future to ensure ...
VW’s work council has made an agreement with management on future job cuts conditional on building a battery factory, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “The agreement could fall through. Especially if there is no promise by the company to enter ...
A large new battery capable of storing 20 megawatt hours of its integrated wind power turbine has started operating on the premises of the Fraunhofer ICT research institute near Karlsruhe, the Heilbronner Stimme reports. The so-called redox-flow-battery, ...
German car company BMW has placed an order worth over one billion euros with Chinese battery producer CATL, BMW CEO Harald Krüger told Handelsblatt in an interview. “CATL will open a factory in Europe,” Krüger added. In a separate press release, BMW said ...
Germany’s renewables expansion with the help of the EEG surcharge has cost the country much more than necessary, writes Michael Bauchmüller in an opinion piece in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Kick-starting clean energy was basically a good idea. But nobody ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:44 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
Germany’s regional governments believe the country should give higher priority to the development of power storage technology, according to a resolution by the council of federal state governments (the Bundesrat), reports pv magazine. The states are ...
German luxury car brand Porsche will ramp up its investment in electric mobility to 6 billion euros by 2022, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The carmaker previously put aside about 3 billion euros for the development of e-cars but now plans to ...
German energy company E.ON has established a new unit to develop and expand Europe’s e-vehicle charging infrastructure, the utility announced in a press release. "We firmly believe in the future of e-mobility and the related potential for growth,” ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU 91tv An alliance of civil society groups has called on the German government to better anticipate possible carbon price jumps at the time of the introduction of the EU ...
With cities, municipalities, foundations and companies divesting from fossil fuels and more “green investment” possibilities, the financial sector is rethinking its approach to environmental protection and sustainability on the one hand, and to financial ...
Unfavourable political conditions have stalled plans for the construction of the Franzosenkopf pumped-storage hydropower plant near the city of Mainz, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The plant is meant to store power from solar and wind power for ...
With her remarks on the “right approach” of banning combustion engine cars sometime in the future, German Chancellor Angela Merkel not only “captured an election topic for herself”, but also “disposed of the strongest dissent with the Green Party for a ...
For the third year in a row, rising primary energy consumption shows that Germany has not succeeded in decoupling economic growth from its energy use, writes Klaus Stratmann in an opinion piece in the Handelsblatt. “The development proves that the billion ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:23 Sören Amelang Cars dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau / 91tv The expansion of Germany's charging network for electric vehicles is making fast progress. The network grew by 45,000 charging points to a total of nearly 146,000 ...
20 Dec 2018, 09:06 The weak and fragile German government is unlikely to implement the drastic measures needed for a speedy coal exit, regardless of the coal commission 's proposals due early next year, according to energy policy reseacher Claudia ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Unabated and strong climate change could make the whole of Germany “a hotspot for climate change risks” by the end of the century, said the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) based on ...
09 Jul 2021, 12:46 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics 91tv Despite all the changes that are necessary to protect the ...
In light of the emissions scandal, Angela Merkel sees this year’s Frankfurt car show (IAA) as a “very special show,” the Chancellor said in her weekly video podcast. “The car industry is an important pillar of our economic success, and also of our ...
The decision by Czech mining company EPH, the new owner of eastern German lignite-mine operator LEAG, to cut back its extension plans for the Lusatia region might provide local actors with “some planning security” but is “without a doubt a step towards ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:26 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Government 91tv A ...
12 Feb 2024, 13:30 Franca Quecke Carbon market Cost & Prices Society dpa / Zeit Online The planned climate bonus (“Klimageld”) payment to return state revenues from carbon pricing to citizens as compensation for rising CO2 prices is an “excellent idea ...
13 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024, 12:00 91tv Team Wall Street Journal: RWE warns of U.S. election's impact on offshore wind German energy company outlines 1.6 bln dollar buyback, says project off U.S. east coast could be delayed. CNBC: Rivian-Volkswagen joint venture ...
Volkswagen is late in entering the Chinese market for e-cars and should quickly agree to producing electric vehicles with Anhui Jianghuai Automobile (JAC), writes Stephan Scheuer in a commentary for German business daily Handelsblatt. The company’s ...
The Energiewende ‘Made in Germany’ will be the main theme of Germany's pavilion at Expo 2017 in Astana. The Expo’s overall theme will be “Future Energy – Solutions for tackling humankind’s greatest challenge”. The German pavilion will present ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall reaffirmed that it is seeking billions in damages from the German government after a two-week hearing in front of an international arbitration court in Washington, DC, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Vattenfall ...
07 Sep 2021, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv Interest in electric cars is growing rapidly in Germany, according to a survey by the Technical Inspection Authority (TÜV). Nearly one in four respondents (23 percent) said they already have ...
Despite Switzerland’s rejection of a quick nuclear exit, nuclear power production remains “a phase-out model” in the country, Germany’s environment ministry (BMUB) state secretary Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter said in a press release. Sunday’s referendum ...
21 Oct 2024, 13:37 Jennifer Collins Grid Cost & Prices 91tv German electricity consumers in areas with lots of wind and solar power could see lower grid fees from next year, according to newly published pricings aimed at more evenly ...
E.ON fossil-fuel spin-off Uniper’s IPO revealed the difficult situation both companies face in the near future, writes Helmut Bünder in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “The first day of trading became the day of truth. The market ...
28 Oct 2024, 13:10 Edgar Meza Industry 91tv German government leaders are hosting not one but two industry summits on Tuesday (29 October) as chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition seeks to deal with the country’s economic woes. ...
21 Oct 2024
21 Oct 2024, 12:25 91tv Team Bloomberg: Scholz courts needed workers abroad as anti-migrant parties rise Scholz is betting on negotiating migration deals directly with foreign governments to secure skilled workers in understaffed industries. Reuters: Top ...
Germany’s largest carmaker, VW, plans to release several new model heavy SUVs, bringing the share of the CO2-intense cars up to 40 percent of total sales, Nikolaus Doll reports for Die Welt. In light of stricter EU emissions limits from 2020, this ...
19 Aug 2020, 13:52 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv 91tv Society 91tv Climate change is still perceived as the top problem facing humanity, a survey carried out in seven European ...
29 Oct 2024, 13:32 Jack McGovan Adaptation Business & Jobs Handelsblatt German companies are increasingly investing in adaptation measures like flood protections and new cooling systems for offices and factories in their efforts to deal with the ...
18 Oct 2024, 13:39 Jack McGovan Transport Start-ups Business & Jobs Policy Spiegel / ntv / revolution Struggling electric air taxi company Lilium will not receive German state aid in its bid to avoid insolvency. Lawmakers rejected the Bavarian startup ...
17 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024, 13:44 91tv Team Financial Times: EU sticks to 2035 deadline for ban on sale of new petrol-driven cars Remarks prepared for incoming climate commissioner defend controversial measure, the FT says. PIK: Global water crisis threatens more than ...
06 Nov 2019, 14:38 Industry experts, researchers and lobbyists give the German government mediocre mid-term marks for its climate and energy efforts- while Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition has presented a largely positive self-evaluation. In what ...
In light of the current debate surrounding diesel, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is an interesting alternative to conventional car fuels, writes Michael Specht in an article for Spiegel Online. Cars powered by LPG emit less nitrogen oxides than either ...
Acting German Chancellor and Christian Democrat (CDU) Angela Merkel and the leaders of her future coalition government partners the Christian Social Union (CSU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) have signed the coalition treaty for the coming legislative ...
The diesel engine could remain the most economic option for many drivers if the car industry manages to get clean diesel cars to the market at affordable prices, Eric Heymann writes in a note for Deutsche Bank Research. The industry must regain trust and ...
Private households in Germany paid more than 10 billion euros in taxes and levies on power consumption to the state in 2017, the German Taxpayer Institute (DSi) of the German Taxpayers Federation (BdSt) says in an analysis seen by the 91tv. ...
The German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) will present a proposal to put a tax on the use of fossil fuels in power generation, which would complement the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), writes Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. A study by consultancy ...
16 Oct 2024, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Business & Jobs EU Handelsblatt The EU’s planned battery regulation that is aimed at ensuring clean production conditions for batteries in Europe continues to irk German companies, who complain that the ...
18 Nov 2014, 00:00 The Energiewende is gradually transforming German homes – not just towards greater energy efficiency but to become producers as well as consumers of energy. Expert Institute for Housing and Environment Institut Wohnen und Umwelt ...
The costs of the VW diesel emissions scandal keep on rising with a never-ending succession of new court cases in the US and Europe, writes Carsten Germis in a commentary for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The new VW CEO Matthias Müller wants to transform ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:43 Rachel Waldholz Transport Freight Hydrogen 91tv Germany must support “power-to-x” technologies as a key part of the energy transition, says German engineering association VDMA in a press release (in English). The federation ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:55 Julian Wettengel Gas Nuclear phase-out Finance EU 91tv More than 100 NGOs from across Europe have called on Germany's aspiring chancellor Olaf Scholz to do everything in his power as current finance minister and ...
29 Oct 2024, 13:05 Warnings by the works council at carmaker Volkswagen that the company plans to make significant cuts to its production sites and workforce in Germany have led policymakers to call for the protection of jobs and local economies. ...
22 Oct 2024, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv / Focus Online A key high-voltage power line set to transport electricity from Germany's windy north to the industrial south has begun construction. Grid operator TenneT has laid the first ...
07 Sep 2021, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Resources & Recycling WirtschaftsWoche The current supply shortages of semiconductors due to the pandemic for the European car industry could be a glimpse of future difficulties the industry will face ...
German coal states have been insincere by voting for the Paris Climate Agreement last year in the Bundesrat – the council of state governments – and now toning down their climate protection efforts, writes Michael Bauchmüller in an opinion piece in ...
18 Nov 2024, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Transport dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany plans to electrify only around 66 kilometres of railway lines in 2025, falling well short of its targets to expand overhead electricity lines and replace diesel-powered ...
Most member companies of German oil traders group Avia will only sell “climate-neutral” heating oil in the future, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The group invests in climate protection projects around the globe to save almost the ...
25 Oct 2024, 13:02 Jennifer Collins Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv / Table.Media Damage caused by natural hazards like flooding cost German insurers 5.6 billion euros in 2023, up from four billion euros the previous year, after the country ...
The nuclear exit bill for power companies in Germany is set to rise by some 300 million euros, Stefan Schultz writes on Spiegel Online. The nuclear fund for financing the intermediate and final storage of the country’s nuclear waste will now climb to a ...
As expected, Germany’s future energy and climate policy has emerged as the main stumbling block in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s effort to form a government coalition of her conservatives, the Free Democrats, and the Green Party. According to media reports, ...
06 Feb 2024, 09:42 Germany is set to hold auctions to support the construction of new gas-fired power plants in the short term, which would then be converted to run on hydrogen in the mid-to-late 2030s, the ruling coalition said. The plants are considered ...
E.ON-spinoff Uniper is often seen as the Energiewende’s bad bank or left-over sale, writes Helmut Bünder in a commentary for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Whenever Uniper CEO Klaus Schäfer talks of “upside potential”, he means it can’t get worse, ...
11 Oct 2024, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Industry 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s reform plans to allow the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies should restrict their use to emissions that are impossible to ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs SWR / 91tv / dpa Germany is debating a range of ideas to boost sales of electric vehicles (EV) and support the transition of one of the country’s most important industries. The ...
"Designing the world's future" was the topic of this year’s Youth20 Dialogue Forum in Hamburg, where young people from more than 20 countries met to discuss global issues including climate change. The forum presented recommendations to ...
German utility E.ON has entered into a partnership with greenXmoney to set up an online platform that allows making investments in German solar and wind power facilities “easily, securely and independently of any particular bank”, the company announced in ...
05 Nov 2021, 12:23 Edgar Meza Transport Freight Elections & Politics Spiegel / Süddeutsche Zeitung The Greens and pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP), which look set to join the Social Democrats (SPD) in Germany’s next coalition government, ...
The CDU’s forging of new state government coalitions in Schleswig-Holstein (CDU, Green Party, FDP) and North Rhine-Westphalia (CDU, FDP) opens up options for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in the September federal elections, writes Daniel ...
Radical changes in global energy supply require a “change of historical dimensions” in Germany’s climate and energy policy, comparable to the social welfare policies of Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of the German Empire between 1871 and 1890, ...
18 Aug 2021, 13:35 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Business & Jobs 91tv / Handelsblatt A large majority of German car industry suppliers have initiated the ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Cars Hundreds of radio masts in several German states will be equipped with fuel cell technology to serve as a backup system for emergency services in case of a power blackout, the industry association Clean ...
Luxury carmaker Porsche will no longer produce cars with diesel engines and will instead focus on expanding its product range with electric or hybrid vehicles, the German company has said in a press release. Porsche said it did not want to “demonise” ...
07 Feb 2024, 10:30 The European Commission has recommended that the bloc reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040, saying the EU's Green Deal now needs to become an "industrial decarbonisation deal." Politicians from member ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International KPMG Germany is one of seven European countries in the top ten of international auditor KPMG’s “ Change Readiness Index 2019 ”, assessing countries’ ability to manage change and build a ...
11 Oct 2024, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen FAZ German energy company Uniper has postponed its target to invest eight billion euros in growth and the green transformation by 2030 also due to a lack of demand for green hydrogen, CEO Michael Lewis told ...
02 Jan 2023, 12:53 Germany's government needs to devise support for the country's energy-intensive industry in 2023 in order to keep it competitive, says Carsten Rolle, who heads the climate and energy division at industry association BDI. ...
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche has announced dramatic changes to move the carmaker into the future of mobility, reports Cerstin Gemmelin in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Daimler will radically develop into a different company within the next ten years,” Zetsche told ...
10 Jun 2021, 13:49 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport Hydrogen Heating 91tv German industry has called on the government to include transport and heating in the hydrogen economy ramp-up. "Policymakers must not leave out the ...
28 Oct 2024, 13:07 Edgar Meza Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Federal funds required to support the expansion of renewable energy in Germany could drop in 2025, according to an analysis by the Institute of Energy Economics at the University ...
Global competition pressure in the renewables sector will increase over the coming years, as costs and overall investments continue to drop, while renewables growth will be less than in previous years, writes Germany’s second-largest bank Commerzbank in a ...
17 Jun 2021, 13:04 Edgar Meza Resources & Recycling 91tv A circular economy is vital in achieving a climate-neutral and competitive industrialised country, according to a new report by the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and ...
German energy company and utility E.ON spin-off Uniper is a potential takeover target, according to investment bank Goldman Sachs, reports Reuters. “There are a number of potential buyers and Uniper's relatively small size makes it a target,” writes ...
10 Oct 2024, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Carbon market 91tv Germany should alter its current plans for a national carbon price for transport and heating fuel emissions and stick to a fixed price until the new EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) for ...
18 Jun 2015
18 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv REN21 "Renewables 2015: Global Status Report" Paris-based non-profit group REN21 has published its annual report on the global status of renewable energy around the world. The 250-page ...
Germany needs a reform of its renewables support system to bring down costs for power consumers but Berlin lacks “the political will” to do anything before the federal elections in September, writes Angela Hennersdorf in an opinion piece for ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:33 Edgar Meza Freight Hydrogen Technology 91tv In a new report examining the status of the German and European hydrogen fuel cell markets, the German government-backed National Platform Future of Mobility (NPM) says there is ...
01 Feb 2024, 13:45 Jack McGovan Policy Tagesspiegel Background Energy sector groups have called for improvements to a German interior ministry draft law set to regulate the resilience and physical safety of critical infrastructure, reports Tagesspiegel ...
The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) began construction on a new single-tank test facility for thermal energy storage in molten salt (TESIS). “Energy storage is key for the energy supply of the future,” writes DLR in an article. “The research at the DLR is ...
German carmakers BMW and Daimler have signed an agreement to merge their mobility services business units to compete with Uber in the United States and Didi Chuxing in China, writes news agency Reuters. “As pioneers in automotive engineering, we will not ...
22 Oct 2024, 13:31 Jennifer Collins Adaptation 91tv Human-driven climate change was linked to more than 30 percent of the intensity and physical extent of an extreme drought which lasted throughout the summer of 2022 in Europe, according to a ...
Fairer distribution of the costs of the Germany's energy transition could save consumers and the retail sector up to 5.2 billion euros, according to a joint paper from the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) and the Association of ...
The 2030 emissions reduction target defines the duty and objectives of the commission tasked with planning Germany’s coal exit, climate economist Barbara Praetorius said in an interview with Der Tagesspiegel. “The 2030 climate targets are set, they ...
08 Dec 2020, 13:32 Edgar Meza Utilities 91tv German energy and telecommunications group EWE has said it plans to become climate-neutral by 2035. In order to achieve its target, the company is exiting coal-fired power generation and investing ...
02 Jun 2021, 12:10 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Grid Clean Energy ...
15 Feb 2016
15 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Bild “Dobrindt plans doping tests for cars” In response to the VW emissions scandal, Germany’s transport minister Alexander Dobrindt plans to introduce spot checks for car emissions. “There will be ...
18 Oct 2024
18 Oct 2024, 14:10 91tv Team Bloomberg: EU’s green shift under threat as the hit to consumers gets real Pushback on transport and heating policies is building Looming real-world impact fuels backlash as deadlines near Transport & Environment: T ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:52 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Elections & Politics Die Welt Now that the coal exit commission has reached an agreement on how Germany could phase out the fossil fuel, the federal grand coalition government must ...
Several lawsuits regarding high nitrogen oxide emission levels – filed by the non-profit environmental and consumer protection association Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) in the recent past – start to have consequences for cities and carmakers, writes Stefan ...
23 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024, 11:47 91tv Team Reuters: Germany bets on India to reduce reliance on China From cars to logistics, German companies are largely optimistic about India's growth potential, tapping into a wealth of skilled young workers, a cheaper cost ...
Industry, transport and manufacturing have benefitted from exemptions and rebates in the power sector to the tune of about 17 billion euros, much of which was shouldered by private households, said the SPD-affiliated Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) in a ...
Distribution grids used to have a reputation as a boring low-profit business but have become a key source of revenue for German utility innogy, Helmut Bünder writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Just like its competitor E.ON, the subsidiary of RWE ...
The lack of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles is one of the main reasons why Germany’s initial goal to put one million e-cars on the road by 2020 will fail by a very wide margin, Dominik Reintjes writes on Spiegel Online. This problem “can at ...
Social Democrats (SPD) in Saxony have made clear they consider lignite mining to play an important role as a “bridging technology” in Germany’s energy supply for the foreseeable future, Welt Online reports. “We rely on a gradual approach that equally ...
International agreements for climate protection and Germany’s Climate Action Plan 2050 spell a prosperous future for the country’s wind power industry, the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) said in a press release. Germany’s wind power industry “has an ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:20 Julian Wettengel International 91tv Governments across the world have to make the 2020s the “decade of sustainability”, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 20th annual conference of the German Council for ...
16 Feb 2021, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Handelsblatt The German car industry is headed for a "tragedy" if it does not succeed in becoming a lead market for electric mobility, entrepreneur Bill Gates has told business weekly Handelsblatt. The ...
Germany’s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) would be wise to “massively advocate” for shifting the financial foundation of the country’s energy transition from national subsidies to a better functioning European Emissions Trading System ...
15 Nov 2024, 12:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal dpa / Euwid The legacy of lignite mining is posing great challenges to the water management of eastern German coal mining area Lusatia. The issue could also affect the water supply of the country’s nearby capital ...
Expanding electric transport could be used to exploit existing power grid capacity, if the right smart grid technologies are deployed and combined with the inherent flexibility in when electric vehicles (EVs) can be charged, writes the Regulatory ...
The German car industry says that diesel technology is “at least in the mid-term” indispensable to reach climate targets, writes the German Bundestag in a press release. In a hearing before the parliament’s committee of inquiry for the diesel emissions ...
09 Oct 2024, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Carbon market 91tv The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) should be reformed to make it more resilient to crises, such as the effects of Russia’s war against Ukraine or the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
29 Jan 2024, 13:58 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International 91tv The U.S. government’s decision to put a halt to licensing new liquefied natural gas (LNG) ...
The Green party’s proposed ban on petrol and diesel engines by 2030 is “economically damaging, ecologically questionable, and practically impossible”, writes the head of Germany’s pro-business party FDP, Christian Lindner, in a commentary for Die Welt. He ...
Germany’s acting Finance Minister Peter Altmaier said that green finance should receive support at EU level to stimulate the growth of a business model of the future, the news agency dpa reports in an article carried by eu-info.de. Investments that ...
29 Jan 2024, 13:53 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Handelsblatt A ...
The Social Democrat-led Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of the eastern German state of Brandenburg has called for abolishing the country’s core law on financing the roll-out of renewables, the Renewable Energy Act (EEG). The law is unfair ...
The German government is “again leading the way in renewable energy policy” with the switch from set feed-in tariffs to an auction-based system for renewable power, writes Johannes Urpelainen, Associate Professor at Columbia University. “Auctions are the ...
07 Nov 2024
07 Nov 2024, 10:00 91tv Team Politico: Scholz bows out of COP29 climate summit after government collapses The decision follows a dramatic breakdown of Germany’s three-party coalition government. Bloomberg: Italy renews push to revise EU’s combustion ...
14 Jun 2019, 09:07 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
12 Jan 2022, 12:20 Faced with a “drastic backlog” of too-high emissions left by the previous government and with not enough measures in place to reach the 2030 climate targets, Germany’s new minister for the economy and climate, Robert Habeck, has ...
08 Oct 2024, 13:44 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 91tv / Spektrum Forests across Germany have become a source of carbon dioxide for the first time since records began, that’s the takeaway from a report by the agriculture ministry (BMEL). ...
In spring this year, Switzerland decided to pursue an energy transition strategy, but the country will take its time phasing out nuclear power, writes the news agency dpa in an article carried by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Switzerland is already able ...
South Africa could learn from Germany’s mistakes by removing the obstacles coal power poses to integrating renewables into its electricity system early, think tank Agora Energiewende’s* Markus Steigenberger says in an article for ESI Africa. Although ...
15 Dec 2014
15 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Electricity crime story” Wherever they can afford it, German towns and municipalities have been buying back power grids and gas supply networks and are beginning to generate ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:44 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs ...
The EU’s proposed emissions trading system (ETS) reform spells 20 lost years for climate protection, Michael Bauchmüller writes in an opinion piece for Süddeutsche Zeitung. According to the proposal, certificates would be put in a “reserve” from 2019 and ...
The construction of Germany’s largest pumped storage power station at the Schluchsee lake could be thwarted by a population of Whinchat birds, Eberhard Wein writes in the Stuttgarter Zeitung. Conservationists from Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) are ...
“Little will change on the European continent due to the decision of the British people, including when it comes to the climate and energy agency,” writes Sabrina Schulz in the blog of climate and energy think tank E3G. In Germany, the fight over the ...
The government's difficulty finding agreement on Germany’s Climate Action Plan 2050 was a preview of similar negotiations in the future, writes Theo Geers in an opinion piece for Deutschlandfunk. “Every saved tonne of CO₂ will have to be seized from ...
The costs of financing Germany’s transition to a low-carbon economy should be more fairly distributed, as low-income households currently spend a higher share of their income on the electricity levies and taxes that help finance the Energiewende, writes ...
27 Sep 2021, 14:01 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics 91tv At first sight, this election result could be interpreted as a defeat for climate action because both the Green Party and the Left Party, which have the most convincing answers ...
18 Apr 2016, 00:00 State-owned Swedish utility Vattenfall has agreed to sell its east German lignite operations to Czech utility EPH, the company said on Monday. While the affected regions stressed the sale would finally put an end to employees' ...
Plans by the European Parliament (EP) to introduce mandatory e-car charging points in non-residential buildings could cost German companies 7.5 billion euros, writes Markus Grabitz in the Rheinische Post. In the future EU directive on energy efficiency in ...
03 Nov 2020, 15:03 Governments in Germany and elsewhere in Europe are wary of the impact the US election could have on international climate action cooperation. While a win by incumbent President Donald Trump would likely exacerbate existing disputes on ...
Germany’s role as a host of this year’s UN climate conference “left a question mark for many diplomats” at the COP23 in Bonn, Jürgen Polzin writes in an op-ed for the Hamburger Abendblatt. That Germany is still ruled by a provisional government and ...
10 Dec 2015
10 Dec 2015, 00:00 Die Zeit “Don’t be afraid of the Energiewende” Three scientific academies have found there are various options to bring the Energiewende in the power sector to a successful conclusion, reports Fritz Vorholz on Zeit Online. The experts ...
21 Oct 2024, 14:18 Jennifer Collins Solar 91tv Solar energy expansion in major German cities is picking up speed, according to a report by renewable electricity provider LichtBlick, which looks at growth in installed roof-mounted solar ...
Germany will have to gradually lower its coal-fired power production to meet its climate targets, the federal government writes in response to a parliamentary inquiry by the Left Party. But it adds that a coal phase-out cannot commence until regions have ...
25 Oct 2024, 13:52 Jennifer Collins Mobility Policy 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung / dpa Rail passenger and freight transport is set to see strong growth over the next 16 years in Germany, but trucks and cars are expected to remain the dominant ...
09 Oct 2024
09 Oct 2024, 10:29 91tv Team IEA: Massive global growth of renewables to 2030 is set to match entire power capacity of major economies today With solar leading their rapid deployment, renewables are on course to meet almost half of global electricity ...
The share of taxes and levies German households have to pay for power has reached a new all-time high, price comparison website Verivox said in a press release. The state’s share in the power bill “now accounts for 56 percent for private customers – an ...
Municipal shareholders of German utility RWE are under pressure after the energy company announced it wouldn’t pay a dividend for a second consecutive year, writes Jürgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. The city of Essen, seat of RWE’s company headquarters and ...
The deal between energy companies E.ON and RWE is an attempt to stem their decline by each focusing on a part of the old conventional energy world that may come costly to consumers and ultimately to the whole economy, energy economist Claudia Kemfert from ...
Fog and low wind impacted Germany's renewable energy supply in January, meaning conventional power plants had to ramp up production, Andreas Mihm writes in Frankfurter Zeitung. “Many wind and PV plants could not produce any power,” Mihm explains. ...
The country needs a “sustainable and binding” CO₂ price in all sectors, including transport and heating, to correct mistakes in Germany’s energy tax and levy system, CEO of utility E.ON Johannes Teyssen told Die Welt in an interview. “With this, many ...
The head of German carmaker Volkswagen told daily Rheinische Post that he can imagine a deal with the government in which the carmakers agree to a phase-out date for diesel engines in return for more support with e-mobility. “If you act with appropriate ...
The United States government politicises the Russian-German Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project because it wants to sell its gas in Europe, Matthias Warnig, the company’s CEO told WirtschaftsWoche in a long interview. “They abuse the unfounded fear ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:35 Ruby Russel Cars Business & Jobs Technology NDR / Spiegel / dpa Plans to build one of Germany’s largest car battery cell factories have been approved by local authorities on what Swedish manufacturer Northvolt hailed as a " ...
29 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Energy associations Call for fair competition conditions for power storage facilities Energy business associations BDEW, BEE, BNE, BVES, VDMA and VKU have called on the parliamentary ...
