06 Nov 2020, 14:24 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG ...
25 Oct 2023, 12:53 Julian Wettengel Agriculture Renewables 91tv Land used for agriculture has been declining in Germany over the past decades – a trend that is set to continue in the coming years – and the country must put more focus on the ...
28 Aug 2024
28 Aug 2024, 09:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: The secret behind Germany’s record renewables buildout As most countries struggle to install clean energy fast enough, Germany tackled the industry’s toughest problem: slow permitting, writes Bloomberg. Bloomberg: ...
14 Aug 2024, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Grid Renewables 91tv The increasing use of new rooftop installations is quickening the expansion of solar PV in Germany, meaning the technology’s efficient integration into the energy system becomes ...
Household electricity prices reached an all-time high at an average of 29.16 cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) in February 2017, compared to 28.8 ct/kWh in 2016, writes utility association BDEW in its current power price analysis. This was down to record ...
20 Sep 2024, 12:19 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv The Deutschlandticket, a subscription public transportation ticket, likely contributed to a six percent year-on-year increase in the number of passengers using local bus and train services in ...
The Green Party’s demand to grant “climate passports” to people whose livelihoods have been destroyed by climate change sounds reasonable but is crazy, argues Ulrich Ladurner on Zeit Online. “The Germans haven’t recovered from the great migration in 2015, ...
23 Aug 2024
23 Aug 2024, 10:50 Carolina Kyllmann Fortune: Greenpeace files supreme court case accusing Finland of climate inaction A group of environmental and rights organisations said Thursday (22 August) that they were suing the Finnish government for violating ...
Several German companies plan to provide customers with transparency on the exact geographical origin of the energy they purchase, writes Ralph Diermann on Spiegel Online. If consumers know their energy comes from the wind turbine next door and not from a ...
23 Feb 2016, 00:00 A reformed energy-only market and interconnections with electrical neighbours are Germany's visions for a future European power system, energy state secretary Baake says. Utility industry head Kempmann warns against splitting power ...
12 Aug 2024, 13:25 Sören Amelang Adaptation 91tv More than half of the forest in some central German regions is "severely damaged" following extreme drought periods over the past years, according to a report by the Helmholtz Centre ...
23 Dec 2022, 14:20 The German government coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz looks back at a turbulent first year in office, which has been dominated by the reality check of Russia’s war on Ukraine and the European energy crisis. The turmoil in global ...
21 Oct 2019, 13:09 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Spiegel Online The remaining carbon budget available to Germany and indeed the whole world under the terms of the Paris ...
11 Mar 2015, 00:00 E.ON posts record loss for 2014 and RWE’s outlook is bleak, fuelling debate over their future. 91tv 91tv Utilities Electricity market Germany's largest utility, E.ON, posted a loss of 3.16 billion euros for 2014- ...
22 Aug 2024, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Cars 91tv About a third of drivers under the age of 30 in Germany expect to buy an electric vehicle (EV) the next time they change cars, according to a survey by opinion research institute Bilendi. The ...
03 Sep 2024, 17:20 Jennifer Collins Coal 91tv / Table.Media So many of Germany's coal-fired power plants are already slated to go offline that the country's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) did not have to announce a ban on power ...
14 Aug 2024, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Cars Die Welt / Handelsblatt A slump in new electric vehicle (EV) registrations in Germany could set the country's electromobility growth target back at least five years, according to industry expert Ferdinand ...
22 Nov 2018, 15:06 The German government wants to postpone the deadline for the conclusion of the country’s coal exit commission. Sources told the 91tv the commission may have to extend its work on the phase out of the fossil fuel until ...
12 Aug 2024, 13:19 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Adaptation 91tv The Wadden Sea, the world’s largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the southern North Sea, is changing at an unprecedented rate due to climate change, ...
19 Aug 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Handelsblatt / dpa Germany's cabinet will discuss a draft law to better protect so-called critical infrastructure against physical damage "shortly after the summer break", dpa reported in an ...
15 Aug 2024, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv Germany needs more targeted training for traditional craftsmen and other existing skilled workers to give them the expertise they need to work in the solar and wind power industry, ...
07 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany cannot count on French to help it block an amendment to an EU regulation which would give the a Union greater say in the construction of the contentious Russian-German ...
07 Oct 2020, 13:41 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Sören Amelang Efficiency Heating 91tv German government buildings are much too inefficient to contribute to the country's climate ...
19 Jun 2019, 12:04 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Cars Reuters Germany ...
11 Jan 2022, 13:40 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe ...
08 Oct 2020, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv Germany's government together with researchers, water industry representatives and local authorities is working on a national water strategy aimed at coping with recurring ...
15 Aug 2024
15 Aug 2024, 10:00 Julian Wettengel Wallstreet Journal: The story of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage Private businessmen funded the shoestring operation, which was overseen by a top general; President Zelensky approved the plan, then tried ...
30 Oct 2019, 13:45 Sören Amelang Solar Wind Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Solar energy has made a "spectacular comeback" in Germany- in sharp contrast to struggling wind power, reports Anna Steiner in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The ...
German premium carmakers BMW, Daimler and Audi compete with each other on car sales year after year, writes Thomas Fromm in a commentary in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “The premium crown, sales records, pure size – carmakers have got so much used to these units ...
02 Jul 2020, 12:57 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business ...
17 Oct 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Cities 91tv Relevant stakeholders at a parliamentary hearing on 16 October called for more financial resources and less bureaucracy for the decarbonisation of Germany's heating grids. The ...
24 Apr 2020, 13:40 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 ...
20 Jan 2016
20 Jan 2016, 00:00 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau “Gabriel needs a masterplan” The Paris Agreement has shown that coal will need to be phased out faster than currently planned, writes Joachim Wille in a commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars rbb24 US carmaker Tesla’s planned gigafactory near Berlin continues to cause worries about the production site's water consumption, public broadcaster rbb24 reports. The local water supplier in the ...
The German government will organise a summit on 2 August with the aim of bundling the different community and state activities to reduce pollution from diesel vehicles at federal level, a spokesperson of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital ...
The fact that E.ON sticks to the majority Uniper sale in September despite the fossil spin-off’s lousy results is a bet on the future of the Energiewende, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. Renewable power’s share will remain stuck in low single digits and ...
22 Aug 2024
22 Aug 2024, 10:35 Carolina Kyllmann Reuters: Germany's Deutsche Bahn must cut off DB Cargo aid after EU probe, say sources Germany's state-owned Deutsche Bahn will no longer be able to financially support its loss-making freight operator DB ...
16 Aug 2024, 12:34 Jack McGovan Company climate claims 91tv The 40 large companies listed in the German DAX stock market index reduced their full value chain greenhouse gas emissions by a combined four percent in 2023, compared to the ...
19 Mar 2019, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government International Tagesspiegel Background Germany could face fines of up to 300 million euros payable over three years for its failure to comply with emissions reduction targets under the EU’s ...
08 Sep 2020, 14:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Süddeutsche Zeitung The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Germany could soon enter an energy partnership that would see the central African country provide hydropower capacity to produce ...
20 May 2020, 13:38 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid International 91tv The German government is preparing to buy a stake in Dutch transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT as part of a ...
13 Oct 2023, 13:26 Sören Amelang Industry EU 91tv The EU’s proposed strategy for scaling up energy transition technologies would soften environmental standards across the board, is too broad in scope, and also lacks the necessary funding, ...
14 May 2019, 13:33 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Grid Renewables 91tv The cost of stabilising the ...
13 Oct 2023, 13:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance International 91tv The agreement among shareholders of the World Bank on a reform that will facilitate investments in climate action and development assistance projects is a sign that significant ...
12 Aug 2024
12 Aug 2024, 12:05 91tv Team Euronews: ‘I feel like there is no help’: Year-round energy poverty for millions of Europeans as heatwaves hit A significant proportion of European homes are very difficult to keep cool in summer due to the way they are ...
02 Sep 2020, 12:55 A faster deployment of more renewable installations that run into less problems with citizens and are able to quickly survive in the market without government support are at the centre of a renewables law reform proposal by Germany’s ...
Germany must “significantly increase” its goals for renewables expansion to supply all sectors with electricity in the future and reach its own climate targets, writes the Social Democratic parliamentary group in the Bundestag (SPD) in a new position ...
With a surprise last-minute veto, federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel blocked a tentative agreement on Germany’s Climate Action Plan 2050, writes Markus Wacket for news agency Reuters. German mining, chemicals and energy trade union IG BCE and the ...
21 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
13 Sep 2024, 13:01 Jack McGovan Technology Society 91tv A total of 12.9 million households in Germany- almost one in three- use at least one energy transition technology like solar panels, a heat pump, or an electric car, according to a ...
01 Aug 2024, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv Germany’s goal of having 15 million electric cars on roads by 2030 could be missed by up to 6 million cars without cooperation with China and improved regulations and ...
06 Feb 2019, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Storage Business & Jobs Handelsblatt The battery cell factory planned to be built in Germany by Chinese manufacturer CATL will have a much greater capacity than initially planned, Lukas Bay ...
06 Feb 2019, 14:06 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Cars Technology Automotive News Europe Carmakers such as Daimler, BMW or Volkswagen are increasingly morphing into tech companies in their bid to develop the digital backbone of new mobility and fend ...
18 May 2017
In its “Future Pact Energiewende Industrial Policy”, think tank Agora Energiewende and consultancy Roland Berger have presented proposals on how to reconcile the competitiveness of the country’s industry with Germany’s energy transition after the federal ...
02 Aug 2024
02 Aug 2024, 14:20 Six months after the new ruling coalition in Poland came to power, there are still no significant changes to the country’s energy policy. The government of Donald Tusk, however, is finally getting back to work on key laws for the energy ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv The bulk of external costs caused by transport in Germany is due to road traffic, which accounts for 95 percent of total costs, NGO Allianz pro Schiene (Pro Rail Alliance) said. The NGO ...
09 Aug 2024, 13:22 Milou Dirkx Citizens' energy Renewables 91tv The German government is under increasing time pressure to legislate energy sharing opportunities and meet EU requirements originally set for mid-2021, said the German ...
04 Oct 2023, 10:11 Against the backdrop of a faltering economy and heated national debates about climate policies, two of Germany's key economic regions, Bavaria and Hesse, head to the polls in the first week of October. A change of government is not ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society dpa / ZfK Optimism that Germany can achieve its national energy transition targets is moderately growing in Germany, a survey by consultancy EY has found. The share of respondents saying that the ...
22 May 2020, 14:07 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace Germany ...
07 Apr 2020, 13:21 Expert Forschungszentrum Jülich Research institute for energy, climate and nuclear sciences Nuclear phase-out Technology Expert RWTH Aachen University Technology Rachel Waldholz Storage 91tv Battery storage systems have ...
German federal state governments are unlikely to allow hydraulic fracking test drillings on their land, writes Dirk Fisser in Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. The newspaper had asked representatives of state governments about their willingness to carry out one ...
The German natural gas industry group Zukunft-Erdgas has produced a study “Heating market 2050”, which examines the role of regenerative gases in meeting CO2 reduction targets. “The CO₂ intensive heating oil will not play any role in the heating market of ...
15 May 2020, 14:17 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Security 91tv Several German parliamentarians have criticised government plans to set up a domestic ...
06 Oct 2023, 12:18 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices 91tv The majority of over 200 economists surveyed by the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) reject German economy minister Robert Habeck’s proposal to subsidise electricity for ...
05 Sep 2024
05 Sep 2024, 11:01 91tv Team Le Monde: France's Macron appoints Michel Barnier, former European commissioner, as prime minister The appointment of the EU's former Brexit negotiator, a member of the right-wing Les Républicains party, comes after ...
26 Jun 2019, 12:59 Sören Amelang Cars Handelsblatt German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ‘car summit’ this week was too narrowly focussed on electric mobility and industry interests, writes Dieter Fockenbrock in a commentary for the business daily ...
24 Jan 2020, 12:12 Pressure is rising fast on industry to join the great decarbonisation race. Many energy-intensive German companies, like chemical giant BASF or steelmaker thyssenkrupp, already have detailed plans for drastic emission cuts, but lack ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told journalists that she expects talks to discuss the possibilities for a new government coalition to last several weeks before actual negotiations begin, news agency Reuters reports. The lengthy talks were down to the ...
03 Dec 2021, 11:39 Many environmentalists have already written off sharp transport emission cuts under the next German government after the coalition agreed a treaty that is weak on mobility, and put the pro-business Free Democrats in charge of the ...
02 Aug 2024
02 Aug 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: Tipping risks from overshooting 1.5 °C can be minimised Impact can be reduced if the warming is swiftly reversed, meaning emissions reduction in the current decade is crucial for ...
16 Aug 2018, 16:59 While touring critical power grid projects in northern Germany, energy minister Peter Altmaier also faced a troubled wind industry that fears its golden years in the country are over. Under pressure from workers and local politicians, ...
29 Jan 2020, 14:09 Freja Eriksen Grid 91tv Corrects position of Felix Matthes, who is research coordinator at the Institute for Applied Ecology, not the institute's head. Power grid expansion is set to become the German energy transition ...
20 Mar 2017, 00:00 Germany aims to use a large international energy conference in Berlin to inject fresh momentum and ideas into the G20 process in the run up to the Hamburg summit in July. The Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue – a two-day conference on ...
05 Aug 2024
05 Aug 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Politico: No, the EV isn’t dead — just briefly comatose Despite gloomy stories about the collapse in sales of electric vehicles, what’s really happening on the markets is more of a pause than a retreat. Benar News: New ...
08 Aug 2024
08 Aug 2024, 15:22 91tv Team NewClimate Institute: Unpacking Germany’s hydrogen import strategy: 3 considerations for Global South partners Expectation that lower production costs can partially offset high conversion losses & transport costs may not ...
04 Oct 2023, 13:15 Jack McGovan Elections & Politics 91tv The number of voters for the far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is highest in industrial areas that are most in need for decarbonisation efforts, according to a new ...
04 Oct 2023, 13:23 Sören Amelang Carbon removal Technology 91tv German researchers said they have reached an important milestone in the development of a scalable and energy-efficient direct air capture (DAC) technology to remove CO2 from the ...
The language in the Climate Action Plan 2050 regarding coal used to be crystal clear: it was to be ended “well before” 2050. But the new draft version of the paper is lacking this kind of clarity, writes Michael Bauchmüller in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. It ...
The small municipality of Jemgum on Germany’s North Sea coast could soon become home to a giant battery, which some hail as “the Energiewende’s magic potion”, Burkhard Fraune writes in the WirtschaftsWoche. The redox flow battery, which stores electrical ...
Only solar bids have been successful in Germany’s first joint solar and onshore wind auction for renewables support, said the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in a press release. “In competition, it simply is the technology that offers the lowest costs ...
China and the USA ratifying the Paris Climate Agreement shortly before the start of the G20 summit in China proves that both countries now see more chances than risks in climate protection, writes Michael Bauchmüller in Süddeutsche Zeitung. The move will ...
29 Oct 2019, 14:22 Sören Amelang Mobility Cars Only eight months after launching their combined car sharing with great ambitions, BMW and Daimler have grown highly sceptical of the business, write Markus Fasse and Franz Hubik in business daily ...
01 Aug 2024
01 Aug 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Footprint Network: August 1st marks Earth Overshoot Day With the beginning of August, humanity’s demand on nature’s resources this year surpasses Earth’s capacity to regenerate them, the international sustainability ...
19 Sep 2018, 15:20 The German government has launched a new advisory panel to reduce transport emissions in line with national climate targets. The task force will broaden the focus of an earlier panel concentrated on electric cars, to discuss the entire ...
Germany can still reach its 2020 emissions reduction targets if it shuts down or throttles coal plants with a capacity of at least 5 gigawatt (GW), the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) says in a press release. The UBA says that “in the short run”, coal ...
16 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024, 10:08 Julian Wettengel Eurostat: EU economy greenhouse gas emissions:-4.0% in Q1 2024 In the first quarter of 2024, the EU economy greenhouse gas emissions were estimated at 894 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 4.0 percent ...
24 Feb 2021, 12:34 Sören Amelang Cars Handelsblatt Germany will probably reach its target of having one million fully electric or plug-in hybrid cars on the road this year, government advisors have said. The head of the country's National Platform ...
24 Jul 2020, 10:40 The rivalry between Europe and China in emission-free hydrogen technologies could become one of the defining business stories in the global effort to stop climate change. Scarred by its painful experience in solar PV manufacturing, ...
22 Jul 2015
22 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv energytransition.de “‘5 megatrends’ for a global energy transition” There are five global ‘megatrends’ pointing to a world-wide energy transition, according to an overview by renewable power ...
Germany’s energy consumption- and probably the country’s greenhouse gas emissions- increased slightly in 2016, says energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) in its report on energy consumption. The data confirms AGEB’s estimates from ...
29 Jul 2024
29 Jul 2024, 11:00 Julian Wettengel Reuters: Trump effect in clean tech sector deepens angst in Europe's boardrooms European companies focused on clean energy are abandoning expansion plans, bracing for lower sales or see funding of U.S projects in ...
22 Jul 2019, 13:47 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Freja Eriksen Grid Handelsblatt Dutch government-owned grid operator TenneT plans to tie its German subsidiary closer to its head office as part of a larger restructuring, ...
02 Mar 2020, 14:10 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann ...
19 Mar 2019, 14:11 Kerstine Appunn Coal Climate & CO2 91tv The growth in Germany’s renewable electricity output triggered by the country’s energy transition policy is “quite an achievement,” the JP Morgan Energy Outlook 2019 authored by ...
26 Nov 2019, 12:58 Sören Amelang Coal 91tv Europe's mining regions call for EU support for "clean coal" technologies to ease their transition, but climate activists warned the coal exit must not be delayed by promoting " ...
27 Apr 2018, 00:00 The Energiewende is an indispensable project even if future economic returns remain uncertain, according to Christoph M. Schmidt, president of the RWI- Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, and chair of the German Council of Economic ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:58 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Süddeutsche Zeitung The mass production of VW's flagship e-car model ID.3 is being hampered by major difficulties that could thwart the carmaker’s goal of becoming a ...
15 Nov 2021, 13:56 Negotiators in Glasgow reached a breakthrough on the rules for global carbon emission reduction trade. After five years of unsuccessful deliberations since the Paris Agreement laid down the framework for a new market where states and ...
29 Sep 2023, 13:53 Sören Amelang International 91tv Public climate financing from Germany for poorer countries reached a new record level last year, already surpassing the 6-billion euro target set for 2025, the government has said. A total ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Hydrogen 91tv Producing synthetic alcohol with renewable power could become a significant energy storage option for the energy transition, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) research ...
07 Aug 2024, 13:34 Sören Amelang Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Electricity from large ground-mounted solar PV systems combined with batteries has become cheaper than that generated from fossil power sources in Germany, researchers from ...
29 Oct 2018, 16:39 The elections in the German state of Hesse have set in motion a major shift in the country's political landscape. Germany's national government coalition parties took the second pounding at regional elections in a row, ...
08 Jul 2017, 00:00 The German presidency and chancellor Angela Merkel pulled off a “solid” diplomatic success on climate policy by closing the ranks of all G20 members except the United States at the summit in Hamburg, experts for climate diplomacy said. ...
17 Feb 2020, 14:13 Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Germany's environment minister Svenja Schulze has proposed to speed up the large-scale use of renewable hydrogen with a quota for aeroplane fuels and tenders for production. "For me it is ...
05 Sep 2019, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Energiewende 91tv Germany is set to miss several key energy transition targets for the year 2020, and the country's high power supply security is at risk unless new generation capacity and grid ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:18 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Mobility Policy Handelsblatt A price on CO2 emissions would be a far superior solution to the government’s “command economy” approach to advance the energy transition in the transport sector, because ...
18 Jan 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Cities 91tv A broad alliance of German trade unions and environmental associations has launched a joint call to the federal government for a legal reform to guarantee more financial support to implement ...
03 Sep 2019, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Spiegel Online / 91tv Germany's Vice Chancellor, finance minister and top candidate to become leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Olaf Scholz, has ...
26 Sep 2023, 13:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Company climate claims 91tv Environmental NGO Greenpeace Germany has hailed a fine for the fund management company DWS in the U.S. as a “success” in the fight against greenwashing in the ...
25 Sep 2023, 13:31 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Technology Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s economy and climate ministry is working on a long-term strategy for negative emissions, including a 2060 target to ensure the country absorbs more greenhouse ...
29 Aug 2019, 12:55 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Wind 91tv The Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) has ...
Energy company RWE’s new green subsidiary Innogy will in the future pay between 70 and 80 percent of its adjusted net income to shareholders, Spiegel Online reports. The dividend will be paid in full in 2016, the company said at an investor meeting in ...
23 Mar 2020, 13:57 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Expert VZBV- ...
26 Jul 2024, 13:32 Joey Grostern Adaptation 91tv More workers are being exposed to heat stress across the world due to climate change, with Europe and Central Asia experiencing the largest rise in excessive heat exposure in 20 years, ...
14 Oct 2019, 13:28 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Gas Finance EurActiv / ...
06 Aug 2024
06 Aug 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Georg Zachmann: Share of heat-pumps in new buildings in Germany doubles from <30% in 2019 to >60% in the first month of 2024 Gas-boilers dropped from >50% in 2015 to 5% in the first month of 2024, says Bruegel ...
19 Jan 2021, 12:18 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert bne- Association of Energy ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:04 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Industry 91tv Technologies to capture and store or use carbon dioxide from industrial processes will become "a special focus" of the next round of Germany's pioneering subsidy ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:35 Jack McGovan Society Der Spiegel / Augsburger Allgemeinen An activist from the German climate activist group Last Generation (Letzte Generation) has been sentenced to eight months in prison without parole for taking part in a street ...
Germany will have to replace its current renewables (EEG) surcharge model with more market and taxation-based mechanisms, using a CO 2 price as an indicator, Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the environment ministry, said at a conference by Green ...
04 Jun 2019, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background / Rheinische Post / n-tv The German conservative party CDU has said it will work on a reform of the country’s system of taxes and levies on energy to better align ...
24 Nov 2020, 13:21 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology 91tv Wind power production in Germany could be ...
In a surprise move, Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser has proposed a large-scale project to transform Germany’s eastern lignite mining region into a hub for future technologies, such as e-mobility, reports Rüdiger Köhn in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “We have ...
21 Sep 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is conducting test runs today (21 September) for a possible gas supply crisis, aiming to practice what would happen should the agency need to order ...
Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) are to make energy efficiency a priority for energy policy in the coming legislative period, Hubertus Heil, deputy chairman of the SPD’s parliamentary group, said during a speech on his party’s energy policy ambitions ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / Der Spiegel A proposed subsidised electricity price for heavy industry would not be effective for the economy as a whole, according to a report by the German Institute for ...
26 Jul 2021, 11:54 One of the first project financed interconnectors in Europe is due to be built between Germany and the UK by 2023-24. The opening up of the interconnector market to private investment has been promoted by both the UK and German ...
15 Apr 2019, 12:07 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars ...
01 Aug 2024, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating 91tv Sales of heating systems in Germany have dropped significantly in the first half of 2024, with uncertainty among customers meaning that manufacturers were selling 43 percent fewer systems than ...
01 Aug 2024, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Electricity 91tv Primary energy consumption in Germany has continued to decrease in the first half of 2024 with the country consuming 3.4 percent less than the same period the previous ...
25 Jul 2024, 13:12 Jack McGovan Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The German government drafted a law to accelerate the expansion of onshore wind, solar farms and energy storage facilities by shortening approval times for projects and designing so ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Heating 91tv To reach its climate targets, Germany's building sector must phase out the use of fossil fuel boilers and introduce minimum efficiency standards for existing buildings, a ...
17 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024, 11:00 Julian Wettengel EU Council greenlights €2.3 billion energy transition support for Germany The EU approved Germany’s amended recovery and resilience plan, which now includes an additional €2.3 billion to contribute to accelerating ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen 91tv Domestic production of green hydrogen should play a much bigger role in Germany’s plans to scale-up the hydrogen economy, which is currently based on a more often inefficient and costly ...
07 Aug 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind International n-tv / Bloomberg / 91tv A new offshore wind power project in the German North Sea is causing a stir in the European wind power industry, as the project will be the first of its kind to ...
06 Jun 2016
06 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Tagesspiegel “80 percent renewables are not a problem” There is much more flexibility in the German power grid to cope with renewables development than currently needed, said Boris ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:34 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 tageszeitung (taz) [UPDATE adds Left Party quote] The German government has declined to specify the amount of greenhouse ...
23 Jun 2023, 10:00 As the two largest economies in the European Union, France and Germany, for at least a decade have acted as the bloc’s key drivers of more ambitious climate action. A glaring gap in the two countries’ energy policy has been exposed in ...
19 Jul 2024, 15:00 Every year in August, Italy and its political scene grind to an almost complete halt for the summer holidays. The debate around the country’s energy transition has almost entirely narrowed down to a single topic: whether to return to ...
20 Nov 2018, 10:30 Germany’s coal exit commission aims to propose a path for the country’s phase-out by the end of November. Agreeing a compromise on how to end the use of Germany's most important fossil fuel in such a short time will be difficult, ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:12 Edgar Meza Heating Construction 91tv The climate-friendly conversion of Germany's building sector should include socially-just financing models, as housing, heating and retrofitting costs increasingly place a burden on ...
11 Aug 2020, 12:22 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Elections & Politics 91tv The German Social Democrats (SPD) will make the ...
22 Jul 2024, 13:05 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Handelsblatt Industry in southwestern Germany worries it will be left behind as planning for the country's core hydrogen grid advances. According to a survey among regional chambers of industry and ...
31 Jul 2024, 13:46 Edgar Meza Renewables Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Bavarian state premier Markus Söder has reaffirmed his government’s intention to take over more than 80 power plants on the southern German state's rivers from energy company ...
01 Jul 2021, 13:36 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Edgar Meza Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv / Die Welt The shift to electric mobility could turn out ...
A new high-speed train link opening this weekend cuts the travel time between Berlin and Munich to less than four hours, which means flying will no longer be quicker, according to Pro-Rail alliance, a lobby group consisting of non-profit organisations and ...
15 Jul 2024, 13:52 Jack McGovan Industry Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Many industrial companies have submitted proposals for low emission investments to the German government's scheme to reimburse them for the extra costs associated with climate ...
22 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: Allianz sees damages worth tens of millions for German vineyards Insurer Allianz SE expects to pay German winemakers tens of millions of euros in insurance claims this year after many vineyards lost their ...
25 Oct 2021, 17:19 Developed countries have said they will deliver on their pledge to provide 100 billion US dollars per year in climate finance to support developing nations by 2023, three years later than originally planned. However, a “climate finance ...
29 Aug 2024, 14:15 Jack McGovan Adaptation Agriculture Weather conditions exacerbated by the climate crisis – like late frosts, a wet autumn and a record-breaking warm spring – have led to a 9.1 percent decrease in grain yields (excluding maize), ...
29 Jul 2024, 13:28 Edgar Meza Solar 91tv The expansion of photovoltaic (PV) systems in Germany continues to grow as more companies and private households opt for solar energy. By April 2024, the number of PV systems reached 3.4 million, ...
20 Aug 2024
20 Aug 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Euractiv: Austria submits 2030 climate plan late as Germany, Spain flout June deadline Just ten EU countries have submitted their long-term climate action plans to Brussels, with Austria being the most recent, as large ...
14 Sep 2023, 14:03 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany plans to ...
14 Sep 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal International 91tv Colombia has become an important supplier of hard coal to Germany, substituting for Russia, the government has said in an answer to a parliamentary inquiry by the Left Party. ...
15 Jan 2019, 12:10 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture 91tv / Tageszeitung Germany's position on the reform of the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) is in danger of not being heard in Brussels because of a lack of coordination between ...
03 Apr 2019, 12:16 Sören Amelang Cars Hydrogen 91tv Extending the range of battery-based electric cars with an additional hydrogen fuel cell makes more sense from an economic and environmental perspective than using huge batteries, said ...
26 Jul 2024, 13:37 Joey Grostern Grid 91tv / Der Spiegel A key operator of Germany’s electricity grid, TenneT, has hit several important milestones in its goal to expand the grid and help the country meet its decarbonisation plans, according ...
23 Jul 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv Germany's government will have to amend its national clean air programme and present effective measures to reduce air pollution in line with EU rules, a court has ruled. ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:30 Jennifer Collins Transport Freight 91tv Germany's ports require huge investments to maintain their crucial position in supplying energy and goods, and to keep up with the energy transformation, said coastal state ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables 91tv Germany has initiated one of its single most important energy transition projects with the start of construction of the SuedLink power transmission line. Construction of key sections ...
31 Mar 2016
31 Mar 2016, 00:00 (UPDATE- clarifies sourcing in section on emissions trading in paragraph 6- sources are Prognos and German Steel Federation, not Die Welt. Headline changes accordingly.) Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Frankfurter ...
18 Jul 2024
18 Jul 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Ursula von der Leyen: "We'll stay the course on the EU Green Deal and the goals we set for 2030 and 2050" " We will now focus on implementation & investment" and "put forward a Clean ...
26 Nov 2014, 00:00 The German government looks set to approve plans to force the power sector to reduce carbon emissions by an additional 22 million tons by 2020. Environmentalists worry the plans don't go far enough and are calling for more coal ...
26 Mar 2019, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt [Update adds details on launch of environment ministry’s investment support programme.] Germany’s industrial sector fears the investment in energy efficiency it will ...
25 Oct 2019, 14:24 Sven Egenter Cars Business & Jobs dpa / tagesschau.de German car part supplier Bosch will cut around 2,600 jobs in the coming years because the demand for diesel and petrol cars is waning, according to a report by newsagency dpa run ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:49 Julian Wettengel Renewables G20 & G7 91tv Leaders of the Group of Twenty (G20) influential economies have agreed on the aim to triple of renewable energy capacity globally by 2030, but stopped short of calling for an ...
14 Apr 2023, 10:18 Nuclear power production in Germany comes to an end on 15 April 2023, marking a milestone in the long and controversial process of the technology's phase-out in the country. Europe’s energy crisis, fuelled by the fallout of Russia ...
07 Dec 2016, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel and her party left energy and climate policy on the sidelines at the Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) conference in Essen. The centre-right party laid the groundwork on Tuesday for its 2017 federal election ...
Car and transport experts have discussed the European Commission’s proposal to tighten vehicle emission rules in the EU in a committee in the German parliament, giving very different assessments of the approach that is aimed reducing the CO 2 output of ...
19 Jul 2024, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 EUElections2024 91tv The re-election of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has largely been welcomed by Germany’s government, observers in the energy industry and by civil ...
22 May 2020, 14:11 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Green stimulus 91tv / Die Welt Energy-intensive industry groups short ...
19 Jul 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices 91tv The German government’s reduction of energy taxes on fuels between June and August 2022 to soften the impact of rising prices due to the energy crisis has not been fully passed ...
16 Jul 2024, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The German government plans to have a diversified import structure for green hydrogen, shows a draft strategy seen by Tagesspiegel Background. It counts on pipelines to supplier ...
02 Aug 2024, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Süddeutsche Zeitung A draft agreement on a budget for 2025 by the German coalition government might have to be re-opened after advisors to the finance ministry (BMF) found that it might ...
08 Sep 2023, 13:32 Sören Amelang Heating 91tv Government subsidies for boiler exchanges must take into account the full lifecycle emissions of heating systems, said Germany’s leading technical inspection and certification service provider, ...
08 Sep 2023, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables G20 & G7 91tv Germany is advocating for an agreement on "a clear and concrete target" for the global expansion of renewables among the Group of Twenty (G20), said ...
05 Aug 2024, 13:43 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Government ZDF / 91tv Germany's coalition government is set to reopen budget negotiations after advisors to the finance ministry cast doubts on a draft agreement on a budget for 2025 ...
11 Dec 2018, 20:00 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
29 Jul 2024, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cities Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung Urban greening and parasols in hotspots should help protect people in Germany's cities during periods of high heat. With a new urban heat protection strategy, the ...
24 Jul 2024
24 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: EU wind industry warns Germany over large Chinese turbine deal Europe’s wind industry warned Germany that a deal for 16 Chinese offshore wind turbines risks fostering unfair competition for local suppliers ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:27 Sören Amelang Wind Transport Hydrogen German coastal states want hundreds of millions of euros from the federal government to transform their ports into energy hubs for liquefied natural gas, hydrogen, and offshore wind, reports ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:29 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Renewables 91tv Renewable power sources covered around 57 percent of Germany's gross ...
According to a government official, Germany wants the 8-9 June G7 summit, to be held in the Charlevoix region of Quebec, Canada, to issue a joint communiqué that also covers climate and energy-related issues. In light of the US’ position, agreeing on a ...
The next federal government should put a high priority on introducing a higher price on CO₂ across all economic sectors and a fundamental reform of energy-related taxes and levies in Germany, if climate targets are to be taken seriously, according to a ...
15 Nov 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor calls on world to walk the talk, fails to deliver strong statement on German coal / Representatives from science, climate and environmental NGOs, and vulnerable small island states appealed to Merkel to meet the ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv In a televised debate following on that of Germany’s three chancellor candidates, the four smaller parties in the country’s parliament have traded blows over the course of ...
05 Sep 2023, 12:11 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen 91tv Algeria, Tunisia and Spain could be the best and most cost-effective countries from which Germany can import green hydrogen if pipelines are ready for transport, according to an analysis by ...
06 Aug 2019, 13:57 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Sören Amelang Utilities Elections & Politics Recharge ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:30 German government officials and industry associations have welcomed the EU’s proposal for a “Green Deal Industrial Plan,” intended to enhance the competitiveness of Europe's industry on the path to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:03 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Society dpa / WirtschaftsWoche / 91tv The COVID-19 pandemic is leading German companies to rethink the need for business trips and promote video conferencing instead, according to a report by ...
30 Apr 2015
30 Apr 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Rheinische Post “CDU’s economic council want to lower Merkel’s climate goals” A group representing business interests within Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU demand a lowering of Germany’s climate goals, reports the ...
05 Apr 2019, 12:44 Julian Wettengel Coal Cost & Prices Reuters / ZDF Germany’s federal government and coal mining states have agreed on a programme worth 260 million euros to provide fast support to regions affected by the exit from coal-fired power ...
25 Sep 2020, 13:34 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Sören Amelang Cars 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Wall Street Journal The German car industry has criticised California's decision to ban ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:26 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv Charging an electric vehicle at home costs German drivers just half the price of refuelling a conventional car with petrol, according to an analysis by price comparison website Verivox. “The ...
German gas company Thyssengas is planning a new pipeline that would connect its grid with the proposed Russian project Nord Stream 2- even while the latter is strongly disputed, writes Jürgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. The company argues that gas supplies ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:12 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Heating 91tv New homes constructed in Germany will be eligible for tax credits without the need for tighter efficiency standards. “This is our offer to the construction and real estate industry ...
13 Jun 2019, 13:16 Sören Amelang Storage Cars Deutsche Welle German carmaker VW has acquired a 20 percent stake in Swedish car battery maker Northvolt, which raised 900 million euros in cash to finance the construction of Europe’s biggest car battery cell ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices WirtschaftsWoche / 91tv The end of Germany’s buyer’s premium for electric company cars will hurt the market and place an extra burden on medium-sized businesses, the German ...
15 Jul 2024
15 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: The world’s power grids are failing as the planet warms Outages from Albania to Texas show how electricity networks aren’t ready for climate change. Reuters: Europe needs way to price critical minerals ...
31 Aug 2023, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany’s volatile 2023 summer weather was marked by heat peaks, extreme rainfall and above-average sunshine – with the temperature once again being significantly above the long-term ...
09 Jul 2024, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Electricity market Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's government is planning a new levy for electricity consumers to fund the construction of the country's planned ...
Hamburg-based energy provider HanseWerk operates one of the most modern electrolysis plants in the world, Olaf Preuss writes in Die Welt. The key technology can be used to store energy by converting electricity generated by wind and solar sources into ...
06 Sep 2019, 13:27 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Storage Cars Clean Energy ...
15 Feb 2019, 11:34 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Electricity market Gas Grid Tennet / Gasunie Gas and electricity grid infrastructures need to be much better aligned to guarantee the ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany can be “fairly optimistic” regarding its gas supply in winter 2023/2024, said energy industry association BDEW, one year after Russia ended its pipeline supply to the country on 31 August. ...
23 Jul 2024
23 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Electrek: Porsche scales back 80% EV goal by 2030 amid falling sales, shifting market Although it could still happen, Porsche said the target was too ambitious and the transition “will take longer than we assumed.” ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:20 Charlotte Nijhuis Politics International EU Der Spiegel / 91tv German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pledged an additional 500 million euros to help poorer countries in their effort to protect the climate in the context of ...
16 Jul 2024, 12:23 Edgar Meza Gas Handelsblatt EU countries are increasing Russian gas imports despite the bloc’s efforts to reduce fossil fuel from Russia in the wake of the Ukraine war, Handelsblatt reports. EU countries imported around 30 percent more ...
11 Jul 2024
11 Jul 2024, 13:54 Sören Amelang Bloomberg: Searing heat triggers fuel-supply worries at oil refineries in Europe and beyond Poland temperatures could reach levels that disrupt refining, while Greece and Turkey both suffered wildfires in recent weeks. AP: ...
29 Aug 2023, 13:33 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv A new report commissioned by Germany’s Bertelsmann Stiftung and carried out by the Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft (FÖS) economic think tank, criticises the ...
29 Aug 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Heating EU Contexte Énergie Several European energy experts warn that the German government coalition row over a planned law to phase out fossil fuel-powered boilers could have repercussions for similar ongoing ...
15 Jul 2024, 13:54 Jack McGovan Transport ARD / Die Welt / 91tv One of the most used stretches of the German rail system will be closed for the next five months due to major modernisation works, ARD reports. The repairs on the 70 kilometre ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv Germany is expecting a below-average grain harvest due to difficult weather conditions that are likely to worsen with climate change, according to a preliminary harvest ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Germany has completed its final auction to provide compensation for the early retirement of coal plants, with fewer operators participating in the tenders than initially hoped for, the Federal ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:19 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Security 91tv German Chancellor Angela Merkel said climate change was one of the major security policy issues of today, in a video podcast ahead of the Munich ...
German utility EnBW is expanding into the North American market for offshore wind, forming a joint venture with Trident Winds to develop a project off the coast of Central California, the German company said on Monday. EnBW North America and Seattle-based ...
Energy state secretary Rainer Baake has quit after four years in charge of Germany’s flagship Energiewende policy at the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). Baake, a Green Party politician whose appointment by then economy minister Sigmar ...
16 Feb 2016
16 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv E-World Essen State economy minister warns against decreed coal exit Garrelt Duin, economy minister for Germany’s largest federal state- North-Rhine-Westphalia- warned against a ...
20 Aug 2020, 13:10 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Mobility 91tv The increase of remote working triggered by the coronavirus pandemic can contribute significantly to ...
25 Jun 2021, 13:40 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 91tv, ZEIT Online In its last session before the summer recess, the German parliament passed a bill that amends the federal Climate Action Law. The new law brings forward the deadline for ...
The nuclear sector is showing confidence at its big trade fair in Le Bourget, France. And German companies which are feeling sidelined by the nuclear phase-out at home are hoping to get work abroad, writes Leo Klimm in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Germany is ...
By 2050, an electricity supply based on renewable energies could be either approximately as expensive as or even cheaper than a fossil-based electricity system, if the cost of a tonne of CO₂ is 50 euros or more, according to a scenario comparison by the ...
11 Jul 2024, 13:51 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind EU 91tv Germany’s plans for a rapid expansion of offshore wind energy at the end of the decade could clash with similar plans of its neighbours around the North Sea, the country’s section of ...
22 Jul 2024, 13:10 Edgar Meza Citizens' energy Solar pv magazine Plug-in solar panels accounted for 200 megawatts (MW) of added photovoltaic (PV) power capacity in Germany in the first half of 2024, pv magazine reports, citing data from the Federal ...
12 Oct 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she does not give up the government’s goal to reduce CO₂ emissions by 40 percent by 2020, which would “play a big role” in the upcoming talks to form a new government coalition. Germany’s broad ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:09 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Utilities Spiegel Online VW, BMW, Mercedes and utility E.ON are prime examples for German companies' innovation failure, which is partly to blame for the fact that the country is currently on the ...
19 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
03 Jul 2018, 15:30 Cars fuelled by compressed natural gas (CNG) could reach a share of up to ten percent of the total fleet in Germany and Europe, says Stephen Neumann, Volkswagen Group Officer for Natural Gas Mobility in an interview with the Clean ...
19 Nov 2019, 13:48 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out 91tv A group of anti-nuclear activists have protested against the transport of depleted uranium from a fuel rod ...
09 Jul 2024
09 Jul 2024, 11:00 Sören Amelang Carbon Brief: What record global heat means for breaching the 1.5C warming limit Recent warming has led to renewed debate around whether the world might pass the 1.5C Paris Agreement limit sooner previously estimated. ...
16 Jul 2024, 11:00 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Bloomberg: Top polluter China’s shrinking emissions put carbon peak in play- Use of coal for power generation tumbled in second quarter- Nation’s emissions seen on track to begin decline ...
05 Jul 2024, 15:25 Following Croatia’s inconclusive elections in April, the country’s parliament finally approved the new coalition government on 16 May. The centre-right HDZ, which won the most seats, formed a coalition with the right-wing Homeland ...
03 Jul 2024, 13:19 Jack McGovan Politics rbb / 91tv Germany and Poland have agreed on a 40 page action plan for the countries to collaborate more closely on issues like energy and security, reports rbb24. The announcement comes after German ...
07 Oct 2015
07 Oct 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Bloomberg Business, Greenpeace, Süddeutsche Zeitung “Greenpeace says can find cash to buy Vattenfall coal assets” Bloomberg Business reports that Greenpeace has registered its interest in buying ...
11 Jul 2019, 13:56 Sven Egenter Bioenergy 91tv Germany’s biogas lobby expects another slowdown in new installations and job losses in 2019, and warns that many operators might close plants in absence of a change in the business environment. ...
24 Aug 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Die Zeit Germany’s energy industry representatives don’t expect threatening bottlenecks in energy supply during the coming winter, newspaper Die Zeit reports. “The next winter is similarly challenging as the last ...
10 May 2019, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Start-ups 91tv German E-car start-up e.GO has started to deliver its compact car model e.GO Life in a bid to stir up the country’s automotive industry with its low-price electric vehicle. The company ...
26 Nov 2020, 13:31 Expert Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Climate activists have criticised new stock index rules introduced by Germany's stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse for not ...
The G20 Sustainability Working Group under German leadership aims to develop a ‘G20 Climate and Energy Action Plan’ in the run up to the Hamburg summit in July, Eva Kracht of the German environment ministry (BMUB) said at an event by Climate Transparency ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Solar 91tv A “radical simplification” in the registration, installation and commissioning of plug-in solar units is needed in Germany to involve more homeowners and tenants to ...
17 Jul 2024, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Wind 91tv Germany will likely miss its target for offshore wind power expansion by 2030, wind energy consultancy Deutsche WindGuard said in a status report commissioned by the main industry associations. ...
22 Aug 2023, 13:44 Jack McGovan Industry Cost & Prices Policy 91tv Germany’s energy price caps, implemented to help consumers with rising costs during the energy crisis, often did not compensate businesses for price increases to the ...
10 Feb 2020, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International Zeit Online / dpa / n-tv / 91tv The car industry should remain exempt from plans by the European Commission to increase the European 2030 emissions reduction target, Germany's ...
23 Jul 2020, 13:44 Expert PwC Electricity market Transport Cars Business & Jobs Efficiency Heating Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv The increasing demand for electric vehicles in Germany could become an important pillar of the country's ...
21 Aug 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cities Tagesspiegel Berlin could use its two disused airfields to build wind turbines on, Christian Gräff, member of the Berlin House of Representatives with the ruling Christian Democrats (CDU), told ...
21 Aug 2023, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Policy Der Spiegel The government of Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, looks set to abolish a controversial minimum distance rule for wind turbines, news magazine Der Spiegel reported. ...
30 Jun 2015
30 Jun 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) “Wind strengthens power sector, renewable heat and transport stagnate” The share of renewables in total German power consumption has risen to a record 32.5 percent in the ...
The start of the Detroit Auto Show once again shows that German carmakers lag behind on e-mobility, as they are mainly presenting conventional cars, write Thomas Fromm and Max Hägler in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. “They’re still not here, the fascinating e ...
12 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024, 12:26 Sören Amelang S&P Global: Germany's gas storage operators warn demand curtailments still required ahead of winter Storage sites 84% full by mid-July but extreme cold could prompt gas shortages and empty reserves by February ...
12 Jul 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Policy n-tv / Die Welt The new support mechanism for accelerating the roll-out of electric vehicles in Germany through increased tax write-offs for company cars has been received well by the automotive industry, ...
28 Aug 2020, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv Germany has made decisive steps in regards to the climate challenge in past years, but efforts have to increase, Chancellor Angela Merkel told journalists ...
One year after its split, renewables utility E.ON needs to lower costs and is eyeing cuts in administrative jobs at its headquarters in Essen, CEO Johannes Teyssen told the Rheinische Post in an article by Antje Höning. The extent of the job cuts remains ...
05 Jul 2024
05 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: Germany to scrutinize Chinese turbine deal for offshore project-Government to look at impact on security and competition-Hamburg-based asset manager set to purchase 16 turbines Electrive: Tesla gets ...
22 Jun 2017, 00:00 Germany's energy transition can only be successful if it is created by citizens themselves in a socially fair way, the Left Party writes in its election campaign programme. The Left is currently the largest opposition group in the ...
18 Jul 2019, 13:47 Freja Eriksen Cars 91tv Electric vehicle production in the European Union is expected to “multiply six-fold” between 2019 and 2025, according to analysis of forecast data by clean transport campaign group Transport and ...
16 Feb 2023, 13:59 The world’s top management consultancies, who for decades have advised the biggest polluters, are now piling into the business of helping companies cut emissions to become more sustainable. They are retraining staff, poaching ...
18 Aug 2023, 14:06 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs International 91tv Large swathes of German industry will be impacted by the incoming carbon border tax, but a survey among affected companies shows they are “insufficiently prepared” for ...
08 Jul 2024
08 Jul 2024, 11:00 Sören Amelang Reuters: France faces coalition puzzle after left-wing surge Left-wing bloc comes first but no majority in parliament Macron's centrists second, far-right RN in third place Unexpected outcome leaves France in limbo ...
31 Mar 2015
31 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Environment Agency (UBA) “Trend reversal: Emissions decrease to lowest level since 2010” German greenhouse gas emissions have decreased in 2014 for the first time in three years, ...
18 Aug 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Government Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung An internal government coalition row over a new “growth opportunities act” is causing a stir among business leaders in Germany, newspaper Handelsblatt ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:30 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 Expert VKU- German Association of Local ...
18 Mar 2020, 13:40 Sören Amelang Coal Gas Hydrogen Policy 91tv / Handelsblatt / Energate The German government has adjourned a decision on the country's highly anticipated strategy on how to boost the use of hydrogen to decarbonise ...
17 Jul 2024, 12:17 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv Car industry firms that focus on electric engines are looking to employ far more people in Germany than those that rely on combustion engine technology, according to a report published by the ...
05 Jul 2024, 14:34 Carolina Kyllmann Cars Policy EU 91tv German economists are split on whether additional EU tariffs on electric cars from China are needed or appropriate, a survey by the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) found. A third ...
16 Aug 2023, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Gas 91tv The plans for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the German island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea face more opposition by local interest groups who fear that the large ...
17 May 2019, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Technology 91tv The new five-seater electric air taxi by aviation company Lilium from Munich has completed its first flight successfully. According to the company, the Lilium Jet’s maiden flight ...
19 Jul 2024, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The number of operational onshore wind turbines installed in Germany has shrunk in the first six months of 2024, when 250 new installations were added while 280 older ones were taken ...
150 new biogas plants with a joint capacity of 23 megawatt were installed in 2015, the German Biogas Association (Fachverband Biogas) reports. Some 130 of them were small facilities running on liquid manure, others included biomethan and waste ...
16 Jul 2024, 13:52 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Germany’s weakened industrial sector coupled with the expansion of renewable energy sources have resulted in a record drop in the country’s greenhouse gas emissions traded in the EU Emissions Trading System ...
14 Aug 2023, 13:02 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung / Neue ...
German transport subsidies worth billions of euros are harmful to the environment, a serious obstacle to the transition to a renewable mobility future, and should be abolished, according to the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Subsidies for diesel ...
16 Jul 2024, 12:24 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Protecting and restoring coastal ecosystems that serve as natural marine carbon sinks, such as mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and tidal marshes, can be a significant measure for ...
10 Jul 2024, 13:15 Sören Amelang Coal Policy Tageszeitung / 91tv The German government does not intend to introduce a law to pull forward the country’s coal power phase-out from the officially agreed 2038 exit date to 2030. "A legal ...
Two months after the surprise departure of CEO Peter Terium, renewable utility innogy is in crisis, and neither the management nor majority owner RWE have a plan to get out of the mess created by a profit drop, writes Angela Hennersdorf in the business ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:10 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv Germany has awarded the most onshore wind contracts ever following the latest round of tenders by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). "The current round of tenders represents a record with almost ...
21 Sep 2022, 13:02 Gas importer Uniper will be put under control of the German state after the company has accrued crushing losses over the past months due to skyrocketing gas prices resulting from Russia’s war on Ukraine. The German government provides ...
20 Aug 2020, 13:28 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Mobility German commuters are slowly returning to public transport following the coronavirus lockdown. The Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) said the positive trend is evident in the ...
11 Aug 2023, 13:16 Sören Amelang Wind Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv Investors have agreed to pay 784 million euros for the right to build wind farms in four locations in the North Sea in Germany’s latest offshore wind tender. The wind ...
14 May 2019, 13:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Technology 91tv Heavyweight carmaker Volkswagen has announced the launch of a battery cell production facility that will be operated in partnership with another company. In the framework of the ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:05 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Sören Amelang Cars 91tv The German states home to carmakers ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:50 Germany will safely get through this winter even if Russia cuts of energy supplies, the country's economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has said. In order to prevent future supply shocks and reduce dependence on Russia, the ...
26 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Reuters: German, French companies less hopeful over economic recovery Companies in the euro zone's two largest economies are growing more pessimistic, surveys showed on Thursday (26 July), raising concerns over ...
11 Jul 2024, 13:48 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs More than one in five jobs in Germany are related to “green activities”, while less than one in 20 are in emission-intensive industries, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and ...
The German finance ministry sees the car emissions scandal as a risk to the country’s economy, reports Reuters in an article carried by The Guardian. “Given the importance of the automotive industry [the diesel crisis] must be classified in the medium ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:51 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Heating Policy 91tv [Updates with cabinet agreement] The German government has earmarked almost 60 billion euros to boost the country’s emission reduction efforts next year. The designated ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:44 Sören Amelang Industry Business & Jobs Technology 91tv A 10 billion euro investment in semiconductor chip production in eastern Germany will secure the country’s emission reduction efforts, according to the government. ...
27 Jun 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Hydrogen 91tv Achieving Germany’s energy transition and climate targets still requires a lot of political efforts to keep supply secure and affordable, the government-appointed expert commission ...
22 May 2020, 14:02 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs Clean ...
07 Aug 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv The reform of an energy consumption label for passenger cars underestimates the projected CO2 price of transport fuels like diesel and petrol, consumer protection ...
10 Jul 2024, 13:34 Sören Amelang Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Germany’s Green Party economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has expressed confidence that the country’s efforts to reach climate neutrality by 2045 would not be derailed by a ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Construction 91tv European manufacturers in the construction industry should be made responsible for managing the waste created when their products reach the end of their lives, think tank BPIE ...
27 Jun 2018, 17:29 As the energy transition touches more and more aspects of everday life, public acceptance will become a key question for the project's future, economist Andreas Löschel says. In the 91tv interview, the academic who heads the ...
18 May 2020, 14:06 Edgar Meza Renewables Security Germany boasts the highest energy security level in the world, due in large part to the wide spread use of renewable energy sources in the country, according to a study by Abdelrahman Azzuni and Christian ...
02 Jul 2024
02 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Euractiv: Brussels urges EU countries to submit climate plans ‘as soon as possible’ On 30 June, EU countries were legally obliged to submit their national energy and climate plans until 2030 (NECPs). These are key ...
Almost two-thirds of German car-buyers surveyed consider electric vehicles to be a transport option of the future, but almost half said it was unlikely they would buy one in the next four years, according to research by YouGov and the Center of Automotive ...
11 Jun 2020, 14:15 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Technology dpa / 91tv Three Western German towns are launching a trial to run the local energy supply without coal and gas, reports the newswire dpa in an article carried by ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:05 Freja Eriksen Hydrogen Business & Jobs Technology 91tv Germany’s largest steelmaker thyssenkrupp has set itself the target of cutting its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. “Thyssenkrupp aims to be climate ...
04 Aug 2023, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Bioenergy Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv / Handelsblatt The insolvency proceedings at leading European biogas trader BMP Greengas could pose a significant risk of financial damage of “at least 150 ...
18 Mar 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Tageszeitung / Frankfurter Rundschau Germany’s environment minister Svenja Schulze is confident that the ministries relevant to the country’s greenhouse gas emissions record will eventually ...
27 Jun 2024, 14:07 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Society More than two thirds of Germans say they would “rather not” or “definitely not” make financial sacrifices and lower their personal standard of living for the benefit of the climate, according to a ...
12 Nov 2021, 13:04 The upcoming rules in the European Union taxonomy for sustainable investments have to treat the supply of fossil gas different from the buildout of infrastructure that can also be used with green gases, said Jan Philipp Albrecht, Green ...
25 Jun 2020, 13:24 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv The German government cabinet has approved the programme for its EU Council presidency one week before the start of its six-month tenure next week (1 ...
27 Jun 2024, 14:15 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Adaptation The probability of stronger rains has increased due to the climate crisis, an analysis by the German Meteorological Service (DWD) has found, as reported by news magazine Der Spiegel. Heavy rains ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Cost & Prices 91tv Germany has unveiled a package of measures aimed at providing cost relief to farmers who are under pressure to make food production more sustainable and in line with ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:55 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Companies in the German manufacturing and service sectors generated 107.5 billion euros in revenue from output that ...
28 Jan 2019, 11:36 The agreement by Germany's coal exit commission to end the fossil power source's use by 2038 the latest is welcomed by the country's climate activists and energy industry representatives alike. They praise the final ...
01 Aug 2023, 12:49 Julian Wettengel Wind Industry Handelsblatt Consultants say that the latest round of offshore wind power auctions – in which major oil companies pledged to pay a combined 12.6 billion euros for the right to build wind farms in the North ...
29 Aug 2019, 12:41 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza Agriculture In a global analysis of the potential of local food production to feed hungry cities in the present and in future, researchers from ...
10 Jul 2019, 18:03 LEAG, eastern Germany’s largest energy and mining company, is building a 50 MW battery that could help stabilise the country’s electricity grid partly through renewable energy. Environment minister Svenja Schulze lauded the project in ...
31 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics EU Dlf / 91tv / dpa The European Union’s focus on climate in all policy fields is unnecessary and the Green Deal should be abolished, Maximilian Krah, the German populist far-right ...
29 Sep 2016, 00:00 One year after the Dieselgate scandal hit the industry, German carmakers VW and Daimler unveiled their first models developed exclusively for an electric motor at the Paris Car Show on Thursday. Many industry experts say the move is key ...
27 Mar 2019, 12:22 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Gas International 91tv The EU ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would try to work on climate policy with US President-elect Donald Trump, who has threatened to pull out of the Paris Agreement, reports news agency Reuters. At a meeting of her party (CDU), Merkel pointed out that ...
16 Sep 2020, 12:49 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport 91tv Germany'smunicipalities, as well as its states and federal ...
18 Nov 2020, 13:38 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen 91tv Four years after the launch of Germany’s national hydrogen strategy, the buildout of hydrogen infrastructure is behind schedule and could run into serious trouble that scares away ...
11 Nov 2015
11 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Reuters “E.ON sticks to spin-off plans after record net loss” E.ON says it is sticking to its plans to spin off its conventional power operations, after posting a record net loss in the first nine months of 2015 on the ...
24 Jun 2024, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU ARD / Süddeutsche Zeitung A visit by German economy minister Robert Habeck to China has led to hopes that a diplomatic solution to the looming trade conflict about possible illicit state support for electric ...
25 Feb 2021, 17:00 A committee formed in 2019 to assist Germany in making its financial sector more sustainable and aligning it with energy transition activities and international climate targets has released its final report with recommendations for the ...
28 Jun 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Society 91tv An overwhelming majority of Germans want the country to ramp up its climate adaptation efforts and better prepare the country's infrastructure against increasingly regular ...
09 Dec 2015, 00:00 [Updates party statments to new draft text] Issues of differentiation, finance, loss and damage remain / High ambition coalition seeks attention and new partners / "Preparing for long nights" says German environment minister ...
28 Jul 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Grid ARD / 91tv Germany should cut the time it takes to approve planned transmission and distribution grid expansions by half, economy minister Robert Habeck said in a report by public broadcaster ARD. “We ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs Deutschlandfunk / ARD / n-tv The influential business association Federation of German Industries (BDI) has urged the government of chancellor Olaf Scholz to quickly implement measures that ...
21 Jan 2015
21 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Dow Jones Newswires “Gabriel undermines electricity industry’s confidence in the Energiewende” Writing for Dow Jones Newswires, Christian Grimm says energy minister Sigmar Gabriel has “broken his ...
17 Sep 2018, 10:30 A report about a proposal by one of Germany’s coal commission co-heads for a coal exit by 2038 has caused irritation. Some commission members were quick to reject the report and warned that the commission's work was in peril should ...
26 Mar 2020, 14:00 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Rundschau Emissions reductions due to the coronavirus crisis cannot be considered good news, ...
27 May 2019, 13:49 Rose-Anne Clermont Gas Renewables Hydrogen Die Welt As the need for energy transition across all sectors is made more urgent by the fight against climate change, Germany's leading heating and air conditioning manufacturer Vaillant ...
28 Oct 2019, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv / ARD The parties of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government coalition, the conservative CDU and the Social Democrats (SPD), have lost heavily in the elections in ...
03 Jul 2024, 13:21 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Society EU 91tv / Spiegel The European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has reduced the emission of hazardous air pollutants like sulphur dioxide, particulate matter, and nitrogen oxides, ...
Because of comparably low winds in 2016, renewable power generation rose only slightly by 4.1 terawatt hours (TWh) compared to 2015, accounting for a share of 30 percent, according to preliminary figures by the German Association of Energy and Water ...
13 Jun 2024, 13:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating 91tv / Klimareporter Supplying households with green hydrogen for heating should not play a major role in Germany’s heating sector decarbonisation because of huge planning and implementation ...
14 Jul 2015
14 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv RWE “Poll – Lignite is essential stabiliser for energy supply” Two thirds of Germans believe electricity prices have a large influence on the competitiveness of German industry, according to a ...
25 Jun 2020, 13:28 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Solar Wind 91tv / pv magazine Germany's latest renewable auctions have ...
19 Jun 2024, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling 91tv The German environment ministry has presented a draft circular economy strategy as "a crucial element to reach climate targets and to create new possibilities for growth, ...
03 Jul 2024, 13:25 Jack McGovan Solar 91tv / PV Magazine There are too few installations of solar panels on the roofs of apartment buildings across Germany, making rental homes an underutilised source for renewable energy generation, ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:35 Jennifer Collins Heating Spiegel / 91tv Local authorities across Germany may have to submit plans detailing how they are going to transition to climate-neutral heating systems in their jurisdictions six months earlier than ...
14 Jun 2024, 16:07 Poor results in the EU elections mean that governing is set to be anything but smooth sailing for Germany's ruling coalition. Pressure is mounting on all three partners – chancellor Olaf Scholz's SPD, the Green Party and the ...
17 Oct 2022, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Resources & Recycling Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung In order to secure stable access to critical raw materials, Germany could financially support companies competing on global markets for ...
24 Jun 2024, 14:00 Edgar Meza Grid Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany’s conservative opposition party alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) are looking to save some 35 billion ...
Many gas-fired power-plant projects in Germany never get off the ground because investors fear adverse business conditions will hinder profits, Stefan Kapferer, head of Germany’s largest energy industry association BDEW, said in a press release. ...
Electricity consumers will likely see rising costs for the support of renewable energies with a possible increase of the renewables surcharge to 7.5 to 10 cents per kilowatt hour (KWh) by 2025, compared to the current 6.35 cents/KWh, according to a new ...
07 Jun 2019, 12:57 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ ...
28 Jun 2024, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices 91tv Reports that one billion euros of funding to improve Germany’s railways will instead be spent on building more roads have alarmed rail transport associations and NGOs in ...
14 Jun 2024, 12:57 Sören Amelang Technology Resources & Recycling 91tv Extending the average lifespan of smartphones to between five and seven years could reduce Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions from such devices by around half, ...
24 Jun 2024, 14:12 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Government ARD / Handelsblatt As Germany’s coalition government struggles to agree on the country’s tightening 2025 budget, chancellor Olaf Scholz has defended planned austerity measures that would see major ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Utilities Zeit Online Germany's electricity grids are not yet equipped for the projected increase of power consumers such as electric cars and heat pumps, the CEO of the local utility of southern German city ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:12 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Plans by Germany's economy and climate ministry to lower industry power prices with ...
10 Feb 2021, 13:05 The material demands of a transition towards a low-carbon energy system are immense, meaning countries like Germany that expand renewable power generation will have to greatly expand imports of many different raw materials over the next ...
12 Feb 2020, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen International Reuters / Handelsblatt Germany plans to set up a production and import chain for renewable hydrogen in a joint project with Western African countries, news agency Reuters reports. " ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Mobility Cars 91tv Germany has a record number of cars, but fewer people are using them on the road, according to an analysis by transport policy think tank Agora Verkehrswende. "Despite a slight ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:26 Powering aeroplanes with renewable fuels is crucial for making flying less climate-damaging, but it will get aviation nowhere near climate neutrality, environmental NGOs, industry representatives and researchers agreed at a conference ...
27 Jun 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government 91tv Most citizens surveyed by Germany’s civil servant union (DBB) believe the state is overburdened and incapable of achieving effective results in key policy areas. Climate action ...
19 May 2016
19 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) / Institute for Applied Ecology / European Climate Foundation (ECF) “Industry’s energy bills fall by a tenth” German manufacturing ...
12 Jun 2024, 13:15 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Sören Amelang Transport Freight 91tv Decarbonising the freight transport sector will require a shift from planes and trucks to ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:33 Sören Amelang Transport Hydrogen Heating Policy Handelsblatt The German government wants to use hydrogen for decarbonising road transport and heating, in addition to industry, according to a highly anticipated revamp of the national ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:39 Sören Amelang International 91tv Germany aims to put pressure on China to raise its climate targets, according to the government’s first strategy for dealing with the east Asian country. The paper, which was adopted by ...
07 Jun 2024, 13:47 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv Germany’s parliament has passed a government reform package designed to speed up the rollout of wind power, as well as industry decarbonisation, by removing red tape. The amendment to ...
28 Jun 2024, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Carbon removal Company climate claims 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Companies are no longer allowed to label their products ‘climate neutral’ in Germany without adding a detailed explanation to ...
25 Jul 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Transport 91tv Germany's railway operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) recorded a six percent drop in long-distance train passengers in the first half of 2024, compared to the first six months of the previous year. ...
03 Jun 2024, 13:16 Edgar Meza Grid Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / 91tv The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said that using overhead powerlines for Germany's necessary grid expansion up to 2045 could save as much as 35 billion euros ...
17 Jun 2024, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv A majority of households in Germany continue to save energy also more than two years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which exacerbated a major energy crisis leading to ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:03 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs 91tv The German government's ...
11 Jul 2023, 13:38 James Jackson Transport Policy Die Zeit The German government plans to cut funds for bike paths, while leaving spending for roads unchanged, reports weekly Die Zeit. According to the draft budget for 2024, funds allocated to the ...
08 Sep 2016, 00:00 Environmental organisations have responded to a government proposal to decarbonise the economy with outrage. They say the Climate Action Plan 2050 will fall well short of meeting climate targets, and accuse the environment ministry of ...
05 Jul 2021, 12:59 High uptake of government subsidies for electric cars has put Germany within striking distance of its original target of having 1 million e-cars on the road by 2020. Energy and economy minister Peter Altmaier said that subsidies for ...
11 Jul 2023, 13:55 James Jackson Cars Handelsblatt Volkswagen’s domestic sales of electric cars in Germany are far behind the company’s plans, insiders told business daily Handelsblatt. Executives at some VW plants said demand for particular battery ...
06 Jun 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cars 91tv Figures used by the government for planning the buildout of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Germany are “massively” overestimating the actual need for new charging points, ...
11 Apr 2016, 00:00 With backing from economy minister Sigmar Gabriel, thousands of German steelworkers rallied against EU reform plans for the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) on Monday. Gabriel said there must be no contradiction between climate ...
16 Jan 2015
16 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Business Green "Germany breezes past 1GW offshore wind milestone" Germany's renewables industry is celebrating another milestone this week, as an industry-backed report confirmed ...
22 Jan 2015
22 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Wirtschaftswoche “RWE: shut down or sale?” RWE ’s deputy chairman of the executive board Rolf Martin Schmitz said that power stations hit by falling electricity prices could no longer turn a profit ...
18 Jun 2024, 13:23 Edgar Meza Heating Tagesspiegel Background Representatives of federal and state consumer protection ministries report an "urgent need for action" in view of recent price hikes in Germany’s district heating market, energy ...
07 Jul 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Wind Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt Germany’s recycling industry has called for a paradigm shift in the construction of wind turbines to ensure materials can be reused at the end of their lifecycles, business ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:13 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) has found that high-income households emit more greenhouse gases than poorer citizens due primarily to their travel habits. ...
12 Jun 2024, 13:25 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices Policy 91tv There is a gap of 41 billion euro in Germany’s public sector budgets over the next five years for investments and funding programmes dedicated to greening the economy, the country ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:27 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und ...
22 Jun 2020, 12:33 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Hydrogen EU Leopoldina / Acatech / Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities In a joint statement, leading German scientific institutions, including the German National Academy of Sciences ...
18 Dec 2019, 13:31 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert DENEFF- German Industry ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:33 Ruby Russel Gas Zeit Online Construction of Germany's first onshore liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal has begun at Stade in the state of Lower Saxony, close to the northern port city Hamburg. Expected to be operational by 2027, ...
05 Jul 2023, 14:06 Carolina Kyllmann Solar 91tv Germany’s latest auction for photovoltaic (PV) systems on roofs and noise protection walls was far oversubscribed. A volume of 342 megawatts (MW), distributed amongst 155 bids, far surpassed the ...
The cost of expanding Germany’s power transmission grid onshore and in the Baltic and North Seas to adapt to the future power system brought on by the Energiewende could be between 50-52 billion euros until 2030, the country’s four transmission system ...
23 Dec 2014
23 Dec 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv shz.de “Traffic jam for power network in Schleswig Holstein” Because the southern flank of power lines that are planned to carry electricity from Northern Germany to Bavaria in the south will not be completed for ...
14 Oct 2020, 15:10 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Sören Amelang Transport Technology 91tv Germany wants to extend its landmark energy transition (Energiewende) to the skies ...
24 May 2024, 15:00 The curtain is coming down on five years of EU energy and environment legislative drama. Since the 2019 “green wave” that helped put the spotlight on sustainable policy, dozens of laws have passed through the complex process of EU ...
18 Dec 2014
18 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv taz “A dangerous thought” The minister-president of Lower Saxony, Stephan Weil, told the taz he was worried German tax money would be used to fund nuclear energy projects in other European ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:16 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv Germany’s chemical industry will have to place a strong focus on recycling of products, the switch to electricity-based process heat and the use of renewable raw materials on its way to ...
The German government will acquire a temporary 20 percent stake in power transmission grid operator (TSO) 50Hertz from Belgian Elia “on national security grounds”, the economy ministry (BMWi) said in a press release. The ministry said the decision was ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:14 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv People in Germany rank security as their top priority when it comes to energy supply, according to a survey by consultancy EY. The majority (61%) of those surveyed ranked energy supply ...
06 Jun 2019, 13:54 Germany certainly does not need to return to nuclear energy and should push through with its energy transition instead, according to environment minister Svenja Schulze. Following isolated calls to extend the lifetime of the country’s ...
09 May 2019, 14:11 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Policy 91tv The Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) – part of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s alliance of centre-right parties – is sceptical regarding the introduction of a new CO₂ tax. The ...
14 Jun 2022, 08:55 Russia’s war against Ukraine will throw the agenda of the upcoming G7 summit off course, but it will not derail the climate focus host country Germany has set, political analyst Ella Kokotsis told 91tv. As a leading ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:47 Julian Wettengel Grid Tagesspiegel Background Europe has to better coordinate its electricity grid buildout, and other countries should learn from Germany's mistakes, said Michael Jesberger, member of the executive board at grid ...
31 Aug 2021, 08:44 Tighter emission targets and mounting signs of climate change have once again turned Germany's coal exit into a hotly debated election campaign issue. The country agreed last year to phase out coal by 2038 at the latest, but many ...
31 Jan 2019, 14:15 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal 91tv ...
02 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
18 Nov 2014
18 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “State premier Kraft fights for lignite” North Rhine-Westphalia’s state premier Hannelore Kraft (Social Democrats) advocates the preservation of coal power in her state, since a ...
17 Jun 2024, 12:12 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Tagesspiegel Background / ZDF The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has said that it is fully focused on investigating fraudulent emissions reduction projects in China, which oil companies ...
10 Mar 2015, 11:02 Since the energy transition took off in 2000, millions of Germans have become energy producers, investing in solar panels on their houses and buying shares in wind parks. Citizens' engagement is one reason that support for the ...
11 Dec 2020, 14:14 German politicians have welcomed the EU leaders’ decision to increase the bloc’s 2030 climate target as an important decision that puts the Union on a credible path towards climate neutrality by 2050 and means the bloc is once again one ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:36 Julian Wettengel Mobility Cars 91tv / ARD German transport minister Volker Wissing has announced new state support programmes to speed up the lagging development of sufficient charging infrastructure for electric cars and ...
31 Aug 2021, 11:38 Ahead of Germany’s September federal election, almost all parties in parliament are calling for climate policies that quickly and lastingly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The country’s plans to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 ...
09 Feb 2015
09 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online / Energy Brainpool / Fraunhofer IWES "This is what the power market of the future could look like" In order to incorporate fluctuating power from millions of small, decentralised producers, the ...
15 Jul 2024, 13:57 Jack McGovan Cars 91tv The share of newly registered battery electric passenger cars (BEV) in Germany decreased to 12.5 percent in the first six months of 2024 (H1 2023: 15.8%), said the Federal Motor Transport Authority ...
Challenging times lie ahead for the German onshore wind industry after strong growth in 2016, according to business associations BWE and VDMA. In the past year, capacity additions grew by around one quarter compared to 2015 to 4,625 megawatts. The number ...
07 Jun 2024, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Agriculture Der Spiegel / ARD Severe floods like those affecting large parts of southern Germany in June are no longer a “once-in-a-century” event, but rather “a new reality” that the country must come to ...
20 Oct 2015
20 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Fraunhofer ISE “Exported power more expensive than imported power” Germany makes billions of euros from exporting power every year, researchers at the Fraunhofer ISE found. The country made 1.7 ...
28 Jun 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Heating 91tv More and more households are turning to air conditioning to stay cool in Germany’s increasingly hot summers. The share of households using air conditioning has grown to 19 percent ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling 91tv The transformation into a truly circular economy would have positive effects on climate, resource and biodiversity protection, as well as supply security in Germany- but the ...
10 Jun 2024, 13:32 Sören Amelang Wind 91tv Germany must pay more attention to social and environmental impacts in its ambitious rollout of offshore wind energy, environmental NGOs and unions have said. “The protection of nature, species and ...
27 Jun 2023, 09:42 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling EU 91tv / Bloomberg Ministers from France, Italy and Germany have agreed on closer cooperation on the extraction, processing and recycling of critical raw materials needed for ...
31 May 2024, 15:00 As the European elections approach and the political parties in Italy engage in divisive campaigns over European policies and the management of various international contexts, the country is preparing to host the summit of G7 countries ...
04 Oct 2018, 17:11 Germany’s government has decided to reduce emissions from diesel cars in polluted cities by swapping old models for new ones and retrofitting some older cars. Transport minister Andreas Scheuer and environment minister Svenja Schulze ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels International Security 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung / ZDF The events leading up to Germany’s commitment to building the controversial Nord Stream 2 offshore gas pipeline to Russia could be ...
21 Nov 2019, 13:03 Hydrogen production with renewable power is seen by many countries as an essential tool to decarbonise the economy. The UK and Germany, the world’s two leading offshore wind power nations, have started to sound out how they could ...
27 May 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany is set to miss its 2030 energy efficiency target if it relies only on its existing policy measures, a report commissioned by industry energy efficiency ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:13 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars ...
22 Jun 2023, 14:00 Edgar Meza Renewables Solar 91tv In an effort to make Germany’s solar expansion more socially acceptable and sustainable, the Association of Energy Market Innovators (bne) has presented a legislative proposal detailing ...
06 Jun 2024, 13:51 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv Nearly 60 percent of all electricity fed into the German grid in the first three months of 2024 ...
28 Apr 2022, 11:30 Germany has reduced its dependence on Russian crude oil from 35 to 12 percent and will take steps to replace the remaining deliveries to the Russian-operated Schwedt refinery within the next days, said the economy and climate minister. ...
29 May 2024, 13:42 Julian Wettengel International 91tv Developed countries finally made good on their pledge to mobilise 100 billion U.S. dollars in climate finance for developing countries in 2022, two years later than promised, the ...
24 Feb 2023, 11:00 One year after Russia started its devastating war on Ukraine, the energy policy landscape of Germany and most of Europe has changed radically. European states to a large extent lowered or even completely cut their reliance on Russian ...
11 Feb 2015
11 Feb 2015, 00:00 Agora Energiewende “Without a decisive change of course the emissions trading system will fail permanently” Only the rapid introduction of a market stability reserve to increase the price of CO2 emissions can salvage the European system ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy Handelsblatt The German economy ministry will delay the release of a report on the impacts of the country’s coal phase-out on energy security, power prices, and the climate targets, business daily ...
05 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany has crossed a symbolic milestone in its energy transition by briefly covering around 100 percent of electricity use with renewables for the first time ever on 1 January. In the whole of last year, the world’s fourth largest ...
11 Jul 2024, 13:42 Sören Amelang Electricity Coal Renewables 91tv Electricity generation from coal dropped to a record low in Germany in the spring, while renewables produced more electricity than ever during the same period. Lignite feed-in ...
30 May 2024, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv Germany's cabinet has agreed to give hydrogen infrastructure planning and approval priority to drive the rapid development and expansion of its production, storage and supply. The draft ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:32 Expert Left Party Die Linke Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Edgar Meza Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background [UPDATE adds draft programme key content] The German Left Party (Die Linke) looks set to out ...
29 May 2024, 14:07 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv The production of low emissions cement and steel is set to become cheaper than that of counterparts produced with fossil fuels before the middle of the century, according to a report by the ...
02 Jun 2017, 00:00 President Donald Trump has announced that he will pull the United States out of the landmark Paris Climate Agreement. The USA will be the first country to leave the seminal 2015 treaty signed by nearly 200 individual nations that agreed ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:36 Jennifer Collins Society 91tv Europeans aged over 30 show a better grasp of the causes and consequences of climate change than younger generations- but awareness of solutions is lacking across age groups, found a survey by ...
14 May 2019, 13:27 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:32 Sören Amelang Mobility Cars Deutsche Welle German car-sharing companies logged sharp growth in 2018, picking up an extra 350,000 registered customers, reports Deutsche Welle (in English). The total number of registered users increased ...
11 Jun 2024, 13:51 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Storage WirtschaftsWoche Carmaker Volkswagen (VW) plans to install large battery storage capacities in northern Germany to store wind and solar power for times of little output, ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:38 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Jack McGovan Gas Heating taz / Die Welt / 91tv Fossil fuels are still being used to heat three quarters of homes in Germany, with renewable ...
05 Feb 2019, 14:23 Germany's four transmission grid operators have published their proposal for the 2030 electricity grid, including some 1,600 kilometres of new power lines and updating another 2,900 km. This comes with a price tag of 52 billion ...
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27 Aug 2015, 00:00 Clarifies that the whole article in the Frankfurter Rundschau is written by Jörg Staude. Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Ministry of Finance / FÖS Government subsidies seen rising Subsidies and tax concessions will increase to 22 ...
09 Jul 2024, 13:15 Jennifer Collins Transport Cost & Prices n-tv The price of the Germany Ticket, a monthly subscription allowing passengers to travel on regional transport across the whole country, is set to increase next year from its current 49 ...
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10 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Der Spiegel / Spiegel Online State premier criticises coal compromise Torsten Albig (Social Democrat), state premier of Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany, has criticised the capacity reserve ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:41 Europeans will head to the polls one year from now to elect a new EU legislature that will shape the bloc’s energy and climate policy in the years leading to the 2030 climate target deadline. With its Green Deal strategy to make Europe ...
28 May 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv Extreme weather events, such as storms, hail and heavy rainfall, caused insured losses to the tune of 5.7 billion euros in Germany in 2023, the German Insurance ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology 91tv A new wind power research project at Germany’s national metrology institute PTB (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt) offers the world’s largest facility for the precise measuring of ...
Germany’s coalition government has reached an agreement to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from diesel cars in German cities. Transport minister Andreas Scheuer and environment minister Svenja Schulze called the deal “a very large step” to improve ...
29 May 2024, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Rheinische Post Germany's economy minister Robert Habeck remains committed to plans for the state to take over the German business of Dutch electricity grid operator TenneT despite months-long failed ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:07 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 ZDF German environment minister Steffi Lemke is demanding clarification from the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) following allegations of fraudulent emission reduction projects in China used by fossil fuel ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:42 Edgar Meza Heating Construction 91tv Heat pumps have doubled their share as a primary heating source in Germany throughout the past decade, according to the country’s Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). Of all new ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs 91tv Energy consumption in Germany has fallen significantly in the first three months of 2024 compared to the same period one year before, energy industry and research initiative ...
23 May 2024, 14:40 Jack McGovan Adaptation Cost & Prices Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung Representatives of Germany’s states of Germany will discuss the idea of introducing mandatory insurance for homes for natural hazards with chancellor Olaf Scholz on ...
23 May 2024, 14:41 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Jack McGovan Cars Hydrogen Handelsblatt The head of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), Hildegard Müller, has called on the government to expand ...
24 Mar 2017, 00:00 All eyes are on the federal state of Saarland kicking off Germany’s election year on 26 March. An otherwise unremarkable campaign started to engage national politics when the Social Democrats put forward their new federal election ...
24 May 2024, 14:31 Julian Wettengel Citizens' energy Society 91tv Germans continue to widely support the country’s energy transition but policymakers should put more focus on building trust with the population, foster its ownership ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:54 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Edgar Meza Gas International 91tv The highest Dutch court has put a halt to gas drilling off the German North Sea island of Borkum. The ...
30 Nov 2016, 00:00 “Putting energy efficiency first, achieving global leadership in renewable energies and providing a fair deal for consumers” are the objectives of the EU Commission’s energy package. The paper presented on Wednesday, also dubbed “winter ...
01 Jun 2023, 14:20 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Adaptation 91tv New and increasing infectious diseases are among the many negative consequences of climate change in Germany, shows the first part of a new report coordinated by the ...
22 May 2024, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Society 91tv About one in five teenagers in Germany say they have never heard of climate change or the climate crisis, according to a survey conducted by the International Central Institute for Youth and ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:24 Sören Amelang Heating Cities 91tv District heating already supplies more than a third of houses in Germany’s three largest cities of Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich, according to utility E.ON. In Munich and Hamburg, the share ...
