30 May 2023, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Gas Table.Media / Süddeutsche Zeitung Ministers from the German coastal state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania have drafted a catalogue of measures worth one billion euros, which they claim will help ensure that the island ...
15 May 2024, 12:35 Jack McGovan Renewables 91tv Germany could meet 25 percent of its heat demand from deep geothermal energy and the government should therefore make better use of this energy source, says NGO Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) in a ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:34 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Industry 91tv Germany's hydrogen strategy is a "quantum leap" that will lift the energy transition and climate protection to a "new qualitative level," according to the ...
16 May 2024, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Grid dpa Germany's electricity grid operators expect the expansion of the country’s distribution network to require around 110 billion euros of investments over the next ten years, the Federal Network Agency ...
The demand for land to construct wind turbines and solar power arrays is set to replace monetary costs as the central restrictive factor for renewable power expansion and will become “the new currency” of Germany’s energy transition, the Energiewende, a ...
15 Apr 2015
15 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv The Guardian “German backlash grows against coal power clampdown“ The proposed levy on old coal-fired power stations is fast becoming a test of the German government’s commitment to decarbonise its ...
04 Dec 2019, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background The draft of a main motion by the new Social Democratic Party (SPD) leadership duo does not include key climate policy campaign demands of the recently elected party ...
24 May 2024, 14:00 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU Clean ...
24 May 2024, 12:00 The far-right populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is Germany's only large party to unequivocally reject any action against climate change- but its impact on the country's efforts has been limited. The AfD has not yet ...
13 Jun 2024, 12:57 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv The EU’s preliminary tariffs on electric cars made in China are “the wrong instrument” and will slow the transition to clean mobility, Germany’s car industry and the country’s utilities have warned. ...
11 Jul 2017, 00:00 The G20 group of the leading industrialised and emerging economies has agreed on a statement that shows the commitment of 19 of them to implement the Paris agreement on climate protection, including a first-ever plan for action on ...
01 Jul 2021, 13:26 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der ...
20 Feb 2020, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Germany's first renewable power auction of 2020 has once more failed to attract enough bidders for onshore wind power projects, leading industry groups to call for a ...
01 Sep 2021, 12:12 In Poland, the debate about climate change has only recently gained mainstream attention. Two main stumbling blocks – the economy’s strong dependency on coal and the conservative political climate – have caused years-long political ...
02 Jul 2024, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Transport dpa / 91tv Germany's railway service reliability took a severe hit in June 2024 due to the effects of extreme weather events, reported news agency dpa. Ageing and ...
02 Jul 2024, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims Frankfurter Allgemeine The current carbon footprint of Germany's blue chip companies, the 40 largest listed companies in the DAX stock market index, will cause global temperatures to rise by ...
28 Feb 2022, 13:58 The outbreak of war in eastern Europe is sending shockwaves through Germany’s political class and is reshaping the energy transition debate, as the country’s most important energy trading partner Russia increasingly turns into a ...
12 Jun 2024, 13:22 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Sustainability issues have slid down the list of German managers’ priorities, a poll by business consultancy Horvath has revealed, reports newspaper Handelsblatt. The green transformation ...
24 May 2023, 13:26 Sören Amelang Heating Policy Elections & Politics 91tv The intensifying quarrel within the German government coalition is increasingly likely to delay a law designed to pave the way towards climate-friendly heating. ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:00 The eviction of coal protesters in the Hambach Forest in 2018 was illegal, a court ruling in German state North Rhine-Westphalia found. The forest threatened by a nearby lignite mine had become a symbolic battleground in the context of ...
Germany’s Energiewende should be democratic, ecologic and social, said the Left Party’s energy and climate spokesperson Eva Bulling-Schröter, presenting the Left’s energy policy cornerstones at an event by Forum Future Energies in Berlin. In the draft of ...
15 Nov 2021, 13:48 The results of the UN climate conference in Glasgow (COP26) add pressure to Germany's ongoing negotiations to form a new government coalition that needs to agree on ambitious steps to cut emissions. As the coalition negotiations ...
17 Feb 2015
17 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Worries about solar eclipse” On March 20, a solar eclipse will cover up to 80 percent of the sun in Germany and grid operators are concerned that massively ...
22 May 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel International G20 & G7 91tv Researchers, NGOs, and media commentators have criticised the German and Japanese governments for what they say is a weak outcome on climate policy at the Group of Seven (G7) ...
02 Nov 2017, 00:00 After an expected clash over climate and energy policy last week, Germany’s aspiring coalition partners of the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the pro-business FDP and the environmentalist Green Party also failed to agree on transport ...
08 May 2024, 13:34 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EUElections2024 Clean Energy ...
22 May 2023, 13:26 Sören Amelang Politics 91tv An economist and regional state secretary will become Germany’s new energy state secretary following the departure of Patrick Graichen due to violations of the ministry's compliance rules. ...
08 May 2024, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv The industry-affiliated NGO German CEO Alliance for Climate and Economy (Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft) has called on Germany’s government to come up with an ambitious ...
22 May 2023, 13:32 Sören Amelang Heating Policy n-tv/RTL / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz said he does not expect any fundamental changes to his coalition government’s controversial plans to phase out fossil fuel heating systems. The ...
09 Nov 2020, 14:57 European leaders, researchers and media commentators breathed a collective sigh of relief following Joe Biden's victory in the US presidential elections and expressed hope for a new partnership on combating climate change. The news ...
26 Mar 2019, 13:10 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / 91tv Energy company EnBW’s CEO Frank Mastiaux said Germany will build a ...
23 Jul 2020, 13:50 Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Business & Jobs Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Hydrogen 91tv The number of biogas plants installed in Germany is ...
21 Nov 2022, 10:32 It remains virtually impossible to make truly "climate neutral" products in a modern economy, despite the rapid increase of such labels, says Susanne Spies of Germany's Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Entirely ...
14 Jan 2015
14 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Dow Jones Newswires "Gabriel’s three building sites for the Energiewende" In an analysis piece for Dow Jones Newswires, Christian Grimm gives an overview of the three biggest issues of ...
19 May 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Politics Society 91tv / Zeit Online The island of Rügen on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast is to be included into law as a location for floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals despite local ...
19 May 2023, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Policy WirtschaftsWoche / WAZ / FAZ The cronyism allegations and subsequent departure of energy state secretary Patrick Graichen, as well as the public dispute about government plans for a de-facto ban of fossil heaters ...
19 May 2023, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv / Financial Times Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz must push for an accelerated phase-out of fossil fuels at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, as the issue has not featured prominently enough ...
19 May 2023, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Politics Tagesspiegel Background / Bild / ARD / Table.Media / PV Magazine Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck is seeking to quickly replace energy state secretary Patrick Graichen, whose exit following ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:45 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 dpa Temperatures in Lake Constance, located in the border triangle of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, are rising, with harmful consequences for fish and plants living there, reports news agency dpa. ...
23 May 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Acceptance of the energy transition in Germany would greatly improve with the introduction of a compensation mechanism for citizens to counter cost increases caused by CO2 ...
05 Nov 2019, 13:49 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv The buyer's ...
07 May 2024, 13:31 Expert Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Climate & CO2 Resources & Recycling Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt ...
16 May 2024, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Transport Freight 91tv To decarbonise freight transport more quickly, government action should prioritise the expansion of the charging infrastructure for electric trucks, said the German Council of ...
17 May 2023, 12:56 Sören Amelang Mobility Start-ups Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich-based electric car start-up Sono Motors has filed for insolvency and it is unlikely that clients will get their pre-payment for one of its PV-clad vehicles back, reports ...
22 May 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Renewables Industry 91tv Widely available renewable electricity has become an important business location factor and competitive advantage for rural areas in Germany, the private industry-sponsored German ...
09 Sep 2015, 00:00 The government is sticking to a controversial plan to pay power operators for keeping old coal plants in reserve in case wind and solar power are not available to meet demand, details of a draft electricity market law show. Clean Energy ...
21 May 2024, 14:09 Jack McGovan Grid International 91tv The construction of a major power line connecting Great Britain to Germany through the North Sea has begun in the coastal city Wilhelmshaven in northwestern Germany. Spanning a total ...
12 May 2023, 13:51 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices 91tv The flat-rate ticket for nationwide public transport in Germany ...
07 May 2024, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Company climate claims Society 91tv Commercials that promote climate-damaging products are in violation of Germany’s State Treaty for Media, the labour union-affiliated Otto-Brenner-Foundation said. The ...
06 May 2024, 12:49 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Der Spiegel The expansion of power transmission lines ...
06 May 2024, 12:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Mild temperatures in the winter of 2023/2024 have brought down heating demand in Germany to its lowest level since 2011, price comparison website Check24 has found. ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:21 Germany has a rare window of opportunity to introduce CO₂ pricing as part of a comprehensive reform of the country’s energy taxes and levies and must urgently use it, according to economist and government advisor Andreas Löschel. To ...
11 May 2023, 11:58 A regional election in the northern German city-state of Bremen is set to shed light on how much the weeks of wrangling over key climate policy in the federal government coalition have left their mark on public approval. Issues like ...
11 May 2023, 13:14 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Handelsblatt / 91tv German buildings minister Klara Geywitz has warned against increasing energy standards for new buildings, saying the sector was already making a major contribution to ...
04 Apr 2022, 13:51 The German government presented another piece of the puzzle to hurry along the growth of renewables in its energy mix, seen by now as much of a bid for fossil fuel import independence as a means of achieving climate neutrality by 2045. ...
10 May 2023, 12:24 Julian Wettengel Gas NDR / 91tv The federal government has decided on a location for the disputed import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) on the popular holiday destination island of Rügen, reported public ...
10 May 2023, 12:20 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv Germany should introduce a ‘climate passport’ for people displaced by the effects of climate change, an independent government advisory panel has proposed in its annual report. The Expert ...
07 May 2024, 10:00 The impact of a populist party opposed to climate action is starting to make itself clearly felt in Spain. From climate budget cuts to suspending low-emission zones and reversing plans for green taxes: As a partner in several city and ...
10 May 2024, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security Süddeutsche Zeitung Russian nuclear power experts have been deployed to the northern German town of Lingen to assist French company Framatome in modernising the local nuclear fuel rod factory ...
06 May 2024, 12:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv The number of electric vehicles (EVs) exported from Germany rose sharply in 2023, meaning that EVs accounted for about one quarter of all car exports that year, the country’s ...
15 May 2024, 12:33 Jack McGovan Transport EUElections2024 EU 91tv Rail travel should be the focus of legislative and investment decisions in the aftermath of the 2024 EU elections, an alliance of rail industry and NGOs said in an open letter ...
12 Dec 2019, 16:06 The European Union’s new executive has presented its highly anticipated Green Deal to tackle climate change. The policy package commits the EU to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. The 91tv presents reactions to the ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:46 Julian Wettengel Heating Construction 91tv The shortage of skilled labour is the decisive hurdle that keeps Germany from modernising enough buildings towards more energy-efficiency to reach climate targets, said ...
03 May 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Industry Digitalisation EU 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz has hailed chipmaker Infineon’s new semiconductor production plant as crucial for the country’s status as a green technology leader. The company ...
02 May 2023, 13:39 Internationally agreed targets to expand renewable energies and increase energy efficiency are needed to put the global economy back on a path towards limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5°C, Germany's foreign minister ...
02 May 2023, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 91tv By April, household energy costs in Germany had dropped nearly one third in the six months since the peak of the energy crisis, an analysis by price comparison website Verivox has ...
29 May 2020, 10:31 The corona pandemic has upended the transition to sustainable urban mobility around the world. While the fear of infection has put people off public transport and vehicle sharing schemes, it has boosted private cars, cycling and walking ...
30 Apr 2024, 14:44 The surge of populist parties that oppose ambitious climate policies has left its mark on Germany’s national debate as it did in many other European countries ahead of the upcoming EU elections. Fearful of the backlash against the costs ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government Süddeutsche Zeitung / dpa With a set of demands on Germany’s energy transition and social security expenditures, the pro-business government party Free Democrats (FDP) has caused a stir in the ...
25 Oct 2019, 14:17 Expert Prognos Consultancy Energiewende Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs 91tv A ...
14 May 2024, 13:26 Jack McGovan Gas 91tv / Bloomberg Thanks to very warm temperatures in the 2023/2024 winter, gas storage levels at the start of May were significantly higher than the historical average, said the association of storage ...
09 Jun 2015
09 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “A new world economy” “Whoever thought international climate policy was a temporary phenomenon, like a heavy thunderstorm with dark clouds, should quickly rethink,” ...
07 Oct 2019, 16:41 The German government has presented a draft of Germany’s first-ever major Climate Action Law, which assigns flexible annual greenhouse gas budgets to economic sectors for the years 2020-2030, but does not make long-term climate targets ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Transport Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv German railway operator Deutsche Bahn has reportedly waved higher fees demanded from renewable project operators needing to install power cables under ...
27 Apr 2023, 12:44 Julian Wettengel International Table.Media German chancellor Olaf Scholz will have an opportunity to improve his – and the country’s – international credibility on climate when the government invites ministers from several dozen ...
11 Aug 2015
11 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Exhausted” RWE boss Peter Terium has announced the complete overhaul of his company, says Markus Balser in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He is cutting out an immense bureaucracy of ...
07 Dec 2017, 00:00 A coal exit is inevitable to reach Germany’s climate targets, but the shift must not come at the expense of workers, according to SPD head Martin Schulz. In an address to a party convention in which delegates voted for holding coalition ...
03 Jan 2017, 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 ...
19 Feb 2020, 18:30 To further its landmark energy transition, the Energiewende, Germany must concentrate on hydrogen technology to support the rollout of renewables, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). In an in-depth review of Germany' ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:39 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas International Security France and Germany have struck a compromise allowing Berlin to remain the lead negotiator with Russia on the Nord Stream II gas pipeline to Europe, reports news agency ...
18 Mar 2025, 10:20 The pipeline Nord Stream 2 connects Germany directly to Russian gas supplies, but it has never come into operation and has split opinions, both in Europe and beyond, for years. It has become a symbol of failed German energy policy, ...
07 May 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Society EUElections2024 91tv A majority of EU citizens want the union to play a leading role in global efforts to counter climate change, a survey ahead of the European elections by More in Common has ...
25 Apr 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility 91tv Many German cities have improved their cycling infrastructure in recent years, but the majority of cyclists in the country continue to consider road traffic to be unsafe for them, according ...
22 Sep 2020, 10:30 As the coronavirus crisis drives many governments across the globe to introduce emergency plans to cushion the immediate economic effects, there are growing calls to align any mid and long-term stimulus efforts with climate targets. ...
22 Apr 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU Bild / Die Welt Politicians from Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance have reinforced their criticism of the planned end of new registrations of combustion engine cars in the EU by 2035. Bavaria’s state ...
30 Apr 2024, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU 91tv Please note: This article has been updated to clarify that support for the target so far has been voiced only by the foreign ministry, while the government cabinet has yet to agree ...
21 Apr 2023, 13:27 Sören Amelang Gas Policy Society dpa German chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and economy and climate minister Robert Habeck (Greens) have defended controversial government plans for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on the ...
21 Apr 2023, 13:33 Sören Amelang Agriculture Renewables Solar Policy Handelsblatt Germany’s green-led ministries of economics, agriculture and environment are bickering over using agricultural land for solar power, reports business daily Handelsblatt. ...
09 Feb 2023, 13:39 Mexico is experiencing a carbon offset gold rush, as polluting multinationals turn to the country’s extensive forests in droves to absolve their climate sins. Countless companies, eager to prove their climate credentials with “net zero” ...
18 Feb 2016
18 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) "Gabriel: Europe needs more industry” Europe’s aim to increase the share of manufacturing in gross domestic product (GDP) to 20 percent ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:14 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation 91tv Forest experts have called for immediate improvements in Germany’s forest fire protection as incidents cost the country over 600 million euros in 2022 in damages to health ...
11 Jun 2024, 13:35 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv The German car industry produces the most electric cars in Europe and globally comes second only to China, ...
02 May 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The first three months of 2019 have seen the lowest level of onshore wind power expansion in Germany since the year 2000, says the FA Windenergie an Land (Onshore Wind Power Agency), a group ...
24 Apr 2024, 14:15 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv The German economy ministry sees "signs of a slight economic upturn" in the country as energy-intensive industries have expanded their production since the beginning of ...
17 Jun 2024, 12:15 Julian Wettengel EU 91tv / AP Government members and NGOs from Germany have welcomed the adoption of the EU nature restoration law by member states following months of delay. Member states on Monday gave their final ...
16 Apr 2024, 11:59 Jennifer Collins Solar Handelsblatt After months of wrangling, Germany's three-party coalition has agreed a long-disputed raft of measures to boost solar expansion in the country, reports newspaper Handelsblatt. The new measures, ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:05 After election day irregularities caused Berlin’s 2021 election results to be declared invalid, the city will head to the polls for a repeat vote on 12 February. The campaign has focused largely on perceived dysfunction of public ...
13 Dec 2018, 17:52 Delays in the work of the commissions charged with providing pathways to a coal exit and the mobility transition are threatening the German government's climate policy timetable. However, environment minister Svenja Schulze told ...
13 Apr 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Resources & Recycling Rheinische Post / 91tv Agriculture ministers in Germany’s states have called to make the use of wood in new housing projects easier in a bid to increase the sector’s ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:51 Few nominations for Germany’s new government cabinet have caused as much international uproar as that of FDP leader Christian Lindner as finance minister. Critics have warned that the head of the pro-business party could thwart ...
13 Apr 2023, 13:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Higher energy prices in Germany will not lead to an “industrial exodus” of companies seeking cheaper production locations abroad but rather strengthen efficiency and innovation ...
18 Mar 2019, 13:55 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Technology Welt am Sonntag / Tagesspiegel German carmaker Volkswagen has threatened to quit the country’s ...
22 Feb 2018, 00:00 Germany’s Federal Administrative Court has postponed to next week a highly anticipated decision on whether polluted cities can ban diesel cars to improve air quality. Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport Cars The Federal ...
06 May 2024, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Business & Jobs Süddeutsche Zeitung Two pioneering electric air taxi start-ups from Germany have criticised the government for not doing enough to provide the budding industry with a viable commercial ...
The goals in Germany’s climate action plan, agreed by the government in November 2016, mean that half of the country’s coal-fired power capacity must retire by 2030, state secretary in the economy and energy ministry Rainer Baake told a business ...
01 Nov 2019, 13:22 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv A court in Germany has rejected a lawsuit filed against the German government for not doing enough to avert ...
22 Mar 2022, 14:29 The Saarland state election on 27 March is the first major public vote since Germany’s new federal government assumed power at the end of last year. The election in the small state is therefore partly seen as an indicator on how voters ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:30 The UK government is embracing carbon removal technologies as a part of its net-zero ambition and wants to use carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to revive the industrial heartlands in the North of the country and create tens ...
02 May 2024, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Solar 91tv Almost a third of Germany's residents are planning to install – or have already installed – a small plug-in solar photovoltaic (PV) unit, often known as a balcony ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:53 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln Electricity market Business & ...
06 Apr 2023, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Adaptation Policy 91tv Germany's environment ministry has proposed a federal climate adaptation law that sets a framework for action at the national and state level. The draft bill is “intended to ...
01 Feb 2016
01 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “It won’t happen without buyer’s premiums” Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet car industry representatives on Tuesday to talk about incentives for e-mobility, reports ...
22 Oct 2015
22 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) “The energy transition in Europe: initial lessons from Germany, the UK and France” The experience of Germany, the UK and France shows that the transition to a ...
18 Apr 2024, 12:58 Julian Wettengel Wind 91tv Permits for new onshore wind power installations in Germany reached a record high of 2.6 gigawatt (GW) in the first three months of 2024, said industry group Fachagentur Windenergie an Land (FA ...
05 Apr 2023, 11:36 Shocked by recent heatwaves, floods, wildfires and ongoing droughts, France is currently rebooting its strategy to cope with the impacts of climate change. In a “turning point” in the country’s adaptation efforts, the plans will also ...
30 Apr 2024, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv Regional train travel has increased by 28 percent since the introduction of the Germany-wide monthly public transport ticket one year ago, according to national railway service DB. ...
07 Aug 2015
07 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Carl Morris 91tv 91tv WirtschaftsWoche “Good solution for new energy” The German state could become responsible for offshore scoping and measuring activities if future wind parks in the sea are paid via a ...
29 Oct 2014
29 Oct 2014, 00:00 Sven Egenter Spiegel Online “Germany starts complete remodelling of power market” The German government sees at least 100 gigawatts of overcapacity in the European power market, which it aims to reduce in coming years together with its ...
31 Mar 2023, 11:37 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / MDR The energy ministers from Germany’s sixteen states have called on the federal government to examine lowering the electricity tax to the European minimum, and supporting ...
16 Jan 2019, 14:18 Berlin aims to slash carbon emissions by 60 percent by 2030 and become carbon-neutral by 2050. For a city growing at a rate of 50,000 inhabitants a year, that’s no mean feat. But Ramona Pop, Berlin’s Senator (minister) for Economy, ...
01 Jun 2017, 00:00 A large share of the emissions from towns and cities comes from traffic. If Germany is to reach its Energiewende goals, each will have to do their bit to reduce the number of vehicles on their roads, and steer citizens towards greener ...
03 Feb 2021, 13:12 Germany must rapidly step up its national climate and energy targets to bring efforts in line with new EU-wide goals, said the independent expert commission in charge of monitoring the country’s energy transition. While details still ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal 91tv The German government will make a total of 4 billion euros available by 2026 to improve the state of natural ecosystems, with the goal of making them more resilient and ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Renewables EU 91tv German economy minister Robert Habeck has welcomed a deal among EU institutions to raise the target share of renewable energy in the bloc’s overall energy consumption. “Today's ...
01 Oct 2019, 10:00 Europe's largest CO2 emitter RWE has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2040. The announcement underlines the deep transformation underway at the German operator of lignite mines and power plants, which is now betting on ...
18 Apr 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv A shortfall of skilled labour is threatening Germany’s transition to a sustainable industry, engineers’ association group VDI director Adrian Willig has warned. The number of ...
02 May 2022, 13:41 Sören Amelang Wind Policy dpa / Der Spiegel Germany's federal states trail far behind the government's target of designating two percent of the country's surface area to wind power, according to a survey by newswire dpa ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:11 Current polls suggest Germany's elections on 26 September will be followed by complicated coalition talks, but the Green Party refuses to reveal what they consider red lines during the negotiations. The party's climate policy ...
29 Apr 2022, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Security Tagesspiegel / Der Spiegel Russia’s Gazprom bank has for the first time refused to accept a payment in euros from a German gas trader. Trading company and former Gazprom subsidiary Gazprom Marketing & ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv This year's Petersberg Climate Dialogue will create space for ministers from about 40 countries to have "difficult discussions" on international climate ...
12 Nov 2015
12 Nov 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Reuters/RWE RWE says it will ‘only just’ meet 2015 earnings forecast German utility RWE on Thursday said it would just manage to meet its 1.1-1.3 billion-euro adjusted net income forecast for 2015, after a 29 ...
06 Nov 2015
06 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Fraunhofer ISE “What does the Energiewende cost?” The costs of a climate-friendly transformation of the German energy system from now until 2050- when the country wants to emit 80 percent less ...
26 Apr 2022, 12:34 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Efficiency Security Tagesspiegel More than 58,000 people in Germany have signed a petition submitted to the German Bundestag demanding a national speed limit, car-free Sundays and a ban on domestic flights to ...
10 Apr 2024, 13:39 Expert DEBRIV- Federal German Association for Brown Coal Bundesverband Braunkohle Fossil fuels Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Coal Clean Energy ...
24 Mar 2023, 13:42 Sören Amelang Heating Policy Spiegel Online The German coalition government is considering a scrapping scheme for old boilers to try and overcome the dispute over how to move the transition to sustainable heating forward, reports ...
21 Aug 2018, 15:33 The projected rise in CO2 prices in Europe could see coal-fired power plants being replaced by gas plants in Germany, thereby saving millions of tonnes in greenhouse gas emissions and helping the country to achieve its energy transition ...
09 Apr 2024, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International 91tv Representatives of the Nama people in Namibia are preparing an appeal to the German government to consider its colonial past in its plans to make the southern African country a ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:28 Edgar Meza Government Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s Climate and Transformation Fund (CTF), a multi-year federal budget set up to finance climate and energy transition policy measures, again fell significantly short of spending ...
22 Mar 2023, 13:26 Julian Wettengel International 91tv Germany and the U.S. are jointly pushing for a fundamental reform of the World Bank with an increased focus on the climate crisis, and agreed that it should be finalised at the ...
23 Mar 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Heating Handelsblatt Plans by the German economy and climate protection ministry (BMWK) to de-facto ban the installation of new oil and gas heating systems from 2024 are generating great uncertainty among homeowners, business ...
03 Apr 2024, 13:29 Edgar Meza Solar Resources & Recycling 91tv Better recycling infrastructure is needed for discarded solar panels in Germany, especially as waste volume is set to increase in the coming years, according to a report by ...
29 Jun 2016, 00:00 The energy industry and transport sector may escape specific greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to a new draft version of Germany's Climate Action Plan 2050. The proposal also omits an end date for power production from ...
15 Apr 2024, 12:17 Germany's Council of Experts on Climate Change has confirmed that the country's transport sector again exceeded its annual greenhouse gas emissions limit in 2023, and that current policies are insufficient to put the sector on ...
12 Jan 2023, 11:20 Netflix styles itself as a climate action leader, but the world’s most popular video streaming service is far from eliminating all of its emissions, despite a 2022 net zero target. The US company with more than 220 million subscribers ...
10 Feb 2022, 09:25 Germany aims to strengthen its climate foreign policy with the appointment of Greenpeace International head Jennifer Morgan as special envoy. The new “face of Germany’s international climate policy” will expand partnerships with other ...
18 Jun 2020, 12:00 A joint push by the EU and China remains the best hope to drive global climate action and build momentum ahead of next year’s UN climate talks, researchers and NGOs say. The coronavirus pandemic has shifted national priorities, raised ...
16 Apr 2024, 12:01 Jennifer Collins Company climate claims CORRECTIV The carbon offset market is a billion-dollar business that promises buyers they can compensate their climate-damaging emissions in one place by funding a green scheme elsewhere. But an ...
03 Apr 2024, 13:30 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Society 91tv / WirtschaftsWoche A private energy transition for individual households could be both ecologically and economically worthwhile, according to a report by the consulting subsidiary ...
17 Dec 2018, 10:11 Nearly 200 nations agreed on a rulebook for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Agreement at the UN climate change conference COP24 in Katowice, Poland. The deal on climate action rules was immediately hailed as a victory for ...
12 Jun 2015
12 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Simply carry on” G7 politicians want to rid the world of fossil fuels but German industry will demand support for the decarbonisation, Karl-Heinz Büschemann writes in the ...
14 Mar 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Handelsblatt / 91tv Dutch electricity transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT will require investments of 111 billion euros over the next decade to expand and modernise its grid infrastructure in ...
02 May 2022, 14:14 Voters in the northern wind power state of Schleswig-Holstein head to the polls this Sunday (8 May) to elect a new parliament in one of the regions most crucial to Germany’s efforts to phase out Russian fossil fuel imports and massively ...
03 May 2024, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv Heating system sales in Germany fell by close to a third in the first three months of the year compared to the same quarter of 2023, with heat pump sales recording a sharp drop, according to ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:46 Onshore wind power is a key element of Germany's energy transition and a leading force of the country's renewables industry. But after years of rapid growth, the sector's expansion has almost come to a standstill in the ...
15 Jan 2018, 00:00 The parties currently in talks to form Germany’s next government have agreed to speed up the roll-out of renewable energies and start the phase-out of coal-fired power generation. Contrary to a draft leaked earlier this week, the ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Cars Technology EU 91tv / NDR / NZZ German chancellor Olaf Scholz has hailed the start of construction of a battery cell factory by Swedish Northvolt in northern Germany for being "of strategic ...
17 Apr 2024, 12:48 Jennifer Collins Fossil fuels Gas 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany covered just 6 percent of its natural gas and 2 percent of oil demand with domestic supplies in 2023 as production continues to sink, according to an ...
10 Apr 2024, 12:10 Europe is set to face a climate backlash caused by the divide between urban and rural views, with populists increasingly capitalising on rural resistance against policies seen as elitist, argues Daphne Halikiopoulou, Chair of ...
07 Mar 2023, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Freight dpa Germany’s postal service Deutsche Post has called for mandatory labelling of the CO2 footprint of parcels sent by parcel services to inform customers, reports news agency dpa. Such a ...
16 Apr 2024, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Cars Business & Jobs n-tv / Handelsblatt / Elektrek / The Guardian Plans announced by electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla to cut ten percent of its global workforce have led to worries over the potential impact on ...
27 Mar 2024, 11:44 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv German municipalities fail to adequately deal with the question of retiring no-longer-needed local gas grids due to the energy transition, because they face high financial and regulatory hurdles, ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Carbon market 91tv The European Union should set up a carbon central bank as part of a proper regulatory structure to effectively remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere to help reach ...
12 Apr 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars Handelsblatt / 91tv / Der Spiegel Representatives of German government coalition parties have voiced diverging views on the consequences for transport if a law reform is delayed that would ...
26 Jun 2019, 12:45 Renewable energy sources delivered a fresh record in Germany in the first half of 2019 with a share of 44 percent in electricity consumption as stormy weather boosted wind power production on land and at sea, utility association BDEW ...
12 Apr 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices WDR Steelmaker Thyssenkrupp has announced a substantial production reduction at its site in Duisburg in western Germany, a step that will also lead to job cuts for its roughly 13,000 ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation EU Handelsblatt / Euractiv / 91tv A severe winter drought in France is causing worries that the country’s energy production could be impacted throughout the year, compounding an already tense ...
28 Mar 2024, 13:51 Edgar Meza Gas Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv German gas consumers will be hit by higher gas prices in April after a temporary value added tax (VAT) reduction expires at the end of March, Tagesspiegel ...
28 Feb 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The launch of the latest offshore wind power auction could signal a “critical stage” for the technology’s role in Germany’s energy transition, the offshore wind industry has said. The ...
27 Mar 2024, 11:51 Julian Wettengel Solar Business & Jobs MDR Swiss photovoltaics manufacturer Meyer Burger has sealed the closure of its solar module plant in eastern German state Saxony, following news that the federal government is unlikely to ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Several southern German states have called on the federal government to design state support rules for electrolysers in a way that includes their regions, reported ...
27 Feb 2023, 13:48 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind dpa / Der Spiegel The expansion of onshore wind power in ...
09 Apr 2024, 13:53 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables Der Spiegel A lack of grid capacity has led ...
08 Apr 2024, 14:08 Sören Amelang Citizens' energy Solar dpa The number of households in Germany operating solar panels on their balcony continued to rise rapidly since the start of the year. More than 50,000 mini plug-in PV systems usually consisting ...
03 Mar 2021, 12:17 The European Commission has expressed doubts that Germany's planned compensation payments to operators of lignite-fired power plants in the context of the country's coal phase-out are in line with EU state aid rules, and ...
23 Nov 2016, 00:00 Germany’s industry should work with the government to reach the goals in the country’s newly adopted Climate Action Plan 2050 rather than criticise the plan or individual measures, energy state secretary Rainer Baake told a conference ...
23 May 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU Süddeutsche Zeitung / Bloomberg In the looming trade conflict with China over import tariffs on electric vehicles, Germany is at risk of seeing its rejection of trade restrictions being outvoted in the EU, the ...
18 Apr 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv German chemicals company BASF has inaugurated a demonstration plant using a new electricity-based technology that could reduce CO2 emissions in certain production steps by at ...
23 Feb 2023, 13:43 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Zeit Online / 91tv The premier of eastern German lignite mining state Brandenburg has said he is open to talks about an earlier coal phase-out under certain conditions. Energy supply must be reliable ...
16 Jan 2015, 00:00 Energy experts say the German chancellor's secpticism over extensive payments to conventional power plants as back-up for renewables sends a strong signal that capacity markets may not be on the cards in the upcoming power market ...
18 Jan 2016
18 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv WindGuard / VDMA 2015 record year for offshore wind power installation Offshore wind capacity of 2,282.4 megawatt (MW) was connected to the German grid in 2015, Deutsche WindGuard has calculated. ...
22 Feb 2023, 13:47 Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG Coal Fossil fuels Carolina Kyllmann Coal Zeit Online / Frankfurter Allgemeine Regional representatives of the eastern German coal region Lusatia renewed their ...
20 Feb 2023, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Business Policy Handelsblatt The German finance ministry is preparing a law to support companies that invest in energy efficiency and decarbonisation through tax rebates, business daily Handelsblatt reported. Tax ...
12 Mar 2018, 00:00 In a deal that could drastically re-shape Germany's power sector, RWE and E.ON have agreed to split RWE subsidiary innogy and focus each on different parts of the business. E.ON will largely be in charge of distribution grids while ...
16 Feb 2018, 00:00 The future government tasks researchers with finding ways to plan and steer the electrification of the whole energy system – along with all its new technologies. Renewable power was introduced in Germany at a startling pace in some ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:36 Edgar Meza Solar 91tv Rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) in the EU is thriving due to new strategies and regulatory changes adopted by the bloc since 2022, in large part because of Russia's war on Ukraine, according to a ...
21 Mar 2024, 14:07 Sören Amelang Grid Cost & Prices Die Zeit / Handelsblatt The German economy ministry is considering to stabilise electricity prices with a new instrument designed to reign in rising grid fees. "I want us to protect private ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:14 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Freja Eriksen Renewables ...
19 Mar 2024, 13:58 The global growth of renewable power sources is an encouraging trend for climate action but needs to be better coordinated to ensure international targets are met, according to Germany’s economy and foreign affairs ministers. ...
27 Mar 2019, 15:42 The German commission charged with proposing emissions cuts for the nation's transport sector has failed to agree on enough steps to reach the country’s climate targets. During what was billed as the decisive meeting, members could ...
07 Sep 2017, 00:00 Germany must urgently step up its CO2 reduction efforts immediately after the upcoming elections if it wants to prevent a spectacular miss of its 2020 climate targets, according to think tank Agora Energiewende. Instead of reducing ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv The year 2023 was the windiest in Germany in more than 15 years, providing excellent conditions for wind electricity generation, said Germany's National Meteorological ...
21 Mar 2024, 13:53 Sören Amelang Jess Smee Agriculture Society Spiegel Online / 91tv Increasingly “rancid” or “muddy” tasting olive oil appears to be the first prominent example of climate change blighting what people eat in Germany, the ...
13 Nov 2015
13 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv EnBW “Stable development and progress with restructuring” Germany’s third largest utility EnBW has achieved revenue of around 15.3 billion euros and an operating result (adjusted EBITDA) of around ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Carbon removal EU 91tv An agreement by the majority of EU member states on a draft for an EU wide standardised and voluntary certification framework for CO2 removal and carbon farming marks an important step ...
08 Apr 2024, 13:37 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Expert TransnetBW Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar Die Welt / Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
15 Mar 2024, 13:30 Jack McGovan Storage 91tv With a turnover of over 15.7 billion euros, and a 46 percent growth increase in comparison to 2022, the energy storage sector’s expansion in Germany continues at a fast pace, according to industry ...
07 Jan 2016
07 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau “No climate protection without an energy transition in transport” Transport is absolutely crucial to decarbonising the economy and Germany should embrace a leading role, but ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Finance International EU 91tv The European Union should go further in its proposal to counter the U.S.’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), more than 40 business organisations, companies, think tanks ...
17 Oct 2018, 14:44 The global energy transition is both accelerating and unstoppable, and will continue to disrupt many industries from carmaking to construction, according to green energy pioneer Amory Lovins. But the cofounder and Chief Scientist of the ...
16 Feb 2022, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv Leading German climate and energy researchers have called for an earlier start of emissions trading for the country’s CO2 price on transport and heating fuels. Introducing auctions ...
06 Feb 2023, 13:26 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices Clean Energy ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:15 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Technology Table.Media / 91tv / Handelsblatt Germany is leading among EU countries when it comes to the production of climate technologies like wind power, solar energy, heat pumps, batteries ...
06 Feb 2023, 13:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs International 91tv The economy ministers from France and Germany will use their planned visit to the U.S. on Tuesday (7 February) to advocate for “joint green lead markets” for climate ...
08 Feb 2018, 00:00 After weeks of intensive negotiations, Germany's would-be government partners have agreed on a coalition draft treaty. The 91tv presents first reactions to texts on transport, climate and energy. [UPDATE adds VDA, VDMA ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:24 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International WWF / Greenpeace / DUH / BNE / VCI / BDI The European Commission’s plan to make the EU CO2-neutral by 2050 has been largely appreciated by environmental NGOs as ...
21 Mar 2024, 14:04 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv European parliamentary hopefuls have been urged against campaigning on the EU’s successes in dealing with issues such as climate change and COVID-19, as polls show many ...
15 Nov 2019, 15:20 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government [Update adds opinion piece by Süddeutsche Zeitung] The German parliament (Bundestag) has decided the country's first major climate law, less than two months after the coalition of ...
15 Mar 2024, 13:44 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Finance 91tv Germany’s largest investment funds continue to put billions of euros in fossil fuel companies whose business ...
05 Oct 2015
05 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/WAZ “Minister Gabriel does not want to ‘shave’ utilities” German energy minister Sigmar Gabriel surprised stockmarkets with conciliatory remarks about the country’s troubled ...
21 Mar 2024, 14:00 Sören Amelang Resources & Recycling 91tv Reaching climate targets will only be possible with a new sufficiency approach, German government advisors have said. "Ecological crises are progressing at an alarming rate ...
27 Mar 2024, 11:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs 91tv The German economy is emerging from its downswing slower than expected and will likely only achieve minimum growth of 0.1 percent in 2024, a joint analysis by five leading research ...
31 Jan 2023, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables EU 91tv The implementation into national law agreed by Germany’s government of an EU emergency regulation on the accelerated buildout of renewable energy sources will greatly boost the country’s ...
15 Dec 2016, 00:00 An expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German energy transition warned the country will probably miss its 2020 emission targets and other crucial Energiewende goals, threatening the entire project’s credibility. ...
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 2016 is set to be another eventful year in German energy policy. The Paris climate summit underlined the need to reduce emissions even further, which will ultimately involve painful decisions about the future of coal. A series of ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Hydrogen trade with the EU could play an important role in rebuilding the economy and energy infrastructure of Ukraine, Germany’s government-appointed National Hydrogen Council has said. ...
28 Mar 2024, 13:34 Edgar Meza Agriculture 91tv A global transition to healthy, more sustainable diets could considerably reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help limit global warming to the Paris Agreement goal of 1.5°C, researchers at the ...
04 Mar 2020, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende 91tv Germany must move quickly to get its renewables expansion back on track if the country wants to avoid a "green power gap," forcing it to rely on power imports or fossil reserve ...
12 Mar 2024, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Falling energy prices continue to pull down overall inflation in Germany, which in February receded to its lowest level since mid-2021, the country’s statistical office Destatis ...
24 Jun 2015
24 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Energy minister speech at utilities congress Government considers alternative to climate levy The proposal to charge old coal-fired power stations a “climate levy” to force them reduce CO2 ...
24 Jan 2023, 13:20 Edgar Meza Solar 91tv Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has increased maximum support rates for ground-mounted solar system tenders by 25 percent to 7.37 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh). The move is expected to make ...
19 Oct 2016, 00:00 The German government decided on a pact to free nuclear power plant operators of responsibility for storing radioactive waste, and transfer it into the hands of the state. Utilities welcomed the decision made on Wednesday, while critics ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Coal dpa The final shutdown of seven lignite and eight smaller hard coal power plant units with a combined capacity of 4.4 gigawatts (GW) over the Easter holidays does not threaten Germany's energy supply security, ...
05 Jun 2019, 12:33 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s planned coal exit in 2038 may have hardly any effect- and ...
13 Jan 2017, 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 ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Society Table.Media The protests against the razing of the village of Lützerath in order to expand the brown coal mining operations of energy giant RWE are damaging Germany’s image and standing in international climate ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv A group of experts largely rejected calls for tougher penalties for climate activists who stage acts of civil disobedience like motorway blockades or artwork attacks. In response to a motion ...
28 Mar 2024, 13:42 Edgar Meza Transport Freight 91tv German postal service Deutsche Post has ended its domestic air transport service after nearly 63 years in order to reduce costs and limit its climate footprint, the company said. This will ...
13 Mar 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Wind dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The planned offshore wind power expansion could affect up to one quarter of Germany’s exclusive economic zone in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, said the ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:06 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 ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:27 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv Salt caverns could be an effective location for storing hydrogen in Germany due to their geological, physical and chemical properties, according to a report published by the Institute of Energy ...
16 Jan 2023, 14:01 Sören Amelang Politics 91tv Germany’s economic output stagnated at the end of 2022 but grew 1.9 percent over the whole year, fanning hopes it will avoid a winter recession. “Economic development in Germany proved to be ...
14 Sep 2015
14 Sep 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “EU casts doubt over lignite compromise” The European Commission has doubts about whether the German government’s plan to put some old lignite power plants in a so-called capacity reserve is ...
09 Mar 2015
09 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv German Insurance Association (GDV) Insurers keen to increase investments in renewable energy German insurers want to pour more money into renewables to profit from the reliable income streams they ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:57 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables Cost & Prices Die Welt / dpa / ARD The head of Europe’s largest energy network operator E.ON has suggested that Germany could ...
13 Jan 2023, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv For the comprehensive electrification of sectors like heating and road transport, Germany must massively expand renewables and update its energy infrastructure with investments of 900 ...
10 Oct 2017, 00:00 One week before the start of exploratory talks on forming a government coalition, aspiring German government alliance partners CDU and the Green Party agree that the country will have to phase out coal-fired power production. Yet, two ...
24 Sep 2017, 00:00 Despite heavy losses in Germany's parliamentary elections, Angela Merkel is poised to stay chancellor for another four years. The voters’ decision sets her conservative CDU/CSU party alliance on course for coalition talks with the ...
11 Jan 2023, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv Germany must restore 50,000 hectares of moorland annually – and the whole of the EU 500,000 hectares – for the world to reach the Paris Agreement target of limiting global ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv Germany will enter into solidarity agreements for gas supply with Italy and Switzerland in a bid to improve energy security across Europe in response to the energy crisis of 2022, the ...
04 Mar 2024, 13:17 Jennifer Collins Cars 91tv The number of battery-electric cars registered in Germany rose by 39.1 percent to 1.4 million in 2023, while the number of hybrids now stands at 2.9 million, according to the latest figures from ...
20 Mar 2024, 10:10 Julian Wettengel EUElections2024 International EU 91tv / Table.Media / Reuters The German government has said it will give its consent to the EU nature restoration law in an upcoming member state meeting which is set to ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:28 Julian Wettengel Wind Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German economy ministry is working on a proposal to subsidise offshore electricity for industry customers through an auction scheme in order to shield companies against ...
23 Jul 2020, 12:30 The EU's and Germany's plans to push the use of green hydrogen to decarbonise the economy are likely to trigger a competitive race with China that will be crucial for a global breakthrough of the technology, says Kobad ...
28 Jan 2015
28 Jan 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Cabinet agrees to auction plan for solar subsidies The German economics and energy ministry said the government cabinet had signed off on its plans to auction the ...
26 Jul 2017, 00:00 The SPD, Germany's oldest party, has been a junior partner to Angela Merkel's conservative union in the grand coalition since 2013. The Social Democrats have traditionally been the country's "labour party" and ...
05 Apr 2019, 09:08 German e-car pioneer Günther Schuh, who runs the e-car startup e.GO Mobile and spearheaded the development of the electric delivery van StreetScooter now used by Deutsche Post DHL, has set his sights on conquering the air. Schuh, ...
23 Feb 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Finance Correctiv Leading German insurance companies continue to provide cover to liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure, even as they often make sustainability a key corporate goal, investigative news outlet ...
17 Nov 2015
17 Nov 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv WirtschaftsWoche “Can E.ON survive alone?” Writing for WitschaftsWoche, Christof Schürmann says there are doubts over whether the new E.ON, which will split from its fossil-fuel business in a few weeks, will be ...
17 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just days 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 ...
11 Mar 2024, 12:52 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Corrected: The renewable share in energy consumption in 2022 was 20.8 percent and ...
14 Nov 2016, 00:00 Banning combustion engines in new cars by 2030 and exiting coal-fired power production as early as 2025 are likely to be two key Green Party demands in the general elections in autumn 2017, the party decided at its convention. But ...
12 Mar 2024, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government Die Zeit / n-tv A public debate between Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck and Saxony’s state premier Michael Kretschmer in Berlin has showcased many of the problems the country is currently ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Politics MDR / 91tv The environment minister of Saxony favours an early termination of coal-fired electricity generation in the eastern German state, arguing that coal mining is becoming unprofitable, ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:29 Jack McGovan Gas Security 91tv Germany is expected to completely fill its gas storage by the 2024/2025 winter, according to storage system association INES. Gas levels remain sufficient and the association doesn’t expect to ...
01 Oct 2014
01 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online "Subsidies: Brussels' billion-euro gift to the nuclear lobby" German parliamentarians are „appalled" after EU competition commissioner Joaquín Almunia allowed the ...
04 Jan 2023, 13:25 The central role of financial markets in advancing the global transformation towards more sustainable economies has been overshadowed during the turbulent year 2022 on European energy markets, sustainable finance researcher Franziska ...
02 Jan 2023, 13:03 Sören Amelang International 91tv Following the inauguration of Brazil’s new president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on 1 January, Germany has released 35 million euros for the country’s Amazon Fund, which is dedicated to ...
26 Feb 2024, 13:27 Sören Amelang Adaptation 91tv Extreme weather events, rising sea levels and higher temperatures are straining the delicate ecosystem of the Wadden Sea, researchers have warned. “Climate change is having profound effects on ...
02 Jan 2023, 13:10 Sören Amelang Gas Bild am Sonntag Germany’s finance minister Christian Lindner has renewed his call for allowing the controversial fracking technology to increase gas supplies. “The ban should be lifted,” the head of the Free Democrats ...
02 Jan 2023, 13:07 Sören Amelang Coal dpa / Welt / Bild Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck has called for pulling forward the country’s coal exit to 2030 from 2038 in the east of the country, following an agreement in the west. "The generation ...
10 Dec 2018, 09:03 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 ...
22 Feb 2024, 14:09 Ruby Russel Wind Business & Jobs 91tv / Die Welt New wind farms greatly benefit the local economy and municipal budgets, says a case study by industry consultancy Deutsche WindGuard. Building and operating several wind ...
19 Feb 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Resources & Recycling Volksstimme / SWR The government of Saxony-Anhalt plans to explore the extraction of “battery-grade” lithium in the eastern German state, the newspaper Volksstimme reported. Deposits ...
20 Jan 2022, 10:22 Germany's new government must take rapid policy decisions at home and actively engage at the EU level and beyond to pave the way for urgent emission cuts in energy-intensive industry. The start of the country's government ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:51 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Government Handelsblatt A report by the Federal Court of Auditors has slammed the German government over its failure to reduce subsidies as promised, including those that are harmful to the climate, ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:22 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Government EU 91tv The NGO Germanwatch has called on the European Commission to present an ambitious second part of the “Fit for 55 package” of energy and climate ...
26 Oct 2016, 00:00 The rifts over the German Climate Action Plan 2050 and an exit from coal-fired power generation were highlighted at a string of events on Wednesday. Federal and regional environment ministry officials stressed the need for a framework ...
22 Feb 2024, 14:13 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices ...
09 Nov 2016, 00:00 Disagreements over the future of coal in Germany have blocked adoption of a long-awaited government roadmap for making the country almost greenhouse gas neutral by 2050. In a surprise move capping several days of uncertainty about the ...
19 Mar 2024, 13:48 Jack McGovan Adaptation Tagesspiegel Reinsurance company Munich Re's top climate scientist has said that many settlements destroyed by floods shouldn’t be rebuilt. With reference to Germany's Ahr valley, which suffered 40 ...
06 Nov 2017, 00:00 Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said vulnerable countries must be put centre-stage and kicked off the conference with a pledge to raise Germany's contribution to the climate change adaptation fund by 50 million euros. ...
02 Dec 2015
02 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Late, perhaps too late” RWE’s plans are radical and effectively split Germany’s second largest utility in two, writes Caspar Busse in a commentary for Süddeutsche Zeitung. “The decision is ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:20 Franca Quecke Digitalisation 91tv Digitalisation can induce almost one quarter (24 percent) of the emission reduction that Germany needs to reach its 2030 greenhouse gas target, according to the country’s digital industry ...
23 Dec 2022, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv After two years of negotiations, landowners in four German states have reached agreements with electricity grid operators over compensation for land affected by the construction of underground ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling 91tv Germany should introduce a "balanced catalogue of measures" to secure its supply of necessary raw materials as the world shifts through a dual transformation of ...
04 Mar 2024, 13:33 Jennifer Collins Gas Heating 91tv People in Germany needed to use much less energy to heat their homes between September 2023 and February 2024 due to an exceptionally warm autumn and winter, and also benefited from a ...
01 Mar 2024, 13:01 Sören Amelang Mobility Freight dpa The evaluation of a pilot scheme to test catenary trucks in Germany says that the technology works to lower transport emissions, but critics warn the trial should be scrapped because a large-scale ...
22 Feb 2024, 14:30 The climate impact of construction has mostly remained an afterthought in Europe's efforts to make its buildings climate-friendly, which has largely focused on heating emissions. Yet, as homes and offices become more energy ...
19 Dec 2022, 13:47 German stakeholders have welcomed a European Union deal to reform the bloc’s CO2 emissions trading system. Negotiators from the parliament, member state governments and the European Commission had reached an agreement to strengthen the ...
20 Dec 2022, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU Die Zeit The vote by EU energy ministers to introduce a price cap on natural gas is a bad compromise for Germany, Anja Stehle wrote in an opinion piece for Die Zeit. The price ceiling, taking effect at 180 euros ...
12 Feb 2024, 13:28 Sören Amelang Bioenergy Tagesspiegel Background The German government plans to tighten restrictions on the use of biomass, according to a draft national strategy for the renewable power technology seen by energy and climate newsletter ...
29 May 2020, 13:01 The German government is set to make the large-scale use of offshore wind power to produce emission-free hydrogen a cornerstone of its long-anticipated national hydrogen strategy, reports Tagesspiegel Background. With additional ...
14 Feb 2024, 14:36 Ruby Russel Resources & Recycling International 91tv German industry is calling for the country's international development budget to increase the country’s access to resources from developing countries. A paper by ...
19 Dec 2022, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv Germany’s first import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) opened on Saturday, 17 December, and is slated to supply gas to the German grid within days. “This is a very special moment ...
20 Dec 2022, 14:10 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Government 91tv The German government and the country’s largest gas supplier Uniper have agreed on a framework to carry out the struggling company’s nationalisation ...
27 Mar 2015, 00:00 UPDATE-- Over 900 ministers, officials, business people, energy experts and journalists from around 60 countries take part in the first Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, a two-day confernce hosted by the German Foreign Ministry, the ...
14 Feb 2024, 14:03 Ruby Russel Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv The Bavarian Industry Association vbw's energy price index fell by nearly 30 percent in 2023, but the group says companies are still suffering from high energy ...
22 Feb 2024, 13:52 Franca Quecke Gas Heating 91tv Berlin-based heating system installer Thermondo has stopped selling gas heating systems, shifting its focus entirely to more climate-friendly technologies, such as heat pumps and PV modules, ...
04 Mar 2024, 13:19 Jennifer Collins Gas dpa Germany has no plans to downgrade from the "alert level" of its gas emergency plan, saying the supply situation remains "tense" two years after the Russian invasion of Ukraine upended ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:28 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Industry federations from France and Germany are lobbying for ...
18 Mar 2024, 12:59 Sören Amelang Carbon removal Industry 91tv Germany will have to build a 4,800-kilometre CO2 pipeline network at a cost of around 14 billion euros in order to decarbonise its cement, lime, and waste incineration industries, ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:40 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Nuclear phase-out Süddeutsche Zeitung A second runtime extension for Germany’s remaining nuclear power plants ...
15 Dec 2022, 11:57 Germany urgently needs an overarching plan to reduce transport emissions in the new year, given that the government didn’t make any headway during its first year in office, Wiebke Zimmer, deputy executive director of clean mobility ...
15 Dec 2022, 14:03 Julian Wettengel Gas Government Table.Media Germany’s economy ministry expects a significant import overcapacity if all planned floating and fixed onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals are implemented as planned, reports Table ...
17 Nov 2016, 00:00 Germans will elect a new federal government in autumn 2017. Security, economic stability and refugees are likely to dominate election campaigns, but keeping the Energiewende on a steady course and fulfilling Germany’s international ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:03 Wars, climate change and competition for land increase worldwide hunger, so Germany must ensure the EU directive on a sustainable food system "becomes a sharp sword" for resilience in the coming year, Reinhild Benning, ...
03 Nov 2015
03 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv BDEW / ZSW “Renewables share will likely rise to 33 percent in 2015” Renewable energies are likely to cover around 33 percent of Germany’s gross power consumption in 2015, research institute ZSW ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Finance Heating Handelsblatt / 91tv A ‘hardship fund’ for households heating with oil or wood pellets has been agreed by Germany’s coalition government, newspaper Handelsblatt reports. A total of 1.8 ...
13 Dec 2022, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society 91tv A need for energy supply security has increased acceptance in the German population towards the expansion of renewables, a survey by the Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) found. ...
15 Feb 2024, 13:10 Ruby Russel Heating 91tv Eastern German cities are taking the lead on energy-saving building upgrades, but the nationwide pace falls well short of climate targets, according to the Federal Association for Energy Efficient ...
20 Jan 2015, 00:00 Sigmar Gabriel has made strong statements against capacity markets, with the utilities once again insisting they are needed to ensure investment in the power sector. The state secretary for energy said that with current overcapacity, ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Germany is set to produce a record 256 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity from renewable sources this year, but the amount is still insufficient to put it on track to its 2030 targets, ...
07 Feb 2024, 13:54 Franca Quecke Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv Most citizens want Germany to play a leading role in climate protection, but they are divided over how to achieve this, slowing down climate policy efforts, said the ifo Institute ...
30 Dec 2014, 00:00 After an eventful 2014 – marked by the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), a new climate action package and the first fall in CO2 emissions for two years – German energy policy is primed for action in 2015. Expert AGEB- AG ...
27 May 2016
27 May 2016, 00:00 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Panorama (ARD) “Absurd Energiewende: climate law rewards electricity waste” To be exempted from Germany's Renewable Energy Act (EEG) surcharge, some companies just on the threshold of ...
08 Dec 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The German government has launched a 900-million-euro auction scheme for green hydrogen imports. The idea of the so-called H2 Global mechanism is to procure the fuel on the world market and ...
14 Aug 2018, 14:31 Technical fixes, better communication and smoother planning procedures are to accelerate Germany’s grid expansion, the energy minister has proposed in a new plan. Heading off on a visit to contested power line building sites in western ...
09 Dec 2022, 13:53 Carolina Kyllmann Coal 91tv Former coal regions in eastern Germany have secured a budget worth 1.44 billion euros for the renaturation of lignite mines over the next five years. The states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony ...
20 Feb 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Over the course of the planned coal phase-out in Germany there will be a net increase in available jobs in eastern mining region Lusatia that employers might struggle ...
08 Dec 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv The planned infrastructure for direct imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at Germany’s coastlines are “massively oversized” and state involvement means that taxpayer money is used for what could ...
09 Dec 2022, 13:51 Julian Wettengel Transport 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the leaders of German state governments have agreed to each shoulder half of the costs for a nationwide 49-euro-per-month local public transport ticket next year, ...
26 Feb 2024, 13:32 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices Cities Süddeutsche Zeitung / taz The City of Berlin’s plans for massive climate investments are on the brink of collapse after legal experts have deemed the current funding scheme as illegal, according to ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Der Spiegel A proposal by Germany’s transport ministry to accelerate the planning and construction of new motorways is causing an uproar by the Green Party, which ...
15 Feb 2024, 13:30 Ruby Russel Transport Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Projects to build green hydrogen electrolysers at refineries are being cancelled because oil companies lack guarantees that the investments will be profitable, even though the ...
15 Feb 2024, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Coal EU Table.Media CO2 allowances from the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) no longer used by coal power plants which were shut down as part of Germany's coal exit will be deleted to make sure they are not ...
20 Feb 2024, 13:46 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sales of new heating systems reached record level in Germany in 2023, with ...
09 Feb 2024, 13:01 Sören Amelang Mobility Transport A broad alliance of German climate NGOs, welfare organisations, trade unions and business associations has warned that the cuts to the country’s railway budget puts the mobility transition and climate ...
19 Feb 2024, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar 91tv The potential of so-called prosumers in Germany’s energy transition should be exploited more to reduce costs and increase the system's stability, the Federation of German Energy and ...
02 Dec 2022, 13:51 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal 91tv German government officials have welcomed the EU proposal to certify carbon removals, but called for better clarification of the details. “In order to reach the 1.5-degree target, CO2 ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Above average rainfall since October 2023 has increased hydropower production in Germany in early 2024 to levels not seen since 2018, said the energy industry association BDEW. Hydroelectric ...
01 Dec 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 91tv Germany's electricity market design needs a fundamental overhaul more urgently than ever before to make the economic value of supply security visible, the country's energy ...
06 Feb 2024, 13:12 Jack McGovan Industry 91tv The German government has pledged to support the multinational steel manufacturing corporation ArcelorMittal with a total of 1.3 billion euros to help reduce carbon emissions from steel production ...
06 Feb 2024, 13:22 Jack McGovan Solar 91tv / Handelsblatt Solar power is set to lead renewable power expansion both in terms of capacity and generation in Europe in 2024, with Germany set to install more solar capacity than any other country, ...
14 Dec 2015
14 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “For humanity” The Paris treaty is a “terrific day for humanity” and spells out clearly that the fossil era is coming to an end, writes Michael Bauchmüller in a commentary for ...
08 Feb 2024, 13:33 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Utilities 91tv German energy company Uniper plans to operate salt caverns as large-scale hydrogen storage within around six years. “The initially envisaged storage capacity will be 250 to 600 GWh, ...
01 Dec 2022, 13:13 Julian Wettengel International 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz and Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre have called for better coordination among coastal states to protect critical energy and communication ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:26 Edgar Meza Electricity Solar 91tv Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has simplified the registration of plug-in balcony solar photovoltaic (PV) units or 'balcony power plants' as of 1 April. "People ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Gas International 91tv / Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background Chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed two contracts that are set to supply Germany with liquefied natural gas (LNG) for a duration of at least 15 ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv A new start in German-African relations is needed to diversify raw material providers and reduce dependencies, a report by the Federation of German Industries (BDI) ...
07 Feb 2024, 13:52 Sören Amelang Agriculture Company climate claims 91tv Three quarters of Germans are in favour of a binding climate label for food, according to a survey by health insurance provider AOK. Seventy-six percent agreed with ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Solar Heating 91tv Nearly every third house owner in Germany (29%) plans to install a solar power system in the coming two years, a survey conducted by energy company E.ON shows. "The commitment of ...
12 Feb 2019, 18:04 Against the backdrop of escalating tensions over the Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, Germany and the US aim to boost industry cooperation on liquefied natural gas (LNG). German economy minister Peter Altmaier invited US ...
01 Dec 2015, 00:00 Stricken energy giant RWE revealed on Tuesday it plans to spin off a company focused on renewables and grids to raise capital, while retaining fossil and nuclear energy generation. Germany's leading energy company E.ON had ...
28 Nov 2022, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Policy 91tv In a bid to shield households and businesses from the drastic increase in energy prices, Germany’s government has approved a draft law to cap the price of electricity and gas ...
12 Feb 2024, 13:33 Franca Quecke Cost & Prices Society 91tv / Science Media Center Over two thirds (69%) of the world's population are willing to contribute "1% of [their] household income every month to fight global warming, ...
28 Nov 2022, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs 91tv / Handelsblatt A shortage of more than 200,000 skilled workers threatens to slow down Germany’s energy transition, according to a report by the Institute of the German Economy (IW) ...
09 Feb 2024, 13:07 Franca Quecke Grid 91tv The planned high-voltage power line SuedWestLink, which is intended to transport renewable energy from the windy north of the country to industrial centres in the south, will have a direct branch to ...
07 Apr 2021, 08:47 Germany’s ruling conservatives and the Greens are about to kick off the 2021 national election race in earnest by naming their respective leading candidates to take over the helm of Europe’s biggest economy in autumn. While the country ...
01 Feb 2024, 13:37 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices 91tv The discontinuation of the German government's electricity grid subsidy, as well as a rise in the national CO2 price for heating have not translated into bigger bills for new ...
19 Jun 2018, 18:10 In her speech at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for more ambitious global climate action and multilateral cooperation. At international level, it will be important to develop a rulebook for the ...
29 Oct 2021, 13:35 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Sören Amelang ...
09 Mar 2016
09 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Government approves Paris climate deal The German cabinet of government ministers has approved the Paris Agreement on climate change, which 195 countries successfully negotiated in ...
26 Jan 2016
26 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv manager magazine / Bloomberg “Gas-fired power stations rise from the dead” What might be the biggest absurdity of the German Energiewende could now be ending, as relatively clean gas-fired power ...
30 Oct 2015
30 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv UN Climate Change Secretariat “Global response to climate change keeps door open to 2 degree C temperature limit” A report assessing the 140 climate action plans submitted to the United Nations ...
13 Jan 2020, 17:00 Preview 2020: Green and sustainable finance has made a steep ascent in Germany last year and established itself as a key element of climate policy. Government plans to become a leading location for green financial products, intensifying ...
27 Feb 2018, 00:00 German cities may ban diesel cars from polluted areas following a landmark court ruling. In a major blow to German carmakers still heavily relying on diesel car sales, and a victory for environmentalists, one of Germany’s top courts ...
23 Nov 2022, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Policy 91tv / Reuters The gas and electricity “price brakes” that Germany’s government plans to finance with scooping up windfall profits made by power producers during the energy crisis ...
22 Nov 2022, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Homeowners with gas heaters in Germany on average will be paying about 1,000 euros more for heating energy this year, even after state measures to reduce bills have been ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:46 Julian Wettengel Gas International 91tv / Zeit Online / t-online The NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has called on economy minister Robert Habeck to follow the example of the U.S. government and declare a moratorium ...
22 Nov 2022, 13:56 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables 91tv / Reuters Germany is examining the introduction of state guarantees for investments in wind and solar power to improve the country’s industrial potential, economy minister Robert Habeck has ...
04 Apr 2019, 15:12 Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 4.5 percent in 2018 as warm weather and higher prices dampened the use of climate-damaging fossil fuels. The government called the largest drop since the 2009 recession the “first notable ...
29 Apr 2015, 00:00 Germany’s first auction for large solar arrays attracted many bidders but did not push prices below the current feed-in tariffs. On average, successful bids came in at 9.17 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh), compared to a feed-in tariff of ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Coal dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Seven lignite-fired power plant units with a combined capacity of 3.1 gigawatt will finally be shut down in Germany at the end of March, after their decommissioning had been postponed due ...
05 Jan 2016
05 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv dpa/Frankfurter Rundschau “Growth of wind power sluggish in 2015” 2015 will enter the history of German renewables as a year of disillusionment, according to a report by press agency dpa. ...
13 May 2019, 14:00 Implementing the Paris Agreement means that countries have to have more ambition on a national level and the same is true for the European Union, Germany’s environment minister Svenja Schulze said at the opening of the 10th Petersberg ...
08 Feb 2024, 13:38 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out International Süddeutsche Zeitung / Bayerischer Rundfunk Local politicians from Germany’s border region in Bavaria have expressed concerns about the security of nuclear power stations planned in the ...
16 Nov 2022, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Handelsblatt German chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) plans to streamline planning and approval procedures for faster construction of wind turbines, rail projects and even houses, newspaper Handelsblatt reports. The ...
11 Oct 2021, 13:26 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche Städte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung The Association of German Towns and Municipalities (DStGB) ...
14 Nov 2022, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Finance Efficiency 91tv Germany’s largest real estate company, Vonovia, has secured a loan worth 600 million euros for investments in energy efficiency renovations for its housing stock from the European ...
26 Aug 2015
26 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Upwind” Germany’s offshore wind development is accelerating, write Franz Hubik and Daniel Delhaes in the Handelsblatt. While the first wind parks suffered from delays, exploding costs ...
31 Mar 2017, 00:00 LEAG, the owner of one of Germany’s largest lignite-mining operations, has scrapped plans by former owner Vattenfall to expand one of its lignite mines. The company is also downsizing or putting on hold development of two other mines. ...
31 Jan 2024, 13:21 Franca Quecke Renewables Solar 91tv The volume of bids in the latest German auction for ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) projects has once again by far exceeded the auctioned capacity, the Federal Network Agency ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv The German government should use revenues from carbon pricing to lower or abolish several components of the electricity price, rather than make good on its plan to ...
15 Nov 2022, 13:22 Julian Wettengel International 91tv / Reuters The G7, along with Norway and Denmark, have announced a 20 billion U.S. dollar partnership to support Indonesia in moving away from fossil fuels and speeding up its energy ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Freight Hydrogen 91tv Trains could play a key role in ensuring a comprehensive transport network for distributing imported green hydrogen across Germany, a report by research institute Fraunhofer ...
09 Oct 2014, 00:00 Resistance to Germany’s subsidies for the renewables industry have left politicians questioning why financing for the UK’s Hinkley Point nuclear power station has been granted EU approval. Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation ...
10 Nov 2022, 13:39 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv An group of energy, economy and finance experts – the Council for Energy Independence – has presented a roadmap urging Germany to prioritise independence from natural gas in its energy policy. ...
07 Nov 2022, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Cost & Prices Reuters The German finance minister, Christian Lindner (FDP), has earmarked 83 billion euros for the energy price brakes of gas and electricity, reports news agency Reuters. The price brakes, ...
19 Mar 2024, 13:03 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv Forests across Germany absorbed 52.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2021, which corresponds to 6 percent of the country’s annual emissions in the same year, according to ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:08 Franca Quecke Renewables Solar Wind dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung The southern German state of Bavaria continues to lead the field in renewable energy expansion, news agency dpa reports in an article published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung ...
29 Feb 2024, 13:46 Jennifer Collins Nuclear phase-out 91tv / t-online Environmental NGO Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) called on German authorities to reject an application to allow the production of Russian-designed nuclear fuel rods in ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:25 Edgar Meza Bioenergy Policy ARD / Die Welt Germany's environment minister Steffi Lemke is moving away from her opposition to the use of biodiesel, at least in the agricultural sector, public broadcaster ARD reports. While there are ...
07 Feb 2024, 13:51 Sören Amelang Mobility Cars 91tv The introduction of a flat-rate “Germany Ticket” for public transport did not prevent a significant increase in traffic jams last year, according to motorist association ADAC. The duration ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:46 Ruby Russel Cost & Prices Government 91tv A pause on funding from Germany’s Climate and Transformation Fund (CTF) has been lifted for programmes under the economy and climate action ministry (BMWK). The option to apply ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs EU Handelblatt / 91tv The opposition by the German co-governing Free Democratic Party (FDP) could prevent the planned adoption of sustainability and human rights rules for the EU's ...
19 Jan 2024, 13:25 Sören Amelang Transport dpa Electromobility is slowly gaining ground on Germany's lakes and rivers as the proportion of electric boats used for recreation is now estimated at 2.5 percent of the total, compared to less than one ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:26 Franca Quecke Climate & CO2 Technology 91tv Germany should allow carbon storage on its territory, economy and climate minister Robert Habeck said at an energy summit by business daily Handelsblatt in Berlin. Claiming ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:15 Edgar Meza Storage Technology Policy 91tv / WirtschaftsWoche A research and development alliance representing Germany’s battery industry has blasted government plans to slash research and development funding for the field, ...
19 Feb 2015
19 Feb 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Die Welt “Berlin wants to close its coal-fired power plants by 2020” The German capital of Berlin will shut its four remaining coal-fired power plants by 2020, according to provisional results from a parliamentary ...
09 Nov 2017, 00:00 German state secretary for environment says ETS reform shows EU can work together on climate policy / Negotiators progress on technical details of Paris rulebook / COP president Fiji was world's third most climate-impacted country ...
18 May 2016
18 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Federal government “Tax breaks and buyer’s premium agreed to” The government cabinet has agreed to an e-car buyer’s premium worth 4,000 euros and ten-year tax breaks for new electric ...
16 Jan 2024, 13:01 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Government Zeit Online The German government has said that the allocation of so-called 'climate bonus' (Klimageld) to citizens to help alleviate high CO2 costs must start at the latest when the new ...
19 Mar 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Adaptation 91tv Adapting Germany to the effects of climate change will create tens of thousands of extra jobs within 15 years, according to a report by the German environment agency (UBA). "In 2040, an ...
16 Jan 2024, 13:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Cost & Prices 91tv / Augsburger Allgemeine In a parliamentary hearing, economists have largely backed the German government’s insistence on gradually phasing out subsidies for diesel fuel ...
15 Jan 2024, 13:25 Sören Amelang Carbon market Policy Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung Germany’s coalition government will not follow through with its original plan to return revenues from carbon price to citizens as compensation for rising CO2 prices in the ...
06 Nov 2017, 00:00 German-Turkish relations might be at a low-point in many respects but when it comes to climate politics, Germany will try to keep the country on side during the COP23 summit in Bonn. Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, ...
20 Oct 2014
20 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Süddeutsche Zeitung "Don't follow the path of the dreamer" In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the head of the trade union for Mining, Chemicals and Energy (IG-BCE) expresses concerns over the ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:20 Franca Quecke Julian Wettengel Carbon removal 91tv / Handelsblatt Eleven environmental associations and citizens' initiatives have joined forces to come out against controversial technologies to capture and store CO₂ ...
24 Oct 2022, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society dpa / 91tv Several thousand people took to the streets across Germany on 22 October to demand solidarity and redistribution in the energy crisis, news agency dpa reported. With the ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:39 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 EU 91tv Germany must purchase more than eleven million emission allocations totalling several million euros after overshooting its EU greenhouse gas emissions targets in the sectors ...
14 Oct 2019, 11:00 Starting in 2021 and throughout the 2020s, many of Germany’s pioneer wind turbines, solar PV installations and biogas plants will stop receiving fixed feed-in tariffs, meaning many gigwatts in renewable capacity may be shut down if they ...
24 Oct 2022, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Coal EU 91tv Four German coal regions are set to receive a total of 2.5 billion euros from the EU’s Just Transition Fund (JTF) to help them shift to a climate-friendly economy, the European Commission said ...
09 Feb 2024, 13:04 Sören Amelang Gas Security 91tv Germany can probably fill its gas storages to the brim before next winter, operators have said. “It is possible to completely refill the gas storage facilities again before the coming winter ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:46 Franca Quecke Climate & CO2 Adaptation The first cranes are returning to Germany already in January 2024 from their wintering grounds further south as they migrate to north-eastern Europe to breed, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
22 May 2018, 00:00 Energy transition pioneer Germany is about to launch a highly anticipated task force on phasing out coal power, the most prominent blemish on the country’s climate record. The government will likely nominate the coal exit commission on ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:58 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Wind Handelsblatt / RND The number of approved applications for ...
18 Jan 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Climate & CO2 Adaptation Agriculture 91tv Prolonged drought and more frequent heavy rainfall as a result of climate change will have a significant impact on groundwater levels in central Germany, found a ...
26 Jan 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Government Handelsblatt Germany's government coalition is facing yet more heated debates about how to plug a gap in the country's budget, as the deficit in next year's federal funding could be even bigger ...
11 Jan 2024, 14:17 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Policy Table.Media / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt The German government plans to cut development aid and funds earmarked for rail freight transport and cycling paths as part of saving ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:49 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Cars 91tv Germany is to accelerate the expansion of its electromobility charging network to facilitate the switch to electric vehicles, transport minister Volker Wissing (FDP) announced after ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said his government would pave the way for prolonging the runtime of all three of Germany’s remaining reactors until April 2023. The German leader thus intervened to settle a dispute about the delayed end of ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Utilities 91tv A broad alliance of German regional and municipal energy suppliers has jointly called for a protective shield against soaring energy prices and requested a special ...
18 Oct 2022, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU Die Welt / 91tv Plans by the Czech government to build a new nuclear plant close the border with German state Bavaria is causing a dilemma for the governing conservative CSU, which ...
06 Apr 2022, 09:49 Europe must act as a true green electricity and hydrogen union to stand its ground in a competitive world that moves to climate neutrality, says energy analyst Kirsten Westphal. The continent should establish hydrogen corridors to ...
18 Oct 2022, 14:10 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Germany’s economy will take a bigger hit from the energy crisis compared to other European countries, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), business ...
18 Jan 2024, 13:29 Sören Amelang Cars Die Welt / 91tv Germany’s sudden cut of electric vehicle purchasing subsidies has caused carmakers to outdo each other with heavy discounts, reports Die Welt. Tesla, the U.S. electric car company, cut the ...
22 Jan 2024, 15:09 Franca Quecke Heating 91tv / Welt am Sonntag Heat pump sales in Germany reached a record of almost 400,000 units last year, but the positive development is at risk in 2024, the German Heat Pump Association (BWP) has said. ...
26 Jan 2024, 13:31 Energy and climate cooperation, as well as countering migration, will be among the top priorities of Italy's G7 presidency this year. Led by prime minister Giorgia Meloni, the country's right-wing government will bring its ...
22 Feb 2022, 16:45 Many German politicians, business associations, and environmental NGOs have welcomed the government's decisions to halt the contentious gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 following Russian aggression towards Ukraine. Against the backdrop ...
19 Jan 2024, 13:19 Sören Amelang Agriculture Tagesspiegel / Focus Online / T-Online Following weeks of disruptive street blockades, German farmers have threatened to ramp up protests against the planned cuts to agricultural diesel subsidies. The president ...
13 Oct 2022, 13:35 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs 91tv The German government has approved a new skilled labour strategy that includes measures to help companies and businesses attract and retain skilled workers in view of growing challenges ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Security 91tv Only just under one-third of German companies have an emergency plan in place in the event of an energy shortage, but their responses vary widely depending on the business ...
11 Oct 2022, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Security 91tv Germany aims to keep the Paris Climate Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C within reach, even as the energy crisis in Europe puts a focus on fossil fuels in the short term, ...
21 Apr 2016
21 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv WWF Germany “Germans want more climate action” German citizens would like to see more engagement in the fight against climate change, environment organisation WWF Germany says, ...
10 Oct 2022, 14:09 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics 91tv / Frankfurter Rundschau The Social Democratic Party (SPD) has won the regional parliamentary election in Lower Saxony, Germany’s biggest wind power producer, with 34 percent ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:44 Edgar Meza Grid 91tv Germany experienced its first increase in power supply cuts since 2017 last year, largely due to a single accident at a transformer station and floods, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) reported. The ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:55 Carolina Kyllmann Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Germany's renewable energy sector employed 387,700 people in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 15 percent and the highest level in a decade, said the economy ...
21 Oct 2015
21 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Environment State Secretary Flasbarth (BMUB) Germany must exit coal in the next 25-30 years A well-organised exit from coal which considers social aspects is needed in the next 25 to 30 years if ...
04 Jan 2024, 12:26 Sören Amelang Carbon market Policy 91tv Germany’s revenue from carbon pricing rose to a record 18.4 billion euros in 2023, an increase of around 40 percent, the country’s environment agency (UBA) said. The country’s ...
07 Apr 2015
07 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung Unions – CO2 levy could erase 100,000 jobs The additional CO2 levy on old power plants, proposed by the German government to achieve climate targets, puts up to 100,000 jobs ...
23 Aug 2018, 11:30 The German coal exit commission has set out on a tight schedule to devise a plan for phasing out the fossil power source – but shortly before its third official meeting federal states and opposition politicians have complained about a ...
04 Oct 2022, 12:14 Edgar Meza Coal Society 91tv The town of Lützerath that has become a symbolic battle ground for climate activsits in Germany will be demolished to make room for a nearby coal mine, the state government of North-Rhine ...
23 Feb 2022, 10:15 Germany has put the contentious Nord Stream 2 pipeline project on hold in reaction to Russian aggression against Ukraine. Chancellor Olaf Scholz ordered the economy ministry to halt the certification process for the already completed ...
29 Jan 2024, 14:40 Franca Quecke Adaptation Cities 91tv / idw The increase in extreme weather events is taking a toll on Germany’s urban green areas, a large-scale report by researchers from the Technical University Berlin has revealed. For ...
09 Jan 2024, 13:41 Edgar Meza Society Elections & Politics 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung / Die Welt / Dlf Former German Left Party politician Sahra Wagenknecht on 8 January officially launched her much-anticipated political party, the " ...
09 Jan 2024, 14:03 Franca Quecke Gas Security Der Spiegel / Hamburger Abendblatt The alleged sabotage of an important gas pipeline currently under construction in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein might lead to damages of at least 1.6 million euros, ...
07 Nov 2017, 00:00 As Germany’s Jamaica coalition talks are approaching a critical point, the Green Party appears to soften core climate policy demands in an attempt to achieve similar concessions from its negotiating partners. Party leaders say that ...
13 Jan 2016, 00:00 A think tank proposal on how Germany should exit coal has pushed the debate on the Energiewende's future into full swing, exposing deep fault lines. The environment ministry and Greens backed the plan for a phase-out of coal power ...
27 Sep 2022, 13:56 Julian Wettengel Electricity Gas 91tv The German government will stick to its plan to add gas power capacity in the country, despite the difficult supply situation for the fossil fuel caused by the energy crisis. “I would ...
28 Feb 2024, 12:30 Jennifer Collins Wind Business & Jobs Die Welt The management board of Siemens Energy faced down displeased shareholders looking for answers to spiralling losses from wind turbine subsidiary Siemens Gamesa at the group's annual ...
26 Sep 2022, 12:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices Die Welt / 91tv / BR An alliance of northern German states has called for a sweeping reform of the country’s power market to allow those in the north to pay lower prices due to their ...
