08 Jan 2024, 14:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Technology Dlf Alternatives to fossil fuel-based agricultural machinery are scarce and often fall behind their emissions-intensive counterparts in practical tests, says electric engineer Michael Sterner in ...
04 Jan 2024, 12:51 Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions fell around ten percent last year to the lowest level since around 1950, as a weak economy and high prices caused energy-intensive industry to lower production and electricity generation from coal ...
08 Jan 2024, 14:22 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars 91tv / electrive / Auto Motor und Sport Germany's transition to battery-electric cars slowed in 2023, data on new registrations by the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) show. ...
22 Sep 2022, 14:08 Jessica Bateman Technology EU Tagesspiegel Background The German government will propose a “European Alliance for Transformation Technologies” at an upcoming meeting of EU ministers responsible for industry policy and the internal ...
22 Sep 2022, 14:02 Jessica Bateman Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Prices for firewood and wood pellets are almost double what they were the same time last year, figures from Germany’s federal statistics office (Destatis) have shown. In August ...
13 Jul 2021, 13:07 The German energy ministry has increased the country’s estimated power needs in 2030-- a figure that will be crucial after the general elections in September, when a new government has to set renewable energy expansion targets based on ...
03 Dec 2014, 00:00 The German government has approved a package of measures to achieve its goal of reducing carbon emissions 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990. The following collection provides a snapshot of comments and reactions. Sven Egenter Climate ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:28 Ruby Russel Transport dpa / Tagesschau The cost of the 49-euro ‘Deutschlandticket’ will not rise this year, the chair of the conference of state transport ministers Oliver Krischer (North Rhine-Westphalia) told news agency dpa in an ...
18 Jan 2024, 13:21 Sören Amelang Business Society 91tv Much of today’s business reporting still ignores the dramatic impact the climate crisis has on companies, making it vulnerable to greenwashing and lagging behind institutional investors, ...
11 Jan 2024, 13:47 Franca Quecke Carbon removal Süddeutsche Zeitung Industry and environmental associations have joined forces to come out in favour of the controversial technology to store and capture CO2 for sectors where emissions cannot be avoided, ...
03 Jan 2024, 13:37 Maximising the use and potential of the existing building stock are key levers to respond to Germany's housing shortage and drive forth the decarbonisation of the buildings sector, say Sibyl Steuwer and Lisa Graaf from think tank ...
09 Oct 2017, 00:00 As Germany digests the result of this year’s federal election, the country prepares for yet another important vote, this time in the state of Lower Saxony. The early election in the country’s number one wind power state is seen as vital ...
29 Jan 2024, 13:44 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind 91tv Grid congestion due to a lack of new onshore power line connections has let the output of Germany’s offshore wind turbine fleet ...
04 Jan 2021, 14:26 The transformation of the German and European economies will become more tangible in 2021, as new technologies, policies and business models begin to have an effect, Karsten Löffler, head of sustainable finance at the Frankfurt School ...
14 Sep 2022, 13:52 Sören Amelang Coal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Readying retired German coal plants for use during the winter in case of gas shortfalls is not economically viable for the sector, Germany’s coal industry has said. The lifetime ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:30 Sören Amelang Solar Storage 91tv Germany’s boom in stationary batteries linked to solar PV systems accelerated last year, doubling the total number of units to more than one million, reports solar industry association BSW. ...
12 Sep 2022, 13:33 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out International 91tv Germany will assess Switzerland’s proposal to build a deep-underground nuclear waste site close to the border between the two countries, a German environment ministry ...
20 May 2016
20 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Institute for Renewable Energy (IWR) “Wind power overtakes nuclear energy for first time in Germany” Germany’s wind turbines will generate more electricity this year than nuclear ...
15 Jun 2016
15 Jun 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Buyer’s premium for e-cars still cannot be applied for“ Customers still cannot apply for a buyer’s premium for new e-cars after the ...
16 Feb 2015
16 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Goodbye coal” “Now the British also have their Energiewende,” Björn Finke comments on British plans to exit coal announced over the weekend. He argues London’s energy ...
08 Sep 2022, 13:43 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv The German government will expand state support for businesses faced with rising energy prices ahead of the coming winter, economy and climate minister Robert ...
03 Jan 2024, 12:09 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables Germany's lignite power production fell to the lowest level since 1963 last year, while hard coal power ...
30 Jul 2020, 13:37 The construction of new wind turbines in Germany picked up slightly again in the first six months of 2020, but expansion figures are still far too low to bolster an industry that suffered two years of steeply declining growth. As the ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:49 Edgar Meza Renewables Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The new CEO of Germany's largest energy company RWE, Markus Krebber, expressed hope that Germany’s next government will quickly clear hurdles currently ...
28 Apr 2016
28 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “A bird in the hand” The proposed fund for nuclear storage costs is in breach of some fundamental principles, writes Michael Bauchmüller in an op ...
07 Sep 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s government plans to rapidly accelerate the expansion of solar power capacity in the country with several legal changes, energy policy newsletter Tagesspiegel Background reports. ...
07 Sep 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out n-tv The German Green Party has rejected criticism from the conservative CDU/CSU opposition alliance over economy and climate minister Robert Habeck’s decision to put two of the country’s remaining ...
01 Aug 2018, 17:31 With a national “diesel summit” in early August 2017, the German government tried to curb the fallout of the country’s emissions fraud scandal and avoid being sued by the European Commission over excessive air pollution. One year on, ...
25 Jun 2021, 13:45 Edgar Meza Technology Business Insider Five green sector startups have joined forces to lobby for an “energy transition premium” of 500 euros per household for smart home devices, Business Insider’s startup news site Gründerszene ...
15 Dec 2023, 13:23 Sören Amelang Technology International 91tv Europe is heavily reliant on China in realising its green ambitions and must be prepared to pay more for the shift to climate neutrality if it wants to increase independence, ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Industry Business & Jobs Augsburger Allgemeine The head of industry chamber IHK Schwaben has warned Germany’s southern economic powerhouse Bavaria could fall behind regions in the north and east of the country ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs RND The German car industry heavily benefits from the country’s company car tax breaks, media alliance Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) reports. More than a third of all newly registered ...
02 Jan 2024, 13:05 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 91tv 2023 marked Germany's hottest year since records began in 1881, according to preliminary analyses by meteorological service DWD. The year's average temperature reached 10.6 ...
09 Dec 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 ...
25 Apr 2016
25 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv PV-magazine “EEG reform: state chamber wants exemptions for citizens’ energy” Germany’s second parliamentary chamber, which represents the 16 states, has passed a resolution ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy ZDF German economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck defended the German government’s decision to cut government support payments for energy transition and climate action projects as well as energy cost ...
01 Sep 2022, 12:12 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv The German government has presented a draft action programme worth 4 billion euros over the coming four years for moorland protection, forest projects and other natural climate action ...
01 Sep 2022, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Cost & Prices 91tv Energy imports to Germany cost 131.7 percent more in July 2022 than one year before, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said. The 223.6 percent increase in the ...
09 Jan 2024, 13:37 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Renewables Wind 91tv From January to September 2023, wind turbines fed almost 89.9 million megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity into ...
22 Dec 2017, 00:00 After a year filled with events that put Germany’s climate policy in the limelight, such as the G20 summit in Hamburg, the COP23 in Bonn, or the debate over coal in the ill-fated ‘Jamaica coalition’ talks, the country’s political life ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:05 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv A large-scale transition to using wood for building construction in "timber cities" could avoid more than 100 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the century, ...
30 Aug 2022, 13:32 Edgar Meza Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices Deutschlandfunk / Handelsblatt German economy minister Robert Habeck has laid out additional criteria for gas importing companies that seek support under the country's new gas levy ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Germany has become the first member state to join an EU scheme to support domestic renewable hydrogen production through the European Hydrogen Bank. Under the "Auctions-as-a-Service” ...
28 May 2020, 12:34 German industry and energy sector associations have welcomed the coronavirus recovery proposal presented by the European Commission. Lobby group BDI said the funds should focus on sustainability not only in regard to climate and ...
01 Jun 2016
01 Jun 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Federal government “Federal and state governments agree on key points of the Renewable Energy Act reform” State premiers and the federal government have agreed on ...
31 May 2016, 00:00 [UPDATE with new details on 2025 renewable target in paragraph 3, ads News Digest items] German Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers will meet on Tuesday to work out a compromise on reforming the core piece of legislation behind ...
20 Dec 2023, 12:49 Julian Wettengel Transport Policy Government 91tv / Table.Media The German government aims to raise the levy on passenger flights as part of a comprehensive budget package for 2024 and the following years to fill the ...
15 Jan 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Grid Renewables Der Spiegel / Golem Germany’s railway operator will test whether the power lines on its tracks can relieve the wider electricity grid, which is straining to cope with the rapid growth in renewable energy ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:24 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Bioenergy Cost & Prices 91tv The latest ...
12 Nov 2014, 00:00 After more than a decade of rising electricity prices, German utilities are passing on some of their savings from lower wholesale prices and a cut in the renewable energy surcharge. But with a number of government decisions on the next ...
23 Aug 2022, 13:29 Sören Amelang Renewables Solar 91tv Investors have shown only limited interest in Germany’s most recent call for solar installations on buildings and noise protection walls, further dampening hopes of speeding up the roll ...
08 Dec 2023, 13:30 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der ...
15 Dec 2023, 13:13 Sören Amelang Carbon market Cost & Prices Policy Zeit Online The German government might not have enough money to pass on revenues from its national carbon price to citizens as a compensation for rising climate protection costs as ...
19 Aug 2022, 12:51 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Business & Jobs WirtschaftsWoche The “terrifying” loss of twelve billion euros that Germany’s largest gas importer Uniper posted in the first six months of 2022 must be a ...
08 Dec 2023, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government 91tv Germany’s Court of Auditors has compiled a list of recommendations for the country’s government to save money in several areas, including pensions, the military, ...
16 May 2019, 08:45 Germany is set to widely miss its greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2020 and 2030 unless significant steps such as the proposed coal exit are taken. The environment ministry’s new emissions forecast shows that the country must ...
19 Aug 2022, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Tagesspiegel Background A second wholesale levy on natural gas on top of the existing gas consumption levy in Germany signals that the country’s gas trading platform Trading Hub Europe (THE) is preparing ...
17 Aug 2022, 15:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs ...
15 Aug 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv Leading members of the German government have renewed calls for perseverance and willingness to make sacrifices to beat the energy crisis, with the upcoming heating season set to drive up ...
Germany’s federal parliament has approved a controversial revamp of the country’s energy transition. The government coalition of economy minister Sigmar Gabriel’s Social Democrats and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Conservatives secured a majority vote for ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:13 Italy has just taken over the rotating presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) large democratic economies, but its positions on climate policy often remain ambiguous, says Luca Bergamaschi, co-founder of the think tank Ecco Climate. He ...
02 May 2017, 00:00 A German pilot project will hook up thousands of household batteries to balance out intermittent renewable power production. Grid operator Tennet and solar battery maker Sonnen said they will use blockchain technology to build a network ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:16 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Handelsblatt The German government’s budget crisis could be largely solved by cancelling ...
12 Aug 2022, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Utilities Rheinische Post The high earning posted by many energy companies in the current supply crisis, including Germany’s RWE, have rekindled the debate on a windfall profit tax, according to an ...
12 Aug 2022, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Efficiency 91tv An alliance of associations have called on Germany’s government to boost energy efficiency ahead of the winter, as rising prices and a looming shortage of gas affect ...
04 Dec 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Government COP28 Der Spiegel / 91tv Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has called off a planned trip to the UN climate conference COP28, due to the ongoing budget crisis that has upset the climate ...
21 Jan 2021, 11:30 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country’s 16 states and the federal parliamentary elections in September. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of ...
10 Aug 2022, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices ZDF / 91tv In the face of high inflation driven by rising energy prices, German finance minister Christian Lindner wants to relieve citizens with a tax cut of more than 10 billion euros, ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:28 Ruby Russel Grid Nuclear phase-out Storage Norddeutscher Rundfunk PreussenElektra, operator of the decommissioned Brokdorf nuclear power plant in northern German state Schleswig-Holstein, which was taken offline at the end of 2021, ...
09 Aug 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Der Spiegel Nuclear plant operators in Germany are unenthusiastic about the prospect of having to revise their long-prepared decommissioning plans despite growing calls for the extension of runtimes, ...
03 Feb 2021, 09:23 Germany won't reach its 2030 energy and climate targets at the current energy transition pace, a top government advisor has warned. A higher EU 2030 climate target means Germany will likely have to raise its national greenhouse gas ...
08 Aug 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Funke Mediengruppe Global warming could make Germany a breeding ground for mosquitos and ticks transmitting tropical diseases such as dengue fever, the president of Germany's national disease ...
04 Dec 2023, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government 91tv The governments of Germany's coastal northern states have insisted on federal funding for agreed climate projects, and ensuring that these do not become subject to ...
23 Jan 2019, 10:55 Power prices are less of a concern for some industry sectors and coal-heavyweight RWE has long been about “much more than coal” – industry representatives offered an unusual take on the German coal exit debate in a panel discussion ...
05 Aug 2022, 13:53 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt Industry lobby groups in Germany have called on environment ...
11 Dec 2023, 13:24 Sören Amelang Coal dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung East German coal mine operator LEAG has said it expects to extract lignite from its opencast pits past 2030, even though the government hopes to exit coal by that date. “We are very ...
04 Aug 2022, 14:05 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Hannah Naylor EU Security RND / Deutschlandfunk / 91tv NGOs ...
20 Dec 2023, 10:40 Money that Germany has earmarked for climate action should be spent on projects that have a direct impact on key sectors, says Claudia Kemfert from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). The economist warns against cross ...
06 May 2021, 12:12 The German government has presented its strategy to make the country a global leader in sustainable finance and help mobilise money for greening the economy. The Sustainable Finance Strategy proposes a “traffic light” system to identify ...
03 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
05 Dec 2023, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv Brazil and Germany have agreed to intensify cooperation on a wide range of environmental and economic issues. The two countries vowed to work more closely on topics ...
29 Jul 2022, 12:22 Hannah Naylor Coal Electricity market Freight WirtschaftsWoche In an attempt to maintain electricity production whilst gas deliveries continue to tighten, transport capacities in Germany, particularly rail, are struggling to keep up ...
28 Mar 2022, 10:56 A complete disruption of energy trading between Russia and the rest of Europe would have grave consequences for the economies of Germany and other EU countries, says energy and security policy expert Kirsten Westphal. If the flow of gas ...
03 Jan 2024, 12:18 Sören Amelang Renewables Solar 91tv More than one million new solar power systems were installed in Germany last year, an all-time record, according to the country’s solar industry association BSW. The new arrays had a ...
20 Dec 2023, 12:53 Ruby Russel Renewables EU 91tv German industry associations have welcomed a decision by EU energy ministers to extend temporary measures to reduce dependence on Russian gas and protect EU energy consumers from price spikes ...
28 Jul 2022, 12:25 Sören Amelang Society Tagesspiegel Background Far-right extremists in Germany have started to mobilise for a “hot autumn” of protests against soaring energy prices on social media, reports energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
18 Dec 2023, 13:30 Sören Amelang Mobility Cars Policy 91tv The German government has abruptly ended its electric car subsidy programme in the wake of last week’s agreement on savings to overcome the budget crisis. The economy and climate ...
11 Dec 2023, 13:31 Sören Amelang Adaptation dpa Climate change has particularly severe impacts on mountains across the globe, as glaciers disappear, dangerous rockslides and avalanches become more likely, and biodiversity decreases, Swiss researchers have ...
15 Jan 2015, 00:00 German trade unions are vocal stakeholders in the Energiewende, wary of job losses in the conventional energy sector and campaigning for labour rights in the growing renewables sector. Their importance is amplified by their traditional ...
15 Dec 2015, 00:00 The widely celebrated Paris Agreement has intensified the debate about how Germany can achieve its endangered climate targets. Most commentators and climate activists argued the results of the climate summit vindicated demands that ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:01 The Social Democrats- emerging from a legislative period with a “great deal of dissent” in energy policy with its conservative coalition partner- are hoping to find new partners and new ways to drive forward the expansion of renewable ...
19 Dec 2014
19 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv taz “The blind spot has to go“ It is good and important that the future of coal power in Germany is finally being discussed, Patrick Graichen, head of the Berlin based think-tank Agora Energiewende ...
21 Jul 2022, 14:10 Edgar Meza Cars Handelsblatt German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) and the business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) have rejected a Green Party-backed proposal for a climate levy on new combustion engine cars, ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:32 Ruby Russel Cost & Prices Society 91tv More than half of Germans say they are “very” or “extremely” concerned about climate change, but there is also widespread concern over the costs of the energy transition, with 55 ...
21 Jul 2022, 14:12 Edgar Meza Gas EU 91tv German policymakers and utilities have welcomed a European Commission proposal asking EU member states to adopt voluntary measures to reduce gas consumption amid fears of Russia cutting off ...
20 Jul 2022, 15:19 Hannah Naylor Cars Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Germany's climate and economy ministry (BMWK) has released a strategy paper suggesting that a climate levy for new registrations of combustion engine cars could help e-cars become ...
20 Jul 2022, 14:02 Hannah Naylor Coal Transport n-tv Low river levels across Germany, including on the Rhine, are threatening the supply of shipped materials such as coal, chemicals and gravel, reports n-tv. The drought comes at a time when demand is ...
30 Nov 2023, 13:07 Edgar Meza Electricity Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany’s budget crisis has forced economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck to postpone his ministry’s long-awaited power plant strategy, Handelsblatt reports. Ministry sources ...
08 Apr 2021, 12:37 Julian Wettengel Cars Tagesspiegel / The Driven U.S. e-car company Tesla has criticised that slow approval processes for German industry and infrastructure projects stand in the way of urgent climate action efforts, as the carmaker ...
18 Jul 2022, 13:33 Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv Germany’s push for energy independence triggered by the Ukraine war could boost the country’s emission reduction efforts in the medium term, as well as economic growth and ...
30 Oct 2014
30 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Der Tagesspiegel "Vattenfall wants to sell lignite operations" The Tagesspiegel reports that Swedish government-owned utility Vattenfall is looking to sell its German lignite mining and ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Security 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The European Commission has given the greenlight for a German government scheme supporting energy intensive industries grappling with the rise in prices exacerbated ...
15 Jul 2022, 12:10 Hannah Naylor Transport Cost & Prices 91tv The Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) has proposed a permanent 69-euro ticket for citizens to use local and regional public transport across the country as a way ...
13 Jul 2022, 12:03 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Heating Government 91tv German government ministries have launched a set of immediate action programmes that are to ensure emission reductions in the laggard buildings and transport sectors ...
27 Nov 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Finance Policy Deutschlandfunk / Tagesspiegel / 91tv Germany's finance minister Christian Lindner has announced that price subsidies for electricity and gas introduced during the ...
14 Jul 2022, 12:22 Kerstine Appunn Jessica Bateman Carbon removal 91tv German company Novocarbo has announced it is building and implementing the country’s first network of "carbon removal parks". In a press release, the Hamburg ...
08 Sep 2022, 12:00 Current "climate neutral" product claims may be flawed, but they are a clear sign that companies realise that consumers want climate action, argues Jens Burchardt, the Boston Consulting Group's global expert on climate ...
30 Nov 2023, 13:10 Edgar Meza Renewables EU 91tv In order to increase the market share of European manufacturers in the renewable energy sector, wind turbines and photovoltaic (PV) roof systems could receive more funding if they are produced ...
12 Jul 2022, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Germany’s government is expected to adopt a regulation on 13 July that would allow operators of certain hard coal plants to temporarily reactivate their units to help ...
08 Dec 2023, 13:38 Julian Wettengel International COP28 91tv The challenge to reach an agreement on phasing out fossil fuels is going to be the toughest nut to crack at the ongoing UN climate change conference COP28 in Dubai, said German ...
19 Dec 2023, 13:25 Jack McGovan Transport Policy Süddeutsche Zeitung The German government’s decision to cut its climate budget by 45 billion euros over the next three years could put the country’s ‘Deutschlandticket’ at risk, the transport minister for ...
12 Dec 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid 91tv With several years of delay, construction of a key piece of grid infrastructure in Germany has started in the southern state of Bavaria. The SuedOstLink connection built by grid operator TenneT ...
05 Dec 2023, 13:34 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs EU 91tv The renewable energy sector offers promising opportunities for economically disadvantaged rural regions in the European Union that could not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions but ...
08 Jul 2022, 12:31 Hannah Naylor Finance International 91tv The economy ministry (BMWK) is channelling an additional 126 million euros into the International Climate Initiative (IKI) in order to support decarbonisation efforts in emerging and ...
08 Jul 2022, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Gas Nuclear phase-out EU ZDF / 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz has criticised the decision to include nuclear energy in the EU taxonomy for sustainable investments, but emphasised that Germany would need ...
06 Jul 2022, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 G20 & G7 Handelsblatt The concept of an international climate club of nations which agree to cooperate on higher climate policy standards could lose drive before it is even launched due to the ...
29 Nov 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Policy EU Table.Media The consequences of Germany's current budget struggles will have implications on the European Union, but the extent of the impact will depend on decisions taken by the ruling coalition ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:51 Edgar Meza Renewables Tageszeitung / 91tv Germany’s hydropower sector is up in arms over the federal government’s plan to stop the subsidisation of small hydroelectric power plants due to nature conservation concerns, ...
05 Jul 2022, 12:40 Possible state support for energy company Uniper – Europe’s largest buyer of Russian fossil gas – is justified because an insolvency would trigger a domino effect and shake up the entire German gas industry, says energy analyst Andreas ...
18 Sep 2018, 18:50 The country’s coal exit commission said there were no predetermined decisions regarding a date for the end to coal-fired power generation. Following irritation about reports of a supposed compromise on a 2038 end date, economy minister ...
04 Jul 2022, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU Der Tagesspiegel The EU has to come up with a clear and stringent solidarity mechanism to prepare for a shortfall of Russian gas deliveries next winter to avoid repeating mistakes made in cooperation at the ...
27 Apr 2015, 00:00 The environment ministry has rebuffed utilities’ criticism of the planned levy for coal-fired power plants and maintains the sector shoulder its share of cutting CO2 emissions. Government and researchers stress the need for efficiency ...
22 Nov 2023, 12:39 Jack McGovan Cars Spiegel German chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to meet with heads of the car industry this coming Monday to discuss electric vehicle targets as part of the country’s plans to move away from fossil fuels, reports Spiegel. ...
17 Dec 2020, 10:40 Battery-electric trucks will hit Europe's roads in large numbers soon, but catenary systems could also play an important role in the decarbonisation of heavy-duty freight transport if governments now push the technology by building ...
27 Oct 2015
27 Oct 2015, 00:00 CORRECTION- Vattenfall's underlying operating profit was 3,388 million SEK in the third quarter of 2015, not 3,388 billion. Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Vattenfall 3rd quarter results / Two 500 MW lignite units will be ...
30 Jun 2022, 13:25 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Resources & Recycling 91tv ...
15 Dec 2023, 13:16 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv In its latest auction for onshore wind turbines, Germany failed to secure enough investment deals to ensure the rollout of the technology proceeds with sufficient speed to reach renewable ...
10 Nov 2023, 10:15 Germany’s ruling coalition has reached a deal on how to support industry struggling with high electricity prices in the coming five years. The package of measures, worth 12 billion euros in 2024 alone, includes lowering the electricity ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:31 To help the world get on a path that ensures the global temperature rise is limited to 1.5°C, Germany has presented a new strategy to coordinate its climate foreign policy efforts across all ministries. The government unveiled the long ...
24 Nov 2023, 13:37 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv Germany’s network of charging points for electric cars is growing rapidly, according to utility association BDEW. “As of 1 October, 113,112 public charging points with a total of 5.2 gigawatts (GW) ...
27 Jun 2022, 14:23 Kerstine Appunn International Security 91tv The G7 leaders should agree on import tariffs on Russian oil and gas at their summit in Elmau, according to researchers from the economic institute IfW Kiel. "A tariff ...
17 Nov 2023, 13:21 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices Policy ntv / Zeit Online The German government has extended its subsidies to essentially cap gas and electricity prices, and a lower value added tax rate on the fuels to shield consumers from excessive ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:01 Expert Vattenfall Energy company Electricity market Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Grid 91tv The Moorburg coal plant in Hamburg will be taken offline completely in July 2021, after Germany's four grid operators ...
10 Nov 2015
10 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Renewable Energy Prospects: Germany A new IRENA report “Renewable Energy Prospects Germany” examines the country’s energy transition in the last ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:57 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Government Der Spiegel The plans to comprehensively modernise and expand Germany’s national railway company Deutsche Bahn could take ...
27 Jun 2022, 13:57 Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv Germany’s federal parliament (Bundestag) has passed a first batch of energy legislation, designed to accelerate the expansion of the power grid and protect consumers from rising energy prices when ...
23 Apr 2015
23 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv ZDF heute.de “Climate levy on coal: Gabriel puts his foot down” With pressure and criticism from coalition partner CDU-CSU increasing, Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel has defended his ...
17 Jan 2020, 13:36 German media commentators have mixed views on the coal exit path fixed by the federal government, mining states and utilities. While some call it a “historic” deal that could make Germany a global role model, others say it turned out to ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:36 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Coal Renewables 91tv Germany generated 47.3 percent less electricity from coal-fired power plants in the third quarter of 2023 ...
22 Jun 2022, 13:09 Edgar Meza Storage Cars Resources & Recycling 91tv Researchers and environmentalists from Germany and several African nations are calling for clear rules and improved controls to better regulate the export of used e-car ...
10 Nov 2023, 13:19 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Industry 91tv Energy consumption in Germany’s industry dropped 9.1 percent in 2022 compared to the previous year, ...
22 Jun 2022, 14:29 Edgar Meza Gas Security Die Welt, Bloomberg The German government looks set to move its national gas emergency plan to "alarm" level, Die Welt and Bloomberg report. Germany has been at the “early warning” stage since March 30 ...
20 Jun 2022, 12:29 Sören Amelang Cars Cost & Prices Zeit Online / Handelsblatt German finance minister Christian Lindner has called for ending government subsidies for all electric cars. “We simply cannot afford misguided subsidies anymore," the ...
20 Jun 2022, 12:32 Sören Amelang Gas dpa Germany’s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has rejected a suggestion by the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) to allow the controversial fracking method to exploit unused natural gas deposits in the ...
01 Apr 2020, 15:11 Germany produced more than half of its electricity with renewable power in the first three months of 2020, the first full quarter in which renewables covered the majority of the country’s electricity needs. The numbers were driven by ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Business Industry Reuters / n-tv The German state and a number of banks have agreed to support Siemens’ financially struggling subsidiary Siemens Energy with guarantees of about 12 billion euros, news agency Reuters ...
15 Jun 2020, 09:20 While geothermal energy is a viable alternative to curb emissions for heating and cooling, fears and high costs have limited its expansion. But Bavaria and now Baden Wurttemberg are forging ahead. The potential of geothermal energy, ...
05 Jun 2020, 15:13 The German government coalition has decided to reboot Europe's largest economy with a 130 billion euros stimulus package that contains many steps to further the country's landmark energy transition. The 91tv ...
17 Jun 2022, 14:15 Sören Amelang Renewables Business & Jobs Handelsblatt / 91tv Germans strive for energy independence in droves, but a lack of skilled workers and long delivery times for heat pumps, solar panels and batteries put a break ...
16 Jun 2022, 13:22 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Finance 91tv The German government last year approved 1.31 billion euros in funding for research related to the country’s energy transition, according to the federal environment ministry. As ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv The share of newly registered battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) in Germany has jumped by nearly 38 percent in the first ten months of 2023, compared to the same period last year. ...
16 Jun 2022, 13:20 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry EU 91tv Despite high CO2 prices, emissions from coal-fired power stations in Germany have nearly reached pre-pandemic levels, according to a report published by the German Emissions ...
22 Nov 2023, 12:46 Jack McGovan Renewables Energiewende 91tv Although there are positive signs in the expansion of renewable energies, electric cars and heat pumps, new figures made available by the Ariadne project show progress in the German ...
08 Nov 2023, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Freight 91tv The German road freight sector’s shift towards climate neutrality is being complicated by framework conditions, a group of industry associations and lorry producers have warned in a ...
15 Nov 2023, 11:45 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Finance 91tv Climate protection investments by German companies rose by 18 percent in real terms in 2022 to 72 billion euros, said KfW, a government-owned development ...
29 Nov 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv / Berliner Morgenpost In 2022, 5.5 million people in Germany felt they were financially unable to keep their home adequately warm, according to figures by statistical office ...
08 Nov 2023, 14:13 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen International Handelsblatt Norwegian shipping company Höegh LNG is set to convert its floating liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals in Germany to import hydrogen starting 2028, the company's CEO, Erik ...
17 Jun 2021, 12:00 As the German election campaign kicks into its next gear, the chancellor candidates of the country’s major parties met face to face on Wednesday to discuss climate and energy issues at an event organised by energy industry association ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:30 Edgar Meza Solar Wind n-tv Despite Germany’s increased focus on renewable energy following its decoupling from Russian energy sources in the wake of the war on Ukraine, high inflation and other economic developments have thrown the wind ...
01 Nov 2023, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Cost & Prices Policy 91tv The German government has greenlit a subsidy worth 5.5 billion euros to go towards grid fees in 2024 in a bid to cushion the impact of rising electricity prices on ...
07 Nov 2023, 13:05 Edgar Meza Hydrogen International 91tv The German government is supporting the establishment of Africa’s first green ironworks with a grant of 13 million euros. A consortium consisting of three German companies, CO2Grab, TS ...
07 Jun 2022, 13:08 Kerstine Appunn Wind 91tv The May tender for building new onshore wind capacity in Germany has attracted fewer bidders than expected, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. After two rounds of oversubscribed auctions ...
02 Feb 2015
02 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “From nuclear proponent to power line opponent” In 2008 Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer said that extending the run-time of Germany’s nuclear power stations was " ...
03 Jun 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance International WirtschaftsWoche A plan by the U.S. securities markets control authority SEC to tighten the rules for labelling financial products as sustainable could bring further trouble to German asset ...
01 Nov 2023, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger / 91tv Germany's finance minister Christian Lindner has rejected a coal phase out by 2030 if the country lacks affordable energy, newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported. ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:30 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Heating 91tv One in every ...
30 May 2018, 00:00 Germany struggles to get its highly anticipated coal exit task force on track. The government on Wednesday postponed at the last minute the official launch of the phase-out commission for the third time. The quarrels over the commission ...
02 Nov 2023, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency 91tv Primary energy consumption is likely to hit a record low this year as Germany’s economy remains weak, according to a forecast by energy data service AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). Energy ...
25 May 2022, 13:36 Sören Amelang Wind Security RND / 91tv Germany wants to increase international cooperation on making the Baltic Sea an important location for offshore wind generation. The country plans to use its one-year presidency of the ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Freight 91tv Catenary trucks powered by overhead lines represent an option for clean freight transport, yet setting up the required infrastructure on German motorways would be "technically possible, but very ...
27 Aug 2018, 14:30 Germany’s current boom in residential solar batteries has profound effects on the Energiewende (energy transition), says Kai-Philipp Kairies, director of technical consulting at RWTH Aachen University, one of Germany’s largest technical ...
26 Oct 2023, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Digitalisation 91tv Blockchain, one of the world's largest electricity consumers, could significantly reduce its power needs through conscious network design, according to a report by the German ...
09 May 2016
09 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel Agora Energiewende Preliminary data suggests renewable record in Germany Strong winds and sun all over Germany might have pushed renewable power production to a new record share on Sunday. Renewable ...
15 Mar 2016
15 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Was the nuclear phase-out unconstitutional?” Germany’s Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe will on Tuesday and Wednesday hear parties in the case of the country’s nuclear phase ...
24 Oct 2023, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices 91tv The electricity price for industry in Germany is within the European average, but the price in key competitive neighbouring markets such as France are “significantly lower,” ...
20 May 2022, 13:44 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg ...
18 May 2022, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv / FAZ There will be no fixed shutdown sequence with regard to individual consumers or sectors in case of a stop or stark reduction of gas supply from Russia, the Federal Network Agency ...
06 Nov 2023, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Finance Handelsblatt Raising private capital to fund the fast expansion of Germany’s solar power capacity could face difficulties due to regulatory challenges in taxation law, fund manager association BVI said in ...
20 Oct 2023, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling 91tv The German government wants to strengthen the role of recycled raw materials in the country's industry in a bid to increase supply security of metals and industrial ...
29 Jan 2019, 15:02 Following a sharp drop in new onshore wind power installations in Germany in 2018, the industry warns that mounting resistance against new turbines endangers a sufficient supply of renewable energy demanded by industry and national ...
17 May 2022, 12:36 Edgar Meza Agriculture Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Federal agriculture minister Cem Özdemir has presented several proposals to protect Germany’s forests, including more funding to land owners to introduce climate ...
24 May 2017, 00:00 Days before the G7 summit in Italy, foreign governments praised German Chancellor Merkel for her international leadership on climate and urged her to sway US President Donald Trump to keep the United States in the Paris Agreement. ...
01 Nov 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv People in Germany are increasingly doubtful that the country will achieve its 2030 climate targets, from the expansion of renewable energy to the growth of electric vehicles on the country& ...
26 Oct 2018, 10:47 As Germany’s federal government parties, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU camp and the Social Democrats (SPD), suffer from voter flight due to the coalition’s constant quarrels, the Green Party emerges as one of the big ...
23 Dec 2020, 13:43 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Kerstine Appunn Grid Storage Cars ...
22 Dec 2020, 12:28 Edgar Meza Wind Spiegel Online / 91tv Germany’s Green Party is ready to accept exceptions to nature conservation in order to accelerate the expansion of wind farms, Valerie Höhne writes in Spiegel Online, citing a Green ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:53 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Jack McGovan Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Clean ...
12 May 2022, 14:00 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Edgar Meza Renewables Wind 91tv Germany’s 16 federal states have sufficient space ...
25 Oct 2023, 12:51 Julian Wettengel Wind EU 91tv German energy industry players have welcomed a European Union package of proposals to strengthen the bloc’s wind power industry. The main goal of the measures in the package should be to ...
13 May 2022, 12:18 Sören Amelang Gas Die Zeit Environmental NGOs warn that leaving the unused Nord Stream 2 pipeline at the bottom of the Baltic Sea could cause environmental damages, but legal uncertainties mean it’s unclear what will happen to the 11 ...
11 May 2022, 13:10 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche ...
03 Nov 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Politics Der Spiegel Climate action and the transformation of the economy are no “exceptional emergencies” that warrant a suspension of Germany’s cap on government lending, finance minister Christian Lindner wrote in ...
22 Mar 2016
22 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “To inflate or to die” Nordex, the small Danish wind turbine manufacturer, has confirmed the takeover of the wind branch of the Spanish group Acconia. The cartel ...
09 Jan 2019, 10:45 Energy and climate policy has played a notable role in recent elections in Germany, where public opinion is split over the course of the country's coal exit and diesel emissions in inner cities, says Michael Schäfer, head of ...
30 Oct 2023, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv About a fifth (22%) of people in Germany know their personal "carbon footprint", with younger people more likely to engage with the topic than older ones, shows an ...
04 Jan 2016
04 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv E.ON Separation of E.ON and Uniper operations completed Effective 1 January 2016 E.ON has completed separation of operations from its planned spin-off Uniper. E.ON will focus on renewables, energy ...
08 Apr 2015
08 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Communal utilities sound the alarm” Low electricity prices at the power exchange and the dominance of renewable energies mean many communal utilities are now unprofitable, according ...
06 May 2022, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Finance 91tv Germany’s designated climate action budget – the Energy and Climate Fund (KTF) – isn’t big enough to fully cover the necessary climate-friendly transformation costs, ...
24 Nov 2015
24 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Carl Morris 91tv 91tv ZDF / Süddeutsche Zeitung / Allianz “Allianz quits coal financing” German insurance company Allianz will no longer invest in companies that get more than 30 percent of their revenue ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas Handelsblatt The German government is considering allowing old coal power plants to remain on standby beyond the currently planned spring 2024 to help save gas and ensure supply security when necessary, ...
04 May 2022, 13:54 Sören Amelang Cities Der Tagesspiegel Berlin's city government has rejected a popular petition calling for Germany's capital to become climate neutral by 2030, reports regional newspaper Tagesspiegel. "We must now use ...
18 Aug 2018, 20:13 Russia and Germany are set to proceed with the completion of a second natural gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea between the two countries. At a meeting with Russian President Putin near Berlin, German Chancellor Merkel sought to dispel ...
24 Oct 2023, 13:35 Jack McGovan Grid Wind Tagesspiegel Background Onshore grid bottlenecks in northwest Germany have led to a quarter of offshore wind power generation being curtailed in the first three months of 2023, reports Tagesspiegel Background ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Zeit Online / 91tv Geothermal energy is a key tool for reaching climate neutrality and could cover 40 percent of Germany's heating needs, the head of the country's geothermal association ...
17 Mar 2016
17 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Environment Agency (UBA) Emissions data 2015 – 6 million tonnes more CO2 2015 has seen a slight increase in greenhouse gas emissions, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) reports. According ...
03 May 2021, 10:50 The batteries used in electric cars will quickly become more sustainable, and many concerns about their CO2 footprint are overblown, says Hans Eric Melin, founder and managing director of London-based consultancy Circular Energy ...
07 Nov 2023, 12:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Electricity Security 91tv Germany saw a slight drop in ...
12 Oct 2023, 11:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Resources & Recycling 91tv Making greater use of old electric vehicle (EV) batteries could greatly help reduce waste and stabilise the power grid in the shift towards renewable power, the ...
28 Apr 2022, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Wind Süddeutsche Zeitung The parliamentary group of the ruling conservative CSU in Bavaria has come out in favour of relaxing the strict wind power turbine distance rules in the southern German state, reports ...
28 Apr 2022, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Cars Security 91tv Europe’s largest motoring association ADAC has called on its members to save fuel and take the bicycle wherever possible to help reduce the reliance on Russian oil imports. In an open ...
26 Apr 2022, 12:40 Edgar Meza Coal Tagesspiegel Long-term plans to transform Germany’s brown coal (lignite) mining regions are taking shape, with investments being prepared for the establishment of two scientific research centres that could focus on ...
22 Apr 2022, 12:37 Sören Amelang Cars Company climate claims 91tv The Volkswagen Group aims to cut CO2 emissions from car production much faster than previously planned. The world's second largest carmaker raised its targets for 2030 ...
20 Oct 2023, 13:25 The German government has been urged to quickly devise a plan on how to regulate and manage the start of the European Union carbon emissions trading system for transport and heating fuels in 2027. Measures need to be put in place to ...
19 Apr 2022, 13:33 Kerstine Appunn Gas Funke Mediengruppe Sourcing more natural gas domestically by using fracking is still not an option for Germany, even in the light of an ensuing energy shortage if Russian gas supplies stopped flowing, economy and ...
19 Apr 2022, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Gas Elections & Politics 91tv / FAZ / Welt am Sonntag / t-online Leading German politicians have called for a probe into the role played by Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's state premier Manuela ...
19 Apr 2022, 13:37 Kerstine Appunn Gas Handelsblatt The German finance ministry has approved the spending of up to three billion euros from the budget to finance floating terminals for liquified natural gas (LNG) in German ports. With the signing of the ...
16 Oct 2017, 00:00 Not far from Germany's largest brown coal mine, the United Nations’ 23rd COP climate summit will take place in Bonn. While implementing the Paris Agreement will take centre stage under the presidency of Fiji, the host country ...
16 Oct 2023, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Society 91tv The amount of meat being eaten in Germany per year is dropping and people think more about what impact their dietary choices have on the environment and climate, according to the ...
13 Oct 2023, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities Heating 91tv The largest river-based heat pump in Germany has started operations in the southern city of Mannheim. It will use water from the Rhine River to heat some 3,500 households, the local ...
26 Sep 2017, 00:00 Germans have handed Chancellor Angela Merkel a fourth term in the country’s federal election. Most likely, Merkel will have to start talks with the Free Democrats (FDP) and the Green Party to form a so-called "Jamaica coalition, ...
14 Apr 2022, 12:41 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility Institut für Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilität Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv The EU should review its planned ...
14 Apr 2022, 12:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Government Handelsblatt Business leaders in Germany are reacting with relief that the country’s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck from the Green Party is putting economic stability in the ...
13 Apr 2022, 13:55 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 91tv Greenhouse gas emission intensity, i.e. carbon emissions in relation to gross domestic product (GDP), last year increased in Germany for the first time since 2013, the Expert Council ...
10 Jan 2022, 12:20 Without the anti-nuclear movement, the energy transition in Germany would likely look different. But despite a strong focus on fighting nuclear power, the civil society movement that marked the rise of the Green Party has always had the ...
11 Jul 2019, 13:33 The shift to a low-carbon future is turning the economy inside out. Policy has a crucial role to play, but ultimately it is businesses that will make the energy transition happen. In Energiewende home country Germany, many start-ups are ...
16 Nov 2023, 13:52 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv The expansion of green hydrogen production efforts Germany is slowing down, says a report commissioned by utility E.ON. “The hydrogen generation capacity planned by 2030 has risen from 8.1 ...
27 Jun 2018, 16:59 Germany will likely fail on many of its self-imposed energy transition targets, says the government-appointed expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German Energiewende in its opinion on the federal economy ...
02 Oct 2023, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Policy EU 91tv Solar PV companies and several German states have agreed on a 10-point action plan to protect and strengthen the country’s solar power industry in order to ensure the planned large ...
08 Apr 2022, 14:13 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & ...
08 Apr 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU Focus Online The Desertec project- which caused a hype in the German solar power industry around 2010 but was later largely abandoned due to unclear political and economic perspectives- is being resurrected ...
08 Apr 2022, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security 91tv / Bloomberg The embargo on Russian coal agreed by the EU will be “temporarily unpleasant but tolerable” for the German economy, Karen Pittel from the Institute for Economic Research (ifo ...
16 Oct 2023, 13:33 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices Society 91tv A large majority of Germans are worried that the ongoing rise in everyday costs will erode their standard of living, according to a survey by insurer R+V. "People feel their ...
11 Oct 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Construction 91tv Germany must set a good example worldwide when it comes to construction with timber, agriculture minister Cem Özdemir said during the " Charter for Wood 2 ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society WirtschaftsWoche The renewed push for renewable energy expansion in Germany leaves no more room for the NIMBY (not in my backyard) mentality that has long stalled the buildout of wind turbines, solar ...
28 Sep 2023, 13:52 Sören Amelang Transport Cars Handelsblatt The German government has spent a total of 9.5 billion euros to subsidise the purchase of two million electric cars, reports business daily Handelsblatt. The Federal Office for Economic Affairs ...
04 Apr 2022, 14:04 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Tenants living in well-insulated homes in Germany will have to shoulder the lion’s share of their CO2 costs for heating, while landlords must cover most of the bill in ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Solar Tagesspiegel Background The parliamentary groups of the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) and Green Party consider supporting the rebuilding of Germany’s domestic solar industry through measures such as clauses that ...
27 Oct 2017, 00:00 Germany’s future energy and climate policy has proven the expected difficult issue in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s effort to form a government coalition of her conservatives, the Free Democrats, and the Green Party. According to media ...
26 Sep 2023, 12:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Heating costs in Germany increased by up to 81 percent during the winter of 2022, an analysis conducted by non-profit consultancy co2online has found. At a time when the ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cars Policy dpa / Reuters / BR Only one day after opening a state support programme for installing solar panels for charging electric vehicles (EVs), Germany’s national development bank KfW closed the application ...
30 Mar 2022, 14:45 Germany must decide which companies are considered crucial enough to receive gas in case of a shortage caused by Russian supply cuts, Kerstin Andreae, head of energy industry association BDEW told 91tv. Andreae welcomed ...
30 Mar 2022, 13:52 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association ...
30 Mar 2022, 13:49 Germany has triggered the first stage of its national gas supply emergency plan over fears that Russia might soon cut supplies if it doesn't receive payments from foreign buyers in roubles. The government called on all consumers to ...
29 Mar 2022, 14:07 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Kerstine Appunn Renewables Wind 91tv Having announced higher renewables targets ...
16 Mar 2016
16 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau “Verdi lets go of pro-coal attitude” Trade union Verdi is open to more climate action and a coal exit before 2050, board member Andreas Scheidt told the Frankfurter Rundschau. ...
16 Aug 2016, 00:00 The rise of volatile wind and solar power in the share of Germany’s electricity generation means that keeping the grid stable becomes an ever more complex – and potentially costly – task. Predicting how many renewable megawatts will be ...
27 Nov 2019, 15:35 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she disapproves of the European Investment Bank’s decision to ban funding for natural gas projects by the end of 2021, several days after the German government had agreed to the new guidelines. ...
17 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 ...
02 May 2019, 11:32 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
28 Sep 2020, 14:12 Sören Amelang Finance 91tv The German government is urging Europe's financial sector to see the shift to a more sustainable economy as a major business opportunity. "Transforming the economy towards greater ...
22 Mar 2022, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Tagesspiegel Background The European gas infrastructure would have to be changed quickly and extensively to be able to maintain supply in the event of an embargo or export ban on supplies from Russia, but ...
21 Mar 2022, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Die Welt The lack of skilled workers to install wind turbines, build train tracks or install heat pumps is a major hurdle to German government plans to transform the country’s economy in line with ...
03 May 2021, 12:59 The landmark ruling from Germany’s top court has catapulted climate to the top of the political debate as government coalition partners shifted into election campaign mode, blamed each other for shortcomings of the country’s Climate ...
26 Sep 2023, 13:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Efficiency 91tv / ARD Construction industry representatives have welcomed the German government’s new housing package that will suspend the planned tightening of energy efficiency ...
14 Mar 2017, 00:00 The Chief of the Federal Chancellery, Peter Altmaier, threw his weight behind Germany's self-imposed plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, after calling national climate targets the "wrong path" last week. Germany will ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv Improving circular economy principles for the use of steel, cement and plastics could help Germany’s energy-intensive industries reduce their greenhouse gas ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:46 Edgar Meza Mobility Transport dpa Around a third of subscribers to Germany's flat-rate public transport ticket (Deutschlandticket) said that they leave their car home more often since purchasing the subscription, according to a ...
18 Mar 2022, 13:45 Sören Amelang Gas Policy Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Gas storage operators and Germany's energy industry have warned that the economy and climate ministry's law proposal aimed at ensuring sufficient gas supply ...
09 Oct 2017, 00:00 Leading Green politicians in Germany are optimistic an agreement to improve the country’s patchy climate record is possible in likely coalition talks with Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the free-market FDP. Despite major ideological ...
11 Oct 2023, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Company climate claims 91tv About one in four companies classified as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany has compiled its own sustainability report in recent years, technical ...
16 Mar 2022, 13:31 Sören Amelang Renewables Solar Utilities 91tv Germany must urgently and massively step up the rollout of solar power in order to become more independent from Russian energy imports and reach its climate targets, the country ...
12 Oct 2023, 12:11 Jack McGovan Renewables Wind dpa / Stuttgarter Zeitung Germany has added 50 percent more new wind power capacity in the first nine months of 2023 than in the same time period last year, reports news agency dpa in an article published by ...
16 Mar 2022, 13:37 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv The establishment of U.S. carmaker Tesla will likely lead to the emergence of an electromobility cluster in Germany’s Berlin-Brandenburg region that could benefit from the numerous small and medium ...
20 Nov 2023, 14:48 Sören Amelang Hydrogen NDR One of Europe’s first plants to produce green hydrogen on a large scale in northern Germany has been scrapped due to high construction costs, reports public broadcaster NDR. The investors – a consortium that ...
16 Oct 2023, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Politics Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung / 91tv / dpa The vice president of the parliamentary group of the Social Democrats (SPD), part of Germany's ruling coalition, has spoken out against ...
15 Mar 2022, 13:54 Edgar Meza Coal Nuclear phase-out 91tv In the face of soaring energy prices, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, people in Germany are increasingly in favour of nuclear power if it can reduce costs, according to a survey ...
14 Mar 2022, 13:47 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices Policy dpa / Der Spiegel The German government plans a new relief package to help consumers cope with rising energy prices. The price increases overburden many people, Green economy and climate minister ...
17 Dec 2015, 00:00 [UPDATES with comments from VKU] German politicians, climate activists, scientists and media celebrated the "historic" Paris climate agreement. Some business associations as well as activists pointed to flaws of the deal, and ...
10 Mar 2022, 13:22 Sören Amelang International EU The European Parliament and the EU member states must insist on improvements to the European Commission's insufficient plans for emission reduction to rapidly make the bloc more independent from ...
29 Dec 2015
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Sven Egenter Spiegel Online “Hendricks criticises massive rise in electricity exports” Germany’s environment minister Barbara Hendricks is concerned about the country’s CO2 emissions, writes Stefan Schultz at Spiegel Online ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Society Government 91tv Public opinion on climate action in Germany is highly polarised, with a large part of society (56%) wishing for more climate action and around a quarter (24%) denying human-caused ...
24 Oct 2023, 13:25 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Heating dpa Half of those living in Germany don’t want to use less energy to heat their homes than they did last year, with most arguing that they've already made all of the cuts they can, reports ...
25 Mar 2015
25 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Institute for Applied Ecology / Friends of the Earth Germany Exit from lignite possible by 2030 Germany’s national and regional climate goals imply that lignite mining will have to stop much ...
02 May 2018, 00:00 Josef Kallo, director of the Institute for Energy Conversion and Storage at Ulm University and coordinator of the Research Group Energy Systems Integration at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), says electric flight is not just a distant ...
28 Nov 2023, 14:36 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Business Finance 91tv German industry is increasingly investing in climate protection measures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28 ...
07 Mar 2022, 14:19 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Expert ...
18 Apr 2019, 15:15 Germany must make “enormous efforts” to reach its climate and energy targets in the transport and buildings sectors, according to a draft of the government’s 2019 progress report on the energy transition. The leaked paper includes new ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:34 Edgar Meza Adaptation Cities Table.Media The German government has called for municipalities to prepare risk analyses on the expected impacts of climate change throughout Germany. In an interview with Table.Media, environment minister ...
04 Jan 2022, 08:37 German ministers have criticised EU plans to label nuclear energy as a sustainable investment, but the government coalition is split on also including fossil gas in the taxonomy. Finance minister Christian Lindner of the pro-business ...
28 Sep 2023, 13:50 Sören Amelang Policy dpa A large part of the country’s revenue from the increasing national carbon price on fuel for transport and heating could be passed on to the country’s citizens from 2025, said finance minister Christian Lindner. ...
18 Oct 2023, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Grid Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Germany's coalition government is considering steps to enable the use of more green electricity that is currently curtailed due to grid bottlenecks, ...
03 Mar 2022, 13:52 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Sören Amelang Heating 91tv Germany must launch an " ...
21 Sep 2023, 13:40 Jack McGovan International Zeit Online / 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz called 2023 a potential turning point in the fight against climate change, reports Zeit Online. "2023 could be a defining moment," he ...
04 Mar 2022, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Security Energate messenger / 91tv The reduction of hard coal imports from Russia to Germany has pushed up prices significantly, the German coal import association VDKI told ...
04 Mar 2022, 13:16 Sören Amelang Renewables Finance Süddeutsche Zeitung The EU’s green investments label could slow down Germany's energy transition as many renewable projects don't qualify for it, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports. Banks are only ...
21 Jan 2021, 14:14 Government officials from the European Union and Germany have welcomed the inauguration of U.S. president Joe Biden as the start of a new phase of transatlantic cooperation and an opportunity to tackle global challenges such as climate ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv German grid operator Amprion can start construction of a key power line seven months sooner than planned thanks to new regulations to speed up permitting procedures, said the economy ministry in a ...
02 Mar 2022, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices 91tv / Strom Report Energy costs for the average German household are 52 percent higher than a year ago, according to energy contract sales website Check24. In a press release, the company ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:26 Expert WBAE- Scientific Advisory Board on Agricultural Policy, Food and Consumer Health Protection Agriculture Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv Germany is a laggard when it comes to sustainability in its ...
01 Mar 2022, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas Wind 91tv / Spiegel / Bloomberg The German government is set to introduce a law to prescribe minimum levels for the country’s gas storages, according to economy and climate ministry plans seen by ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:34 Edgar Meza Wind Tagesspiegel Background New military exclusion zones could lead to the loss of up to a third of federal land for wind power generation in Germany, Tagesspiegel Background reported. The German Wind Energy Association (BWE ...
01 Mar 2022, 14:31 Germany’s government has initiated the first steps of a wide-ranging renewables reform that should make the country’s power supply almost 100 percent renewable by 2035. In a draft paper seen by 91tv, the economy and climate ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:12 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s famed “Mittelstand” sector of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) has coped well with turbulent prices on the energy markets caused by the Ukraine war, ...
02 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 ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:20 Expert BVMW- German Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses Bundesverband mittelständische Wirtschaft Cost & Prices Sören Amelang Renewables Wind Business & Jobs 91tv Germany's sea ports are not ...
15 Oct 2021, 11:34 Thanks to more and more businesses publicly making “carbon neutrality” or “net-zero” commitments, the voluntary market for carbon emission offsets is booming both globally and in Germany. Critics, however, consider buying into projects ...
24 Feb 2022, 13:17 Edgar Meza Industry Hydrogen 91tv Stakeholders are in broad agreement on the necessary drivers and obstacles for Germany's hydrogen market ramp-up, a poll by the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) ...
23 Feb 2022, 14:35 Sören Amelang Hydrogen EU 91tv The EU Commission's proposals for adapting the gas market to climate targets are not enough to ensure a rapid scale-up of the hydrogen economy, according to Germany's hydrogen ...
16 Nov 2023, 13:50 Sören Amelang Renewables Solar 91tv Germany will likely far exceed the government target for installing new PV arrays this year, the country’s engineering association VDI said. Additional capacity installations are set to ...
24 Feb 2022, 13:07 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Die Zeit / Handelsblatt / 91tv In view of ...
22 Feb 2022, 13:12 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Kerstine Appunn Agriculture 91tv Germany’s new government has handed in the “strategic plan” on how it would distribute the 30 billion euros in ...
10 Oct 2023, 12:38 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices Society ...
25 Sep 2023, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Policy dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau Climate policy experts from two of the three parties in Germany’s coalition government have voiced concerns over the government’s planned reform of the country’s Climate ...
21 Feb 2022, 13:46 Sören Amelang Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany needs an "energy plan" to ensure energy prices remain affordable for households and businesses while protecting the climate, two conservative state premiers write in ...
05 Sep 2023, 12:09 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling 91tv Europe and Germany should ensure that certain elements of the supply chain of industries critical for the move to climate neutrality happen on their home turf to make the ...
21 Feb 2022, 13:52 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Almost one quarter of German small and medium-sized industrial companies say the high energy prices endanger their survival, according to a survey by the Federation of German ...
10 Mar 2016
10 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Climate Action Network “Break free from fossil fuels” Climate activist movement 350.org and Climate Action Network have announced a series of peaceful, coordinated actions “to disrupt ...
12 Sep 2023, 13:59 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Cost & Prices 91tv ...
18 Feb 2022, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices EU 91tv The German government should intensify its efforts for introducing a new EU carbon emissions trading system for the transport and buildings sectors, a group of climate science ...
18 Feb 2022, 12:03 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Gas Cost & Prices 91tv An ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:20 Jennifer Collins Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A mooted cap on industry power prices could stall green energy expansion in Germany by making investments in wind and solar unprofitable, according to a report by business daily ...
15 Jan 2021, 10:19 While our roads are increasingly abuzz with electric cars and scooters, low-emission trucks are conspicuous by their absence. But this is about to change as new climate targets force sharp emission cuts in heavy duty transport. The ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Most people in Germany agree with the “core aim” of the government’s controversial building energy law to replace old fossil heating systems with sustainable alternatives, ...
15 Sep 2023, 11:38 Aniket Narawad Climate & CO2 Society Only 47 percent of people in Germany agree that high-income countries should take the lead on compensating low-income countries for climate change-led economic losses, one of the lowest support ...
14 Feb 2022, 13:55 Jessica Bateman Gas dpa / ntv The construction of Germany's first liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal remains uncertain as a key project continues to face delays, reports newswire dpa in an article carried by ntv. There is still ...
11 Nov 2014, 00:00 Germany still needs electricity from coal while shifting to a green economy, Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said, reassuring utilities that a quick phase-out of the fossil fuel was not his plan. Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Government International 91tv The German government plans to support climate and environmental protection projects in Indonesia with credits worth 2.5 billion euros by 2025, the German development ...
11 Feb 2022, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Only a fraction of the two percent of land surface the German government wants to reserve for wind power production will actually be needed for constructing turbines, environmental ...
15 Mar 2021, 13:18 The German agriculture ministry has proposed six voluntary environmental measures to make the country’s farming sector more sustainable and climate-friendly. Its draft plan on how Germany will spend EU agricultural subsidies as of 2023 ...
23 Jul 2020, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars ARD The German transport minister, Andreas Scheuer, has proposed the introduction of a road toll for passenger cars in the whole European Union, public broadcaster ARD reports in its daily news programme ...
28 Sep 2023, 14:17 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The Paris Climate Agreement’s goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees ...
10 Feb 2022, 14:06 Jessica Bateman Wind Die Zeit The northernmost German state of Schleswig-Holstein has announced it wants to help push forward the energy transition by building artificial power islands in the North Sea, newspaper Die Zeit reported. ...
09 Feb 2022, 13:27 Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Carbon removal Government Tagesspiegel Background The Free Democrats (FDP) are calling for progress on Germany’s ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv Germany's environment minister Steffi Lemke wants to ensure that a United Nations (UN) summit in New York this week "initiates a race to catch up" on the ...
09 Feb 2022, 13:01 Sören Amelang Efficiency Heating 91tv Demand for low-emission heating systems is rising rapidly in Germany, but a large majority of buyers are still opting for installations powered by fossil fuels. Sales of heat pumps rose ...
07 Feb 2022, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Contracts refunding companies for investments in low-emissions technologies could be a key tool to ensure industry starts the transition to climate-neutral production, a ...
07 Feb 2022, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung High energy prices for gas, oil and electricity should be seen as “an advertisement for the energy transition,” economist Monika Schnitzer has said in an ...
25 Mar 2019, 14:51 After months of negotiations, the commission tasked with proposing measures to cut emissions from Germany’s transport sector has come together for its final meeting. So far, the task force has made headlines mainly for fierce dispute ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:32 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Policy 91tv More than one billion euros will be invested by the German government on fusion research over the next five years. "Fusion is a huge opportunity to solve all our energy ...
14 Sep 2023, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation International BR The record rainfalls triggering deadly floods in Libya and Greece dwarf the precipitation that caused Germany’s 2021 flood catastrophe, and are a grim reminder of the need to act on and ...
31 Aug 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices 91tv Germany should scrap the electricity tax while phasing out subsidies for the purchase of new electric cars to support the expansion of e-mobility, said a paper by the Institute ...
08 Apr 2020, 15:30 The coronavirus crisis is driving many economies around the globe into recession, leading policymakers to draw up unprecedented spending plans to cushion the impact and enable recoveries. Activists, environmental think tanks and others ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / 91tv The row between Germany’s coalition partners over key climate and energy policies such as industry support shows no sign of letting up despite a two-day retreat ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:09 Sören Amelang Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s economy minister and vice chancellor Robert Habeck has questioned the country’s commitment to a largely balanced budget, given the massive financial requirements for ...
10 Oct 2023, 12:24 Jennifer Collins Cars Business & Jobs 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung Schaeffler, a major Bavaria-based automotive supplier, has said it wants to acquire Vitesco, a specialist in vehicle electrification technologies, with ...
02 Feb 2022, 13:38 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Heating Der Spiegel / 91tv Low-income households will receive a one-off heating cost allowance by the state, the German government cabinet has decided. In a response to rising prices for ...
26 Sep 2023, 12:32 Expert GTAI- Germany Trade & Invest Economic development agency of the Federal Republic of Germany Business & Jobs International Edgar Meza Wind Hydrogen dpa / Handelsblatt Germany and the UK aim to cooperate on the expansion of ...
08 Mar 2016, 00:00 (UPDATE- adds quote from WWF's Günther in paragraph 5, more external content)- The nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, in the wake of a tsunami five years ago on 11 March, was a key turning point in German energy policy. Chancellor ...
09 Oct 2023, 14:22 Sören Amelang Gas Heating 91tv Few households in Germany turned down their heating last year to save energy, despite warnings of a supply crisis and sharply rising prices, according to an analysis by non-profit ...
21 Sep 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt Sewage treatment plants could unlock their clean power potential by producing and using hydrogen while treating wastewater, business daily Handelsblatt reports. ...
31 Jan 2022, 13:31 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv The German government should change the way operators of renewable energy installations are compensated to ensure a fair sharing of the burden of high electricity prices, ...
31 Jan 2022, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Government International Der Spiegel The German foreign ministry under Annalena Baerbock (Green Party) will create a new position of state secretary for international climate policy, reports Der Spiegel. The Bundestag ...
24 Aug 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Policy EU FAZ The European Union should focus on strengthening existing policy instruments when charting the course for climate action in the years after 2030, write researchers Brigitte Knopf and Oliver Geden in an op ...
05 Sep 2023, 12:07 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 91tv Germany's climate policy and action are "insufficient" to meet its national and international climate targets, according to the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) project. ...
28 Jan 2022, 13:43 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The planning for offshore wind power projects in German waters is ...
27 Jan 2022, 12:59 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Key raw materials needed for most types of clean hydrogen production could become scarce and much more expensive, Germany's Federal Institute ...
02 Oct 2023, 13:35 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The shortage of skilled labour is a drag on the global energy transition and could put UN climate targets at risk, says a report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) that ...
25 Jan 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Climate action policies and the ability of the economy to cope with them will become a defining factor for the financial system’s stability, the German central bank Bundesbank has said in a ...
24 Jan 2022, 12:51 Jessica Bateman 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Die Welt Investors plan to build an import terminal for synthetic methane made in the Middle East on Germany's North Sea coast, reports newspaper Die Welt. The company Tree Energy ...
05 Sep 2023, 14:55 Jennifer Collins Energiewende 91tv Germany is off track regarding many areas of its famed energy transition, with several indicators either "unrealistic" or at risk, consultancy firm McKinsey found in its ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:26 Sören Amelang Adaptation 91tv Rising temperatures due to climate change can pose a serious threat to people taking medication, German health authorities have warned. The risk that many medicines have of interacting with ...
18 Aug 2015
18 Aug 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “The Goliath in open-cast mining” The illegal protests against open-cast mining in Western Germany over the weekend are strongly reminiscent of the violent demonstrations in the country against ...
20 Jan 2022, 11:54 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Global climate policies must be shaped towards different countries’ strengths and weaknesses if they are to be successful, a leading German economist has said. In an opinion piece for Der ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:09 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv Germany aims to secure a full supply of green hydrogen in its drive to become climate neutral, but may use blue hydrogen made with natural gas and carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Norway for a ...
16 Apr 2015, 00:00 The researchers that prepared the German government's proposal for a levy on old coal-fired plants have rejected union claims the plan would cause massive job losses in the lignite industry and beyond. The Institute for Applied ...
18 Jan 2022, 12:40 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv The German government will use whatever state funds necessary to support the transition of the country’s industry to climate neutrality through so-called carbon contracts for difference (CCfD) ...
03 Mar 2015, 00:00 Chemicals industry and energy minister sign joint statement on energy and climate policy. Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert BMWi- ...
02 Oct 2023, 13:33 Sören Amelang Adaptation 91tv Around 3,100 people have died in the first nine months of 2023 in Germany due to high temperatures, according to preliminary calculations by Germany’s health authority Robert Koch Institute. ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:45 Sören Amelang Resources & Recycling 91tv Germany could cover a sizable portion of its lithium needs in the coming decades by extracting the metal from existing geothermal wells, researchers have calculated. Lithium is a ...
04 Sep 2023, 13:19 Sören Amelang Industry Cost & Prices Policy Handelsblatt The premiers of Germany’s 16 federal states have urged the EU to enable electricity price subsidies in support of industry, reports business daily Handelsblatt. In a joint ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv The German government coalition has unveiled a ten-point plan to strengthen the country’s economy and stimulate climate and energy efficiency investments. The announcement includes ...
27 Jul 2020, 09:50 Europe's economy is well placed to benefit from the fledgling global hydrogen economy and should decisively follow through with its hydrogen strategies, says Veronika Grimm, a member of Germany's council of economic experts, ...
13 Sep 2023, 14:20 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Jack McGovan Solar Cities 91tv Rooftop solar panels in small and mid-sized German towns technically could generate enough electricity for the 41 million ...
17 Aug 2023, 14:30 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Business & Jobs 91tv Germany ...
13 Jan 2022, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Industry dpa/ Die Welt / Handelsblatt / 91tv Industry companies are calling for an end to the southern German state of Bavaria’s particularly strict minimum distance wind power rules. Bavarian ...
13 Jan 2022, 14:11 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Sören Amelang Industry G20 & G7 91tv Germany should use its G7 presidency to push for more ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel EU G20 & G7 91tv Climate action tops the agenda of the German presidency of the G7 group of influential economies, which the new economy and climate ministry aims (BMWK) to use to improve greenhouse gas ...
04 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:30 Edgar Meza Heating 91tv Germany’s heat pump industry has called for reductions in electricity prices in order to achieve the country’s expansion target of installing 500,000 units a year from 2024. In a statement, the ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:40 Edgar Meza Gas Table.Media Germany has more gas stored than ever before, Table.Media reports, citing information from the association of European gas infrastructure operators, Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE). German gas storage ...
13 Jan 2022, 14:18 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Heating Handelsblatt German households are increasingly switching to electric heat pumps when upgrading their heating systems and analysts predict demand will continue to grow, Handelsblatt reports. Heat ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt Only internal combustion engines or hydrogen fuel cells allow Germany and Europe to produce cars “almost self-sufficiently”, as battery-driven vehicles are heavily dependent ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv The new head of the German central bank (Bundesbank), Joachim Nagel, has said combating climate change is a key task for the bank. “Climate change requires a restructuring of our economy,” ...
11 Jan 2022, 13:38 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv Businesses and municipalities in Germany will soon be able to access a wide array of support ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:07 Edgar Meza Freight 91tv All new trucks being registered in Germany from 2035 could be battery-electric if a broad-scale charging network is available by then, according to the Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut). ...
10 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022, 13:30 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv / RND Quickly rising prices for raw materials needed to build a fossil-free energy infrastructure could ...
24 Feb 2015, 00:00 The energy ministry does not want to pay utilities to keep conventional power plants on reserve for times of scarcity in a pending redesign of the power market in Germany. “We will propose not to intervene," said Rainer Baake, ...
07 Jan 2022, 11:59 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Electricity market Cost & Prices 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The German government has ...
07 Jan 2022, 11:56 Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government 91tv Nuclear power is not a sustainable energy generation technology and ...
04 Jun 2019, 13:50 German foreign minister Heiko Maas has said that climate action is the country’s new foreign policy imperative, as the security implications of its effects can already be seen across the globe. Germany aims to play a leading role in the ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:41 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Kerstine Appunn Utilities Reuters / dpa German energy company Uniper has secured credit facilities worth up to 10 billion euros, including up to 2 billion euros with German state-owned KfW bank, in a ...
15 Aug 2023, 14:04 Expert Federal Motor Transport Authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt Cars Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv The share of fully electric passenger cars in Germany continues to grow quickly, with the number of e-car ...
05 Jan 2022, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Transport 91tv Germany’s greenhouse gas reduction quota for transport fuels has increased as planned as of 1 January 2022. Mineral oil companies must now reduce the emissions of their fuels by 7 percent ...
03 Jan 2022, 14:13 Edgar Meza G20 & G7 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany would use its year-long presidency of the Group of Seven (G7), which began 1 January, “to make this group of countries a trailblazer for a climate-neutral ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Bild am Sonntag Germany's new agriculture minister Cem Özdemir from the Green Party wants people to “value their food as much as their cars”, he told Bild am Sonntag in an interview at the end of last ...
24 Aug 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / Die Zeit The parliamentary group of Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) has presented its own concept for reducing power prices for energy-intensive industry – an idea so far ...
25 Sep 2017
German chancellor Angela Merkel will face plenty of stumbling blocks if she sets out to forge a coalition of her conservative CDU/CSU block with the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) and The Greens, media commentators point out on the day after federal ...
16 Aug 2023, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
09 Aug 2018, 14:07 Record-breaking temperatures and a prolonged drought have increased public pressure on Germany’s coal-exit commission to make climate change mitigation its top priority. Countless media reports are invoking the extreme weather as a ...
08 Jan 2016
08 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Greens sharpen their eco-profile” Germany’s Green Party has called for a coal exit by 2036, Barbara Gillmann reports in the Handelsblatt. By that time, petrol and diesel cars should ...
29 Aug 2023, 13:36 Milou Dirkx Finance 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany reached its target of raising six billion euros from its state budget for international climate finance three years ahead of time, said the development ministry (BMZ). ...
07 Dec 2018, 09:13 With her decision not to seek re-election as party chair and chancellor, Angela Merkel has kicked off what is a novelty for her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU): an organised internal election campaign for the party’s ...
21 Aug 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Policy 91tv The German state scooped up approximately 417 million euros of electricity companies' windfall profits during the energy crisis in the first four months the relevant ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:37 Edgar Meza Gas Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German government is set to increase value-added tax (VAT) on natural gas after temporarily lowering it in 2022 to counter gas price hikes related to Russia's war on Ukraine. The ...
17 Aug 2023, 14:02 Sören Amelang Heating 91tv / Table.Media Germany’s coalition government has agreed on a draft law requiring municipalities to submit plans for the transition to climate-neutral heating, but has softened interim targets for ...
19 Dec 2019, 13:19 The use of gas from all sources will become more important as Germany seeks to decarbonise its economy and phase out nuclear power, the new head of Germany's largest energy industry lobby group, BDEW, has said. The Energiewende& ...
23 Dec 2021, 13:13 A new German government has started its work shortly before Christmas, kicking off its four-year term with a key promise to make the country ready for its ambitious bid to become climate neutral before the middle of the century. At a ...
23 Dec 2021, 12:49 Charlotte Nijhuis Society Tagesspiegel Background The new German government plans to develop a legal framework for climate adaptation measures that could be a first in Europe, Kristina Thomas reports in Tagesspiegel Background. The ...
12 Jan 2016
12 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt “Head lobbyist of the energy sector goes to RWE” Hildegard Müller, who was chairwoman at the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) for seven years, will become member of ...
25 Nov 2015
25 Nov 2015, 00:00 Spiegel Online/Urgewald “German banks still put billions into brown coal” A study by environmental NGO Urgewald shows that German banks continue to finance climate-damaging brown coal, reports Spiegel Online. Deutsche Bank alone has ...
22 Dec 2021, 12:42 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Energiewende Handelsblatt The new German government must quickly fill its ambitious energy transition plans with action, according to Markus Krebber, ...
16 May 2019, 16:50 Chancellor Angela Merkel has put carbon capture and storage (CCS) back on the table, saying the controversial technology was crucial for Germany to reach climate neutrality by mid-century. CCS has been met with a lot of public mistrust ...
15 Aug 2023, 14:19 Jack McGovan Solar Government Table.Media A new draft law that makes it easier to install solar panels on residential buildings and agricultural land is set to be adopted this Wednesday (16 August), according to Table.Media. Government ...
21 Dec 2021, 13:27 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Grid Utilities ...
07 Aug 2023, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv / Focus Renewable energy supplied a record of 69.2 percent of Germany’s public net electricity generation in July 2023, according to data by research institute Fraunhofer ISE. Due ...
03 Aug 2023, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Industry EU 91tv / The Guardian / Reuters An EU discussion to restrict the use of health and climate-damaging chemicals could bring the bloc’s energy and mobility transitions to a standstill, German ...
17 Dec 2021, 14:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv Conservative hardliner Friedrich Merz looks set to become the leader of German opposition party the Christian Democrats (CDU). In an internal vote by CDU members, Merz ...
17 Dec 2021, 12:28 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken out against linking the operating permit for the controversial Russian-German natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 to efforts to de-escalate the Ukraine ...
16 Dec 2021, 12:23 Edgar Meza Coal 91tv Germany’s Institute for Economic Research (ifo Institute) has warned that the planned economic transformation of lignite mining regions could fail if subsidies are not better targeted. The federal ...
03 Apr 2019, 13:13 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
14 Dec 2021, 11:31 Edgar Meza Society 91tv A large majority of people in Germany continue to support the expansion of renewable energy, but the percentage of those who see it as very or extremely important has declined, according to the ...
14 Dec 2021, 11:28 Edgar Meza Coal Finance 91tv As part of its efforts to achieve a coal phaseout in Germany by 2030, Commerzbank is introducing a number of measures aimed at decreasing business linked to fossil fuels. From 1 January, ...
15 Apr 2020, 15:13 Sören Amelang Cars Green stimulus Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Focus Online Three German states with a strong car industry presence have called for additional support for the sector in order to help it survive the corona crisis. ...
08 Aug 2023, 13:43 Sören Amelang Heating Policy Spiegel Demand for heat pumps has slumped in Germany as a fierce debate about government plans to decarbonise the heating sector unnerved many citizens. The number of subsidy applications halved in the ...
23 Aug 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv / Rheinische Post Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called the sluggish rollout of wind power in the south of the country "depressing" and warned that the three southern states – Hesse, Baden ...
09 Nov 2021, 18:30 After a week of political announcements, ministers this week join their negotiators to hash out the nitty-gritty of the Paris Agreement rulebook and eyes are on a possible solution for carbon markets under Article 6. 91tv tracks the ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:08 Milou Dirkx Mobility Cars 91tv Germany now has more than 100,000 public electric car charging points- but the energy and auto industry are squabbling over whether this figure is too high or too low. “As of 1 July, electric ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:07 Chinsisi Moyo Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv Extreme weather events such as heatwaves and river floods are known to hit the economy- but the damages could be significantly worse if economic output is already low, ...
10 Sep 2015, 00:00 Major utility E.ON has abandoned plans to spin off its nuclear power plants when it splits in two next year. The operation and decommissioning of the company’s German nuclear activities will not be transferred to the new spin-off Uniper ...
08 Sep 2023, 13:28 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv Corrects tender volumes to GW from MW. Investors again showed insufficient interest to build all of the onshore wind farms on offer in Germany’s latest tender. The auction remained ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:38 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Frankfurter Rundschau The three candidates in the race to succeed CDU party leader Armin ...
05 Oct 2023, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices 91tv German households face much lower costs at the start of the 2023 heating period than a year earlier, said price comparison website Verivox. Prices for natural gas have fallen by ...
08 Dec 2021, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / Focus Online The creation of a new buildings ministry by the next German government gives reason for hope that the country’s laggard sector will finally make more ...
10 Jun 2015
10 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Great aim, little deed” When it comes to decarbonising the economy, Germany is nowhere near as ambitious as the government likes to say, writes Silke Kersting in a commentary for the ...
16 Jul 2015
16 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Zeit “Don’t get distracted” The carbon divestment movement and the G7 commitment to decarbonisation indicate that climate policy is getting serious and irreversible, writes Andreas Kuhlmann, ...
04 Aug 2023, 12:12 Julian Wettengel EU 91tv The German government aims to submit the draft update of the country’s national energy and climate plan (NECP) to the EU sometime this summer, a spokesperson from the economy and climate ministry ...
03 Aug 2023, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society 91tv While the vast majority (91%) of Germans support a climate and environmentally-friendly economic transformation, many worry that it could lead to social injustice and threaten ...
11 Aug 2023, 13:13 Sören Amelang Carbon market Industry Policy EU 91tv The European Commission has greenlighted a German 6.5 billion euro scheme to prevent energy-intensive companies from relocating production to countries with less stringent ...
15 Aug 2023, 14:07 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs 91tv China is increasingly pushing Germany out of the top spot in exports to ...
04 Aug 2023, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Dimethyl ether (DME) – a compound used as propellant in deodorant sprays – is a “hitherto underestimated” way to store and transport hydrogen over long distances, said researchers of the ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
15 Aug 2023, 14:02 Expert Deutsche Post Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Freight Cost & Prices Die Welt / 91tv Germany’s postal service Deutsche Post says it will invest less than planned in emissions reduction and climate action ...
