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 ...
25 Sep 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv Propelled by a rapid transformation in the heating sector, Germany’s demand for natural gas looks set to plummet by one third by 2030 and by another third in the following decade, consultancy ...
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 ...
21 Sep 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is conducting test runs today (21 September) for a possible gas supply crisis, aiming to practice what would happen should the agency need to order ...
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 ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / Der Spiegel A proposed subsidised electricity price for heavy industry would not be effective for the economy as a whole, according to a report by the German Institute for ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
13 Sep 2023, 14:20 Jack McGovan Cars Die Welt British oil company BP wants to build around 20,000 “ultrafast” charging stations for electric cars as part of a larger investment push in Germany, reports Die Welt. By 2030, the company aims to invest a total ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:30 Jennifer Collins Transport Freight 91tv Germany's ports require huge investments to maintain their crucial position in supplying energy and goods, and to keep up with the energy transformation, said coastal state ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:20 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 ...
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 ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:49 Julian Wettengel Renewables G20 & G7 91tv Leaders of the Group of Twenty (G20) influential economies have agreed on the aim to triple of renewable energy capacity globally by 2030, but stopped short of calling for an ...
08 Sep 2023, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables G20 & G7 91tv Germany is advocating for an agreement on "a clear and concrete target" for the global expansion of renewables among the Group of Twenty (G20), said ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Aniket Narawad Electricity Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv / dpa Germany's net exports of electricity in the first half of this year were significantly lower than in the same period in 2022. The ...
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 ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:27 Sören Amelang Wind Transport Hydrogen German coastal states want hundreds of millions of euros from the federal government to transform their ports into energy hubs for liquefied natural gas, hydrogen, and offshore wind, reports ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Policy 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz has proposed a "Pact for Germany" in which all levels of government and the opposition pull together to guarantee the country's success in the future. ...
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 ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices WirtschaftsWoche / 91tv The end of Germany’s buyer’s premium for electric company cars will hurt the market and place an extra burden on medium-sized businesses, the German ...
31 Aug 2023, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany’s volatile 2023 summer weather was marked by heat peaks, extreme rainfall and above-average sunshine – with the temperature once again being significantly above the long-term ...
31 Aug 2023, 10:00 Climate change is putting Europe’s water resources under immense pressure. Scientists expect heavy rain and dry periods to happen more often, be more severe, and last longer, leading to floods and droughts. Without swift mitigation and ...
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). ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:43 Milou Dirkx Wind Cost & Prices FAZ New offshore wind farms could give an economic boost to German shipyards, but shipbuilding companies say they might not be able to finance the necessary investments without support, Frankfurter ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv Planned German state support will make a heat pump cheaper than a new gas boiler, even in comparatively energy-inefficient buildings, said environmental NGO WWF Germany. Consultancy firm ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Germany has completed its final auction to provide compensation for the early retirement of coal plants, with fewer operators participating in the tenders than initially hoped for, the Federal ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv Germany is expecting a below-average grain harvest due to difficult weather conditions that are likely to worsen with climate change, according to a preliminary harvest ...
06 Sep 2023, 14:00 Europe’s carmakers have little to celebrate at this year’s IAA mobility show. Chinese firms’ widening lead in the global shift to electric vehicles is on open display at the biennial fair in Munich, while climate activists lambast ...
25 Aug 2023, 13:30 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Carolina Kyllmann Politics Government 91tv Internal spats and external crises have caused the German ...
25 Aug 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Wind 91tv / dpa Electricity transmission system operator (TSO) Amprion announced plans to build power lines to bring electricity from wind turbines in the North Sea to consumers in power-hungry ...
24 Aug 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Die Zeit Germany’s energy industry representatives don’t expect threatening bottlenecks in energy supply during the coming winter, newspaper Die Zeit reports. “The next winter is similarly challenging as the last ...
18 Aug 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Government Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung An internal government coalition row over a new “growth opportunities act” is causing a stir among business leaders in Germany, newspaper Handelsblatt ...
17 Aug 2023, 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 ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:30 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Expert VKU- German Association of Local ...
16 Aug 2023, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government 91tv Only about one in four people in Germany believe that the state is able to fulfil its tasks and implement effective policies to tackle the important topics of migration, education, ...
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 ...
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 ...
10 Aug 2023, 14:20 Nearly halfway through its four-year term, Germany’s government faces increasing public discontent over its switch from two years of energy crisis management to controversial climate policies. The coalition government of the Social ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:53 Sören Amelang Wind Policy Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s wind industry has accused the operator of the country’s motorways of sabotaging the roll-out of wind turbines, which are key to reaching climate targets. The government-owned ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Policy Society Bild Three quarters of Germans worry about their future in regards to climate change, and many citizens say the government is not taking action rapidly enough, a survey by pollster INSA, commissioned by ...
04 Aug 2023, 13:05 Julian Wettengel Utilities 91tv The government of the southern German state of Bavaria seeks to take over all hydropower plants by energy company Uniper in the region, turning them into a state-owned operating company, it ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society 91tv / Reuters / dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau This week a campaign addressing the “true” environmental cost of food products by German supermarket chain Penny is set to receive ...
31 Jul 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Dlf / Spiegel / dpa The Paris Climate Agreement’s aim to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius is “politically basically no longer manageable,” Stefan Rahmstorf, climate ...
31 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics EU Dlf / 91tv / dpa The European Union’s focus on climate in all policy fields is unnecessary and the Green Deal should be abolished, Maximilian Krah, the German populist far-right ...
28 Jul 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Grid ARD / 91tv Germany should cut the time it takes to approve planned transmission and distribution grid expansions by half, economy minister Robert Habeck said in a report by public broadcaster ARD. “We ...
27 Jul 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims 91tv German drugstore chain DM is no longer allowed to advertise several of its own brand products as ‘climate neutral’ or ‘environmentally neutral’, a court ruled on 26 July. In a ...
26 Jul 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Tagesspiegel / t-online U.S. car manufacturer Tesla will have to revise its plans to expand its gigafactory for electric cars in the German state of Brandenburg over concerns the new buildings would be partly ...
25 Jul 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Coal 91tv Lignite projects in Germany received around 1.7 billion euros worth of support throughout 2022, according to an analysis by think tank Green Budget Germany (FÖS). Despite the country’s ambition ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:42 Jennifer Collins Company climate claims Handelsblatt The vast majority of consumers avoid companies linked to greenwashing, a survey seen by business daily Handelsblatt has found. Some 72 percent of respondents in the survey conducted ...
21 Jul 2023, 13:45 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Handelsblatt The slow development of Germany’s ...
21 Jul 2023, 11:27 Switching to climate-friendly heating to keep homes warm requires both subsidies for clean technologies and restrictions on dirty ones, says Duncan Gibb, senior advisor at climate think tank Regulatory Assistance Project and founder of ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Utilities Zeit Online Germany's electricity grids are not yet equipped for the projected increase of power consumers such as electric cars and heat pumps, the CEO of the local utility of southern German city ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:19 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung The head of German engineering company Siemens expects power prices in the country to increase for some years, as the country undergoes a ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Germans' support for the climate movement has halved following the rise of highly controversial street blockades by more radical activists, shows a survey by More in ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:12 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Plans by Germany's economy and climate ministry to lower industry power prices with ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International 91tv / n-tv A planned trip to India by Germany’s economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck aims to bring the countries closer together in efforts to develop renewable ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Society EU 91tv Policies on migration and combating climate change are the most polarising topics for people surveyed in several European countries, a report by the Mercator Forum Migration and Democracy ...
18 Jul 2023, 13:55 Jack McGovan Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt The German government is aiming for 15 million electric cars on roads by 2030, but industry insiders say orders for EVs have dropped since the end of 2022, business daily Handelsblatt ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Elections & Politics Süddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party’s current high results in German polls can be attributed to mainstream political parties ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:50 The criminalisation of climate protesters is intensifying all over Europe, with multiple countries considering harsh new laws. While human rights activists express concern at the crackdown, experts are divided over the impact on the ...
12 Jul 2023, 14:02 Differing views on the place of nuclear power in Europe have dominated public perceptions of energy policy cooperation between France and Germany for years. Given the urgent need to agree on European energy policy strategies in light of ...
11 Jul 2023, 13:55 James Jackson Cars Handelsblatt Volkswagen’s domestic sales of electric cars in Germany are far behind the company’s plans, insiders told business daily Handelsblatt. Executives at some VW plants said demand for particular battery ...
07 Jul 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Wind Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt Germany’s recycling industry has called for a paradigm shift in the construction of wind turbines to ensure materials can be reused at the end of their lifecycles, business ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 91tv Energy industry association BDEW has presented a proposal for a new electricity market design in Germany, with a new capacity mechanism at the heart of the plan. “The current ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv / Zeit Online Car registrations in Germany have risen by 13 percent in the first half of 2023- compared to the same period last year- with the number of newly registered electric vehicles ...
05 Jul 2023, 14:04 Sören Amelang Transport Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Germany is set to spend less than half of the funds originally planned on the modernisation of its ailing railway system, report business daily Handelsblatt and other media outlets. ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:13 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Rheinische Post / 91tv Germany’s environment minister Steffi Lemke has called for industry to save water as drought and water shortages continue to hit in the country. “The ...
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28 Jun 2024, 12:00 Carolina Kyllmann Julian Wettengel Associated Press: Von der Leyen, Costa and Kallas endorsed for the EU’s top jobs European Union leaders have agreed on the officials who will lead the EU’s powerful executive branch. News agency AP ...
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30 Jun 2023, 12:20 Julian Wettengel NOZ / 91tv / Zeit German environment and consumer protection minister Steffi Lemke (Green Party) supports the European Commission’s push to reign in false “greenwashing” claims by companies, she told Neue ...
30 Jun 2023, 12:18 Julian Wettengel Adaptation Agriculture EU 91tv / Dlf / taz German farmers have called on the EU to put more emphasis on food security in its "Green Deal" strategy to become climate neutral by 2050. The farmers& ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:36 Julian Wettengel Mobility Cars 91tv / ARD German transport minister Volker Wissing has announced new state support programmes to speed up the lagging development of sufficient charging infrastructure for electric cars and ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:32 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany’s quest for liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a substitute for halted Russian pipeline supplies entails significant risks regarding climate change mitigation, as the country’s demand could ...
28 Jun 2023, 13:42 Sören Amelang Heating 91tv / Table.Media Germany’s three ruling parties have finalised a deal on a controversial heating law to phase out gas and oil heating. The government will cover up to 70 percent of homeowners’ ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Cities 91tv The prospective future government coalition of Germany’s smallest state, the City of Bremen, is betting on green hydrogen and its derivates to decarbonise local industries, such as ...
23 Jun 2023, 13:05 Sören Amelang Company climate claims Society dpa / 91tv The largest beer tents at Munich’s famous Oktoberfest are to become "climate-neutral" within five years at the latest, reports newswire dpa. The ...
20 Jun 2023, 14:40 Carolina Kyllmann Freight Spiegel / 91tv Low water levels in the Rhine river as a consequence of ongoing droughts in various German regions threaten to hurt the country's economy, economists at Deutsche Bank Research ...
21 Jun 2023, 09:00 The governments of China and Germany have agreed to introduce a “Climate and Transformation Dialogue” to speed up their transition towards a more climate friendly economy. Fighting climate change remained a main concern for the two ...
20 Jun 2023, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government ARD German chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that the federal government is to reduce its spending and return to “fiscal policy normality” after state support for citizens and businesses ...
20 Jun 2023, 13:20 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv An accelerating trend towards electric mobility puts German carmakers’ success ...
20 Jun 2023, 12:27 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Jessica Bateman Cars Business & Jobs dpa / Die Welt Around half of all e-cars made in Germany are being produced in the eastern states, despite the region only ...
20 Jun 2023, 12:18 Jessica Bateman Society Focus Online German climate activists from the Last Generation ('Letzte Generation') group are turning their attention to the “super-rich” with a number of actions on the North Sea island of Sylt. ...
23 Jun 2023, 11:00 The role of nuclear power within Europe’s energy transition is a clear point of contention between Paris and Berlin. However, there is much more agreement between the EU’s two largest powers on major strategic priorities, including the ...
14 Jun 2023, 13:45 Exceeding the 1.5°C temperature limit of the Paris Climate Agreement would jeopardise the prospect of living in security and prosperity in Germany and globally, says Germany’s first-ever National Security Strategy. In the document, the ...
13 Jun 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Coal 91tv The planned coal phase-out in eastern Germany could threaten water supply in and around the country’s capital, as significantly less groundwater will be pumped into the river Spree ...
13 Jun 2023, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv The German economy and buildings ministries aim to connect 100,000 buildings to district heating annually in a bid to bring the sector closer to its climate targets. “We believe that district ...
13 Jun 2023, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Society 91tv German rail company Deutsche Bahn has signed a partnership agreement with the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship to transport teams and fans across the country in a climate ...
09 Jun 2023, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating International 91tv The French city of Strasbourg and the German town of Kehl, which are located on opposite sides of the river Rhine, are planning to connect their heating systems in a cross-border ...
07 Jun 2023, 11:47 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv It is unclear whether and to what extent conventional fracking – a controversial gas extraction method currently banned in Germany – could make a contribution to supply security in the ...
06 Jun 2023, 13:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International 91tv Chinese manufacturers of electric cars are increasingly gaining a foothold in Germany’s car market, May 2023 figures released by Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities Der Spiegel District heating could help to decarbonise up to 20 million of Germany’s roughly 43 million households, if the government introduced the right subsidies and framework conditions, the industry ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:24 Germany is starting a novel subsidy programme worth billions of euros in a bid to make its prized heavy industry climate neutral. Following a preparatory phase beginning in early June, the country plans to introduce so-called Carbon ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Wind EU 91tv The governments of Denmark and Germany have signed a legally binding cooperation agreement for a joint offshore wind power project on the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm, the economy ...
01 Jun 2023, 14:20 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Adaptation 91tv New and increasing infectious diseases are among the many negative consequences of climate change in Germany, shows the first part of a new report coordinated by the ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel International 91tv Germany, Denmark, the UK and the EU will provide 100 million euros for climate change mitigation projects in developing countries, economy minister Robert Habeck said at the Global NDC ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Energy consumption in Germany in the first three months of 2023 was almost seven percent below that of the same period last year due to high prices and a shrunk gross domestic ...
31 May 2023, 13:24 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Bioenergy Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv ...
31 May 2023, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Policy dpa / n-tv The German government coalition has agreed on a draft law for reforming municipal heating regulation as part of a wider package to decarbonise the country’s heating sector, news agency dpa ...
31 May 2023, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Transport Business & Jobs Die Welt Chemicals producer BASF is deploying a new freight vessel adapted for low water levels in the Rhine river, newspaper Die Welt reported. Shallower water in Germany’s ...
30 May 2023, 13:36 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Cars Tagesschau New cars registered in the first four months of 2023 are on average emitting significantly more CO2 than those registered in 2022, writes public broadcaster ARD. Data from Germany’s ...
25 May 2023, 14:01 Sören Amelang Grid Hydrogen 91tv / dpa The German government has agreed rules to build an initial “core” hydrogen network that is set to enter operation by 2032. "Our goal is the rapid ramp-up of the hydrogen market, ...
25 May 2023, 13:28 Sören Amelang Policy Tagesspiegel Background The German government could revive the neglected idea of returning revenue from the national carbon price on transport and heating fuels to the population to help lower income households, ...
23 May 2023, 13:44 Carolina Kyllmann Politics Society Tagesspiegel / 91tv Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz labelled the protest actions from climate activist group Last Generation, who glue themselves to artwork or roads, as “completely nutty ...
22 May 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel International G20 & G7 91tv Researchers, NGOs, and media commentators have criticised the German and Japanese governments for what they say is a weak outcome on climate policy at the Group of Seven (G7) ...
17 May 2023, 14:09 Germany’s Green energy and climate action minister, Robert Habeck, has suffered a setback for his decarbonisation plans with the departure of his energy state secretary, Patrick Graichen. Habeck’s state secretary left his post following ...
16 May 2023, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs 91tv Wind power subsidiary Siemens Gamesa is weighing on the business performance of energy company Siemens Energy. The turbine maker chalked up a loss of 386 million euros in the ...
15 May 2023, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics NDR / Weser Kurier The Social Democrats (SPD) have emerged as the clear winner of the state election in Bremen, Germany’s smallest state, while the Green Party suffered its worst result in the ...
12 May 2023, 13:48 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating 91tv New oil and gas heating systems are seeing a sales boom in Germany ahead of a planned law that could ban the ...
12 May 2023, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv / Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung Germany installed 128 new wind turbines with a total capacity of 0.6 gigawatts (GW) between January and April 2023, an increase in the growth rate of 46 ...
10 May 2023, 12:20 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv Germany should introduce a ‘climate passport’ for people displaced by the effects of climate change, an independent government advisory panel has proposed in its annual report. The Expert ...
09 May 2023, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Security 91tv German energy policy in the Baltic Sea region has been a major failure that will now have to be corrected through a rigorous pivot towards offshore wind power, foreign minister Annalena ...
09 May 2023, 12:54 Julian Wettengel Society EU 91tv European governments must ensure that no one is left behind during the move towards a climate-neutral future, said German chancellor Olaf Scholz in a speech in the European Parliament, ...
09 May 2023, 12:10 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Transport International 91tv German railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has seen international long-distance traffic grow faster than ever ...
05 May 2023, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv Funding opportunities to replace heating systems to ones which run using renewable sources should be increased to cover up to 80 percent of the total costs, the Green Party parliamentary group ...
04 May 2023, 09:35 Germany will contribute 2 billion euros to replenish a key funding mechanism to support climate action in developing countries, chancellor Olaf Scholz has said at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin. Besides announcing the ...
02 May 2023, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 91tv By April, household energy costs in Germany had dropped nearly one third in the six months since the peak of the energy crisis, an analysis by price comparison website Verivox has ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Transport Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv German railway operator Deutsche Bahn has reportedly waved higher fees demanded from renewable project operators needing to install power cables under ...
26 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating Spiegel / 91tv The sale of German heat pump manufacturer Viessmann to U.S. air conditioner maker Carrier Global has sparked fears amongst German trade unionists and politicians over the ...
25 Apr 2023, 13:43 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany must avoid building too many new gas power plants in the country’s efforts to secure electricity supply at times of little wind or sunshine, said renewables association BEE during an online ...
24 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv As Germany’s hydrogen (H2) economy takes shape, a double supply gap is emerging in the country’s south, a report by consultancy PWC found. While the north is well positioned, the country’s ...
23 Jun 2023, 10:00 As the two largest economies in the European Union, France and Germany, for at least a decade have acted as the bloc’s key drivers of more ambitious climate action. A glaring gap in the two countries’ energy policy has been exposed in ...
20 Apr 2023, 12:37 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices Heating Tagesspiegel Background Due to a rapid rise in the number of reduced power tariffs reserved for heat pumps, their operating costs in Germany are currently up to a third lower than gas heating, ...
20 Apr 2023, 12:33 Sören Amelang Wind Hydrogen International Handelsblatt Nine European gas transmission grid operators have agreed to construct a pipeline network in the North Sea to transport hydrogen made in offshore wind farms, business daily ...
20 Apr 2023, 12:31 Sören Amelang Renewables WirtschaftsWoche / Spiegel Renewable energy operators and lobby groups have accused Germany’s public rail company Deutsche Bahn of slowing the energy transition by massively overcharging for the permission to ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Policy Society The majority (79%) of homeowners in Germany are in favour of replacing fossil heating systems with climate-friendly alternatives, but uncertainty reigns as to how this heating transition will be ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:09 Edgar Meza International 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany expects cooperation with Indonesia to expand and intensify in the coming years, particularly in the areas of renewable energy and raw materials, the ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:58 Sören Amelang Renewables International G20 & G7 91tv The German government and NGOs have welcomed the first G7 commitment to concrete targets for the rollout of renewables, but environmentalists also warned that the ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:50 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Efficiency Heating Der Spiegel Gas boilers sold as "hydrogen ready" deceive consumers and are set to cost buyers dearly, according to German consumer organisations. Hydrogen produced with renewables will ...
13 Apr 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Resources & Recycling Rheinische Post / 91tv Agriculture ministers in Germany’s states have called to make the use of wood in new housing projects easier in a bid to increase the sector’s ...
13 Apr 2023, 12:59 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government dpa / Der Spiegel / 91tv Ahead of a major protest in Berlin announced by the climate activist group Last ...
12 Apr 2023, 13:58 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Business manager magazin Germany’s state-owned energy supplier Uniper will continue to have a stake in nuclear plants abroad even after the end of the technology’s ...
12 Apr 2023, 13:55 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv German companies increasingly ...
11 Apr 2023, 13:34 Julian Wettengel International 91tv / Bloomberg The G7 countries cause a large part of the world's resource consumption and the associated damage to the climate and environment and thus have to “accept their ...
11 Apr 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Policy 91tv / WDR Key short-term energy saving rules are set to run out this week, as Germany has come out of a comparably mild winter and managed to avoid a severe gas shortage. A key regulation with ...
06 Apr 2023, 13:42 Sören Amelang Company climate claims 91tv Following growing criticism and a wave of court cases against product labels promising climate neutrality, German certifier ClimatePartner is withdrawing its ‘carbon neutral’ label. ...
05 Apr 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv The use of synthetic fuels, also known as e-fuels, is unsuitable for road transportation in the medium to long term based on current knowledge, a report by the Fraunhofer Institute for ...
04 Apr 2023, 13:56 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices 91tv Despite an extremely mild winter, households in Germany experienced the highest heating costs ever according to an analysis by price comparison website Verivox based on data from the German ...
05 Apr 2023, 11:36 Shocked by recent heatwaves, floods, wildfires and ongoing droughts, France is currently rebooting its strategy to cope with the impacts of climate change. In a “turning point” in the country’s adaptation efforts, the plans will also ...
31 Mar 2023, 11:38 The era of nuclear power in Germany will end on 15 April as planned, the country’s environment minister has said. Minister Steffi Lemke stressed that the phase-out would not endanger the power supply security in Germany or other ...
31 Mar 2023, 11:35 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany’s gas pipeline network has to be adapted to a new reality over the coming decade, as gas consumption is expected to decline by at least 20 percent by 2032, with liquefied natural gas (LNG) ...
24 Mar 2023, 13:42 Sören Amelang Heating Policy Spiegel Online The German coalition government is considering a scrapping scheme for old boilers to try and overcome the dispute over how to move the transition to sustainable heating forward, reports ...
22 Mar 2023, 13:30 Sören Amelang Society Elections & Politics Die Welt German climate activist group “Last Generation,” known for its controversial forms of protest, such as road blockages and attacks on artworks, is considering the establishment of a ...
22 Mar 2023, 13:26 Julian Wettengel International 91tv Germany and the U.S. are jointly pushing for a fundamental reform of the World Bank with an increased focus on the climate crisis, and agreed that it should be finalised at the ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:38 Edgar Meza Business 91tv The majority of Germany’s large companies expect that the transformation to a climate neutral economy will have no negative or even positive effects on their international competitiveness, and ...
20 Mar 2023, 17:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv The world is on track to surpassing the crucial target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C and should prepare accordingly, said Oliver Geden, senior fellow at the German Institute for ...
20 Mar 2023, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling Security 91tv Japan and Germany have agreed stronger cooperation to ensure sufficient supply of raw materials in areas critical to transforming their economies, such as ...
20 Mar 2023, 12:12 Carolina Kyllmann Nuclear phase-out Funke Mediengruppe / Nikkei The lifespan of Germany’s three remaining nuclear power plants will not be further extended, environment and nuclear safety minister Steffi Lemke told publishing house ...
20 Mar 2023, 12:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society ZDF / 91tv Several German cities are considering, or are already brokering, deals with climate activists from the group Last Generation to end their disruptive protests in ...
17 Mar 2023, 13:31 Supermarket shelves have increasingly been flooded with products featuring green claims like “climate neutral” or “packaging reusable,” but a lack of regulation means many of these can be vague, misleading or even factually wrong – ...
17 Mar 2023, 12:21 German government officials have welcomed proposals by the European Commission to boost net-zero industries and the competitiveness of European companies in an effort to keep up with other regions of the world, such as the U.S. and ...
16 Mar 2023, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility 91tv The number of e-bikes sold in Germany might overtake conventional bikes for the first time in 2023, cycling industry associations ZIV and VDZ said. Last year, almost every second bicycle sold ...
14 Mar 2023, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility 91tv The roll-out of electric vehicle charging infrastructure has made good progress in 2022, with the number of public charging points growing 35 percent to more than 80,500, energy industry ...
14 Mar 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Handelsblatt / 91tv Dutch electricity transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT will require investments of 111 billion euros over the next decade to expand and modernise its grid infrastructure in ...
13 Mar 2023, 13:44 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Adaptation 91tv / dpa, Die Zeit / Table.Media The German government’s upcoming ‘Water Strategy’ aims to improve ...
10 Mar 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Industry EU 91tv / Financial Times / Reuters / NY Times German economy minister Robert Habeck has welcomed the European Commission’s decision to further relax state aid rules for clean technologies as part ...
10 Mar 2023, 11:27 Despite its reputation as a nation at the forefront of green technologies like wind power, Denmark has been slow to focus on climate adaptation. Since a cloudburst shocked the capital Copenhagen with massive flooding in 2011, some steps ...
08 Mar 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Gas Security NY Times / ZEIT, ARD, SWR / Dlf German defence minister Boris Pistorius has reacted cautiously to media reports that a pro-Ukrainian group could be behind the attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines ...
08 Mar 2023, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv A leaked draft update to Germany’s National Hydrogen Strategy does not yet set the right conditions for the investments needed to build up the country’s hydrogen economy according to the ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:34 With a significant “safety buffer” of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity, the German government aims to ensure that the country and neighbouring states will receive sufficient supply of natural gas in the coming years, says ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:10 Expert Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Company climate claims 91tv / Der Spiegel German asset management company DWS, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, is facing fresh ...
02 Mar 2023, 14:06 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Gas EU 91tv Europe is on track to have sufficient capacity for supplying its economies with liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the coming 10- 15 years, taking into account existing plans to expand the import ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Business & Jobs Bloomberg The German government is considering merging the country's four transmission system operators (TSOs) into a single “German Grid Corporation,” news agency Bloomberg reported. The ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation EU Handelsblatt / Euractiv / 91tv A severe winter drought in France is causing worries that the country’s energy production could be impacted throughout the year, compounding an already tense ...
28 Feb 2023, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU Bild Zeitung / Euractiv An effective ban on combustion engines in new cars in the EU by 2035 might not get the approval by Germany if it does not include a clause on allowing engines powered with “climate ...
27 Feb 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International 91tv Closer cooperation with Germany on renewable power and other energy transition technologies could help India increase its energy sovereignty, chancellor Olaf Scholz has said ...
24 Feb 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 91tv Energy costs for private households in Germany is around twelve percent above pre-war levels, as wholesale prices for gas and electricity fall rapidly, comparison portal Verivox said ...
24 Feb 2023, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 91tv Chemicals company BASF will cut up to 2,600 jobs worldwide due to cost pressure from the energy crisis, with the majority of positions axed in Germany. The company said it will cut ...
22 Feb 2023, 13:52 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Cities Society 91tv The initiators of an upcoming referendum on committing the German capital Berlin to 2030 climate neutrality have expressed confidence the vote will be successful, ...
21 Feb 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Tagesspiegel Background / ARD A draft law that would require all newly installed heating systems in Germany to run on 65 percent renewable energy from 2024 is making “good progress” after many delays, energy ...
20 Feb 2023, 13:55 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv The economic interests of all states need to be accounted for in the fight against climate change, as moral reasons won’t be enough to motivate a successful green transition, German ...
20 Feb 2023, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Business Policy Handelsblatt The German finance ministry is preparing a law to support companies that invest in energy efficiency and decarbonisation through tax rebates, business daily Handelsblatt reported. Tax ...
20 Feb 2023, 16:47 On the path to a climate neutral electricity system that is largely covered by renewable sources, Germany is planning a reform to its electricity market. Inaugurating the ‘Climate Neutral Electricity System Platform’, the economy and ...
16 Feb 2023, 13:27 Sören Amelang Adaptation 91tv Building construction on land at high risk of flooding is continuing apace in Germany and must stop, the country’s insurers have warned. "Only climate-adapted construction can reduce the ...
15 Feb 2023, 12:59 Expert Allensbach Institute The Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach (IfD Allensbach) Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility Cars 91tv Decarbonisation in the mobility sector is the most important area for ...
15 Feb 2023, 12:57 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv Germany and Belgium agreed to link their hydrogen networks, double gas flow into Germany and explore the possibility of a second high-voltage electricity interconnector for cross-border ...
14 Feb 2023, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Die Tageszeitung The planned modernisation of Germany’s military announced in chancellor Olaf Scholz’s “Zeitenwende” (turning of the times) speech following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could face substantial ...
14 Feb 2023, 13:03 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out 91tv Germany’s nuclear phase-out will not affect the country’s reactors used for research purposes, which can continue to operate after the country’s three remaining nuclear power stations ...
13 Feb 2023, 13:45 The “net zero” climate plans of 24 of the world’s largest companies add up to emissions reductions of only 36 percent, according to a report by the NewClimate institute and non-profit Carbon Market Watch. The strategies of the self ...
16 Feb 2023, 13:59 The world’s top management consultancies, who for decades have advised the biggest polluters, are now piling into the business of helping companies cut emissions to become more sustainable. They are retraining staff, poaching ...
09 Feb 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Coal 91tv The ‘intensive use’ of German coal power plants lead to additional emissions of 15.8 million tonnes of CO2 in 2022, according to a report by consultancy Energy Brainpool commissioned by Green ...
09 Feb 2023, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Average German household gas prices could begin to fall soon, as individual gas suppliers are already able to lower their prices, according to utility association (BDEW). ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Finance International Die Zeit The German and French economy ministers said “substantial progress” has been made in talks about transparency and cooperation on green subsidies between the EU and the U.S during a visit ...
09 Feb 2023, 13:39 Mexico is experiencing a carbon offset gold rush, as polluting multinationals turn to the country’s extensive forests in droves to absolve their climate sins. Countless companies, eager to prove their climate credentials with “net zero” ...
07 Feb 2023, 13:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility EU Die Zeit / Handelsblatt The planned EU car emissions target norm, Euro 7, has come under fire from the German car industry and the country’s transport minister, who argue the regulation will threaten many ...
06 Feb 2023, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv Registrations of new electric vehicles collapsed in Germany following cuts in buyers’ premiums at the beginning of the year. Registrations for battery electric vehicles dropped about 83 percent ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:45 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv High energy prices are hitting companies unevenly across Germany’s 16 ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Die Welt As solar power deployment is picking up fast around the globe, Germany and Europe must act now to regain a stronger position in the production of solar PV hardware so as to reduce ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cost & Prices 91tv With its largest offshore wind power auction to date, Germany aims to make progress on its ambitious target to nearly quadruple capacity by the end of the decade – and could ...
30 Jan 2023, 12:54 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine The heads of many renewable energy companies showed mixed opinions in whether Germany can meet its targets for green electricity generation, according to an article in newspaper ...
30 Jan 2023, 15:52 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv / Table.Media / taz [CLARIFICATION: It is not just Agora Energiewende which says LNG expansion plans are oversized. The grid operators in their draft plan state that if all planned LNG capacity is ...
27 Jan 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International 91tv Germany and Australia plan to intensify their cooperation in the areas of energy, climate protection and emissions reduction, German economy minister Robert Habeck together with ...
26 Jan 2023, 12:56 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims Die Zeit German health and beauty products retailer Rossmann said it will remove “climate neutral” labels from its own-branded products following a joint investigation by newspapers the Guardian ...
24 Jan 2023, 13:20 Edgar Meza Solar 91tv Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has increased maximum support rates for ground-mounted solar system tenders by 25 percent to 7.37 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh). The move is expected to make ...
24 Jan 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann International Handelsblatt International Energy Agency (IEA) head Fatih Birol is weary of too much optimism about energy security in Europe ahead of the 2023 winter, he said in an interview with newspaper Handelsblatt. ...
23 Jan 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv Germany and France have reiterated their wish to work together on the energy transition, technological sovereignty, supporting industry in the transition to climate neutrality and ...
02 Feb 2023, 10:20 Deadly summer heatwaves, floods, and snow-free ski slopes in winter are a wake-up call: Europe must urgently adapt to climate change, in addition to reducing emissions. Temperatures in the region have increased at more than twice the ...
20 Jan 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Wind 91tv A new area development plan for the expansion of offshore wind energy is a key step in helping Germany come closer to its target of installing at least 30 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, the economy and ...
20 Jan 2023, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv Data centres could provide excess heat to Frankfurt’s district heating network, energy provider Mainova and data centre operator Interxion announced after signing a memorandum of understanding ...
20 Jan 2023, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv Transforming Germany’s energy system to achieve climate neutrality is key to securing industry competitiveness in the southern state Bavaria, but delays in expanding the national power grid is are ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Society Table.Media The protests against the razing of the village of Lützerath in order to expand the brown coal mining operations of energy giant RWE are damaging Germany’s image and standing in international climate ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:41 Edgar Meza Society 91tv A large majority of German households have lowered indoor temperatures this winter amid soaring energy costs, according to a report by indoor climate management company Tado. With nearly 80 percent ...
18 Jan 2023, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Policy 91tv The expansion of onshore wind power capacity in Germany in 2022 again remained below the level required for reaching the country’s renewable power targets, a shortcoming that ...
17 Jan 2023, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv Germany imported around 62 billion euros of Norwegian natural gas, oil and condensates in 2022 and has become the country’s number one goods importer, said the German-Norwegian chamber ...
17 Jan 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Business Finance 91tv Around three quarters (76 %) of businesses in Germany increased investments in sustainability measures in 2022 despite high economic uncertainty, a survey by consulting firm Deloitte ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv The German energy crisis has not ended yet, but has become “manageable” to a point where the government is confident it could be overcome for good by 2024, economy and climate minister ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:54 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Grid Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The spread of heat pumps and electric vehicles could lead to local power cuts in parts of Germany where the grid is not yet prepared for an increase in ...
12 Jan 2023, 11:20 Netflix styles itself as a climate action leader, but the world’s most popular video streaming service is far from eliminating all of its emissions, despite a 2022 net zero target. The US company with more than 220 million subscribers ...
11 Jan 2023, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv Germany must restore 50,000 hectares of moorland annually – and the whole of the EU 500,000 hectares – for the world to reach the Paris Agreement target of limiting global ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv Germany announced an additional 84 million euros to support Pakistan as part of both countries’ climate partnership at an international conference, in the wake of ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:09 Julian Wettengel Coal Spiegel / 91tv The climate activists occupying the western German village of Lützerath, which is slated for demolition to make way for a nearby lignite mine, are set to be evicted by “massive” police ...
06 Jan 2023, 13:13 Sören Amelang Transport dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung An increasing number of cruise ships have switched their propellant from liquefied natural gas (LNG) to diesel fuel because of high LNG prices, reports newswire dpa in an article ...
04 Jan 2023, 13:39 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Süddeutsche Zeitung German transport minister Volker Wissing has triggered a fresh debate over the government decision to switch off the country’s remaining nuclear plants ...
02 Jan 2023, 13:10 Sören Amelang Gas Bild am Sonntag Germany’s finance minister Christian Lindner has renewed his call for allowing the controversial fracking technology to increase gas supplies. “The ban should be lifted,” the head of the Free Democrats ...
09 Feb 2023, 15:22 The spread of corporate net zero targets is starting to make itself felt across the world – not only among businesses, but also far beyond. An increasing number of companies have started to scan- and then reduce- the climate impact of ...
23 Dec 2022, 14:20 The German government coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz looks back at a turbulent first year in office, which has been dominated by the reality check of Russia’s war on Ukraine and the European energy crisis. The turmoil in global ...
22 Dec 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza Society Government Süddeutsche Zeitung German Green Party co-leader Ricarda Lang has welcomed criticism from climate activists about the government coalition's climate policies in its first year in office, saying their ...
02 Jan 2023, 12:53 Germany's government needs to devise support for the country's energy-intensive industry in 2023 in order to keep it competitive, says Carsten Rolle, who heads the climate and energy division at industry association BDI. ...
22 Dec 2022, 09:12 Hungary’s climate movement is struggling to build on the earlier success of the country's Fridays for Future student protests to make their voices heard. Nonetheless, many activists believe that spectacular acts of civil ...
22 Dec 2022, 12:40 Germany has taken important steps to secure its energy supply and help households and businesses cope with the energy crisis, but it is important to continue along this path consistently in the coming year, according to the country' ...
20 Dec 2022, 14:10 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Government 91tv The German government and the country’s largest gas supplier Uniper have agreed on a framework to carry out the struggling company’s nationalisation ...
20 Dec 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs EU Süddeutsche Zeitung A new concept for supporting Europe’s green energy industry in light of the U.S. government’s subsidy programme “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA) has been presented jointly by ...
20 Dec 2022, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU Die Zeit The vote by EU energy ministers to introduce a price cap on natural gas is a bad compromise for Germany, Anja Stehle wrote in an opinion piece for Die Zeit. The price ceiling, taking effect at 180 euros ...
20 Dec 2022, 13:21 Germany’s energy consumption in 2022 went down by 4.7 percent compared to last year, hitting its lowest level since the country’s reunification, according to preliminary data by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:18 The German government overall has done a good job in maintaining energy supply security in the country in the turbulent year 2022, but risks to the energy system's stability persist also in 2023, says Andreas Kuhlmann, head of the ...
21 Dec 2022, 12:53 Germany’s efforts to replace Russian gas this year are perceived internationally as lacking coherence with its climate ambitions and the government must show that these efforts do not impede the country’s emissions reduction plans, says ...
15 Dec 2022, 14:03 Julian Wettengel Gas Government Table.Media Germany’s economy ministry expects a significant import overcapacity if all planned floating and fixed onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals are implemented as planned, reports Table ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security ZDF The cold snap that has gripped large parts ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:40 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Nuclear phase-out Süddeutsche Zeitung A second runtime extension for Germany’s remaining nuclear power plants ...
16 Dec 2022, 11:26 The adoption of net zero emissions targets by global technology giants like Apple, Google and Microsoft is turning into a serious problem for Taiwan’s massive chipmaking industry. Pressure to decarbonise the extremely power-hungry ...
21 Dec 2022, 10:51 The uptake of net zero targets among India’s industrial giants is unlikely to translate into rapid emissions reductions given a lack of adequate policies, funding and regulatory oversight. On the contrary, the country's steelmakers ...
15 Dec 2022, 11:57 Germany urgently needs an overarching plan to reduce transport emissions in the new year, given that the government didn’t make any headway during its first year in office, Wiebke Zimmer, deputy executive director of clean mobility ...
20 Dec 2022, 13:19 The new year is going to pose the great challenge for Germany’s government to ensure that companies hit by the ongoing energy price crisis do not choose to relocate their business, according to Frederik Moch, head of energy policy at ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:22 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind Süddeutsche Zeitung Bavaria is making up lost ground in the rollout of wind power following the recent easing of strict distance rules, and also aims to become a European solar power leader, its ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Finance Heating Handelsblatt / 91tv A ‘hardship fund’ for households heating with oil or wood pellets has been agreed by Germany’s coalition government, newspaper Handelsblatt reports. A total of 1.8 ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 91tv More than half of municipalities in Germany have restricted services as a way to counter additional expenditure from skyrocketing energy prices, but their investments in long-term ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas Business & Jobs 91tv In preparation for a possible – if unlikely – severe shortage of natural gas supply during winter, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has decided it will take into account ...
13 Dec 2022, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society 91tv A need for energy supply security has increased acceptance in the German population towards the expansion of renewables, a survey by the Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) found. ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Germany is set to produce a record 256 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity from renewable sources this year, but the amount is still insufficient to put it on track to its 2030 targets, ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Tagesspiegel Background / Bloomberg The first gas flows into the German grid from the new floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven are expected on 22 December, newspaper ...
08 Dec 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv The planned infrastructure for direct imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at Germany’s coastlines are “massively oversized” and state involvement means that taxpayer money is used for what could ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:44 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) latest report on renewable ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:42 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government 91tv The German government coalition's first year in office has brought much-needed progress in key energy transition areas but still falls ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Süddeutsche Zeitung A large green hydrogen production project currently planned in the southern African state of Namibia aimed at supplying Germany’s industry with the fuel has led the German ...
02 Dec 2022, 11:59 Markets are usually good at establishing standards and compliance themselves to facilitate business, but climate neutral products and emission reductions appear to be an exception to this rule, says Georgios Agrafitiotis, auditor for ...
01 Dec 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 91tv Germany's electricity market design needs a fundamental overhaul more urgently than ever before to make the economic value of supply security visible, the country's energy ...
01 Dec 2022, 12:20 One year after taking over Germany’s government, chancellor Olaf Scholz’s “traffic light” coalition looks back at some turbulent first twelve months in office that were overshadowed by Russia’s attack on Ukraine and the subsequent ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Gas International 91tv / Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background Chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed two contracts that are set to supply Germany with liquefied natural gas (LNG) for a duration of at least 15 ...
29 Nov 2022, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Gas Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung The German environment minister has urged to stop gas extraction plans near the north-western island of Borkum, newspaper Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung reports. Dutch company ...
28 Nov 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Society Der Spiegel / 91tv Climate activists occupying the western German town of Lützerath to prevent it from being destroyed to make way for a nearby coal mine are to be evicted from January next ...
28 Nov 2022, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs 91tv / Handelsblatt A shortage of more than 200,000 skilled workers threatens to slow down Germany’s energy transition, according to a report by the Institute of the German Economy (IW) ...
28 Nov 2022, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Policy 91tv In a bid to shield households and businesses from the drastic increase in energy prices, Germany’s government has approved a draft law to cap the price of electricity and gas ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:46 Sören Amelang Company climate claims Society 91tv Food product labels such as “climate neutral,” “CO2-neutral” or “climate positive” do not indicate that these are climate-friendly at all and should be banned, consumer NGO ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:44 Sören Amelang Gas Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s economy ministry has renewed its rejection of the controversial " fracking " method to produce natural gas, in response to a call by the finance ministry to allow using the ...
22 Nov 2022, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Business 91tv Companies in Germany invested about 55 billion euros in climate action measures in 2021 but still have to double their financial efforts to get on track towards the country’s 2045 greenhouse ...
21 Nov 2022, 13:57 Sören Amelang International COP27 91tv The UN climate conference COP27 in Egypt did not deliver what is needed to mitigate the rise in global temperatures, the German government has said. “The steps adopted to reduce ...
17 Nov 2022, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv The “Climate and Psyche” taskforce of the German Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Association (DGPPN) has called for better political support for mental health care through the climate crisis. In ...
21 Nov 2022, 10:32 It remains virtually impossible to make truly "climate neutral" products in a modern economy, despite the rapid increase of such labels, says Susanne Spies of Germany's Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Entirely ...
16 Nov 2022, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Business 91tv Climate protection played an important role for just under 60 percent of German start-ups founded last year, state-owned development bank KfW found. Ten percent of start-ups mainly offered ...
15 Nov 2022, 13:22 Julian Wettengel International 91tv / Reuters The G7, along with Norway and Denmark, have announced a 20 billion U.S. dollar partnership to support Indonesia in moving away from fossil fuels and speeding up its energy ...
14 Nov 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv Denmark tops the latest edition of the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) by NewClimate Institute, Climate Action Network and Germanwatch, which saw Germany fall ...
14 Nov 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Finance International 91tv / Deutsche Welle The G7’s strong economies have launched a scheme to quickly provide financial support to countries most vulnerable to climate risks in case of a disaster – the ...
14 Nov 2022, 12:19 Edgar Meza Politics International 91tv Germany is seeking to diversify supply chains and increase international cooperation on climate protection with Asian countries, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said during a visit to Vietnam ...
10 Nov 2022, 13:39 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market ...
10 Nov 2022, 13:34 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv A new protection strategy for moorlands adopted by Germany’s government aims to better ...
08 Nov 2022, 14:08 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv The southern German state of Bavaria is set to invest 500 million euros in renewable energy and hydrogen production projects, the state’s economy minister, Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters), ...
08 Nov 2022, 13:51 As the UN climate change conference (COP27) gets underway in Egypt, the German government has pledged additional funding to protect forests worldwide and support the most vulnerable countries in dealing with climate risks. Chancellor ...
07 Nov 2022, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Cost & Prices Reuters The German finance minister, Christian Lindner (FDP), has earmarked 83 billion euros for the energy price brakes of gas and electricity, reports news agency Reuters. The price brakes, ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:20 The European Union aims to take on a leadership role when the global community meets in Egypt for the annual UN climate change conference. But a unified European voice is difficult to maintain as member states are hampered by ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:02 Sören Amelang Wind 91tv Germany’s federal government, several of its states and grid operators have agreed on how to implement the country’s more ambitious targets for the expansion of offshore wind turbines. With the ...
03 Nov 2022, 13:38 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 91tv Energy consumption in Germany is expected to decline 2.7 percent this year as savings triggered by high prices and relatively warm weather more than compensated for a growing economy and ...
03 Nov 2022, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Implementing Germany’s planned electricity and gas price brakes is “unmanageable” in the desired timeframe, energy associations have said following a cabinet meeting on the ...
03 Nov 2022, 13:34 German officials have reiterated that public support for new gas projects in other countries should be possible, as long as these are in line with overall climate commitments. The comments by the government come amid sharp criticism by ...
03 Nov 2022, 13:10 Boasting about “climate neutral” products or vague plans to become “net zero” is turning into a legal risk for companies, as activists drag firms into courts over deceiving consumers with questionable climate pledges. A raft of landmark ...
01 Nov 2022, 13:37 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv The draft climate action programme currently debated among German ministries is not enough to reach greenhouse gas reduction targets in the transport sector for 2030, and additional steps are to be ...
31 Oct 2022, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Solar 91tv Regional officials in eastern German Cottbus have given the green light for the country's largest floating solar power plant to be built on the man-made Cottbus Ostsee lake, a former open ...
28 Oct 2022, 13:17 Julian Wettengel International COP27 91tv The German government aims to continue efforts to regain the trust of the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, while at the same time strengthening ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:19 Jessica Bateman Nuclear phase-out 91tv The Emsland nucelar power plant in northern Germany can only make a minimal contribution to gas savings and energy price reduction, a report by analysis company Energy Brainpool ...
26 Oct 2022, 13:34 Jessica Bateman Mobility 91tv A new report has found that shared e-mobility options, such as e-scooters and e-bikes, can help reduce overall transport emissions in cities. Researchers from institute Fraunhofer ISI analysed ...
26 Oct 2022, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Industry 91tv Plans by the German government to "retroactively or disproportionately" skim off windfall revenues of the photovoltaic (PV) industry could lead to a market collapse, said the ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:39 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 EU 91tv Germany must purchase more than eleven million emission allocations totalling several million euros after overshooting its EU greenhouse gas emissions targets in the sectors ...
24 Oct 2022, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Finance Company climate claims 91tv Sixty percent of the top 20 DAX companies – major German businesses trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange – have set themselves net-zero greenhouse gas emission ...
20 Oct 2022, 14:48 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv Germany can implement ambitious climate action and at the same time strive for long-term energy sovereignty as it attempts to find a way out of the current energy crisis, said researchers ...
20 Oct 2022, 14:27 The German government has said it increased public climate finance for developing and emerging countries to 5.34 billion euros last year, meaning the country is on track towards reaching its target of 6 billion euros by 2025. Together ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:49 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Cars 91tv Germany is to accelerate the expansion of its electromobility charging network to facilitate the switch to electric vehicles, transport minister Volker Wissing (FDP) announced after ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Long-distance bus service provider FlixBus insists on being included in Germany’s planned monthly 49-euro ticket for nationwide public ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:44 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Resources & Recycling 91tv To succeed in the energy transition, Germany will focus on warranting secure supply chains and reliable production capacities required for renewable ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:12 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Nuclear phase-out pv magazine / Clean ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said his government would pave the way for prolonging the runtime of all three of Germany’s remaining reactors until April 2023. The German leader thus intervened to settle a dispute about the delayed end of ...
14 Oct 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv High prices and possibly also pleas by the government are driving down gas consumption in Germany, reports Jakob Schlandt in energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
13 Oct 2022, 10:52 Climate activist Greta Thunberg has backed the continued use of nuclear power plants that are still in operation in Germany, fuelling a heated debate over runtime extensions as the government struggles to find a unified position on the ...
11 Oct 2022, 14:16 Carolina Kyllmann Nuclear phase-out AFP The German coalition government hasn’t been able to come to an agreement over the economy minister’s proposed runtime extension scheme for two of the country’s three remaining nuclear power plants ...
11 Oct 2022, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Security 91tv Germany aims to keep the Paris Climate Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C within reach, even as the energy crisis in Europe puts a focus on fossil fuels in the short term, ...
10 Oct 2022, 13:41 The German state should support households and businesses with about 90 billion euros by early 2024 to lower gas bills, said an expert commission charged by the government with drawing up a plan to relieve gas consumers affected by ...
06 Oct 2022, 13:48 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Heating RND The drastic gas price increase has pushed the sale of heating systems burning oil in Germany. "From the beginning of January to the end of July, twelve percent more oil heaters were delivered by ...
29 Sep 2022, 10:46 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Gas 91tv Leaking methane from the damaged Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines is likely to lead to “significant climate damage”, Germany's Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has said. ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Die Welt / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has called on the country’s states to massively ramp up their onshore wind power efforts, newspaper Die Welt reports. ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Consumers in Germany can expect to pay about 20 percent more for their appartment's gas heating bill 2021 than for the year before, and prices could climb by 67 percent ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security 91tv Germany’s economy ministry and the operators of two of the country’s three remaining nuclear plants have agreed on a concept for keeping them in an emergency reserve beyond ...
26 Sep 2022, 12:14 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Sören Amelang Company climate claims Society 91tv Products advertised as “climate neutral” mislead consumers ...
21 Sep 2022, 12:59 Julian Wettengel Solar 91tv 2022 will become a record year for solar power generation in Germany, data by research institute Fraunhofer ISE’s Energy Charts suggests. “By mid-September, solar plants in Germany had already ...
20 Sep 2022, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security dpa / Zeit Online / 91tv One of the two nuclear plants in Germany slated to go into an emergency reserve until April 2023 has to undergo urgent maintenance work due to a valve ...
20 Sep 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza Transport Cars 91tv More than half of all newly registered trucks in Europe, the US and China will be electric by 2035, according to a new study by McKinsey & Company presented at this year’s German car show ...
20 Sep 2022, 13:03 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv Germany’s leading car rental company Sixt has announced plans to increase the share of its electric vehicles in its global fleet to between 70 and 90 percent by 2030. That share is expected to reach 12 ...
19 Sep 2022, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende 91tv The German government has to urgently step up its energy transition efforts in response to the “Zeitenwende” (turn of an era) brought on by Russia’s war against Ukraine, an ...
15 Sep 2022, 13:46 Sören Amelang Solar Policy dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The German government is introducing tax breaks for the operation of small-scale photovoltaic systems and removing other bureaucratic hurdles to speed up the ...
13 Sep 2022, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv Many companies in Germany’s vast "Mittelstand" sector of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) still place high importance on sustainability, despite ...
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. ...
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, 13:10 With its third energy cost relief package since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the German government hopes to alleviate concerns over skyrocketing prices for heating and electricity in the coming winter. The large package worth ...
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 ...
02 Sep 2022, 12:53 Rising energy and food prices and climate change top the list of main worries in Germany, several surveys show. Investing in renewables by a wide margin is seen as the best way to achieve energy independence from Russia by respondents ...
08 Sep 2022, 13:00 Products labelled as “climate neutral” deceive consumers and undermine progress in reducing emissions, argues Environmental Action Germany, an NGO specialising in fighting environmental cases in court. “They are totally ...
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 ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Transport Dlf / 91tv The German government will present a “modern public transport ticket” after the population has “embraced” the 9-euro ticket the country introduced as part of a relief package in the ...
30 Aug 2022, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv The summer of 2022 in Germany was the sunniest, the sixth driest and among the four warmest on record, Germany's National Meteorological Service (DWD) said. “In these times of ...
30 Aug 2022, 13:11 Edgar Meza Transport Cost & Prices 91tv The popularity of Germany’s temporary 9-euro public transport ticket has not only shown that people are willing to embrace public transport and stop using their cars if such ...
29 Aug 2022, 13:22 Hannah Naylor Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) are preparing a formal list of additional measures to aid German citizens cope with the dramatic increase in energy prices, reports dpa news ...
29 Aug 2022, 13:20 Hannah Naylor Wind ZDF Bavarian state premier Markus Söder has announced plans to build “over 1,000 new wind turbines” in Germany's largest state, which has been accused of putting the brakes on the expansion of windpower. Bavaria ...
26 Aug 2022, 14:20 The German government has introduced a package of energy saving provisions for businesses and state entities that will take effect in September, just as key relief measures run out and citizens are set to face higher prices for fuels ...
26 Aug 2022, 12:56 Hannah Naylor Coal Transport 91tv Coal and oil were the most important commodities shipped on German waterways, with almost 12 million tonnes each between January and May of this year, said statistical office Destatis. Coal ...
25 Aug 2022, 13:58 Hannah Naylor Transport Hydrogen 91tv / Der Spiegel Germany saw the commencement of the world’s first regular operation of hydrogen-powered trains this week, making "railway history," operator company EVB said. ...
23 Aug 2022, 13:34 Edgar Meza Industry Heating 91tv German companies use the vast majority of their entire water consumption for cooling, according to statistical office Destatis. Companies used a total of 15.3 billion cubic metres of fresh ...
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 ...
22 Aug 2022, 13:07 Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen Rheinische Post / 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz and economy minister Robert Habeck want to deepen Germany’s energy ties with Canada during a three-day state visit, with a particular focus on future ...
18 Aug 2022, 14:40 Hannah Naylor Transport Cost & Prices dpa / Der Spiegel The popular 9-euro nationwide public transport ticket in Germany is set to end on 31 August, after running for three months, and many passengers will face the shock of an ...
18 Aug 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Gas n-tv Power production with natural gas increased in Germany in May and July despite political pledges to minimise the fossil fuel’s use amid the supply crunch caused by Russia’s war on Ukraine, news ...
17 Aug 2022, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Security Handelsblatt / Bild-Zeitung Russia’s government is actively trying to exploit Germany’s current energy supply crisis by sowing division and spreading disinformation, security agencies in Germany have ...
16 Aug 2022, 13:48 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Hannah Naylor Gas 91tv Germany consumed 14.7 ...
15 Aug 2022, 14:13 Hannah Naylor Coal Transport dpa / ARD Germany's economy and transport ministries are working on a regulation to give trains transporting coal, mineral oil and gas priority over passenger trains, as the country is tackling the ...
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 ...
11 Aug 2022, 14:07 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities 91tv German energy company RWE will spend about 5 billion euros – 30 percent more than originally planned – on ...
10 Aug 2022, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background There are still no liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply contracts between German and Qatari companies almost five months after economy minister Robert Habeck visited the gulf state in March to ...
09 Aug 2022, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The German finance ministry (BMF) is working on a scheme to further reduce the financial burden of gas price increases, which are expected to ...
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, ...
09 Aug 2022, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv / ZDF Germany is facing severe gas supply shortages in the coming winter if it fails to introduce the right measures, according to scenarios mapped out by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). The ...
08 Aug 2022, 12:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv About two thirds of 444 German small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) surveyed by the Trier University say they aim to reduce their CO2 emissions by 2030, while a ...
05 Aug 2022, 14:00 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cities 91tv Traffic regulations in Germany need a comprehensive reform to make the ...
05 Aug 2022, 11:34 With natural gas deliveries from Russia dwindling, the German government is preparing for a winter without sufficient supplies of the fossil fuel it relies on heavily for heating homes. As well as increasing the import of liquified gas ...
04 Aug 2022, 13:43 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices Die Zeit France’s huge nuclear power plant fleet currently only delivers a fraction of its energy ...
04 Aug 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland / 91tv / Welt / BR The German nuclear power phase-out “will not be revised” as a result of the current gas supply crisis, the co-leader of the ...
03 Aug 2022, 13:59 Hannah Naylor Climate & CO2 Electricity Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv Lower economic growth and favourable weather have reduced Germany’s energy consumption by 3.5 percent in the first six months of the year, compared to ...
03 Aug 2022, 13:37 Russia is ready to use “pretexts and invented reasons” to obstruct Europe’s energy supply, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said as his government prepares for a possible full halt to natural gas trading with the country’s most ...
02 Aug 2022, 14:20 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Edgar Meza Renewables Solar pv magazine Photovoltaic systems in Germany generated a new record level of electricity in the month July 2022, the pv ...
02 Aug 2022, 14:06 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Coal Süddeutsche Zeitung The decision by ...
02 Aug 2022, 13:42 Hannah Naylor EU Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Poland’s president Andrzej Duda has condemned Germany’s past insistence on remaining invested in Russian energy sources, arguing previous chancellor Angela Merkel had repeatedly ...
02 Aug 2022, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany will be able to procure the volumes of hydrogen imports needed by 2030 if it quickly sets the right infrastructural, legal and entrepreneurial course, a team of researchers ...
02 Aug 2022, 13:05 German consumers are swarming to shops to buy electric heaters as fears of a true gas shortage caused by Russia's war on Ukraine rise, but experts warn this could pose problems for power supply security. The majority of heating and ...
01 Aug 2022, 13:20 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government ARD / Tagesspiegel / Handelsblatt / ZDF The debate about extending the runtime of Germany’s three remaining ...
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 ...
29 Jul 2022, 11:27 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices Reuters / dpa / ARD / Tagesspiegel Background Germany will introduce a levy consumers would pay with their gas bills from 1 October to help importing companies pass on rising costs for the fuel, ...
28 Jul 2022, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Gas dpa Germany’s gas storage levels could reach 90 percent by 1 November, even under the scenario where flows from Russia through the crucial Nord Stream pipeline remain curbed, the association of gas storage system ...
28 Jul 2022, 12:21 Hannah Naylor Gas Society dpa Berlin’s parliamentarians and tourists alike will soon feel the impact of Germany’s drive to save energy, in response to looming gas shortages. The Reichstag parliament building is in the process of ...
27 Jul 2022, 12:32 Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv / ARD The German government has decided to reduce support for e-cars and increasingly limit it to fully electric cars, ending subsidies for plug-in hybrids, said the economy ministry. E-mobility ...
26 Jul 2022, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Gas EU 91tv An agreement by EU countries to curb gas use during the coming winter is a signal of unity and solidarity in the face of the current energy crisis, said German economy minister Robert Habeck. ...
26 Jul 2022, 11:23 Sören Amelang Gas 91tv Germany’s plans for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to replace Russian supplies exceed requirements and put the country’s and European climate targets at risk, argues a report commissioned by ...
25 Jul 2022, 13:29 Sören Amelang Gas Bild / Tagesspiegel Background / Rheinische Post The German government is considering financial aid to protect households that can’t afford rising gas bills, reports tabloid Bild. Coalition sources told the paper that ...
25 Jul 2022, 13:26 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices 91tv The German government will have to invest almost half a trillion euros to reach its 2045 climate neutral target, according to an analysis by consultancy Prognos for public development ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
20 Jul 2022, 13:56 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business 91tv Customer protection association vzbv has filed a lawsuit against Tesla over ...
20 Jul 2022, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Cities 91tv In a bid to adapt cities and other urban areas to climate change effects such as extreme heat, Germany’s buildings and construction ministry (BMWSB) has launched a programme to fund measures ...
20 Jul 2022, 12:58 Sören Amelang Gas 91tv Germany will use a fifth floating liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal in its drive to wean itself off Russian gas imports at a pace “never seen before” in the country. A private consortium will ...
19 Jul 2022, 14:23 Hannah Naylor Gas Hydrogen General Anzeiger Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pledged to assist Germany’s move towards independence from Russia by supplying natural gas and agreed on a green hydrogen partnership during a meeting ...
19 Jul 2022, 14:21 Hannah Naylor Transport Cost & Prices dpa / ARD Due to the success of the current 9-euro public transport ticket, German transport minister Volker Wissing is willing to consider an ongoing alternative, though not before the end of ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:49 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Heating 91tv The ...
18 Jul 2022, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Renewables 91tv Renewables have increased their power output in Germany to 49 percent in the first half of 2022, according to first estimates published by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). ...
18 Jul 2022, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Cities rbb / 91tv The city of Berlin will launch a “heat aid” programme for homeless people that is aimed at assisting those in need of cooling and hydration during increasingly hot ...
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 ...
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 ...
14 Jul 2022, 13:15 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Transport Heating 91tv The government action programmes for bringing the high-emitting transport and buildings sectors back on their emission reduction trajectories, has been criticised for ...
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 ...
13 Jul 2022, 12:58 Jessica Bateman Coal 91tv Rising gas prices mean the 2030 coal phase-out date set by the coalition government will be much harder to achieve without political intervention, a short report by the Friedrich-Alexander ...
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 ...
14 Jul 2022, 11:51 Germany must better prepare for the impacts of climate change, environment minister Steffi Lemke said, as a heat wave is sweeping across Europe exactly one year after deadly floods killed hundreds of people in Germany and neighbouring ...
12 Jul 2022, 12:23 Jessica Bateman Wind Handelsblatt German wind power expansion is declining despite government efforts to increase capacity, according to figures from the Fachagentur Windenergie an Land (FA Wind) as seen by business daily Handelsblatt. ...
12 Jul 2022, 12:20 Jessica Bateman Business & Jobs 91tv Germany should respond with more and faster climate action to the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia’s war against Ukraine, said the German CEO Alliance for Climate and Economy ...
11 Jul 2022, 12:24 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s government will make good on a key coalition agreement promise this week and present an “immediate climate action programme” with measures in all economic ...
07 Jul 2022, 13:21 Sören Amelang Coal Gas rbb Germany’s coal power station operators are struggling to implement the reactivation of mothballed plants, which the country’s parliament is set to approve on Thursday in order to save natural gas in the face ...
07 Jul 2022, 14:21 Germany's ruling parties have dropped the target of “near 100 percent renewables” in the power grid by 2035 but agreed on more favourable conditions for solar PV and strict wind power expansion targets for laggard states in their ...
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 ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:04 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG ...
04 Jul 2022, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Heating 91tv The German heating sector must be reformed from its core and made more efficient to weather the energy supply challenges ahead, the state-funded Federal Environmental Foundation ...
01 Jul 2022, 13:10 Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out 91tv Germany’s future power system will function in a reliable and cost-efficient way if the country sticks to its end-2022 nuclear phase-out date, a meta-analysis of several energy ...
30 Jun 2022, 14:07 On 1 July, Germany marks the end of its landmark renewables levy on consumer power prices. The surcharge helped to spur the growth of wind and solar power capacity for more than two decades but has also been criticised for contributing ...
30 Jun 2022, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv Germany wants to rapidly increase the expansion of heat pumps and install 500,000 new units annually from 2024 onwards, said the economy and climate ministry, after agreeing a joint declaration ...
29 Jun 2022, 13:00 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Sören Amelang Cars 91tv / Reuters Germany will ...
28 Jun 2022, 15:11 Civil society groups and others have largely reacted with criticism of the German presidency's role in furthering climate action within the G7 group of influential economies. With the energy crisis caused by Russia's invasion ...
28 Jun 2022, 17:16 G7 leaders have finished their three-day meeting in the Bavarian Alps with a commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, even as they agreed that public funding could be necessary for some fossil gas projects to reduce dependence on ...
27 Jun 2022, 19:30 The leaders’ meeting at Schloss Elmau in the German Alps is set to be a “historic” G7 summit, says political analyst John Kirton. Never before has a summit of the G7 summit faced such a simultaneously unfolding and severe set of ...
24 Jun 2022, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn Cars Deutschlandfunk Environment minister Steffi Lemke (Green Party) remains optimistic that Germany’s government cabinet will find a common line on the ban of internal combustion engine cars in the EU, despite recent ...
24 Jun 2022, 14:08 The German government has launched the second of a total of three escalation stages of its national gas supply security plan, which was drawn up in reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After triggering the first "early ...
23 Jun 2022, 13:05 Edgar Meza Policy EU Euronews, 91tv The European Parliament’s approval on 23 June of a draft law overhauling the bloc’s emissions trading system (EU ETS) has been met with widespread criticism from industry and ...
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 ...
28 Jun 2022, 17:00 Climate is planned to figure high on the agenda as leaders of the G7 democratic economies come together in a remote castle with picturesque views of alpine peaks in southern German state Bavaria. The German presidency has promised to ...
21 Jun 2022, 12:52 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 91tv Efforts to replace fossil fuel imports from Russia must be accompanied by an "even stronger adoption of policies embracing the transition to decarbonisation and the green economy, ...
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 ...
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, 12:23 Edgar Meza Wind Security Der Spiegel Growing tensions between the West and China are leading to increasing concern over the role of Chinese companies in Germany’s energy sector, particularly in the wind power segment, Spiegel reports. A ...
20 Jun 2022, 12:17 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cities RND Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s cabinet is set to adopt a new national water strategy by the end of the year, RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) reports. The cabinet is currently voting on a draft ...
20 Jun 2022, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels G20 & G7 91tv The question of how to replace natural gas supply from Russia will play an “enormous role” at upcoming leaders’ summits of the European Union, the G7 and NATO, said a German ...
17 Jun 2022, 08:50 The German government’s G7 agenda has been thrown off course by Russia’s war against Ukraine, but chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is determined to keep climate policy as a top priority for the summit of the seven large economies in ...
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 ...
16 Jun 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Rheinische Post To save gas and money, German households should be incentivised to use less energy for heating, the president of the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), Klaus Müller, has told newspaper ...
15 Jun 2022, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv For a “fair and adequate” German contribution to efforts to reach the international climate target of keeping the global temperature rise below 1.5°C, the country may emit no more ...
15 Jun 2022, 12:20 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv Germany should be able to import green hydrogen from Australia at competitive prices, a feasibility study has revealed. German industry association BDI and the National Academy of Science and ...
14 Jun 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza G20 & G7 Science ministers of the G7 countries have agreed on a number of measures to promote greater climate change research, CO2 removal and protection of the ocean-climate-biodiversity nexus. A meeting in Frankfurt on ...
14 Jun 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background / FAZ / 91tv German newspapers call the government’s decision to cut energy taxes on fuels for three months to soften the impact of rising prices a “ ...
14 Jun 2022, 08:55 Russia’s war against Ukraine will throw the agenda of the upcoming G7 summit off course, but it will not derail the climate focus host country Germany has set, political analyst Ella Kokotsis told 91tv. As a leading ...
13 Jun 2022, 12:07 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv Germany’s plans for the rollout of e-car charging infrastructure are greatly exaggerated, the country’s energy industry has warned. The government currently aims for one million public charging ...
13 Jun 2022, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Deutschlandfunk / Spiegel German economy minister Robert Habeck has said that the government intends to tighten the country’s antitrust law amid concerns that oil companies do not pass on ...
10 Jun 2022, 13:10 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Kerstine Appunn Wind Der Spiegel / 91tv The German government’s push for ...
09 Jun 2022, 13:26 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Heating 91tv Undertaking a climate friendly refurbishment of an average one-family home, including the installation of a heat pump, solar panels and insulation measures, will cost about 49,000 ...
09 Jun 2022, 13:25 Kerstine Appunn Heating 91tv Heat pumps are the best option for Germany to reach its climate targets in the buildings sector, researchers from the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal ...
07 Jun 2022, 13:16 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Government 91tv The German government’s action on emission reductions is “insufficient” for reaching its climate promises, an analysis NGO Climate Action Tracker has found. In a press ...
07 Jun 2022, 13:03 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices dpa Germany’s climate ministry is planning to expand the scope of the country’s national CO2 price – currently applicable to transport and heating fuels – to emissions from waste ...
01 Jun 2022, 14:16 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv Renewable energies will be at the heart of supply security in Germany in the future, but the country will continue to need gas and must “think big” when it comes to ramping up hydrogen, ...
01 Jun 2022, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices WDR A new controversial fuel price rebate took effect in Germany on 1 June as part of a government package aimed at cushioning the financial impact of the Ukraine war on citizens. Through ...
01 Jun 2022, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann International G20 & G7 91tv The G7 countries have to deliver a breakthrough in international climate policy that is commensurate with the urgency of protecting natural habitats in grave danger due to ...
31 May 2022, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung All countries in Europe and beyond need to take “extraordinary measures” to reduce their fossil energy demand in response to the supply crisis exacerbated by ...
30 May 2022, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU Der Tagesspiegel / 91tv The German foreign ministry’s special envoy for international climate action, former Greenpeace head Jennifer Morgan, has said she supports the idea of higher import ...
30 May 2022, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Funke Mediengruppe / Bild / n-tv Plans by Germany’s labour minister to assist households struggling with high energy prices and inflation by paying them a “social climate money” have led to ...
27 May 2022, 13:54 Sören Amelang International G20 & G7 91tv Germany and the United States have launched an energy partnership focused on accelerating climate action, speeding up the energy transition with new technologies, and promoting ...
27 May 2022, 13:31 The Group of Seven western industrialised states (G7) has committed to making their electricity systems “predominantly” carbon-free by 2035, but stopped short of setting a concrete date for exiting coal. Following their meeting in ...
25 May 2022, 13:39 Sören Amelang Wind Tagesspiegel Background Bidders offering to implement offshore wind power projects with the lowest CO2 footpring could have an advantage in Germany’s future renewable power auctions that determine who gets to install ...
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 ...
24 May 2022, 13:43 Sören Amelang Carbon market EU Handelsblatt The European Commission’s plans to use the sale of CO2 permits as a source of additional income is a risk to the EU’s entire climate architecture and emission reduction targets, utility RWE ...
23 May 2022, 13:14 Sören Amelang Hydrogen International G20 & G7 91tv The burgeoning global trade in green hydrogen risks becoming an environmental and social burden in producing countries, and the G7 must take steps to ensure it will ...
20 May 2022, 13:52 Sören Amelang Gas Business & Jobs Der Spiegel Germany’s car industry rejects government plans to give gas suppliers the right to hike prices immediately in case of supply shortfalls. The proposal is "one-sided" as " ...
20 May 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind 91tv For the first time, offshore wind energy in Germany is being used to stabilise the country's electricity system in case of grid fluctuations. The offshore wind farm Riffgrund 1, ...
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 ...
20 May 2022, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Policy Der Spiegel / 91tv The German parliament and the Council of Federal States (Bundesrat) have given the go-ahead to several measures proposed by the government to reduce ...
19 May 2022, 12:07 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark have agreed to expand offshore wind power generation capacity in the North Sea tenfold to at least 150 gigawatts (GW) by 2050. The countries are also set to ...
19 May 2022, 12:05 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv A German NGO specialising in environmental litigation has launched legal action against Nivea maker Beiersdorf, oil majors BP, Shell, TotalEnergies and other ...
18 May 2022, 12:25 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 91tv Development ministers of the seven leading western industrialised states (G7) are meeting in Berlin on 18-19 May to discuss the German G7 presidency’s plans for so-called Just Energy ...
17 May 2022, 11:51 Julian Wettengel Transport 91tv / n-tv The transport committee in Germany’s national parliament (Bundestag) has voted in favour of 2.5 billion euros in financial support for the federal states to offer citizens public ...
16 May 2022, 13:07 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 91tv Foreign ministers of the seven leading western industrialised states (G7) have committed to supporting emerging and developing countries in their endeavour to transition towards climate ...
13 May 2022, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv With the current legal framework for energy and climate policy, Germany’s building sector climate target would be missed by a wide margin, said energy industry association BDEW in a report. The ...
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 ...
12 May 2022, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Society G20 & G7 91tv / Die Zeit Several major environmental groups have urged German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to step up the country’s climate action efforts and make the topic a priority of the G7 ...
12 May 2022, 13:38 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation ...
11 May 2022, 12:48 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Business & Jobs 91tv The ...
09 May 2022, 14:15 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Heating 91tv A large-scale switch to heat pumps, solar energy, and better demand-side management in the heating sector ...
09 May 2022, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics NDR The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) have achieved a clear victory in the state elections of northern German Schleswig-Holstein and relegated chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats ...
06 May 2022, 14:04 The effects of the war in Ukraine will have a major impact on Germany’s most important state election this year, making next week’s vote in heavy industry heartland North-Rhine Westphalia another gauge of the public’s view of the ...
06 May 2022, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Wind Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that laws requiring wind park operators to give neighbouring residents or communities the opportunity to share in the profits are ...
06 May 2022, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv The head of energy industry association BDEW has called on the government to examine further measures that could relieve households amid rising energy prices. “Since the beginning of ...
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 ...
03 May 2022, 13:55 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s government is planning to support up to four gigawatt (GW) electrolyser capacity and wants to get rid of the last inland flights for the postal ...
02 May 2022, 14:14 Voters in the northern wind power state of Schleswig-Holstein head to the polls this Sunday (8 May) to elect a new parliament in one of the regions most crucial to Germany’s efforts to phase out Russian fossil fuel imports and massively ...
29 Apr 2022, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Policy 91tv German consumers will no longer have to pay the renewables surcharge on the power price as of 1 July 2022. The German federal parliament (Bundestag) passed ...
29 Apr 2022, 13:15 Sören Amelang Coal Utilities 91tv / Handelsblatt A vast majority of RWE shareholders have rejected a request to force management to start preparations for a spinoff of the company's brown coal activities, but major ...
27 Apr 2022, 12:35 Sören Amelang Efficiency Heating 91tv The renovation of existing residential buildings to increase energy efficiency has become more cost-effective than ever before due to the massive spike in energy costs, according to a ...
27 Apr 2022, 11:40 Sören Amelang Edgar Meza Transport Berliner Zeitung Berlin's Kreuzberg district plans to ban car parking in a neighborhood with 20,000 people, repurposing the space for children to play on the street, Berliner Zeitung reports. The ...
26 Apr 2022, 13:13 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Cost & Prices 91tv Energy cost relief support for low-income households is not targeted enough to alleviate their burden, a new report by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in ...
22 Apr 2022, 12:42 Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out 91tv The European nuclear power sector is highly dependent on imports of Russian uranium, according to a report by NGOs Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND), the Nuclear Free Future ...
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 ...
21 Apr 2022, 13:49 Sören Amelang Transport Freight A combination of road and rail transport is the freight rail segment with greatest growth potential in Germany and the EU, according to a report by German industry association BDI. "This is why it ...
21 Apr 2022, 13:42 Edgar Meza Julian Wettengel Efficiency Heating 91tv The German government’s 1-billion-euro subsidy programme for new energy-efficient buildings was depleted just hours after its 20 April start, according to the economy and ...
20 Apr 2022, 13:41 Sören Amelang Cars Utilities 91tv The German government's subsidy programmes for the rollout of public e-car charging infrastructure are so ineffective that they should be rebuilt from scratch, the country's ...
