23 Oct 2020, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Cars Technology 91tv Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability (LBF) have developed a lightweight battery pack to reduce the overall weight of e-car batteries. ...
22 Oct 2020, 13:47 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv Interruptions in Germany’s electricity ...
21 Oct 2020, 13:41 The EU’s 27 agriculture ministers have found a compromise on how the 387 billion euros in farming subsidies should be spent in the years until 2027, agreeing to make certain environmental and climate standards mandatory and earmarking a ...
20 Oct 2020, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Security Tagesspiegel Background The coronavirus pandemic shows that Europe needs to broaden its security policy focus to include non-military or terrorist threats such as infectious disease and global warming, former ...
20 Oct 2020, 12:36 Nuclear phase-out Tageszeitung (taz) An event aimed at boosting public participation in Germany’s search for a nuclear waste disposal site has drawn less interest than its organisers expected, Malte Kreutzfeldt writes in Die ...
20 Oct 2020, 12:34 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Wind Handelsblatt German electricity transmission grid operator 50Hertz wants to see a more aggressive expansion of wind power in the Baltic Sea than currently ...
19 Oct 2020, 12:59 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Heating EU Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Europe needs a new way of using resources and should bring together design and sustainability, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen writes in an op-ed ...
19 Oct 2020, 12:57 Kerstine Appunn Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Higher costs for gas infrastructure and the new CO2 price in the heating sector are set to increase gas costs for German households in 2021, consumer comparison site Verivox has ...
16 Oct 2020, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars rbb24 / Der Spiegel US carmaker Tesla has been forced to halt construction works at its planned e-car and battery factory near Berlin after failing to pay a water bill to the local supply company, which then ...
16 Oct 2020, 13:17 Germany's environment minister has called for a sharp increase in the country's renewables targets. Svenja Schulze said the country will have to increase renewables' share in power use to "at least 75 percent, maybe ...
15 Oct 2020, 13:56 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices 91tv Prices at electric car charging points in Germany are not ...
15 Oct 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government 91tv The surcharge on German power customers' bills to support the expansion of renewable energy sources will fall from currently 6.75 to 6.5 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) ...
15 Oct 2020, 11:29 EU countries largely make good progress towards reaching their existing energy and climate targets for 2030, said the European Commission in a series of reports. But the assessment of national plans comes at a time when the union is in ...
14 Oct 2020, 15:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv Most people in Germany regard the mobility sector as a great threat to the country's climate targets and call for measures to reduce the impact of transport on greenhouse gas ...
14 Oct 2020, 14:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv Germany will try to retain most of its wind power capacity that will lose its guaranteed remuneration after dropping out of the 20-year feed-in tariff support scheme ...
13 Oct 2020, 13:58 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Coal EU 91tv The Polish state-owned PGE energy company’s plans to expand the Turów opencast mine threaten to pollute German water supplies, the advocacy ...
13 Oct 2020, 13:54 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy ...
13 Oct 2020, 13:21 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Finance EU 91tv Many smaller companies in Germany are worried that the EU’s ...
12 Oct 2020, 13:43 If the European Union doesn't include stricter rules for climate friendly farming in its main subsidy scheme (CAP), the farming sector will not achieve any emission reductions in the next ten years, a new report finds. Expert ...
09 Oct 2020, 13:43 Sören Amelang Industry Hamburger Abendblatt Swiss-based building materials company Holcim is registering rising demand for climate-neutral concrete. "We register big interest from many companies in climate-neutral construction who ...
09 Oct 2020, 13:38 Sören Amelang Cars dpa / Die Welt / 91tv People in Germany are set to buy more pure electric cars and plug-in hybrids than diesel cars soon, a survey commissioned by price comparison website Verivox shows, news agency dpa ...
08 Oct 2020, 14:19 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Sören Amelang Cars Automobilwoche / dpa /Handelsblatt The Daimler works council has warned the carmaker against focusing solely on electric mobility. "Electric mobility is ...
06 Oct 2020, 13:09 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv Support payments for electric mobility are part of " ...
06 Oct 2020, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann International Security 91tv German defence minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has said the country's military needs to better adapt to the challenges posed by climate change and improve its equipment ...
05 Oct 2020, 13:57 Sören Amelang Mobility Cars Elections & Politics Süddeutsche Zeitung / Guardian One year before Germany's general election, the country's Green Party is calling for a radical rethink of transport policy by putting a ...
05 Oct 2020, 13:45 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv A record number of car buyers in Germany have opted for electric vehicles in September. The number of new purely electric vehicles rose to 21,188 last month, an increase of 260 percent compared to a ...
29 Sep 2020, 13:04 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Transport 91tv The coronavirus pandemic is causing public transport to lose ground to individual transport means, such as ...
28 Sep 2020, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Security FAZ / Tagesspiegel Background The German national parliament’s (Bundestag) research service does not regard US sanctions against German companies in connection with the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline as a ...
25 Sep 2020, 14:04 With numerous protests across Germany, the Fridays for Future youth movement has taken aim at pushing climate action to the very top of the political agenda in the run-up to the country's general elections next year. The activists ...
25 Sep 2020, 13:43 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Gas Security ...
25 Sep 2020, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv The German environmental umbrella organisation DNR is calling for a comprehensive restructuring of financial market regulation to pave the way for an effective implementation of the European ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Society rbb24 / 91tv Tesla's planned e-car factory near Berlin continues to draw criticism from local residents who take issue with the fact that work already began despite pending licenses, ...
23 Sep 2020, 15:30 Germany's government has agreed on an overhaul of the country's Renewable Energy Act, the core legislation for its landmark energy transition, to enable a share of 65 percent renewables in 2030 power consumption and a ...
23 Sep 2020, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Wind 91tv Almost a quarter of Germany’s wind turbines require a new business model when fixed payments under the country’s Renewable Energy Act (EEG) expire after their 20-year guaranteed support period, ...
22 Sep 2020, 13:47 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Transport EU 91tv / Der Spiegel / dpa Germany’s transport minister ...
22 Sep 2020, 13:45 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Kerstine Appunn Agriculture EU 91tv The final meeting before the decision on the next funding period for farmers under the EU’s Common ...
22 Sep 2020, 13:25 Expert Association of German Banks Bundesverband der deutschen Banken Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv The vast majority of banks in Germany expect climate change and the political reactions to slow it will have a ...
21 Sep 2020, 13:58 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz ...
21 Sep 2020, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Billions of euros in German taxpayers' money are still flowing into stock transactions that contribute to a global warming trajectory far above that agreed on in the Paris Climate ...
18 Sep 2020, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Der Spiegel German household power costs are moderate as a share of GDP per capita when compared to other European countries, despite being among the highest in absolute terms, an analysis by price ...
18 Sep 2020, 13:30 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Gas Bild / dpa / ZDF A large majority of Germans and the country's eastern states oppose an exit from the controversial Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 following the poisoning of ...
18 Sep 2020, 13:20 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Renewables Solar dpa Solar parks built without relying on financial support are becoming increasingly common in Germany, reports Claus Haffert for newswire dpa. Consultancy Energy Brainpool estimates ...
27 Sep 2021, 15:30 Germany is set to vote for a new government on 26 September. After 16 years at the helm of Europe's largest economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel will make room for a successor who will shape the country's energy and climate ...
17 Sep 2020, 13:13 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Industry 91tv HeidelbergCement, one of the world's largest cement makers, has stepped up its climate ambitions. The German company said it would reduce CO2 emissions per tonne by ...
16 Sep 2020, 12:49 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport 91tv Germany'smunicipalities, as well as its states and federal ...
15 Sep 2020, 14:34 Coal Die Zeit Coal workers in the mining region of Lusatia in eastern Germany are preparing for an uncertain future as the country’s coal exit moves forward, writes Anna Saraste in Die Zeit. With a variety of operations in the area, ...
15 Sep 2020, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG energate messenger / Tagesspiegel Background The latest version of amendments to Germany’s Renewable Energy Act (EEG) includes a tougher climate goal for the electricity sector, which should ...
16 Sep 2020, 12:50 German industry, politicians and environmental NGOs have criticised first details of the European Commission proposal for a more ambitious 2030 climate target. Plans for more stringent passenger car emission rules and the inclusion of ...
14 Sep 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government 91tv The proposal for a " historic consensus " in German society on the need for climate action and the goal of greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050 by economy ...
14 Sep 2020, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics WDR The conservative CDU has emerged as the strongest party in municipal elections in Germany's most populous federal state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), public broadcaster WDR reports. ...
11 Sep 2020, 14:36 One year before Germany's next general election, economy minister Peter Altmaier calls for a "historic consensus" between all democratic parties, businesses and civil society to ensure that climate action and the ...
11 Sep 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Frankfurter Rundschau A German entrepreneur is offering a supplement for cow fodder that could reduce the animals’ methane emissions by up to almost 40 percent. The Switzerland-based company Mootral, which ...
10 Sep 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Society International 91tv A clear majority of people in major European countries are in favour of halting talks over the Mercosur agreement between the EU and South American states if it contributes to a ...
09 Sep 2020, 14:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Society 91tv Campaigners in Germany are calling for a regular prime-time show about climate change on public television, in order to draw more attention to the topic and educate the public on the necessity ...
09 Sep 2020, 14:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities rbb24 The government coalition in the City of Berlin has failed to reach an agreement on a new climate action package that would include a ban on cars with fossil-fuelled combustion engines within the next ...
08 Sep 2020, 14:31 Renewable Energy Act | EEG Cost & Prices dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung The state premier of Lower Saxony, Stephan Weil, has expressed support for scrapping the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) surcharge, dpa reports in an article carried by ...
08 Sep 2020, 13:58 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Transport EU 91tv The European Union has to " ...
07 Sep 2020, 14:16 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare ...
04 Sep 2020, 15:15 The era of Chancellor Angela Merkel will come to an end when Germans head to the polls next autumn after what looks set to become an unusually dramatic run-up to the federal elections. With no clear front-runner for her succession in ...
04 Sep 2020, 14:03 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv The share of new electric vehicle registrations in Germany reached a new record in August. The number of new purely electric vehicles (BEV) rose 220 percent from last year, to 16,076 vehicles. Their ...
04 Sep 2020, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Solar pv magazine A growing number of regional utility companies are showing interest in buying electricity generated from solar PV installations that are more than 20 years old and will cease to receive feed-in payments ...
03 Sep 2020, 13:50 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport 91tv Global aviation is responsible for 3.5 percent of human-made climate ...
02 Sep 2020, 13:05 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Sören Amelang Policy Society 91tv The economic effects of the corona pandemic could slow the energy transition in Germany as ...
02 Sep 2020, 13:03 Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal Renewables 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Power supplier Greenpeace ...
02 Sep 2020, 12:55 A faster deployment of more renewable installations that run into less problems with citizens and are able to quickly survive in the market without government support are at the centre of a renewables law reform proposal by Germany’s ...
01 Sep 2020, 12:46 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Coal Die Welt Germany’s first coal phase-out auction aimed at shutting down ...
31 Aug 2020, 13:42 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
27 Aug 2020, 11:49 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv ...
27 Aug 2020, 11:48 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:26 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Sören Amelang Digitalisation 91tv Artificial intelligence (AI) has started to arrive in some areas ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:23 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert bne- Association of Energy ...
25 Aug 2020, 13:35 Cars Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) The implementation of new emissions tests for cars has led to a large increase in average vehicle tax for newly registered vehicles in Germany, the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) reports. ...
25 Aug 2020, 13:29 Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics taz/ Süddeutsche Zeitung Several members of Fridays for Future (FfF) Germany have declared their intention to run for federal parliament, exposing divisions within the non-partisan climate ...
25 Aug 2020, 13:26 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG ...
24 Aug 2020, 12:29 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Construction and Climate Protection, State of ...
24 Aug 2020, 12:23 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Renewables ...
21 Aug 2020, 14:14 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Agriculture Tagesspiegel Background German farmers should consider switching to more heat resistant crops, Ernst Rauch, chief climate scientist at reinsurance group Munich Re, told Heike Jahberg in an ...
21 Aug 2020, 13:59 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Gas Der Spiegel Methane leaks in municipal gas pipe systems produce an estimated 1.3 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents annually in Germany, according to Der Spiegel, which cites a new study by an ...
20 Aug 2020, 14:54 Greta Thunberg and fellow activists have met German Chancellor Angela Merkel to exchange views on the fight against climate change. The campaigners said the 90 minute meeting's atmosphere was friendly, but also added that " we ...
20 Aug 2020, 13:39 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Coal Tagespiegel Background Germany’s coal exit is threatening the country’s supply of gypsum, Steven Hanke reports in Tagesspiegel Background. More than half of the gypsum used in Germany is derived ...
20 Aug 2020, 13:28 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Mobility German commuters are slowly returning to public transport following the coronavirus lockdown. The Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) said the positive trend is evident in the ...
20 Aug 2020, 13:10 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Mobility 91tv The increase of remote working triggered by the coronavirus pandemic can contribute significantly to ...
20 Aug 2020, 13:01 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen 91tv / Focus Online The relatively high costs of renewable electricity in Germany prevent innovative projects green hydrogen in the country, according to hydrogen start-up ...
19 Aug 2020, 13:52 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv 91tv Society 91tv Climate change is still perceived as the top problem facing humanity, a survey carried out in seven European ...
15 Jun 2020, 10:30 A mainly fossil energy guzzler, heating in Germany has taken a back seat to the Energiewende's poster child, the power sector. But the “Wärmewende”, or heating transition, has significant potential to curb emissions and is ...
17 Aug 2020, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Society 91tv A clear majority of people in Germany say that the environment must not be damaged in order to increase economic growth, a major survey by the country's ...
17 Aug 2020, 13:40 91tv 91tv Society dpa / die Welt / taz Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with climate activists including Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer on Thursday (20 August) to discuss climate policy, dpa reports in an ...
14 Aug 2020, 14:27 Utilities Tagesspiegel Background Major German energy companies are making “rapid progress” with their green energy transition thanks to renewables becoming clear profit-makers that are attractive to investors, Jakob Schlandt writes in ...
10 Aug 2020, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Hydrogen Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German economy ministry is mulling a law amendment that could force offshore wind energy investors to pay a fee before building installations at sea, Klaus Stratmann ...
10 Aug 2020, 13:30 Cars Frankfurter Rundschau The reality of having to shift to climate-neutral production and products has finally hit German automakers, writes Rolf Obertreis in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter Rundschau. A combination of political ...
10 Aug 2020, 13:25 Coal Society n-tv Climate activists demanding an end to coal power occupied two German coal-fired powered stations over the weekend, news website n-tv reports. Around 20 members of Direkte Aktion Berlin, which campaigns for an end to ...
07 Aug 2020, 15:05 Coal Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The British green energy transition has proven cheaper and more effective than Germany’s because of factors including its use of market mechanisms and its embrace of nuclear power, ...
07 Aug 2020, 14:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Business & Jobs dpa / RTL Online Germany's remote North Sea island Heligoland is hoping for a rapid increase in green hydrogen production with offshore wind power, news agency dpa reports in an ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:13 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Gas International 91tv The environmental group Environmental Action Germany (DUH) says it is suing to stop the controversial Nord ...
04 Aug 2020, 14:50 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Coal 91tv Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) ...
04 Aug 2020, 14:38 Expert BAFA- Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle Fossil fuels Renewables Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:52 Edgar Meza Solar Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Despite plans by a major solar energy company from Switzerland to revive solar pv manufacturing in Germany, there is no chance that a large-scale industry will return under current ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:17 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Elections & Politics Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland The Green Party has called for an investment programme worth 800 million ...
31 Jul 2020, 12:22 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Coal Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Hard coal power station operator Steag’s petition to the German Federal Constitutional Court to improve compensation for plant ...
31 Jul 2020, 12:20 Expert GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel Climate & CO2 Technology Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Climate & CO2 Gas 91tv Large amounts of methane, a major greenhouse ...
31 Jul 2020, 12:19 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
30 Jul 2020, 13:37 The construction of new wind turbines in Germany picked up slightly again in the first six months of 2020, but expansion figures are still far too low to bolster an industry that suffered two years of steeply declining growth. As the ...
30 Jul 2020, 13:34 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Gas Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / 91tv The companies involved in the controversial Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project, which connects Germany with Russia via the ...
30 Jul 2020, 13:30 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Coal Handelsblatt Hard coal power station operator Steag is suing to get better compensation for the shutdown of its plants under Germany’s coal exit plan, writes Jürgen Flauger ...
29 Jul 2020, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt / TASS The Russian government is urging the country's leading energy companies to quickly expand their hydrogen production capacities and is considering using the controversial offshore ...
28 Jul 2020, 12:23 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Edgar Meza Wind 91tv Dutch transmission grid operator TenneT recorded a more than 21 percent increase in offshore wind energy transmission from the North Sea to ...
28 Jul 2020, 12:21 Edgar Meza Coal Finance 91tv Environmental groups and campaigners have welcomed Deutsche Bank’s move to end its global business activities in coal mining by 2025 at the latest, and while some see a positive signal heralding ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:05 Edgar Meza Storage Cars manager magazin US electric car manufacturer Tesla will be manufacturing battery cells along with electric vehicles at its planned German factory in Grünheide near Berlin, manager magazine reported citing ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:38 Storage Cars 91tv A test of power consumption in electric cars shows that they consume between 10 and 25 percent more electricity than their on-board computers show, largely due to charging station losses, car drivers' ...
23 Jul 2020, 14:20 Solar International Die Zeit A Swiss solar energy company is looking to revive eastern Germany’s “Solar Valley”, write Barbara Achermann and Martin Nejezchleba in Zeit Schweiz. The solar park, covering 160 hectares in the federal state ...
23 Jul 2020, 13:50 Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Business & Jobs Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Hydrogen 91tv The number of biogas plants installed in Germany is ...
24 Jul 2020, 10:40 The rivalry between Europe and China in emission-free hydrogen technologies could become one of the defining business stories in the global effort to stop climate change. Scarred by its painful experience in solar PV manufacturing, ...
23 Jul 2020, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars ARD The German transport minister, Andreas Scheuer, has proposed the introduction of a road toll for passenger cars in the whole European Union, public broadcaster ARD reports in its daily news programme ...
21 Jul 2020, 13:28 Bioenergy Berliner Zeitung A German startup reportedly is on the verge of industrialising a process that can increase biogas energy yields by 40 percent – and even turn leaves into fuel, the Berliner Zeitung reports. LXP, based in ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:13 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Government International 91tv ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:08 Expert Federal Motor Transport Authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt Cars Transport Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung New vehicles in Germany are getting greener: average CO2 emissions of cars registered in the first half of 2020 were 4.4 ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sustainability aspects are gaining in importance at a very quick pace and are poised to bring about "fundamental change" to the way financial market actors operate, ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars rbb24 US carmaker Tesla’s planned gigafactory near Berlin continues to cause worries about the production site's water consumption, public broadcaster rbb24 reports. The local water supplier in the ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Supporters of different climate action organisations have protested in Frankfurt against the European Central Bank's (ECB) monetary policy during the coronavirus ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:28 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung The number of newly installed wind power ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:50 Expert BASF Business & Jobs Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A cooperation with Russian resource company Nornickel could stain the sustainability credentials of Europe's planned ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:44 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv Germany's railway service Deutsche Bahn has inked an order worth one billion euros for new ICE high speed ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany's most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has exceeded its own emissions reductions goal, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by the ...
06 Jul 2020, 12:23 Coal Spiegel / Süddeutsche Zeitung / DW / NDR Following the German parliament’s vote on Friday in favour of a law ending all coal power production by 2038, the country’s media has been reacting to the controversial bill. As well as an ...
06 Jul 2020, 12:22 Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Germans still get a relatively good deal on gas prices, and will continue to do so even after the introduction of a CO2 price in transport and buildings next year, a report by price comparison ...
03 Jul 2020, 12:48 In a vote that has been hailed as "historic", Germany's parliament has adopted a law that will ensure the phase-out of coal power by no later than 2038. The decision follows two years of intense debate about the country& ...
03 Jul 2020, 12:37 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Edgar Meza Cars 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background New car registrations in Germany fell 35 percent in the first half of 2020 to 1.21 million cars, reaching ...
02 Jul 2020, 12:57 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business ...
30 Jun 2020, 13:41 Expert Franco-German Office for the Energy Transition Office Franco-Allemand pour la Transition Énergétique / Deutsch-Französisches Büro für die Energiewende Renewables Energiewende 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:15 Germany's government has removed the last hurdles to finalising the country's much-anticipated coal exit law, clearing the way for a passage of the bill in parliament at the end of the week. The draft agreement grants ...
29 Jun 2020, 12:53 Renewables covered more than half of Germany’s power consumption in the first six months of 2020, according to a first estimate by think tank Agora Energiewende*. As coal use dropped and demand was low due to the coronavirus crisis and ...
26 Jun 2020, 12:12 Expert FÖS- Green Budget Germany Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Coal Tagesspiegel Background Experts have criticised the lack of transparency in the contract between lignite ...
25 Jun 2020, 13:28 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Solar Wind 91tv / pv magazine Germany's latest renewable auctions have ...
25 Jun 2020, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Coal tageszeitung (taz) / Tagesspiegel Background / Rheinische Post German media commentators have said that the draft contract between the state and lignite operators presented by the cabinet on 24 June keeps open the ...
24 Jun 2020, 17:30 Germany is one step closer to finalising legislation on the planned coal exit by 2038 at the latest, as the government approved a draft contract between the state and companies to flesh out the country’s farewell to lignite. Among other ...
24 Jun 2020, 14:20 Expert World Energy Council Germany Weltenergierat Electricity market Fossil fuels Kerstine Appunn Technology EU 91tv More and more countries and businesses have set the goal of becoming climate neutral but few of them have ...
23 Jun 2020, 13:48 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs ...
23 Jun 2020, 15:13 Tough talks on how to make the European Union climate neutral by 2050 are a major challenge for Germany’s 6-month EU Council presidency in the second half of 2020. The negotiations for a European economic recovery programme will be a ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:46 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A Swiss study has shed light on the efficiency gains of so-called “grey energy” ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:04 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables 91tv The amount of electricity produced with renewable energy sources in Germany within one year could theoretically power ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:32 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Gas Security 91tv All of the parties represented in the German parliament reject the economic sanctions threatened by the United States over the construction of the controversial ...
17 Jun 2020, 15:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Handelsblatt The economic downturn due to the coronavirus pandemic has had little effect on many German companies' plans to invest in emissions reduction measures so far, Steffen Ermisch writes in ...
16 Jun 2020, 15:03 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Transport 91tv Germany’s ...
15 Jun 2020, 15:11 Expert Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Climate & CO2 Resources & Recycling Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Heating Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / ...
15 Jun 2020, 08:46 The independent expert commission in charge of monitoring Germany's energy transition says the European Green Deal requires the country to do more to fight climate change. The government advisors say a quicker-than-planned coal ...
12 Jun 2020, 13:37 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Mobility Digitalisation 91tv The coronavirus pandemic has boosted digitalisation because it forced many people to do without business trips, work remotely and shop online, which offers ...
11 Jun 2020, 14:20 Expert UFZ- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung- UFZ Climate & CO2 Renewables Society Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel Following two extremely hot and ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:34 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Industry 91tv Germany's hydrogen strategy is a "quantum leap" that will lift the energy transition and climate protection to a "new qualitative level," according to the ...
09 Jun 2020, 12:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv The volume of financial investments classified as sustainable increased by nearly one quarter in Germany last year, according to the latest figures published by the financial industry ...
08 Jun 2020, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables 91tv The price drop on electricity markets due to the coronavirus pandemic has led to calls for extending Germany's renewable energy support for wind turbines that are poised to fall out ...
15 Jun 2020, 09:20 While geothermal energy is a viable alternative to curb emissions for heating and cooling, fears and high costs have limited its expansion. But Bavaria and now Baden Wurttemberg are forging ahead. The potential of geothermal energy, ...
04 Jun 2020, 14:06 The German government coalition has decided to reboot Europe's largest economy with a 130 billion euros stimulus package that contains steps to further the country's landmark energy transition. Aside from comprehensive actions ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:25 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal 91tv The sharp decline of coal use in Germany this ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Solar pv magazine The coronavirus crisis ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:15 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity ...
29 May 2020, 13:01 The German government is set to make the large-scale use of offshore wind power to produce emission-free hydrogen a cornerstone of its long-anticipated national hydrogen strategy, reports Tagesspiegel Background. With additional ...
29 May 2020, 10:31 The corona pandemic has upended the transition to sustainable urban mobility around the world. While the fear of infection has put people off public transport and vehicle sharing schemes, it has boosted private cars, cycling and walking ...
28 May 2020, 17:30 A slowing economy and mild weather lowered Germany's energy demand significantly in the first quarter of 2020. Latest data also confirmed that renewable energy sources accounted for more than half of the electricity fed into ...
28 May 2020, 12:29 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv A coordinated European green hydrogen production infrastructure is a ...
27 May 2020, 13:44 Julian Wettengel Transport Green stimulus 91tv While some media commentators welcome the deal to rescue Germany’s national airline Lufthansa and say a lack of concrete sustainability criteria is justified, others write that ...
27 May 2020, 13:38 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Utilities Clean Energy ...
26 May 2020, 12:45 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Cars Hessische Niedersächsische Allgemeine / NZZ / Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Volkswagen lost a key legal battle in the long-running Dieselgate scandal on 25 May when a court ordered that a customer is ...
26 May 2020, 12:43 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv An active removal of several hundred ...
26 May 2020, 12:40 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Cost & Prices ...
26 May 2020, 12:38 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Left Party Die Linke Renewable ...
25 May 2020, 14:58 Experts have criticised the German government's draft coal exit law for deviating from the compromise found by the coal commission in early 2019. At a parliamentary committee hearing, representatives from industry, research ...
25 May 2020, 12:41 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic ...
25 May 2020, 12:38 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Julian Wettengel Solar Wind 91tv Solar and wind power in Germany could supply ...
22 May 2020, 14:11 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Green stimulus 91tv / Die Welt Energy-intensive industry groups short ...
22 May 2020, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland An alliance of hard coal plant operators plans to achieve an expansion of the runtime of Germany's seven most modern hard coal plants by ...
20 May 2020, 13:55 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
20 May 2020, 13:44 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln Electricity market Business ...
20 May 2020, 13:38 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid International 91tv The German government is preparing to buy a stake in Dutch transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT as part of a ...
20 May 2020, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Bioenergy Agriculture Tageszeitung (taz) Power suppliers in Germany have begun offering "bee power" contracts that charge customers one additional cent per kilowatt hour to help preserve the industrious ...
20 May 2020, 13:50 Months of dispute within the government coalition and the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have significantly slowed down progress on a number of important German energy transition projects. The coal exit law has yet to be adopted by ...
20 May 2020, 12:30 Implementing social distancing in trams, buses and underground trains at peak times creates massive problems for urban public transport, says Barbara Lenz, who heads the Institute of Transport Research at the German Aerospace Centre DLR ...
18 May 2020, 18:14 The German government has agreed to remove key hurdles to the rollout of renewable energies that had begun to slow the country's landmark energy transition. The deal between chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance ...
15 May 2020, 14:20 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv The effects of climate change outside of Europe pose a much larger risk to Germany's ...
15 May 2020, 16:34 The U.S. administration is aggressively promoting the country’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) to European partners, portraying it both as a supply that would help them diversify away from Russian gas and as a way to reduce greenhouse gas ...
13 May 2020, 13:32 91tv 91tv Wind Business & Jobs Business confidence within the German wind power industry has reversed its downward trend for the first time in two years. While still in negative territory, market sentiment in both the ...
13 May 2020, 13:21 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices International 91tv Germany's ranking in the World Economic Forum's Energy Transition Index has slid to 20th this year from 17th last year. "It ...
12 May 2020, 13:16 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Wind 91tv ...
12 May 2020, 13:09 Edgar Meza Coal Solar Plans by Swiss technology company and solar panel manufacturer Meyer Burger to supply panels for a 10 gigawatt (GW) floating solar plant on a lake to be left behind by the future closure of the Hambach coal mine is ...
12 May 2020, 13:07 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Wind In an effort to reduce ...
11 May 2020, 13:44 Edgar Meza Gas Hydrogen Technology Handelsblatt/Energate Messenger German research minister Anja Karliczek, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party, is pushing for a prompt government decision on a national ...
05 May 2020, 14:09 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Edgar Meza Wind Tagesspiegel Background ...
07 May 2020, 09:31 Slumping power demand due to the coronavirus crisis combined with April’s strong wind and solar power production have revealed that Germany's fossil and renewable electricity generation, as well as electricity demand, need to ...
04 May 2020, 13:51 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) ...
04 May 2020, 13:37 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Heating 91tv ...
30 Apr 2020, 12:39 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' ...
30 Apr 2020, 12:37 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International ...
29 Apr 2020, 13:14 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv This month was the sunniest and third-driest April in Germany since records began ...
29 Apr 2020, 13:13 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Julian Wettengel Finance 91tv German state-owned KfW Development Bank has for the first time reported on possible risks its ...
28 Apr 2020, 18:30 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she welcomes the proposal by the European Commission to raise the bloc’s greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030 to between 50 and 55 percent. In her speech at the 11th Petersberg Climate ...
28 Apr 2020, 12:26 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Zeit Online / 91tv An unusually dry spring has subjected German forests to an "enormous stress test", ...
27 Apr 2020, 13:53 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Transport Clean Energy ...
27 Apr 2020, 13:10 In the fight against climate change, hydrogen made with renewable electricity is increasingly seen as a silver bullet for sectors with particularly stubborn emissions, such as heavy industry and aviation. As a result, the emission-free ...
28 Apr 2020, 10:59 The coronavirus crisis has put a spotlight on deteriorating transatlantic relations as both continents focus on the well-being of their own populations and U.S. President Donald Trump continues to push his America First strategy. Over ...
23 Apr 2020, 13:46 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Sören Amelang Cars Hydrogen Technology ntv / electrek Daimler subsidiary ...
22 Apr 2020, 15:09 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy ...
20 Apr 2020, 13:39 Freja Eriksen Electricity market 91tv European CO2 emissions from power production could fall by 15 to 20 percent as a result of lower demand on electricity due to the coronavirus, says an analysis by DNV GL, an independent ...
20 Apr 2020, 13:37 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German farmers are fearing yet another dry summer as the country has ...
20 Apr 2020, 13:35 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Freja Eriksen Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / Handelsblatt / 91tv Daimler will stick to its CO2 goals and aims to use ...
17 Apr 2020, 13:45 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Clean Energy ...
16 Apr 2020, 13:04 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & ...
14 Apr 2020, 14:26 Freja Eriksen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Der Spiegel Industry actors in Germany have proposed changes to the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) that would help them avoid possible lawsuits over failures to pay the renewables surcharge, ...
22 Sep 2020, 10:30 As the coronavirus crisis drives many governments across the globe to introduce emergency plans to cushion the immediate economic effects, there are growing calls to align any mid and long-term stimulus efforts with climate targets. ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:43 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:49 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv The climate ...
07 Apr 2020, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The slump in wind power expansion in Germany has prevented a new record for investments in the technology in Europe, industry association WindEurope says in an analysis of 2019 financing trends ...
06 Apr 2020, 12:36 Rachel Waldholz Cost & Prices 91tv / pv magazine The drop in electricity demand driven by the coronavirus pandemic will likely lead to more hours of negative wholesale electricity prices in Germany this year, according ...
06 Apr 2020, 12:33 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation ...
03 Apr 2020, 13:47 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv The introduction of Germany's ...
01 Apr 2020, 15:14 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Sören Amelang Mobility Transport Hydrogen 91tv Trains with alternative propulsion systems have a large market potential in ...
01 Apr 2020, 15:11 Germany produced more than half of its electricity with renewable power in the first three months of 2020, the first full quarter in which renewables covered the majority of the country’s electricity needs. The numbers were driven by ...
31 Mar 2020, 14:14 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 ...
31 Mar 2020, 13:06 Freja Eriksen Wind 91tv The Bundesrat, Germany's council of state governments, wants to increase planning security for wind power project developers. It has proposed changes to the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) which ...
30 Mar 2020, 13:56 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Rachel Waldholz Solar 91tv / pv magazine The number of sites that both operate ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:49 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs 91tv / Erneuerbare Energien Germany's largest carmaker, VW, has extended the suspension of ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:44 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The current difficulties caused by the ...
26 Mar 2020, 14:07 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Society RTL / n-tv A new poll finds support for Angela Merkel’s conservative coalition has risen sharply as the coronavirus pandemic has hit Germany, while concern over the urgency of climate action has ...
26 Mar 2020, 14:00 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Rundschau Emissions reductions due to the coronavirus crisis cannot be considered good news, ...
26 Mar 2020, 13:57 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Heating 91tv / Badische Neueste Nachrichten The south ...
25 Mar 2020, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Insurance providers in Germany are slowly beginning to put greater emphasis on their corporate social responsibility (CSR) but still struggle to fully appreciate the concept's importance, ...
25 Mar 2020, 13:56 Expert RNE- German Council for Sustainable Development Rat für nachhaltige Entwicklung Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Electronic devices turned into standby-mode cost German households about 448 ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:48 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Industry Handelsblatt / Der Spiegel Carbon emissions and air pollution are expected to decline in Germany and worldwide because of the coronavirus pandemic, but experts warn the decrease could be ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:39 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy 91tv Parts of the ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:34 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 ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Die Welt The production stops and far-reaching sales collapse in the automotive industry is hitting Germany's major carmakers at a crucial time of transition, Florian Gehm writes in Die Welt. Car sales are ...
23 Mar 2020, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Süddeutsche Zeitung The outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Germany and the rest of Europe means that the weekly Fridays for Future (FfF) protests for greater climate action need to be ...
23 Mar 2020, 13:53 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Industry Clean Energy ...
23 Mar 2020, 08:55 The United States administration, politicians and industry warily watch European Union debates on introducing a carbon border adjustment mechanism, which would put a CO₂ price on goods imported to the EU to reduce the risk of carbon ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:55 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert Fraunhofer ISI Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewables Freja Eriksen Gas ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:53 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 dpa Climate ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:52 Freja Eriksen Solar Wind Tagesspiegel Background / pv magazine The coronavirus crisis is spilling over into the solar and wind energy industry, which is already facing a slump in Germany, write Christian Schaudwet and Steven Hanke in ...
19 Mar 2020, 13:59 Foundations are calling on the EU to use any economic stimulus enacted in response to the coronavirus to accelerate the transition to a green economy. The global climate crisis cannot be ignored even as governments focus on the health ...
20 Mar 2020, 15:00 The economic crisis caused by the new coronavirus will sharply slow economic activity and the associated greenhouse gas emissions in Germany. The extremely wide range of current economic forecasts is making detailed predictions for CO2 ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv Consumption of natural gas by Germany's private households and industry customers increased in 2019, while domestic production of the fossil fuel continued to decline, the national ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:16 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cost & Prices 91tv Utility EnBW has started ...
16 Mar 2020, 14:04 Rachel Waldholz Renewables Policy dpa / Energie & Management / Der Spiegel Environment minister Svenja Schulze is calling on German state and federal officials to act quickly to resolve disagreements over the expansion of ...
13 Mar 2020, 14:20 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind 91tv / ...
13 Mar 2020, 14:12 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Sören Amelang Renewables Utilities 91tv / dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany's largest coal power and renewables operator RWE plans to step up its ...
12 Mar 2020, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The environmental impact of offshore wind turbines remains a hotly contested subject in Germany. German offshore wind farm operator association BWO said a study found that populations of loon ...
11 Mar 2020, 14:13 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv The number of German energy companies that consider the energy transition good for business has risen considerably, according to a survey by business consultancy Horvath & ...
11 Mar 2020, 13:33 Rachel Waldholz Solar Cities pv magazine / 91tv The city of Berlin has adopted a plan to vastly expand the deployment of solar panels across the city’s rooftops, with the goal of supplying some 25 percent of the city’s ...
11 Mar 2020, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv Some countries are likely to wait and see whether U.S. President Donald Trump wins another four years in office in November before committing to stepping up their ...
11 Mar 2020, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind Policy 91tv Germany's federal states need to band together and devise a coherent strategy to ensure that the expansion of renewable energy sources can proceed in line with the ...
10 Mar 2020, 14:01 Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen 91tv Germany's highly anticipated strategy to pave the way for a hydrogen economy must focus on green hydrogen made with renewables and be "truly ambitious," says German ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:17 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Rachel Waldholz Grid Renewables reNews / Handelsblatt The German grid operator 50Hertz reported delivering a record 60 terawatt hours of renewable electricity ...
05 Mar 2020, 14:32 Rachel Waldholz Renewables Solar pv magazine The German photovoltaic (PV) system manufacturer Solarwatt plans to launch a new production line in Dresden, and the company believes solar panel production in Europe can be competitive with ...
04 Mar 2020, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende 91tv Germany must move quickly to get its renewables expansion back on track if the country wants to avoid a "green power gap," forcing it to rely on power imports or fossil reserve ...
04 Mar 2020, 13:46 Rachel Waldholz Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Austria’s new government has set ambitious climate targets that will require massive new investments in renewable energy – and it is looking to Germany, and ...
04 Mar 2020, 13:24 Rachel Waldholz Transport Cars Die Welt Germany’s main association of skilled tradesmen says cities must find ways to reduce traffic and vehicle emissions without banning cars and trucks from city centres, arguing that such bans would ...
03 Mar 2020, 14:13 Sören Amelang Energiewende Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt German ministries continue to be divided over plans for a hydrogen economy, delaying publication of the country's highly anticipated strategy to lower emissions in high ...
03 Mar 2020, 13:44 Rachel Waldholz Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt Tesla could break ground on its new e-car factory outside Berlin as soon as this month, and the company could be eligible for 280 million euros in subsidies from the ...
02 Mar 2020, 13:50 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Expert ZVSHK- German Sanitation, Heating and Air Conditioning Association Business & Jobs Heating Rachel Waldholz Heating 91tv About one in ...
28 Feb 2020, 13:45 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:22 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 dpa / Handelsblatt Germany's Green Party is proposing a plan to make the country's energy-intensive industries like steel and cement more climate-friendly, using a comprehensive package of ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:15 Rachel Waldholz Society Elections & Politics 91tv / Der Spiegel Germany’s Fridays for Future climate strikes expanded over the course of 2019 as older protesters joined what began as a younger – and majority female- ...
26 Feb 2020, 13:52 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Sören Amelang Wind Germany's economy ministry has ...
25 Feb 2020, 14:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ...
24 Feb 2020, 13:56 Freja Eriksen Gas Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt The Netherlands has identified Germany as its main ally in building Europe's future hydrogen structure, writes the business daily Handelsblatt. "Our aim is to intensify ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:06 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out ...
20 Feb 2020, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Germany's first renewable power auction of 2020 has once more failed to attract enough bidders for onshore wind power projects, leading industry groups to call for a ...
20 Feb 2020, 14:00 Rachel Waldholz Cars Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / 91tv Representatives from the German Green Party and major German environmental organizations have called for work to continue at Tesla’s proposed e-car factory ...
20 Feb 2020, 13:44 Rachel Waldholz Electricity market Nuclear phase-out dpa / Rheinische Post The French government has announced plans to shut down its oldest nuclear power plant, Fessenheim, which sits right on the German border, newswire dpa reports in ...
20 Feb 2020, 13:39 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Cars Die Welt German drivers are choosing cars with more and more horsepower, which poses a challenge for carmakers who must comply with EU emissions regulations, Olaf Preuß writes in the newspaper Die ...
20 Feb 2020, 13:35 Rachel Waldholz Electricity Coal 91tv Eighty-five percent of Germans believe the country’s coal exit will lead to significantly higher electricity prices, according to a survey of 500 households conducted by the Bonn-based ...
19 Feb 2020, 18:30 To further its landmark energy transition, the Energiewende, Germany must concentrate on hydrogen technology to support the rollout of renewables, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). In an in-depth review of Germany' ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities dpa / Focus Online The share price of German energy company RWE has reached the highest level in seven years, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by website Focus Online. RWE's share price ...
18 Feb 2020, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry 91tv Germany's government plans to use the country's EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020 to advocate a common European maritime economy strategy aimed at strengthening the ...
17 Feb 2020, 14:11 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Der Spiegel / 91tv The unresolved question of future ...
17 Feb 2020, 14:09 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The German Bundesrat, the council of state governments ...
17 Feb 2020, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Fossil fuels Security Handelsblatt / Deutsche Welle U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced one billion dollars in funding to support energy projects in Eastern and Central Europe as part of an effort to reduce ...
14 Feb 2020, 13:22 Sören Amelang Coal Climate & CO2 91tv Germany must exit coal much quicker than planned to comply with the Paris Climate Agreement, according to a report by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). "A coal ...
21 Feb 2020, 13:25 Greta Thunberg will travel to Hamburg to participate in the student climate protests preceding local elections in the maritime city on 23 February, according to media reports. The Swedish activist's presence at the "Hamburg ...
12 Feb 2020, 13:27 Sören Amelang Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Long-term company contracts for the supply of renewable energy – also called corporate green power purchase agreements (PPAs) – are already often cheaper than conventional ...
12 Feb 2020, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen International Reuters / Handelsblatt Germany plans to set up a production and import chain for renewable hydrogen in a joint project with Western African countries, news agency Reuters reports. " ...
11 Feb 2020, 14:18 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility Institut für Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilität Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv German ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:57 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities 91tv Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution in Germany's inner cities is declining, but many urban ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:36 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:33 Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Wind 91tv Rooftop solar and offshore wind power are the most popular technologies for Germany's future power mix, ...
10 Feb 2020, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt The German steel industry accounts for about one third of the country's total industry emissions, meaning that becoming carbon-neutral by 2050 comes with particular challenges to the ...
07 Feb 2020, 13:02 Expert Prognos Consultancy Energiewende Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen 91tv E-mobility in Germany, including the charging infrastructure, is growing faster every year and “is gradually leaving its niche role behind”, writes ...
06 Feb 2020, 12:48 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Freja Eriksen Solar 91tv / Handelsblatt Green energy provider Naturstrom has said it will provide households directly with power ...
05 Feb 2020, 13:20 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Industry Clean ...
05 Feb 2020, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Handelsblatt United States lawmakers could introduce new sanctions against the natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 to further delay the current construction in the Baltic Sea, diplomatic sources in ...
04 Feb 2020, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices International Handelsblatt The carbon border adjustment mechanism envisioned by the European Commission as part of its landmark Green Deal package is problematic and could lead to trade disputes with ...
03 Feb 2020, 13:44 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Gas ...
31 Jan 2020, 14:15 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Sören Amelang Efficiency 91tv Germany's heat pump ...
30 Jan 2020, 13:55 Sören Amelang Electricity market Renewables 91tv The volume of new renewable energy projects backed by a purchase power agreement (PPA) in Germany trails that of other European countries, according to a report by energy ...
30 Jan 2020, 13:43 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's ...
30 Jan 2020, 13:21 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen ...
29 Jan 2020, 14:32 The German government has officially approved the end of coal-fired power production in Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet adopted a law detailing plant shutdowns and compensation payments for coal companies, confirming a ...
28 Jan 2020, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The expansion of onshore wind power in Germany has reached the lowest level in 20 years, figures by the German Wind Power Association (BWE) confirm. With only 243 turbines and a ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Utilities dpa / Tagesspiegel / Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung German energy industry heavyweight RWE has called for a roundtable of stakeholders to make progress on ending the current slump of onshore wind power ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:20 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Coal dpa / Spiegel / 91tv Eastern German lignite mine and power plant operator LEAG has rejected ...
27 Jan 2020, 13:46 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities dpa / Donaukurier Authorities in four German cities with active driving bans for diesel cars have registered over 15 ...
24 Jan 2020, 14:08 Expert YouGov Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Society 91tv Despite a slump in the expansion of onshore wind power in Germany, most people in the country remain fundamentally in favour of the renewable energy ...
23 Jan 2020, 15:45 The expansion of offshore wind power capacity in Germany has exceeded that of onshore turbines for the first time ever last year. This is both due to a particularly bad year for onshore expansion and the increasing competitiveness of ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:26 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv / Die Welt Germany’s hard coal power plant operators criticise the ...
22 Jan 2020, 11:28 The German coal exit commission 's compromise reached in early 2019 was hailed as a breakthrough for cooperation between industry representatives, policymakers and environmental groups, as it outlined how to phase-out the fossil ...
21 Jan 2020, 13:21 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Germany's four ...
20 Jan 2020, 13:34 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Coal Handelsblatt Germany ...
20 Jan 2020, 13:23 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Freja Eriksen Coal Tagesspiegel Background Critics of Germany's roadmap for phasing out lignite-fired power plants have ...
20 Jan 2020, 12:37 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Electricity market ...
17 Jan 2020, 13:36 German media commentators have mixed views on the coal exit path fixed by the federal government, mining states and utilities. While some call it a “historic” deal that could make Germany a global role model, others say it turned out to ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:52 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy Bonner General-Anzeiger The head of energy company RWE, Rolf Martin Schmitz, has said his company is "shouldering the biggest burden ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Süddeutsche Zeitung The possible end of combustion engines in the not-so-distant future spells great challenges for Germany's car industry, which is accustomed to success but now could struggle to master the ...
15 Jan 2020, 14:06 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Society Handelsblatt / WirtschaftsWoche / Focus Online The row over German industrial heavyweight Siemens's involvement in the controversial Adani coal mine project in ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal The state premier of Germany's most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Armin Laschet, has called for a "week of decisions" regarding the country's planned coal phase-out, ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv People living near onshore wind farms in Germany should be compensated financially, chancellor Angela Merkel has said. At a New Year's event in the eastern coastal state of Mecklenburg ...
13 Jan 2020, 14:20 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities 91tv German energy company RWE aims to become carbon neutral by 2040 and plans the requisite renewables investments ...
13 Jan 2020, 17:00 Preview 2020: Green and sustainable finance has made a steep ascent in Germany last year and established itself as a key element of climate policy. Government plans to become a leading location for green financial products, intensifying ...
10 Jan 2020, 11:50 Expert EPH- Energetický a průmyslový holding Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Rheinische Post / Reuters German energy company RWE could receive up to two billion euros ...
09 Jan 2020, 13:35 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s climate package to reach 2030 targets ...
09 Jan 2020, 13:33 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Sören Amelang Coal Industry 91tv Germany's Fridays for Future student climate protest movement has increased the pressure on engineering conglomerate Siemens for its involvement in ...
08 Jan 2020, 12:30 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv Decarbonising Germany’s economy while safeguarding the country’s prosperity will require "massive" investments by the state, for example in infrastructure, write economists at the ...
08 Jan 2020, 12:28 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Rheinische Post Energy company Uniper may offer to either shut down all its coal plants or switch them to gas and, in turn, bring the new Datteln 4 hard coal unit online, ...
07 Jan 2020, 14:03 Expert Federal Motor Transport Authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt Cars Transport Freja Eriksen Cars 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine The number of pure electric new car registrations in Germany rose by more than 75 percent in 2019 ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:20 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv People have to do “everything humanly possible” to deal with global warming, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in her New Year’s speech 2020. “It is still possible,” said the ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:19 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv The demand for solar power panels in Germany has ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:14 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Freja Eriksen Renewables ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:10 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche Städte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:39 Preview 2020: Solar power in Germany has bottomed out from its breakdown a few years back and looks ahead at 2020 full of confidence that the odds are in its favour in the country thanks to the introduction of carbon pricing in the ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:50 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cities Süddeutsche Zeitung The Bavarian capital Munich has declared a “climate emergency”, joining more than 60 other German municipalities to have done so over the course of 2019, reports Süddeutsche ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Energiewende 91tv The government’s recently adopted comprehensive climate package will have little effect on the Germany economy in 2020, says Deutsche Bank Research in its outlook for the ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:27 Freja Eriksen Grid 91tv The first grid development plan (NEP) based on Germany's target of 65 percent renewables in gross power consumption and planned coal exit has been approved by the German Federal Network Agency ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:24 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Freja Eriksen Agriculture 91tv / Der Tagesspiegel Both climate action and adaptation to climate change must be given "higher priority" ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:30 Preview 2020: Wind power became Germany's single most important power source in 2019 and appears well under way to fulfill its role as the central technology of the country's energy transition. Nevertheless, the wind industry ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:23 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 ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:30 Preview 2020: The fate of coal-fired power production in Germany has been sealed with the agreement of a government-appointed commission to phase-out the fossil fuel no later than 2038. But the proposal so far has not been translated ...
19 Dec 2019, 13:19 The use of gas from all sources will become more important as Germany seeks to decarbonise its economy and phase out nuclear power, the new head of Germany's largest energy industry lobby group, BDEW, has said. The Energiewende& ...
19 Dec 2019, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Security 91tv / Deutsche Welle / ZDF German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised the US sanctions to be imposed on companies working on the natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, recently approved by the US ...
19 Dec 2019, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv The German government supports European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s proposal to increase the bloc’s 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target to between 50 and 55 percent, ...
19 Dec 2019, 13:12 Freja Eriksen Heating Tagesspiegel Background Following years of failed attempts, Germany will from January 2020 provide homeowners with tax incentives for energy efficient renovations, allowing them to deduct 20 percent of the costs ...
07 Jan 2020, 11:30 Preview 2020: European climate diplomats are facing a busy 2020, and Germany looks set to play a key role as it holds the EU Council presidency in the second half of the year. After the UN climate conference in Madrid left many ...
18 Dec 2019, 14:05 Germany has seen a second year of significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, as coal use fell by more than 20 percent and energy production from renewables increased, preliminary calculations by energy research group AG ...
18 Dec 2019, 13:31 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert DENEFF- German Industry ...
18 Dec 2019, 13:25 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Hamburger ...
17 Dec 2019, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv / Spiegel Online The German rail service Deutsche Bahn (DB) is going to make the biggest investment in its vehicle ...
13 Dec 2019, 13:52 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Freja Eriksen Wind 91tv Wind energy will be Germany's most important power ...
13 Dec 2019, 13:11 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Freja Eriksen Heating 91tv Consumption of oil and natural gas for heating Germany's residential buildings rose by 1.1 and 1.5 ...
12 Dec 2019, 13:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband ...
12 Dec 2019, 13:04 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Sören Amelang Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Clean ...
12 Dec 2019, 16:06 The European Union’s new executive has presented its highly anticipated Green Deal to tackle climate change. The policy package commits the EU to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. The 91tv presents reactions to the ...
10 Dec 2019, 13:31 Expert GIZ- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit German development agency International Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany will establish a central hub to coordinate its ...
16 Dec 2019, 12:00 The UN climate summit COP25 in Spain is the last meeting of its kind before countries around the world are supposed to step up their ambitions under the Paris Climate Agreement in 2020. Germany has made several key climate action ...
06 Dec 2019, 15:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government 91tv The German government will meet with state representatives in January to discuss how to expand renewable energy installations at a pace that will raise the share of renewables in ...
04 Dec 2019, 13:41 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv Danish offshore wind company Orsted and German chemical maker Covestro have signed the world's biggest purchase agreement for an offshore wind farm planned without support payments. ...
03 Dec 2019, 13:51 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen Technology 91tv Synthetic substitutes for conventional oil and gas will ...
02 Dec 2019, 13:40 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Power production with renewable energy ...
02 Dec 2019, 13:38 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Spiegel Online / ...
29 Nov 2019, 14:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government 91tv The council of federal state governments (Bundesrat) has greenlit Germany’s Climate Action Law and the planned national emissions trading system for transport and ...
29 Nov 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The premiers of Germany's five northern coastal states demand a renegotiation of the controversial 1,000-metre minimum distance rule from residential areas for onshore wind turbines included ...
29 Nov 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv Global climate action and environmental protection can only work with an active Russian engagement, Germany's development minister Gerd Müller said at the German ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Cars Hundreds of radio masts in several German states will be equipped with fuel cell technology to serve as a backup system for emergency services in case of a power blackout, the industry association Clean ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Augsburger Allgemeine The end of nuclear power production in Germany in 2022 will not compromise the electricity supply of southern economic powerhouse state Bavaria, the state's ...
27 Nov 2019, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Cost & Prices 91tv No single energy company can currently claim any dominance over Germany's electricity market, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and the federal antitrust ...
27 Nov 2019, 14:01 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Rheinische Post The German government must fast-track legislation for the country's coal power phase-out, Armin Laschet, state premier of Germany's most populous ...
27 Nov 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv More than 500 German cities will see protests for more ambitious climate action on Friday, 29 November, the activist movement Fridays for Future Germany has announced. The ...
26 Nov 2019, 12:58 Sören Amelang Coal 91tv Europe's mining regions call for EU support for "clean coal" technologies to ease their transition, but climate activists warned the coal exit must not be delayed by promoting " ...
26 Nov 2019, 17:36 The effects of global warming are becoming increasingly felt in Germany, shows a government report on climate change adaptation. The average air temperature in the country rose by 1.5°C from 1881 until 2018, and more frequent heat waves ...
22 Nov 2019, 12:04 Expert Ottmar Edenhofer Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC, Director of MCC, Deputy Director and Chief Economist of PIK Climate & CO2 Energiewende Technology Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...
22 Nov 2019, 12:02 Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Wind Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Some German states have said they will make use ...
21 Nov 2019, 13:13 Expert bne- Association of Energy Market Innovators Bundesverband Neue Energiewirtschaft Electricity market Grid Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 91tv Solar parks can have a positive effect on plant and animal life ...
21 Nov 2019, 13:03 Hydrogen production with renewable power is seen by many countries as an essential tool to decarbonise the economy. The UK and Germany, the world’s two leading offshore wind power nations, have started to sound out how they could ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv / Bayrischer Rundfunk Bavaria's state cabinet has adopted a climate action law and additional measures to reach its target of becoming climate neutral between 2040 and 2050. The ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:34 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 tageszeitung (taz) [UPDATE adds Left Party quote] The German government has declined to specify the amount of greenhouse ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:30 Germany's environment ministry has warned that climate-neutral fuels made with renewables must not become an excuse for neglecting the domestic roll-out of renewables, increasing efficiency and other efforts to cut emissions. " ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:28 Expert BVG- German Geothermal Association Bundesverband Geothermie e.V. Renewables Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Renewables 91tv Germany needs a masterplan for deep geothermal energy in order to reap the technology' ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:04 Following intense criticism of the German government's planned minimum distance rules for wind power by industry and environmental groups, economy minister Peter Altmaier says the government has not made a final decision on what ...
19 Nov 2019, 13:42 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs G20 & G7 Reuters / Passauer Neue Presse / Handelsblatt / 91tv ...
18 Nov 2019, 13:29 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Deutschlandfunk Germany's opposition Green Party has dared too little in their decisions at the party's ...
15 Nov 2019, 15:20 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government [Update adds opinion piece by Süddeutsche Zeitung] The German parliament (Bundestag) has decided the country's first major climate law, less than two months after the coalition of ...
14 Nov 2019, 13:33 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 91tv Outdoor air pollution contributed to over 44,800 premature deaths in Germany in 2016, more than 8,000 of which were linked to coal, says a policy briefing on Germany based on the Lancet ...
14 Nov 2019, 13:26 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert Federal Foreign Office Auswärtiges ...
13 Nov 2019, 13:53 Government plans to tighten distance rules for onshore wind turbines are a threat to Germany's energy and climate targets, according to stark warnings by industry, trade unions and environmental NGOs. Strict minimum distances to ...
12 Nov 2019, 12:47 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Business & Jobs Technology 91tv Germany’s largest steelmaker thyssenkrupp has launched a series of tests into the use of hydrogen in a working blast furnace aimed at reducing CO2 emissions ...
11 Nov 2019, 13:04 Expert Stefan Bratzel Director Cars Transport Freja Eriksen Cars Spiegel Online Small manufacturers of e-cars say their business could be threatened by the German government's increased buyer's premium intended to boost sales ...
11 Nov 2019, 08:07 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 91tv No G20 country has a climate strategy in line with the Paris Agreement’s ambitious end of its main target- to limit global warming to 1.5°C- although most are technically capable and have ...
06 Nov 2019, 09:11 Energy and climate policy observers grade Angela Merkel's government 3.7 points out of 10 for climate efforts in a mid-term review. Industry experts, researchers and lobbyists say plans for a CO2 price in transport and heating ...
05 Nov 2019, 14:43 The German government believes hydrogen is key not only for a successful energy transition, but also for the future of the country's famed industry. This is why Germany must beat Asian countries – in particular China and Japan – to ...
05 Nov 2019, 13:52 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 ...
04 Nov 2019, 14:01 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The expected dismantling of thousands of old wind turbines in Germany could overburden ...
29 Oct 2019, 17:41 Germany is headed for second consecutive year of substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as a sharp drop in coal consumption is driving a decline of the country’s overall energy use in 2019. If this trend continues, the ...
28 Oct 2019, 14:06 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Renewables Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The Federation of German Industries ...
28 Oct 2019, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Tagesspiegel / dpa The German parliament's council of elders has decided that CO2 emissions of duty travel of MPs will have to be compensated through a "climate levy", news ...
25 Oct 2019, 14:24 Sven Egenter Cars Business & Jobs dpa / tagesschau.de German car part supplier Bosch will cut around 2,600 jobs in the coming years because the demand for diesel and petrol cars is waning, according to a report by newsagency dpa run ...
25 Oct 2019, 14:20 Opposition parties have strongly criticised the German government coalition’s climate policy package in a first parliamentary debate on key legislative elements, such as the planned major climate action law. The first reading in the ...
25 Oct 2019, 14:17 Expert Prognos Consultancy Energiewende Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs 91tv A ...
24 Oct 2019, 12:06 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal 91tv Leading environmental NGOs have called on the government of western German mining region North Rhine-Westphalia to protect ...
23 Oct 2019, 13:24 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate ...
22 Oct 2019, 14:09 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Efficiency 91tv The number of full-time employees working in the environmental protection sector rose from 251,222 in 2016 to 263 ...
21 Oct 2019, 13:15 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Wind Tageszeitung (taz) The German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) has warned that new ...
21 Oct 2019, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Market forces will drive Sweden's fossil fuel phaseout and ultimately determine the fate of nuclear energy, said the country's energy minister Anders Ygeman in an ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:25 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Freja Eriksen Efficiency 91tv "Practically all" of Germany's three-million non-residential building stock will have ...
17 Oct 2019, 13:31 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:49 Germany’s government coalition is moving ahead to implement its climate action plan to put the country back on track to reach 2030 targets. The cabinet has adopted several legislative drafts to mould the decisions into Germany’s tax ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:45 Freja Eriksen Coal Society 91tv Forty-one mayors from Germany, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Greece, Romania, Montenegro and Slovakia have signed a declaration calling on the European Union for more ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:44 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Freja Eriksen Heating 91tv German energy efficiency ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:41 With a new sustainable finance strategy, Germany's government hopes to better align financial policies with climate targets and to ensure the country moves from a cautious to a more proactive role in the budding green finance ...
15 Oct 2019, 12:27 Germany’s renewable energy surcharge (EEG surcharge) that is paid by consumers with their electricity bill and supports wind, solar, biomass and hydro power installations will rise by about 5 percent to 6.756 cents per kilowatt hour (ct ...
14 Oct 2019, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Coal Cost & Prices 91tv The German coal exit could lead to a “strong increase” in wholesale power prices, unless the framework conditions in the energy sector are adapted quickly, said consultancy ...
14 Oct 2019, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Renewables Transport 91tv [CORRECTION: DB says it seeks 500 gigawatt hours (GWh) of green electricity, not 500 GW.] Germany’s ...
10 Oct 2019, 13:56 Germany’s economy minister Peter Altmaier has said that hydrogen will be a key element of the country’s future energy system, as a zero-carbon or carbon-neutral energy source. However, natural gas would play a significant role over the ...
10 Oct 2019, 13:43 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Clean ...
09 Oct 2019, 17:06 The German government cabinet has adopted the country’s first framework climate law and a detailed programme of measures to reach national and European targets for 2030. Against the backdrop of climate action protests by the Extinction ...
09 Oct 2019, 10:40 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Gas Utilities Heating 91tv Most ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:25 Expert German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation Stiftung Offshore-Windenergie Renewables Freja Eriksen Renewables Wind 91tv / dpa / Focus Online Germany's northern states and federal government want to nearly triple the ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:20 Freja Eriksen Renewables Hydrogen International 91tv The German city of Hamburg and Japanese prefecture of Fukushima want to strengthen their cooperation within the development and use of renewable energies. Hamburg hopes ...
07 Oct 2019, 16:41 The German government has presented a draft of Germany’s first-ever major Climate Action Law, which assigns flexible annual greenhouse gas budgets to economic sectors for the years 2020-2030, but does not make long-term climate targets ...
07 Oct 2019, 14:34 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Government Clean ...
07 Oct 2019, 14:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars manager magazin Carmaker VW is emptying its stocks of older e-car models ahead of the launch of its new ID 3 model, bringing the price for the electric version of its successful Golf model below that of the ...
08 Oct 2019, 11:00 Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion have begun two weeks of blockades and acts of civil disobedience by occupying two main traffic intersections in Berlin, demanding that Germany's government "tells the truth" ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:51 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Transport Technology 91tv Civil airlines should be required to use at least two ...
01 Oct 2019, 17:30 Germany is set to reach its goal of doubling contributions to international climate finance to four billion euros annually by 2020 compared to 2014 figures. A gap had become clear earlier this year, but a budget draft states that this ...
02 Oct 2019, 10:07 Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung [UPDATE adds media report on climate action cost estimate of 150 billion euros by 2030] The German ...
01 Oct 2019, 13:50 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices International 91tv Germany's ruling Christian Democrats (CDU) ...
01 Oct 2019, 13:46 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Freja Eriksen Wind 91tv The targets for renewable power consumption and wind energy expansion on land set by the German government's new ...
30 Sep 2019, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Welt am Sonntag Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has made its critique of policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to protect the global climate a ...
01 Oct 2019, 10:00 Europe's largest CO2 emitter RWE has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2040. The announcement underlines the deep transformation underway at the German operator of lignite mines and power plants, which is now betting on ...
29 Apr 2021, 12:30 With its Climate Action Law and the Climate Action Programme 2030, Germany's government coalition has presented a far-reaching climate strategy that is aimed at putting the country on track towards reaching its climate targets. The ...
27 Sep 2019, 13:39 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ ...
26 Sep 2019, 14:12 Chancellor Angela Merkel's Conservatives insist on a low initial price tag for CO2 emissions to secure public acceptance for the government's new climate strategy. In the first parliamentary debate on the package unveiled ...
26 Sep 2019, 13:59 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) are prepared to ...
26 Sep 2019, 13:56 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 91tv The German government's newly agreed climate action ...
25 Sep 2019, 14:08 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
25 Sep 2019, 13:57 Expert Oxfam Germany Climate & CO2 COP21 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv German environmental NGOs have used the publication of the ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:58 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:45 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Oxfam Germany Climate & CO2 COP21 Freja Eriksen Climate & ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:40 Higher energy efficiency, a "paradigm shift" in the circular economy, innovative production processes, as well as carbon capture and usage or storage could make Germany's industry CO2-neutral by 2050, but the government& ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:39 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Renewables Heating 91tv The share of renewable energy in German ...
23 Sep 2019, 14:12 The future of Germany's much criticised climate strategy hangs in the balance as the Green Party vowed to amend the package, and experts warned legal hurdles threatened the government's concept for a CO2 price. Yet, Chancellor ...
23 Sep 2019, 13:56 Freja Eriksen Coal 91tv Germany has joined the international Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) but withheld fully endorsing the PPCA declaration, which would commit OECD countries to phase out unabated coal no later than ...
23 Sep 2019, 09:41 The German government coalition has reached an agreement on the country's climate action strategy, including a pricing system for carbon emissions in all major sectors. The 91tv presents reactions to the deal. Sören ...
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20 Sep 2019, 12:55 Hundreds of thousands of people demanded rapid climate action at Germany's Fridays for Future protests, keeping public pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel's government following the announcement of a broad action package to ...
20 Sep 2019, 13:03 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy ...
20 Sep 2019, 12:58 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics 91tv / Spiegel Online / Süddeutsche Zeitung Elections in the eastern German states of Brandenburg and Saxony left established parties severely weakened and have resulted in coalition ...
20 Sep 2019, 12:54 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Renewables 91tv Renewable energy sources in Germany generated a total of 56 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity that was ...
20 Sep 2019, 20:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel's so-called "climate cabinet" has put together the bedrock for future climate action legislation in Germany, just in time for UN Secretary-General António Guterres' Climate Action Summit in ...
20 Sep 2019, 10:25 Germany's highly anticipated future climate strategy remained uncertain on Friday morning as government coalition talks that lasted throughout the night were still ongoing. Negotiations between Chancellor Angela Merkel's ...
19 Sep 2019, 13:37 Germany's governing parties are heading into the final talks over what finance minister Olaf Scholz has said must be a "big and convincing step for climate action." But CO₂ pricing and a proposed major framework climate ...
23 Sep 2019, 10:34 After receiving more than 43,500 signatures on a petition in August, the Berlin House of Representatives will have to deliberate on a climate emergency status for the German capital. Forty German municipalities have already declared ...
18 Sep 2019, 12:30 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Freja Eriksen Efficiency 91tv Companies in Germany's ...
18 Sep 2019, 12:24 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Digitalisation Clean ...
18 Sep 2019, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas 91tv The switch from coal-fired power generation and oil-fired heating to natural gas increases the greenhouse effect of energy supply by around 40 percent due to methane emissions, ...
20 Sep 2019, 10:12 Today, the grand coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) aim to agree on a major policy package to bring Germany back on track to reaching the international ...
16 Sep 2019, 14:03 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Rheinische Post / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Süddeutsche Zeitung The ideas the German government's climate cabinet members and government parties have put on the table so far "will hardly be ...
16 Sep 2019, 17:01 Gaseous energy sources will play a "crucial role" in Germany's long-term energy supply and industrial production, with CO₂-neutral or carbon-free gases, such as green hydrogen, being a key element, according to a draft ...
14 Oct 2019, 11:00 Starting in 2021 and throughout the 2020s, many of Germany’s pioneer wind turbines, solar PV installations and biogas plants will stop receiving fixed feed-in tariffs, meaning many gigwatts in renewable capacity may be shut down if they ...
13 Sep 2019, 13:24 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections ...
13 Sep 2019, 13:23 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:33 Chancellor Angela Merkel's government coalition is racing to put together a major climate action package by 20 September, just in time for UN Secretary-General António Guterres' climate summit in New York on 23 September. Mere ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has called on European leaders to come up with a coherent plan to facilitate the spread of electric mobility on the continent. At the IAA ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:08 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv German Chancellor Angela Merkel said reaching the country's climate targets in the transport sector will be a great challenge for the car industry and the government. Reducing ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:03 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Efficiency Die Welt / 91tv Four industry associations and the German Energy Agency ...
11 Sep 2019, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Wind 91tv The German coal exit can only be carried out safely if the country raises its current offshore wind power expansion plans, a meta-study commissioned by offshore industry association BWO has ...
11 Sep 2019, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said protecting the climate and digitalisation are the two key challenges that Germany faces in the future. Her comments ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:27 Facing an unprecedented wave of climate protests, Germany's trio of car groups, BMW, Daimler and VW, put their sustainability ambitions at the centre of their presentations at the Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA). In an unprecedented ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv / Reuters The investments in emission reductions by Germany's government need a "restart" that ends the current approach of "small measures" based on ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:10 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The lack of interest in Germany' ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover – Germany's largest Protestant state church body – has called on its employees and members to join the planned global climate strike ...
10 Sep 2019, 13:43 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Alliance for Climate and Economy Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Efficiency 91tv The draft law aimed ...
09 Sep 2019, 13:41 Expert Alliance for Climate and Economy Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv Germany should aim for greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050, a position paper ...
09 Sep 2019, 13:40 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Der Tagesspiegel The German government coalition "cannot continue" if it is not prepared to clarify how Germany will achieve its climate targets by 2030, German environment minister Svenja ...
09 Sep 2019, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Elections & Politics The Bavarian conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) – sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU – has agreed on what it calls a " ...
