04 Sep 2019, 13:06 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Efficiency Heating ...
03 Sep 2019, 17:45 Following key regional elections in eastern German Saxony and Brandenburg, the conservative parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel's grand coalition – the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) – have ...
03 Sep 2019, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Spiegel Online / 91tv Germany's Vice Chancellor, finance minister and top candidate to become leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Olaf Scholz, has ...
05 Sep 2019, 12:00 Banks, insurers and investment funds in Germany look back at nearly two decades of energy transition – but many of the biggest actors still struggle to embrace its potential as a core business area. While most are well aware of the ...
04 Sep 2019, 10:53 This year's Frankfurt Motor Show steals the limelight for unusual reasons. Thousands of people will flock to the bi-annual industry fair – but many of them not to admire horsepower-proud vehicles, but instead to call for their ...
02 Sep 2019, 13:15 The elections in Germany's eastern federal states Saxony and Brandenburg have dealt a blow to the country's governing parties, CDU and SPD, and brought huge gains for the far-right AfD. Even though the climate change-denying ...
02 Sep 2019, 13:13 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Renewables Wind Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany's "green fairy tale is in danger" as wind power expansion in the country has almost come to a "complete standstill," writes Michael ...
02 Sep 2019, 13:08 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices dpa Economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said he aims to lower German electricity prices in the country's climate cabinet, where key decisions on German climate action legislation ...
30 Aug 2019, 14:12 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany's ...
29 Aug 2019, 12:29 Edgar Meza Storage International dpa / Handelsblatt A European battery cell production initiative is well under way with more than 20 companies involved in two projects, German economy minister Peter Altmaier told reporters in Paris on ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables dpa / Focus Online Solar power systems and wind turbines in Germany fed 39.3 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity into the public grid from June to August, a 10 percent increase compared to the same ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:48 Corrects headline:Daimler will enlist several wind farms, not thousands of wind turbines, as previously stated. Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cars Süddeutsche Zeitung German carmaker Daimler is signing agreements with wind farm operators ...
27 Aug 2019, 16:42 Addressing climate change and the pros and cons of renewable power have dominated German public debate for almost two decades, but the role of the finance sector in emissions reduction has taken a back seat. Many countries have already ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:27 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Freja Eriksen Wind 91tv Leading global wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has won an order to build a 29 megawatt (MW) wind power plant at a steel ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:25 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Storage 91tv The total power storage capacity ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Wind Hydrogen NDR Germany's northern coastal states are set to expand their efforts to bring hydrogen production from wind power to an industrial scale and better use the turbines' energy potential, ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:34 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv The number of flights taken in Germany to domestic as well as international destinations continues to rise, the Destatis national statistical office has found. In the first half of 2019, the ...
23 Aug 2019, 13:29 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 International 91tv German chancellor Angela Merkel has said she would back a Dutch proposal to significantly step up the EU's 2030 climate targets. She could "very well support" ...
23 Aug 2019, 13:26 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out 91tv Germany is increasing its stockpile of iodine tablets as a precaution for the possibility of a nuclear accident. The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) said it ordered 189.5 ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:55 Eastern German coal mining regions have welcomed draft legislation to support the states most affected by plans to phase out the fossil fuel by 2038 at the latest. The economy ministry presented an "investment law for coal regions ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv / Frankfurter Rundschau A German business initiative called "Entrepreneurs for Future" will join the global climate strike on 20 September and call for a ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:50 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Clean ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:46 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Freja Eriksen Citizens' energy Renewables Cars 91tv Most households in Germany "not only support the energy transition ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:44 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Storage Hydrogen Efficiency Clean ...
21 Aug 2019, 17:10 Angela Merkel's grand coalition government may survive yet another election debacle in the upcoming East German state votes – despite ongoing leadership problems, says political scientist Gero Neugebauer. The Social Democratic ...
21 Aug 2019, 12:01 Freja Eriksen Citizens' energy Solar 91tv / Handelsblatt Work has begun on the first crowdfunded solar park in Germany with a capacity of about 1.3 megawatts, energy company BayWa r.e. and online energy market place ...
20 Aug 2019, 14:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv / Handelsblatt Influential German ...
20 Aug 2019, 13:59 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 Aug 2019, 13:57 Julian Wettengel Transport Freight Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / 91tv Germany should introduce a truck toll on all German roads and use the revenues to strengthen the country's rail freight infrastructure, said ...
20 Aug 2019, 13:55 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport 91tv / AP German airline Lufthansa is launching a platform that allows customers to purchase CO₂-neutral synthetic plane fuel to compensate for the emissions caused by their ...
21 Aug 2019, 16:00 Moment of truth for German climate policy: Right in time for the UN Climate Action Summit, chancellor Angela Merkel's government is due to present a raft of measures to drastically cut emissions. The eagerly awaited announcements ...
19 Aug 2019, 13:09 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Julian Wettengel Storage Hydrogen Technology 91tv Researchers in Germany have combined ...
19 Aug 2019, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society The Fridays for Future student climate protest movement will leave its mark on society, independent of its eventual duration, according to a working paper by the Institute for Social Movement ...
19 Aug 2019, 13:03 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport 91tv The most effective way to reduce CO₂ emissions from air travel are investments in efficiency, says the German Aviation Association (BDL) in a paper. At the same time, ...
19 Aug 2019, 12:59 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Freja Eriksen Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Clean Energy ...
16 Aug 2019, 13:19 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert ...
16 Aug 2019, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Energiewende International Die Zeit The German government's energy policy often lacks an appropriate and necessary coordination with European neighbours, writes Michael Thumann in an opinion piece in Die Zeit. ...
16 Aug 2019, 12:09 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Freja Eriksen Transport 91tv / Zeit Online Transport minister Andreas ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:34 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal Climate & CO2 91tv German energy company RWE's opencast ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Technology Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany needs a market introduction strategy for green fuels based on hydrogen, Carsten Rolle, climate and energy policy head at the Federation of German Industries ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background Green parliamentary group head Katrin Göring-Eckardt has called for an ecologic stimulus package as news of Germany's economy shrinking in the second ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:09 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Utilities Spiegel Online VW, BMW, Mercedes and utility E.ON are prime examples for German companies' innovation failure, which is partly to blame for the fact that the country is currently on the ...
15 Aug 2019, 10:58 In a bid to regain its damaged reputation as a future mobility leader, BMW will replace its CEO on Friday, when Harald Krüger will hand over the company's steering wheel to Oliver Zipse. But industry experts are uncertain whether ...
16 Aug 2019, 10:00 Voters in the eastern German states of Saxony and Brandenburg head to the polls on 1 September for crucial state elections. The results could have an outsized impact on German climate policy for three reasons. First, these states are ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:58 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Cars 91tv The number of public ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Utilities Reuters / 91tv RWE, Germany’s largest power producer, reported a 20 percent increase in core profits in the first half of 2019, boosted by a stronger than expected performance at its energy ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:55 Expert adelphi Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv There is no general recipe for a successful carbon pricing scheme, but its introduction should be accompanied by open and targeted ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv A system to trade CO₂ emission allowances, rather than a carbon tax, is the better way to steer Germany towards climate neutrality in the long run, Chancellor Angela ...
13 Aug 2019, 13:42 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv / Spiegel Online German Chancellor Angela Merkel "stands by the objective of a balanced budget", her spokesperson, Steffen Seibert, said at a government press ...
13 Aug 2019, 13:40 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Coal Handelsblatt Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has come out against ...
12 Aug 2019, 12:29 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv / Welt am Sonntag The head of Germany's conservative ...
08 Aug 2019, 13:51 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt An increasing number of MPs from Germany's governing parties are in favour of abandoning the target of a balanced budget in order to finance the fight against climate ...
08 Aug 2019, 13:41 A new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on land use shows that climate change is threatening the world's food supply and livelihood, making it an "existential question", said German ...
07 Aug 2019, 14:01 Sören Amelang International 91tv Germany has to step up its climate ambitions so Chancellor Angela Merkel doesn’t travel to the UN Climate Action Summit in New York on 23 September empty-handed, according to Climate ...
06 Aug 2019, 14:12 Sören Amelang Society International 91tv Germans consider "the environment, climate and energy" the most important issue facing the country at the moment, according to a EU poll. 36 percent of respondents named it ...
06 Aug 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Policy 91tv The German finance ministry (BMF) is pondering a review of the federal budget based on sustainability criteria in order to prepare the issuing of a green state bond, a ministry source ...
06 Aug 2019, 13:53 Sören Amelang Society Elections & Politics 91tv Germany’s service sector labour union Verdi has called on its 2 million members to join the global Fridays for Future climate strike on 20 September. “We can only protect ...
02 Aug 2019, 12:19 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Freight 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German Aviation Association (BDL) said it wants to bring CO2 emissions from air traffic to zero- after months of rising criticism from ...
02 Aug 2019, 11:52 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:30 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 Renewables ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:22 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 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics ...
31 Jul 2019, 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 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
30 Jul 2019, 13:43 Primary energy use in Germany decreased almost two percent in the first half of 2019 due to a large drop in coal consumption, according to first estimates. This is likely to result in a further substantial fall in the country’s CO2 ...
30 Jul 2019, 10:30 Markus Söder, Bavaria’s conservative state premier, has called for climate action to be enshrined in Germany’s Basic Law, according to German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung. Söder has thus embraced a long-standing demand by the Green Party, ...
29 Jul 2019, 13:43 Freja Eriksen Elections & Politics 91tv / Spiegel Online German right-wing party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has presented an declaration on its environmental policy agenda stating that the influence of CO2 on ...
29 Jul 2019, 13:39 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Storage 91tv The production of so-called power-to-x fuels must be regulated in ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy Some six months after Germany’s coal exit commission tabled its proposal to phase out the fuel by 2038, commission members have criticised the government’s lack of progress on implementing the plan. ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:50 Freja Eriksen Cost & Prices Policy The deputy head of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU parliamentary group, Andreas Jung, has suggested consumers should pay less for electricity and receive an “eco commuters’ allowance”, ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:46 Onshore wind power is a key element of Germany's energy transition and a leading force of the country's renewables industry. But after years of rapid growth, the sector's expansion has almost come to a standstill in the ...
24 Jul 2019, 14:16 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Transport Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Die Welt The German Green party is calling for higher taxes on domestic flights and lower taxes on train tickets and an eventual end of domestic flights. A paper ...
23 Jul 2019, 13:57 Sven Egenter Coal Cost & Prices 91tv Germany should set a carbon price “significantly” higher than that of the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) on CO2 emissions across all sectors, the German National Academy of ...
19 Jul 2019, 14:04 Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed the introduction of price on CO2 emissions as part of a package to reach the country’s 2030 climate targets. In her annual mid-year press conference, Merkel said experts had made a convincing case for ...
19 Jul 2019, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Policy Rheinische Post The leader of the conservative CDU party’s parliamentary group, Ralph Brinkhaus, has called for “hundreds of billions of euros” to be invested in climate action over the next ...
19 Jul 2019, 13:56 Freja Eriksen Storage Hydrogen Technology 91tv Hydrogen projects are one of the key themes of 20 test projects selected for funding by the German government. Germany ultimately plans to put 100 million euros per year into ...
18 Jul 2019, 13:50 Freja Eriksen Transport Elections & Politics Rheinische Post Ahead of the climate cabinet’s next meeting, German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze is calling for “a fair CO2 price for air travel”, the Rheinische Post reports. She ...
18 Jul 2019, 13:36 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Policy German Institute for International and Security ...
17 Jul 2019, 12:50 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen H2 Mobility Deutschland / Fraunhofer ISE For cars with ranges higher than 250 kilometres, hydrogen fuel cell drives are ...
17 Jul 2019, 12:47 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert WindGuard Deutsche WindGuard Renewables Julian Wettengel Wind Deutsche WindGuard / VDMA German offshore ...
16 Jul 2019, 13:08 Siemens is planning a hydrogen research laboratory and innovation campus in the east German city of Görlitz, where the company’s turbine plant was previously due to be shut down. Chancellor Angela Merkel called the plans a “milestone” ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:17 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Freja Eriksen Renewables Wind 91tv Wind energy carried from the North Sea by transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT rose by 16 percent in the first half of ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:13 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Coal Storage Hydrogen Reuters Siemens plans to build an “innovation campus” for hydrogen technologies at the company’s site in Görlitz, reports Reuters citing sources close to the company ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:02 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Grid Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Süddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The government of the western German coal state and industrial ...
11 Jul 2019, 13:56 Sven Egenter Bioenergy 91tv Germany’s biogas lobby expects another slowdown in new installations and job losses in 2019, and warns that many operators might close plants in absence of a change in the business environment. ...
10 Jul 2019, 13:01 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport WDR / Die Welt / Neues Deutschland France’s plans to introduce an eco-tax of between 1.50 and 18 euros on flight tickets got mixed reviews from commentators in the German media. “The new ...
10 Jul 2019, 12:53 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kennedy Nyavaya Grid Wind 91tv Several European grid operators have proposed to build at least ten artificial “energy islands” as wind power hubs in the North ...
08 Jul 2019, 12:08 Financial markets can be a great accelerator for developments in the economy, but without a clear political roadmap for emissions reduction, they are unable to unleash their supporting abilities, Gerhard Schick, founder of the German ...
11 Jul 2019, 13:33 The shift to a low-carbon future is turning the economy inside out. Policy has a crucial role to play, but ultimately it is businesses that will make the energy transition happen. In Energiewende home country Germany, many start-ups are ...
04 Jul 2019, 12:43 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv More than 60 local German utilities have called for the introduction of a mandatory share of renewables-based gases to be added to the country’s natural gas supply for sectors not covered ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:20 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Sören Amelang Coal Finance International 91tv German government-owned business and development bank KfW stops financing all coal ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:05 Freja Eriksen Hydrogen Business & Jobs Technology 91tv Germany’s largest steelmaker thyssenkrupp has set itself the target of cutting its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. “Thyssenkrupp aims to be climate ...
01 Jul 2019, 13:35 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv / Financial Times Environmental and development organisation Germanwatch has said it is “relieved“ that 19 of the G20 countries at ...
27 Jun 2019, 12:27 Expert German Advisory Council on the Environment Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv In ...
27 Jun 2019, 10:20 Germany’s engineering prowess and excellent support programmes have spawned a world-leading scene of start-ups dedicated to pushing the energy transition with innovative ideas, according to start-up expert Klaus Fichter. There are ...
26 Jun 2019, 12:57 The second summer in a row with record temperatures has fuelled worries about the global climate crisis in Germany and sparked a sudden interest in room cooling systems, which remain a rarity in the central European country. Researchers ...
26 Jun 2019, 12:55 Julian Wettengel Coal Cost & Prices 91tv The largest part of Germany’s government support to coal and coal-fired power production and consumption goes to measures focusing on the transition away from the fossil fuel, ...
24 Jun 2019, 13:50 A plea for an accelerated coal exit in Germany by the state premier of Bavaria, Markus Söder, has caused a row within Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative alliance over how to deal with growing political pressure to improve the ...
21 Jun 2019, 13:30 Sören Amelang Solar Utilities ntv Two thirds of all people who own a PV array generate enough electricity to become self-sufficient if they have access to storage, according to German utility E.ON. “66 percent of our clients with a ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Coal Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s government must implement the key recommendations given by its coal exit commission, but the proposal should not be followed to the letter to maintain necessary flexibility in ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Energiewende International HSBC Germany is very well-placed for the low-carbon transition, given its particularly large cleantech industry and strong policies, writes British multinational financial services company ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Gas Freight 91tv A maritime energy transition in line with the Paris Climate Agreement is only possible with the help of liquefied natural gas (LNG), says the Maritime LNG Platform in a press release. LNG ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas Cars Hydrogen Handelsblatt Fuel cell cars are often portrayed as an alternative to battery electric cars, but there is hardly any demand in Germany, writes Lukas Bay in business daily Handelsblatt. A mere 386 ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Die Welt By supporting the call for climate neutrality in the EU by 2050, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has practically also tightened national climate goals, writes Daniel Wetzel in an opinion piece ...
19 Jun 2019, 16:33 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv European leaders will ultimately agree on the goal of climate neutrality by 2050 for the European Union – if not at the European Council in Brussels this week then at ...
19 Jun 2019, 12:00 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Utilities 91tv German energy companies RWE and innogy are jointly looking into large-scale production of green hydrogen and ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Gas Grid Hydrogen Technology 91tv Renewables-based gases such as hydrogen and synthetic methane will be increasingly important for Germany’s to reach climate targets, say gas transmission grid operators ...
18 Jun 2019, 08:43 Germany will join a growing group of EU countries to support the pledge to aim for carbon neutrality by 2050, increasing the likelihood EU leaders will agree to the goal at a meeting this week (20-21 June), several media outlets report. ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:18 Expert DIE- German Development Institute Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International G20 & G7 German Development Institute Support for multilateral commitments, especially those ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Tagesspiegel Berlin-based carbon-offsetting non-profit organisation atmosfair has increased its revenues by more than 40 percent in 2018, as more and more flight passengers use its services ...
14 Jun 2019, 09:07 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
13 Jun 2019, 13:38 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Security Nature Intensifying climate change will increase the future risk of violent armed conflict within countries, according to a study published in the journal Nature co-authored by an ...
13 Jun 2019, 13:16 Sören Amelang Storage Cars Deutsche Welle German carmaker VW has acquired a 20 percent stake in Swedish car battery maker Northvolt, which raised 900 million euros in cash to finance the construction of Europe’s biggest car battery cell ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung France and Germany should collaborate more intensively on key projects regarding climate action and energy transition policy and together “define a ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv A large number of industrial companies in Germany will have a hard time coping with the changes brought about by the transition to a low-carbon economy and by digitalisation, ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Finance 91tv The new advisory council on sustainable finance established by Germany’s government has held its first meeting to debate how the country’s financial sector can better ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:26 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
05 Jun 2019, 14:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Policy dpa / Spiegel Online The governing conservative CDU/CSU alliance in Germany considers to end the tax exemption for kerosene in a bid to reduce the aviation sector’s impact on carbon emissions, news ...
05 Jun 2019, 12:34 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv With a turnover of 49.4 billion euros, climate protection made up more than half of ...
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04 Jun 2019, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv The influential industry lobby group BDI has criticised Germany’s government for damaging the economy with unclear and erratic policymaking in areas such as climate, energy and taxation. “There has to ...
03 Jun 2019, 14:01 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Nuclear phase-out Renewables Clean ...
03 Jun 2019, 13:31 Sören Amelang Renewables Renew Economy Germany’s share of renewable energy in net public electricity generation rose to 47 percent in the first five months of 2019, reports Giles Parkinson in Renew Economy on the basis of data by ...
27 May 2019, 15:43 Germany’s ruling parties have taken another blow in the European elections, further rattling the fragile government coalition, as voters increasingly turn away from the established forces in the political centre. Against the backdrop of ...
24 May 2019, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Reuters The investment fund subsidiary of Germany’s Deutsche Bank, DWS, wants to increase the share of sustainable investments, with a greater focus on the so-called ESG criteria for asset selection, which ...
24 May 2019, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv German carmaker Audi has announced the goal of selling one million electric cars per year by the mid-2020s and to offer 30 e-car models by that time, with 20 models being ...
24 May 2019, 17:25 Young climate activists across Europe took to the streets Friday to demand more ambitious climate action from politicians two days ahead of the main day of the EU elections. In Germany, “Fridays For Future” students protested in more ...
24 May 2019, 13:24 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Technology Policy Spiegel Online The goal of becoming a ...
23 May 2019, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Transport Handelsblatt / Airbus European multinational aircraft manufacturer Airbus “seriously aims for decarbonisation”, the company’s CEO Guillaume Faury said at the "Airbus Innovation Days" in French city ...
23 May 2019, 12:20 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv The impact of global climate change in Germany will be felt less ...
22 May 2019, 16:37 Ahead of the European Elections from the 23rd – 26th of May, organisers of the German Fridays for Futures see the election as a last chance to put climate at the top of the European Parliament’s agenda. “This election will have a ...
22 May 2019, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv A group of more than 1,000 companies from Germany has joined the appeal by student protest movement Fridays for Future (FfF) for greater climate action efforts. Under the label ...
22 May 2019, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology French manufacturer Alstom plans to deliver 27 hydrogen fuel cell trains to subsidiary fahma of regional public transport provider RMV in the central German state of Hesse by 2022, ...
20 May 2019, 16:29 Financial markets are excellent processors of information- and they currently don't seem to expect that the global economy will be geared towards respecting the Paris Climate Agreement 's goals and give up fossil fuel ...
20 May 2019, 13:30 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities 91tv A group of 30 ...
20 May 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society Rheinische Post A church in the town of Kerpen-Manheim, in the western German Rhenish coal mining region, has been prepared for demolition to expand a nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. About ...
20 May 2019, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt The production of Volkswagen’s highly-anticipated low-cost e-car ID could be relocated to a factory in Eastern Europe and not take place in the company’s factory in Emden in ...
20 May 2019, 13:12 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Policy Hamburger Abendblatt / 91tv The idea by socialist EU Commission ...
20 May 2019, 13:08 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 ...
17 May 2019, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Technology 91tv The new five-seater electric air taxi by aviation company Lilium from Munich has completed its first flight successfully. According to the company, the Lilium Jet’s maiden flight ...
17 May 2019, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy The German economy and energy ministry (BMWi) has presented its main fields of action for the economic restructuring of coal mining regions amid Germany’s coal exit, which a government-appointed commission ...
17 May 2019, 12:58 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut) / Tagesspiegel Background As ...
15 May 2019, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv There is so far little evidence that German companies whose CO₂ emissions are limited by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) are responding by setting up ...
13 May 2019, 14:06 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Agora Energiewende / Agora Verkehrswende [This article was based on the German version of the proposals. Agora Energiewende and Agora Verkehrswende published an English version on 15 ...
22 May 2019, 11:33 Volker Hille’s passion project could cut Germany’s entire CO2 output by almost one percent. He is head of corporate technology at Salzgitter Group, one of Europe’s largest steelmakers, which currently emits around eight million tonnes ...
09 May 2019, 14:06 Sören Amelang Gas Storage Technology Forbes Germany’s share of renewable energy continues to rise but the capacity of the national grid is constrained, putting a spotlight on power-to-x technologies to store the renewable energy, ...
09 May 2019, 13:53 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 International 91tv The CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion decreased by 2.5 percent in the European Union in 2018 compared to the year before, partly driven by a decrease of 5.4 percent ...
08 May 2019, 13:46 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Digitalisation 91tv Digitalisation has immense negative effects on the environment, but – steered in the right direction – it can create new opportunities for climate action and the global ...
03 May 2019, 13:20 Sören Amelang Storage Hydrogen Technology A German consortium has launched a research platform to store renewable hydrogen in a salt cavern. Following a two-year research project, the partners of the HYPOS alliance plan to build the ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:28 After shying away from the debate for a long time, Germany's political leaders are finally considering putting a price on CO2 to help reach the country's climate targets. Chancellor Angela Merkel and her " climate cabinet ...
02 May 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Technology 91tv Germany is interested in finding an agreement with neighbouring Switzerland on how the Alpine country could contribute to German and European power supply security, the German ...
30 Apr 2019, 13:14 Sören Amelang Cars Hydrogen Bloomberg Bosch, the world’s largest auto-parts supplier, says it continues to believe that hydrogen fuel cell trucks and cars will play a key role in future mobility, and has taken a further step to advance ...
30 Apr 2019, 13:12 Kerstine Appunn Transport 91tv Germany’s federal council of state governments (Bundesrat), the second legislative chamber, today debates the use of e-scooters on pavements and cycle lanes. While federal transport minister ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:47 Rachel Waldholz Coal Reuters / pv magazine The French utility Engie will sell four coal-fired power plants in Germany and the Netherlands as part of the utility’s strategy to focus on its renewable energy business, Catherine Rollett ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:42 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv April 2019 is the 13th consecutive month with warmer than average weather in ...
26 Apr 2019, 13:03 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Kerstine Appunn Utilities WirtschaftsWoche Utility Steag, which operates one of Germany’s largest coal plant fleets could find a new partial owner in waste company Remondis, ...
26 Apr 2019, 12:56 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background German refineries have adequate oil stocks if import flows on the Russian Druzhba pipeline were to be halted, a spokesman for industry group MWV ...
25 Apr 2019, 13:06 Kerstine Appunn Gas Renewables Hydrogen 91tv A group of utilities, researchers and the state energy agency of Hesse want to establish a green hydrogen project in the industrial and business hub of the Rhine-Main area near ...
25 Apr 2019, 13:04 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Süddeutsche Zeitung As new warnings of drought show that "the climate crisis is intensifying", the German ...
24 Apr 2019, 13:41 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Rachel Waldholz Gas Security Reuters Manfred Weber, a leading candidate to become the next president of the European Commission, told ...
24 Apr 2019, 17:27 Power production from renewable sources in Germany hit a new record high on Easter Monday when renewable installations such as wind and solar PV generated 77 percent of net public electricity supply thanks to strong winds and abundant ...
24 Apr 2019, 13:24 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background After exceptionally dry weather in 2018, the soil in many ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:33 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 CDU- Christian Democratic Union ...
18 Apr 2019, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics New York Times For years, Germany has been embroiled in a cultural war over immigration, refugees and diversity, but the environment has also emerged as a deeply polarising issue that the ...
18 Apr 2019, 12:20 Sören Amelang Utilities Reuters German utility RWE expects to spend heavily in the US green energy market as it maps out its future in global renewables after its pending asset swap with peer E.ON, Tom Käckenhoff, David French, and Vera ...
17 Apr 2019, 09:50 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
16 Apr 2019, 14:41 The opening of a new offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea gives Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel an opportunity to show her climate policy credentials and welcome the German-Norwegian project as a milestone for the energy ...
12 Apr 2019, 13:20 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs WWF Germany Environmental organisation WWF Germany has published a background paper on the climate ...
11 Apr 2019, 14:13 The German government is exploring the introduction of a CO2 price to get the country back on track to reach its ambitious targets for emission cuts. In a turning point in the government's approach to CO2 reduction, Chancellor ...
11 Apr 2019, 12:30 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Sören Amelang Transport Cars Bloomberg Businessweek The transition to ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:34 Kerstine Appunn Energiewende International 91tv The European Commission has published its fourth report on the state of the Energy Union, the EU’s framework to overhaul its energy and climate policy to ensure a secure, ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:30 Kerstine Appunn Coal Utilities Rheinische Post / Süddeutsche Zeitung Utility company Steag, which operates 5.5 gigawatt of hard coal power plants in North Rhine-Westphalia and Saarland and abroad, and is owned by several western German ...
09 Apr 2019, 13:29 The speed of energy transition innovations led by start-ups around the world continues to exceed expectations and is our biggest hope in the fight against climate change, according to Christoph Frei, secretary general and CEO of the ...
09 Apr 2019, 12:40 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Ahead of tomorrow’s first meeting of the so-called climate cabinet, German finance minister Olaf Scholz has launched his vision for Germany’s energy transition. In his ...
09 Apr 2019, 17:18 Innovation to make the use of energy cleaner, more flexible and efficient is the central quest of the global energy transition. At the Berlin Start-up Energy Transition Tech Festival, the German Energy Agency (dena) promotes start-ups ...
05 Apr 2019, 12:44 Julian Wettengel Coal Cost & Prices Reuters / ZDF Germany’s federal government and coal mining states have agreed on a programme worth 260 million euros to provide fast support to regions affected by the exit from coal-fired power ...
04 Apr 2019, 14:03 The influential German industry association BDI wants the country to opt for the lower end of its 2050 climate ambitions. The lobby group says a 95 percent reduction in line with the Paris Climate Agreement is currently “totally ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:51 Sören Amelang Gas Business Hydrogen Start-ups Technology 91tv The cosmetics industry is increasingly interested in using renewable hydrogen, according to German electrolysis start-up sunfire. Hydrogen made with renewable ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:34 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology 91tv A new project in northern Germany aims at establishing "the world’s first" power ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International Security Bloomberg / Politico US Vice President Mike Pence has reiterated his administration’s criticism of the controversial German-Russian Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project in the Baltic ...
02 Apr 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International 91tv The new Model 3 by US e-car pioneer Tesla has overtaken German car industry heavyweights Daimler and BMW in European e-car sales in the first month after the model’s launch on the ...
01 Apr 2019, 14:09 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Politics Society Deutsche Welle / Spiegel Online / taz / dpa Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg continued to make waves in German media over the weekend, after she spoke to a crowd of thousands at ...
01 Apr 2019, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Government Rheinische Post The leader of Germany’s governing Social Democrats (SPD), Andrea Nahles, has called for a quick implementation of the proposals made by the country’s coal exit commission, Jan Drebes ...
01 Apr 2019, 13:42 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 Renewables Policy Clean ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs International 91tv German carmaker Daimler has teamed up with China’s Geely to develop the Daimler brand Smart into a “leader in premium-electrified vehicles,” the companies say in ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:03 Swedish activist Greta Thunberg visited Berlin on Friday, joining thousands of young people who took to the streets in the most recent "Fridays for Future" school strike demanding more action on climate change. Protesters ...
28 Mar 2019, 09:15 Sören Amelang Start-ups Business & Jobs Technology 91tv One in four startups in Germany contributes to environmental and climate protection, according to a report by the Borderstep Institute for Innovation and ...
27 Mar 2019, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Reuters Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said he wants to extend tax incentives for buyers of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids for another decade, news agency Reuters reports, ...
27 Mar 2019, 12:24 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Federal Environment Agency (UBA) The share of renewables in Germany’s final energy consumption ...
26 Mar 2019, 13:20 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Technology Handelsblatt / 91tv Engine manufacturer and Volkswagen (VW) subsidiary MAN Energy Solutions shows a firm commitment to sustainable hydrogen ...
25 Mar 2019, 14:51 After months of negotiations, the commission tasked with proposing measures to cut emissions from Germany’s transport sector has come together for its final meeting. So far, the task force has made headlines mainly for fierce dispute ...
26 Mar 2019, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt [Update adds details on launch of environment ministry’s investment support programme.] Germany’s industrial sector fears the investment in energy efficiency it will ...
25 Mar 2019, 13:39 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv A mandatory minimum distance for wind turbines from residential areas would severely ...
22 Mar 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Cars International 91tv Germany’s largest carmaker, Volkswagen, and Swedish battery producer Northvolt have announced a joint research initiative called the European Battery Union (EBU). Partners ...
03 Apr 2019, 13:13 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
22 Mar 2019, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International Security Tagesspiegel Background The parallel construction of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline and a sea terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) will reduce Germany’s dependence on individual ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:31 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Sören Amelang Cars Hydrogen Business & Jobs Technology dpa / Focus Online BMW, Daimler and VW have settled a dispute over how to manage the transition to green ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs Recharge News German wind turbine producer Senvion will shut down operations in about 30 countries around the world and focus on 20 “key markets” in Europe, Latin America and elsewhere, Bernd ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv A group of five major companies has called on the German government to do more to promote electric vehicles (EVs). In a joint initiative under the umbrella of global business ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:22 The new 'climate cabinet' consisting of ministers responsible for Germany's emissions reduction record will help to make sure that the country introduces its much-awaited Climate Action Law still in 2019, Chancellor ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The western German federal state of Saarland has claimed greater financial support from the federal government for cushioning the effects of the state’s phase ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Elections & Politics Tageszeitung (taz) Chancellor Angela Merkel’s support for the climate school strike movement Fridays for Future is “hypocritical” because it pretends that the government has nothing to ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Elections & Politics dpa / Rheinische Post The planned German ‘ climate cabinet ’ that aims to improve coordination among climate-relevant ministries to put the country on track to meet its ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Gas 91tv / Bizz Energy A group of environmental NGOs in Germany has intensified its resistance to the construction of the country’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cars Reuters / Süddeutsche Zeitung The holding company of luxury carmaker Porsche SE has increased its voting rights share in Volkswagen and explicitly backed the largest German carmaker’s ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Solar Business & Jobs Cost & Prices ICIS / Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background German chemicals producer Wacker has complained that rising energy prices caused by the progressing phase-out ...
27 Mar 2019, 11:14 91tv is stepping up its coverage of how business is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we have launched a series on start-ups that ...
19 Mar 2019, 14:11 Kerstine Appunn Coal Climate & CO2 91tv The growth in Germany’s renewable electricity output triggered by the country’s energy transition policy is “quite an achievement,” the JP Morgan Energy Outlook 2019 authored by ...
19 Mar 2019, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government International Tagesspiegel Background Germany could face fines of up to 300 million euros payable over three years for its failure to comply with emissions reduction targets under the EU’s ...
20 Mar 2019, 11:49 91tv is stepping up its coverage of how business is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we are launching a series on start-ups that ...
18 Mar 2019, 13:55 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Technology Welt am Sonntag / Tagesspiegel German carmaker Volkswagen has threatened to quit the country’s ...
15 Mar 2019, 18:19 Tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of students poured into the streets in cities across Germany to demand more action on climate change. It’s one of the biggest showings for the "Fridays for Future" movement, which has ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Grid Frankfurter Rundschau The southern German states of Hesse and Bavaria are passing the buck to each other on who should provide its territory for completing much-needed grid expansion plans, ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:40 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Ecologic Institute ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:17 Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs Bloomberg Oil major Shell plans to transform itself into “the largest electricity power company in the world” by the early 2030s, and the recent purchase of German battery ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:10 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels 91tv Germany’s domestic extraction of oil and natural gas has slumped last year, further increasing the country’s already heavy dependence on imported fossil fuels. ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:01 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs Utilities Reuters German utility E.ON forecast largely stable operating earnings of around three billion euros for 2019 thanks to rising renewables and network profits, reports ...
13 Mar 2019, 11:10 The Hambach Forest in western Germany has become a symbol for climate activists, who are seeking to prevent energy company RWE from razing it to expand a nearby coal mine. A lawsuit by the environmental NGO BUND last year temporarily ...
12 Mar 2019, 14:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Grid International Tagesspiegel In order to achieve the best possible climate action in ...
12 Mar 2019, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Aachener Nachrichten A court in the western German city of Cologne has started to hear a case by NGO Friends of the Earth (BUND) against the clearing of the embattled Hambach Forest, news agency dpa ...
12 Mar 2019, 13:48 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Thanks to strong winds, electricity production in Germany achieved a new record share of nearly 65 ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:20 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Rachel Waldholz Business & Jobs Utilities Reuters EU regulators will take a hard look at part ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Society 91tv / Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung Leading German climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber has called for a substantial shift in strategy for the tourism industry to make sure that ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:40 Rachel Waldholz Elections & Politics New York Times German politics are undergoing a realignment, and the environment will be a key flashpoint in the future, argues Alexander Görlach of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Transport Cars Welt Online The EU Commission has criticised the German government for not making sufficient progress on setting up a countrywide network of service stations offering charging ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Freight dpa / airliners.de The emissions caused by the growing volume of global air travel are a problem that needs to be addressed more vigorously to minimise the effect of international tourism on ...
06 Mar 2019, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Electricity market Renewables 91tv Germany’s northern states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein – both of which generate more renewable electricity than they can use within their ...
06 Mar 2019, 11:26 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Transport 91tv Missing its 2030 climate targets for the transport sector could cost Germany billions of euros, according to a report by the NewClimate Institute ...
05 Mar 2019, 15:32 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Start-ups Business & Jobs 91tv Berlin e-car charging startup ubitricity has raised 20 million euros from new partner Honda and existing shareholders including French utility EdF ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:58 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs International Bloomberg Germany sounded a note of caution as energy ministers from EU member states debated a proposal to aim for net-zero emissions from the bloc by the middle of the century, reports ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Society 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background More than 700 scientists from German-speaking countries have signed a petition that explicitly backs students’ strikes demanding rapid climate action by the ...
04 Mar 2019, 13:40 Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development Climate & CO2 Policy Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Policy Zeit Online The Climate Action Law proposed by ...
04 Mar 2019, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology Tagesspiegel The plan to build an artificial island in the North Sea that will serve as a hub for offshore wind turbines with a capacity of more than 100 gigawatts is making good progress, Pieter van ...
04 Mar 2019, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Politics Society Tagesspiegel As the political debate over immigration in Germany is becoming less heated in line with the decreasing number of migrants seeking access to the country, the party that ...
04 Mar 2019, 12:01 The school student protests for rapid climate action make headlines in Germany as well as in other countries, putting pressure on politicians to take a stance. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said this weekend she “strongly welcomes” ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society dpa / Tagesspiegel The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg says Germany’s school strikes for climate action give her “a lot of hope,” news agency dpa reports in an article in the ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:43 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Sören Amelang Fossil fuels International 91tv A majority of ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The merger of German energy company E.ON with parts of utility RWE will not make it too dominant on the country’s energy market, E.ON CEO Johannes Teyssen ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:15 Much of Germany’s renewable power capacity is facing uncertainty regarding its business models as generous feed-in tariffs for many wind, solar and biogas plants end in the 2020s. With the country needing more, not less, renewable power ...
28 Feb 2019, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International Security Handelsblatt Russian energy minister Alexander Novak’s announcement that Ukraine may no longer serve as a transit country for gas exports to Western Europe has irritated German policymakers, ...
28 Feb 2019, 10:36 A survey of economics professors that found widespread scepticism about the climate impact of Germany's landmark coal exit deal accidentally revealed that many economists have only a patchy grasp on key details of the plan. More ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:45 Rachel Waldholz Gas Grid Hydrogen 91tv Producing hydrogen from renewable energy is already cost-competitive in niche markets and likely to be competitive in industrial-scale applications within a decade, according to a ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency 91tv Responding to the cancellation of Germany’s buildings commission, the governing Social Democrats (SPD) are calling on their coalition partner, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:28 Rachel Waldholz Business & Jobs International The Hill / Bloomberg Opinion Opinion writers are invoking Germany’s Energiewende in their arguments over US proposals for a Green New Deal (GND). Germany’s experience proves the Green ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Politics Society 91tv The German far-right nationalist party AfD is among the most climate-sceptical of European populist parties, explicitly denying that humans impact the global climate ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society WDR A slim majority of 51 percent of citizens in Germany’s largest coal state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), say the 2038 deadline to give up all coal-fired power production in the country is “too late”, ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal WDR The end of coal-fired power production in Germany is set to cause problems for the disposal of toxic waste – such as sewage sludge, used oil and refinery waste – which is often burned at coal plants, Jürgen ...
25 Feb 2019, 13:51 Rachel Waldholz Grid EurActiv The German government aims to rapidly expand the power grid to keep up with the planned transition to renewable energy, but farmers say new infrastructure could damage valuable crop land, Florence Schulz ...
25 Feb 2019, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Technology 91tv An international research project aims to assess the potential of geothermal energy as a replacement for coal-powered heating in Germany’s western state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:47 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal International Sydney Morning Herald Australia faces similar challenges to Germany when it comes to phasing out coal and might want to follow Germany’s example by setting up a commission to work ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:36 Sören Amelang Coal Utilities 91tv Current market prices “make a mockery” of compensation claims by Germany’s biggest utility RWE under the country’s coal phase-out plan, according to think-tank Institute for Energy ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:43 Rachel Waldholz Transport Freight Hydrogen 91tv Germany must support “power-to-x” technologies as a key part of the energy transition, says German engineering association VDMA in a press release (in English). The federation ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:32 Sören Amelang Mobility Cars Deutsche Welle German car-sharing companies logged sharp growth in 2018, picking up an extra 350,000 registered customers, reports Deutsche Welle (in English). The total number of registered users increased ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:26 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Society Washington Post Tens of thousands of teenagers across Europe have skipped school since the beginning of the year, joining protests demanding action on climate change, Luisa Beck reports in the ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Background If Germany doesn’t fulfil its greenhouse gas emission reduction obligations under the EU effort sharing, it could end up having to pay between 13.5 and 41 ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:22 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv Germany must urgently address a whole range of difficult choices to get the country’s energy transition on track for 2050 targets by triggering rapid investments in low ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:21 German utility and lignite mine operator RWE has agreed to refrain from clearing the embattled Hambach Forest in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) until autumn 2020, said state premier Armin Laschet in a parliamentary ...
20 Feb 2019, 11:13 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Storage Europe needs to pool its strengths with “a genuine European industrial policy” to remain a manufacturing powerhouse in the transition to a low-carbon economy, according to France and Germany ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:33 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG ...
18 Feb 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Efficiency 91tv / dpa / Handelsblatt The German government has put back plans to set up a commission tasked with ne gotiating possible measures for reducing ...
18 Feb 2019, 13:47 Rachel Waldholz Gas International Security Die Welt / Reuters US Vice President Mike Pence has issued a warning to Germany over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline at the Munich Security Conference this weekend, reports Die Welt. His comments ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:19 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Society Lausitzer Rundschau A 200-inhabitant German village will be demolished to make way for a lignite coal mine, after many years of uncertainty related to the future of coal power in ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:16 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas International Security Financial Times The new rules for natural gas pipelines to and from third countries agreed by EU institutions mark the failure to find “a robust and coherent” joint ...
15 Feb 2019, 11:44 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Solar Utilities 91tv German utility EnBW and renewable power plant operator ...
15 Feb 2019, 11:34 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Electricity market Gas Grid Tennet / Gasunie Gas and electricity grid infrastructures need to be much better aligned to guarantee the ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:11 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Politics 91tv The opposition Green parliamentary group has called on the federal government to introduce concrete proposals to implement the coal exit commission 's recent ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:18 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Society 91tv Independence from oil and gas imports is an important goal of the energy transition, according 86 percent of Germans responding to a recent representative survey ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Utilities 91tv Hambach Forest in western Germany could be saved following the German coal exit commission’s agreement, but only at great cost, RWE head Rolf Martin Schmitz said ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Elections & Politics 91tv Germany’s coal exit should follow the Coal Exit Commission's final report as closely as possible, according to the commission’s co-chair ...
14 Feb 2019, 13:58 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas International Internationale Politik A u-turn on the controversial Russian-German natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 – currently under construction in the Baltic Sea – is unlikely, Christian ...
13 Feb 2019, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Gas International Security Rheinische Post The Russian-German Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is a “win-win” project that will benefit both Europe and Russia, Moscow’s ambassador in Germany, Sergey ...
13 Feb 2019, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs Efficiency 91tv The European market for energy efficiency solutions is set to grow rapidly, reaching a volume of around 50 billion euros by 2025, according to a ...
12 Feb 2019, 14:14 Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen 91tv German power grid operator Amprion and gas grid operator Open Grid Europe (OGE) are planning to build a 100 megawatt (MW) power-to-gas plant along with hydrogen infrastructure, a project they ...
12 Feb 2019, 18:04 Against the backdrop of escalating tensions over the Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, Germany and the US aim to boost industry cooperation on liquefied natural gas (LNG). German economy minister Peter Altmaier invited US ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:59 Sören Amelang Coal Bild Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has privately warned that the country’s coal exit will fail without “enormous effort,” Ralf Schuler reports for tabloid Bild. “We have to really want this,” Merkel said at a ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:56 Sören Amelang Bioenergy 91tv Germany is unlikely to reach its target of covering 65 percent of its electricity consumption with renewables by 2030 unless it stabilises bioenergy production, German bioenergy associations say ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:53 Sören Amelang Coal Financial Times Environmental NGOs have criticised the German Coal Commission’s proposal to phase out coal use by 2038 as too slow, but the process could happen a lot faster than that, Nick Butler says in a op-ed for ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:48 Sören Amelang Coal Grid National Geographic Advocates of an American Green New Deal should look to other countries, including Germany, for successful examples, Alejandra Borunda writes for National Geographic. Germany, she says, shows ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:31 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal International Project Syndicate A German commitment to phase out coal by 2038 could have ripple effects far beyond the nation’s borders, Johan Rockström and Owen Gaffney of the Potsdam ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Nuclear phase-out Germany shutting down the last of its nuclear power plants by 2022 could force the country to use more coal power- temporarily pushing up emissions- even ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:05 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The German coal commission’s agreement to gradually phase out coal power has left investors and ...
13 Feb 2019, 10:15 Representatives of European Union member states endorsed a last-ditch German and French proposal to amend some of the language of the new rules on how to regulate pipeline projects such as Nord Stream 2. The deal would introduce tougher ...
08 Feb 2019, 14:10 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The contentious Russian-German gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 is a political issue – contrary to what some German industry representatives say – and ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:42 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Transport Cars Society 91tv A large majority of Germans say that public transportation services should be offered free of charge, ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Finance Handelsblatt The end of coal-fired power production comes with profound implications for German energy companies who have banked on the fossil fuel so far, but analysts say buying ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:39 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas International Security France and Germany have struck a compromise allowing Berlin to remain the lead negotiator with Russia on the Nord Stream II gas pipeline to Europe, reports news agency ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Efficiency Rheinische Post Heating energy consumption in buildings of the German government has been increasing in recent years, rising from 111 kilowatt hours (kWh) per square metre in 2015 to ...
07 Feb 2019, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Focus Online Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has called the proposed 2038 deadline for ending coal-fired power production in Germany “absurd.” The 16-year-old ...
07 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany cannot count on French to help it block an amendment to an EU regulation which would give the a Union greater say in the construction of the contentious Russian-German ...
06 Feb 2019, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 dpa / WirtschaftsWoche Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed ending coal-fired power production in the country by 2038 as proposed by Germany’s coal exit ...
05 Feb 2019, 13:40 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 91tv 91tv ...
05 Feb 2019, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The proposal by Germany’s coal exit commission to gradually phase out the fossil fuel by 2038 is tantamount to a “planned economy” approach and does little to curb carbon emissions ...
05 Feb 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Süddeutsche Zeitung / Welt Online The embattled Hambach Forest, which has become a symbolic place for anti-coal protesters in Germany, might not be cut down to make room for a nearby lignite mine, Rolf Martin ...
01 Feb 2019, 14:08 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Germany's grand coalition government is almost certain to accept the coal exit commission 's recommendation and transpose it into law, but if the first phase-out deadline of 2022 is ...
01 Feb 2019, 13:53 The initial relief in Germany over a coal exit deal has given way to fresh discussions over how to implement the hard-won compromise. Chancellor Angela Merkel and politicians from her grand coalition government praised the agreement by ...
01 Feb 2019, 12:26 Sören Amelang Coal Climate & CO2 Carbon Pulse Carbon market experts remain unsure about the impact of Germany’s plan to cancel CO2 certificates in the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) to ensure the pending coal exit will have the ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:27 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution in German cities – mainly ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:25 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Energiewende Wall Street Journal Germany is set to have the “world’s dumbest energy policy” after the coal exit commission recommended to end coal-fired power generation by 2038, writes the ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:22 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Utilities Reuters Municipal shareholders in RWE have called on Germany’s biggest power producer to drive a hard bargain in ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:19 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Deutschlandfunk Coal state Saxony’s premier, Michael Kretschmer (CDU), expects decisions ...
31 Jan 2019, 14:15 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal 91tv ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:37 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Digitalisation 91tv Digitalisation is key for the success of Germany’s energy transition, but progress remains slow, says the report by consultancy EY commissioned by the economy and ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:33 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Start-ups Business & Jobs Technology Cleantech Group Ten German startups are among the 100 most innovative clean technology companies from around the globe, according to US-based ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:28 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal International The hard coal exit in Europe gathers pace as renewables increasingly displaced the fossil fuel in Germany and France in 2018, but a phase-out of lignite has barely begun, according ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:24 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 CarbonBrief If the German government adopts the commission recommendations for a coal exit by 2038, coal capacity would barely fall faster than a business-as-usual pathway over ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:49 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Elections & Politics ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:40 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Energiewende Financial Times Agreeing on a phase-out plan for German coal was hard, implementing it will be harder still, writes Tobias Buck in an article for the Financial Times. Buck uses the ...
28 Jan 2019, 17:56 The German government is ready to quickly supply financial means for the country’s exit from coal, said economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier. It will now examine the details of the proposal agreed by the country’s coal exit ...
28 Jan 2019, 12:51 Kerstine Appunn Freight Handelsblatt German lorry producer Daimler is worried about the current debate about stricter CO2 emission rules in Brussels and has written to economy minister Peter Altmaier to intervene on their behalf at EU ...
26 Jan 2019, 16:45 Energy transition home country Germany eyes a phase-out of coal power by 2038 at the very latest, as the country tries to get back on track to create a climate-friendly economy. In its highly anticipated phase-out proposal, the country ...
28 Jan 2019, 11:36 The agreement by Germany's coal exit commission to end the fossil power source's use by 2038 the latest is welcomed by the country's climate activists and energy industry representatives alike. They praise the final ...
25 Jan 2019, 14:22 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Cars Elections & Politics ARD / ZDF A majority of Germans supports a quick coal exit, according to two different polls commissioned by German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF. 59 percent ...
25 Jan 2019, 13:51 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 91tv 91tv ...
25 Jan 2019, 11:58 Germany’s coal exit commission has begun what could be its decisive meeting on Friday. In crucial last-minute talks, the commission must agree on a timetable to phase out the climate-damaging fossil fuel for electricity production ...
23 Jan 2019, 18:16 Germany’s detailed coal exit path and the end-date to coal-fired power generation remain unknown only days before a highly anticipated phase-out proposal is due to be published. A leaked draft of the final report of the country’s coal ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:15 The German government is playing down US threats against companies involved in the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project connecting Germany to Russia. Energy minister Peter Altmaier said the government was “not impressed” by ...
22 Jan 2019, 12:46 The top brass from energy companies, regulators, ministries and political parties gather in Berlin to discuss the challenges of the energy transition at the Handelsblatt energy conference, the traditional annual kick-off for the sector. ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Wind 91tv Offshore wind power capacity in Germany’s territorial waters grew steadily in 2018, but the wind power industry says it will have to speed up to meet energy transition ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:25 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Storage Hydrogen Technology pv magazine Two power-to-gas projects in Germany promise to boost the technology, Sandra Enkhardt reports for pv magazine. Utilities Edis and Gasag want to transform ...
16 Jan 2019, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv German-Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Siemens-Gamesa has unveiled its most powerful offshore turbine to date, increasing annual power production by almost a third compared to its previous ...
16 Jan 2019, 13:16 The German government has pledged long-term payments to lignite mining regions, removing a major hurdle to reaching a compromise over the country’s coal exit. After a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Olaf ...
16 Jan 2019, 14:00 Kerstine Appunn Coal Fossil fuels 91tv While the German economy as a whole would hardly suffer from phasing out lignite, coal regions in the Rhineland, central Germany and especially Lusatia in the east of Germany, are ...
16 Jan 2019, 14:18 Berlin aims to slash carbon emissions by 60 percent by 2030 and become carbon-neutral by 2050. For a city growing at a rate of 50,000 inhabitants a year, that’s no mean feat. But Ramona Pop, Berlin’s Senator (minister) for Economy, ...
11 Jan 2019, 14:06 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt Germany’s BASF plans to become a green pioneer of the chemicals industry, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. CEO Martin ...
11 Jan 2019, 10:27 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Renewables Security The global energy transition and the shift to renewables from fossil fuels is likely to reduce energy-related conflicts, says a report published by the Global Commission on the ...
10 Jan 2019, 13:49 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices 91tv Germany has the highest electricity prices in Europe both for households and industry, according to EU data. German households are the only ones in the EU which ...
10 Jan 2019, 13:32 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Efficiency Die Welt Increasing efficiency is crucial for the success of Germany’s energy transition, but there has been little progress on the issue, which is strongly neglected in comparison to ...
10 Jan 2019, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Efficiency Policy 91tv Getting the energy transition in Germany’s heating sector off the ground will be difficult since most investments have to be made by private citizens rather ...
09 Jan 2019, 12:18 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Society Tageszeitung German police are preparing a new round of evictions from tree houses built in protest against lignite mining in Hambach forest, reports Anett Selle in the ...
09 Jan 2019, 12:06 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Elections & Politics Rheinische Post Germany’s coal commission will agree on a phase-out within around 20 years, according to Armin Laschet, premier of the western coal mining state ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:20 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv Achieving the 2030 and 2050 climate targets will benefit Germany’s economy, according to a multi-institute study commissioned by the environment ministry. ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:09 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Policy Handelsblatt / Süddeutsche Zeitung The stagnation in Germany’s task force on a coal exit is mainly due to neglect or even obstruction by policymakers, writes Klaus Stratmann in a ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:02 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Security Bloomberg / Handelsblatt Global Support within German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition for the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea gas pipeline is slipping as frustration with the Kremlin’s ...
07 Jan 2019, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Politics WirtschaftsWoche Germany’s economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has disappointed many observers with what they consider an “erratic and sluggish” administration of his department, ...
07 Jan 2019, 13:00 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Fossil fuels Politics German Chancellor Angela Merkel will personally weigh in on the stagnating negotiations over the end of coal-fired power production in the country, news magazine Der ...
07 Jan 2019, 09:30 The impending phase-out plan for coal power in Germany will have a profound impact on the country's entire energy policy, says Antje von Broock of environmental organisation Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). The NGO is a member ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:06 Expert Federal Foreign Office Auswärtiges Amt International Security Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Security 91tv Germany has assumed a two-year seat as a non-permanent member of the United ...
21 Dec 2018, 15:08 Germany plans to use its diplomatic clout during its two-year term on the UN Security Council to ensure that climate change concerns are an integral part of UN security policy. People who are most vulnerable to global warming, such ...
20 Dec 2018, 16:33 On 21. December 2018 the mining of hard coal officially comes to an end in Germany. The closing of the last mine in the Ruhr region marks the end of 200 years of mining the fossil fuel that made Germany’s industrialisation possible. The ...
20 Dec 2018, 15:02 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 2018 has been the warmest year in Germany since measurements began in 1881, the German National Meteorological Service (DWD) said in a press release. The average temperature in 2018 was 10.4°C and thus ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:13 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Tagesspiegel Background In addition to the already working coal exit and mobility commissions, Germany will get a new buildings commission in 2019, tasked with finding measures to reduce CO2 emissions from ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:07 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Die Welt The ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:07 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 In a moving message to his future grandchildren, German ISS commander Alexander Gerst appealed to humanity to finally get its act together on climate change. “Right now, it looks like we – my generation – ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:05 Expert BASF Business & Jobs Fossil fuels Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Kerstine Appunn Transport Handelsblatt The declaration on battery cell production ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:04 Kerstine Appunn Cars Bild Zeitung Stricter EU CO2 limits for cars “threaten the German car industry with a total loss that nobody can repair”, Tom Drechsler writes in Germany’s largest tabloid Bild Zeitung. The article blames Austria, ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:02 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels dpa North Rhine-Westphalia’s state premier, Armin Laschet, expects the coal commission to recommend a shutdown of lignite plants in the Rhineland region “already in the next one, two or three years”, German ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:01 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Utilities The ...
20 Dec 2018, 13:59 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Cars Alternative fuel passenger cars are benefitting from declining sales ...
08 Jan 2019, 11:00 A key premise for Germany to meet its climate goals is a strong CO2 price signal, says Manuel Frondel, head of the department "Environment and Resources" at the RWI-Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. Preferably, such a ...
20 Dec 2018, 09:06 The weak and fragile German government is unlikely to implement the drastic measures needed for a speedy coal exit, regardless of the coal commission 's proposals due early next year, according to energy policy reseacher Claudia ...
21 Dec 2018, 11:58 The German government has said it will use its two-year term as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council to spotlight the security implications of climate change. After the recent shift in climate policy by some permanent ...
19 Dec 2018, 13:58 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Financial Times Germany’s last hard coal mine in the Ruhr area will officially close on Friday 21 December and with it the era of a “fuel that propelled the nation’s economic and political expansion – for ...
18 Dec 2018, 13:21 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cars Politics Handelsblatt German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party is exploring options to rein in ...
17 Dec 2018, 13:20 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / Welt am Sonntag Miners will present the last piece of hard coal mined in Germany to the country’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in ...
17 Dec 2018, 10:11 Nearly 200 nations agreed on a rulebook for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Agreement at the UN climate change conference COP24 in Katowice, Poland. The deal on climate action rules was immediately hailed as a victory for ...
14 Dec 2018, 13:35 Germany abstained from a call by nine other European countries for a stronger and extended role of carbon pricing at the COP climate conference in Katowice. The German environment ministry said it did not want to pre-empt the country’s ...
14 Dec 2018, 11:00 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail to meet its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for ...
13 Dec 2018, 18:20 The global community is closely watching Germany’s lagging domestic climate action, which certainly does not help the country’s credibility in international negotiations, says Lisa Badum, climate policy spokesperson of the Greens' ...
12 Dec 2018, 17:52 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:46 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars 91tv Germany’s Daimler, the maker of Mercedes cars, has ordered battery cells worth more than 20 billion euros by 2030. “Our electric offensive continues to gain momentum,” company ...
11 Dec 2018, 20:00 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
10 Dec 2018, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Westfälische Nachrichten The end of coal-fired power production in Germany will pose great challenges for the country’s most populous state, North Rhine ...
10 Dec 2018, 09:03 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
07 Dec 2018, 10:05 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Fossil fuels Low water levels on the Rhine and other rivers following the extremely dry summer continue to have a strong impact on Germany’s coal power supply, according to an argus report. “The ...
06 Dec 2018, 14:22 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Transport Freight Cities Port of Hamburg / NDR The authorities of Germany’s biggest port in the city of Hamburg are looking into the feasibility of constructing a so-called hyperloop transport ...
05 Dec 2018, 14:48 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Business & Jobs Institute for Employment Research (IAB) The shift to electric cars will lead to the loss of more than 100,000 jobs in Germany in the long run, according to a study by the ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:55 Expert Prognos Consultancy Energiewende Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Finance Prognos Germany can implement effective measures to mitigate climate change without straining its fiscal leeway ...
04 Dec 2018, 15:34 Federal Association of Offshore Wind Farm Operators The association of Germany’s offshore wind farm operators (BWO) has welcomed a government proposal to increase the country’s offshore wind power capacity from 15 to 20 gigawatt (GW) by ...
04 Dec 2018, 15:31 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Politics COP24 Die Welt Germany’s development minister Gerd Müller has proposed a biennial rhythm for the yearly COP climate summits to make the talks more efficient, report Philipp Fritz and Daniel ...
03 Dec 2018, 14:39 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 COP24 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The international community is failing badly to cooperate as needed to counter the rise in global temperature, writes Andreas Mihm in an ...
03 Dec 2018, 14:37 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Politics Der Spiegel / 91tv German magazine Der Spiegel has run a cover story on the climate crisis and the proposal by German economic and ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:00 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel / dpa German finance minister Olaf Scholz said it is “perfectly clear” that the German government will have to invest much more money ...
27 Nov 2018, 12:01 Germany risks showing up empty-handed at the UN climate change conference COP24 in Poland in December as the country’s coal exit commission has decided to extend its work beyond the original end-of-2018 deadline. The task force has set ...
28 Nov 2018, 15:20 If Germany manages its coal exit in a socially fair way, this will not only prevent the success of populists in the country, says Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the German environment ministry. It could serve as a model for other ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:32 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Technology Rheinische Post German polymer producer Covestro has developed a new CO2-based foam material that can be used as flooring at sports fields, Stefan Schneider writes in ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:26 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International G20 & G7 91tv The German government wants to build on last year’s G20 final declaration regarding climate provisions, but the outcome of ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:25 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Handelsblatt When presenting the European Commission’s plans for a carbon-neutral EU in 2050, energy commissioner Miguel Arias Canete’s remark that certain ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:20 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International 91tv A new alliance of companies, banks, insurers, and environmental organisations wants to invest in projects in emerging and developing countries in ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:55 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Grid Renewables Finance Bavarian Economy and Energy Ministry Since according to a new report Germany has been overtaken by France as the G20’s most attractive target country for investment in ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:47 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Business International Allianz / Germanwatch Germany has ceded its position as the G20’s most attractive market for renewable energy investments to its neighbour France, the Climate ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:40 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Government 91tv Germany’s coal commission can conclude its work soon if the country’s finance minister puts enough money on the table, the head of the ...
The German biogas industry is fighting for survival even though it is indispensable, writes Kathrin Witsch in the business daily Handelsblatt. The technology was once seen as a saviour of the energy transition because it can generate electricity ...
Achieving a 65 percent share of renewables in power consumption by 2030, as determined by Germany’s government coalition, will require a clear regulatory framework and parallel investments in infrastructure, work on which must start as soon as possible, ...
German industry has sharply criticised that support for thermal building insulation is not included in the environment ministry’s current budget. “By omitting this instrument, the government is negligent. If building renovations are not sped up, the 2030 ...
The environmental cost of the emission of one tonne of CO 2 is about 180 euros, according to new calculations published by Germany’s Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Economic losses include crop losses, damages to buildings and infrastructure, and ...
20 Nov 2018, 10:30 Germany’s coal exit commission aims to propose a path for the country’s phase-out by the end of November. Agreeing a compromise on how to end the use of Germany's most important fossil fuel in such a short time will be difficult, ...
German truckmakers are outraged about the more ambitious emission limits for heavy duty vehicles adopted by the European Parliament, report Till Hoppe and Franz Hubik in the Handelsblatt. Industry association VDA said it was “unworkable” to reduce ...
14 Nov 2018, 14:13 A new government report detailing Germany’s failure to cut emissions increases pressure on the country’s coal commission to agree on a speedy phase-out plan. Work in the coal commission enters a critical stage for climate protection ...
Power generation from coal, oil and gas, and transport produce the largest share of emissions in the vast majority of G20 countries and none of these economies’ climate pledges are on a 1.5˚C-compatible pathway, according to the Brown to Green Report 2018 ...
Germany’s biggest carmaker VW has said it is prepared to build 50 million e-cars and already has “sourced” the batteries needed to fulfil this goal, company CEO Herbert Diess told Automotive News in an interview. “This is a huge momentum coming, and ...
Biogas production in Germany has a lot of untapped potential for contributing to the country’s climate targets and needs a proper long-term strategy to make sure it is put to the best possible use, lobby group Fachverband Biogas says in a press release. ...
Hamburg start-up Enyway has started to rent out pizza box-sized fractions of its first large solar-array for 39 euros each, report Jürgen Flauger and Kathrin Witsch in Handelsblatt. “The average Joe can now actively participate in the energy transition,” ...
The end of feed-in tariffs for 20-year-old solar PV installations is likely to boost the own consumption of renewable power, according to a study published by management consultancy pwc. “Between 2029 and 2032 – 20 years after the solar boom of 2009-2012 ...
The German government plans to cut support payments for large roof-mounted photovoltaic arrays ranging in size from 40 to 750 kilowatts by around 20 percent at the turn of the year, reports Sandra Enkhardt in pv magazine, with reference to a draft bill by ...
For the first time in Germany, the waste heat from a copper mill will be used to heat a neighbourhood in the city of Hamburg, reports Jörn Lauterbach in Die Welt. A 3.7-kilometre pipeline with a capacity of 60 megawatt will transport hot water resulting ...
29 Oct 2018, 16:39 The elections in the German state of Hesse have set in motion a major shift in the country's political landscape. Germany's national government coalition parties took the second pounding at regional elections in a row, ...
While the coal exit commission meets in Rhenish mining district in the state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), thousands of coal workers protested for their jobs not far from the symbolic Hambach Forest, which energy company RWE wants to cut down to make way ...
22 Oct 2018, 16:34 Eating and producing less meat is one way to curb emissions from the agriculture sector, but giving up sausages and schnitzel is a tough sell in Germany – not just for consumers but also for farmers and the government. There are a lot ...
Economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has proposed quickly retiring five gigawatts of lignite power generation capacity with a view to the country’s ongoing talks about a coal phase-out, sources told the Rheinische Post. In addition, he suggested ...
12 Oct 2018, 16:30 The surge of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a strong showing of the Green Party look set to end the absolute majority of conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavarian state elections on 14 October. The CSU is a ...
The German capital Berlin could be one of the next cities to introduce driving bans for older diesel cars, public broadcaster rbb reports. According to documents by the Berlin Senate, the bans the would affect 200,000 vehicles are “inevitable” and could ...
Several German NGOs have filed a lawsuit against a possible prohibition of a large anti-coal protest at the Hambach Forest over the weekend, public broadcaster WDR reports. “This is about thwarting a peaceful and non-violent protest,” said Greenpeace ...
05 Oct 2018, 17:00 Clearing operations at the embattled Hambach Forest to make way for a coal mine have to be halted to decide whether the forest is protected by EU environmental rules, a German court has decided. The judges said energy company RWE did ...
Environmental organisations that are trying to set up a large-scale protest against the clearing of the Hambach Forest say up to 20,000 people could find their way to the small forest near Cologne, the Rheinische Post reports. Protest organiser Uwe Hiksch ...
A quick end of coal-fired power production in Germany and a parallel expansion of wind and solar power capacities would reduce carbon emissions sufficiently to meet the 2020 and 2030 climate target in line with the Paris Agreement, a study by research ...
27 Sep 2018, 13:57 Germany needs to have a rational and open public discussion about carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) and storage (CCS) as ways to avoid releasing climate-harmful emissions from industry into the environment. A position paper by the ...
27 Sep 2018, 10:04 Germany’s farmers, just like their fellow citizens working in other sectors, must reduce greenhouse gas emissions to enable the country to adhere to the national and international climate targets. But curbing emissions from crop ...
Households in Germany spent almost seven percent less on heating in 2017 due to lower energy prices, but there was no progress in climate protection because energy consumption remained unchanged, according to a study conducted by the German Institute for ...
German steel company thyssenkrupp has started production of the synthetic fuel methanol from CO₂ and other emissions in steel production, the company says in a press release. The fuel production from side products of steel smelting is part of the so ...
20 Sep 2018, 18:33 Energy minister Peter Altmaier has announced new plans to accelerate the expansion of Germany’s power grid, which is behind schedule but vital to the growth of renewable power production. The majority of new connections could be ...
19 Sep 2018, 15:20 The German government has launched a new advisory panel to reduce transport emissions in line with national climate targets. The task force will broaden the focus of an earlier panel concentrated on electric cars, to discuss the entire ...
The new CO 2 limits for passenger cars proposed by the European Parliament’s environment committee are going too far, Deutsche Bank analyst Eric Heymann says in a research note. Obviously, the committee was betting on a break-through of electric vehicles ...
The development of power prices in Germany will have a big impact on the lifespan of wind turbines that are more than 20 years old and therefore no longer offer the guaranteed electricity price to investors mandated by Germany’s Renewable Energy Act (EEG) ...
The German government is preparing the launch of a commission tasked with finding measures to make buildings more energy efficient and bring down carbon emissions in the heating sector, Susanne Ehlerding writes in the energy policy newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
One of Germany’s largest wind farm operators, wpd AG, is buying up old wind farms that are about to reach the end of their 20-year guaranteed remuneration period to operate the turbines without renewables support, Daniel Wetzel writes on Welt Online. “We ...
Implementing pathways away from coal-fired power production in line with the Paris Climate Agreement is feasible in the major coal-using economies within 20 to 30 years, according to a comparative study on six countries, including Germany, Australia, ...
Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess has told employees that the company’s managers should swap their staff cars for e-cars, Nicolaus Doll writes in Welt Online. According to the article, Diess told VW managers that the company would not be able to convince ...
04 Sep 2018, 09:02 Germany commissioned its 100,000th home storage battery last week – and the boom is far from over, says Detlef Neuhaus, CEO of German solar PV module and residential battery storage system maker Solarwatt. Neuhaus warns that Germany is ...
Amid rising prices for carbon emissions and coal, Germany’s wholesale power price for one-year futures has reached its highest level in six years, Nora Kamprath Buli writes for Montel News. At 50.10 euros per megawatt hour (MWh), prices reached their ...
31 Aug 2018, 13:36 With its vast amounts of hydro energy, many would like Norway to become Europe’s “green battery”, supplying neighbours with steady power when there is little wind or sun. An extreme heat wave and dry weather in the first half of 2018 ...
The German government will support hardware retrofitting for large municipal diesel vehicles in certain polluted cities, such as garbage or street cleaning trucks, writes the transport ministry (BMVI) in a press release. This could affect at least 20,000 ...
27 Aug 2018, 14:30 Germany’s current boom in residential solar batteries has profound effects on the Energiewende (energy transition), says Kai-Philipp Kairies, director of technical consulting at RWTH Aachen University, one of Germany’s largest technical ...
18 Aug 2018, 20:13 Russia and Germany are set to proceed with the completion of a second natural gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea between the two countries. At a meeting with Russian President Putin near Berlin, German Chancellor Merkel sought to dispel ...
Germany's unusually hot summer has dealt a blow to the country’s wind power output, with the yield in July 2018 being 20 percent lower than in the same month last year, Jürgen Flauger and Kathrin Witsch write in Handelsblatt. While solar power plants ...
Just 20,000 people in Germany are still employed in the once-mighty coal sector but their influence on energy policy is far greater than their number would suggest, Felix Heilmann writes for Climate Home. Coal workers are well-organised and good at ...
On a visit to communities affected by new grid development, German energy minister Peter Altmaier said the transition to an energy system based largely on renewables was a project for the whole community that couldn't be implemented by going over ...
A panel of 180 energy market experts is expecting energy prices to rise over the next five years, a survey by research institute Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) has found. In its “Energy Market Barometer,” 80 percent of participants expect ...
The German government has used a “cunning trick” by making the state-owned business development bank KfW acquire a stake in grid operator 50Hertz that had been eyed by Chinese power company SGCC, Andreas Mihm writes in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter ...
After the German federal government decided on 27 July to buy a 20 percent stake in north-east German transmission grid operator 50Hertz in order to protect this critical infrastructure from being partially owned by Chinese grid operator SGCC, the head of ...
The German government will acquire a temporary 20 percent stake in power transmission grid operator (TSO) 50Hertz from Belgian Elia “on national security grounds”, the economy ministry (BMWi) said in a press release. The ministry said the decision was ...
Germany could import liquefied natural gas (LNG) via its neighbouring countries, but this depends on the wholesale market prices of both LNG and pipeline gas, said Stefan Kapferer, head of utilities association BDEW, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ...
26 Jul 2018
26 Jul 2018, 16:22 Following last year’s strong growth, wind energy expansion in the first half of 2018 dropped substantially. Wind power groups are calling on the government to launch the special auctions for renewable energies that it agreed to hold in ...
A coal phase-out is unnecessary and threatens energy security, the Coal Importer Association writes in a press release. Coal-fired power plants are needed to supply electricity to the grid during times when renewable energies cannot meet total power ...
The German federal government must implement the promised additional tenders for offshore wind energy without delay and must also rapidly increase the expansion paths for all renewable energy sources, the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA) ...
10 Jul 2018, 15:01 Wind and solar power, together with other renewable sources, have overtaken coal as Germany’s most important power source, figures released by the industry group BDEW show. But this milestone in the history of the country’s energy ...
Old wind turbines in Germany must be refurbished and modernised to ensure that the country meets its 2030 goal of increasing the share of renewables to 65 percent of power consumption, the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) says in a press release. The ...
The governments of China and Germany have vowed to intensify their joint efforts in global climate diplomacy and in upholding free trade, as well as in the development and rollout of energy transition technologies, the German government says in a press ...
10 Jul 2018, 11:52 Chinese battery maker CATL plans to build a large factory in the eastern German state of Thuringia to supply manufacturers in the birth country of the automobile with battery cells to facilitate the transition to low-emission mobility. ...
Germany can reach its target of increasing the share of renewable energy to 65 percent of power consumption by 2030 from the current 36 percent at moderate costs, according to energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. Agora proposes a series of measures to ...
Germany’s energy industry can reach its greenhouse gas reduction obligations for 2030 and 2050 purely by letting the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) do its work, Michael Vassiliadis, head of the mining and chemicals industry union IG BCE, said ...
02 Jul 2018, 15:13 The production of renewable energy in Germany dashes to a new record output, providing more than 40 percent of the country's power supply in the first half of 2018. Yet, the good news for proponents of Germany's trademark ...
A poll commissioned by the German oil and gas producer Wintershall and carried out by pollster Forsa reveals that 54 percent of German respondents believe that natural gas is the best supplement to renewables, compared to 22 percent for timber, 20 percent ...
28 Jun 2018, 16:17 The German government’s Energiewende advisors say the country must put much greater emphasis on the project’s European dimension to achieve the shift to renewables and the necessary emissions reduction during the next decade. The group ...
German luxury and utility vehicle producer Daimler is weighing its options as it searches for the best possible engine for its heavy-duty vehicles in the future, testing potential solutions like electric engines, hydrogen, synthetic and natural gas, ...
27 Jun 2018, 17:29 As the energy transition touches more and more aspects of everday life, public acceptance will become a key question for the project's future, economist Andreas Löschel says. In the 91tv interview, the academic who heads the ...
The majority of Germany’s heating systems are older than 20 years and must be refurbished, the Federal Association of Chimney Sweepers says according to a dpa article carried by Die Welt. If heating systems older than 15 years are included, more than 70 ...
09 Jul 2018, 15:15 Natural gas is needed to complement renewable energies today and will increasingly be replaced by ‘green gases’, enabling the continued use of existing infrastructure, says Timm Kehler, head of the gas industry initiative Zukunft ERDGAS ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:30 In a bid to improve Germany's poor emission reduction record and to identify economic perspectives for people employed in the waning coal industry, the grand coalition government in 2018 set up a commission tasked with managing the ...
19 Jun 2018, 18:10 In her speech at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for more ambitious global climate action and multilateral cooperation. At international level, it will be important to develop a rulebook for the ...
The Chinese state enterprise SGCC has already signed a contract to buy a 20-percent share of grid operator 50Hertz, but the German government is trying to reverse the deal – which it says concerns “critical infrastructure” – before it takes effect, Thomas ...
Convening in Argentina, ministers from the G20 – a group of both developing and developed countries, including Germany – are discussing fossil fuel extraction, the digitalisation of energy markets, and the transparent handling of data, according to dpa in ...
Car giant Volkswagen has been fined one billion euros by German prosecutors over diesel emissions cheating, reports the BBC. The carmaker said it did not plan to appeal the fine, which is one of the highest ever imposed by German authorities on a company, ...
13 Jun 2018, 00:00 Increasing the EU's renewable energy target without a clear idea on how to achieve it would undermine political credibility, according to German energy minister Peter Altmaier. Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv International ...
06 Jun 2018
Ahead of the G7 summit in Canada, German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated the importance of her government’s commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, after the US had decided to leave the accord last year. “All the more it’s on us to reach our ...
According to a government official, Germany wants the 8-9 June G7 summit, to be held in the Charlevoix region of Quebec, Canada, to issue a joint communiqué that also covers climate and energy-related issues. In light of the US’ position, agreeing on a ...
Due to the end of their 20-year life span of guaranteed support payments, about 20 gigawatt (GW) of wind power capacity in Germany will be retired by 2023 as their operation is no longer profitable, Simone Peter, head of Germany’s Renewable Energy ...
The German Postal Service’s e-car manufacturing branch Streetscooter could soon be listed on the stock market, news agency Reuters reports. “It’s theoretically possible. We’re looking at the next two to three years,” the Postal Service’s board member ...
