30 May 2025, 12:41 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv Current planning for electricity grid development in Europe and Germany may underestimate infrastructure and flexibility needs as it uses simplified weather assumptions and idealised prosumer ...
28 May 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv Homeowners in Germany installed more gas boilers than climate-friendly heat pumps when replacing their heating systems in 2024, though the gap is closing, found a report by the government ...
28 May 2025, 13:16 A higher court in Germany has set an important precedent, arguing that large global emitters can be held responsible for climate damages under the country’s civil law, legal experts representing environmental NGOs said. The court, ...
27 May 2025, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv Energy consumption in Germany has seen a “surprisingly strong” increase in the first three months of 2025, an analysis by AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) has found. Consumption ...
27 May 2025, 12:17 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Technology WirtschaftsWoche In view of the massive energy capacity needed for artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, German energy company RWE is calling for government support to ensure the German ...
23 May 2025, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Technology Security Handelsblatt Germany’s leading arms manufacturer Rheinmetall is looking to convert a large part of its fuel supply to renewable energy-based e-fuels. At an industry summit hosted by business daily ...
23 May 2025, 15:20 Germany finally has a new government, ending months of political uncertainty at a time when multiple global crises require a safe pair of hands at the steering wheel of the EU’s most populous member state and largest economy. Friedrich ...
20 May 2025, 13:11 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A key plan by Germany’s new government to introduce a subsidised electricity price for industry and revive the sector could be prevented by European Union law, business daily ...
20 May 2025, 13:09 Edgar Meza International 91tv Germanwatch is calling for greater support for Africa’s energy transition as the continent continues to provide raw materials for Europe’s green transformation. An upcoming meeting between ...
20 May 2025, 13:06 Germany’s new government aims for a speedy adoption of the 2025 federal budget to finally end months of provisional budget operations resulting from the break-up of the previous coalition government. The finance ministry under its new ...
20 May 2025
20 May 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Prospect: Germany’s next move could make or break green Europe Urgent national security and economic demands are competing with the country’s climate commitments. European Commission: Economic forecast for Germany After ...
19 May 2025, 17:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Gas Policy 91tv [UPDATE adds quotes by minister Reiche, Commissioner Ribera] The new German government should largely adopt the previous government's plans for building new gas power ...
19 May 2025
19 May 2025, 12:00 91tv Team FT: Germany drops opposition to nuclear power in rapprochement with France Berlin has signalled to Paris it will no longer block French efforts to ensure nuclear power is treated on par with renewable energy in EU legislation, ...
16 May 2025, 13:20 Expert BMUKN- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Bundesminister für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Nuclear phase-out Policy Government ...
16 May 2025, 13:12 Jennifer Collins Renewables Business & Jobs 91tv More than half of business leaders in eastern Germany rate the region's economic potential as "high" or "very high", with renewable energy seen ...
16 May 2025, 13:10 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices ...
16 May 2025, 14:30 As Croatia goes to the polls for local elections on 18 May the green transition has been relatively absent in political campaigns. Citizen participation in the transition has picked up with the opening of the first large-scale solar ...
15 May 2025, 13:37 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices ...
14 May 2025, 13:16 Jack McGovan Solar 91tv A quarter of people in Germany either already have or plan to install a mini solar module on their balcony or in their garden, found a survey by comparison portal Verivox. Around nine percent of ...
13 May 2025, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has called for a wider reform of the system of fees that finance the country’s electricity grid and is considering an option where ...
12 May 2025, 13:47 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Most people in Germany continue to be very concerned about the impact of global ...
12 May 2025, 13:44 Sören Amelang Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's new economy and energy minister, Katherina Reiche from chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democrats ...
09 May 2025, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government 91tv The new German economy and energy minister, conservative Christian Democrat (CDU) politician Katherina Reiche, has said that Germany had to “find a new agreement on the ...
06 May 2025, 13:18 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Society 91tv The new German government should push ahead with income-based financial support for key energy transition technologies to allow low- and medium-income households to transition ...
06 May 2025, 17:15 In a bumpy start to Germany’s new coalition government, conservative leader Friedrich Merz managed to secure a majority in parliament to become the next chancellor only in the second round of voting. The unprecedented failure to ...
05 May 2025, 15:32 The choice for Germany’s new transport minister suggests the country is unlikely to face a profound policy overhaul to get the emission-intensive sector on track to meet ambitious 2030 climate targets. Long-serving conservative ...
02 May 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU 91tv EU member states’ national climate plans insufficiently address just transition issues, a crucial deficiency ahead of the introduction of a carbon price on ...
02 May 2025, 09:30 The European Union should strive for a well-connected energy system designed in a way that allows different national strengths to complement each other, says Nikos Tsafos, deputy energy minister of Greece. The country is expected to ...
24 Apr 2025, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Heating 91tv / ZDF Many people in Germany have no idea that the planned expansion of EU carbon pricing could significantly push up their fossil fuel heating costs, in some ...
24 Apr 2025, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Solar Tagesspiegel The number of sunshine hours registered in Germany has constantly been on the rise over the past few decades, data by Germany’s Meteorological Service (DWD) has shown. Between 2011 ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:42 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Business Company climate claims 91tv Large food retailers in Germany have a long way to go to make good on their sustainability promises, according to a report by Dutch think tank Questionmark. ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Concern about the impact of climate change is rising, while fewer people feel individual action is needed to combat the problem, according to a survey in 32 countries on ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv The average heating consumption of oil, gas and district heating rose by over 23 percent in Germany between October 2024 and February 2025 compared to the previous heating ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Germany’s onshore wind power capacity continued to grow apace in early 2025 after four gigawatts (GW) of new turbines were licensed in the first three months of the year, industry ...
16 Apr 2025, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars WirtschaftsWoche The tariff policies of US president Donald Trump are likely to lead to a massive drop in global automobile production, the CEO of German automotive industry supplier Mahle, Arnd Franz, has warned ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:24 Jennifer Collins Cars Business & Jobs Die Welt Every second e lectric car sold in Germany in the first quarter of 2025 was made by Vol kswagen, while two out of three newly register ed e-vehicles came from German manufacturers, ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Business & Jobs Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung French energy company TotalEnergies says it plans to stay on its expansion course in Germany, welcoming the CDU/CSU and SDP coalition deal that will continue ...
14 Apr 2025
14 Apr 2025, 12:20 91tv Team UN: Countries reach historic deal to cut shipping emissions Under new system, ships exceeding emissions limits need to acquire remedial units to offset excess pollution. BBC: Race to keep furnaces burning at British Steel ...
11 Apr 2025, 15:30 The biggest hurdles to building Germany's next government have fallen: a historic spending package has laid the groundwork for coalition negotiations between the conservative CDU/CSU alliance – winner of February’s snap election – ...
11 Apr 2025, 13:00 Germany’s prospective coalition government has agreed to continue the country’s landmark energy transition without major adjustments, and stick to existing climate targets. In their coalition treaty, conservatives and Social Democrats ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:20 Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Handelsblatt The German government is concerned about the country’s oil refineries, which are facing the most serious crisis in decades caused by the rising cost of emissions, cheap fuel imports, weak demand ...
07 Apr 2025
07 Apr 2025, 13:36 91tv Team International Energy Agency (IEA)- Our latest review of Germany’s energy policies is out now Report explores how making Germany's electricity system more efficient & resilient can support the energy transition, ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Industry International energate messenger / Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv German energy and industry representatives have expressed concern over the new tariff announcements by US president Donald Trump, ...
03 Apr 2025
03 Apr 2025, 10:35 91tv Team Reuters: Deutsche Bank-owned asset manager DWS fined €25 million for greenwashing German prosecutors have fined asset manager DWS 25 million euros after a lengthy probe found the firm guilty of greenwashing, or making ...
03 Apr 2025, 11:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende Cost & Prices 91tv Germany could achieve climate neutrality by 2045 at a much lower cost through a combination of energy efficiency measures and a slower expansion of power generation and ...
01 Apr 2025, 12:50 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Germany is already experiencing the consequences of climate change and undergoing accelerated warming, according to a report by the country’s National Meteorological Service (DWD). The DWD ...
01 Apr 2025, 12:20 Edgar Meza Resources & Recycling 91tv / MDR / epd / Tagesspiegel Background UK mining and metals company Zinnwald Lithium could begin lithium mining operations in Germany’s Eastern Ore Mountains as soon as in 2030 in ...
31 Mar 2025, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Der Spiegel / Die Welt Germany’s carmakers have fallen behind competitors from Japan and the US in sales and profits throughout 2024, an analysis by consultancy EY has found. Volkswagen, ...
28 Mar 2025, 13:48 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims 91tv NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has won separate greenwashing lawsuits against airline Lufthansa and apparel company Adidas on the grounds of misleading consumers with ...
28 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025, 11:48 91tv Team Bloomberg: Porsche has nowhere to hide as Trump unleashes next tariff wave While Mercedes and BMW have some flexibility due to factories in the US, Porsche has no plants in North America. Bloomberg: German minister says Trump ...
27 Mar 2025, 12:57 Germany's prospective next government is stepping back from its predecessor's ambition to speed up the country’s coal exit to 2030, sticking instead to the original 2038 deadline. Leaked negotiation documents reveal that many ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal Renewables Policy Tagesspiegel Background Germany's economy ministry (BMWK), which is currently run by the Greens, who will likely not be part of the new coalition government, has presented ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:32 Edgar Meza Mobility Transport 91tv More than 25 percent of Germans have poor access to local public transport, according to a report by Greenpeace, which is calling on the government to improve the situation. Based on data ...
24 Mar 2025, 11:00 Geopolitical disruption through events like Russia’s war on Ukraine or a new transatlantic rift can speed up the rapid build-up of renewable energies, says Francesco La Camera, director-general of the International Renewable Energy ...
21 Mar 2025, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Electricity market 91tv A projected increase in electricity demand and a reduction of power plant capacity able to supply electricity at any moment are set to represent concrete challenges for Germany' ...
20 Mar 2025
20 Mar 2025, 14:00 91tv Team AP: Jury finds Greenpeace USA must pay over $660 million in case over Dakota Access protest activities NGO plans to appeal and had said earlier that a large award to the Texan pipeline company could threaten to bankrupt the ...
20 Mar 2025, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices Die Welt / 91tv A new round of purchase incentives for electric vehicles planned by the prospective next German government has aroused scepticism among the country’s car industry, ...
20 Mar 2025, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Tagesspiegel / 91tv In the landmark climate litigation case brought by a Peruvian farmer against German energy company RWE, the judge responsible for the case at a German ...
20 Mar 2025, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International Handelsblatt / 91tv Enthusiasm for Tesla purchases has waned considerably in Germany in the wake of the political activities of the US car company’s CEO, Elon Musk, according to market ...
17 Mar 2025, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv The German energy transition requires a “restart” as the country is on the verge of establishing a climate neutral energy system and renewables already account for about ...
14 Mar 2025, 13:15 Germany is increasingly at risk of failing EU-mandated climate targets for the transport and building sectors, show projections by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). The agency warned that despite shrinking overall emissions, ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:42 Sören Amelang Electricity market Gas Tagesspiegel Background U.S. gas turbine manufacturer GE Vernova has expressed doubts about the plans by Germany’s prospective next government to connect 20 gigawatts of gas-fired power plants to the ...
12 Mar 2025, 13:20 Edgar Meza Grid Society 91tv Berlin-based think tank Zukunft KlimaSozial has called for alternative methods to finance electricity grid expansion in Germany. The current financing of electricity grid expansion via grid fees ...
12 Mar 2025, 13:14 Edgar Meza Wind Security WirtschaftsWoche Despite warnings of potential security risks posed by Chinese components in wind turbines, major energy companies oppose a ban in Germany, arguing that the country's planned expansion path ...
12 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025, 10:57 91tv Team Reuters: RWE, TotalEnergies agree long-term green hydrogen supply deal Germany's top utility agrees to supply French oil major with around 30,000 t of green hydrogen a year from 2030, in one of the sector's biggest ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:47 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Utilities 91tv More than two-thirds of municipal utilities in a survey by the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) consider the country's target to reach climate neutrality by 2045 ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:40 Edgar Meza Grid Solar Handelsblatt German transmission grid operator 50Hertz has called for a more balanced and careful approach when it comes to the further expansion of solar photovoltaics (PV), saying there is a risk of overloading ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv The cost of buying and running a new gas boiler in Germany is predicted to be twice as high as a heat pump over a 20-year period, according to a report by non-profit ...
10 Mar 2025, 13:28 Germany’s likely next coalition government has agreed to a substantial electricity price cut to relieve households and companies and honour national and European climate targets. The Conservatives, under probable next chancellor ...
10 Mar 2025
10 Mar 2025, 11:30 91tv Team E3G: Europe’s competitiveness push and what it means for climate action In its first 100 days, the European Commission has put into motion a series of flagship plans intended to boost the EU’s economy in difficult times. So ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:23 Julian Wettengel International 91tv / Reuters The German state secretary Jochen Flasbarth has said the government regretted the U.S. withdrawal from international partnerships to support major global polluters’ socially ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:20 Jack McGovan Storage Resources & Recycling 91tv Deep bodies of water in northern Germany have been found to contain large amounts of lithium that could be used to help produce batteries for the energy transition, ...
05 Mar 2025, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Fossil gas is set to continue to play a crucial role in Germany’s energy supply throughout this decade, and consumption will fall slower than authorities currently plan, said consultancy McKinsey ...
27 Feb 2025, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Heating Handelsblatt / 91tv Germany could continue to emit greenhouse gases past its 2045 deadline to become climate neutral, with Norwegian certification company DNV forecasting emission ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Policy Süddeutsche Zeitung A proposal from Germany’s likely next chancellor for a “moratorium on dismantling” the remaining decommissioned nuclear reactors in the country has been met with reluctance ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:40 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs 91tv The biggest bottleneck in skilled labour supply affecting Germany's energy transition is in electrical construction, according to a report by the German Economic Institute’s (IW) ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Digitalisation Der Spiegel Almost 500 of the 879 companies that operate metering points in Germany are still to install their first smart meter, news magazine Der Spiegel reported. The Federal Network ...
24 Feb 2025, 13:57 Conservative CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz wants to enter coalition talks with the Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz, after the German elections’ result has paved the way for the two parties to form a government ...
24 Feb 2025, 13:22 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 91tv Households in Germany continue to pay higher energy prices compared to pre-energy crisis levels, price comparison website Verivox said on the three-year mark of Russia's war of ...
23 Feb 2025, 20:42 Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz’ conservatives have won Germany’s snap election, while the current government parties booked significant losses, indicating a reduced focus on climate policies in a future government. But it remained ...
24 Feb 2025, 11:00 German businesses, researchers and civil society have called for speedy coalition negotiations following the country's snap elections on 23 February. Planning security and clarity are essential in view of the stagnating economy and ...
06 May 2025, 13:00 Germans cast their vote in the country's federal election on 23 February. Conservative CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz is set to become the next chancellor and will now lead the formal coalition negotiations with the Social Democrats ...
21 Feb 2025, 13:38 Expert Allensbach Institute The Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach (IfD Allensbach) Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Der Spiegel Most German citizens still believe the energy transition is ...
20 Feb 2025, 13:45 Jack McGovan Electricity Heating 91tv Corrects third paragraph to specify share of heat pump sales compared to all heating sytems sold, a previous version of the article incorrectly stated this was the share of heat pumps ...
20 Feb 2025, 13:38 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Policy 91tv The German government has started its largest green hydrogen import auction yet. For the first time, one portion of the tender worth 2.5 billion euros in total will be funded jointly by ...
20 Feb 2025
20 Feb 2025, 10:16 91tv Team Carbon Brief: Profile: Germany The nation with both the most renewable power and the highest emissions in Europe. Agora Energiewende: Update FAQ on Germany's Energiewende An interactive dashboard with data and FAQs on the ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:22 Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv High energy prices have little influence on the transformation needs of most of the 100 companies on Germany’s HDAX stock market index compared to four other ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars dpa / WirtschaftsWoche While sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in Germany have stalled recently, the share of citizens who would consider buying one in the future has risen considerably, a survey ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:05 The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) – the second strongest polling party ahead of Germany's snap elections on 23 February – is the only major party to outright reject the scientific consensus behind human-induced climate ...
14 Feb 2025, 13:20 Bennet Ribbeck Society Elections & Politics 91tv A climate strike in Berlin by the youth movement Fridays for Future (FfF) ahead of Germany’s snap election at the end of next week ended up attracting far fewer ...
14 Feb 2025, 14:20 The conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz is widely tipped to become Germany’s next chancellor – but remains ambiguous on a range of policy fields, notably on energy and climate. Despite being known as a senior policymaker for decades, ...
14 Feb 2025
14 Feb 2025, 13:57 Administrative "simplification" will be a key focus of the European Commission's 2025 work programme, trade and economic security commissioner Maroš Šefčovič told MEPs during the European Parliament’s plenary session in ...
13 Feb 2025, 13:45 Sören Amelang Mobility Transport 91tv Germany’s government has agreed on the country’s first ever pedestrian transport strategy that aims to strengthen walking as a sustainable and healthy way of getting around. Transport ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:24 Joey Grostern Gas dpa / 91tv State-owned liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals on the North Sea at Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbüttel handled the majority of Germany’s imported LNG last year, and operated at 65 percent capacity, ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:22 Joey Grostern Wind 91tv Germany looks set to exceed its 2030 onshore wind power target by 2.6 percent, according to an analysis by the Google-backed think tank Goal100. Considering the number of applications and permits for ...
07 Feb 2025, 14:40 The fallout triggered by the dissolution of the French National Assembly last June continues to afflict political decisionmaking in France. The collapse of the Barnier government in December, and the resulting ministerial reshuffle, ...
05 Feb 2025, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Handelsblatt The German government and industry players are considering using parts of the contentious Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline connecting Russia and Germany through the Baltic Sea for hydrogen deliveries ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:41 Jennifer Collins Fossil fuels 91tv The G7 group of industrialised nations failed on a 2016 pledge to phase out "inefficient fossil fuel subsidies" by 2025, according to a report commissioned by NGO Greenpeace ...
03 Feb 2025, 14:49 Germany is increasingly looking outwards to find skilled workers to fill its green labour gap, especially to India. Joint collaborations aim to tackle a critical challenge faced by both nations: securing a skilled workforce capable of ...
31 Jan 2025, 13:06 Joey Grostern Carbon market Business EU 91tv Around three quarters of German companies are not able or only partially able to report emissions data from their suppliers outside of the EU, with two-thirds fearing that this ...
31 Jan 2025, 11:50 Joey Grostern Wind Society SWR A group of about 6,660 people are behind a slew of over 440,000 letters objecting to plans for wind farm developments in 40 areas in the Neckar-Alb region of Baden-Württemberg, according to reporting from ...
31 Jan 2025, 11:49 Joey Grostern Storage 91tv Almost 600,000 new stationary battery storage systems were installed across Germany in 2024, increasing the country’s storage capacity by 50 percent year-on-year, according to preliminary data ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics 91tv The absence of climate mitigation measures is the greatest threat to prosperity and security in Germany and Europe, a group of environmental organisations said in a joint ...
29 Jan 2025, 11:18 As Germans prepare to head to the polls for the 23 February snap election, the weakness of the country’s large industrial base has become a campaign focus. Some opposition policymakers blame exaggerated climate policies for the troubles ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:17 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:13 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Elections & Politics dts Significant parts of the population in Germany are not sufficiently prepared for the expected cost increases in fossil heating and mobility due to carbon pricing, said Dirk ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:51 Julian Wettengel Gas Politics Handelsblatt German chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed the buildout of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export infrastructure and increased efforts to extract fossil fuels in the U.S. in an interview with ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Policy 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's parliament is set to pass a package of energy laws after the minority government of the Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens found agreements with the ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Wind 91tv / dpa / Handelsbatt Offshore wind farms in the German North Sea generated around eight percent more wind power last year compared to 2023, transmission system operator TenneT said. At 20.8 ...
24 Jan 2025, 15:30 Germany has fully switched into election campaign mode ahead of the national vote on 23 February. Parties have presented their manifestos, with key energy transition issues including the future of industry, boosting investments, energy ...
23 Jan 2025, 10:30 Making German homes less climate-damaging and keeping them affordable for residents at the same time will be a central task for the country's next government. The heated controversy over a phaseout law for oil and gas boilers is ...
21 Jan 2025, 12:35 Edgar Meza Electricity Cost & Prices 91tv Net electricity consumption in Germany may not rise as much in the coming years as assumed in current regulatory planning, according to a report by consultancy McKinsey. ...
20 Jan 2025
20 Jan 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Trump to declare national energy emergency, unlocking new powers Actions set to touch full spectrum of the US energy industry in bid to unleash domestic production. European Commission: Strategic dialogue on the ...
20 Jan 2025, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Security Welt am Sonntag / 91tv A new law planned for the better integration of solar energy sources into Germany’s electricity system bears the risk that foreign powers gain control over relevant ...
20 Jan 2025, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Grid fees for users in urban and in rural areas of Germany have, for the first time, been brought to similar levels, according to price comparison website Verivox. After a nine ...
17 Jan 2025, 15:00 Energy prices are becoming increasingly expensive for Italian businesses and households due to delays in the development of renewables and increases in the cost of gas on international markets. The rise in energy costs will be, along ...
17 Jan 2025, 13:12 Sören Amelang Transport Elections & Politics 91tv The next German government must ensure that aviation can become climate-neutral within 20 years, which will require a plethora of policy initiatives, an alliance of ...
16 Jan 2025, 13:15 Sören Amelang Agriculture Business & Jobs 91tv The largest German supermarket chains have increased their efforts to become more sustainable, but still don’t do justice to their central role in the transformation of the ...
16 Jan 2025, 13:09 Sören Amelang Technology Heating NDR The northern German city of Flensburg has commissioned one of the world’s largest seawater heat pumps to supply climate-neutral heat through its district heating system, reports regional public ...
15 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025, 11:45 91tv Team dpa: Parties row over Germany's shift to 'green' steel Conservative leader Merz doubts viability of climate-friendly steel, but labour union says it's industry's only chance of survival. Andreas ...
15 Jan 2025, 11:20 As geopolitical tensions escalate and make UN climate negotiations increasingly difficult, the next German government should continue to explore alternative alliances to push for decarbonisation, says Marian Feist, senior research ...
13 Jan 2025, 13:40 Sören Amelang Electricity Cost & Prices Elections & Politics 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background With just six weeks to go before Germany’s parliamentary elections in late February, several parties have specified their ...
10 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025, 10:21 91tv Team Copernicus Climate Change Service: 2024 – a second record-breaking year, following the exceptional 2023 Multiple global records were broken, for greenhouse gas levels, and for both air temperature and sea surface temperature, ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv Climate-friendly heating technologies may now be predominant in new builds in Germany but the country’s existing buildings continue to rely on fossil fuels, shows a report by the German Energy ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The German government is open to partnering with African countries on fossil gas projects, as well as blue hydrogen production (made from fossil gas, ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:29 Future nuclear fusion power plants will not be able to complement wind and solar electricity production because they will likely need to run around the clock for economic and technical reasons, a German parliamentary report concludes. ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:37 Jennifer Collins Cars 91tv / Handelsblatt Registrations of new plug-in electric cars in Germany fell by more than a quarter in 2024 compared to the previous year, while the average CO2 emissions of newly registered ...
08 Jan 2025, 12:06 The application of sustainable finance principles across the EU will take a major step forward in 2025 as reporting duties for environmental data are expanded to cover a much wider range of companies, says Matthias Hübner, head of the ...
06 Jan 2025, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Solar 91tv The German solar industry marked a milestone at the turn of the year, as the total capacity of all installed solar power systems surpassed 100 gigawatts (GW), said industry association BSW Solar. ...
08 Jan 2025, 10:08 Jennifer Collins Electricity Renewables 91tv The share of renewable energy in net public electricity generation in Germany in 2024 reached a record high of 62.7 percent, with solar power smashing government expansion ...
06 Jan 2025, 12:12 Germany is of central importance when it comes to the EU defining its priorities in energy and industrial policies, says Simone Tagliapietra, senior fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. He argues that the country’s next ...
20 Dec 2024, 13:07 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Wind power output in Germany is not at risk of increasingly being decimated by so ...
20 Dec 2024, 12:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Lower demand for electricity could substantially reduce Germany’s bill for expanding the power grid to accommodate its growing fleet of renewable power installations, business daily ...
20 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024, 12:00 91tv Team Ember: EU generated record 30% of electricity from wind and solar in first half of 2024, surpassing fossil fuels for first time Ember's 2024 review shows highlights of energy transition's development. The Guardian: & ...
20 Dec 2024, 08:44 Germany’s next government will inherit a major policy predicament: How can it finally initiate serious transport emission cuts against a backdrop of tight finances, a struggling car industry, and a crumbling transport infrastructure? ...
20 Dec 2024, 10:13 Large-scale solar PV developers have not been able to overcome Nigeria’s reputation as a risky place to do business, a problem which can be seen across sub-Saharan Africa. Despite tremendous solar potential, very little of it has been ...
20 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024, 14:57 Dave Keating *** Our weekly Dispatches provide an overview of the most relevant recent and upcoming developments for the shift to climate neutrality i n selected European countries, from policy and diplomacy to society and industry. For ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) has said in its draft election campaign programme that it aims to ensure the country is competitive in industry ...
18 Dec 2024, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv Primary energy consumption in Germany dropped to a new low in 2024 amid warmer weather, a continued weakness of the country’s economy, and ongoing efficiency gains, the Federation of ...
18 Dec 2024, 10:13 Italy is considering a return to nuclear power as part of its strategy to achieve carbon neutrality and increase energy independence. The debate has reignited political tensions over the issue, with proponents arguing that nuclear ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:51 Jack McGovan Cars Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt The CEO of German car manufacturer Mercedes, Ola Källenius, has called for more long-term subsidies for electric vehicles as demand weakens. By the end of the decade ...
13 Dec 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Renewables 91tv About 54 percent of gross power production in Germany is set to come from renewables in 2024, figures published by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) have shown. With an ...
13 Dec 2024, 13:38 Unusually low wind power output has caused another 'Dunkelflaute' period in Germany with significantly reduced renewable power production and extreme price hikes in short-term electricity trading. Most customers are shielded ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Government 91tv The German government has approved its climate adaptation strategy to better prepare the country for dealing with extreme weather events, such as heat waves, droughts, heavy ...
06 Dec 2024, 12:56 Sören Amelang Society Elections & Politics 91tv Climate action has dropped in German voters’ priorities vs economic growth over the course of the past five years, according to a survey conducted by the Konrad Adenauer ...
06 Dec 2024, 11:14 The appointment of Michel Barnier as France’s new prime minister in September sparked as many concerns as it ignited hopes for advocates of more ambitious climate action. But the former environment minister, who had laid some of the ...
05 Dec 2024, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics ARD The leader of Germany's largest opposition party, Friedrich Merz, has ruled out helping the minority government of chancellor Olaf Scholz to get major policy projects across the line ...
05 Dec 2024, 11:49 Germany’s next government must focus on the shift to climate-friendly mobility to secure industry competitiveness and ensure a socially just energy transition, says Christian Hochfeld, director of green mobility think tank Agora ...
06 Dec 2024, 09:25 Ensuring the timely construction of new hydrogen-ready gas power plants must be a top priority in energy policy for Germany's next government, says the head of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). Lobby ...
04 Dec 2024, 12:23 Sören Amelang Electricity market 91tv An energy system dominated by solar and wind energy does not require baseload power stations to guarantee supply security, German research academies have said. “The academy project ...
03 Dec 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling 91tv Germany's government cabinet is set to adopt a national circular economy strategy tomorrow (4 December), said the environment ministry. The ministry spells out targets ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Industry Handelsblatt / 91tv The break-up of the coalition government and insecure funding mean that it is unclear whether Germany’s pioneering ‘climate contract’ subsidy scheme to slash industry emissions ...
28 Nov 2024, 11:05 The cheapest way to make the most of a growing renewable electricity supply is to ensure demand follows power generation, and not the other way around – which is still the case today. Dynamic electricity tariffs, which reward households ...
28 Nov 2024, 11:55 Ruby Russel Renewables 91tv [UPDATE adds FA Wind survey] The vast majority (80%) of people in Germany support the country's ongoing transition to renewable energy, a survey commissioned by the German Renewable Energy ...
25 Nov 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Society 91tv A third of people in Germany say they do not feel well connected by bus or train near their home, and are not satisfied with the number of departures at their nearest stop, according ...
24 Nov 2024, 15:30 Politicians and civil society from Germany have said that the agreement on future climate finance at the UN climate change conference COP29 shows that international cooperation has prevailed even in a challenging geopolitical context. ...
21 Nov 2024
21 Nov 2024, 11:00 91tv Team AP: Ford, facing economic headwinds and weak EV sales, to cut 4,000 jobs in Europe Of the total, 2,900 jobs would be lost in Germany, 800 in Britain and 300 in other European Union countries. Reuters: Volkswagen enters third ...
21 Nov 2024, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv New large scale batteries and hydrogen electrolysers could see their grid connection fee lowered in areas where there is surplus electricity, according to proposals made by ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:50 India and a group of countries including the U.S. and Germany will not agree on a so-called Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), a key international deal that was meant to promote the South Asian nation’s climate-friendly ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:18 Germany needs to implement a host of measures to achieve a climate neutral electricity system effectively, climate policy research institute Ariadne said. More flexibility and efficiency should be the focus of power market reforms, as ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Solar 91tv / pv magazine Spaces alongside German highways could be utilised better to build solar energy systems, with around 250,000 potential sites identified in a report by the Federal Highway Research ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv The majority of employees in German companies are satisfied with the speed with which their employer is promoting sustainability efforts and say it is increasingly gearing its business ...
20 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024, 09:53 91tv Team NewClimate Institute: Climate Change Performance Index 2025 Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK take the lead in this year. Germany drops two places to 16th in this year’s CCPI. Bloomberg: EU considers changes to carbon border ...
19 Nov 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Handelsblatt Gas supply in Germany at the beginning of winter is stable and storage facilities are well stocked as the heating season gets underway, business daily Handelsblatt reported. The risk of a tight gas ...
18 Nov 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating Construction dpa / Spiegel Bad insulation and the use of gas- or oil-based heating systems increasingly eat into the market value of residential property in Germany, according to a report by ...
18 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024, 13:20 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany’s would-be leader touts his recipe for a growth miracle Merz wants voters to back a distinctly pro-business agenda Political compromises may water down what he can achieve DW: Germany approves more ...
14 Nov 2024, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / 91tv The collapse of Germany’s coalition government could threaten important energy transition projects across the country if no precautions are taken ...
15 Nov 2024, 15:00 Large parts of northern Italy were devastated by the country’s fourth floods within a year, triggered by intense rainfall on 19 and 20 October. Parts of Sicily, in the south, were also severely impacted. The floods came as Italy’s ...
12 Nov 2024, 13:25 A cross-party effort in Germany is necessary to avoid that key policy proposals needed to achieve national climate and energy targets fall victim to the government coalition’s break-up, economy minister Robert Habeck has warned. ...
08 Nov 2024, 13:46 After an exhaustingly hot summer, the end of September and beginning of October ushered in extreme rainfall events and flooding in several Croatian cities along the coast and in the hinterland. At the start of November, higher ...
23 Feb 2025, 20:20 Germany's coalition government collapsed in November 2024 due to internal disputes over budget and economic policy. The country now gears up for snap elections in early 2025, against the backdrop of a flagging economy, the war in ...
07 Nov 2024, 10:29 Following the break-up of Germany's governing coalition, the country's energy industry urged rapid snap elections to give companies much-needed investment security in uncertain times. Youth climate movement Fridays for Future ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:08 Germany and Europe must urgently strengthen their competitiveness and defence capabilities, government, businesses and NGOs said in first reactions the U.S. presidential election win by Donald Trump. Industry association BDI warned that ...
05 Nov 2024, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Elections & Politics 91tv / dpa / Zeit Online Lawmakers of Germany’s largest opposition party alliance have called for an expert assessment of whether recently decommissioned nuclear ...
04 Nov 2024
04 Nov 2024, 13:17 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany’s shaky coalition heads for a €75 billion budget reckoning Top judges to scrutinize levy on high earners and businesses. The ruling could bring the fragile coalition to the brink of collapse. S&P Global: ...
30 Oct 2024, 11:48 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Current plans for gas networks in European countries largely fail to account for the necessary decline in gas consumption in the coming years as states try to reach climate targets, according to a ...
30 Oct 2024, 11:41 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Germany’s coal consumption continued its downward trend in 2024, helping to reduce the country’s climate-damaging CO2 emissions, said energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) based ...
29 Oct 2024, 13:05 Warnings by the works council at carmaker Volkswagen that the company plans to make significant cuts to its production sites and workforce in Germany have led policymakers to call for the protection of jobs and local economies. ...
23 Oct 2024, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Society 91tv Anchoring health, climate and environment in all government departments and ministries is one of the recommendations put forward by Germany's health and resilience expert council, an ...
23 Oct 2024, 13:27 Jennifer Collins Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / SWR Plans for a 2.75 billion euro cutting edge silicon carbide chip plant in Germany are up in the air, amid reports that construction has been put on hold indefinitely and that ...
18 Oct 2024, 10:56 The new government of prime minister Michel Barnier was announced on 21 September, with the 2025 budget following on 10 October. To reduce the public deficit to 5 percent of the country's economy by 2025, and to 3 percent by 2027, ...
15 Oct 2024, 12:50 Jack McGovan Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Sales of cars from German manufacturers VW, Audi, Porsche, BMW and Mercedes in the EU, USA and China are 2.1 percent lower in 2024 so far than the same time period last year, despite ...
10 Oct 2024, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Carbon market 91tv Germany should alter its current plans for a national carbon price for transport and heating fuel emissions and stick to a fixed price until the new EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) for ...
09 Oct 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen FAZ / 91tv Germany’s finance minister Christian Lindner, a Free Democrat (FDP), has proposed several tax exemptions for combustion engine cars that run exclusively on renewables-based ...
08 Oct 2024, 13:57 Aniket Narawad Storage Technology International 91tv Germany is set to join the Global Battery Alliance, chancellor Olaf Scholz announced at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference. Highlighting the critical role of batteries ...
07 Oct 2024, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Gas dpa Two additional floating import terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) are due to go into operation before the winter in Germany, state-owned operating company Deutsche Energy Terminal (DET) told news agency ...
04 Oct 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Gas NDR / 91tv The cost of a planned permanent onshore import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in northern Germany is likely to be more than expected and require additional state support, reports ...
04 Oct 2024
04 Oct 2024, 10:18 Julian Wettengel Politico: You could kill the EU, says France. No, you could, Germany replies. Macron and Scholz clash again over how to counter protectionist America and Chinese power. Bloomberg: New solar to meet most of Europe’s ...
02 Oct 2024, 12:49 Sören Amelang Electricity Transport Heating International 91tv Germany and the UK are lagging behind on the path to climate neutrality, while Denmark and Norway are making “significant strides”, according to a report by the ...
02 Oct 2024
02 Oct 2024, 11:21 91tv Team Bruno Burger (Fraunhofer ISE): In the first three quarters of 2024, around 106 million tonnes of CO2 were emitted from electricity generation in Germany This is 15 per cent less than in the first three quarters of 2023 and ...
01 Oct 2024, 13:09 Sören Amelang Wind Hydrogen 91tv Building “energy islands” in the North Sea to produce green hydrogen using 20 gigawatts of offshore wind power can save Germany billions of euros, according to a report by the Fraunhofer ...
27 Sep 2024, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv High temperatures pose an increasing health risk in Germany as climate change progresses and younger children are more likely to suffer, said a report by German health insurance ...
25 Sep 2024, 13:28 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind Technology Society Heise online / mdr Work has begun on the construction of the world’s highest wind turbine in the eastern German lignite region Lusatia, reports technology website heise online. The ...
20 Sep 2024, 15:02 The worst floods in at least a decade hit southern Poland and neigbouring regions in mid-September due to extreme rainfall, which scientists said was likely more intense due to climate change. The situation has received wide political ...
24 Sep 2024, 13:45 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture 91tv The share of people in Germany who say that their diet does not contain meat has remained largely unchanged in recent years, figures in the agriculture ministry's nutrition report ...
24 Sep 2024, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Cost & Prices 91tv / SWR Germany's nationwide flat-rate public transport ticket, the Germany-ticket, is at risk of losing subscribers now that the federal government and state transport ...
23 Sep 2024, 13:42 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv / Spiegel / Bild / dpa German policymakers, industry experts, environmental NGOs and unions were split over a proposal to support the country’s ailing car industry with a new ‘cash for clunkers’ ...
23 Sep 2024, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal G20 & G7 91tv The Group of Seven (G7) large industrial democracies can be a key forum for “pioneering new cooperation” on carbon dioxide removal (CDR), wrote researchers from Germany and ...
23 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024, 11:23 91tv Team DW: Germany increases 'Deutschlandticket' price to €58 The "Deutschlandticket" monthly travel pass allows passengers unlimited trips on local and regional trains, trams and buses. Starting in 2025, the ...
20 Sep 2024, 12:19 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv The Deutschlandticket, a subscription public transportation ticket, likely contributed to a six percent year-on-year increase in the number of passengers using local bus and train services in ...
20 Sep 2024, 12:17 Edgar Meza Mobility Policy Spiegel / NDR Germany's economy ministry has invited stakeholders to a car industry summit to discuss the current industry crisis, Spiegel reported. Representatives of the country's carmakers, the ...
20 Sep 2024, 12:14 Edgar Meza Adaptation 91tv Case studies on climate adaptation from around the world do not yet demonstrate truly sustainable strategies, yet sustainable climate adaptation is key for measures to be successful in the long ...
20 Sep 2024
20 Sep 2024, 09:15 91tv Team Bloomberg: Tesla could help far right secure win in German state vote Tesla’s first factory in Europe was supposed to revitalize the region near Berlin with thousands of jobs and millions in extra tax revenue. It succeeded on ...
18 Sep 2024, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal 91tv Europe should establish a so-called “Carbon Central Bank” – an institution to oversee a market mechanism to remove carbon emissions from the atmosphere – to reach climate targets, ...
16 Sep 2024, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Heating with gas and oil could be cheaper for German households in this year’s heating season compared to the previous winter, said price comparison website Verivox. In ...
16 Sep 2024
16 Sep 2024, 12:13 91tv Team Bloomberg: Travel chaotic, damage mounts after Central European floods Widespread flooding in central and eastern Europe from days of unrelenting rain is playing havoc with rail transportation and causing more evacuations of ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:33 Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Most German companies are in favour of the country's energy transition, with 85 percent supporting the policy agenda, according to a survey commissioned by the German Technical Inspection ...
09 Sep 2024, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics ntv / 91tv The industrial jobs that will be lost due to the end of coal-fired power production in Germany’s eastern mining region Lusatia have already been replaced by new ...
09 Sep 2024, 13:29 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv Germany needs to invest 120 billion euros in energy-related ...
06 Sep 2024, 12:30 Julian Wettengel Finance 91tv Greenwashing-related incidents have an overall negative effect on company stock prices, but only once financial supervisory bodies intervene, according to a report by finance NGO Finance Watch ...
06 Sep 2024, 13:20 Jennifer Collins Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Handelsblatt / 91tv Germany's federal government may have to pick up a one billion euro tab to dismantle a nuclear power plant that shut down in 1989 as the operating ...
03 Sep 2024, 17:20 Jennifer Collins Coal 91tv / Table.Media So many of Germany's coal-fired power plants are already slated to go offline that the country's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) did not have to announce a ban on power ...
02 Sep 2024, 13:30 Jennifer Collins Gas Heating Handelsblatt Many gas grid operators in Germany have not decided yet whether to use the possibility to increase their fees now in order to protect their dwindling customers from a massive price hike in the ...
02 Sep 2024, 13:22 Jennifer Collins Carbon removal Industry International Die Welt A project that would connect Germany's Rhine-Ruhr industrial heartland to an undersea carbon storage project in the Dutch North Sea is set to be delayed by years, ...
28 Aug 2024, 14:06 Jack McGovan Storage Hydrogen MDR / 91tv The German government is co-funding a hydrogen storage project in the Saale region, with economy minister Robert Habeck having handed over the funding notice of 61 million euros on ...
28 Aug 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society 91tv The majority of people in Germany view renewable energies favourably, but many worry about costs associated with the energy transition and there are clear differences between the ...
27 Aug 2024, 13:36 Sören Amelang Storage Resources & Recycling MDR The planned construction of a recycling plant for used electric car batteries in Eastern Germany has been met with much opposition, according to a report from public broadcaster MDR. ...
23 Aug 2024, 15:00 The summer holiday peak has arrived across Europe and most parliaments on the continent have gone into recess. But while federal politics won’t fully resume in Germany before 8 September, politicians and their observers have already ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Households in East Germany on average pay nearly a quarter more for energy than those in the West if adjusted for purchasing power, an analysis by price comparison website ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Hydrogen 91tv Producing synthetic alcohol with renewable power could become a significant energy storage option for the energy transition, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) research ...
23 Aug 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Cars 91tv / Reuters Germany needs biofuels and synthetic fuels made from renewable electricity (e-fuels) to ensure that the country's existing fleet of combustion engine vehicles can help reach climate ...
20 Aug 2024
20 Aug 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Euractiv: Austria submits 2030 climate plan late as Germany, Spain flout June deadline Just ten EU countries have submitted their long-term climate action plans to Brussels, with Austria being the most recent, as large ...
20 Aug 2024, 12:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Business & Jobs Technology Reuters / 91tv Nationalism and resentment endanger investments in key future technologies, Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz said at the ceremony for the start ...
20 Aug 2024, 13:26 The transport sector receives by far the biggest share out of all of Germany's government subsidies that are harmful to the climate, according to a report commissioned by the economy ministry. In their coalition agreement, the ...
16 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024, 10:08 Julian Wettengel Eurostat: EU economy greenhouse gas emissions:-4.0% in Q1 2024 In the first quarter of 2024, the EU economy greenhouse gas emissions were estimated at 894 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 4.0 percent ...
16 Aug 2024, 12:34 Jack McGovan Company climate claims 91tv The 40 large companies listed in the German DAX stock market index reduced their full value chain greenhouse gas emissions by a combined four percent in 2023, compared to the ...
15 Aug 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Wind 91tv A majority of Germans continue to be in favour of further wind power expansion in the country, with 68.9 percent in western states and 54.4 percent in the East supporting the industry, showed a ...
15 Aug 2024, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv Germany needs more targeted training for traditional craftsmen and other existing skilled workers to give them the expertise they need to work in the solar and wind power industry, ...
13 Aug 2024, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Technology 91tv Nuclear fusion technology has the potential to provide long-term climate-friendly energy and reduce import dependencies- but it cannot contribute to mid-century climate targets because it ...
13 Aug 2024, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Finance 91tv Fourteen percent of German households are already putting their money into sustainable investments, while another 30 percent can imagine doing so in the future, a survey by the government-owned ...
09 Aug 2024, 13:30 A number of key issues relating to France’s ecological transition have been put on hold after the rise of the far-right Rassemblement National party in June’s European elections caused president Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National ...
08 Aug 2024, 14:06 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out 91tv / Zeit Online Germany’s ongoing hunt for a final repository for highly radioactive nuclear waste could last until the 2070s, a report has warned. However, the country’s environment ...
06 Aug 2024, 13:15 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Efficiency 91tv / Münchner Merkur The number of applications for state support to pay for counselling on how to improve energy efficiency in residential buildings reached a new high of 80,000 ...
06 Aug 2024, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Digitalisation 91tv As the share of renewables in Germany's electricity mix increases, so does the potential for households to benefit from lower wholesale power prices. In the first ...
02 Aug 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs 91tv Four in ten industrial companies in Germany are considering production cuts in the country or relocating parts of their production capacities outside of the country due to ...
02 Aug 2024
02 Aug 2024, 14:20 Six months after the new ruling coalition in Poland came to power, there are still no significant changes to the country’s energy policy. The government of Donald Tusk, however, is finally getting back to work on key laws for the energy ...
01 Aug 2024, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating 91tv Sales of heating systems in Germany have dropped significantly in the first half of 2024, with uncertainty among customers meaning that manufacturers were selling 43 percent fewer systems than ...
01 Aug 2024, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Electricity 91tv Primary energy consumption in Germany has continued to decrease in the first half of 2024 with the country consuming 3.4 percent less than the same period the previous ...
31 Jul 2024, 13:46 Edgar Meza Renewables Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Bavarian state premier Markus Söder has reaffirmed his government’s intention to take over more than 80 power plants on the southern German state's rivers from energy company ...
31 Jul 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar Handelsblatt / 91tv The fast pace of Germany’s solar PV expansion is causing concerns among energy companies about the buildout’s effect on the grid, business daily Handelsblatt writes. “If ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:14 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv Demand for purely battery-electric vehicles (BEV) dropped dramatically in Germany during the first half of 2024 and the country’s automotive sector is bracing for a gloomy full year as high prices and ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:04 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Industry 91tv Technologies to capture and store or use carbon dioxide from industrial processes will become "a special focus" of the next round of Germany's pioneering subsidy ...
29 Jul 2024, 13:28 Edgar Meza Solar 91tv The expansion of photovoltaic (PV) systems in Germany continues to grow as more companies and private households opt for solar energy. By April 2024, the number of PV systems reached 3.4 million, ...
26 Jul 2024, 13:32 Joey Grostern Adaptation 91tv More workers are being exposed to heat stress across the world due to climate change, with Europe and Central Asia experiencing the largest rise in excessive heat exposure in 20 years, ...
22 Jul 2024, 13:05 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Handelsblatt Industry in southwestern Germany worries it will be left behind as planning for the country's core hydrogen grid advances. According to a survey among regional chambers of industry and ...
19 Jul 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices 91tv The German government’s reduction of energy taxes on fuels between June and August 2022 to soften the impact of rising prices due to the energy crisis has not been fully passed ...
19 Jul 2024, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The number of operational onshore wind turbines installed in Germany has shrunk in the first six months of 2024, when 250 new installations were added while 280 older ones were taken ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Digitalisation 91tv Cloud and edge computing hold great promise to increase the efficiency of a future decentralised energy system, yet the widespread use and acceptance of these solutions still face ...
16 Jul 2024, 13:52 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Germany’s weakened industrial sector coupled with the expansion of renewable energy sources have resulted in a record drop in the country’s greenhouse gas emissions traded in the EU Emissions Trading System ...
16 Jul 2024, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The German government plans to have a diversified import structure for green hydrogen, shows a draft strategy seen by Tagesspiegel Background. It counts on pipelines to supplier ...
16 Jul 2024, 12:23 Edgar Meza Gas Handelsblatt EU countries are increasing Russian gas imports despite the bloc’s efforts to reduce fossil fuel from Russia in the wake of the Ukraine war, Handelsblatt reports. EU countries imported around 30 percent more ...
12 Jul 2024, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Industry Policy 91tv / WirtschaftsWoche The German government’s plans for a so-called capacity market, which would reward power plant operators for providing generation capacity rather ...
12 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024, 12:26 Sören Amelang S&P Global: Germany's gas storage operators warn demand curtailments still required ahead of winter Storage sites 84% full by mid-July but extreme cold could prompt gas shortages and empty reserves by February ...
11 Jul 2024, 13:48 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs More than one in five jobs in Germany are related to “green activities”, while less than one in 20 are in emission-intensive industries, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and ...
11 Jul 2024, 13:42 Sören Amelang Electricity Coal Renewables 91tv Electricity generation from coal dropped to a record low in Germany in the spring, while renewables produced more electricity than ever during the same period. Lignite feed-in ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:36 Jennifer Collins Society 91tv Europeans aged over 30 show a better grasp of the causes and consequences of climate change than younger generations- but awareness of solutions is lacking across age groups, found a survey by ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Mobility Cars 91tv Germany has a record number of cars, but fewer people are using them on the road, according to an analysis by transport policy think tank Agora Verkehrswende. "Despite a slight ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:24 Sören Amelang Heating Cities 91tv District heating already supplies more than a third of houses in Germany’s three largest cities of Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich, according to utility E.ON. In Munich and Hamburg, the share ...
05 Jul 2024, 15:07 Months of negotiations among the parties in Germany’s governing coalition about the country’s 2025 budget have ushered in “record investments” into renewable power, industrial decarbonisation, electric mobility and a faster transition ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:10 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv Germany has awarded the most onshore wind contracts ever following the latest round of tenders by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). "The current round of tenders represents a record with almost ...
28 Jun 2024, 16:00 French citizens are awaiting the upcoming snap election brought about by the dissolution of parliament following president Emmanuel Macron’s loss to the far-right in this June’s EU elections. The vote could have a profound impact on the ...
27 Jun 2024, 14:07 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Society More than two thirds of Germans say they would “rather not” or “definitely not” make financial sacrifices and lower their personal standard of living for the benefit of the climate, according to a ...
27 Jun 2024, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Der Spiegel Germany's highly anticipated government strategy for constructing gas power plants as a backup for rapidly increasing renewable generation will be delayed by one year, news magazine Der ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:55 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Companies in the German manufacturing and service sectors generated 107.5 billion euros in revenue from output that ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:38 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Jack McGovan Gas Heating taz / Die Welt / 91tv Fossil fuels are still being used to heat three quarters of homes in Germany, with renewable ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices dpa / n-tv / 91tv Falling wholesale power prices have torn a hole in Germany’s financing of renewable energy sources, whose operators receive state support if revenues from ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:59 Poland is emerging from a long election cycle- from parliamentary elections last October that brought a change of government to local ballots in April, and finally the European Parliament elections earlier this month. All these bring ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:44 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen Handelsblatt Construction of a hydrogen "core" network in Germany has been further delayed as its future operators and the electricity grid agency BNetzA await an EU decision on state aid, reported ...
20 Jun 2024, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars 91tv Almost 70 percent of Germans say that the climate crisis means a "fundamental rethink is needed in the area of mobility," shows a survey by Germany’s leading technical ...
20 Jun 2024, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Agriculture Solar 91tv The technical potential of solar PV installations on agricultural land (also known as agri PV) in Germany largely exceeds the potential of other so far unconventional PV technologies ...
20 Jun 2024, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Heating Tagesspiegel Background Municipalities should expand their mandatory planning for future climate-friendly heating to encompass general energy distribution, think tank Agora Energiewende has proposed, ...
19 Jun 2024, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling 91tv The German environment ministry has presented a draft circular economy strategy as "a crucial element to reach climate targets and to create new possibilities for growth, ...
19 Jun 2024, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Allowing several key electricity transmission lines to be built above ground, as well as improved planning to connect offshore wind parks to the shore, could drastically reduce ...
17 Jun 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv As the European Union has entered into the process of selecting a new leadership team for the next legislative term after the June elections, key climate science advisors call on the ...
17 Jun 2024, 12:15 Julian Wettengel EU 91tv / AP Government members and NGOs from Germany have welcomed the adoption of the EU nature restoration law by member states following months of delay. Member states on Monday gave their final ...
14 Jun 2024, 12:57 Sören Amelang Technology Resources & Recycling 91tv Extending the average lifespan of smartphones to between five and seven years could reduce Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions from such devices by around half, ...
12 Jun 2024, 13:22 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Sustainability issues have slid down the list of German managers’ priorities, a poll by business consultancy Horvath has revealed, reports newspaper Handelsblatt. The green transformation ...
07 Jun 2024, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Agriculture Der Spiegel / ARD Severe floods like those affecting large parts of southern Germany in June are no longer a “once-in-a-century” event, but rather “a new reality” that the country must come to ...
06 Jun 2024, 14:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Cost & Prices Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung / 91tv / Rheinische Post A nationwide mandatory insurance against natural hazards will be “an important topic” at an upcoming meeting between Germany’s ...
06 Jun 2024, 13:51 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv Nearly 60 percent of all electricity fed into the German grid in the first three months of 2024 ...
13 Jun 2024, 13:30 This year's G7 leaders' summit in Italy, to be held in a secluded luxury resort in the Puglia region on 13-15 June, has been largely sidelined in the country's public discourse as the focus is firmly on the campaign for ...
31 May 2024, 15:00 As the European elections approach and the political parties in Italy engage in divisive campaigns over European policies and the management of various international contexts, the country is preparing to host the summit of G7 countries ...
24 May 2024, 15:00 The curtain is coming down on five years of EU energy and environment legislative drama. Since the 2019 “green wave” that helped put the spotlight on sustainable policy, dozens of laws have passed through the complex process of EU ...
17 May 2024, 15:00 Just as France is marking the biggest drop in its greenhouse gas emissions in almost a decade, the debate about the country’s future energy policy continues in full swing. This applies to almost all sectors of the economy – and the ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels International Security 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung / ZDF The events leading up to Germany’s commitment to building the controversial Nord Stream 2 offshore gas pipeline to Russia could be ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs 91tv Energy consumption in Germany has fallen significantly in the first three months of 2024 compared to the same period one year before, energy industry and research initiative ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Industry 91tv The states of eastern Germany are benefitting from the transition towards a climate neutral economy and are well-positioned to emerge as a strong industrial hub thanks to their ...
03 Jun 2024, 14:08 For years, Germany's government heavily lobbied for the completion of an additional direct natural gas link to Russia, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, while publicly calling it a "private sector project", internal documents ...
03 Jun 2024, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices n-tv / 91tv Germany will achieve its target of achieving a share of 80 percent renewable energy in its electricity use by 2030, according to chancellor Olaf Scholz. Speaking at ...
29 May 2024, 13:42 Julian Wettengel International 91tv Developed countries finally made good on their pledge to mobilise 100 billion U.S. dollars in climate finance for developing countries in 2022, two years later than promised, the ...
29 May 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility 91tv The share of cycling in short trips in Germany could triple by 2035, from 13 percent today to 45 percent, if consistent measures are taken to make cycling more attractive, a report by ...
27 May 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany is set to miss its 2030 energy efficiency target if it relies only on its existing policy measures, a report commissioned by industry energy efficiency ...
23 May 2024, 14:40 Jack McGovan Adaptation Cost & Prices Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung Representatives of Germany’s states of Germany will discuss the idea of introducing mandatory insurance for homes for natural hazards with chancellor Olaf Scholz on ...
16 May 2024, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal 91tv Technological measures to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere face significant economic and institutional hurdles in Germany said a research team led by the Helmholtz Centre for ...
16 May 2024, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Grid dpa Germany's electricity grid operators expect the expansion of the country’s distribution network to require around 110 billion euros of investments over the next ten years, the Federal Network Agency ...
10 May 2024, 15:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Society rbb / Die Welt Activists protesting against the expansion of the Tesla factory in Grünheide have tried to enter the factory's premises, leading to clashes with police and arrests made on the US ...
07 May 2024, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Company climate claims Society 91tv Commercials that promote climate-damaging products are in violation of Germany’s State Treaty for Media, the labour union-affiliated Otto-Brenner-Foundation said. The ...
06 May 2024, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Business & Jobs Süddeutsche Zeitung Two pioneering electric air taxi start-ups from Germany have criticised the government for not doing enough to provide the budding industry with a viable commercial ...
06 May 2024, 12:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Mild temperatures in the winter of 2023/2024 have brought down heating demand in Germany to its lowest level since 2011, price comparison website Check24 has found. ...
03 May 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society 91tv Approval rates for the construction of new wind turbines in the vicinity of people's homes in Germany can rise significantly if local electricity prices would drop as a result, ...
30 Apr 2024, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv Regional train travel has increased by 28 percent since the introduction of the Germany-wide monthly public transport ticket one year ago, according to national railway service DB. ...
30 Apr 2024, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Handelsblatt An alliance of industry associations, trade unions and farmers has called on Germany's government to halt planned underground electricity grid expansion projects and instead build three ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Utilities dpa / n-tv Germany’s local utility association VKU has called for public support to finance the decommissioning of the country’s natural gas grid and avoid high fees for customers, news agency dpa ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Hydrogen 91tv Eastern Germany’s largest lignite mine operator, LEAG, is ready to build one of Germany's first hydrogen-ready gas power plants. The company said the gas turbine power plant ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:30 Sören Amelang Renewables Solar 91tv A package of measures to boost the use of solar energy in Germany by removing red tape, approved by parliament on Friday (26 April), will significantly accelerate the rollout of the ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:57 Germany will continue to aim to provide 6 billion euros annually in funds to developing countries for climate mitigation and adaptation by 2025, foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said. The government would do so despite a recent ...
30 Apr 2024, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU 91tv Please note: This article has been updated to clarify that support for the target so far has been voiced only by the foreign ministry, while the government cabinet has yet to agree ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv This year's Petersberg Climate Dialogue will create space for ministers from about 40 countries to have "difficult discussions" on international climate ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 91tv Representatives of Germany’s renewable power industry have criticised the government’s planned legislation package for expanding the capacity of solar, wind and other renewable energy ...
22 Apr 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has praised the role of Norway in Germany’s energy supply, lauding the country as a reliable partner both during the energy crisis and ...
18 Apr 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv A shortfall of skilled labour is threatening Germany’s transition to a sustainable industry, engineers’ association group VDI director Adrian Willig has warned. The number of ...
18 Apr 2024, 12:58 Julian Wettengel Wind 91tv Permits for new onshore wind power installations in Germany reached a record high of 2.6 gigawatt (GW) in the first three months of 2024, said industry group Fachagentur Windenergie an Land (FA ...
17 Apr 2024, 12:48 Jennifer Collins Fossil fuels Gas 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany covered just 6 percent of its natural gas and 2 percent of oil demand with domestic supplies in 2023 as production continues to sink, according to an ...
11 Apr 2024, 13:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / 91tv Electricity prices in Germany are unlikely to go down in the near future, despite repeated claims that a complete switch to renewable power is going to make ...
10 Apr 2024, 13:48 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Hydrogen 91tv Industry association vbw has ...
09 Apr 2024, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel / 91tv The first major city in Germany, Augsburg, has announced plans for ending the use of natural gas in its heating system and informed customers ...
09 Apr 2024, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International 91tv Representatives of the Nama people in Namibia are preparing an appeal to the German government to consider its colonial past in its plans to make the southern African country a ...
10 Apr 2024, 12:10 Europe is set to face a climate backlash caused by the divide between urban and rural views, with populists increasingly capitalising on rural resistance against policies seen as elitist, argues Daphne Halikiopoulou, Chair of ...
08 Apr 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Renewables Germany’s ministries for the economy, the environment and construction have released a draft for translating the EU’s renewable energy directive (RED) into German law to speed up the roll-out of ...
05 Apr 2024, 11:50 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs 91tv The number of companies in Germany which say they offer goods and services that contribute to climate protection has reached 30 percent, according to results of survey by the state-owned ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:27 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Some 70 percent of respondents from several European countries see the energy transition as everyone's responsibility and believe all citizens should be actively involved, ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:28 Edgar Meza Government Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s Climate and Transformation Fund (CTF), a multi-year federal budget set up to finance climate and energy transition policy measures, again fell significantly short of spending ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:26 Edgar Meza Electricity Solar 91tv Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has simplified the registration of plug-in balcony solar photovoltaic (PV) units or 'balcony power plants' as of 1 April. "People ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Carbon market 91tv The European Union should set up a carbon central bank as part of a proper regulatory structure to effectively remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere to help reach ...
02 Apr 2024, 10:30 “Reuse and recycle” is a catchphrase most people associate with plastic bags or bottles. But our homes, schools and offices are also made with materials that are far too valuable and carbon-intensive for single use: They shouldn’t ...
28 Mar 2024, 13:51 Edgar Meza Gas Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv German gas consumers will be hit by higher gas prices in April after a temporary value added tax (VAT) reduction expires at the end of March, Tagesspiegel ...
27 Mar 2024, 11:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs 91tv The German economy is emerging from its downswing slower than expected and will likely only achieve minimum growth of 0.1 percent in 2024, a joint analysis by five leading research ...
27 Mar 2024, 11:44 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv German municipalities fail to adequately deal with the question of retiring no-longer-needed local gas grids due to the energy transition, because they face high financial and regulatory hurdles, ...
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26 Mar 2024, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The growing volumes of cheap green technologies coming out of China are leading to worries that solar panels, electric cars, batteries and other products sold below their production price ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Above average rainfall since October 2023 has increased hydropower production in Germany in early 2024 to levels not seen since 2018, said the energy industry association BDEW. Hydroelectric ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:41 Julian Wettengel EU 91tv / Euractiv German environment minister Steffi Lemke (Green Party) has slammed the EU member state governments' failure to consent to the bloc's Nature Restoration Law at today's (25 ...
20 Mar 2024, 13:43 Sören Amelang Edgar Meza Gas Grid 91tv The German government has kickstarted the planning for a gradual decommissioning of the country’s gas distribution network in order to organise a smooth transition to climate-neutral ...
20 Mar 2024, 13:41 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs 91tv One in two German utilities are finding it difficult to attract new employees, and four out of five companies in the sector expect the problem to worsen in the near future and slow ...
20 Mar 2024, 10:10 Julian Wettengel EUElections2024 International EU 91tv / Table.Media / Reuters The German government has said it will give its consent to the EU nature restoration law in an upcoming member state meeting which is set to ...
19 Mar 2024, 13:58 The global growth of renewable power sources is an encouraging trend for climate action but needs to be better coordinated to ensure international targets are met, according to Germany’s economy and foreign affairs ministers. ...
18 Mar 2024, 12:59 Sören Amelang Carbon removal Industry 91tv Germany will have to build a 4,800-kilometre CO2 pipeline network at a cost of around 14 billion euros in order to decarbonise its cement, lime, and waste incineration industries, ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology 91tv The German education and research ministry (BMBF), through a new support programme for nuclear fusion research, aims to lay the groundwork for building the country’s first ...
13 Mar 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Wind dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The planned offshore wind power expansion could affect up to one quarter of Germany’s exclusive economic zone in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, said the ...
12 Mar 2024, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government Die Zeit / n-tv A public debate between Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck and Saxony’s state premier Michael Kretschmer in Berlin has showcased many of the problems the country is currently ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Carbon removal EU 91tv An agreement by the majority of EU member states on a draft for an EU wide standardised and voluntary certification framework for CO2 removal and carbon farming marks an important step ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:06 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
11 Mar 2024, 12:52 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Corrected: The renewable share in energy consumption in 2022 was 20.8 percent and ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:42 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A planned hydrogen "core" network in Germany has come under criticism for being larger than necessary and therefore becoming too expensive, reports Handelsblatt. ...
06 Mar 2024, 10:00 UEFA is reining in the climate impact of the Euro 2024 football tournament by funding subsidised rail travel for fans, and initiatives to make Germany’s amateur football scene greener. But critics argue that for long-term sustainability ...
04 Mar 2024, 13:33 Jennifer Collins Gas Heating 91tv People in Germany needed to use much less energy to heat their homes between September 2023 and February 2024 due to an exceptionally warm autumn and winter, and also benefited from a ...
04 Mar 2024, 13:19 Jennifer Collins Gas dpa Germany has no plans to downgrade from the "alert level" of its gas emergency plan, saying the supply situation remains "tense" two years after the Russian invasion of Ukraine upended ...
01 Mar 2024, 13:01 Sören Amelang Mobility Freight dpa The evaluation of a pilot scheme to test catenary trucks in Germany says that the technology works to lower transport emissions, but critics warn the trial should be scrapped because a large-scale ...
28 Feb 2024, 12:24 Jennifer Collins Agriculture EU 91tv The newly passed EU law to restore nature has been met critically by the farming industry. The lobby group German Farmers’ Association (DBV) criticised it for being a "backward ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:42 The German government’s target of sourcing 80 percent of the country’s electricity from renewable sources by 2030 is very much achievable for Germany if current positive trends persist, economy minister Robert Habeck has said at a ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:20 Franca Quecke Digitalisation 91tv Digitalisation can induce almost one quarter (24 percent) of the emission reduction that Germany needs to reach its 2030 greenhouse gas target, according to the country’s digital industry ...
26 Feb 2024, 15:55 The German government has proposed plans to make carbon capture and storage (CCS) possible to help the country reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045. State support would focus on capturing and storing or using carbon from industrial ...
23 Feb 2024, 13:40 Franca Quecke Company climate claims EU 91tv Following a dialogue with the European Commission and national consumer protection authorities, Berlin-based fashion retailer Zalando has committed to removing "misleading ...
22 Feb 2024, 14:13 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices ...
22 Feb 2024, 14:09 Ruby Russel Wind Business & Jobs 91tv / Die Welt New wind farms greatly benefit the local economy and municipal budgets, says a case study by industry consultancy Deutsche WindGuard. Building and operating several wind ...
22 Feb 2024, 13:52 Franca Quecke Gas Heating 91tv Berlin-based heating system installer Thermondo has stopped selling gas heating systems, shifting its focus entirely to more climate-friendly technologies, such as heat pumps and PV modules, ...
21 Feb 2024, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs 91tv / Euractiv The EU’s efforts to bolster its own production capacities for green technologies must be strengthened to make the bloc ready for increased global competition on ...
21 Feb 2024, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs rbb Residents of the Grünheide municipality near Berlin have rejected the planned expansion of the local Tesla factory in a non-binding referendum, public broadcaster rbb reported. Asked about ...
20 Feb 2024, 14:08 Jack McGovan Wind Society 91tv More than three-quarters of the German population (81%) think the use and expansion of onshore wind energy is important or very important, according to a new analysis published today by the ...
20 Feb 2024, 14:04 Jack McGovan Industry EUElections2024 EU Handelsblatt / 91tv More than 70 companies from across Europe have come together to demand an industrial deal from the European Commission and member states under fear of falling ...
20 Feb 2024, 13:46 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sales of new heating systems reached record level in Germany in 2023, with ...
20 Feb 2024, 13:44 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy ...
20 Feb 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Over the course of the planned coal phase-out in Germany there will be a net increase in available jobs in eastern mining region Lusatia that employers might struggle ...
19 Feb 2024, 09:49 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv / Handelsblatt The European Commission has approved a subsidy scheme by the German government worth 4 billion euros to help reduce emissions from industry production. Support would be given ...
15 Feb 2024, 13:30 Ruby Russel Transport Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Projects to build green hydrogen electrolysers at refineries are being cancelled because oil companies lack guarantees that the investments will be profitable, even though the ...
14 Feb 2024, 14:00 Ruby Russel Industry Business & Jobs 91tv A survey by consulting firm EY has found that only one in five companies considers Germany a compelling place to decarbonise production – with excessive bureaucracy the biggest ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU 91tv An alliance of civil society groups has called on the German government to better anticipate possible carbon price jumps at the time of the introduction of the EU ...
06 Feb 2024, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv Many data centre operators, local authorities and energy suppliers are putting projects to use waste heat from data centres on hold as they struggle to find suitable customers, a survey by the ...
06 Feb 2024, 09:42 Germany is set to hold auctions to support the construction of new gas-fired power plants in the short term, which would then be converted to run on hydrogen in the mid-to-late 2030s, the ruling coalition said. The plants are considered ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:20 Franca Quecke Julian Wettengel Carbon removal 91tv / Handelsblatt Eleven environmental associations and citizens' initiatives have joined forces to come out against controversial technologies to capture and store CO₂ ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:12 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business ...
29 Jan 2024, 14:40 Franca Quecke Adaptation Cities 91tv / idw The increase in extreme weather events is taking a toll on Germany’s urban green areas, a large-scale report by researchers from the Technical University Berlin has revealed. For ...
26 Jan 2024, 13:31 Energy and climate cooperation, as well as countering migration, will be among the top priorities of Italy's G7 presidency this year. Led by prime minister Giorgia Meloni, the country's right-wing government will bring its ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:13 Italy has just taken over the rotating presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) large democratic economies, but its positions on climate policy often remain ambiguous, says Luca Bergamaschi, co-founder of the think tank Ecco Climate. He ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government 91tv A large majority of 71 percent of voters in Germany say that the government must make sure that climate targets are met, but people lack trust in the abilities of major ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry EU 91tv Greening Europe’s industrial base, ensuring resilient clean-tech value chains and setting up a new EU climate fund should be among the priorities of the next European ...
22 Jan 2024, 14:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Technology Handelsblatt / Reuters German chemical company BASF's sale of Wintershall Dea assets to UK producer Harbour Energy could be a risk for the country's security, because it ...
18 Jan 2024, 13:21 Sören Amelang Business Society 91tv Much of today’s business reporting still ignores the dramatic impact the climate crisis has on companies, making it vulnerable to greenwashing and lagging behind institutional investors, ...
15 Jan 2024, 13:27 Sören Amelang Company climate claims Society 91tv A citizens’ assembly on improving nutrition in Germany has called for a mandatory government food label that includes information on the product’s climate impact, as well ...
12 Jan 2024, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Czechia and eastern German state Saxony have agreed to deepen their cooperation on a joint network for hydrogen and to generally intensify research and industry exchange in the budding ...
12 Jan 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Security 91tv Pressure is mounting to better protect the coasts of Germany and other North Sea countries against threats such as storm tides. Rising sea levels and increased rainfall and floods ...
11 Jan 2024, 13:53 Jennifer Collins Policy Society Table.Media A new German think tank is set to focus on the impacts of climate change and climate policy on society, according to Table.Media. Founded by Brigitte Knopf, a member of Germany’s Council of ...
10 Jan 2024, 15:18 Franca Quecke Industry EU Handelsblatt Germany provided more state aid for companies during the energy crisis than all of the other 26 member states of the European Union combined, reports business daily Handelsblatt. The data comes ...
05 Jan 2024, 11:43 Julian Wettengel Agriculture Cost & Prices Society Government 91tv / Spiegel / Table.Media Following a noisy backlash from farmers, the German government coalition has decided to backtrack on planned cuts to climate ...
04 Jan 2024, 12:51 Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions fell around ten percent last year to the lowest level since around 1950, as a weak economy and high prices caused energy-intensive industry to lower production and electricity generation from coal ...
02 Jan 2024, 13:05 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 91tv 2023 marked Germany's hottest year since records began in 1881, according to preliminary analyses by meteorological service DWD. The year's average temperature reached 10.6 ...
22 Dec 2023, 15:00 The German government has to fund a wide range of its ambitious climate and energy transition projects for 2024 with considerably less money than initially planned. A ruling by the country's highest court on the constitutionally ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:09 Sören Amelang Carbon market Cost & Prices Society 91tv A broad alliance of environmental organisations and NGOs has launched an online campaign calling on the German government to pass on revenue from its national ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:00 Voters in the EU will head to the polls in June 2024 to elect the next European Parliament, kicking off a months-long process to pick the bloc’s new leadership that will shape climate policy until the end of the decade. It will face the ...
20 Dec 2023, 12:53 Ruby Russel Renewables EU 91tv German industry associations have welcomed a decision by EU energy ministers to extend temporary measures to reduce dependence on Russian gas and protect EU energy consumers from price spikes ...
20 Dec 2023, 12:51 Ruby Russel Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv A sluggish economy saw primary energy consumption in Germany fall to a historic low in 2023, according to preliminary figures from energy data service AG ...
20 Dec 2023, 12:49 Julian Wettengel Transport Policy Government 91tv / Table.Media The German government aims to raise the levy on passenger flights as part of a comprehensive budget package for 2024 and the following years to fill the ...
20 Dec 2023, 10:40 Money that Germany has earmarked for climate action should be spent on projects that have a direct impact on key sectors, says Claudia Kemfert from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). The economist warns against cross ...
21 Dec 2023, 10:12 Preparing a fast expansion of renewable power will be a key challenge for governments across Europe in 2024, says Sarah Jilibert-Schabram of the Franco-German Office for the Energy Transition (DFBEW). France and Germany both have stated ...
20 Dec 2023, 09:05 Europe has no time to lose in formulating its renewed emissions reduction ambitions after the results of next June’s European Parliament elections become known, says Simone Peter from the German Renewable Energy Federation. A “Fit-for ...
15 Dec 2023, 11:31 Industry and grid investments must be at the heart of the follow-up to the landmark European Green Deal policy package after the 2024 EU elections, says Bas Eickhout, member of the European Parliament. The results of the vote will shape ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:32 Ruby Russel Cost & Prices Society 91tv More than half of Germans say they are “very” or “extremely” concerned about climate change, but there is also widespread concern over the costs of the energy transition, with 55 ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:24 Sören Amelang Industry Hydrogen 91tv Converting hydrogen to ammonia will be "the dominant transport technology" in order to ship the fuel to Germany, according to a report commissioned by the World Energy Council ...
13 Dec 2023, 13:22 Sören Amelang Cars dpa The average price of newly registered electric cars, excluding optional extras and subsidies, rose by more than 4,000 euros to 52,700 euros in Germany this year, slowing the transition to climate-friendly mobility ...
12 Dec 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs Der Tagesspiegel Coal mining states in eastern Germany have called for clarity regarding the release of 1.75 billion euros in support funds from the federal government for the transition away ...
11 Dec 2023, 12:20 Italy aims to become an important player once again at the table of international climate negotiations, the country’s recently appointed special envoy for climate Francesco Corvaro said. The university professor and engineer said that ...
08 Dec 2023, 13:30 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der ...
08 Dec 2023, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Technology Der Spiegel An alliance of companies plans to build Germany’s first industrial-scale production facility for synthetic e-fuels which could allow for the climate neutral operation of combustion engine ...
07 Dec 2023, 13:07 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:36 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Coal Renewables 91tv Germany generated 47.3 percent less electricity from coal-fired power plants in the third quarter of 2023 ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:27 Milou Dirkx Society EU 91tv Action against climate change ranks among the topics people in Germany want the European Parliament to prioritise, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey. Climate action and EU defence are ...
05 Dec 2023, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv Brazil and Germany have agreed to intensify cooperation on a wide range of environmental and economic issues. The two countries vowed to work more closely on topics ...
04 Dec 2023, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Leading members of Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) have called for a reversal of the country’s nuclear phase ...
01 Dec 2023, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 91tv To efficiently advance the energy transition and alleviate energy poverty, Germany's government should provide close to 17 billion euros over the next two years in targeted ...
30 Nov 2023, 15:00 [CORRECTION: Earlier version of the article misstated the number of members in the climate club. The club's website says 36 countries are members.] On the first day of the UN climate change conference COP28 in Dubai, Germany and ...
28 Nov 2023, 14:04 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International 91tv Nearly two-thirds (62%) of respondents from Germany place the cost of living in the top three concerns for their country, compared with 55 percent who said the same about the ...
24 Nov 2023, 13:37 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv Germany’s network of charging points for electric cars is growing rapidly, according to utility association BDEW. “As of 1 October, 113,112 public charging points with a total of 5.2 gigawatts (GW) ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:57 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Government Der Spiegel The plans to comprehensively modernise and expand Germany’s national railway company Deutsche Bahn could take ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government ARD / Stern Leading members of Germany’s government coalition parties have questioned the sensibleness of the country’s limit on new government borrowing, the so-called ‘debt brake’, after ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Coal Gas Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung Germany’s ...
20 Nov 2023, 16:30 Germany will invest 4 billion euros in sustainable energy projects in Africa until 2030 to help improve the continet’s role in renewable power, green hydrogen and critical raw material extraction, chancellor Olaf Scholz announced at the ...
20 Nov 2023, 14:48 Sören Amelang Hydrogen NDR One of Europe’s first plants to produce green hydrogen on a large scale in northern Germany has been scrapped due to high construction costs, reports public broadcaster NDR. The investors – a consortium that ...
21 Nov 2023, 08:43 The debates over the fallout of last week’s shock constitutional court ruling on Germany’s state budget borrowing rules are in full swing, as the government faces difficult decisions on how to fill a 60-billion-euro gap in its special ...
16 Nov 2023, 13:52 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv The expansion of green hydrogen production efforts Germany is slowing down, says a report commissioned by utility E.ON. “The hydrogen generation capacity planned by 2030 has risen from 8.1 ...
15 Nov 2023, 11:45 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Finance 91tv Climate protection investments by German companies rose by 18 percent in real terms in 2022 to 72 billion euros, said KfW, a government-owned development ...
15 Nov 2023, 11:44 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv The German government is supporting the construction of a 9,700-kilometre-long pipeline network to transport hydrogen across the country and to its neighbours, the economy ministry said in ...
13 Nov 2023, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Comprehensive measures in all sectors must be implemented in the 2020s to ensure Germany has a chance to reach climate neutrality by 2045, said researchers from Forschungszentrum ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:30 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Heating 91tv One in every ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:20 Leading German economists have urged more innovation and investments to put the country that is still grappling with the fallout of the energy crisis and inflation back on a growth track. The German Council of Economic Experts forecasts ...
10 Nov 2023, 10:15 Germany’s ruling coalition has reached a deal on how to support industry struggling with high electricity prices in the coming five years. The package of measures, worth 12 billion euros in 2024 alone, includes lowering the electricity ...
06 Nov 2023, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Finance Handelsblatt Raising private capital to fund the fast expansion of Germany’s solar power capacity could face difficulties due to regulatory challenges in taxation law, fund manager association BVI said in ...
06 Nov 2023, 13:51 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Bloomberg The CEO of Germany’s largest power company RWE insists the country can still achieve an earlier ...
03 Nov 2023, 13:49 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Storage 91tv / dpa Just over half of Europe's single family homes could technically be fully energy self-sufficient with a combination of solar energy and storage systems, according to a report ...
02 Nov 2023, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency 91tv Primary energy consumption is likely to hit a record low this year as Germany’s economy remains weak, according to a forecast by energy data service AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). Energy ...
01 Nov 2023, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Cost & Prices Policy 91tv The German government has greenlit a subsidy worth 5.5 billion euros to go towards grid fees in 2024 in a bid to cushion the impact of rising electricity prices on ...
01 Nov 2023, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger / 91tv Germany's finance minister Christian Lindner has rejected a coal phase out by 2030 if the country lacks affordable energy, newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported. ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Freight 91tv Catenary trucks powered by overhead lines represent an option for clean freight transport, yet setting up the required infrastructure on German motorways would be "technically possible, but very ...
30 Oct 2023, 13:55 Carolina Kyllmann Finance 91tv Additional political efforts are needed to close the public "financing gap" for measures needed to meet Germany's 2030 climate targets, according to a Green Budget Germany (FÖS) ...
30 Oct 2023, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv About a fifth (22%) of people in Germany know their personal "carbon footprint", with younger people more likely to engage with the topic than older ones, shows an ...
26 Oct 2023, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Digitalisation 91tv Blockchain, one of the world's largest electricity consumers, could significantly reduce its power needs through conscious network design, according to a report by the German ...
25 Oct 2023, 12:53 Julian Wettengel Agriculture Renewables 91tv Land used for agriculture has been declining in Germany over the past decades – a trend that is set to continue in the coming years – and the country must put more focus on the ...
24 Oct 2023, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Renewables EU Spiegel / 91tv German government coalition member and pro-business party FDP (Free Democratic Party) has criticised a proposal agreed by EU member state governments last week to make so-called ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv / Table.Media Several formerly leading politicians from Germany's Die Linke (The Left) party have split off with the aim to found a new political party in the coming ...
20 Oct 2023, 13:25 The German government has been urged to quickly devise a plan on how to regulate and manage the start of the European Union carbon emissions trading system for transport and heating fuels in 2027. Measures need to be put in place to ...
20 Oct 2023, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling 91tv The German government wants to strengthen the role of recycled raw materials in the country's industry in a bid to increase supply security of metals and industrial ...
18 Oct 2023, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Household consumers in Germany could be hit by rising electricity costs next year as distribution network operators increase their grid fees, energy software company ...
17 Oct 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Cities 91tv Relevant stakeholders at a parliamentary hearing on 16 October called for more financial resources and less bureaucracy for the decarbonisation of Germany's heating grids. The ...
16 Oct 2023, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Society 91tv The amount of meat being eaten in Germany per year is dropping and people think more about what impact their dietary choices have on the environment and climate, according to the ...
13 Oct 2023, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities Heating 91tv The largest river-based heat pump in Germany has started operations in the southern city of Mannheim. It will use water from the Rhine River to heat some 3,500 households, the local ...
12 Oct 2023, 12:11 Jack McGovan Renewables Wind dpa / Stuttgarter Zeitung Germany has added 50 percent more new wind power capacity in the first nine months of 2023 than in the same time period last year, reports news agency dpa in an article published by ...
12 Oct 2023, 11:49 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung Rising temperatures in Europe could have a negative impact on one of the world's most important regions for growing hops, a key ingredient in beer ...
11 Oct 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Construction 91tv Germany must set a good example worldwide when it comes to construction with timber, agriculture minister Cem Özdemir said during the " Charter for Wood 2 ...
11 Oct 2023, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Company climate claims 91tv About one in four companies classified as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany has compiled its own sustainability report in recent years, technical ...
09 Oct 2023, 14:22 Sören Amelang Gas Heating 91tv Few households in Germany turned down their heating last year to save energy, despite warnings of a supply crisis and sharply rising prices, according to an analysis by non-profit ...
09 Oct 2023, 13:49 The parties of Germany’s government coalition suffered heavy losses in two state elections in economically strong Hesse and Bavaria in western and southern Germany, while populist parties including the far-right AfD celebrated ...
06 Oct 2023, 12:18 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices 91tv The majority of over 200 economists surveyed by the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) reject German economy minister Robert Habeck’s proposal to subsidise electricity for ...
05 Oct 2023, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices 91tv German households face much lower costs at the start of the 2023 heating period than a year earlier, said price comparison website Verivox. Prices for natural gas have fallen by ...
04 Oct 2023, 13:23 Sören Amelang Carbon removal Technology 91tv German researchers said they have reached an important milestone in the development of a scalable and energy-efficient direct air capture (DAC) technology to remove CO2 from the ...
02 Oct 2023, 13:33 Sören Amelang Adaptation 91tv Around 3,100 people have died in the first nine months of 2023 in Germany due to high temperatures, according to preliminary calculations by Germany’s health authority Robert Koch Institute. ...
29 Sep 2023, 13:53 Sören Amelang International 91tv Public climate financing from Germany for poorer countries reached a new record level last year, already surpassing the 6-billion euro target set for 2025, the government has said. A total ...
04 Oct 2023, 10:11 Against the backdrop of a faltering economy and heated national debates about climate policies, two of Germany's key economic regions, Bavaria and Hesse, head to the polls in the first week of October. A change of government is not ...
28 Sep 2023, 14:17 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The Paris Climate Agreement’s goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv Improving circular economy principles for the use of steel, cement and plastics could help Germany’s energy-intensive industries reduce their greenhouse gas ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:12 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s famed “Mittelstand” sector of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) has coped well with turbulent prices on the energy markets caused by the Ukraine war, ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:09 Sören Amelang Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s economy minister and vice chancellor Robert Habeck has questioned the country’s commitment to a largely balanced budget, given the massive financial requirements for ...
26 Sep 2023, 12:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Heating costs in Germany increased by up to 81 percent during the winter of 2022, an analysis conducted by non-profit consultancy co2online has found. At a time when the ...
25 Sep 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv Propelled by a rapid transformation in the heating sector, Germany’s demand for natural gas looks set to plummet by one third by 2030 and by another third in the following decade, consultancy ...
