13 May 2025, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has called for a wider reform of the system of fees that finance the country鈥檚 electricity grid and is considering an option where ...
22 May 2025, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Ensuring that flexible electricity use is accounted for in Germany's grid fee reform could allow for lower electricity bills, a group of energy providers and mobility ...
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 ...
05 Dec 2024, 13:11 S枚ren Amelang Grid 91tv Germany will have to invest around 650 billion euros into the expansion of its electricity grids by 2045, according to a聽 report 聽by the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) of the Hans B枚ckler ...
01 Apr 2025, 17:38 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv Planned investments to expand and modernise the EU's electricity grids by 2050 fall short of the necessary amounts of money required to support the bloc's move to climate neutrality, ...
13 May 2025, 13:37 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Renewables Government 91tv The new German government鈥檚 energy policy framework is 鈥減romising鈥� despite few concrete quantitative targets in the coalition agreement, a report from Deutsche Bank ...
14 Oct 2024, 14:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Resources & Recycling 91tv The expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity grid in line with the growing share of renewable energy sources will require the build-up of greater national production ...
22 Oct 2024, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv / Focus Online A key high-voltage power line set to transport electricity from Germany's windy north to the industrial south has begun construction. Grid operator TenneT has laid the first ...
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 ...
16 May 2024, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Grid dpa Germany's electricity grid operators expect the expansion of the country鈥檚 distribution network to require around 110 billion euros of investments over the next ten years, the Federal Network Agency ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The completion time of the high voltage power line Nordostlink in northern Germany is set to be completed around one year faster thanks to government efforts to ...
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 ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices 91tv The volume and costs of measures required to manage the stability of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grid decreased in 2024, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. These so-called re ...
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 ...
27 Nov 2024, 13:00 Julian Wettengel Solar 91tv Germany will grow its solar PV capacity by an annual record of around 17.5 gigawatts (GW) by the end of 2024, said energy industry association BDEW. This would bring total installed capacity in ...
26 Jul 2024, 13:37 Joey Grostern Grid 91tv / Der Spiegel A key operator of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity grid, TenneT, has hit several important milestones in its goal to expand the grid and help the country meet its decarbonisation plans, according ...
24 Jun 2024, 14:00 Edgar Meza Grid Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 conservative opposition party alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) are looking to save some 35 billion ...
29 Apr 2025, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) predicts the country will need lower reserve power plant capacity, and projects a reduced demand for grid management measures in winter ...
07 Apr 2025, 13:13 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Solar 91tv Following a rapid rise in household solar panel installations, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 total number of PV arrays has passed the five million 鈥渕ilestone,鈥� according to industry association BSW-Solar. ...
09 Feb 2024, 13:07 Franca Quecke Grid 91tv The planned high-voltage power line SuedWestLink, which is intended to transport renewable energy from the windy north of the country to industrial centres in the south, will have a direct branch to ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv The German network agency BNetzA has approved the route for the first section the key electricity transmission power line SuedOstLink, which is set to transport offshore wind power from the ...
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 Dec 2024, 12:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Lower demand for electricity could substantially reduce 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 bill for expanding the power grid to accommodate its growing fleet of renewable power installations, business daily ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:11 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The past year was 鈥渁 record year鈥� for ...
06 May 2024, 12:49 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Der Spiegel The expansion of power transmission lines ...
14 Jan 2025, 13:06 Edgar Meza Renewables Policy Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung Grid operators and energy industry representatives in Germany are calling on political leaders to approve immediate measures to better control small solar installations following the ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid 91tv / MDR The government of central German state Thuringia has criticised neighbouring state Bavaria and the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) for opaque planning of one of the country鈥檚 important ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:42 Jennifer Collins Grid 91tv / Wirtschaftswoche / taz / Reuters Berlin has ditched plans to buy the German business of Dutch electricity grid operator TenneT after tough negotiations, citing stretched public finances. Opinion ...
01 Dec 2023, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv Germany's grid agency has proposed to reduce electricity grid fees in areas with a high share of renewables, in a bid to distribute the costs of rolling out wind and solar energy more fairly ...
29 May 2024, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Rheinische Post Germany's economy minister Robert Habeck remains committed to plans for the state to take over the German business of Dutch electricity grid operator TenneT despite months-long failed ...
14 Aug 2024, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Grid Renewables 91tv The increasing use of new rooftop installations is quickening the expansion of solar PV in Germany, meaning the technology鈥檚 efficient integration into the energy system becomes ...
24 Apr 2024, 12:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid 91tv / Handelsblatt Difficulties with connecting new customers to the grid in the eastern German town of Oranienburg near Berlin have highlighted the challenges associated with the required expansion ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:47 Julian Wettengel Grid Tagesspiegel Background Europe has to better coordinate its electricity grid buildout, and other countries should learn from Germany's mistakes, said Michael Jesberger, member of the executive board at grid ...
31 Jul 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar Handelsblatt / 91tv The fast pace of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 solar PV expansion is causing concerns among energy companies about the buildout鈥檚 effect on the grid, business daily Handelsblatt聽 writes. 鈥淚f ...
28 Jul 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Grid ARD / 91tv Germany should cut the time it takes to approve planned transmission and distribution grid expansions by half, economy minister Robert Habeck said in a report by public broadcaster ARD. 鈥淲e ...
04 Mar 2024, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has confirmed plans by electricity grid operators to build five additional large-scale power transmission lines across several regions to support the ...
27 Jun 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Hydrogen 91tv Achieving 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition and climate targets still requires a lot of political efforts to keep supply secure and affordable, the government-appointed expert commission ...
29 Aug 2024, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Cost & Prices dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Industry groups in southern Germany have banded together to reject a possible split of the country鈥檚 uniform power pricing zone, arguing that this would damage ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:57 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables Cost & Prices Die Welt / dpa / ARD The head of Europe鈥檚 largest energy network operator E.ON has suggested that Germany could ...
03 Jun 2024, 13:16 Edgar Meza Grid Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / 91tv The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said that using overhead powerlines for Germany's necessary grid expansion up to 2045 could save as much as 35 billion euros ...
12 Dec 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid 91tv With several years of delay, construction of a key piece of grid infrastructure in Germany has started in the southern state of Bavaria. The SuedOstLink connection built by grid operator TenneT ...
12 Mar 2025, 13:25 Edgar Meza Grid Cost & Prices 91tv The expansion of European electricity grid infrastructure and measures to increase demand flexibility could lead to a significant reduction in power prices, according to a report by ...
30 Aug 2024, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Grid fees in areas with a high share of renewables in Germany will be reduced from the start of 2025, the country's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) said. According to the ...
29 Jan 2024, 13:44 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind 91tv Grid congestion due to a lack of new onshore power line connections has let the output of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind turbine fleet ...
14 Mar 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Handelsblatt / 91tv Dutch electricity transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT will require investments of 111 billion euros over the next decade to expand and modernise its grid infrastructure in ...
02 May 2022, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Grid Security Germany has raised its power plant backup reserve to ensure a stable winter electricity supply due to grid extensions not keeping pace with the country's renewables rollout. "The delays in grid ...
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 ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Grid Renewables 91tv Dividing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 single power price zone into several individual regions could reduce final electricity prices for consumers across the country,聽 said a report by ...
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 鈥渇ind a new agreement on the ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:18 Edgar Meza Grid Storage Handelsblatt Sales of large-scale battery storage units are booming in Germany but their role in facilitating and advancing the energy transition appears to have been impeded by their increasing use for profit, ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Storage Handelsblatt The surging interest of potential operators of large-scale battery storage units that seek connections to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid could聽put聽network operators in a difficult situation, reported ...
22 Jan 2024, 14:04 Julian Wettengel Grid Solar Cars 91tv / WirtschaftsWoche German retailers say that significant delays in connecting new electric vehicle (EV) charging points and solar PV installations to the local electricity grid are ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv German grid operator Amprion can start construction of a key power line seven months sooner than planned thanks to new regulations to speed up permitting procedures, said the economy ministry in a ...
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 ...
15 Jan 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Grid Renewables Der Spiegel / Golem 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 railway operator will test whether the power lines on its tracks can relieve the wider electricity grid, which is straining to cope with the rapid growth in renewable energy ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Grid Spiegel / 91tv As electricity needs in all economic sectors increase with efforts to make them more climate-friendly, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid operators see an increased need for major new power ...
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 ...
30 Jun 2023, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv New regional projections for future electricity consumption and production show that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity distribution grid operators will face massive challenges in the coming years of the ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv More people in Germany say they want the government to invest CO2 price revenues in renewable energy sources and to lower grid fees, than compensating citizens through an ...
26 Apr 2023, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Renewables 91tv By mapping the areas in Germany where renewable power is likely to be distributed in the future, energy researchers hope to help transmission system operators (TSOs) plan a forward ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Grid Utilities 91tv Germany should restart its transition away from fossil fuel-based energy with a larger focus on cost-efficiency, said local utility association VKU. Among the proposals for the country鈥檚 ...
17 Mar 2025, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv The German energy transition requires a 鈥渞estart鈥� as the country is on the verge of establishing a climate neutral energy system and renewables already account for about ...
04 Oct 2021, 12:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Grid Der Spiegel Bureaucratic hurdles and citizens鈥� initiatives ...
17 Jul 2024, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Wind 91tv Germany will likely miss its target for offshore wind power expansion by 2030, wind energy consultancy Deutsche WindGuard said in a status report commissioned by the main industry associations. ...
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 ...
24 Oct 2023, 13:35 Jack McGovan Grid Wind Tagesspiegel Background Onshore grid bottlenecks in northwest Germany have led to a quarter of offshore wind power generation being curtailed in the first three months of 2023, reports Tagesspiegel Background ...
14 Aug 2023, 13:02 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Neue ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:43 Jack McGovan Heating Elections & Politics 91tv The new German government after the election on 23 February should implement an ambitious heating package that promotes the expansion of climate-neutral heat supply, said ...
18 Oct 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Grid Industry Hydrogen Technology Policy Handelsblatt Doubts over Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe鈥檚 (TKSE) strategy to decarbonise using hydrogen puts 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plans for the construction of a hydrogen core grid at risk, gas grid ...
21 Oct 2024, 13:37 Jennifer Collins Grid Cost & Prices 91tv German electricity consumers in areas with lots of wind and solar power could see lower grid fees from next year, according to newly published pricings aimed at more evenly ...
05 Mar 2025, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The German offshore wind power industry has proposed a range of measures for the country鈥檚 next government that could set off 鈥渁 Germany-wide economic miracle at sea鈥� by boosting the output of ...
18 Jan 2022, 12:39 Kerstine Appunn Jessica Bateman Grid 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has published the transmission grid operators鈥� draft scenario framework for network development for the years ...
01 Jul 2022, 13:08 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv Transmission grid operator Amprion has announced that it will cut CO2 emissions in its operations by a minimum of 63 percent by 2032. ...
25 Oct 2023, 12:51 Julian Wettengel Wind EU 91tv German energy industry players have welcomed a European Union package of proposals to strengthen the bloc鈥檚 wind power industry. The main goal of the measures in the package should be to ...
21 Jul 2023, 13:45 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Handelsblatt The slow development of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
27 Jun 2022, 13:57 Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal parliament (Bundestag) has passed a first batch of energy legislation, designed to accelerate the expansion of the power grid and protect consumers from rising energy prices when ...
09 Apr 2024, 13:53 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables Der Spiegel A lack of grid capacity has led ...
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' ...
14 Apr 2023, 13:35 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid 91tv The expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity transmission grid is starting to make progress after the government introduced steps to ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:53 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid dpa / Handelsblatt Expansion of the German power grid is ...
27 Mar 2025, 12:57 Germany's prospective next government is stepping back from its predecessor's ambition to speed up the country鈥檚 coal exit to 2030, sticking instead to the original 2038 deadline. Leaked negotiation documents reveal that many ...
13 Nov 2024, 13:39 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Elections & Politics ...
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 ...
27 Apr 2021, 13:48 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator ...
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 ...
14 May 2025, 13:25 Jack McGovan Mobility Cost & Prices Policy 91tv A social leasing scheme could make it possible for low-income households in Germany to switch to an electric car without having to bear the upfront costs of buying a ...
20 Sep 2018, 18:33 Energy minister Peter Altmaier has announced new plans to accelerate the expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grid, which is behind schedule but vital to the growth of renewable power production. The majority of new connections could be ...
16 May 2019, 14:02 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables 91tv A new law that is aimed at ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:16 Bennet Ribbeck Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv Progress of German energy transition continues to be mostly stagnating, 聽a report by research centre Prognos carried out on behalf of the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) said ...
23 May 2024, 13:59 Carolina Kyllmann Grid EU 91tv Investments in Europe's distribution grids need to double to 67 billion euros per year by 2050, a report commissioned by electricity industry association Eurelectric found. Failing to ...
09 Jun 2022, 13:35 Jessica Bateman Grid Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Reuters The German government is considering taking a minority stake in the Baden-W眉rttemberg transmission grid operator TransnetBW via state-owned development bank KfW, according to ...
26 May 2025, 12:04 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plans for the ramp-up of a green hydrogen economy has run into significant uncertainties, including over the fuel鈥檚 future price, regulation, and the necessary infrastructure development, said an energy industry report. ...
29 Jul 2020, 13:47 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Grid dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany is making modest progess in installing ...
23 Oct 2019, 13:32 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Federal Network Agency for ...
20 Jan 2023, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv Transforming 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system to achieve climate neutrality is key to securing industry competitiveness in the southern state Bavaria, but delays in expanding the national power grid is are ...
29 Jan 2020, 14:09 Freja Eriksen Grid 91tv Corrects position of Felix Matthes, who is research coordinator at the Institute for Applied Ecology, not the institute's head. Power grid expansion is set to become the German energy transition ...
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 ...
15 May 2023, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Six German state leaders have spoken out against splitting the country鈥檚 power price zone because of geographically uneven wind power capacities. Northern states had called for ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Business & Jobs Bloomberg The German government is considering merging the country's four transmission system operators (TSOs) into a single 鈥淕erman Grid Corporation,鈥� news agency Bloomberg聽 reported. The ...
15 Apr 2024, 12:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Der Spiegel / 91tv The German parliament (Bundestag) has given the green light for the construction of a 9,700-kilometre pipeline network to transport hydrogen across the country and to its ...
28 Nov 2023, 13:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv Grid operators in Germany will be ...
26 Mar 2021, 13:48 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Wind 91tv Germany is likely to reach its target of having a total offshore wind electricity capacity of 30 gigawatt (GW) in 2031, one year later than planned, said several industry groups in a joint press ...
15 Jul 2021, 17:19 Updates with original proposal for reducing equity interest rates for investments in the electricity and gas grids by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:45 Jennifer Collins Mobility Tagesspiegel Background Germany is set to open the way for bidirectional charging of electric vehicles, which聽enables car owners to both withdraw power from the grid and to supply it back when the car is idle, ...
11 Apr 2025, 13:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 prospective coalition government has agreed to continue the country鈥檚 landmark energy transition without major adjustments, and stick to existing climate targets. In their coalition treaty,聽conservatives and Social Democrats ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Cost & Prices 91tv / dpa A drop in energy prices has led to an overall reduction in production prices in Germany over the past twelve months, the country鈥檚 statistical office Destatis has聽 ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Grid Frankfurter Rundschau The southern German states of Hesse and Bavaria are passing the buck to each other on who should provide its territory for completing much-needed grid expansion plans, ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables dpa / Welt Online Several German states and the federal government have reached an agreement on key aspects of the country鈥檚 much-needed transmission grid expansion, news agency dpa reports in an ...
29 Aug 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The short-term wind power expansion targets in Germany are unlikely to be met, given that project implementation of licensed wind farms is taking longer than expected, according to an ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:00 S枚ren Amelang Grid Renewables Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal states have decided on a joint approach in climate policy, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. State premiers agreed to push ahead with the ...
17 Dec 2021, 12:27 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Vattenfall Germany ...
27 Mar 2023, 14:06 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv An additional investment of over 128 billion euros compared to earlier plans is needed to make 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity grid fit for a climate neutral future, according to a first ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:25 Bennet Ribbeck Industry Elections & Politics 91tv German industry association BDI has called on the next government to focus on lowering energy prices at both the national and European level. In its recommendations for ...
29 Feb 2024, 13:51 Jennifer Collins Grid Solar Handelsblatt Germany's energy industry has urged for a standardisation of renewables' grid connections in order to speed up the process. Industry association BDEW said that grid operators had " ...
05 Aug 2019, 13:09 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Wind Frankfurter Rundschau Sluggish power grid expansion ...
13 Dec 2022, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables taz Around four percent of the renewable electricity generated in Germany could not be used in the first half of 2022 because the grids lacked the capacity to transmit power, newspaper Die Tageszeitung ...
28 Apr 2025, 13:38 European transmission system operators (TSOs) have recommended that Germany split its single electricity price zone into up to five bidding zones. This should maximise economic efficiency across the whole market area, ensuring security ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:18 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv The conversion and expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grid is going 鈥渘owhere as fast as necessary for the transformation,鈥� the new economy ...
11 Sep 2024, 12:56 Julian Wettengel Wind Handelsblatt Offshore wind parks located far away from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coast would be more profitable if they produce green hydrogen to send to the mainland by pipeline as well as having a direct electricity connection, ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Wind EU 91tv Europe installed a total 16.4 gigawatt (GW) of new wind power capacity in 2024, down from 18.4 GW achieved in the previous year, according to data by industry association WindEurope. " ...
14 Aug 2018, 14:31 Technical fixes, better communication and smoother planning procedures are to accelerate 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid expansion, the energy minister has proposed in a new plan. Heading off on a visit to contested power line building sites in western ...
07 Jan 2025, 14:01 Jennifer Collins Heating dpa / 91tv More than a third of Germany's municipalities are working on municipal heat planning to help phase out fossil fuel systems, with 13 percent already finished with their plans, reports ...
08 Apr 2025, 13:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables 91tv Germany needs more clarity on the future role of fossil gas in its energy system to allow industry to make the right investment choices, said the International Energy Agency (IEA) in a ...
30 Oct 2020, 10:18 91tv 91tv Grid 91tv Some 110 billion euros will need to be invested in expanding and updating 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity network by 2050 in order to meet the demands of the energy transition, according to a study ...
27 May 2019, 13:46 Rose-Anne Clermont Grid Renewables n-tv Federal economy minister Peter Altmaier of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) met with the heads of departments of all 16 German federal states in Hanover on 24 May to discuss how to better ...
04 Oct 2018, 14:48 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 shift from fossil fuelled and nuclear power will only succeed if the infrastructure is there to support a very different kind of energy system. But the country鈥檚 grid is just not up to the job of making proper use of all the ...
07 Aug 2019, 13:58 Freja Eriksen Grid 91tv A fourth high-voltage, direct-current line going from northern to southern Germany is required to enable the country鈥檚 planned transition to renewable energy, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has ...
01 Oct 2024, 13:09 S枚ren Amelang Wind Hydrogen 91tv Building 鈥渆nergy islands鈥� 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 ...
16 Apr 2025, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Wind Handelsblatt The sweeping tariffs introduced by US president Donald Trump could lead to higher electricity prices around the world, said Hendrik Andersen, CEO of Danish wind turbine manufacturer ...
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鈥檚 storage capacity by 50 percent year-on-year, according to preliminary data ...
26 Jun 2023, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Grid Spiegel / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is set to substantially increase the number of permits to build planned electricity transmission lines needed for the shift to a climate-neutral ...
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 鈥� winner of February鈥檚 snap election 鈥� ...
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24 Apr 2025, 13:14 91tv Team Reuters: German economy to flatline in 2025 as tariff turmoil hits, government says The German government cut its economic growth forecast and now sees stagnation in 2025 instead of a 0.3% expansion as uncertainty from global ...
29 Jun 2020, 13:07 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:25 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator ...
14 Dec 2020, 11:13 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid expansion is making headway 鈥� despite the Covid19 pandemic 鈥� but the power market is in need of a thorough overhaul if the country is to pursue its ambitious electrification targets while keeping up high levels of supply ...
22 Dec 2023, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Coal Grid Die Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy regulator BNetzA has said that several coal power plants should remain as a reserve until the end of March 2031 to ensure grid stability in times of need, reports Die Welt. The plants ...
04 May 2020, 13:49 Freja Eriksen Grid 91tv Germany made important progress in expanding the power grid in 2019, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) says in its聽 annual report. Of 7,700 kilometres of planned grid expansion, 1,300 km have been ...
02 Apr 2019, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind Handelsblatt The regions singled out by the government to slow wind power expansion because of lacking grid capacities do not match the areas where a curtailment is needed most, according to grid operators, ...
27 Feb 2023, 13:55 Expert bne- Association of Energy Market Innovators Bundesverband Neue Energiewirtschaft Electricity market Grid Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer ...
25 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Grid Rheinische Post German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has called for faster progress on updating the country鈥檚 energy grids as this was essential to a coal-free energy system. In an interview with the ...
12 May 2025, 13:44 S枚ren 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 ...
17 Apr 2024, 12:50 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / Handelsblatt Germany's government wants to boost the expansion of hydrogen projects by giving them "overriding public interest" status, which would streamline planning ...
05 May 2020, 13:50 Freja Eriksen Grid 91tv Germany has slightly raised its winter power capacity reserve, designed to keep the grid stable in critical situations, to 6,600 megawatts (MW) in 2020-2021 from around 5,100 MW in 2019-2020, the ...
The planning procedures for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission power grid expansion, including the two large direct-current power lines between the North and South of the country (SuedLink and SuedOstLink), have seen 鈥渄istinct progress鈥� in 2017, the Federal Network ...
15 Mar 2021, 13:36 Charlotte Nijhuis Grid 91tv / Handelsblatt Dutch grid operator TenneT wants to invest up to six billion euros annually in grid expansion in Germany and the Netherlands in the next three to five years, the company writes in ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ruling conservative CDU party says its coalition partner Social Democrats (SPD) have to acknowledge that the expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable energy capacity will be more difficult than initially thought, Focus Online reports. So far, the SPD ...
The aim of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 emerging coalition government to speed up the expansion of renewable energy sources could render the current scenarios for expanding the country鈥檚 power grid obsolete, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The ...
21 Oct 2024, 14:18 Jennifer Collins Solar 91tv Solar energy expansion in major German cities is picking up speed, according to a report by renewable electricity provider LichtBlick, which looks at growth in installed roof-mounted solar ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has released its 2030 grid development scenarios, including a 鈥渟ubstantially altered鈥� scenario based on a 65 percent share of renewables in the power mix, and on the additional auctions for wind and solar power promised ...
23 Jul 2024, 13:13 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Heating 91tv The planned expansion of district heating in Germany will require 43.5 billion euros in investment by 2030 to help the country reach its climate targets, said a report by analysis ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:44 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Energiewende Government WirtschaftsWoche / BMWi The Green Party鈥檚 energy minister in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Franz Untersteller, has lamented a 鈥渟tandstill of federal energy policy鈥� ahead of a meeting ...
27 May 2020, 13:32 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid 91tv Costs of stabilising the German power ...
28 Oct 2021, 14:34 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Grid 91tv Germany's existing power grid could handle much more electricity ...
25 Feb 2019, 13:51 Rachel Waldholz Grid EurActiv The German government aims to rapidly expand the power grid to keep up with the planned transition to renewable energy, but farmers say new infrastructure could damage valuable crop land, Florence Schulz ...
Power transmission grid operators Amprion, TenneT and Transnet-BW are planning to increase grid fees by between 9 and 45 percent, Andreas Mihm聽writes聽for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Grid expansion and measures to stabilise the grid 鈥� such as re ...
20 Jan 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Wind 91tv A new area development plan for the expansion of offshore wind energy is a key step in helping Germany come closer to its target of installing at least 30 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, the economy and ...
10 Aug 2021, 12:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency ...
09 Aug 2019, 13:54 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Grid Renewables Wind Costs for maintaining a ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:27 Freja Eriksen Grid 91tv The first grid development plan (NEP) based on Germany's target of 65 percent renewables in gross power consumption and planned coal exit has been approved by the German Federal Network Agency ...
10 Jul 2024, 14:01 S枚ren Amelang Grid Cost & Prices Policy 91tv Leading energy economists have called for splitting Germany into different electricity price zones to reflect regional differences in power availability, and to stop ...
25 Aug 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Wind 91tv / dpa Electricity transmission system operator (TSO) Amprion announced plans to build power lines to bring electricity from wind turbines in the North Sea to consumers in power-hungry ...
12 Dec 2018, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Grid Renewables Augsburger Allgemeine 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity consumers paid 228 million euros in the first three months of 2018 in compensation to renewable energy operators because their power ...
The costs for power grid stabilising measures rose to a record 1.4 billion euros in 2017 (880 million euros in 2016), says the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in its report on grid and system security measures. This was due to lagging grid expansion, a ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:44 Edgar Meza Industry Policy EU 91tv Expectations among industrial players and environmental NGOs are high for the EU鈥檚 highly anticipated Clean Industrial Deal, a follow-up to the European Green Deal that aims to build on ...
16 Nov 2022, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Handelsblatt German chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) plans to streamline planning and approval procedures for faster construction of wind turbines, rail projects and even houses, newspaper Handelsblatt聽 reports. The ...
The Free Voters, new coalition partners in Bavaria, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 southern economic powerhouse state, reject important grid expansion plans that are meant to improve the distribution of electricity from renewable power sources across the country, Claudia ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:15 The next German government must achieve what the previous few have not: increasing digitalisation, says Robert Busch, managing director of the Association of Energy Market Innovators (bne). Electricity system flexibility can only be ...
07 Apr 2022, 11:20 Germany wants to fight the climate crisis and its heavy dependence on fossil fuel imports by speeding up the rollout of renewables with a massive overhaul of key energy legislation. In the 鈥渂iggest energy policy reform in decades,鈥� the ...
German energy minister Peter Altmaier is 鈥済oing all out鈥� with his new 鈥淧ower Grid Action Plan鈥� to make the country鈥檚 grid fit for the growing volume of renewable energy sources 鈥� and rightfully so, because grid expansion has become the decisive bottleneck ...
08 Aug 2022, 12:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv The southern German state of Bavaria continues to lead the field in solar power expansion in the country, increasing its capacity by more than 1 gigawatt (GW) in the first half of 2022 alone. ...
23 Dec 2022, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv After two years of negotiations, landowners in four German states have reached agreements with electricity grid operators over compensation for land affected by the construction of underground ...
21 May 2024, 14:05 Jack McGovan Renewables Government 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background A law reform agreed by lawmakers from Germany's government coalition would speed up approval processes around the planning and construction of new ...
German transmission grid operators say fears about an overstraining of the grid due to an increased use of e-cars and heat pumps are unfounded, Dow Jones Newswires Germany reports. Utility associations in southern Germany recently warned that the nuclear ...
05 Feb 2019, 14:23 Germany's four transmission grid operators have published their proposal for the 2030 electricity grid, including some 1,600 kilometres of new power lines and updating another 2,900 km. This comes with a price tag of 52 billion ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:08 Franca Quecke Renewables Solar Wind dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The southern German state of Bavaria continues to lead the field in renewable energy expansion, news agency dpa reports in an article published in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung ...
01 Feb 2022, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Jessica Bateman Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Wind pv magazine / Die Welt The total ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 91tv Representatives of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable power industry have criticised the government鈥檚 planned legislation package for expanding the capacity of solar, wind and other renewable energy ...
20 May 2020, 13:38 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid International 91tv The German government is preparing to buy a stake in Dutch transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT as part of a ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid expansion is only slowly progressing, according to a report by the federal economy ministry. About half of the 22 most crucial high voltage grid projects 鈥� determined by the German Power Grid Expansion Act 鈥� are approved, but only 650 of ...
German households will have to pay 30 euros more per year for electricity as grid operator TenneT plans to raise its grid fees by 80 percent in the new year, writes Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. 鈥淭he main reason for this increase is that the grid ...
23 Aug 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv / Rheinische Post Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called the sluggish rollout of wind power in the south of the country "depressing" and warned that the three southern states 鈥� Hesse, Baden ...
16 Aug 2022, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Bild-Zeitung Leading Green Party politicians in Bavaria have said that a limited extension of the southern German state鈥檚 remaining nuclear plant would be an option if the federal government鈥檚 current ...
The winter power capacity reserve, designed to keep the grid stable in critical situations, will be reduced by one third for 2018/2019 compared to previous winters, the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) announced. The capacity of power plants in ...
27 Feb 2015, 00:00 Amidst political tussle over new power lines crossing Germany from north to south, which many see as one of the next big steps in the country's energy transition, the grid agency in charge has called the power highways in question ...
08 Apr 2024, 13:37 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Expert TransnetBW Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar Die Welt / Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
27 Sep 2022, 13:27 Expert ZEW- Centre for European Economic Research Zentrum f眉r Europ盲ische Wirtschaftsforschung Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The politically sensitive idea of splitting Germany into ...
16 Apr 2019, 14:22 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
11 May 2020, 13:46 Freja Eriksen Electricity market Grid Tagesspiegel Background Germany's single power price zone could come under threat as the coronavirus has practically slowed power grid expansion to a standstill, reports Steven Hanke in the ...
20 Jan 2022, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Grid Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), in charge of regulating the power grid and overseeing the country鈥檚 grid expansion planning, will reportedly get the prominent head of the Federal Consumer ...
A power grid stress test by network operator TenneT shows that the need for grid expansion could be significantly lower after 2030. According to the study, increased use of combined PV and storage in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 south, together with less wind power ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables 91tv Germany has initiated one of its single most important energy transition projects with the start of construction of the SuedLink power transmission line. Construction of key sections ...
07 Jun 2023, 11:48 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has decided to improve investment conditions for new electricity grid infrastructure by raising the equity interest rates for new ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:23 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Electricity Renewables 91tv ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:02 S枚ren Amelang Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal government, several of its states and grid operators have agreed on how to implement the country鈥檚 more ambitious targets for the expansion of offshore wind turbines. With the ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:31 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Freja Eriksen Grid Spiegel Online / dpa Five ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) wants to 鈥渕ake a pact with the states鈥� and present a law to accelerate the building of new power lines, he told Funke Mediengruppe ahead of today鈥檚 Grid Summit with the states鈥� energy ministers in Berlin. ...
31 Jan 2023, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Grid Die Welt German grid regulator BNetzA is facing a backlash ...
Fast decisions on climate targets, renewable growth and fossil fuel phase-out are required to plan the future German grid system, a study by the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) within a project funded by the Ministry for Education and ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Residents in eastern German states are generally critical of the federal government鈥檚 energy and climate policies, while at the same time endorsing measures to reduce ...
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 ...
A study by the 脰ko-Institut for the Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI) and Germanwatch聽says Germany has little chance of generating electricity close enough to consumers to make planned grid expansion unnecessary. In a meta-study comparing the conclusions ...
The vice-chairman of the CDU's parliamentary group, Michael Fuchs, says wind power expansion in northern Germany "urgently"聺 needed to be stopped due to mounting costs linked with Germany's lagging grid expansion, Andreas Mihm writes ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:44 Edgar Meza Grid 91tv Germany experienced its first increase in power supply cuts since 2017 last year, largely due to a single accident at a transformer station and floods, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) reported. The ...
02 May 2024, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Renewable energy capacity has increased rapidly in Germany in the past year, but the expansion must be accelerated further for the country to meet its target of sourcing ...
01 Sep 2022, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Germany has to speed up the development of its infrastructure for hydrogen use, as the country faces several energy-related crises at once, 聽gas transmission grid operators said during the ...
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 ...
30 Aug 2019, 14:12 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany's ...
The national alignment of expansion costs for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power transmission grid- a core energy policy demand of eastern German states- could fall prey to dispute between the ruling social democratic (SPD) and conservative (CDU/CSU) parliamentary groups, ...
The German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has launched the first joint tender for onshore wind and solar power. The auctioned capacity is 200 megawatts (MW), the agency says in a press release. 鈥淭he technologies directly compete for the lowest cost in ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:42 The German government鈥檚 target of sourcing 80 percent of the country鈥檚 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 ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv Ahead of the German snap election, an alliance of industry associations has called on political parties to push for a government strategy to decarbonise heat that businesses use in their ...
09 Jan 2024, 13:37 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Renewables Wind 91tv From January to September 2023, wind turbines fed almost 89.9 million megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity into ...
22 Mar 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Grid Energate The higher renewable targets of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government will require a faster expansion of the power grid, Tim Meyerj眉rgens, COO of transmission grid operator TenneT, has told Energate. Connecting the ...
20 Oct 2020, 12:34 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Wind Handelsblatt German electricity transmission grid operator 50Hertz wants to see a more aggressive expansion of wind power in the Baltic Sea than currently ...
10 May 2024, 15:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Society rbb / Die Welt Activists protesting against the expansion of the Tesla factory in Gr眉nheide have tried to enter the factory's premises, leading to clashes with police and arrests made on the US ...
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. ...
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, ...
30 May 2025, 15:00 Italy is facing a delay in the phase-out of coal, as the future of a major coal-fired power plant near Rome remains unclear, despite plans for its closure by the end of the year. The uncertainty is partly fuelled by industry concerns ...
The Social Democratic Party (SPD), the junior partner in Germany's coalition government, has criticised Economy and Energy Minister Peter Altmaier, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), for failing to take action on ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:29 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Renewables 91tv Renewable power sources covered around 57 percent of Germany's gross ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:47 Jack McGovan Solar Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most recent push to boost the rollout of solar photovoltaics (PV) in the country, which is set to be agreed upon in parliament on Friday (26 April), could result in ...
Robert Habeck, state Energiewende minister of Schleswig-Holstein, claims the federal government plans to limit wind power development in northern Germany due to lagging grid expansion by establishing 鈥�grid congestion zones鈥�, while nuclear and coal-fired ...
Wind power development in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 windy northern states will be limited to cope with lagging grid expansion, according to a regulation draft by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), seen by S眉ddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). Mecklenburg Western-Pomerania, ...
13 Aug 2024, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Wind Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The results of Germany's latest offshore wind power auction indicate that revenues are on a sharp decline, reported energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy ministry is drafting a law to accelerate the development of the country鈥檚 electricity network, Michael Bauchm眉ller reports in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The draft, seen by the paper, will include streamlining the planning procedure, ...
The German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) says the ruling by a German court blocking a significant decrease in grid operators' guaranteed returns will boost necessary infrastructure investments. 鈥淭he聽 rate determined by the Federal ...
20 Aug 2021, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Grid Industry dpa / Reuters / Tagesspiegel SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz is aiming for a new law to ensure industry has enough renewable electricity to decarbonise over the coming decades, ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:54 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Grid Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The spread of heat pumps and electric vehicles could lead to local power cuts in parts of Germany where the grid is not yet prepared for an increase in ...
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 ...
26 Sep 2022, 12:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices Die Welt / 91tv / BR An alliance of northern German states has called for a sweeping reform of the country鈥檚 power market to allow those in the north to pay lower prices due to their ...
21 Jan 2020, 13:21 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Germany's four ...
The populism by the Christian Social Union in Bavaria has delayed the grid expansion by years and increased costs by billions of euros, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He says that the Bavarian government had ...
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 ...
04 May 2021, 12:10 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Cars Cost & Prices 91tv The expansion of electric mobility in Germany could lead to lower household electricity prices, said Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures ...
07 Apr 2025, 09:39 Croatia is making moves on renewable energy reform, including new rules for self-supply, storage, and energy communities, but long-standing challenges persist. Grid bottlenecks continue to slow solar expansion, and major energy ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:54 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 91tv The number of bids in the ...
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鈥檚 (IW) ...
29 Apr 2021, 12:00 Kerstine Appunn Grid Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power transmission grid operators聽(TSO)聽have said that the construction of key electricity lines will likely be delayed by several years,聽 reports Jakob Schlandt in Tagesspiegel ...
05 Jan 2024, 11:47 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 installed renewable power production capacity has increased by about 17 gigawatt in 2023 (to some 170 GW total), figures released by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) ...
10 Aug 2023, 13:11 S枚ren Amelang Wind Elections & Politics dpa A fifth of all mayors in Bavaria have called on the regional government to speed up the construction of wind turbines in the state,聽newswire dpa reported. In a cross-party appeal, 432 ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's economy ministry expects the country's GDP to rise 0.3 percent in 2025, according to its annual report. A report from autumn put growth at 1.1 percent, however, ...
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聽 an interview with ...
On a visit to communities affected by new grid development, German energy minister Peter Altmaier said the transition to an energy system based largely on renewables was a project for the whole community that couldn't be implemented by going over ...
23 Jul 2024, 13:17 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gas transmission system operators have submitted a joint application for a planned hydrogen core network to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). Due to be completed by 2032, the planned network would ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:42 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Gas Tagesspiegel Background U.S. gas turbine manufacturer GE Vernova has expressed doubts about the plans by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 prospective next government to connect 20 gigawatts of gas-fired power plants to the ...
12 Oct 2023, 11:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Resources & Recycling 91tv Making greater use of old electric vehicle (EV) batteries could greatly help reduce waste and stabilise the power grid in the shift towards renewable power, the ...
Even though new power transmission lines in Bavaria are going to be buried underground, environmental organisation Friends of the Earth (BUND) is still opposing the grid expansion in the southern state, dpa writes. There was no need for new large power ...
05 Jul 2024, 15:25 Following Croatia鈥檚 inconclusive elections in April, the country鈥檚 parliament finally approved the new coalition government on 16 May. The centre-right HDZ, which won the most seats, formed a coalition with the right-wing Homeland ...
24 Jun 2022, 13:25 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Kerstine Appunn Grid Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The German ...
28 Mar 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background, 91tv With the development of green hydrogen forming a key part of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, leading research institutions have thrown their support behind the idea of ...
20 May 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind 91tv For the first time, offshore wind energy in Germany is being used to stabilise the country's electricity system in case of grid fluctuations. The offshore wind farm Riffgrund 1, ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid WirtschaftsWoche / Economy & Energy Ministry German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said the government will raise the compensation payments for land owners who provide their property for the ...
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鈥檚 most populous member state and largest economy. Friedrich ...
If future power needs are around 600 terawatt-hours, Germany would need 97 gigawatt (GW) of onshore wind, 25-35 GW offshore wind and 102 GW solar PV capacity, Schleswig-Holstein鈥檚 energy transition minister and head of the federal Green Party Robert ...
Representatives of the electricity and gas grid industry in Germany are looking for solutions to run their businesses in an 鈥渁ll-electric world鈥� where the sectors of power generation, transport and heating are linked, a gathering at the Treffpunkt Netze ...
07 Jul 2022, 14:21 Germany's ruling parties have dropped the target of 鈥渘ear 100 percent renewables鈥� in the power grid by 2035 but agreed on more favourable conditions for solar PV and strict wind power expansion targets for laggard states in their ...
07 Sep 2020, 14:19 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency ...
06 May 2025, 17:15 In a bumpy start to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 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 Aug 2024, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Cost & Prices 91tv Germany is set to reform its electricity market design as it moves to decarbonise its power sector. In a paper outlining fields of action, the economy ministry ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:53 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv In addition to electrification and a massive ramp-up of renewables, a greater use of diverse technologies such as seasonal heat storage or feed additives that reduce methane emissions from ...
18 Dec 2015, 00:00 Second parliament chamber passes laws for combined heat and power support and new power cables / Progress in grid expansion and more money for efficient power stations will advance energy transition and national climate targets, says ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:53 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit盲t zu K枚ln Electricity market Business & ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:23 S枚ren Amelang Cars dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau / 91tv The expansion of Germany's charging network for electric vehicles is making fast progress. The network grew by 45,000 charging points to a total of nearly 146,000 ...
11 Oct 2024, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen FAZ German energy company Uniper has postponed its target to invest eight billion euros in growth and the green transformation by 2030 also due to a lack of demand for green hydrogen, CEO Michael Lewis told ...
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 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and foreign affairs ministers. ...
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14 Aug 2024, 10:30 Julian Wettengel The Guardian: Germany has issued arrest warrant for diver over Nord Stream explosions, says report Investigators said to believe Ukrainian man was one of team that planted explosives on pipelines in September 2022. ...
The German Free Democratic Party (FDP) wants to 鈥渆nd the sustained subsidies system of the [Renewable Energy Act] EEG鈥� with its priority grid access and feed-in tariffs for renewables, writes the party in its draft programme for the autumn federal ...
05 Dec 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Wind Freight Handelsblatt / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Association of Offshore Wind Energy (BWO) is calling for greater capacity for the country鈥檚 ports in order to expand turbine installations at sea. Offshore wind ...
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聽 in a report 聽by the Federal Highway Research ...
20 Apr 2023, 12:33 S枚ren Amelang Wind Hydrogen International Handelsblatt Nine European gas transmission grid operators have agreed to construct a pipeline network in the North Sea to transport hydrogen made in offshore wind farms, business daily ...
12 May 2025, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The massive nationwide blackout in Spain and Portugal on 28 April continues to raise questions across Europe regarding the incident鈥檚 origins and the conclusions that need ...
05 Mar 2025, 17:07 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 likely next government coalition parties have proposed an overhaul of state debt rules to make hundreds of billions of euros available for defence and infrastructure investments. The agreement, which faces a big hurdle in the ...
02 May 2023, 13:26 Jessica Bateman Grid Hydrogen NDR The German government and gas operators are putting together detailed plans for a nationwide hydrogen network, the country鈥檚 economy minister Robert Habeck has said. The Green politician said the final ...
12 Aug 2019, 12:25 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 ...
07 Jan 2019, 13:02 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Grid The German Green Party has called for an adjusted grid expansion plan in Germany that accounts for a drastically reduced coal power capacity as well as the foreseeable progress in ...
05 May 2022, 13:48 Edgar Meza Solar Wind 91tv Renewable energy sources accounted for 50 percent of electricity consumption in Germany in the first quarter of 2022 鈥� around nine percentage points more than in the same period last year, ...
07 Aug 2024, 13:34 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Electricity from large ground-mounted solar PV systems combined with batteries has become cheaper than that generated from fossil power sources in Germany, researchers from ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Coal dpa The final shutdown of seven lignite and eight smaller hard coal power plant units with a combined capacity of 4.4 gigawatts (GW) over the Easter holidays does not threaten Germany's energy supply security, ...
13 Jan 2022, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Industry dpa/ Die Welt / Handelsblatt / 91tv Industry companies are calling for an end to the southern German state of Bavaria鈥檚 particularly strict minimum distance wind power rules. Bavarian ...
22 Jul 2019, 13:47 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Freja Eriksen Grid Handelsblatt Dutch government-owned grid operator TenneT plans to tie its German subsidiary closer to its head office as part of a larger restructuring, ...
01 Feb 2019, 12:31 S枚ren Amelang Grid Tagesspiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid operators recommend building 1,600 kilometres of additional transmission lines and upgrading a further 2,900 kilometres in response to the country鈥檚 renewable roll-out and developments in ...
14 Jan 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind industry is placing great hope on the new government鈥檚 ambitious renewables expansion plans, after no turbines were added to German waters throughout the whole ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:55 Edgar Meza Julian Wettengel Bioenergy Renewables Wind 91tv Recent tenders for onshore wind, biomass and biomethane plants in Germany attracted fewer bidders than expected, leaving all three rounds clearly undersubscribed, ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2030 emissions targets can only be achieved if the country "substantially" changes track and carries out "enormous efforts" to electrify its ...
Saxony鈥檚 federal state parliament has voted for aligning grid fees across Germany, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. The parliament called on Saxony鈥檚 state government to work towards repealing 鈥渆xisting regional imbalances on ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar ZfK / Montel Cloudy weather conditions expected for the Easter weekend have alleviated fears by grid operators in Germany that a high supply of solar power during a period of low consumption could lead to ...
The European offshore wind industry is booming, but lagging grid expansion and a lack of major storage sites could hold back further rapid expansion of the sector, writes Christian Schw盲gerl for Yale Environment 360. The problem of too little progress in ...
Raising grid fees substantially- and the resulting rise in cost for electricity in Germany announced for the turn of the year 鈥� is not fully justified, Claudia Kemfert of the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin), told Frankfurter Rundschau. ...
20 Dec 2023, 09:05 Europe has no time to lose in formulating its renewed emissions reduction ambitions after the results of next June鈥檚 European Parliament elections become known, says Simone Peter from the German Renewable Energy Federation. A 鈥淔it-for ...
19 May 2021, 13:40 Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv Project planning for additional powerlines in Germany has been slowed down by the Covid-19 pandemic as many public consultations were postponed or held online, Jochen Homann, president of the ...
01 Nov 2024, 11:27 Julian Wettengel Utilities Correctiv / Wirtschaftswoche Many of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 large local utilities continue to bet on fossil gas for heating and stall the transition to more climate-friendly ways to heat homes, found business weekly ...
30 May 2024, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv Germany's cabinet has agreed to give hydrogen infrastructure planning and approval priority to drive the rapid development and expansion of its production, storage and supply. The draft ...
31 Mar 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Court of Auditors (BRH) has criticised the government for its 鈥渋nadequate鈥� management of the energy transition. In a new report, the BRH argues that the economy ministry ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:25 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Grid Renewables ...
11 Feb 2021, 13:29 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv In ...
22 Aug 2022, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out dpa / Zeit Online Extending the runtime of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three remaining nuclear power plants will do very little to help the country weather the looming gas supply crisis, economy and climate minister ...
31 May 2023, 13:24 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Bioenergy Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv ...
15 Nov 2022, 12:11 Edgar Meza Renewables 91tv Germany still needs a bigger push to speed up renewables expansion to avoid a prolonged cost crisis and ensure that the country reaches its targets, said the Renewable Energy Federation (BEE). ...
08 Nov 2022, 14:08 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv The southern German state of Bavaria is set to invest 500 million euros in renewable energy and hydrogen production projects, the state鈥檚 economy minister, Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters), ...
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聽 analysis 聽by price comparison website ...
29 Apr 2025, 13:37 Germany is unlikely to face the kind of massive power outage which hit Spain and Portugal on 28 April, as the country鈥檚 system is based on redundancies and many safeguard measures are in place, said grid agency BNetzA. The two countries ...
30 May 2024, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity International 91tv France and Germany will strengthen bilateral cooperation to unlock the potential of flexibility in the electricity system, government representatives agreed on the margins of ...
The German power grid will need more backup power plants to safeguard the system against blackouts during the next winter, the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) said in a press release. 鈥淲e still need backup capacities to stabilise the grid in critical ...
The federal economy ministry plans to introduce a common transmission grid fee across Germany, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Grid fees currently differ depending on the region and are higher where the development of renewables ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government 91tv / Die Zeit 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has formally adopted the country鈥檚 draft budget for 2025 and amended the 2024 budget, which had become a difficult task after a court ...
28 Sep 2021, 13:40 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess is calling for a faster increase in the CO2 price, an earlier coal phaseout and a greater expansion of renewables. The day after the September 26 ...
15 Apr 2019, 12:01 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Grid Agora Energiewende With the new offshore grid fee ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission system operators are moving ahead with plans to build electricity highways connecting the northern and southern parts of the country, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. Beginning in the middle of the next decade, four lines ...
06 Feb 2023, 13:26 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices Clean Energy ...
German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has rebuffed opponents of the planned SuedLink power transmission line by reportedly not joining a planned meeting in the economy ministry (BMWi), Heinz Wraneschitz writes in the pv magazine. Critics also ...
29 Jul 2020, 13:43 Grid Cars 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal government believes the country has sufficient power generation capacity to accommodate a major expansion in the number of electric cars, according to a parliamentary report. The government ...
06 Apr 2023, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Wind Business & Jobs dpa / 91tv Germany needs to increase its workforce in the windpower industry for the planned doubling of installed wind power capacity by 2030, industry association BWE聽 told news ...
Plans by the economy committee in the German Bundesrat to amend the current draft of incentive regulations concerning power grid expansion in Germany would cost the taxpayers an additional 3.5 billion euros until 2028, Achim Zerres, the head of energy ...
02 Oct 2024, 12:45 S枚ren Amelang Storage Technology 91tv The number of large-scale battery storage projects in Germany will increase rapidly over the next two years, the country鈥檚 solar industry association BSW said. Around seven gigawatt ...
07 Jan 2019, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Politics WirtschaftsWoche 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has disappointed many observers with 聽what they consider an 鈥渆rratic and sluggish鈥� administration of his department, ...
Germany will have to make a collective effort to expand the country鈥檚 power grid in the coming years, said Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 8th Energy Policy Dialogue by CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag. 鈥淚 predict that we will need to ...
02 Sep 2019, 13:13 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Renewables Wind S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany's "green fairy tale is in danger" as wind power expansion in the country has almost come to a "complete standstill,"聽 writes Michael ...
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26 Jul 2018, 16:22 Following last year鈥檚 strong growth, wind energy expansion in the first half of 2018 dropped substantially. Wind power groups are calling on the government to launch the special auctions for renewable energies that it agreed to hold in ...
Germany does not have a power supply security issue, but its grid stability may be at risk in the long run, Jochen Homann, president of the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) told Deutschlandfunk in an interview. The country currently has sufficient power ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society dpa / ZfK Optimism that Germany can achieve its national energy transition targets is moderately growing in Germany, a survey by consultancy EY has found. The share of respondents saying that the ...
The power distribution grid of German federal state Hesse is in part ready for the transition to over 90 percent renewables in power production and heating that Germany strives to attain by 2050, according to a study by the Fraunhofer research institute ...
Landowners should receive 鈥渂etter compensation鈥� if power transmission lines are built on their premises, the German Farmers' Association (DBV) said in a press release. They聽should be eligible for recurring compensation payments instead of receiving a ...
Grid congestion at the Austrian border that led to last week鈥檚 decision by the German government to prepare the split of the common power price zone was a 鈥渉omemade problem鈥�, writes Christian Geinitz in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ...
German power consumers might face a further rise of electricity costs caused by grid expansions required for e-mobility, according to a report by news agency dpa carried by the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Supplying e-car charging stations with electricity ...
Germany and Denmark have agreed to increase the minimum cross-border electricity trade, according to a press release by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). 鈥淭he agreement acknowledges that Germany is undergoing a fundamental ...
07 Dec 2020, 14:00 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Grid Handelsblatt German grid operator Amprion plans to invest around 24 billion euros in the electricity network over the next ten years, 9 billion more than previously planned,聽J眉rgen Flauger聽 ...
12 Apr 2022, 09:53 Russia鈥檚 attack on Ukraine has added a new dimension to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ambitious aims for ramping up the share of renewables in its energy system. Marking a 鈥� historic turning point,鈥� the fast elimination of fossil fuel imports for Germany ...
30 Jan 2023, 15:52 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv / Table.Media / taz [CLARIFICATION: It is not just Agora Energiewende which says LNG expansion plans are oversized. The grid operators in their draft plan state that if all planned LNG capacity is ...
The German power grid urgently needs to be expanded, as it was at times stretched to its limits during the past winter, said transmission grid operator Amprion in a press release. The reasons were unscheduled plant overhauls in France and historic lows in ...
The European Commission attests Germany 鈥渟erious deficits鈥� in certain areas of the energy transition, writes Gerwin Klinger for energate messenger. In the 2018 country report on Germany, the Commission says that Germany is on track to meet its Europe2020 ...
14 May 2019, 13:33 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Grid Renewables 91tv The cost of stabilising the ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:25 Expert German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation Stiftung Offshore-Windenergie Renewables Freja Eriksen Renewables Wind 91tv / dpa / Focus Online Germany's northern states and federal government want to nearly triple the ...
02 May 2017, 00:00 A German pilot project will hook up thousands of household batteries to balance out intermittent renewable power production. Grid operator Tennet and solar battery maker Sonnen said they will use blockchain technology to build a network ...
08 Apr 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices Deutsche Verkehrszeitung Germany has only spent about ten percent of the 1.8 billion euros earmarked for the expansion of electric mobility charging infrastructure in its Climate and ...
07 Dec 2021, 12:54 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Jessica Bateman Coal Grid 91tv The new German coalition government鈥檚 goal of a 2030 coal exit, eight years earlier than initially planned, will require a ...
Managing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grids is becoming increasingly expensive, Klaus Stratmann writes in Handelsblatt. There has been a 鈥渕assive increase鈥� in so-called 鈥渞e-dispatch鈥� measures, where power plants are started or shut down to keep the grid stable, ...
03 Feb 2023, 13:36 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 91tv Solar PV expansion in Germany jumped ...
23 Jun 2020, 13:48 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs ...
The costs for grid congestions management in German grid operator 50Hertz鈥檚 control area in north-eastern Germany were almost halved to 180 million euros in 2016, compared to 354 million euros in 2015, according to 50Hertz. 鈥淭his very clearly shows: grid ...
24 Nov 2021, 12:15 Jessica Bateman Nuclear phase-out 91tv The shutdown of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 last remaining nuclear power plants will not cause supply shortages, according to calculations by the department of energy, transport and environment at the ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang Coal Grid Nuclear phase-out Renewables Germany will not experience an electricity shortage as a result of an exit from coal and nuclear power generation if it rolls out renewables as planned, even if the country鈥檚 power ...
Transmission grid operators are protesting the lowering of their equity capital return, suggested by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. Hans-J眉rgen Brick, CCO at grid operator Amprion, told the paper that ...
Using power storages and other technologies to relieve the electricity grid can significantly lower the cost of the energy transition and avoid grid expansion, writes German Energy Agency (dena) in a new study. 鈥淲e need a bridge between the market and the ...
25 Feb 2021, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Grid Renewables 91tv Freezing gas infrastructure and subsequent supply outages happening in Texas during a recent winter storm are 鈥渆xtremely unlikely鈥� in Germany, gas grid operators said. 鈥淭he transmission ...
29 Aug 2022, 13:20 Hannah Naylor Wind ZDF Bavarian state premier Markus S枚der has announced plans to build 鈥渙ver 1,000 new wind turbines鈥� in Germany's largest state, which has been accused of putting the brakes on the expansion of windpower. Bavaria ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:10 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government coalition parties have locked horns over the envisaged 65 percent share of renewables in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gross power ...
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13 May 2025, 11:46 91tv Team Bloomberg: Southern Spain outages preceded nationwide blackout, report says About 2.2 gigawatts of capacity went offline in the south of Spain less than a minute before the complete collapse of the Iberian Peninsula鈥檚 ...
19 Aug 2022, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Government dpa / Der Spiegel Bavaria鈥檚 ruling conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party has accused the German grid agency (BNetzA) of actively discriminating certain regions of the country in the gas supply ...
06 Mar 2023, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Energiewende Security 91tv Germany will have to build new gas-fired power plants and introduce additional measures to avoid electricity supply shortages during peak demand periods as the ...
29 Nov 2024, 11:00 Military and energy security are key priorities for Poland as it prepares to assume the EU鈥檚 rotating presidency in January 2025. The country plans to achieve these targets by pushing for nuclear energy, sanctions on Russia, and EU ...
23 May 2023, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The buildout of onshore wind power in Germany can be doubled in 2023 with respect to the previous year and set the country on track towards its ambitious renewable power goals, economy ...
22 Jul 2022, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Rural districts in Northern Germany have the country鈥檚 largest potential for green hydrogen production due to their windpower capacities, according to a 鈥� Hydrogen Atlas ...
02 Mar 2023, 14:06 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new coalition agreement means a visible increase in ambition for expanding renewable energy sources, Hubertus Bardt and Benjamin Tischler write in a guest commentary for Handelsblatt. However, 鈥済oals like these are easily made but hard to ...
31 Mar 2023, 11:35 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gas pipeline network has to be adapted to a new reality over the coming decade, as gas consumption is expected to decline by at least 20 percent by 2032, with liquefied natural gas (LNG) ...
German transmission grid operators (TSO) have already had to use large amounts of this year鈥檚 "winter reserve", a pool of conventional backup power plants to prevent shortfalls in power supply, according to a joint press release from grid ...
07 Jan 2021, 13:56 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur f眉r Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende Society 91tv An overwhelming but slightly shrinking majority of people ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:44 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv The International Energy Agency鈥檚 (IEA) latest report on renewable ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has suggested lowering the equity interest rate for operators of power grids and gas networks as of 2018/19, it said on Wednesday. The lower rates mirror current low interest rates on financial markets, BNetzA president ...
The economy minister of the state of Hesse Tarek Al-Wazir called the federal economy ministry鈥檚 plan to declare parts of the state as grid congestion zones 鈥渓udicrous鈥� and 鈥減reposterous,鈥� writes the Rhein-Main-Zeitung. This would 鈥渧aporise the ...
Neither the addition of gas-fired power plants in southern Germany nor a sharp decrease in power production from lignite in eastern Germany would limit the need for new power grid infrastructure, a study by Prognos AG, RWTH Aachen, E-Bridge and FGH on ...
Reducing emissions across all sectors in Germany and gearing the energy system towards renewables and greater efficiency will be a 鈥渓ong-distance run that you can hardly practise for鈥�, Anton Berger writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in a ...
The average German household (consumption of 3,500 kilowatt hours/year) will have to pay 23 euros more (10 percent) in 2017 for grid fees with their electricity bill, according to an analysis by renewable energy provider LichtBlick. 鈥淭he grid fees for ...
Due to the slow progress made in modernising 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grid to cope with the large number of renewable energy installations, energy politician Jens Koeppen of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU party says the country should stop wind power ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:25 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Jack McGovan Grid Solar 91tv Necessary regulatory and technical precautions ...
Germany and Norway have started construction on NordLink, the first direct power line between the two countries that will allow the exchange of renewable energy from 2019 on, reports dpa. The 620 kilometre long, mostly underwater transmission line showed ...
The 800 km 鈥淪眉dlink鈥� cable from the North Sea to Baden-W眉rttemberg and the 500 km south-east connection between Saxony-Anhalt and Bavaria will both not be finished before 2025, Ulrich Milde writes in the Leipziger Volkszeitung. The grid operators have to ...
Financial support for pv installations in Germany has fallen slightly for plants starting operation in the second quarter of 2017, the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) said in a press release. Remuneration for small pv plants fell from 12.30 to 12.27 cents ...
New power lines are needed urgently to incorporate an increasing amount of renewable electricity in the power grid, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the 20-year anniversary of the Federal Network Agency. 鈥淚t鈥檚 obviously also a question of the ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Resources & Recycling 91tv To succeed in the energy transition, Germany will focus on warranting secure supply chains and reliable production capacities required for renewable ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv All six eastern German states have set up a joint initiative on renewables-based hydrogen. It is intended to closely connect politics, business and science on the fuel "in order to fully ...
15 Sep 2020, 14:25 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Kerstine Appunn Wind 91tv Over 2,000 megawatts (MW) of onshore wind installations ...
05 May 2017, 00:00 Nicknamed the 鈥渃radle of the Energiewende鈥� by its own government, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein, embodies some of the most pressing challenges and solutions to the country鈥檚 energy turnaround. With their decision in ...
Grid operators have to intervene ever more often to stabilise the grid due to the rapid expansion of wind power, writes Franz Hubik in business daily Handelsblatt. The blackout prevention cost 1 billion euros in 2015 and the grid agency warns that annual ...
05 Feb 2024, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU 91tv The European Union could achieve an ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target of 90 percent by 2040, compared to 1990, but the bloc must "consistently" implement the ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:15 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Grid Renewables Hydrogen Policy 91tv The separate planning procedures for electricity, gas, and hydrogen infrastructure must be combined to pave the way towards a low-carbon economy, ...
13 May 2025, 13:23 Jack McGovan Transport 91tv A number of environmental organisations, trade unions and others have called on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new transport minister, Patrick Schnieder, to commit to sustainable local and regional transport in his ...
12 Feb 2025, 13:55 Jack McGovan Renewables Wind 91tv Germany has started a multi-year campaign to measure wind speeds around 280 kilometres off the German Noth Sea coast to prepare the expansion of wind farms in the area. The government is ...
Politicians in the Eastern German state of Thuringia have called on the federal government to align power prices across the country, Th眉ringer Allgemeine reports. Federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel鈥檚 backtracking on plans to standardise electricity ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:30 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
Bavaria's government wants to keep the nuclear plant Isar 2 running as long as possible, arguing that lagging grid development could leave the state short of power without it, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The maximum amount of ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:32 As聽Germany strives for a renewable-driven power sector, regulators should enable a more flexible electricity demand, says Nicolas Leicht, energy market expert at Aurora Energy Research. Incentives such as locational price signals, as ...
30 Mar 2020, 13:56 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Rachel Waldholz Solar 91tv / pv magazine The number of sites that both operate ...
23 Oct 2019, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Tagesspiegel Background The German Federal Agency for ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Freight Hydrogen 91tv Trains could play a key role in ensuring a comprehensive transport network for distributing imported green hydrogen across Germany, a report by research institute Fraunhofer ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:01 Expert Vattenfall Energy company Electricity market Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Grid 91tv The Moorburg coal plant in Hamburg will be taken offline completely in July 2021, after Germany's four grid operators ...
05 Apr 2019, 12:40 New legislation passed yesterday by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal parliament is to ensure the timely completion of crucial power grid connections that transport renewable electricity throughout the country. This law will bring the energy transition ...
28 Apr 2025, 10:45 Insufficient grid connections mean that Central Europe and Northern Europe cannot benefit from cheap, competitive solar power from the Iberian Peninsula, says Joan Groizard, Spain鈥檚 secretary of state for energy. Better interconnection ...
27 Apr 2018
The German energy transition demands not only the expansion, but also the聽 optimal use of the power grid, says the council of Germany's federal state governments (Bundesrat). Possible measures include power line monitoring, or the use of high ...
11 Aug 2020, 11:40 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator ...
31 Aug 2020, 13:42 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
27 Jul 2021, 16:55 After several years of expansion doldrums, onshore wind power development in Germany has slowly picked up in the first half of 2021, but remains insufficient for renewables expansion and climate targets, the country's wind power ...
04 Sep 2019, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The expansion of renewable electricity facilities, such as wind and solar PV parks, is the crucial challenge currently facing Germany's energy transition (Energiewende), ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:06 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
25 Apr 2025, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 91tv Setting up multiple local pricing zones instead of having one big market area could help bring electricity prices down in Germany and increase supply security, according to a report ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) will lower the equity interest rates for operators of power grids and gas networks from 9.05 to 6.91 percent for new, and from 7.14 to 5.12 percent for old facilities. The lower rates- to be applied in 2018 for gas and ...
01 Sep 2021, 13:34 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Grid Renewables 91tv Citing the ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 91tv The majority of Germans (74%) are prepared to make changes to their lifestyle to prevent global warming, a survey among 1,000 consumers commissioned by heating technology company ...
07 Dec 2023, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas dpa / Zeit Online The German government must quickly present a strategy for the building of new gas-fired power plants to avoid missing the 2030 end date for coal-fired power production in western state North ...
The dispute between 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid operators highlights the 鈥減artly absurd distortions鈥� the expansion of renewable energies has brought about, writes J眉rgen Flauger in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. 鈥淭he primary goal to quickly increase ...
24 Sep 2019, 14:01 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, ...
The digital transaction technology blockchain is regarded by some as the death knell for energy providers, while others believe it is far from being mature and applicable, Susanne Ehlerding writes in Der Tagesspiegel. 鈥淲e don鈥檛 panic,鈥� Maximilian Rinck, ...
The cost of electricity for final consumers remained high in the first half of 2016 as most suppliers raised their tariffs despite low wholesale power prices, writes dpa-AFX. One reason was the expensive grid expansion needed for the renewables ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Wind EU 91tv The governments of Denmark and Germany have signed a legally binding cooperation agreement for a joint offshore wind power project on the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm, the economy ...
05 Dec 2022, 13:55 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Fossil gas will be a crucial part of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power and energy supply for at least another ten years, because the expansion of renewables and the electricity grid are lagging behind, said ...
The Bavarian state government is a powerful supporter of German farmers鈥� demand to receive recurring compensation payments if power transmission lines are built on their premises, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The governing ...
The unexpected deal between 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 two largest utilities E.ON and RWE to divide RWE鈥檚 spin-off innogy between them and focus on two different fields of the energy industry in the future is more than a mere reshuffling of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power market, Angela ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Government Tagesspiegel / 91tv An earlier phase-out of coal-fired power production in Germany by 2030 is unlikely if the country does not manage to install sufficient alternative backup capacity to ...
07 Jun 2021, 13:50 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Renewables Wind Tagesspiegel Background A new draft plan for offshore wind power expansion by the German government has allocated ...
28 Apr 2025
28 Apr 2025, 13:45 91tv Team Euronews: Spain, Portugal and parts of France hit by massive power outage A nationwide power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday, leaving millions without electricity. Reports indicate issues with the European electric ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen 91tv Domestic production of green hydrogen should play a much bigger role in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plans to scale-up the hydrogen economy, which is currently based on a more often inefficient and costly ...
By the end of 2017, renewables expansion in Germany exceeded targets by a considerable margin, but the country still lags behind on several other energy transition indicators, writes Hubertus Bardt for the industry-sponsored research institute IW K枚ln in ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 excess power spilling over into Poland and Czech Republic on days with high renewables generation creates political and economic tension, writes Zeke Turner for Wall Street Journal. 鈥淭he fallout has become acute for Polish and Czech coal power ...
31 Mar 2020, 14:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:43 Milou Dirkx Wind Cost & Prices FAZ New offshore wind farms could give an economic boost to German shipyards, but shipbuilding companies say they might not be able to finance the necessary investments without support, Frankfurter ...
05 Jun 2018, 00:00 Germany's energy minister Peter Altmaier said there won't be any changes to fees on power and heat during his term, refuting the idea of a price for CO2 emissions floated by coalition partner SPD and the environment ministry. ...
17 Apr 2020, 13:45 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Clean Energy ...
03 Jul 2024, 13:25 Jack McGovan Solar 91tv / PV Magazine There are too few installations of solar panels on the roofs of apartment buildings across Germany, making rental homes an underutilised source for renewable energy generation, ...
German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) head Stefan Kapferer warns that calls from the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) for recurring compensation payments to farmers if power transmission lines are built on their premises would make ...
27 May 2021, 14:41 Germany is taking another step towards achieving a fully renewable power system by completing the first electric cable connection with Norway, heads of government and ministers from both states have said at the official launch event of ...
02 May 2022, 14:14 Voters in the northern wind power state of Schleswig-Holstein head to the polls this Sunday (8 May) to elect a new parliament in one of the regions most crucial to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 efforts to phase out Russian fossil fuel imports and massively ...
The support of German citizens for the country鈥檚 Energiewende [energy transition] is unwavering, a poll commissioned by the country鈥檚 Renewable Energy Agency (AEE) and conducted by pollster Kantar Emnid has shown. According to the AEE, 93 percent of ...
07 Oct 2019, 14:34 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Government Clean ...
Several German start-ups prepare to revolutionise the national energy market, writes Helmut B眉nder in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淲e鈥檒l get rid of established suppliers鈥� for instance is the slogan of Sonnen GmbH, a high-tech company from the German ...
10 Nov 2020, 14:09 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Edgar Meza Electricity market Grid 91tv German and Belgian transmission system operators Amprion and Elia Group have completed the first direct current ...
02 May 2023, 13:34 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Jessica Bateman Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background An analysis of solar power ...
11 Sep 2019, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Wind 91tv The German coal exit can only be carried out safely if the country raises its current offshore wind power expansion plans, a meta-study commissioned by offshore industry association BWO has ...
The German Renewable Energies Agency has published its 鈥淎tlas of the Energiewende鈥� in English. The online digital book illustrates the potential of renewable energies, as well as current challenges such as grid expansion and storage, on more than 100 ...
29 Nov 2024, 13:45 The collapsed coalition of chancellor Olaf Scholz achieved a few important breakthroughs for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition that should not be sacrificed for point-scoring in election campaigns, says Wolfram Axthelm from the Renewable ...
06 Sep 2022, 13:50 Germany should keep two of its three remaining nuclear power plants on standby beyond the planned phase-out date at the end of the year to help secure power system stability in the coming winter if necessary, economy and climate ...
23 Dec 2020, 13:43 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Kerstine Appunn Grid Storage Cars ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Renewables 91tv For the first time since December 2020, an onshore wind power auction was oversubscribed in Germany. Developers submitted 210 bids totalling 1,824megawatt (MW) for the tender volume of 1,492 ...
01 Sep 2022, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Digitalisation 91tv The German government has said its new digitalisation strategy will help in the fight against the climate crisis and in efforts to transform the economy. Environmental data and ...
Twenty municipalities along the planned route for HVDC (high-voltage direct current) transmission lines to carry wind power from northern Germany to industrial centres in the south, have requested they be constructed as overhead cables rather than buried ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:17 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Rachel Waldholz Grid Renewables reNews / Handelsblatt The German grid operator 50Hertz reported delivering a record 60 terawatt hours of renewable electricity ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology 91tv A new research project aimed at solving one of the major technological difficulties of the energy transition is seeking to use the energy from wind turbines' moving rotors and ...
25 Jan 2021, 12:35 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Grid Cars Tagesspiegel Background German energy company EnBW has said that planned legislation to support the expansion of e ...
15 Dec 2023, 13:16 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv In its latest auction for onshore wind turbines, Germany failed to secure enough investment deals to ensure the rollout of the technology proceeds with sufficient speed to reach renewable ...
31 Aug 2021, 11:38 Ahead of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 September federal election, almost all parties in parliament are calling for climate policies that quickly and lastingly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The country鈥檚 plans to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 ...
02 Jun 2016, 00:00 The latest reform of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable energy law is taking shape 鈥� on Tuesday the federal government and the heads of the 16 states reached an agreement on essential aspects of a reformed bill, such as the amount of onshore wind and ...
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 ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind energy industry expects a further drop in costs for new projects contracted by bidding processes, representatives of the industry said at a press conference of the German Wind Energy Association (BWE). 鈥淢ore practical experience ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:49 Edgar Meza Society EU 91tv People in Germany would like to see more European cooperation in energy and climate policy, according to a survey conducted by market research institute Prolytics on behalf of the German ...
After several hours of negotiations on diesel emissions and immigration, the federal government coalition also agreed that it would decide to implement special renewables auctions 鈥渢o contribute to closing the gap in the 2020 climate target鈥� in a cabinet ...
06 Jan 2025, 12:45 Jennifer Collins Grid Hydrogen dpa / 91tv The buildout of crucial energy infrastructure in Germany is making progress: The first 525 kilometres of Germany's hydrogen core grid will be built in 2025, with gas operators ...
States like Lower Saxony are pushing for more wind power development even though the grid connections to transport the green power are lacking, Der Spiegel writes. There are no incentives for the state government to accelerate the construction of new ...
17 Jul 2019, 12:47 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert WindGuard Deutsche WindGuard Renewables Julian Wettengel Wind Deutsche WindGuard / VDMA German offshore ...
01 Apr 2019, 13:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables Policy Clean ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cost & Prices 91tv With its largest offshore wind power auction to date, Germany aims to make progress on its ambitious target to nearly quadruple capacity by the end of the decade 鈥� and could ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:25 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Storage 91tv The total power storage capacity ...
11 Oct 2019, 14:13 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables 91tv The average duration of ...
21 Oct 2019, 13:15 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Wind Tageszeitung (taz) The German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) has warned that new ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:46 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 91tv, Tagesschau, Focus Online The German cabinet has passed a climate emergency programme allocating an additional 8.1 billion euros for climate protection measures over the next five ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:01 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Grid 91tv The German power grid ...
02 Jul 2018, 15:13 The production of renewable energy in Germany dashes to a new record output, providing more than 40 percent of the country's power supply in the first half of 2018. Yet, the good news for proponents of Germany's trademark ...
06 Feb 2015
06 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv DIW studies 鈥淓lectricity Grids and Climate Targets: New Approaches to Grid Planning鈥� The latest assumptions that will be used in the government's grid development plan take new climate ...
07 Aug 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind International n-tv / Bloomberg / 91tv A new offshore wind power project in the German North Sea is causing a stir in the European wind power industry, as the project will be the first of its kind to ...
16 Aug 2023, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
10 Mar 2025, 13:28 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 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 ...
25 Apr 2023, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 district heating networks should be planned more efficiently in the long term and operators need better financial incentives to convert the infrastructure, so that the technology can ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:10 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The lack of interest in Germany' ...
07 Mar 2023, 12:26 Carolina Kyllmann Utilities 91tv Municipal utilities are at the forefront of implementing the energy transition and should 鈥渋nvest in the green future of their business,鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chancellor Olaf Scholz said at the annual ...
10 Oct 2019, 13:57 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices 91tv / Montel News Transmission system operators (TSO) in Germany are considering splitting the country's single power market bidding zone into different zones as the first step of ...
07 May 2019, 12:30 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Clean Energy ...
08 Sep 2023, 13:28 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv Corrects tender volumes to GW from MW. Investors again showed insufficient interest to build all of the onshore wind farms on offer in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest tender. The auction remained ...
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 ...
05 Mar 2025, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Fossil gas is set to continue to play a crucial role in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy supply throughout this decade, and consumption will fall slower than authorities currently plan, said consultancy McKinsey ...
The renewables surcharge rise is long since decoupled from the expansion of wind and solar power, and is rather a consequence of low wholesale power prices, writes Georg Ehring in an opinion piece for Deutschlandfunk. 鈥淭he price at the electricity ...
06 May 2025
06 May 2025, 12:00 91tv Team DW: Why is Germany's Friedrich Merz, so unpopular? Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has hit a snag in his attempt to form Germany's new government. His personal popularity is low.聽Most Germans don't trust ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:06 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Storage Technology pv magazine Large-scale battery projects with a combined capacity of 226 gigawatts (GW) seek to be connected to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid, fanning industry speculation that the ...
13 Feb 2025, 13:36 Bennet Ribbeck Renewables Wind Focus Online Many autobahn exits in northern Germany are too small to handle the transportation of modern wind turbine rotor blades and should be enlarged, according to several German states,聽Focus Online ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy policy has not lived up to its climate and renewables expansion targets and has failed to adequately integrate citizens in planning procedures, Simone Peter of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) and Stefan Kapferer of the German ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:34 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
15 Jul 2021, 13:58 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Wind 91tv Germany will not add ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:05 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cars dpa / Focus Online Carmaker VW says an earlier German coal exit is necessary for the company to ensure its electric car fleet receives the clean power it needs to ...
28 Jan 2020, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The expansion of onshore wind power in Germany has reached the lowest level in 20 years, figures by the German Wind Power Association (BWE) confirm. With only 243 turbines and a ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:20 Expert BVMW- German Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses Bundesverband mittelst盲ndische Wirtschaft Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind Business & Jobs 91tv Germany's sea ports are not ...
15 Dec 2021, 13:44 Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Renewable energy made up approximately 42 percent of the electricity consumed in Germany in 2021, according to preliminary calculations by the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen ...
