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 ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:53 Kerstine Appunn Heating 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany should include hydrogen for heating houses in its energy transition to successfully decarbonise the heating sector, gas grid operator umbrella organisation FNB ...
The preparation procedure for building 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 high-voltage transmission highway SuedLink has entered a crucial stage, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. Following submission of the sectoral planning application for SuedLink鈥檚 ...
14 May 2025
14 May 2025, 12:30 91tv Team Bloomberg: Merz risks coalition spat with call to scrap EU supply-chain law 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, reiterated a call for the European Union to scrap rules designed to make companies pursue sustainable ...
Germany is quickly reducing its conventional power capacities, risking a lack of secure capacity by 2023 at the latest, says the energy industry association BDEW in an analysis of the country鈥檚 power plants. Germany currently has power overcapacities. The ...
09 Feb 2018, 00:00 The provisions on climate, energy, and transport in the coalition treaty agreed by Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) recognise the big challenges of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition project, but ...
12 Mar 2025, 13:14 Edgar Meza Wind Security WirtschaftsWoche Despite warnings of potential security risks posed by Chinese components in wind turbines, major energy companies oppose a ban in Germany, arguing that the country's planned expansion path ...
20 Mar 2025
20 Mar 2025, 14:00 91tv Team AP: Jury finds Greenpeace USA must pay over $660 million in case over Dakota Access protest activities NGO plans to appeal and had said earlier that a large award to the Texan pipeline company could threaten to bankrupt the ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:26 Edgar Meza Electricity Solar 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has simplified the registration of plug-in balcony solar photovoltaic (PV) units or 'balcony power plants' as of 1 April. "People ...
24 Sep 2015, 00:00 UPDATE 24 Sept | The European grid regulator has recommended that the Austrian-German electricity trading zone should be partially disconnected. Countries including Poland and the Czech Republic have called for the split, to prevent ...
Power storage devices need a clearer legal definition in German law to create a better investment environment for the industry, BSW Solar says in a press release. 鈥淢any disputes and uncertainties stem from the fact that storages sometimes count as ...
23 Dec 2022, 14:20 The German government coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz looks back at a turbulent first year in office, which has been dominated by the reality check of Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine and the European energy crisis. The turmoil in global ...
22 Nov 2024, 09:30 The collapse of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government has thrown climate policymaking in Europe鈥檚 largest economy into disarray, and added many question marks to the progress of its landmark energy transition. The sacking of finance minister ...
07 May 2025, 15:00 The six-month wait for a new German government came to an end when Friedrich Merz was finally confirmed as chancellor in a day of high drama in parliament on 6 May. Stakeholders and observers have urged the new chancellor to keep energy ...
Nowhere in Germany are the effects of the energy transition more visible than in the Northwest, the centre of the country鈥檚 wind power industry, writes Volker K眉hn in Nordwest-Zeitung. 鈥淲ith wind power鈥檚 stormy expansion on and offshore, the region has ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:24 Norway now provides about half of the fossil gas flows to Germany, putting a spotlight on energy security. Industry experts warn that Europe's biggest economy is not prepared for a disruption of supply, for example due to sabotage ...
24 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv As 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 hydrogen (H2) economy takes shape, a double supply gap is emerging in the country鈥檚 south, a report by consultancy PWC found. While the north is well positioned, the country鈥檚 ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables Energiewende 91tv Germany will use auctions to ensure new gas power plants are built, which the government sees as necessary to secure supply at times when renewable energy does not deliver ...
22 May 2025, 13:02 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables 91tv Germany's renewable power expansion, the finalised phase out of nuclear, and the ongoing decommissioning of coal and gas power plants have had a positive effect on the country's ...
The 鈥渟pectacular growth鈥� of the wind power sector over recent years looks unlikely to continue, because of new policy frameworks such as reduced state support for renewables, as well as public opposition and slow grid expansion, writes Franz Hubik in ...
03 Apr 2025
03 Apr 2025, 10:35 91tv Team Reuters: Deutsche Bank-owned asset manager DWS fined 鈧�25 million for greenwashing German prosecutors have fined asset manager DWS 25 million euros after a lengthy probe found the firm guilty of greenwashing, or making ...
15 Feb 2023, 13:02 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt The expansion targets for renewable power in ...
The Association of Local Utilities (VKU) said the support for combined heat and power plants in the grid fee agreement was a 鈥渟trong signal for the value of decentral generation鈥� and created planning security. 鈥淢unicipal utilities can now work intensively ...
20 Jul 2015
20 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv WirtschaftsWoche 鈥淕abriel鈥檚 energy concept will cost Germany dearly鈥� Energy minister Sigmar Gabriel has called his energy concept a 鈥渉istoric pact for new prosperity鈥� but what he didn鈥檛 say was ...
25 Oct 2022, 14:03 Kiprotich Koros Digitalisation 91tv A successful transition to renewables will only be achieved if there is a comprehensive digitalisation of the whole energy sector, a report by research institute Fraunhofer IEE has ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Der Spiegel / 91tv The decommissioning of local gas grids in German cities should be flagged ten years in advance to allow households to prepare accordingly and avoid the purchase ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society WirtschaftsWoche The renewed push for renewable energy expansion in Germany leaves no more room for the NIMBY (not in my backyard) mentality that has long stalled the buildout of wind turbines, solar ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:41 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind Klimareporter Rapidly rising costs could jeopardise the construction of already planned wind turbines with a total capacity of several gigawatts, news outlet klimareporter聽 reports. Up to 4 gigawatts (GW) ...
The energy transition remains the German government coalition鈥檚 鈥渓argest construction site,鈥� due to its gigantic regulatory needs, writes Die Welt. 鈥淭he goal of cutting CO鈧� emissions by 40 percent by 2020 will clearly be missed. [鈥 Grid expansion was ...
03 Sep 2024, 14:09 Jennifer Collins Carolina Kyllmann Grid Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Reforming Germany's grids fees for industrial electricity consumers as a way to incentivise flexible power consumption and boost the use of ...
02 Sep 2024, 13:30 Jennifer Collins Gas Heating Handelsblatt Many gas grid operators in Germany have not decided yet whether to use the possibility to increase their fees now in order to protect their dwindling customers from a massive price hike in the ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Solar pv magazine The coronavirus crisis ...
14 Nov 2024, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / 91tv The collapse of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government could threaten important energy transition projects across the country if no precautions are taken ...
25 Mar 2021, 14:02 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv With the aim to scale hydrogen technology and ensure its integration in the energy market, a new project partnership in northern Germany will invest 1.3 million euros to create a 鈥淐lean ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:53 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Jack McGovan Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Clean ...
29 May 2019, 12:13 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Grid Cars Tagesspiegel Background / BDEW ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:44 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind industry calls on the next federal government to increase the expansion corridors for offshore wind to at least 20 gigawatt (GW) by 2030 (at the moment: 15 GW), and to 30 GW by 2035, according to a joint press release issued by ...
25 Mar 2015
25 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Institute for Applied Ecology / Friends of the Earth Germany Exit from lignite possible by 2030 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national and regional climate goals imply that lignite mining will have to stop much ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:33 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 ...
23 Jan 2020, 15:45 The expansion of offshore wind power capacity in Germany has exceeded that of onshore turbines for the first time ever last year. This is both due to a particularly bad year for onshore expansion and the increasing competitiveness of ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende should be democratic, ecologic and social, said the Left Party鈥檚 energy and climate spokesperson Eva Bulling-Schr枚ter, presenting the Left鈥檚 energy policy cornerstones at an event by Forum Future Energies in Berlin. In the draft of ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:49 Edgar Meza Renewables Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The new CEO of Germany's largest energy company RWE, Markus Krebber, expressed hope that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government will quickly clear hurdles currently ...
23 Apr 2025
23 Apr 2025, 10:57 91tv Team Reuters: German regulator plans to cut 1.5 billion euros of power grid fee costs Germany's energy grid regulator BNetzA said the payments are no longer necessary because green power has now reached such high volumes that ...
24 Apr 2025, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables 91tv Unfavourable weather conditions led to a decrease of renewable energy generation in Germany at the start of the year, outweighing a growth in renewable capacity, figures released by energy ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:34 With a significant 鈥渟afety buffer鈥� of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity, the German government aims to ensure that the country and neighbouring states will receive sufficient supply of natural gas in the coming years, says ...
28 Jul 2020, 12:23 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Edgar Meza Wind 91tv Dutch transmission grid operator聽TenneT recorded a more than 21 percent increase in offshore wind energy transmission from the North Sea to ...
17 May 2021, 09:59 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 target of achieving greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045 has a very important sub-goal: The expansion of renewable energy capacity to provide green power for transport, heating and making hydrogen. But running such an integrated ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:46 Onshore wind power is a key element of Germany's energy transition and a leading force of the country's renewables industry. But after years of rapid growth, the sector's expansion has almost come to a standstill in the ...
02 Sep 2020, 12:55 A faster deployment of more renewable installations that run into less problems with citizens and are able to quickly survive in the market without government support are at the centre of a renewables law reform proposal by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
The Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) has called on the new German government to "reboot" financing of the energy transition. The costs of building up renewable capacity and updating the grid must be more fairly distributed, the ...
19 Sep 2024, 12:25 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices 91tv The German association of energy intensive businesses (VIK)聽has聽pushed聽back against聽 plans to adjust聽industrial grid fees聽to incentivise 聽flexible power consumption, saying it ...
26 Oct 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 91tv Energy costs in Germany have dropped 30 percent since the height of the energy crisis 12 months ago, according to analysis by price comparison website Verivox. Costs for heating, ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:06 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur f眉r Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Sven Egenter Solar Society 91tv An overwhelming majority of people in Germany continue to support the expansion ...
24 Feb 2023, 13:03 Expert VDE- Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies Verband der Elektrotechnik Informationstechnik e.V. Technology Carolina Kyllmann Solar Handelsblatt / 91tv The installation of plug-in ...
05 Jul 2024, 15:07 Months of negotiations among the parties in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 governing coalition about the country鈥檚 2025 budget have ushered in 鈥渞ecord investments鈥� into renewable power, industrial decarbonisation, electric mobility and a faster transition ...
07 Mar 2025, 15:00 Winter may finally be on the way out but Italy is still grappling with high electricity prices, with average wholesale prices in February among the highest in Europe. Under increasing pressure to halt further rises, the government ...
02 Dec 2024, 12:47 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs International 91tv The expansion of renewable energies, in particular geothermal, as well as 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 shortage of skilled workers needed to implement its landmark energy transition will be ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 five biggest power ...
15 Oct 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Households in Germany face an abrupt rise in gas prices at the beginning of next year as grid fees increase in 2025, an analysis by price comparison website Verivox has found. ...
21 Jan 2025, 12:45 Edgar Meza Storage Start-ups 91tv Industrial cold storage facilities could become more efficient and be transformed into cost-saving energy storage facilities that contribute to grid stability,聽 the German Federal ...
13 Nov 2024, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating 91tv The transition to climate-friendly heating is slowly gathering pace in Germany with the country's first major city announcing a 2035 phase-out date for its gas grid. MVV, the local ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new minister for the economy and energy, Peter Altmaier, wants to lower power prices for small and middle-sized companies. In an interview with Handelsblatt, Altmaier says companies that do not benefit from rebates for energy-intensive ...
08 Dec 2020, 13:32 Edgar Meza Utilities 91tv German energy and telecommunications group EWE has said it plans to become climate-neutral by 2035. In order to achieve its target, the company is exiting coal-fired power generation and investing ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Hydrogen Clean ...
28 Jan 2021, 13:59 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, ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) called for the removal of five gas grid development measures from current plans because the expansion of the German-Russian pipeline Nord Stream was 鈥渟till too uncertain鈥�, the agency said in a press release. The ...
20 Jan 2025, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Security Welt am Sonntag / 91tv A new law planned for the better integration of solar energy sources into 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity system bears the risk that foreign powers gain control over relevant ...
31 Oct 2024, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind Hydrogen 91tv Europe could cover its electricity and green hydrogen needs with domestic production, but only if renewables expansion proceeds as planned, said researchers from ...
14 May 2024, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Finance 91tv Germany should invest an additional 213 billion euros compared to current budget plans over the next ten years in public services and infrastructure to decarbonise its economy ...
08 Mar 2017
Between 1.5 and 2.8 million birds die each year in Germany from colliding with high-voltage overhead power lines, according to a report published by Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU). 鈥淚n light of the transmission grid expansion needed for ...
The expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind power capacity is progressing 鈥渁ccording to plan,鈥� but industry representatives still urge the government to do away with caps and significantly ramp up goals for capacity growth. According to the German Wind ...
06 Sep 2022, 14:05 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Germany must use the price advantage of renewable energy sources to weather the energy crisis over the coming winter and beyond, said the renewables association BEE. The lobby group said ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Heating 91tv The vast potential of geothermal energy generation for heating has so far been under-utilised in Germany, but a new exploration process launched by the economy and climate ministry ...
26 Feb 2021, 12:20 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Grid Renewables EU 91tv A largely CO2-free German and European power supply by 2050 with renewable energy as ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:22 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv Think tank Agora Energiewende has聽 outlined 聽a number of possible solutions that could speed up the expansion of offshore wind power in Germany. Supply bottlenecks and price increases are currently ...
02 Mar 2023, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security Die Zeit The possible earlier coal phase-out in eastern Germany continues to lead to clashes between the federal government and state governments in the east, with views differing on how a coal exit in ...
02 May 2025, 14:40 Against the backdrop of the major blackout on the Iberian Peninsula in late April, which also affected parts of France, the country is heading for controversial discussions about its energy strategy for the coming decade. A focus will ...
The market power of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 four large electricity suppliers has decreased significantly over the past years, according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and the Federal Cartel Office鈥檚 Monitoring Report 2016 on the developments in the German ...
08 Jun 2016
08 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Federal government Renewables law reform gets government approval Angela Merkel鈥檚 cabinet has decided on the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) that is to take ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:23 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 bne- Association of Energy ...
Household electricity costs will reach a high in 2017, price comparison site Verivox has calculated. The average annual price per kilowatt-hour (kWh) will be 28.18 cents, 3 percent more than in 2016 and up from 17.81 cents in 2004. This means a family of ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv The Green Party is calling for major investments in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 infrastructure, energy system, industry and administration to use decarbonisation and the energy transition as an ...
13 Jan 2021, 11:41 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country鈥檚 16 states and the federal parliamentary elections in autumn. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of ...
23 Oct 2024, 13:05 Germany will see the first hydrogen flow in pipelines from next year after the country鈥檚 "core hydrogen grid" was approved. The backbone of the long-distance transmission network for hydrogen will be slightly smaller than ...
25 Oct 2023, 11:00 Germany's economy ministry wants to strengthen the country as an industrial location with a new industry strategy, a key aspect of it being a so-called bridge electricity price for energy-intensive companies. Robert Habeck wants to ...
30 Oct 2024, 11:48 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Current plans for gas networks in European countries largely fail to account for the necessary decline in gas consumption in the coming years as states try to reach climate targets, according to a ...
German municipalities see energy supply and mobility management as important topics in 2030, according to a survey by the Society of Automotive聽and Traffic Systems Technologies of the Association of German Engineers (VDI). 68.3 percent of the surveyed ...
12 May 2025
12 May 2025, 12:08 91tv Team ENTSO-E: Expert panel initiates the investigation into the causes of Iberian blackout聽 Panel launched on 9 May led by experts from Transmission System Operators aims to find root causes of the blackout; will make ...
The government of central German federal state Thuringia strictly opposes the construction of major high-voltage transmission lines on its territory, Th眉ringer Allgemeine reports. The government led by the Left Party (Linke) argues the grid operators鈥� ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Solar ARD / Tagesspiegel Background The head of Germany's treasury, finance minister Christian Lindner, has reiterated his opposition to more state support for Germany's domestic solar industry. In an ...
The German Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries (IG BCE) has called for a comprehensive investment programme in order to meet the country鈥檚 climate targets for 2020, Jens Heitmann writes in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ). The ...
28 Oct 2024, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Business Policy 91tv Support for Germany's energy policies varies starkly between employees backing populist parties compared to those supporting the centre left or centre right, according to a study ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:42 Carolina Kyllmann Industry International 91tv Germany has signed agreements to intensify its cooperation on climate and energy with Chile and Uruguay, with strong focus on decarbonising emission-intensive industry. At the ...
15 Sep 2022, 13:44 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv Calculations by the ifo Institute for Economic Research suggest that postponing the decommissioning of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three remaining nuclear power plants would not help the ...
11 Jul 2024, 13:51 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind EU 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plans for a rapid expansion of offshore wind energy at the end of the decade could clash with similar plans of its neighbours around the North Sea, the country鈥檚 section of ...
02 Dec 2014, 00:00 An annual report from Germany's grid regulator highlights developments in the German power sector. The report shows a high degree of grid stability in 2013 and only a small increase of average prices paid by households as ...
Denmark is the only European country where customers pay more for power than in Germany, Michael H枚fling writes in weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Danes pay about 31 euros for 100 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity 鈥� one euro more than the Germans and ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:01 The Social Democrats- emerging from a legislative period with a 鈥済reat deal of dissent鈥� in energy policy with its conservative coalition partner- are hoping to find new partners and new ways to drive forward the expansion of renewable ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:30 S枚ren Amelang Solar Storage 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 boom in stationary batteries linked to solar PV systems accelerated last year, doubling the total number of units to more than one million, reports solar industry association BSW. ...
The expansion of wind power generation in northern Germany is meeting resistance from politicians and environmental organisations alike, Welt Online reports in two separate articles. In north-eastern state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, politician Eckhardt ...
15 May 2025
15 May 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: Granada substation power loss pinpointed as ground zero of Spain's blackout聽 Energy minister says three initial incidents, whose cause has yet to be determined, led to loss of 2.2 GW of electricity. PV magazine: ...
11 Mar 2022, 13:50 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The second oversubscribed onshore wind ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:30 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Corporate decision makers in Germany have voted hydrogen technologies as the most important field of action for energy ...
Virtual power plant specialist Next Kraftwerke, one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 best known energy start-ups, has sold a minority stake of 34 percent to Dutch renewable utility Eneco. The deal would boost its expansion in Europe, and 鈥渃ontribute to the joint ambition of ...
The surcharge German power customers pay with their power bill to finance the expansion of renewable energy is going to remain largely stable next year, according to calculations made by the energy policy think tank Agora Energiewende*. The renewables ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:32 Edgar Meza Mobility Transport 91tv More than 25 percent of Germans have poor access to local public transport, according to a report by Greenpeace, which is calling on the government to improve the situation. Based on data ...
23 Jan 2025
23 Jan 2025, 12:28 91tv Team Ember: Record 47% of the European Union鈥檚 electricity now comes from solar and other renewables聽 Another year of coal and gas decline cut EU power sector emissions to below half their 2007 peak and reduced reliance on imported ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Transport Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv German railway operator Deutsche Bahn has reportedly waved higher fees demanded from renewable project operators needing to install power cables under ...
11 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
28 Feb 2020, 13:45 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Policy 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz has proposed a "Pact for Germany" in which all levels of government and the opposition pull together to guarantee the country's success in the future. ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy and climate policy lacks decisiveness and a coherent approach, according to representatives of the country鈥檚 industries. 鈥淕ermany must urgently take an integral approach to the climate-friendly modernisation of our economy, instead of ...
The continued renewables development in Germany could be realised with only half of the high-voltage direct current power lines currently planned, according to a study by Prognos AG, commissioned by German power supplier N-Ergie. 鈥淭he currently lagging ...
24 Jan 2025
24 Jan 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: German power grids need higher earnings to fund energy transition, TSO says Grid operator Amprion argues regulator should raise the cap on returns on infrastructure spending. Germany Trade&Invest: Germany Earns ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:17 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K枚ln Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv At the Handelsblatt Energy Summit earlier this month, German economy ...
01 Apr 2020, 15:11 Germany produced more than half of its electricity with renewable power in the first three months of 2020, the first full quarter in which renewables covered the majority of the country鈥檚 electricity needs. The numbers were driven by ...
In his final speech in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament in Kiel on Thursday, Robert Habeck, former state environment minister and current Green Party co-chair, praised the positive economic impact of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition. 鈥淚t is a ...
The governments of Germany and India aim to strengthen their energy partnership, particularly in the field of renewables. 鈥淭he Indian expansion target is an additional power generation capacity of 100 gigawatts (GW) of solar PV, 60 GW of wind and 15 GW of ...
24 Feb 2025, 11:00 German businesses, researchers and civil society have called for speedy coalition negotiations following the country's snap elections on 23 February. Planning security and clarity are essential in view of the stagnating economy and ...
Disagreement between German environment minister Svenja Schulze and economy minister Peter Altmaier over important measures like a carbon tax or the expansion of the electricity grid is burdening the economy, write Klaus Stratmann and Silke Kersting in ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable support levy paid by consumers as part of their power bills will fall slightly below 6.8 cents from the current 6.88 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2018, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has learned from an industry source. Nevertheless, ...
14 May 2019, 13:27 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 ...
26 Feb 2025
26 Feb 2025, 10:30 S枚ren Amelang Bloomberg: EU pitches new Clean Deal as industries struggle to compete European Commission to outline measures to reduce energy costs. Politico: Europe鈥檚 impossible choice: Which industries should survive the green ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:34 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy ministry has proposed to extend current regulation to the extent to which gas storage facilities have to be filled at certain times of the year, said the economy ministry in a ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Digitalisation Der Spiegel Almost 500 of the 879 companies that operate metering points in Germany are still to install their first smart meter, news magazine Der Spiegel reported. The Federal Network ...
12 Nov 2024, 13:51 Jack McGovan Grid Security 91tv / Der Spiegel Disruptions to electricity supply within the German network remained around the ten-year average in 2023, the year in which the country had to deal with the fallout of the ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Onshore wind power auctions held in November in Germany have led to a new record in submitted bids, the country鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. Bidders submitted ...
The government should invest in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power infrastructure so as to achieve energy independence through renewables, Dave Keating writes in a commentary in Forbes. The share of renewables in power generation has risen substantially over the years, but ...
19 Jun 2024, 11:51 One week after the shock results for East Germany in the European elections, where populist parties made strong gains while the government coalition parties took a beating, chancellor Olaf Scholz met with state leaders from the East to ...
21 Dec 2023, 10:12 Preparing a fast expansion of renewable power will be a key challenge for governments across Europe in 2024, says Sarah Jilibert-Schabram of the Franco-German Office for the Energy Transition (DFBEW). France and Germany both have stated ...
12 Nov 2024, 14:05 Jack McGovan Electricity Society S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Environmental groups from Germany and Austria have come out in opposition to two proposed hydropower projects in the Alps, emphasising their negative impacts on biodiversity, ...
25 May 2022, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang Wind Tagesspiegel Background Bidders offering to implement offshore wind power projects with the lowest CO2 footpring聽 could have an advantage in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 future renewable power auctions that determine who gets to install ...
07 Mar 2025
07 Mar 2025, 11:28 91tv Team Politico: 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Merz has 2 weeks to deliver historic spending revolution Losing faith in Washington as a military ally, Berlin wants to rip up the old fiscal orthodoxy. But it鈥檚 now a race against the clock. DW: Peruvian ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:35 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:22 Joey Grostern Wind 91tv Germany looks set to exceed its 2030 onshore wind power target by 2.6 percent, according to an analysis by the Google-backed think tank Goal100. Considering the number of applications and permits for ...
Europe鈥檚 solar industry should think about cooperating with China instead of placing import tariffs on Chinese PV products, writes Stephan Scheuer in an op-ed for Handelsblatt. The tariffs disadvantage consumers in Europe and slow down the solar expansion ...
29 Aug 2024, 13:51 Jack McGovan Renewables Cost & Prices Electricity prices in Germany could be made more flexible and fall during particularly sunny or windy conditions according to a proposed measure to adapt grid fees to renewable power supply by ...
11 Feb 2025, 14:06 Bennet Ribbeck Gas Cost & Prices 91tv The price of gas for new customers in Germany has risen sharply over the past year, said price comparison website Verivox. The average price across Germany increased by 43 percent, ...
The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has published demands for the coming legislative period in the form of a 10-point plan. It calls for new ways to finance renewables expansion, tax-based support for energy-efficient building renovation, grid fee ...
16 Nov 2023, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen 91tv The expansion of green hydrogen production efforts Germany is slowing down, says a聽 report 聽commissioned by utility E.ON. 鈥淭he hydrogen generation capacity planned by 2030 has risen from 8.1 ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:46 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU Handelsblatt Excessive EU regulation is stalling the development of competitive hydrogen infrastructure in Europe, the head of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
24 Jul 2024, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's grid agency BNetzA is set to adapt grid fees for industrial electricity consumers in a bid to incentivise flexible power consumption. In an impulse paper ...
15 Sep 2022, 13:46 S枚ren Amelang Solar Policy dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The German government is introducing tax breaks for the operation of small-scale photovoltaic systems and removing other bureaucratic hurdles to speed up the ...
04 Mar 2020, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende 91tv Germany must move quickly to get its renewables expansion back on track if the country wants to avoid a "green power gap," forcing it to rely on power imports or fossil reserve ...
The strength of the Greens in this autumn鈥檚 federal elections will depend on the party鈥檚 results in the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in May, says the state鈥檚 Energiewende minister and Green politician Robert Habeck in an interview with Welt am ...
09 Mar 2021, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Heating 91tv Germany must step up renewables expansion and put a focus on the heating sector, where the majority of energy is still produced with fossil fuels, said Chancellor Angela Merkel at ...
24 May 2023, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Policy AFP / Tagesspiegel Installing plug-in solar run 鈥榖alcony power plants鈥� in German households should be simplified through a reduction of regulatory hurdles, the country's economy ministry (BMWK) has ...
Having received state support for twenty years through the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), the German wind power industry 鈥渟till cannot stand on its own feet,鈥� writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In the current ...
28 Jan 2025
28 Jan 2025, 11:44 91tv Team Reuters: Germany election 2025: Parties, polls and key issues Here are the main parties contending, their poll standings, and the key policy issues ahead of a snap national election on 23 February. Bloomberg: Germany fears ...
10 Apr 2024, 13:48 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Hydrogen 91tv Industry association vbw has ...
12 May 2022, 13:38 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:30 Burning less coal and an increase in renewable electricity has helped cause a drop in greenhouse gas emissions of three percent in Germany last year, said think tank Agora Energiewende. Preliminary calculations show that real ...
19 Dec 2022, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) opened on Saturday, 17 December, and is slated to supply gas to the German grid within days. 鈥淭his is a very special moment ...
The Economy Minister of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Andreas Pinkwart, has called for compensation payments from the federal budget if Germany accelerates its coal exit, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. 鈥淭he ...
Household power prices in Germany were the EU's highest in the second half of 2017, according to eurostat. Germans paid an average of 30.5 cents per kilowatt hour, followed by Denmark with 30.1 cents per kilowatt hour. The prices reflected that the ...
02 May 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Technology 91tv Germany is interested in finding an agreement with neighbouring Switzerland on how the Alpine country could contribute to German and European power supply security, the German ...
10 Apr 2025
10 Apr 2025, 13:30 91tv Team Bloomberg: AI data center growth means more coal and gas plants, IEA says Growth in artificial intelligence-focused data centers will drive demand for gas- and coal-fired power plants, according to new report. Tennet: 12 ...
22 Dec 2021, 12:42 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Energiewende Handelsblatt The new German government must quickly fill its ambitious energy transition plans with action, according to Markus Krebber, ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs 91tv Europe's wind power industry and the German government have agreed on a set of measures to tackle challenges regarding the sector鈥檚 competitiveness, continued investments ...
The European Commission has approved the funding scheme for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plan to grant public support to landlords planning to install solar panels on the roof of apartment buildings, the Federal Ministry for the Economy & Energy (BMWi) says in a press ...
06 Jan 2025, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Solar 91tv The German solar industry marked a milestone at the turn of the year, as the total capacity of all installed solar power systems surpassed 100 gigawatts (GW), said industry association BSW Solar. ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Utilities dpa / n-tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 local utility association VKU has called for public support to finance the decommissioning of the country鈥檚 natural gas grid and avoid high fees for customers, news agency dpa ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv Italy and Germany are pushing for the construction of a new natural gas and hydrogen pipeline via Austria to strengthen inter-European energy trade- the 鈥� SoutH2 Corridor 鈥� project. 鈥淭he ...
15 Aug 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Wind 91tv A majority of Germans continue to be in favour of further wind power expansion in the country, with 68.9 percent in western states and 54.4 percent in the East supporting the industry, showed a ...
20 Jun 2023, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government ARD German chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that the federal government is to reduce its spending and return to 鈥渇iscal policy normality鈥� after state support for citizens and businesses ...
02 Dec 2019, 13:40 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Power production with renewable energy ...
06 Jul 2022, 12:03 Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine pushes governments across Europe to overhaul their plans for gas infrastructure such as pipelines or import terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG). Substituting only half of Russian gas imports forces ...
22 Jul 2024, 13:05 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Handelsblatt Industry in southwestern Germany worries it will be left behind as planning for the country's core hydrogen grid advances. According to a survey among regional chambers of industry and ...
01 Sep 2021, 13:29 Edgar Meza Solar 91tv / pv magazine The German Solar Association (BSW Solar) is calling for a 鈥渞apid dismantling of market barriers鈥� in view of an ongoing slump in the commercial rooftop photovoltaic (PV) segment. Companies ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:27 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und ...
German utility EnBW acquired a 37.5 percent stake in each of three offshore wind projects in Taiwan with a potential total volume of approximately 2,000 megawatt, marking the first such investment outside Europe in the group鈥檚 renewables expansion, ...
30 Aug 2024, 13:09 Joey Grostern Solar Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has announced that bids for ground-mounted solar PV from July have been successful, according to an agency press release. 鈥淭he ...
28 Nov 2024, 11:05 The cheapest way to make the most of a growing renewable electricity supply is to ensure demand follows power generation, and not the other way around 鈥� which is still the case today. Dynamic electricity tariffs, which reward households ...
18 Nov 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv In order to reach climate neutrality in the most affordable way, Germany must ensure it can transport energy across its regions by expanding its electricity and hydrogen grids, ...
26 May 2025, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Digitalisation Security Funke Mediengruppe 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity supply infrastructure increasingly represents a target for cyber attacks, Claudia Plattner, president of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) ...
21 Oct 2024
21 Oct 2024, 12:25 91tv Team Bloomberg: Scholz courts needed workers abroad as anti-migrant parties rise Scholz is betting on negotiating migration deals directly with foreign governments to secure skilled workers in understaffed industries. Reuters: Top ...
05 Dec 2024, 11:49 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government must focus on the shift to climate-friendly mobility to secure industry competitiveness and ensure a socially just energy transition, says Christian Hochfeld, director of green mobility think tank Agora ...
21 Feb 2025, 15:00 Croatia is exploring the possibility of constructing small modular nuclear reactors, a technology not yet commercially available. The economy ministry has set up a taskforce to investigate possibilities and locations, as well as ...
13 May 2025, 13:21 Julian Wettengel EU Security 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new economy and energy minister, Katherina Reiche, has emphasised the value in working with European partners to ensure energy supply for the continent. 鈥淐ooperation with European ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Hydrogen International 91tv Germany has pledged at least 112 million euros to support Kenya in implementing 鈥渋ts ambitious goal of switching entirely to renewable energy sources by 2030,鈥� the ...
Oskar Lafontaine, a prominent German politician and Left Party leader in the small German state Saarland, frequently makes his opposition towards rapid expansion of wind power a campaign topic for this week鈥檚 state elections, writes Christoph Schmidt ...
Changing renewables funding from guaranteed feed-in tariffs to auctions will drastically reduce revenues in the wind power industry, Daniel Wetzel writes in Die Welt. The renewables surcharge power customers pay with their electricity bill currently ...
Large-scale renewable power production and the development of storage technology, both with power-to-x systems and batteries, can provide viable economic prospects for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal mining regions as the fossil fuel is gradually phased out, a study ...
A massive expansion of France鈥檚 renewable power capacity could lead to a wave of cheap nuclear power flooding the energy markets of Germany and other European countries, Markus Becker writes on Spiegel Online. The French 鈥渢ransition 茅nerg茅tique鈥� could ...
The expansion of wind power in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 southern state Bavaria could soon fall close to zero, the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung reports. According to the German Wind Energy Association (BWE), there have been just four applications for construction of new wind ...
15 Jun 2022, 15:01 German states will have to actively look for areas that can be designated for wind farm construction in order to meet government targets. The cabinet is forwarding another set of draft laws aimed at accelerating the country鈥檚 energy ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:19 Jessica Bateman Nuclear phase-out 91tv The Emsland nucelar power plant in northern Germany can only make a minimal contribution to gas savings and energy price reduction, a report by analysis company Energy Brainpool ...
27 Feb 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International 91tv Closer cooperation with Germany on renewable power and other energy transition technologies could help India increase its energy sovereignty, chancellor Olaf Scholz has聽 said ...
30 Mar 2020, 14:11 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:44 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen Handelsblatt Construction of a hydrogen "core" network in Germany has been further delayed as its future operators聽and the electricity grid agency BNetzA await an EU decision on state aid, reported ...
19 Jun 2019, 12:07 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 third solar PV ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Business Elections & Politics 91tv Bureaucracy and energy are the top issues that German companies say the next government to should prioritise, according to a survey by economic research institute ifo ...
10 Feb 2025
10 Feb 2025, 13:25 91tv Team Reuters: Baltic states switch to European power grid, ending Russia ties The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a switch from Russia's electricity grid to the EU's system, severing Soviet-era ...
31 May 2016, 00:00 [UPDATE with new details on 2025 renewable target in paragraph 3, ads News Digest items] German Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers will meet on Tuesday to work out a compromise on reforming the core piece of legislation behind ...
08 Nov 2019, 14:09 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv The number of permits issued for onshore wind turbines in Germany has dropped by more than 70 percent within three years, says German utility association BDEW. "Whereas three years ...
The German head of Danish North Sea windpark operator Dong Energy, Martin Neubert, told German press agency dpa that a discussion over expanding wind power by 700-800 megawatts per year is 鈥渋n the distant future,鈥� because infrastructure isn鈥檛 expanding ...
03 May 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society 91tv Approval rates for the construction of new wind turbines in the vicinity of people's homes in Germany can rise significantly if local electricity prices would drop as a result, ...
10 Dec 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The steel industry is 鈥渙f geopolitical importance鈥� for German industry and will therefore receive assistance from the government in mastering its ...
25 Jul 2024, 13:12 Jack McGovan Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The German government drafted a law to accelerate the expansion of onshore wind, solar farms and energy storage facilities by shortening approval times for projects and designing so ...
Germany will not be able to phase out coal-fired power production by 2030, said Rolf Martin Schmitz, head of RWE, the country鈥檚 biggest power producer and Europe鈥檚 biggest private emitter of CO 2. In an interview with the Rheinische Post on the eve of the ...
The German commercial and industrial, as well as utility-scale storage markets, are surprisingly weak compared to the booming residential storage market, writes Julian Spector for Greentech Media. The weakness comes 鈥渋n part because of its regionally ...
06 Nov 2019, 14:38 Industry experts, researchers and lobbyists give the German government mediocre mid-term marks for its climate and energy efforts- while Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 coalition has presented a largely positive self-evaluation. In what ...
21 May 2024, 14:09 Jack McGovan Grid International 91tv The construction of a major power line connecting Great Britain to Germany through the North Sea has begun in the coastal city Wilhelmshaven in northwestern Germany. Spanning a total ...
11 Mar 2020, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind Policy 91tv Germany's federal states need to band together and devise a coherent strategy to ensure that the expansion of renewable energy sources can proceed in line with the ...
21 Nov 2019, 13:03 Hydrogen production with renewable power is seen by many countries as an essential tool to decarbonise the economy. The UK and Germany, the world鈥檚 two leading offshore wind power nations, have started to sound out how they could ...
02 Jul 2019, 14:09 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 91tv For the first time, solar energy topped the list of sources for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 net public electricity ...
15 Apr 2025
15 Apr 2025, 11:55 91tv Team Copernicus/WMO: European State of the Climate Report- 2024 warmest year on record During the year, there was a striking east-west contrast in climate conditions, with extremely dry and often record-warm conditions in the east, ...
20 Nov 2020, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Wind International 91tv The plans by the European Commission to significantly ramp up renewable energy generation at sea have been mostly welcomed by German policymakers ...
Placing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned power transmission lines below ground will require a massive material and political effort, Andreas Macho writes in WirtschaftsWoche. The exact location of the two transmission lines SuedLink and SuedOstLink, which are supposed ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal elections in September will also be a decision 鈥渙n the direction of the country鈥檚 energy policy鈥� and a lot depends on which parties form a government coalition, Arne Jungjohann writes on website China Dialogue. With near-term [climate ...
05 Nov 2024
05 Nov 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Ember: Nominated EU Commissioner for Energy is being put to the test in the EU Parliament Think tank Ember agrees with candidate Dan Jorgensen's stated aim to prioritise grid modernisation. T&E: Our take on the EU ...
Germany spent a record 26.3 billion euros on supporting renewable energy development in 2017, reports Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, citing data released by the country鈥檚 four power transmission grid operators (TSO) on Renewable ...
19 Mar 2019, 14:11 Kerstine Appunn Coal Climate & CO2 91tv The growth in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable electricity output triggered by the country鈥檚 energy transition policy is 鈥渜uite an achievement,鈥� the JP Morgan Energy Outlook 2019 authored by ...
25 Aug 2021, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics 91tv Nearly all parties expecting to gain seats in Germany's parliament are open to completing the country's coal exit well before the official 2038 end date. At a ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:12 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Germany covered over one third of its entire net electricity ...
13 Dec 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Renewables 91tv About 54 percent of gross power production in Germany is set to come from renewables in 2024, figures published 聽by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) have shown. With an ...
06 Jun 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cars 91tv Figures used by the government for planning the buildout of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Germany are 鈥渕assively鈥� overestimating the actual need for new charging points, ...
20 Mar 2024, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Edgar Meza Gas Grid 91tv The German government has kickstarted the planning for a gradual decommissioning of the country鈥檚 gas distribution network in order to organise a smooth transition to climate-neutral ...
The German government exports the Energiewende and supports the development of renewable energies outside the country鈥檚 borders, like on the Greek island of Tilos, writes Handelsblatt. Economy minister Sigmar Gabriel is on a two day visit to Greece to ...
10 Dec 2024, 13:33 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs 91tv Achieving climate neutrality before mid ...
Fairer distribution of the costs of the Germany's energy transition could save consumers and the retail sector up to 5.2 billion euros, according to a joint paper from the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) and the Association of ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:38 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Frankfurter Rundschau The three candidates in the race to succeed CDU party leader Armin ...
27 Mar 2024, 11:44 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv German municipalities fail to adequately deal with the question of retiring no-longer-needed local gas grids due to the energy transition, because they face high financial and regulatory hurdles, ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 onshore wind power capacity continued to grow apace in early 2025 after four gigawatts (GW) of new turbines were licensed in the first three months of the year, industry ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:27 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The ...
14 May 2025, 13:16 Jack McGovan Solar 91tv A quarter of people in Germany either already have or plan to install a mini solar module on their balcony or in their garden, found a survey by comparison portal Verivox. Around nine percent of ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called the expansion of the country鈥檚 power grid an 鈥渁bsolute priority鈥� for the next legislative period. At a convention of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), Merkel said Germany was 鈥渓agging behind on all ...
04 Dec 2024, 12:23 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market 91tv An energy system dominated by solar and wind energy does not require baseload power stations to guarantee supply security, German research academies聽 have said. 鈥淭he academy project ...
19 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024, 09:33 91tv Team Electric-Vehicles.com: Nio in talks to buy Audi鈥檚 factory in Belgium Move is part of its strategy to establish local production in Europe and avoid European Commission tariffs on imported Chinese EVs. Euractiv: Europe's ...
18 Apr 2024, 12:58 Julian Wettengel Wind 91tv Permits for new onshore wind power installations in Germany reached a record high of 2.6 gigawatt (GW) in the first three months of 2024, said industry group Fachagentur Windenergie an Land (FA ...
30 Jun 2022, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv Germany wants to rapidly increase the expansion of heat pumps and install 500,000 new units annually from 2024 onwards, said the economy and climate ministry, after agreeing a joint declaration ...
02 May 2023, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 91tv By April, household energy costs in Germany had dropped nearly one third in the six months since the peak of the energy crisis, an聽 analysis 聽by price comparison website Verivox has ...
31 May 2023, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Policy dpa / n-tv The German government coalition has agreed on a draft law for reforming municipal heating regulation as part of a wider package to decarbonise the country鈥檚 heating sector, news agency dpa ...
22 Feb 2023, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Better financing, hedging tools and support for innovation are needed to strengthen the production of energy transition technologies in Germany and Europe, economy ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:19 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 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & ...
04 Sep 2020, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Solar pv magazine A growing number of regional utility companies are showing interest in buying electricity generated from solar PV installations that are more than 20 years old and will cease to receive feed-in payments ...
22 Feb 2024, 14:13 Expert DBV- German Farmers鈥� Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices ...
The EEG surcharge 鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 levy to support renewables expansion that consumers pay with their power bill 鈥� will fall to 6.792 cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) in 2018, from 6.88 ct/kWh in 2017. The country鈥檚 four transmission grid operators (TSOs) ...
The German Solar Association (BSW) and the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) 鈥渞egard the first joint auction [for onshore wind and solar power] as a failure,鈥� and call for separate auctions to be held in the future, the two organisations write in a ...
07 Aug 2020, 14:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind International Tageszeitung (taz) German energy traders are buying more electricity produced with renewable energy installations in Norway, aiming to fulfilling green energy requirements in Germany, a practice that ...
13 Jan 2023, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv For the comprehensive electrification of sectors like heating and road transport, Germany must massively expand renewables and update its energy infrastructure with investments of 900 ...
13 May 2022, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv An alliance of environmental NGOs has called on parliamentarians to make significant changes to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned acceleration of liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects to ensure that the current ...
27 May 2025, 12:17 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Technology WirtschaftsWoche In view of the massive energy capacity needed for artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, German energy company RWE is calling for government support to ensure the German ...
26 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: Vattenfall to build Germany's largest offshore wind farm Swedish power utility Vattenfall said it has made a final investment decision for two wind farm projects in the German North Sea, Nordlicht 1 and 2, the ...
19 Jun 2019, 12:01 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv / ...
20 Jun 2024, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Heating Tagesspiegel Background Municipalities should expand their mandatory planning for future climate-friendly heating to encompass general energy distribution, think tank Agora Energiewende has proposed, ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:25 S枚ren Amelang Policy Security Tagesspiegel Background The German government has agreed to hand extra power to the country鈥檚 grid agency to improve the protection of critical energy infrastructure. The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is ...
13 Jan 2025, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Electricity Cost & Prices Elections & Politics 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background With just six weeks to go before 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parliamentary elections in late February, several parties have specified their ...
12 May 2025, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Die Zeit Most people in Germany say they do not think that the country is going to meet is national climate target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, a聽 survey 聽commissioned by ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:05 The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) 鈥� the second strongest polling party ahead of Germany's snap elections on 23 February 鈥� is the only major party to outright reject the scientific consensus behind human-induced climate ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Digitalisation 91tv Cloud and edge computing hold great promise to increase the efficiency of a future decentralised energy system, yet the widespread use and acceptance of these solutions still face ...
18 Jul 2024
18 Jul 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Ursula von der Leyen: "We'll stay the course on the EU Green Deal and the goals we set for 2030 and 2050" " We will now focus on implementation & investment" and "put forward a Clean ...
11 Jan 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Technology 91tv The German government cabinet has adopted draft legislation to accelerate the sluggish introduction of smart meters in the country. Economy minister Robert Habeck called it an important step ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Coal Renewables 91tv The incoming coalition government in the eastern German state of Brandenburg has said it aims to continue the expansion of renewable energies to make the region surrounding the country ...
04 Feb 2020, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Energiewende 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power supply is secure at the moment, but continued grid expansion delays would pose a great challenge, the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) said in a press release accompanying its 8th ...
07 Sep 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government plans to rapidly accelerate the expansion of solar power capacity in the country with several legal changes, energy policy newsletter Tagesspiegel Background reports. ...
21 Mar 2024, 14:07 S枚ren Amelang Grid Cost & Prices Die Zeit / Handelsblatt The German economy ministry is considering to stabilise electricity prices with a new instrument designed to reign in rising grid fees. "I want us to protect private ...
09 Apr 2024, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel / 91tv The first major city in Germany, Augsburg, has announced plans for ending the use of natural gas in its heating system and informed customers ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Policy The age of nuclear power in Germany ended on Saturday (15 April) after more than 60 years with the decommissioning of the country鈥檚 three remaining reactors. Operators said the switch-off happened ...
05 Sep 2024, 13:22 Jennifer Collins Wind Hydrogen Technology A European hydrogen test project has successfully linked a wind turbine with two electrolysers, which could make it possible to generate off-grid green hydrogen at sea and drive down production ...
05 May 2025, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Several environmental and political NGOs have called on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new government to force state-owned gas company SEFE to halt purchases of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) and make a clear ...
22 Dec 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza Society Government S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German Green Party co-leader Ricarda Lang has welcomed criticism from climate activists about the government coalition's climate policies in its first year in office, saying their ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:39 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany should act quickly to kickstart the hydrogen economy with concrete steps as not enough has been done in practice so far, said the Association of German Engineers ...
04 Jan 2021, 12:52 Wind, solar PV and other renewable sources overtook fossil fuels in German power production last year, according to preliminary data by the federal network agency (BNetzA) and think tank Agora Energiewende. Together with record-low ...
10 Jun 2024, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Wind 91tv Germany must pay more attention to social and environmental impacts in its ambitious rollout of offshore wind energy, environmental NGOs and unions have said. 鈥淭he protection of nature, species and ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Wind Hydrogen NDR Germany's northern coastal states are set to expand their efforts to bring hydrogen production from wind power to an industrial scale and better use the turbines' energy potential, ...
10 Jul 2024, 13:15 S枚ren Amelang Coal Policy Tageszeitung / 91tv The German government does not intend to introduce a law to pull forward the country鈥檚 coal power phase-out聽from the officially agreed 2038 exit date to 2030. "A legal ...
22 Dec 2022, 12:40 Germany has taken important steps to secure its energy supply and help households and businesses cope with the energy crisis, but it is important to continue along this path consistently in the coming year, according to the country' ...
05 May 2025, 15:32 The choice for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new transport minister suggests the country is unlikely to face a profound policy overhaul to get the emission-intensive sector on track to meet ambitious 2030 climate targets. Long-serving conservative ...
17 May 2024, 12:34 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv There is a significant potential in the northern Baltic states, especially in Finland, to produce green hydrogen for export to central Europe, said a report by certifier and consultancy DNV, ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:15 Next year will be a difficult one for climate policy, says Susanne Dr枚ge, head of climate protection and energy at the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Governments will have to show whether they are still committed to strong climate ...
04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv BDEW / afp 鈥淭he power price turn-around鈥� Electricity has become cheaper for private consumers for the first time since 2000, the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) reports. ...
11 Oct 2024, 12:28 Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende 91tv Germany should give greater consideration to the uncertain development of economic output and population trends when planning the country鈥檚 future energy and infrastructure ...
21 Aug 2024
21 Aug 2024, 11:01 Carolina Kyllmann Politico: Germany ties itself to Taiwan on chips. It comes with risks. A new microchips plant by world leader TSMC is a boon for Dresden, but Berlin wants to avoid alienating its major trade partner Beijing. Bloomberg: ...
04 Jul 2019, 12:43 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv More than 60 local German utilities have called for the introduction of a mandatory share of renewables-based gases to be added to the country鈥檚 natural gas supply for sectors not covered ...
18 Jul 2022, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Renewables 91tv Renewables have increased their power output in Germany to 49 percent in the first half of 2022, according to first estimates published by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). ...
23 May 2025, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Technology Security Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leading arms manufacturer Rheinmetall is looking to convert a large part of its fuel supply to renewable energy-based e-fuels. At an industry summit hosted by business daily ...
06 Aug 2024
06 Aug 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Georg Zachmann: Share of heat-pumps in new buildings in Germany doubles from <30% in 2019 to >60% in the first month of 2024 Gas-boilers dropped from >50% in 2015 to 5% in the first month of 2024, says Bruegel ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Energy sector experts as well as industry representatives have warned that a shortage of constantly available electricity capacity could lead to new short-lived but ...
18 Oct 2023, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Household consumers in Germany could be hit by rising electricity costs next year as distribution network operators increase their grid fees, energy software company ...
11 Dec 2024, 13:10 Importing green hydrogen via ships is not a viable strategy for the decarbonisation of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 steel and chemical industries, the country鈥檚 government-funded Ariadne energy transition research alliance聽 has warned. These sectors ...
06 May 2025, 14:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 designated next environment minister Carsten Schneider may not have much background in climate policy, but his experience in navigating political divide in the country鈥檚 east and its population鈥檚 fatigue of constant changes ...
15 Nov 2023, 11:44 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv The German government is supporting the construction of a 9,700-kilometre-long pipeline network to transport hydrogen across the country and to its neighbours, the economy ministry said in ...
German wind power expansion accounted for 44 percent of total capacity growth across Europe in 2016, Adam Vaughan reports for the Guardian. There was an 鈥渋ncreasingly small number of countries connecting serious amounts of new wind power鈥� in the EU. ...
20 May 2015
20 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) 鈥淭he godmother of climate receives visitors鈥� The Petersberg Climate Dialogue is Angela Merkel鈥檚 reaction to the failed climate summit of Copenhagen ...
10 Jul 2018, 15:01 Wind and solar power, together with other renewable sources, have overtaken coal as 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most important power source, figures released by the industry group BDEW show. But this milestone in the history of the country鈥檚 energy ...
14 Apr 2025, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables RBB East German energy company LEAG plans to put a major lignite plant in partial reserve from May to September due to the projected high output of renewable power installations in that period, public ...
30 May 2025, 12:37 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Government 91tv The new German coalition government has agreed which measures and policies to tackle as priorities in the coming months, including an act to unlock hundreds of billions of ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:18 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal Nuclear phase-out 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear and coal phase-out both took a step towards their completion on the last day of 2021, when ...
20 Jan 2025
20 Jan 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Trump to declare national energy emergency, unlocking new powers Actions set to touch full spectrum of the US energy industry in bid to unleash domestic production. European Commission: Strategic dialogue on the ...
23 Sep 2020, 15:30 Germany's government has agreed on an overhaul of the country's Renewable Energy Act, the core legislation for its landmark energy transition, to enable a share of 65 percent renewables in 2030 power consumption and a ...
26 Aug 2021, 13:45 Charlotte Nijhuis Solar Cities 91tv German cities are failing to fully utilise solar PV installations on new building rooftops, according to the country鈥檚 largest green power provider LichtBlick. The ratio of newly ...
German business association CDU Economic Council, associated with Angela Merkel鈥檚 Christian Democratic Union (CDU), called on Germany and the EU to work towards a global regime to reduce CO鈧� emissions 鈥渓ike the ETS鈥� (European Union Emissions Trading ...
03 Dec 2024
03 Dec 2024, 11:35 91tv Team Nature: Why the EU must reset its Green Deal 鈥� or be left behind- comment The world has changed since Europe鈥檚 ambitious climate package was designed. Here鈥檚 how the agreement should evolve. Reuters: Dutch power grid group ...
Due to the end of their 20-year life span of guaranteed support payments, about 20 gigawatt (GW) of wind power capacity in Germany will be retired by 2023 as their operation is no longer profitable, Simone Peter, head of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Renewable Energy ...
29 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Energy associations Call for fair competition conditions for power storage facilities Energy business associations BDEW, BEE, BNE, BVES, VDMA and VKU have called on the parliamentary ...
06 Oct 2020, 13:16 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Hydrogen Heating Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Clean ...
16 May 2025, 14:30 As Croatia goes to the polls for local elections on 18 May the green transition has been relatively absent in political campaigns. Citizen participation in the transition has picked up with the opening of the first large-scale solar ...
21 Mar 2025
21 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: German energy transition could be 300 billion euros cheaper with more efficiency, finds report BCG & BDI industry association say investments currently planned in renewables, power grids and hydrogen far exceed ...
14 Jul 2015
14 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv RWE 鈥淧oll 鈥� Lignite is essential stabiliser for energy supply鈥� Two thirds of Germans believe electricity prices have a large influence on the competitiveness of German industry, according to a ...
01 Nov 2023, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Cost & Prices Policy 91tv The German government has greenlit a subsidy worth 5.5 billion euros to go towards grid fees in 2024 in a bid to cushion the impact of rising electricity prices on ...
After 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parliamentary elections in September, the new government should create a capacity market and push the integration of transport and heating into the power market, according to Innogy CEO Peter Terium. 鈥淲ith this capacity market, we keep ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Gas dpa / ntv / Handelsblatt Deutsche ReGas, the operator of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on the island of R眉gen, expects a much higher utilisation rate of the installation this ...
20 Mar 2025, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International Handelsblatt / 91tv Enthusiasm for Tesla purchases has waned considerably in Germany in the wake of the political activities of the US car company鈥檚 CEO, Elon Musk, according to market ...
24 Apr 2020, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Storage Cost & Prices S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Reinsurer Munich Re has said it will be the first to offer insurance of the long-term performance of large-scale storage facilities, writes S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The possibility ...
17 Jun 2021, 12:00 As the German election campaign kicks into its next gear, the chancellor candidates of the country鈥檚 major parties met face to face on Wednesday to discuss climate and energy issues at an event organised by energy industry association ...
30 Jun 2022, 14:07 On 1 July,聽Germany marks the end of its landmark renewables levy on consumer power prices. The surcharge helped to spur the growth of wind and solar power capacity for more than two decades but has also been criticised for contributing ...
16 Aug 2018, 16:59 While touring critical power grid projects in northern Germany, energy minister Peter Altmaier also faced a troubled wind industry that fears its golden years in the country are over. Under pressure from workers and local politicians, ...
08 Feb 2018, 00:00 After weeks of intensive negotiations, Germany's would-be government partners have agreed on a coalition draft treaty. The 91tv presents first reactions to texts on transport, climate and energy. [UPDATE adds VDA, VDMA ...
22 Mar 2024, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out 91tv / Reuters Novel nuclear power plant designs do not resolve the technology鈥檚 fundamental challenge of hazardous nuclear waste, a report commissioned by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Office for ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 Social Democratic Party (SPD) has said in聽 its draft election campaign programme 聽that it aims to ensure the country is competitive in industry ...
18 Oct 2023, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Grid Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Germany's coalition government is considering steps to enable the use of more green electricity that is currently curtailed due to grid bottlenecks, ...
07 Feb 2025
07 Feb 2025, 11:27 91tv Team Climate Home: UN gives countries more time to submit 鈥渜uality鈥� climate plans for 2035 The head of the UN climate change body has urged countries to submit new 鈥渇irst-rate鈥� climate targets by September, after only a handful of ...
12 Jan 2022, 12:20 Faced with a 鈥渄rastic backlog鈥� of too-high emissions left by the previous government and with not enough measures in place to reach the 2030 climate targets, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new minister for the economy and climate, Robert Habeck, has ...
11 Feb 2015, 00:00 Analysts have welcomed a new planning framework for the German grid that works on the basis of less lignite being burned in Germany, saying grid development must serve the country鈥檚 climate targets. Expert DIW- German Institute for ...
10 Oct 2016
The total cost of the German energy transition in the electricity sector until 2025 will amount to more than 520 billion euros, according to a study commissioned by industry lobby group Initiative New Social Market Economy (INSM). The largest part of the ...
10 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024, 12:00 91tv Team RWE: Head of German energy company "not concerned" about Trump's effect on renewables "It鈥檚 not all down to politics," says CEO Krebber, expects U.S. green power business to flourish. dpa: Ford's ...
For Germany to meet the Paris Climate Agreement targets, a phase out of coal-fired power generation must be complete by 2035 and the oldest facilities shut down as soon as 2019, according to a study by the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) and ...
03 Sep 2019, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy ...
14 May 2019, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Energiewende The rapid expansion of renewable power sources in Germany has not been matched by a parallel drop in carbon emissions and energy research experts of聽 science academy ESYS say 聽that there ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:24 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities Handelsblatt The coronavirus crisis is accelerating investments in sustainability rather than pushing aside climate change as a ...
24 Mar 2025, 11:00 Geopolitical disruption through events like Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine or a new transatlantic rift can speed up the rapid build-up of renewable energies, says Francesco La Camera, director-general of the International Renewable Energy ...
24 Sep 2024, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv The rollout of public electric vehicle charging points in Germany continued to progress at pace in the first half of 2024, despite existing charging networks not being well utilised, said the ...
28 Jan 2021, 13:25 Onshore wind power- the cornerstone of Germany's decarbonisation plans- 聽has suffered from chronically low additional installations in the past years. The industry seems to have achieved a turnaround in 2020, connecting almost 50 ...
20 Dec 2024, 10:13 Large-scale solar PV developers have not been able to overcome Nigeria鈥檚 reputation as a risky place to do business, a problem which can be seen across sub-Saharan Africa. Despite tremendous solar potential, very little of it has been ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal Renewables Policy Tagesspiegel Background Germany's economy ministry (BMWK), which is currently run by the Greens, who will likely not be part of the new coalition government, has presented ...
07 Oct 2022, 14:55 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Gas Cost & Prices 91tv There ...
12 Mar 2019, 13:48 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Thanks to strong winds, electricity production in Germany achieved a new record share of nearly 65 ...
11 Apr 2024, 13:21 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Wind EU 91tv The Federation ...
15 May 2024, 12:32 Jack McGovan Citizens' energy Energiewende 91tv Convincing those living in rural areas of the importance of the energy transition is a 鈥渂asic requirement鈥� for transforming the energy system successfully, according to a ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:36 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Energiewende ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices Spiegel Online Preferential treatment of energy-intensive industries in Germany聽 cost households and non-privileged companies up to eight billion euros in 2017, Stefan Schultz ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:03 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Solar Storage 91tv The number of solar power storage devices ...
After three years of rapid shrinking and the loss of more than 100,000 jobs, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 solar industry seems to have bottomed out, Franz Hubik writes on Handelsblatt Online. 鈥淎lthough the market has shrunk to a fifth of its original size, it now was at ...
Germany has built about 850 kilometres of a total of 7,700 kilometres of 鈥渉igh priority鈥� transmission lines, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) says in a press release accompanying its annual report. 鈥� Until these transmission lines are implemented, we ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:36 A sudden and sharp electricity price spike during a day of very little wind and solar power output in Germany has prompted the country鈥檚 grid regulator to investigate a possible market manipulation. Fossil backup plants that are meant ...
26 Jul 2021, 12:26 Jessica Bateman Wind 91tv The total share of German wind power produced by North Sea plants rose to 16.63 percent so far in 2021 despite an overall generation decrease compared to the first half 2020 due to calm weather, ...
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 2016 is set to be another eventful year in German energy policy. The Paris climate summit underlined the need to reduce emissions even further, which will ultimately involve painful decisions about the future of coal. A series of ...
14 Aug 2015
14 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Network Agency / German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) 33 successful bids in second PV auction round 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 second-ever photovoltaic tendering round has resulted in 33 successful bids ...
20 May 2020, 13:50 Months of dispute within the government coalition and the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have significantly slowed down progress on a number of important German energy transition projects. The coal exit law has yet to be adopted by ...
06 Jul 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs WirtschaftsWoche The local availability of renewable power sources could increasingly become a boon for northern German states and could shift the country鈥檚 industrial centre of gravity ...
30 Nov 2021, 10:50 The three "traffic light coalition" parties have agreed to form Germany's next government and tabled a coalition treaty that they promise will put the country on a path compatible with Paris Climate Agreement 's ...
13 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024, 12:00 91tv Team Wall Street Journal: RWE warns of U.S. election's impact on offshore wind German energy company outlines 1.6 bln dollar buyback, says project off U.S. east coast could be delayed. CNBC: Rivian-Volkswagen joint venture ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:51 Edgar Meza Renewables Tageszeitung / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 hydropower sector is up in arms over the federal government鈥檚 plan to stop the subsidisation of small hydroelectric power plants due to nature conservation concerns, ...
04 Feb 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Policy Welt am Sonntag The parliamentary group leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative party CDU, Ralph Brinkhaus, told newspaper Welt am Sonntag in an interview that the German ...
05 Jul 2024
05 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: Germany to scrutinize Chinese turbine deal for offshore project-Government to look at impact on security and competition-Hamburg-based asset manager set to purchase 16 turbines Electrive: Tesla gets ...
02 Jun 2016
02 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淔ailure desired鈥� Germany, the homeland of the energy transition, treats renewables like a relative who annoys everyone with permanent demands, writes Michael ...
10 Feb 2025, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Solar 91tv Bids for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest solar photovoltaics (PV) support tender exceeded the auctioned total capacity by more than twice, said the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in a press release. Projects ...
13 Mar 2025
13 Mar 2025, 12:02 91tv Team Reuters: German parliament debates borrowing bonanza as clock ticks down Germany's outgoing lower house of parliament began a special session on Thursday (13 March) to debate a 500 billion euro fund for infrastructure and ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:12 Jessica Bateman Gas Policy 91tv It is possible to ensure the efficient use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a transitional solution in Germany over the coming winter and beyond without losing sight of the climate ...
04 Apr 2022, 13:51 The German government presented another piece of the puzzle to hurry along the growth of renewables in its energy mix, seen by now as much of a bid for fossil fuel import independence as a means of achieving climate neutrality by 2045. ...
03 Feb 2021, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany's coal plants provided the bulk of the country鈥檚 power consumption amid a period of cloudy short days and little wind in early January, foreshadowing the ...
06 Jun 2024, 13:51 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv Nearly 60 percent of all electricity fed into the German grid in the first three months of 2024 ...
17 Jun 2015
17 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv European Commission 鈥淓U on track to meeting 20 percent renewable energy target鈥� The EU expects member states are on track to meet their target of a 20 percent share of renewables in gross final ...
12 Aug 2024, 13:23 S枚ren Amelang Carbon removal Industry Policy Tagesspiegel Background / rbb The German state of Brandenburg, which surrounds the capital Berlin, plans to quicken the controversial capturing, transport, storage and utilisation of CO2 to ...
German energy policy will not serve as a global energy policy blueprint, but as inspiration, according to the World Energy Council (WEC) Germany. In a survey, 60 percent of energy experts from 42 countries said the Energiewende could not serve as a global ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Utilities Zeit Online Germany's electricity grids are not yet equipped for the projected increase of power consumers such as electric cars and heat pumps, the CEO of the local utility of southern German city ...
13 Mar 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Wind dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The planned offshore wind power expansion could affect up to one quarter of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 exclusive economic zone in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, said the ...
29 Apr 2025
29 Apr 2025, 13:45 91tv Team Bloomberg: Spain slowly returning to normal after crippling blackout Spain and Portugal were returning to some semblance of normality early on 29 April, with many questions remaining about what caused one of Europe鈥檚 worst ...
The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), with the support of the federal economy ministry (BMWi), will invest about 18 million euros in a research project on possible effects on human health by power lines, BfS said in a press release. 鈥淪o far, ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv The German energy crisis has not ended yet, but has become 鈥渕anageable鈥� to a point where the government is confident it could be overcome for good by 2024, economy and climate minister ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:12 Jack McGovan Renewables Business & Jobs 91tv The proportion of advertised jobs related to the energy transition rose from 1.8 to 3.8 percent between 2019 and 2024 in Germany despite multiple economic crises during that ...
The maximum support rate for onshore wind power installations in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables auctions scheme has been raised to 6.3 cents per kilowatt hour to ensure competition among bidders and a continuous expansion of the energy source, the Federal Grid ...
10 Feb 2015
10 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Reuters 鈥淪tudy 鈥� Germany spends billions on export of coal technology鈥� Germany and France are the EU鈥檚 biggest sponsors of the export of coal technology, according to a confidential OECD study ...
18 Jun 2024, 13:19 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv Nine gas transmission system operators (TSOs) from countries bordering the Baltic Sea have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that declares the aim to coordinate and facilitate the buildout ...
17 Nov 2021, 13:03 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Electricity market Renewables 91tv Green power purchase ...
28 Oct 2021, 13:37 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas 91tv / EurActiv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chancellor-in-waiting Olaf Scholz (SPD) has re-iterated that the country must build new gas-fired power plants to complement renewables and guarantee ...
03 Jun 2016
03 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Recharge 鈥淭housands protest in Berlin to save Energiewende鈥� Several thousand protesters mobilised by the renewables sector demonstrated against current government plans to reform ...
06 Feb 2024, 13:22 Jack McGovan Solar 91tv / Handelsblatt Solar power is set to lead renewable power expansion both in terms of capacity and generation in Europe in 2024, with Germany set to install more solar capacity than any other country, ...
05 Apr 2024, 11:52 Edgar Meza Solar 91tv Germany has significantly more potential for the expansion of ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) systems on open spaces than current requirement estimates for a completely renewable electricity system, ...
10 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025, 10:21 91tv Team Copernicus Climate Change Service: 2024 鈥� a second record-breaking year, following the exceptional 2023 Multiple global records were broken, for greenhouse gas levels, and for both air temperature and sea surface temperature, ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:30 Edgar Meza Adaptation Society 91tv Germany's major aid organisations are urging the future government to increase civil protections in light of " the disasters resulting from rapidly increasing global warming and ...
26 Jul 2021, 11:54 One of the first project financed interconnectors in Europe is due to be built between Germany and the UK by 2023-24. The opening up of the interconnector market to private investment has been promoted by both the UK and German ...
01 Apr 2020, 15:12 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Solar pv magazine The combined capacity of Germany's solar pv installations rose to almost 50 gigawatts (GW) in February, further approaching the controversial government cap of 52 gigawatts,聽 reports ...
11 Jun 2024, 13:51 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Storage WirtschaftsWoche Carmaker Volkswagen (VW) plans to install large battery storage capacities in northern Germany to store wind and solar power for times of little output, ...
02 Oct 2024, 12:49 S枚ren Amelang Electricity Transport Heating International 91tv Germany and the UK are lagging behind on the path to climate neutrality, while Denmark and Norway are making 鈥渟ignificant strides鈥�, according to a report by the ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said his government would pave the way for prolonging the runtime of all three of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 remaining reactors until April 2023. The German leader thus intervened to settle a dispute about the delayed end of ...
23 Aug 2024, 12:39 Jack McGovan Solar n-tv Germany saw a record level of solar power output in July despite sunshine levels being lower than the previous year, broadcaster n-tv reported. At 10.1 terawatt hours (TWh), solar power accounted for around 43 ...
Germany's big wind-power producing state Schleswig-Holstein faces "difficult" coalition talks after the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU)- the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel- garnered a surprisingly clear election win on Sunday, ...
04 Dec 2015
04 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Federal Network Agency / TenneT New law on underground cables in the transmission grid German parliament has passed a law detailing that new direct current transmission lines will be put underground 鈥� this will be ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:18 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 ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas 91tv / Tagesspiegel / WDR The construction of new gas-fired power plants that are supposed to provide backup capacity for the German electricity system amid the transition to renewable power needs ...
11 Nov 2024, 13:52 Several days of little sunshine and wind have pushed down renewable electricity production in Germany in early November, causing an increase of fossil fuel use and high power prices. However, energy analysts said such conditions are ...
28 Sep 2018, 15:37 Germany's solar power industry used to be a leader of the renewable technology's global expansion but a series of political blunders has killed off solar power companies and passed the torch on to China, solar power researcher ...
15 Oct 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government 91tv The surcharge on German power customers' bills to support the expansion of renewable energy sources will fall from currently 6.75 to 6.5 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) ...
16 Jan 2024, 13:09 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Onshore wind power was significantly ...
07 Nov 2024
07 Nov 2024, 10:00 91tv Team Politico: 聽 Scholz bows out of COP29 climate summit after government collapses 聽 The decision follows a dramatic breakdown of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three-party coalition government. Bloomberg: Italy renews push to revise EU鈥檚 combustion ...
01 Apr 2025, 12:50 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Germany is already experiencing the consequences of climate change and undergoing accelerated warming, according to a report by the country鈥檚 National Meteorological Service (DWD). The DWD ...
21 Dec 2020, 12:52 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Utilities Tagesspiegel / Die Welt German energy company RWE has shut down its first lignite unit as part of the country's coal phase-out, ...
26 Jan 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Renewable Energy Act | EEG Handelsblatt German power transmission grid operators have said that an additional 7.8 billion euros from the country's budget is needed to pay out renewable energy support in 2024, reports ...
16 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024, 10:45 91tv Team The Guardian: Germany: parliament to declare no confidence in chancellor Olaf Scholz Chancellor triggered path to elections, due to take place on 23 February, by firing finance minister Christian Lindner last month. DeSmog: ...
25 Jun 2020, 13:28 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Solar Wind 91tv / pv magazine Germany's latest renewable auctions have ...
16 Jul 2024, 13:52 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 weakened industrial sector coupled with the expansion of renewable energy sources have resulted in a record drop in the country鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions traded in the EU Emissions Trading System ...
13 Jul 2021, 13:07 The German energy ministry has increased the country鈥檚 estimated power needs in 2030-- a figure that will be crucial after the general elections in September, when a new government has to set renewable energy expansion targets based on ...
30 Jan 2015
30 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Zeit Online "Germany warns against overly strict thresholds for cars" Under EU regulations, by 2021 CO2 emissions from new cars must not exceed an average of 95 grams per kilometre. By ...
20 Dec 2021, 13:33 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Policy Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Robert Habeck, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new minister for economic affairs and climate protection, will present an 鈥渙pening balance鈥� at the ...
17 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
27 Mar 2025, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility 91tv People in Germany's cities are completing more journeys by bicycle or foot, while the dominance of cars is decreasing, the latest 'Mobility in Germany ' report commissioned by ...
17 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016, 00:00 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Federal Environment Agency 鈥淐limate protection contributions of the transport sector by 2050鈥� Germany's transport sector will need to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by about 98 percent to ...
15 May 2025, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government 91tv / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new chancellor Friedrich Merz has announced a mixture of policy restarts and continuity in his first government declaration in parliament, ...
09 May 2025, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Government EU ARD / Tagesspiegel / 91tv The new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has called for a 鈥渞estart鈥� of Franco-German relations at his first international trip on Wednesday (7 May), after his ...
07 Jun 2024, 13:47 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parliament has passed a government reform package designed to speed up the rollout of wind power, as well as industry decarbonisation, by removing red tape. The amendment to ...
Additional charges on electricity levied by the state are one of the greatest concerns of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industrial companies, Daniel Wetzel writes in Die Welt. According to a survey conducted by the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Fossil fuels Cost & Prices RND / Tagesspiegel Background Germany is reducing its fossil fuel imports even as the cost of buying them has increased from 2021 to 2023, according to a report by the 脰ko-Institut ...
02 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang Transport Cost & Prices Elections & Politics dpa / Der Spiegel / DVZ 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 railway operator Deutsche Bahn has laid claims to almost one third of the entire 500-billion-euro infrastructure fund planned by the ...
06 Dec 2024
06 Dec 2024, 12:28 91tv Team S&P Globa l: Spain's Grenergy sees Germany, US as prime markets for battery storage expansion "Fantastic opportunity in Germany for stand-alone [battery] projects," chairman says. AFP: Europe's oldest ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:32 Expert Left Party Die Linke Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Edgar Meza Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background [UPDATE adds draft programme key content] The German Left Party (Die Linke) looks set to out ...
19 Feb 2024, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar 91tv The potential of so-called prosumers in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition should be exploited more to reduce costs and increase the system's stability, the Federation of German Energy and ...
07 May 2020, 13:56 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Solar pv magazine Germany's market for solar energy and home storage systems will collapse if the government doesn't deliver on its promise to remove the existing cap for support payments, ...
10 Sep 2021, 14:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cost & Prices 91tv The latest round of offshore wind power auctions in Germany has led to three bids claiming zero support for their operations wining the tender, the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:24 Edgar Meza Coal Renewables 91tv German energy group LEAG, the country鈥檚 second biggest electricity producer and a key lignite company, plans to build the country鈥檚 largest renewable energy site in the eastern Lusatia coal ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Efficiency Heating 91tv State support granted for energy efficiency and renewable energy measures in private households increased to 14.4 billion euros in 2024, up from 12.3 billion euros in 2023, said ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann International EU Handelsblatt France and Germany are preparing a relaunch of their cooperation on energy policy, competitiveness, and technology for when conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz has formed his ...
06 Nov 2024
06 Nov 2024, 13:24 91tv Team Euronews: Thousands of jobs to go at German car parts maker Sch盲ffler The company is downsizing at 10 locations in Germany and five other sites in Europe, further illustrating the challenges facing the European car industry. ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government 91tv A monitoring system for the expansion of renewable energy sources and better planning tools for companies are needed to ensure a reliable transformation of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy, ...
20 Feb 2025, 13:45 Jack McGovan Electricity Heating 91tv Corrects third paragraph to specify share of heat pump sales compared to all heating sytems sold, a previous version of the article incorrectly stated this was the share of heat pumps ...
10 Jul 2019, 18:03 LEAG, eastern 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest energy and mining company, is building a 50 MW battery that could help stabilise the country鈥檚 electricity grid partly through renewable energy. Environment minister Svenja Schulze lauded the project in ...
21 Feb 2024, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs rbb Residents of the Gr眉nheide municipality near Berlin have rejected the planned expansion of the local Tesla factory in a non-binding referendum, public broadcaster rbb reported. Asked about ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Industry Business & Jobs Augsburger Allgemeine The head of industry chamber IHK Schwaben has warned 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 southern economic powerhouse Bavaria could fall behind regions in the north and east of the country ...
13 Dec 2024, 13:38 Unusually low wind power output has caused another 'Dunkelflaute' period in Germany with significantly reduced renewable power production and extreme price hikes in short-term electricity trading. Most customers are shielded ...
03 Jul 2020, 12:48 In a vote that has been hailed as "historic", Germany's parliament has adopted a law that will ensure the phase-out of coal power by no later than 2038. The decision follows two years of intense debate about the country& ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:44 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:33 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Renewables Solar 91tv / pv magazine Germany's ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:10 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv Germany has awarded the most onshore wind contracts ever following the latest round of tenders by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). "The current round of tenders represents a record with almost ...
20 Dec 2021, 10:55 The start of Germany's new government makes 2022 a crucial year for the country's landmark energy transition. All eyes are on the three-way coalition's first steps towards implementing its ambitious climate plans, which ...
14 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 聽 Ernst & Young 鈥淐autious upward trend: Approval of the Energiewende rises slightly鈥� Business approval for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy is gradually rising, according to Ernst & Young鈥檚 quarterly Energiewende Index ...
14 Feb 2025
14 Feb 2025, 10:50 91tv Team Eurelectric: Europe needs an energy security strategy based on clean electrification A new report demonstrates the need for a new approach to energy security based on clean electrification to reduce fuel imports dependence, ...
15 May 2024, 12:35 Jack McGovan Renewables 91tv Germany could meet 25 percent of its heat demand from deep geothermal energy and the government should therefore make better use of this energy source, says NGO Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) in a ...
09 Apr 2021, 12:20 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Cars 91tv Berlin has expanded its ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Hydrogen 91tv Eastern 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest lignite mine operator, LEAG, is ready to build one of Germany's first hydrogen-ready gas power plants. The company said the gas turbine power plant ...
06 Nov 2019, 09:11 Energy and climate policy observers grade Angela Merkel's government 3.7 points out of 10 for climate efforts in a mid-term review. Industry experts, researchers and lobbyists say plans for a CO2 price in transport and heating ...
16 Apr 2024, 11:59 Jennifer Collins Solar Handelsblatt After months of wrangling, Germany's three-party coalition has agreed a long-disputed raft of measures to boost solar expansion in the country, reports newspaper Handelsblatt. The new measures, ...
18 Jan 2016
18 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv WindGuard / VDMA 2015 record year for offshore wind power installation Offshore wind capacity of 2,282.4 megawatt (MW) was connected to the German grid in 2015, Deutsche WindGuard has calculated. ...
02 Oct 2024, 13:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three-party coalition government is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in several elections, casting a shadow over the progress of the country鈥檚 energy transition. Energy industry and ...
Achieving a 65 percent share of renewables in power consumption by 2030, as determined by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government coalition, will require a clear regulatory framework and parallel investments in infrastructure, work on which must start as soon as possible, ...
14 Apr 2023, 13:42 The decade-long debate about the the role of nuclear power in Germany flared up for a last time before the remaining three reactors are shut down on Saturday 15 April. Politicians from government coalition party FDP and the opposition ...
27 Aug 2024, 13:29 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Hydrogen NDR German state-run energy company Uniper is trialling the use of a former salt mine in northern Germany for large-scale hydrogen storage, public broadcaster NDR聽 ...
19 Sep 2022, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv German power transmission grid operator Amprion has said that it does not expect blackouts this winter despite 鈥渁n extremely tense supply situation鈥� caused by the current energy crisis. Even the ...
06 Aug 2024, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Digitalisation 91tv As the share of renewables in Germany's electricity mix increases, so does the potential for households to benefit from lower wholesale power prices. In the first ...
07 Oct 2024
07 Oct 2024, 10:53 91tv Team Bruegel: Europe鈥檚 2040 climate target: four critical risks and how to manage them Achieving target will require massive expansion of renewable electricity generation, drastic reductions in fossil-fuel use, energy efficiency ...
A group of trade unionists, regional economics and energy ministers and industry leaders has called for Germany to increase its offshore capacity to at least 20 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, and at least 30 GW by 2035, Craig Richard reports for Windpower ...
15 Mar 2016
15 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淲as the nuclear phase-out unconstitutional?鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe will on Tuesday and Wednesday hear parties in the case of the country鈥檚 nuclear phase ...
17 May 2024
17 May 2024, 11:28 After months of negotiations, politicians in the Netherlands reached a deal to form a new government that will include populist parties: the nationalist Party for Freedom (PVV) and the agrarian-populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB). ...
03 Feb 2015
03 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淏avaria does not need two grid extensions鈥� The southern German state of Bavaria, one of the country鈥檚 industrial powerhouses, has completed a three-month 鈥淓nergy Dialogue鈥� ...
09 Dec 2016, 00:00 Germans will elect a new federal government in autumn 2017. Security, economic stability and refugees are likely to dominate election campaigns, but keeping the Energiewende on a steady course and fulfilling 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 international ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany should ensure an orderly retirement of its gas distribution grid to avoid enormous costs for consumers and billions of euros of stranded assets for operators, as the pipeline network is set ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal parliament has approved a controversial revamp of the country鈥檚 energy transition. The government coalition of economy minister Sigmar Gabriel鈥檚 Social Democrats and Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 Conservatives secured a majority vote for ...
24 Apr 2025, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Heating 91tv / ZDF Many people in Germany have no idea that the planned expansion of EU carbon pricing could significantly push up their fossil fuel heating costs, in some ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:49 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Cars 91tv Germany is to accelerate the expansion of its electromobility charging network to facilitate the switch to electric vehicles, transport minister Volker Wissing (FDP) announced after ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Aachener Zeitung The case of a new wind farm in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that took nine years to complete illustrates the difficulties project developers across the country face when trying to ...
28 Aug 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society 91tv The majority of people in Germany view renewable energies favourably, but many worry about costs associated with the energy transition and there are clear differences between the ...
15 Jun 2023, 12:36 Jessica Bateman Business & Jobs Manager Magazin Germany needs to recruit an additional 100,000 workers to meet the country鈥檚 solar expansion targets, according to the German Solar Industry Association (BSW). Speaking at industry ...
25 May 2023, 14:01 S枚ren Amelang Grid Hydrogen 91tv / dpa The German government has agreed rules to build an initial 鈥渃ore鈥� hydrogen network that is set to enter operation by 2032. "Our goal is the rapid ramp-up of the hydrogen market, ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables 91tv The German government has proposed the right steps to accelerate the rollout of photovoltaic (PV) systems, local utilities association VKU said ahead of a parliamentary discussion about ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics 91tv The absence of climate mitigation measures is the greatest threat to prosperity and security in Germany and Europe, a group of environmental organisations said in a joint ...
29 Jan 2015
29 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau Minister sees Bavaria as showcase for the Energiewende Bavarian economy minister Ilse Aigner says that far from blocking the energy transition, her state is a driver of the ...
22 Jul 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Society 91tv Construction of more than 2,000 onshore wind turbines in Germany-- with a combined capacity of nearly 10 gigawatts (GW)-- is on hold due to bureaucratic hurdles and delays in ...
01 Dec 2020, 14:09 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Cars 91tv New registrations of cars with alternative drive systems ...
08 Jan 2025, 12:57 Jennifer Collins Industry Tagesspiegel / 91tv Companies in Germany are increasingly experiencing short power outages of up to three minutes, with the number of companies reporting such "flickers", as they are ...
24 Jan 2025, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics BR / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Merkur A controversial decision by the government of Bavaria to delay the German state鈥檚 climate neutrality target to 2045 has drawn heavy criticism ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv With a rather low offshore wind power capacity expansion of 342 megawatts (MW) in 2022, Germany must quickly gear up to bring the buildout in line with its ambitious renewable power targets, wind ...
22 May 2020, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland An alliance of hard coal plant operators plans to achieve an expansion of the runtime of Germany's seven most modern hard coal plants by ...
