27 Jan 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Government Handelsblatt / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung No agreement was reached at a meeting by the German government coalition leadership convened to settle disputes over climate protection and the construction of ...
07 Feb 2019, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Storage 91tv The batteries of electric cars can make a significant contribution to keeping the power grid stable as power generation shifts towards intermittent renewable energy sources, carmaker ...
04 Mar 2024, 13:19 Jennifer Collins Gas dpa Germany has no plans to downgrade from the "alert level" of its gas emergency plan, saying the supply situation remains "tense" two years after the Russian invasion of Ukraine upended ...
29 Mar 2018, 00:00 A new government with fresh faces for environment, energy, and transport policy is supposed to bring Germany's dented reputation as a climate policy pioneer back on track. Critics point out that apart from ambitious announcements, ...
03 Nov 2014, 00:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Online "Power in ...
14 Jun 2021, 13:07 Edgar Meza Electricity market Renewables WirtschaftsWoche German economic affairs and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said his ministry will submit new calculations for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 expected energy demand in the coming years due to ...
13 Jun 2024, 13:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating 91tv / Klimareporter Supplying households with green hydrogen for heating should not play a major role in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heating sector decarbonisation because of huge planning and implementation ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables 91tv Renewable power generation looks set to cover more than 46 percent of Germany's power consumption in 2020, preliminary figures published by energy industry association BDEW and the ...
20 Jun 2022, 12:23 Edgar Meza Wind Security Der Spiegel Growing tensions between the West and China are leading to increasing concern over the role of Chinese companies in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy sector, particularly in the wind power segment, Spiegel reports. A ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Coal dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Seven lignite-fired power plant units with a combined capacity of 3.1 gigawatt will finally be shut down in Germany at the end of March, after their decommissioning had been postponed due ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:29 Edgar Meza Electricity market Renewables 91tv Higher electricity demand, fewer fossil power plants, and insufficient renewable energy, combined with extreme weather conditions, could lead to gaps in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power supply ...
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04 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Tageszeitung "Wind turbines that can float" The Dresden-based Gicon group is producing a prototype for a floating wind turbine (see picture above), Bernward Janzig from the taz reports. ...
02 Jul 2019, 17:48 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grid was strained at several moments in June because too little electricity was fed into the system, according to the four power transmission grid operators (TSO). Power market experts said the reason for the 鈥渧ery tense ...
25 Sep 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv Propelled by a rapid transformation in the heating sector, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 demand for natural gas looks set to plummet by one third by 2030 and by another third in the following decade, consultancy ...
01 Aug 2022, 13:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security dpa / Zeit Online The first retired hard coal ...
25 May 2020, 12:38 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Julian Wettengel Solar Wind 91tv Solar and wind power in Germany could supply ...
23 Feb 2017, 00:00 Against a backdrop of general elections later this year, a debate about a general overhaul of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 much-imitated system for renewables support is gathering pace. Many proponents of replacing the current Renewable Energy Act (EEG) ...
10 Feb 2022, 14:06 Jessica Bateman Wind Die Zeit The northernmost German state of Schleswig-Holstein has announced it wants to help push forward the energy transition by building artificial power islands in the North Sea, newspaper Die Zeit reported. ...
22 Mar 2024, 13:19 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen Heating 91tv More than 200 climate and energy organisations have warned German municipalities against falling prey to gas industry lobbying for including hydrogen in their obligatory local plans for ...
13 Nov 2020, 14:53 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG Government pv magazine / 91tv The German government this week rejected a range of changes to the draft reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), which had been proposed by the the ...
12 Jul 2022, 12:23 Jessica Bateman Wind Handelsblatt German wind power expansion is declining despite government efforts to increase capacity, according to figures from the Fachagentur Windenergie an Land (FA Wind) as seen by business daily Handelsblatt. ...
20 Jul 2022, 12:58 S枚ren Amelang Gas 91tv Germany will use a fifth floating liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal in its drive to wean itself off Russian gas imports at a pace 鈥渘ever seen before鈥� in the country. A private consortium will ...
03 Jun 2024, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices n-tv / 91tv Germany will achieve its target of achieving a share of 80 percent renewable energy in its electricity use by 2030, according to chancellor Olaf Scholz. Speaking at ...
16 Feb 2024, 12:28 Franca Quecke Transport Freight electrive The German government has terminated two subsidy schemes for electric trucks and buses, the transport ministry (BMDV) told specialist publication electrive. The cancellation applies to two ...
07 May 2024, 13:31 Expert Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) Bundesanstalt f眉r Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Climate & CO2 Resources & Recycling Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt ...
01 Apr 2021, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Grid 91tv The conversion of large parts of the German gas infrastructure to reflect changing supply is well underway, the country鈥檚 gas grid operators write in their implementation report for the ...
09 Oct 2019, 10:42 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Next Kraftwerke Operator of virtual power plant & Power trader ...
29 Sep 2022, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government 91tv The Free Democrats (FDP) in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government coalition have criticised the decision by Green Party economy and climate minister Robert Habeck to transfer two of the ...
18 Jul 2022, 13:11 Hannah Naylor Renewables Wind Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Despite the German government鈥檚 efforts to increase onshore wind power, in the first half of 2022 there has been a loss of wind turbines by dismantling of the infrastructure in the ...
17 Jun 2022, 14:12 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cities 91tv Industrial and commercial zones in urban areas ...
08 Feb 2024, 13:36 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen International 91tv Germany and Algeria are discussing closer bilateral cooperation in the rollout of renewables and green hydrogen during a visit by economy minister Robert Habeck to the north African ...
12 Jul 2023, 14:02 Differing views on the place of nuclear power in Europe have dominated public perceptions of energy policy cooperation between France and Germany for years. Given the urgent need to agree on European energy policy strategies in light of ...
18 Oct 2022, 14:10 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy will take a bigger hit from the energy crisis compared to other European countries, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), business ...
10 Jan 2025, 09:59 Croatian citizens ended 2024 with a first round of presidential elections, marking the finale of a super election year. In terms of the climate, it was yet another year of above-average warmth, accompanied by numerous extreme weather ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:53 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
06 May 2022, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Wind Cost & Prices 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that laws requiring wind park operators to give neighbouring residents or communities the opportunity to share in the profits are ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:29 Future nuclear fusion power plants will not be able to complement wind and solar electricity production because they will likely need to run around the clock for economic and technical reasons, a German parliamentary report concludes. ...
18 Jun 2021, 13:07 Edgar Meza Grid Solar Spiegel, rbb As expected, the Berlin House of Representatives has passed a law making solar photovoltaic (PV) systems mandatory on residential and non-residential buildings in the city, Spiegel writes. The Berlin ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:27 S枚ren Amelang Wind Transport Hydrogen German coastal states want hundreds of millions of euros from the federal government to transform their ports into energy hubs for liquefied natural gas, hydrogen, and offshore wind,聽 reports ...
16 Nov 2023, 13:50 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Solar 91tv Germany will likely far exceed the government target for installing new PV arrays this year, the country鈥檚 engineering association VDI said. Additional capacity installations are set to ...
02 Jul 2024, 13:42 Ruby Russel Heating 91tv Industry groups have criticised recommendations by Germany's Monopolies Commission to keep the consumer cost of district heating in check 鈥� claiming the proposed measures would actually ...
05 Aug 2022, 11:34 With natural gas deliveries from Russia dwindling, the German government is preparing for a winter without sufficient supplies of the fossil fuel it relies on heavily for heating homes. As well as increasing the import of liquified gas ...
27 Jun 2019, 12:30 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices ...
25 Oct 2023, 12:53 Julian Wettengel Agriculture Renewables 91tv Land used for agriculture has been declining in Germany over the past decades 鈥� a trend that is set to continue in the coming years 鈥� and the country must put more focus on the ...
28 Feb 2024, 12:30 Jennifer Collins Wind Business & Jobs Die Welt The management board of Siemens Energy faced down displeased shareholders looking for answers to spiralling losses from wind turbine subsidiary Siemens Gamesa at the group's annual ...
29 Jan 2024, 13:53 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Handelsblatt A ...
02 Nov 2016, 00:00 German power consumers will have to shoulder grid fee rebates for energy-intensive industry in excess of 1 billion euros next year, sparking renewed calls for reform of the system to pay for keeping the grid stable as renewable power ...
06 May 2022, 14:04 The effects of the war in Ukraine will have a major impact on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most important state election this year, making next week鈥檚 vote in heavy industry heartland North-Rhine Westphalia another gauge of the public鈥檚 view of the ...
19 Jul 2021, 13:35 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Germany should refurbish its ...
16 May 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann EU Table.Media Members of parliament from France and Germany have called for intensifying efforts to create a more coherent energy policy together with Poland, Table.Media reported. The three major EU member states ...
20 Dec 2023, 12:53 Ruby Russel Renewables EU 91tv German industry associations have welcomed a decision by EU energy ministers to extend temporary measures 聽to reduce dependence on Russian gas and protect EU energy consumers from price spikes ...
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02 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淔rom nuclear proponent to power line opponent鈥� In 2008 Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer said that extending the run-time of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear power stations was " ...
19 Dec 2023, 13:27 Jack McGovan Electricity Storage Table.Media / PV Magazine The long-awaited electricity storage strategy by Germany's economy ministry (BMWK), due to be published today (19 December), is unlikely to meet the expectations of the ...
10 Jul 2020, 12:52 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel Solar 91tv Research institutions in Austria and Germany have launched a joint project aiming to develop a solar rooftop ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen 91tv Four years after the launch of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national hydrogen strategy, the buildout of hydrogen infrastructure is behind schedule and could run into serious trouble that scares away ...
21 Feb 2024, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Cost & Prices 91tv Germany will provide up to 3.53 billion euros in the period 2027 to 2036 to procure hydrogen and hydrogen-based derivatives from different regions, said the economy ministry ...
20 Nov 2023, 16:30 Germany will invest 4 billion euros in sustainable energy projects in Africa until 2030 to help improve the continet鈥檚 role in renewable power, green hydrogen and critical raw material extraction, chancellor Olaf Scholz announced at the ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:30 Edgar Meza Solar Wind n-tv Despite 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 increased focus on renewable energy following its decoupling from Russian energy sources in the wake of the war on Ukraine, high inflation and other economic developments have thrown the wind ...
The German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has decided to reduce the support rate for new solar power installations as capacity expansion in the sector聽 exceeds the level determined 聽by the government, the agency says in a press release. The support rate ...
10 Jul 2019, 12:53 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kennedy Nyavaya Grid Wind 91tv Several European grid operators have proposed to build at least ten artificial 鈥渆nergy islands鈥� as wind power hubs in the North ...
04 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas EU 91tv The European Union can cut its fossil gas use in half by 2030 and fully exit the fuel by 2050聽while maintaining supply security and industrial production at today鈥檚 levels without disruptive ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Government 91tv The German government鈥檚聽 new building energy legislation 聽to phase out the use of fossil fuel heating systems has generated mixed reactions from industry associations and ...
02 May 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The first three months of 2019 have seen the lowest level of onshore wind power expansion in Germany since the year 2000, says the FA Windenergie an Land (Onshore Wind Power Agency), a group ...
A decision by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) to cap grid operators鈥� profits has led to a 鈥渞evolt鈥� in the industry, Michael Gassmann writes for Die Welt. Over 1,000 companies, including many municipal utilities, have filed a complaint against ...
17 Apr 2024, 12:47 China鈥檚 prime minister has branded allegations from Europe of Chinese overcapacities in key technologies such as solar panels as unfounded. The 鈥渢heory鈥� of unfair competition would not hold and China was merely using its national ...
13 Aug 2020, 13:48 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has set out to accelerate planning procedures for infrastructure projects linked to the energy transition with a focus on speeding up onshore wind power expansion in particular. Utilities welcomed the streamlining ...
01 Nov 2022, 13:37 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv The draft climate action programme currently debated among German ministries is not enough to reach greenhouse gas reduction targets in the transport sector for 2030, and additional steps are to be ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:27 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert SPD- Social Democratic ...
24 Jan 2020, 14:08 Expert YouGov Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Society 91tv Despite a slump in the expansion of onshore wind power in Germany, most people in the country remain fundamentally in favour of the renewable energy ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:39 The German government, its coal mining states and several major utilities have agreed on a roadmap for shutting down the country's lignite-fired power plants and on compensation payments for operators. Many analysts and ...
01 Dec 2015, 00:00 Stricken energy giant RWE revealed on Tuesday it plans to spin off a company focused on renewables and grids to raise capital, while retaining fossil and nuclear energy generation. Germany's leading energy company E.ON had ...
The need for, and costs of, power grid stabilising measures grew to a record high in 2017 for transmission grid operator TenneT, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. According to preliminary data, TenneT said it ...
19 Sep 2019, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cars 91tv The German Monopolies Commission has warned that the breakthrough of electric cars and the expansion of onshore wind power in the country both suffer from a lack of competition that brings ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Hydrogen trade with the EU could play an important role in rebuilding the economy and energy infrastructure of Ukraine, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government-appointed National Hydrogen Council has said. ...
15 Feb 2019, 11:34 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Electricity market Gas Grid Tennet / Gasunie Gas and electricity grid infrastructures need to be much better aligned to guarantee the ...
17 Jan 2025, 15:00 Energy prices are becoming increasingly expensive for Italian businesses and households due to delays in the development of renewables and increases in the cost of gas on international markets. The rise in energy costs will be, along ...
10 Jun 2022, 13:10 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Kerstine Appunn Wind Der Spiegel / 91tv The German government鈥檚 push for ...
05 Oct 2022, 13:48 Carolina Kyllmann Coal dpa The premier of eastern German lignite mining state Saxony-Anhalt has said his state will not follow an聽 agreement 聽on an early coal phase-out made in the heavy industry state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in ...
15 Dec 2021, 12:09 S枚ren Amelang Coal 91tv A large hard coal power station and two small-scale combined heat and power plants in Germany are set to stop selling electricity by May 2023 as part of the country's coal exit. In the fourth ...
21 May 2024, 14:17 The EU鈥檚 internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, has boosted hopes in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 eastern coal mining region Lusatia that a prosperous future lies ahead in the transition towards climate-neutral industry in the area. At a visit to ...
28 Nov 2023, 14:31 Edgar Meza Transport Cars Tagesspiegel The German government and leading automakers reiterated their goal of putting at least 15 million electric vehicles on German roads by 2030 at an industry summit in Berlin on Monday (27 November). ...
04 Oct 2022, 15:05 Germany's western coal mining and heavy industry state North Rhine-Westphalia aims to complete the phase-out of coal-fired power production no later than 2030, eight years earlier than agreed in German coal exit law. However, two ...
10 Dec 2024, 14:45 The early end of Olaf Scholz鈥檚 coalition government follows a three-year term marked by crises and a deep internal dispute over funding for future climate and energy policies. Despite its noisy demise, the chancellor鈥檚 three-party ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:43 Charlotte Nijhuis Nuclear phase-out Renewables Focus Online The shutdown of the last nuclear power plant in Schleswig-Holstein will boost wind power in the northern German state, its environment minister Jan Philipp Albrecht (Greens) ...
07 Apr 2022, 13:51 Expert Energy Brainpool Energy consultancy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv Letting existing nuclear plants run longer will lead to large amounts of renewable energy ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:37 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv There鈥檚 a large imbalance between current investment and the potential for cheap hydrogen production in individual European regions, according to a new report. Regions with high potential to ...
27 Jun 2018, 16:59 Germany will likely fail on many of its self-imposed energy transition targets, says the government-appointed expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German Energiewende in its opinion on the federal economy ...
16 Sep 2020, 13:05 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Wind Technology NDR After a two-year trial period in the town of Klixb眉ll in northern Germany, renewables company SkySails Power is looking to build more of its turbines powered by large kites ...
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30 Jun 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) 鈥淲ind strengthens power sector, renewable heat and transport stagnate鈥� The share of renewables in total German power consumption has risen to a record 32.5 percent in the ...
06 Sep 2019, 13:34 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The expansion of onshore wind power in ...
01 Feb 2024, 13:39 Franca Quecke Climate & CO2 Mobility Cars 91tv Today's electric cars already have a lower lifecycle climate footprint than combustion engine cars, and by 2050, EVs will also perform better in other environmental ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:36 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices dpa / n-tv / 91tv Falling wholesale power prices have torn a hole in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 financing of renewable energy sources, whose operators receive state support if revenues from ...
15 Apr 2021, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Wind Seven European transmission grid operators (TSO) have launched an initiative for interconnecting offshore wind platforms across Europe. The aim of 鈥淓urobar鈥� is to securely and efficiently ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:44 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
14 Feb 2025, 10:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 snap elections on 23 February take place against the backdrop of massive changes in geopolitics, presenting the next government with the opportunity to reset its relationships with major European partners, says Rafael Loss, ...
The expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 solar power capacities has failed to fulfil government targets for the fourth year in a row, with additional installations reaching just 1.6 gigawatt (GW) instead of the planned 2.5 GW, industry association BSW Solar says in a ...
29 Jan 2024, 13:58 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International 91tv The U.S. government鈥檚 decision to put a halt to licensing new liquefied natural gas (LNG) ...
22 Dec 2017, 00:00 After a year filled with events that put 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate policy in the limelight, such as the G20 summit in Hamburg, the COP23 in Bonn, or the debate over coal in the ill-fated 鈥楯amaica coalition鈥� talks, the country鈥檚 political life ...
04 Feb 2015, 00:00 The debate over grid extensions to balance over-supply of wind power in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 north with high demand in the south continues as the consulting process in Bavaria fails to yield a concrete decision on their necessity. Grid The ...
18 May 2022, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Southern German state Bavaria aims to double power production from renewable sources to reach a share of 80 percent by 2030 as part of its government鈥檚 new energy strategy. 鈥淭he main drivers ...
Germany is running the risk of investing too much money in grid extensions, according to grid operator Tennet. Company CEO Lex Hartman warned of stranded assets because artificial intelligence would play an increasingly important role for the power grid, ...
02 Mar 2022, 13:36 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Security Germany might ...
Green Party energy expert Ingrid Nestle says renewable power plants are not responsible for record grid management costs, which according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) amounted to 1.4 billion euros in 2017. 鈥淚 warn against making renewables a ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:18 Finding a proper economic policy response to the U.S. government's "Inflation Reduction Act" to lure green energy investments into German and European projects will be one of the key challenges the government is going to ...
Transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT will raise grid fees by 9 percent at the turn of the year, executive board member Urban Keussen told Klaus Stratmann for the Handelsblatt. The rise is due to costs from measures to stabilise the power grid, such as ...
30 May 2024, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Cars 91tv / n-tv Large petrol station companies will need to offer at least one fast charging point for electric vehicles from 2028, according to a draft law agreed by Germany's government ...
08 Apr 2021, 12:46 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Edgar Meza Wind 91tv Germany saw the highest number of new wind energy capacity ...
17 Aug 2020, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Society 91tv A clear majority of people in Germany say that the environment must not be damaged in order to increase economic growth, a major survey by the country's ...
06 Jan 2021, 11:52 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 Julian Wettengel Wind Tagesspiegel ...
08 Nov 2023, 14:21 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 International 91tv Germany is lagging behind European countries such as Norway and the Netherlands when it comes to transitioning its energy market away from fossil fuels, according to an ...
06 Feb 2019, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Solar Utilities 91tv / pv magazine Utility EnBW plans to build 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest solar power farm a nd intends to run the installation without claiming any support payments in a ...
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11 Apr 2024, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv An alliance of civil society groups has issued an聽 appeal 聽to the German government to not implement planned cuts in the 2025 budget and avoid damage 鈥渢o the economic, ecological, and social stability ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:31 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Renewables Storage 91tv Germans ...
16 Jun 2023, 13:49 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Cities Tagesspiegel / Berliner Zeitung The conservative Cristian Democrats (CDU) who lead the new government coalition of the city of Berlin aim to freeze all new cylce lane projects if their construction ...
26 Oct 2021, 17:29 High gas, petrol and power prices are set to play a part in the ongoing negotiations to form the next German government coalition, which will shape the country鈥檚 energy transition policy for years. The election winner Social Democrats, ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:17 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Solar pv magazine The expansion of solar power in ...
German power grid operator Amprion and its Belgian counterpart Elia have started building the first power grid connection between the two countries, according to an article by German newswire dpa carried by business weekly Wirtschaftswoche. Amprion said ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:24 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Bioenergy Cost & Prices 91tv The latest ...
Chinese grid company SGCC鈥檚 plan to acquire 20 percent share in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid operator 50Hertz worries German politicians and could refuel the debate on establishing a state-run transmission grid company, reports the Handelsblatt. It was a ...
A 300-kilometre power cable under the Baltic Sea will transport excess German wind power to Swedish hydropower plants, according to plans by German grid operator 50Hertz and Swedish company Svenska kraftn盲t, Andre Wornowski reports for regional newspaper ...
13 Nov 2019, 13:53 Government plans to tighten distance rules for onshore wind turbines are a threat to Germany's energy and climate targets, according to stark warnings by industry, trade unions and environmental NGOs. Strict minimum distances to ...
11 Mar 2024, 12:52 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Corrected: The renewable share in energy consumption in 2022 was 20.8 percent and ...
08 Mar 2022, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind EU 91tv The energy and economy minister of the southern German state Bavaria, Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters), has called on the federal government to remove bureaucratic hurdles at the EU level that ...
12 Mar 2019, 14:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Grid International Tagesspiegel In order to achieve the best possible climate action in ...
28 Nov 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Society Der Spiegel / 91tv Climate activists occupying the western German town of L眉tzerath to prevent it from being destroyed to make way for a nearby coal mine are to be evicted from January next ...
10 Sep 2021, 14:56 Germany could transform its economy to net zero emissions by 2045 at net zero costs, because switching to green technologies opens up new markets and opportunities for growth, consultancy McKinsey has found. In its report 鈥濶et-Zero ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:46 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Wind Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A ...
06 Apr 2022, 13:09 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen 91tv Germany must accelerate the ramp-up of a hydrogen economy in response to Russia's aggressions to secure and diversify its energy supply, according to the hydrogen council (NWR), which ...
27 Oct 2023, 12:00 Carolina Kyllmann Wind 91tv The "mood" in Germany's and Europe's wind industry is "clearly trending downwards" compared to six months ago, according to a survey among industry stakeholders by ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 distribution grid operators are calling for a legal reform to limit the transmission grid operators鈥� (TSO) powers to intervene in distribution聽grids, Klaus Stratmann writes for Handelsblatt. An increasingly decentralised power supply due to the ...
Under a ruling by a regional court in Germany in favour of the country鈥檚 grid operators, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) cannot聽 cut the guaranteed rate of return 聽on power and natural gas grids, meaning that customers鈥� hopes for lower power prices ...
Around 70 partners, including grid operators, power producers, consumers, and traders in eastern Germany, have launched a trial to find cheap and efficient ways of resolving costly grid congestion on windy days, for example by using demand flexibility, ...
16 Aug 2019, 12:11 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Solar pv magazine The ...
In spite of a record wind power expansion in the western German region of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), the country鈥檚 largest federal state still trails in terms of renewables expansion, Welt Online reports. In 2017, the state added 312 wind turbines, ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Der Spiegel聽 A proposal by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport ministry to accelerate the planning and construction of new motorways is causing an uproar by the Green Party, which ...
The energy transition will mainly play out in power grids in the years to come, according to E.ON CEO Johannes Teyssen. In an interview with the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, he said grids were his company鈥檚 most important business, which also ...
The planners of future grid extensions in Germany must pay more attention to new technologies, according to grid operator Tennet. The company鈥檚 CEO, Lex Hartmann, said that the increasing digitalisation of power grids could replace the construction of ...
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29 Feb 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Rheinische Post 鈥淯nion demands lignite fund鈥� Mining union IG BCE argues Germany will need lignite power production until 2047 and should create a fund to finance the technology after it stops earning money in about 15 ...
02 Jun 2022, 13:53 Edgar Meza Renewables Business & Jobs Der Tagesspiegel The planned structural transformation of the former East German states towards more sustainable industry 鈥� including renewable energy generation-- holds great potential but it ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:12 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables 91tv More than 55 percent of power consumed last year in the area of north-eastern Germany covered by grid ...
02 Jun 2021, 10:44 After 20 years, many pioneer clean energy projects are losing their guaranteed feed-in tariff, with possible repercussions for citizen involvement in the energy transition. In the solar sector, this change is mainly affecting households ...
06 Oct 2021, 14:00 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices EU 91tv Renewable energy and climate action are part of the solution to an energy crunch such as the one currently experienced by Europe, said German environment minister Svenja Schulze ...
27 Jul 2022, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Nuclear phase-out 91tv / RTL Germany should rethink its approach towards domestic fossil fuels and nuclear energy as prices rise and the country is facing potential shortages, fuelled by the ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Zeit Online / 91tv Geothermal energy is a key tool for reaching climate neutrality and could cover 40 percent of Germany's heating needs, the head of the country's geothermal association ...
21 May 2019, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background The expansion of onshore wind power capacities is turning into a highly controversial issue for the regional elections in the three eastern German states Thuringia, ...
Chinese grid operator SGCC is again trying to obtain a 20 percent share in German transmission network operator 50Hertz, Klaus Stratmann reports for the business daily Handelsblatt. In March 2018, SGCC failed to buy a 20 percent stake in 50Hertz, when ...
24 May 2022, 13:49 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission network operators have raised their prices, which leads to higher grid fees payable by consumers with their power price, reports Andreas Macho for the WirtschaftsWoche. Eastern German grid operators rose fees by up to 80 percent, ...
07 Apr 2021, 12:51 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy ...
01 Oct 2019, 10:00 Europe's largest CO2 emitter RWE has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2040. The announcement underlines the deep transformation underway at the German operator of lignite mines and power plants, which is now betting on ...
19 May 2022, 12:07 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark have agreed to expand offshore wind power generation capacity in the North Sea tenfold to at least 150 gigawatts (GW) by 2050. The countries are also set to ...
A broad alliance of trade unions, consumer, renewable, and industry associations has called on the future German government to use the federal budget to finance 鈥渁t least parts of the Energiewende 肠辞蝉迟蝉鈥�. 鈥淲e need a new financing system for the cost ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Grid International Enerdata The European Commission has asked transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT to increase the electricity trading capacity between western Denmark and Germany and to ensure ...
16 Dec 2020, 15:59 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Society Die Zeit / Der Spiegel The fight against a planned resettlement of five villages due to expansion of a lignite mine in West Germany continues, writes newspaper die Zeit. In a state parliament hearing, the ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:57 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Government Der Spiegel The plans to comprehensively modernise and expand 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national railway company Deutsche Bahn could take ...
Western German grid operator Amprion鈥檚 decision to raise power grid fees by about 45 percent in 2018 is in large part due to French supply issues this past winter, reports Andreas Macho in WirtschaftsWoche. Amprion was forced to frequently employ grid ...
26 Mar 2021, 13:46 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 Power ...
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21 Jun 2018, 16:13 An internal brawl in the German government's conservative camp over immigration has a paralysing effect on the country's energy and climate policymaking. After 100 days in office, the government coalition officially has to ...
08 Nov 2024, 13:46 After an exhaustingly hot summer, the end of September and beginning of October ushered in extreme rainfall events and flooding in several Croatian cities along the coast and in the hinterland. At the start of November, higher ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power was a "historic mistake," Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) told business daily Handelsblatt. ...
20 Feb 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Over the course of the planned coal phase-out in Germany there will be a net increase in available jobs in eastern mining region Lusatia that employers might struggle ...
21 Feb 2022, 13:58 Edgar Meza Renewables Business & Jobs Handelsblatt In order to achieve 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ambitious energy transition targets, the pace of wind and solar power expansion is expected to quadruple in the coming years, but a lack of skilled ...
28 May 2021, 12:49 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Solar 91tv The German Association ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Digitalisation Security Digitalisation offers an opportunity to make power grids more resilient during transition to renewable power sources but may also make the energy system more vulnerable, 聽researchers of the tech ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:44 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The current difficulties caused by the ...
It could be cheaper to connect future German North Sea wind parks to the Dutch power grid rather than running the cables to, and through, Germany, Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT suggests in its half-year report published on Wednesday. ...
07 Dec 2020, 13:55 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Wind S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The German Greens and one of the country's largest environmental organisations have reached a compromise on reconciling wind power expansion with bird protection,聽 ...
As renewable energy facilities supply a growing share of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity, the power grid is struggling to cope with their fluctuating output, Peter Ilg writes for Zeit Online. On very sunny or windy days, too much electricity surges into the network ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:30 Preview 2020: Wind power became Germany's single most important power source in 2019 and appears well under way to fulfill its role as the central technology of the country's energy transition. Nevertheless, the wind industry ...
04 Oct 2023, 13:19 Jack McGovan Renewables Policy EU Handelsblatt The EU is responding to the expansion of the Chinese wind industry by developing a plan to make the domestic industry more competitive, EU Commission sources told business daily ...
04 Sep 2020, 16:24 Swedish utility Vattenfall wants to shut down its youngest and most efficient coal-fired power plant in Germany because it is unprofitable. After participating in the first hard coal phase-out tender, CEO Magnus Hall said that if his ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU dpa / Focus Online A new pipeline connecting Spain with France and the northern European grid could be finished within a year, the head of Spanish gas grid operator Enagas, Arturo Gonzalo Aizpiri, told news ...
02 Feb 2021, 13:40 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities A group of local utilities in Germany will double ...
05 May 2020, 14:09 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Edgar Meza Wind Tagesspiegel Background ...
12 Mar 2024, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government Die Zeit / n-tv A public debate between 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy minister Robert Habeck and Saxony鈥檚 state premier Michael Kretschmer in Berlin has showcased many of the problems the country is currently ...
The 鈥渕arket slump鈥� in the German wind power sector, which continues to lead to job cuts at manufacturers and suppliers, is caused by government regulation, writes the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) in a press release. 鈥淥n the one hand, the federal ...
04 Dec 2020, 13:29 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Cost & Prices Utilities Digitalisation WirtschaftsWoche Energy company E.ON is teaming up with software company SAP to digitalise its power grid ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:04 Following intense criticism of the German government's planned minimum distance rules for wind power by industry and environmental groups, economy minister Peter Altmaier says the government has not made a final decision on what ...
13 Mar 2024, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities 91tv / rbb Construction of one of the largest heat pumps in Europe has started in Berlin in a bid to bring the German capital closer to its goal of decarbonising its heating system. The heat ...
German port industries and state politicians call for removing the cap on offshore wind power expansion, Jan Peter Naumann writes in DVZ 鈥� Deutsche Logistik-Zeitung. The current expansion corridor of 15 gigawatt (GW) by 2030 had to be expanded to 30GW by ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The German government has said it will carry out a second assessment of the benefits of extending the runtime of the country鈥檚 remaining nuclear plants beyond their ...
Grid fees will be aligned across Germany despite economy minister Sigmar Gabriel鈥檚 recent backtracking on such plans, Reuters reports citing government sources. Responding to pressure from eastern German federal states the government is working on a bill ...
The demand for land to construct wind turbines and solar power arrays is set to replace monetary costs as the central restrictive factor for renewable power expansion and will become 鈥渢he new currency鈥� of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, the Energiewende, a ...
The costs for so called re-dispatch measures, necessary to keep the power grid stable in times of high power input and lacking grid capacities, have increased to 402.5 million euros in 2015 compared to 185.4 million euros in 2014, the Federal Network ...
14 Jul 2022, 12:52 Jessica Bateman Gas Security RND Germany's public is yet to experience the full impact of rising gas prices as bills could 鈥渢riple鈥� from 2023, Klaus M眉ller, the president of the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), has warned in ...
Political restrictions on wind power expansion rather than cost pressure in the sector are responsible for the current troubles of many wind power companies in Germany, Hermann Albers, head of the German Wind Energy Association (BWE), says in a press ...
11 Aug 2022, 14:08 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Utilities Tagesspiegel Background Energy company E.ON has said it is 鈥渙pen to discussions鈥� about a possible runtime extension of its ...
14 Oct 2020, 14:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv Germany will try to retain most of its wind power capacity that will lose its guaranteed remuneration after dropping out of the 20-year feed-in tariff support scheme ...
04 Dec 2019, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy 91tv The energy ministers of Germany's federal states have criticised the government's climate package for being full of "gaps and shortcomings" and called for measures to ensure ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Solar Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Transmission grid operator Tennet has certified the solar power home battery producer Sonnen to become a control energy provider for the German power grid, ...
09 Feb 2024, 13:01 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Transport A broad alliance of German climate NGOs, welfare organisations, trade unions and business associations聽 has warned 聽that the cuts to the country鈥檚 railway budget puts the mobility transition and climate ...
12 Nov 2020, 14:21 Expert Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe Expert agency for renewable raw materials Bioenergy Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Business & Jobs Kerstine ...
29 May 2024, 15:19 One year later than originally planned, French president Emmanuel Macron paid a three-day state visit to Germany that allowed him to reinforce calls for closer European cooperation in the week before the EU elections. Both Macron and ...
05 Mar 2024, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Cars EU 91tv Germany's alliance of centre-right conservative parties CDU/CSU is aiming to reverse the ban on new combustion engine cars from 2035, which the EU decided on last year, according to a ...
16 Oct 2017, 00:00 The average price of new solar power installations in Germany has fallen below five cents per kilowatt hour for the first time ever. Since the introduction of auctions in 2015, prices for the technology have declined by more than 40 ...
The German government has used a 鈥渃unning trick鈥� by making the state-owned business development bank KfW acquire a stake in grid operator 50Hertz that had been eyed by Chinese power company SGCC, Andreas Mihm writes in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter ...
25 Aug 2020, 13:26 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG ...
04 Jan 2021, 12:49 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian ...
Grid operator Amprion鈥檚 statement that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grid was at its limits last winter shows that the energy transition is not on track, because supply security was endangered, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
25 Oct 2023, 12:55 Julian Wettengel Security 91tv The German government has promised an additional 195 million euros in support to Ukraine, about half of which is designated for the protection and rebuilding the country鈥檚 energy ...
30 Oct 2023, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen International 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Chancellor Olaf Scholz travelled to Nigeria in a bid to secure new energy and economic partnerships, and help diversify Germany's energy ...
20 Jan 2021, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Wind Der Spiegel / Tagesspiegel Background The first mandatory share offers in a new wind power farm for neighbouring residents have been introduced in Germany, news website Der Spiegel reports. ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:10 Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv For Germany to reach its self-set target of 15 million electric vehicles on the road by the end of 2030, at least double the amount of new e-cars than in 2022 will need to be registered every year ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Rachel Waldholz Coal Electricity market ...
A dispute between the two south-eastern European states Serbia and Kosovo is said to be responsible for a voltage drop in the European power grid, which has caused many electronic clocks on the continent to run slow, Norbert Lossau writes in Die Welt. ...
27 Oct 2023, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Renewables Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The coalition agreement of the renewed government alliance of conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) and Free Voters in southern German Bavaria presents nothing ...
Influential partisans of Social Democrat Sigmar Gabriel continue to rebuke the economy minister for budging from plans to align grid fees across Germany, Ulrich Milde writes in Leipziger Volkszeitung. 鈥淚鈥檓 very angry that the promised fairer allocation of ...
There will be no nationwide grid fee alignment in Germany according to a proposal by the economy ministry approved by the government cabinet, contrary to聽 earlier press reports. However, the proposal for a grid fee reform will gradually abolish payments ...
07 Jul 2023, 13:14 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon market 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 emissions under the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) remained constant in 2022 compared to the previous year, the annual report from the German Emissions Trading ...
Grid fees in western Germany are set to rise sharply in 2017, while fees in the east fall, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. According to the research institute ewi ER&S, industrial enterprises connected to the high voltage grid will see ...
14 Sep 2022, 13:50 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German Council of Economic Experts is calling for the country鈥檚 last nuclear power plants to remain in use until the current energy crisis is definitely over. The ...
16 Mar 2022, 13:31 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Solar Utilities 91tv Germany must urgently and massively step up the rollout of solar power in order to become more independent from Russian energy imports and reach its climate targets, the country ...
The Social Democratic Union (SPD) wants a nationwide alignment of grid fees, SPD鈥檚 energy politician and member of the Bundestag Hubertus Heil told news agency Dow Jones. The grand coalition鈥檚 (CDU/CSU, SPD) federal cabinet had introduced a draft for a ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:50 India and a group of countries including the U.S. and Germany will not agree on a so-called Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), a key international deal that was meant to promote the South Asian nation鈥檚 climate-friendly ...
26 Jul 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Tagesspiegel / t-online U.S. car manufacturer Tesla will have to revise its plans to expand its gigafactory for electric cars in the German state of Brandenburg over concerns the new buildings would be partly ...
Renewable energies place a greater burden on power grids than previously thought, according to an article by scientists from the Jacobs University Bremen published in the 鈥淪cientific Reports鈥� journal. Even the slightest fluctuations can be measured over ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:20 Franca Quecke Digitalisation 91tv Digitalisation can induce almost one quarter (24 percent) of the emission reduction that Germany needs to reach its 2030 greenhouse gas target, according to the country鈥檚 digital industry ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal states continue to disagree on the planned reform of the country鈥檚 electricity grid fee structure, writes Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. It follows economy minister Sigmar Gabriel鈥檚 backtracking on plans to standardise fees across the ...
15 Dec 2022, 14:03 Julian Wettengel Gas Government Table.Media 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy ministry expects a significant import overcapacity if all planned floating and fixed onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals are implemented as planned, reports Table ...
23 Nov 2023, 12:49 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv Germany and Italy have agreed to expand energy cooperation in order to strengthen supply security and the transition to climate neutrality, with gas and hydrogen pipelines across the Alps ...
Distribution grids used to have a reputation as a boring low-profit business but have become a key source of revenue for German utility innogy, Helmut B眉nder writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Just like its competitor E.ON, the subsidiary of RWE ...
A combination of lack of transparency and denial of legal protection means that German power grid fees cannot be sufficiently checked by consumers, consumer organisations, or even politicians, according to a legal analysis published by the Regulatory ...
12 May 2020, 13:07 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 Edgar Meza Wind In聽an effort聽to reduce ...
14 Oct 2019, 11:00 Starting in 2021 and throughout the 2020s, many of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 pioneer wind turbines, solar PV installations and biogas plants will stop receiving fixed feed-in tariffs, meaning many gigwatts in renewable capacity may be shut down if they ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany can be 鈥渇airly optimistic鈥� regarding its gas supply in winter 2023/2024, said energy industry association BDEW, one year after Russia ended its pipeline supply to the country on 31 August. ...
11 Jul 2023, 13:40 James Jackson Wind 91tv The rollout of offshore wind in the German North and Baltic seas can be reconciled with environmental concerns, but the location of specific marine ecosystems must become a core part of the planning ...
After the German federal government decided on 27 July to buy a 20 percent stake in north-east German transmission grid operator 50Hertz in order to protect this critical infrastructure from being partially owned by Chinese grid operator SGCC, the head of ...
Belgian transmission system operator Elia will exercise its pre-emptive right to buy a 20 percent stake in German power transmission grid operator 50Hertz for 976.5 million euros, beating the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), reports Reuters. The ...
The expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 solar power capacity must be accelerated if the country does not want to miss out on one of the global energy transition鈥檚 most important trends, the German solar power industry warns in the Erneuerbare Energien magazine. ...
26 Jun 2019, 12:45 Renewable energy sources delivered a fresh record in Germany in the first half of 2019 with a share of 44 percent in electricity consumption as stormy weather boosted wind power production on land and at sea, utility association BDEW ...
19 Aug 2022, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Tagesspiegel Background A second wholesale levy on natural gas on top of the existing gas consumption levy in Germany signals that the country鈥檚 gas trading platform Trading Hub Europe (THE) is preparing ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Security 91tv German energy industry lobby ...
12 Apr 2022, 11:51 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Solar 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest auction for large ...
05 Jul 2023, 14:06 Carolina Kyllmann Solar 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest auction for photovoltaic (PV) systems on roofs and noise protection walls was far oversubscribed. A volume of 342 megawatts (MW), distributed amongst 155 bids, far surpassed the ...
24 Aug 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / Die Zeit The parliamentary group of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Social Democrats (SPD) has presented its own concept for reducing power prices for energy-intensive industry 鈥� an idea so far ...
Germany could see a substantial drop in wind power expansion in the next years, Kathrin Witsch writes for the Handelsblatt. Capacity growth could drop from 6,500 megawatts (MW) in 2017 to merely 1,100 in 2019, she writes. The introduction of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
21 Aug 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cities Tagesspiegel Berlin could use its two disused airfields to build wind turbines on, Christian Gr盲ff, member of the Berlin House of Representatives with the ruling Christian Democrats (CDU), told ...
The fees that consumers pay for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity grid are too high and unfairly distributed across the country's regions, writes Malte Kreutzfeldt in an opinion piece in tageszeitung (taz). He calls for a nationwide harmonisation of the ...
Municipal utilities say 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 four transmission grid operators (TSO) are establishing a new 鈥渆nergy oligopoly鈥�, because of their request to construct and also operate 鈥渘etwork stability鈥� gas power plants in southern Germany, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel ...
Car manufacturer VW has made an agreement with transmission grid operator Tennet to provide weather data automatically collected by VW vehicles in Germany, Daniel Wetzel writes on Welt Online. 鈥淯sing built-in rain, light, and sun sensors, the cars will ...
28 Jan 2020, 13:50 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany's gas industry plans to establish a pipeline network measuring 5,900 kilometres to enable the large-scale use of hydrogen in the country. According to a plan seen by business daily ...
11 Jan 2024, 14:17 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Policy Table.Media / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt The German government plans to cut development aid and funds earmarked for rail freight transport and cycling paths as part of saving ...
Regional power suppliers call on the federal government to put more emphasis on the development of the distribution grid, instead of focussing solely on the higher-voltage transmission grid, reports Johannes Schiller for German broadcaster MDR. 鈥淭hese ...
07 Jul 2020, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv 91tv Grid Hydrogen 91tv German energy company E.ON has called for a green gas quota to help to reduce the share of fossil gas in the ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government must ramp up expansion targets for wind power to meet the country鈥檚 climate targets and secure stable conditions for the industry, trade union IG Metall K眉ste says in a press release. IG Metall called on state premiers, ...
01 Jul 2019, 13:51 Sven Egenter Grid Digitalisation Tagesspiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid operators are working on their defenses against hacker attacks on their critical infrastructure, Christian Schaudwet writes for energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
10 Feb 2023, 12:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Gas Politics 91tv The transformation of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system away from fossil fuels must quickly be reinforced by sufficient 鈥渕olecule-based鈥� power plant capacity that can back up the ...
03 Nov 2021, 14:30 Kerstine Appunn Coal 91tv / dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populated state and home to some of the largest still operating lignite mines and coal power stations could phase-out the fossil fuel as early as 2030, ...
Federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel is backtracking on plans to standardise electricity grid fees across the country, angering several state governments, writes Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). 鈥淚f the economy ministry鈥檚 ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:09 S枚ren Amelang Industry Cost & Prices 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy minister and vice chancellor Robert Habeck has questioned the country鈥檚 commitment to a largely balanced budget, given the massive financial requirements for ...
15 Aug 2023, 14:02 Expert Deutsche Post Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Freight Cost & Prices Die Welt / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 postal service Deutsche Post says it will invest less than planned in emissions reduction and climate action ...
The German energy ministry considers limiting the feed-in priority for renewable power to reduce the costs of managing grid bottlenecks, Stefan Schulze writes on Spiegel Online. 鈥淕reen power plants could generally become part of bottleneck management,鈥� an ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Fossil fuels 91tv Eastern German lignite mining and power plant company Leag has received the green light for up to 1.75 billion euros in state support to compensate for the implementation of the ...
The four German transmission grid operators and Austrian grid operator APG have agreed to cooperate on secondary balancing power. The aim is for grid operators to work more closely to shape a harmonised European market for secondary balancing power. By ...
27 Nov 2024, 13:15 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most powerful industry association has said the future government must reconsider the country鈥檚 strategy for becoming climate-neutral. Against the background of a sagging economy and news about mass layoffs, the head of the ...
Utility EnBW starts a field test to find out how a large number of electric cars in a concentrated area affect grid stability, Susanne Preu脽 and Thiemo Heeg write in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淲hat happens if everyone plugs in their car when ...
Protestors have called on the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state premier to call an immediate halt to the construction of wind turbines in the state, Welt reports. They argue that the construction of wind farms unfairly burdens state citizens and ...
25 Sep 2023, 13:31 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Technology Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and climate ministry is working on a long-term strategy for negative emissions, including a 2060 target to ensure the country absorbs more greenhouse ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:03 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv Germany might need to drastically rethink its climate policy if it wants to reach its emission reduction targets, government advisors have warned. It is 鈥渜uestionable whether ...
18 Jun 2020, 15:16 Solar Wind 91tv / Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parliament is preparing to pass regulation about the minimum distance of wind turbines and support payments for solar power, resolving two major points of contention that have nagged ...
26 Jul 2022, 11:23 S枚ren Amelang Gas 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plans for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to replace Russian supplies exceed requirements and put the country鈥檚 and European climate targets at risk, argues a report commissioned by ...
The election battle in Germany leaves little room for hoping that the country鈥檚 climate protection record will improve soon, Ralf K枚pke writes in Energie & Management. While the wind power industry currently approaches a new expansion record and ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid operators fear that from 2020 the country may have to import electricity in extreme cases of adverse weather, as more and more conventional power plants are taken offline, Daniel Wetzel writes for Die Welt. The four transmission grid ...
01 Nov 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv People in Germany are increasingly doubtful that the country will achieve its 2030 climate targets, from the expansion of renewable energy to the growth of electric vehicles on the country& ...
Eighty-six companies and business associations from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 North, East, and South have complained to Chancellor Angela Merkel about 鈥渦nfair鈥� grid fees, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. They argue in a letter that grid fees must be the same all ...
The German government has reached a compromise on aligning contested regional differences in power grid fees paid by consumers, according to the Social Democratic Party (SPD). 鈥淎ccording to the draft law, grid fees will be aligned in four yearly steps ...
Companies in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industrial powerhouse North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have called for the postponement of the grid fee reform, which the government plans to pass this week, the regional newspaper Rheinische Post reports. Some local branches of the ...
24 Aug 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Die Zeit 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy industry representatives don鈥檛 expect threatening bottlenecks in energy supply during the coming winter, newspaper Die Zeit reports. 鈥淭he next winter is similarly challenging as the last ...
19 Mar 2021, 13:43 The lobbying scandal engulfing Angela Merkel's Conservatives has derailed important talks about Germany's plans for rolling out renewables. The affair also dampens the Conservatives' hopes of an unchallenged victory in ...
04 Jan 2024, 12:26 S枚ren Amelang Carbon market Policy 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 revenue from carbon pricing rose to a record 18.4 billion euros in 2023, an increase of around 40 percent, the country鈥檚 environment agency (UBA) said. The country鈥檚 ...
Norwegian hydropower company Statkraft and Dutch grid operator TenneT plan to intensify cooperation in the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein in order to optimise the market integration of wind power, TenneT has said in a press release. Statkraft, ...
02 Jul 2020, 13:03 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Gas Hydrogen Clean ...
Germany can take coal plants with a combined capacity of seven gigawatts off grid- and might even improve the security of the power supply by doing so, according to an unofficial document by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy & energy ministry (BMWi) and the Federal ...
16 Aug 2024, 12:00 Croatia is feeling the consequences of climate change this summer. The country experienced long heat waves and record temperatures were recorded in the Adriatic Sea. This has led to more media attention on the topic of climate change, ...
28 Oct 2020, 10:44 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Renewables Solar 91tv Germany has already surpassed last year鈥檚 ...
Consumer grid fees rose by nine percent last year, and are unlikely to decrease much next year, according to a market report drafted by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), which is due to be published soon and was leaked to the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
The need for, and costs of, power grid stabilising measures decreased significantly in 2016, mainly due to lower production of wind and solar power and improved grid management, says the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in its report on grid and system ...
08 Sep 2022, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Government Security 91tv In an unusually emotional response to criticism over the government鈥檚 handling of the energy crisis, German chancellor Olaf Scholz has criticised conservative CDU leader Friedrich ...
Germany hosts about 120 generating units capable of a 鈥渂lack start鈥�, meaning they will be available for repowering the grid from scratch in the event of a, so far unprecedented, major blackout, Anna Ringle writes in Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten. ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:48 S枚ren Amelang Coal Grid National Geographic Advocates of an American Green New Deal should look to other countries, including Germany, for successful examples, Alejandra Borunda writes for National Geographic. Germany, she says, shows ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:34 Edgar Meza Adaptation Cities Table.Media The German government has called for municipalities to prepare risk analyses on the expected impacts of climate change throughout Germany. In an interview with Table.Media, environment minister ...
20 May 2020, 13:44 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit盲t zu K枚ln Electricity market Business ...
Regional differences in grid fees increased the power price disparities between German federal states in 2016, according to comparison website Verivox. 鈥淸The Energiewende] not only has a direct impact on the power bill through the rising Renewable Energy ...
22 May 2019, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Grid Cars Utilities E.ON / Tagesspiegel Background E.ON's distribution grids in Germany will be able to support a complete switch to electric ...
03 May 2021, 12:55 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest onshore ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology 91tv A new wind power research project at 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national metrology institute PTB (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt) offers the world鈥檚 largest facility for the precise measuring of ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:49 Julian Wettengel Renewables G20 & G7 91tv Leaders of the Group of Twenty (G20) influential economies聽 have agreed 聽on the aim to triple of renewable energy capacity globally by 2030, but stopped short of calling for an ...
25 Oct 2019, 14:17 Expert Prognos Consultancy Energiewende Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs 91tv A ...
After a record 2017, Germany saw an 鈥渆xpected鈥� decrease in onshore wind power expansion in the first half of 2018, said German Wind Energy Association (BWE) and industry association VDMA Power Systems at a press conference in Berlin. The 鈥渕arket slump鈥� ...
According to grid operators, German power consumers will have to shoulder grid fee rebates for energy-intensive industry in excess of 1 billion euros next year, sparking renewed calls for reform of the system to pay for keeping the grid stable as ...
14 Nov 2019, 13:46 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Electricity market Grid 91tv Germany is ranked ...
The German government has agreed to abolish large regional differences in transmission grid fees by standardising them across the country in five equal steps. The implementation will begin at the start of next year, and completion is planned by early 2023 ...
Rising grid fees, increased wholesale prices, and the high oil price level will likely lead to rising natural gas prices for household consumers in 2019, writes the price comparison website CHECK24 in a press release. Grid fees, which make up about one ...
16 Sep 2021, 13:15 Kerstine Appunn Renewables pv magazine Despite experiencing a comparatively cloudy summer, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 solar PV installations have generated 40.7 terawatt-hours (TWh) worth of electricity between January and August 2021, roughly the same ...
30 Dec 2014, 00:00 After an eventful 2014 鈥� marked by the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), a new climate action package and the first fall in CO2 emissions for two years 鈥� German energy policy is primed for action in 2015. Expert AGEB- AG ...
25 Oct 2024, 16:00 Poland鈥檚 new government has updated the country鈥檚 energy strategy, which it says is more ambitious, but implementation remains uncertain as it depends on how coal miner unions react. In its push to increase nuclear power generation, the ...
16 Mar 2020, 14:09 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Security 91tv The far-reaching measures taken in Germany and across ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:17 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Freja Eriksen Renewables Wind 91tv Wind energy carried from the North Sea by transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT rose by 16 percent in the first half of ...
09 Dec 2024, 14:00 The break-up of Germany's coalition government could further undermine public acceptance of the energy transition's costs, warns Brigitte Knopf, head of the think tank Zukunft KlimaSozial, which focuses on climate policy' ...
05 Sep 2023, 14:55 Jennifer Collins Energiewende 91tv Germany is off track regarding many areas of its famed energy transition, with several indicators either "unrealistic" or at risk, consultancy firm McKinsey聽 found in its ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:22 Edgar Meza Coal Finance Reuters / Der Spiegel After acquiring a stake in RWE, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest energy company, activist fund Enkraft is pushing for the company to divest its brown coal division, Reuters reports. In a letter to the ...
13 Jan 2015
13 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt/S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥溾�橢lon鈥� und 鈥楩elix鈥� cost consumers millions鈥�/ 鈥淪tormy times on the power market鈥� Heavy winds from two low pressure systems created an enormous oversupply of wind power ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:50 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, ...
17 May 2019, 12:48 Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende NABU / Wuppertal Institute It is possible to reduce 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy-related greenhouse gas emissions by up to 100 percent by 2050 while at the same time maintaining a high level of nature ...
30 May 2023, 13:19 Jessica Bateman Solar 91tv / Bloomberg The number of solar panel systems in Germany hit three million on Monday (29 May), with聽total solar PV installed capacity reaching聽more than 70 gigawatts (GW), according to聽 industry ...
20 May 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society Rheinische Post A church in the town of Kerpen-Manheim, in the western German Rhenish coal mining region, has been prepared for demolition to expand a nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. About ...
Germany is seeking to limit China鈥檚 investment in sensitive firms, following revelations that state-owned China Southern Power Grid purchased a substantial share of a 1,650-kilometre natural gas distribution network and a 420-kilometre high- and medium ...
The government of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein wants a fairer distribution of grid fees in Germany and will introduce a draft law in the council of federal state governments (Bundesrat). 鈥淭he draft is to enable the federal government to bring ...
09 Oct 2023, 14:22 S枚ren Amelang Gas Heating 91tv Few households in Germany turned down their heating last year to save energy, despite warnings of a supply crisis and sharply rising prices, according to an聽 analysis 聽by non-profit ...
Grid operators such as utilities are protesting plans by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) to lower grid fees by decreasing the return on equity operators invest in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid infrastructure, write J眉rgen Flauger and Klaus Stratmann in the ...
18 Apr 2016
18 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv 聽 Der Tagesspiegel 鈥淐zech investor wants to take over brown coal operations鈥� A year and a half after Sweden's Vattenfall said it would sell its German lignite ...
25 Feb 2020, 14:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ...
04 Sep 2017, 00:00 For the second time within one month, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has held a 鈥渄iesel summit鈥� to discuss the consequences of the emissions fraud scandal of the country鈥檚 major carmakers. After a first summit in early August with industry ...
02 Jul 2020, 12:57 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business ...
12 Aug 2020, 13:52 Storage Tagesspiegel Online A large electric battery unit in the German town of Schwarze Pumpe, in the state of Brandenburg, will soon help stabilise the grid as renewable energy sources make up a larger portion of power supply, Ralf ...
Opposition to wind power expansion in Germany is gaining clout, as shown by a new video spot, with which the German Wildlife Foundation (Deutsche Wildtier Stiftung) has entered the campaign before the upcoming state elections in Hesse, writes Daniel ...
Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT has posted a consolidated EBIT of 417 million euros (324 million in Germany) in the first six months of 2016 and invested 875 million euros in聽the grid infrastructure (642 million in Germany). The EBIT ...
21 May 2021, 13:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital ...
Germany should optimise the use of existing grid connections in the North Sea to connect as much offshore wind power capacity to the grid as possible, operator Tennet says in a press release. 鈥淲e can see a clear potential to optimise the use of existing ...
20 Feb 2020, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Germany's first renewable power auction of 2020 has once more failed to attract enough bidders for onshore wind power projects, leading industry groups to call for a ...
22 May 2023, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang Politics 91tv An economist and regional state secretary will become 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new energy state secretary following the departure of Patrick Graichen due to violations of the ministry's compliance rules. ...
In the row over the expansion of a lignite mine and the clearing of a nearby forest, German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said that 鈥渟olutions can only be found through negotiations and talks, and not in public debates,鈥� news agency Reuters ...
12 May 2021, 13:48 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Heating 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 current climate protection measures do not go far enough to reach its existing CO2 reduction targets in the building sector by 2050, but there is nevertheless great ...
Grid operator 50Hertz registered a record wind power feed-in of more than 14,000 megawatt in its control area during a storm on 4 January, the company announced in a press release. 鈥淲e have been successful in securely managing our transmission grid even ...
08 Nov 2021, 14:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Finance Funke Mediengruppe / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany will work towards an exclusion of nuclear power from the EU taxonomy for sustainable investments, the country鈥檚 environment minister ...
28 Jul 2022, 12:25 S枚ren Amelang Society Tagesspiegel Background Far-right extremists in Germany have started to mobilise for a 鈥渉ot autumn鈥� of protests against soaring energy prices on social media, reports energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
09 Jan 2019, 11:59 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Grid Utilities Reuters Energy group Uniper is building a gas-fired power plant in Germany, the country鈥檚 first in a decade, to serve as a 鈥渟afety cushion鈥� for grids coping with intermittent ...
The Association of Energy Market Innovators (BNE) and the renewable power provider LichtBlick welcome plans by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) to lower grid fees by decreasing the return on equity operators invest in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid infrastructure, ...
14 Jun 2021, 13:00 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv The German economy ministry (BMWi) is providing 14 million euros of funding to help modernise conventional navigation facilities operated by German air navigation service provider DFS, a move that will ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:40 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Nuclear phase-out S眉ddeutsche Zeitung A second runtime extension for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 remaining nuclear power plants ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Gas Grid Hydrogen Technology 91tv Renewables-based gases such as hydrogen and synthetic methane will be increasingly important for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 to reach climate targets, say gas transmission grid operators ...
The government cabinet has approved a new regulation on how grid operators are paid for investments into the extension of the distribution network. This is important to make sure the energy transition in the distribution grid is making progress, state ...
The State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) is reaching out for a 20 percent share in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid operator 50Hertz in a bid to gain valuable insights into a business area in which China strives for a leading global role, Thomas Sigmund and ...
The German government will acquire a temporary 20 percent stake in power transmission grid operator (TSO) 50Hertz from Belgian Elia 鈥渙n national security grounds鈥�, the economy ministry (BMWi) said in a press release. The ministry said the decision was ...
07 Jan 2016
07 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau 鈥淣o climate protection without an energy transition in transport鈥� Transport is absolutely crucial to decarbonising the economy and Germany should embrace a leading role, but ...
02 Feb 2021, 13:44 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables EU Clean ...
Transmission grid operator TenneT and the European Commission are聽 proposing 聽1,300 megawatts of power trading capacity between Germany and Denmark, but consumer groups warn this will increase electricity costs for German households, Jacob Schlandt writes ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:55 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Grid Renewables Finance Bavarian Economy and Energy Ministry Since according to a new report Germany has been overtaken by France as the G20鈥檚 most attractive target country for investment in ...
07 Jan 2020, 16:05 A sharp drop in coal use put a break on Germany's CO2 emissions last year and pushed the country "surprisingly鈥� close to its 2020 climate target, writes energy think tank Agora Energiewende in its 2019 review. But a rising CO2 ...
Electric cars will be needed both as a greener form of transport and as storage devices for a power grid that relies on intermittent renewable energy sources if Germany is to hit its Paris Climate Agreement targets, Michael Nei脽endorfer writes in the ...
28 Jan 2019, 11:36 The agreement by Germany's coal exit commission to end the fossil power source's use by 2038 the latest is welcomed by the country's climate activists and energy industry representatives alike. They praise the final ...
12 May 2020, 13:16 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 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:22 Edgar Meza Heating 91tv The Association of German Engineers (VDI) calls for legal, regulatory and economic framework conditions to accelerate the expansion of renewable energy sources in the heating sector. These could ...
The EU will invest another 100 million euros in the planned power line Nordlink that is meant to exchange electricity between wind and hydro power plants in Germany and Norway, the European Commission says in a press release. The European Investment Bank ...
28 Jun 2024, 16:00 French citizens are awaiting the upcoming snap election brought about by the dissolution of parliament following president Emmanuel Macron鈥檚 loss to the far-right in this June鈥檚 EU elections. The vote could have a profound impact on the ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:23 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Rheinische Post / 91tv A group of villagers living in towns threatened by coal mine expansion in western Germany plan ...
24 Feb 2023, 11:00 One year after Russia started its devastating war on Ukraine, the energy policy landscape of Germany and most of Europe has changed radically. European states to a large extent lowered or even completely cut their reliance on Russian ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Heating 91tv To reach its climate targets, Germany's building sector must phase out the use of fossil fuel boilers and introduce minimum efficiency standards for existing buildings, a聽 ...
Leaked documents on energy regulation reform show that the European Commission plans to take away important competences regarding power grid management from member states, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. 鈥淩egional Operation Centres (ROC) would then ...
24 Oct 2023, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Renewables EU Spiegel / 91tv German government coalition member and pro-business party FDP (Free Democratic Party) has criticised a proposal agreed by EU member state governments last week to make so-called ...
Despite the significant changes in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system, the reliability of the power grid shows that there is a strong innovation dynamic in system services, writes the German Energy Agency (dena) in a report, citing redispatch measures as an example. ...
27 Mar 2019, 12:24 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Federal Environment Agency (UBA) The share of renewables in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 final energy consumption ...
German transmission grid operators (TSO) are in a dispute about the distribution of costs for re-dispatch measures to stabilise the German power grid, writes J眉rgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. TenneT and 50Hertz, who manage 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 windy north, carry out ...
19 Jun 2023, 13:12 S枚ren Amelang Coal International 91tv / Tagesspiegel Germany has committed an additional 200 million euros to help Colombia reach its climate targets. During the Colombian President, Gustavo Petro鈥檚, visit to Germany, the ...
27 Sep 2021, 13:59 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Electricity Gas dpa / Zeit / Wirtschaftswoche ...
07 Oct 2022, 14:40 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) ...
Solar PV expansion in Germany could reach the government鈥檚 goal of 2.5 gigawatts annually for the first time this year, Carsten K枚rnig, managing director of the German Solar Association (BSW), was quoted as saying in an article written by Thomas Magenheim ...
18 May 2020, 18:14 The German government has agreed to remove key hurdles to the rollout of renewable energies that had begun to slow the country's landmark energy transition. The deal between chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance ...
10 Sep 2024
10 Sep 2024, 13:44 With the summer break coming to an end, lawmakers in Brussels are back to school. After the newly elected European Parliament started its legislative term last July, all eyes are now on the formation of the next European Commission. ...
17 Apr 2019, 09:50 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world鈥檚 fourth largest economy, we' ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:52 Kerstine Appunn Wind Die Welt Shipping, fisheries, offshore wind power, raw material extraction and nature conservation all have been assigned their space in the German waters in the latest plan of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic ...
Modifying the power grid so that it can cater to an increasing number of electric cars will require investment to the tune of 11 billion euros by 2030, a study authored by the Munich-based consultancy TCW for ABB, a supplier of聽products and solutions for ...
24 Jan 2018
European power trading causes more fluctuation in the electricity grid than the feed-in of renewable power, according to a study by the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation. The grid displays particular large fluctuations every 15 ...
06 Jan 2025, 12:12 Germany is of central importance when it comes to the EU defining its priorities in energy and industrial policies, says Simone Tagliapietra, senior fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. He argues that the country鈥檚 next ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:51 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung The head of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest energy company, RWE, has warned that high prices for energy due to limited ...
29 Mar 2019, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 91tv The German solar power industry wants the government to loosen restrictions and free up land to expand solar capacity, after far more bidders submitted offers in the first 2019 solar ...
05 Sep 2023, 12:07 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 91tv Germany's climate policy and action are "insufficient" to meet its national and international climate targets,聽 according to the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) project. ...
31 Aug 2021, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv The next German government must massively increase climate action efforts in order to triple the current average annual greenhouse gas emissions reductions, ...
Germany will have to build new power plants in the south of the country to preserve supply security after its nuclear exit in 2022, according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). Rapid response plants with a total capacity of 1.2 gigawatts will be ...
26 Feb 2020, 13:52 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs S枚ren Amelang Wind Germany's economy ministry has ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:12 Expert Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector, State of Baden-W眉rttemberg Ministerium f眉r Umwelt, Klima und Energiewirtschaft, Baden-W眉rttemberg Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel ...
17 Feb 2020, 14:09 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The German Bundesrat, the council of state governments ...
04 Oct 2023, 10:11 Against the backdrop of a faltering economy and heated national debates about climate policies, two of Germany's key economic regions, Bavaria and Hesse, head to the polls in the first week of October. A change of government is not ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy ZDF German economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck defended the German government鈥檚 decision to cut government support payments for energy transition and climate action projects as well as energy cost ...
20 Mar 2015
20 Mar 2015, 00:00 Clear and sunny weather, a solar eclipse and no blackout- Germany's power system has passed an important test. The eclipse was a taste of the future, as the rise in renewables will make fluctuations of this magnitude regular events ...
The German government plans to put the brakes on wind power development in the country鈥檚 windy north because the electricity grid could not be extended quickly enough, writes Philip Oltermann in The Guardian. 鈥淪ome analysts argue that while Germany is ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:59 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics 91tv / Spiegel Online Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has reelected Manuela Schwesig as premier of the northeastern coastal state, which is aiming for climate neutrality by 2040. A member ...
The regional state of North Rhine-Westphalia plays a key role in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition and needs to heavily expand its power grid infrastructure despite local opposition, writes Guido M. Hartmann for Welt am Sonntag. The industry-heavy state ...
31 Aug 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices 91tv Germany should scrap the electricity tax while phasing out subsidies for the purchase of new electric cars to support the expansion of e-mobility, said a paper by the Institute ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International 91tv / n-tv A planned trip to India by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck aims to bring the countries closer together in efforts to develop renewable ...
01 Mar 2022, 14:31 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has initiated the first steps of a wide-ranging renewables reform that should make the country鈥檚 power supply almost 100 percent renewable by 2035. In a draft paper seen by 91tv, the economy and climate ...
11 Jan 2019, 14:01 S枚ren Amelang Wind 91tv Grid operator TenneT has increased offshore wind capacity to 6,232 megawatts (MW) in 2018, thus closing in on the 2020 government target of 6,500 MW. 鈥淎lready this year, TenneT will exceed this goal ...
25 Aug 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Handelsblatt / 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged to greatly expand the use of geothermal energy in Germany. The Social Democrat (SPD) said his goal was to tap into the renewable energy鈥檚 ...
Power grid operator Tennet and household power storage provider Sonnen plan to use a network of small-scale batteries to help reduce costs caused by grid bottlenecks between 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 windy North and the power-hungry South, reports Michael Bauchm眉ller in ...
10 Jul 2023, 12:10 James Jackson Adaptation Efficiency Heating Around one in eight German households already use air-condition units, according to a survey by price comparison website Verivox. 鈥淓ighty seven percent of respondents get by without an air ...
24 May 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Security Tagesspiegel Background A string of apparently targeted cyberattacks on German wind farms has led to worries that the country鈥檚 main future power source is not聽 sufficiently protected, Simon Frost reports ...
16 May 2019, 14:26 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs 91tv The business climate index of ...
A large-scale roll-out of electric vehicles in Germany could overstrain the power grid, and the country should invest billions of euros to prevent a breakdown in the future, J眉rgen Flauger and Franz Hubik write in the Handelsblatt. According to ...
07 Dec 2016, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel and her party left energy and climate policy on the sidelines at the Christian Democratic Union鈥檚 (CDU) conference in Essen. The centre-right party laid the groundwork on Tuesday for its 2017 federal election ...
29 Sep 2022, 17:37 The German government has agreed on a relief package worth up to 200 billion euros to fight soaring energy prices. 鈥淧rices must go down 鈥� that鈥檚 our conviction, and the government will do anything to achieve that,鈥� said chancellor Olaf ...
A pilot project by Dutch grid operator TenneT and German company Sonnen is meant to test power grid stabilisation with blockchain technology based on Sonnen鈥檚 decentralised home energy storage systems, TenneT says in a press release. TenneT will integrate ...
German car company BMW has placed an order worth over one billion euros with Chinese battery producer CATL, BMW CEO Harald Kr眉ger told Handelsblatt in an interview. 鈥淐ATL will open a factory in Europe,鈥� Kr眉ger added. In a separate press release, BMW said ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Renewables 91tv The buildout of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable power capacity is a 鈥渉erculean task鈥� that will likely take longer than planned and therefore make an early end to gas and coal-fired power ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv 73 percent of participants in a German online survey said they are dissatisfied with the progress of the country's landmark energy transition. Most (77%) see too much ...
Germany saw strong onshore wind power expansion in the first half of 2017, but development could severely slow after the transition phase from set feed-in tariffs to auction-based remuneration by 2019, said German Wind Energy Association (BWE) and ...
Germany will have to replace its current renewables (EEG) surcharge model with more market and taxation-based mechanisms, using a CO 2 price as an indicator, Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the environment ministry, said at a conference by Green ...
09 Aug 2019, 13:49 S枚ren Amelang Grid Wind 91tv Germany and other European countries offer important lessons for the development of offshore wind in New York, according to the US state's Power Authority (NYPA). 鈥淲e see great value in ...
German economy minister Sigmar Gabriel鈥檚 decision to scrap the harmonisation of grid fees across the country continues to outrage politicians in eastern Germany, Jens Tartler writes in Tagesspiegel. Heads of eastern states accuse the federal government of ...
While the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) was well-suited to supply necessary financing to kick start the expansion of renewables, it should now be replaced by a functioning European emissions trade in all sectors, Reinhold von Eben-Worl茅e, president of the ...
The German federal government must implement the promised additional tenders for offshore wind energy without delay and must also rapidly increase the expansion paths for all renewable energy sources, the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA) ...
26 Apr 2021, 13:29 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity market Hydrogen Elections & Politics Handelsblatt The German Green Party wants to restructure the electricity market to ...
12 Jul 2022, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government is expected to adopt a regulation on 13 July that would allow operators of certain hard coal plants to temporarily reactivate their units to help ...
15 Jul 2021, 09:30 The German environment ministry has called new EU proposals to reform the bloc's climate and energy policy 鈥渘othing less than a new industrial revolution in the European Union.鈥� The European Commission's comprehensive proposal ...
20 Sep 2024, 15:02 The worst floods in at least a decade hit southern Poland and neigbouring regions in mid-September due to extreme rainfall, which scientists said was likely more intense due to climate change. The situation has received wide political ...
German energy company RWE may be legally entitled to proceed with the expansion of its lignite mine near the Hambach Forest and to have police remove protesters, but the conditions that led to RWE鈥檚 license for expansion 鈥渉ave changed dramatically,鈥� ...
Power transmission grid operator Amprion and gas transmission grid operator Open Grid Europe (OGE) want to test power-to-gas (PtG) technologies on an industrial scale in Germany to better integrate electricity with the other sectors, the companies ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:55 Eastern German coal mining regions have welcomed draft legislation to support the states most affected by plans to phase out the fossil fuel by 2038 at the latest. The economy ministry presented an "investment law for coal regions ...
21 Sep 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is conducting test runs today (21 September) for a possible聽gas supply crisis, aiming to practice what would happen should the agency need to order ...
05 Jul 2023, 14:04 S枚ren Amelang Transport Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Germany is set to spend less than half of the funds originally planned on the modernisation of its ailing railway system, report business daily Handelsblatt and other media outlets. ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 public utilities will be at the forefront of implementing the decentralised energy supply required by the Energiewende, Katherina Reiche, director of the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU), said in an interview with Welt kompakt. Reiche ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:02 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Grid Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The government of the western German coal state and industrial ...
12 Apr 2021, 14:18 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Gas International Tagesspiegel The U.S. government is increasing pressure on the German government to halt the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline,聽 Hans Monath聽writes 聽in newspaper Tagesspiegel. President Joe ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Energiewende International Handelsblatt Despite EU Commissioner Maros Sefcovic announcing this month that the European energy union has become reality, unifying Europe鈥檚 big energy markets is more an ...
04 Apr 2019, 15:12 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions fell 4.5 percent in 2018 as warm weather and higher prices dampened the use of climate-damaging fossil fuels. The government called the largest drop since the 2009 recession the 鈥渇irst notable ...
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 UPDATE-- While millions of Europeans will look skyward for a glimpse of a rare solar eclipse on March 20, technicians at German power grid operator TenneT will be glued to their controls. When the moon covers parts of the sun, the ...
Making electricity cheaper and heating and transport fuels more expensive would be a first step towards successful sector coupling in Germany, writes Stefan Schultz in an opinion piece for Spiegel Online. Renewables expansion costs for consumers would be ...
Only a small part of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 inflexible conventional power generation is required to guarantee grid stability, according to the German Renewable Energy Federation BEE. The lobby group said the Federal Grid Agency鈥檚 (BNetzA) finding that many plants do ...
28 Sep 2021, 13:34 Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables 91tv Power generated from renewable sources covered around 43 percent of total electricity consumption in Germany in the first three quarters of 2021, down from 48 percent in the same period ...
08 Jan 2018, 00:00 The negotiation partners in Germany's ongoing coalition talks have agreed to postpone the country's 2020 emissions reduction target until "the early 2020s". Party negotiators also agreed on introducing a climate ...
18 Oct 2024, 10:56 The new government of prime minister Michel Barnier was announced on 21 September, with the 2025 budget following on 10 October. To reduce the public deficit to 5 percent of the country's economy by 2025, and to 3 percent by 2027, ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 failure to聽resolve national alignment of power grid fees is down to politicians 聽stalling in order to appease voters in the country鈥檚 most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Former ...
09 Aug 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Der Spiegel Nuclear plant operators in Germany are unenthusiastic about the prospect of having to revise their long-prepared decommissioning plans despite growing calls for the extension of runtimes, ...
14 Sep 2023, 14:03 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany plans to ...
10 Nov 2022, 13:39 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:03 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs 91tv The German government's ...
15 Oct 2024, 14:30 Fifteen companies in Germany have been awarded support guarantees in the first round of the so-called 鈥榗limate contracts鈥� scheme that is meant to put the country鈥檚 industry sector on track towards climate neutrality. Economy minister ...
02 Apr 2019, 13:52 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Politics Society 91tv Germany should strive to find consensus on the ...
22 Jun 2023, 14:00 Edgar Meza Renewables Solar 91tv In an effort to make 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 solar expansion more socially acceptable and sustainable, the Association of Energy Market Innovators (bne) has presented a聽 legislative proposal 聽detailing ...
20 Dec 2023, 12:49 Julian Wettengel Transport Policy Government 91tv / Table.Media The German government aims to raise the levy on passenger flights as part of a comprehensive budget package for 2024 and the following years to fill the ...
The first day-ahead auction on the EPEX SPOT power exchange after the split of the common power price zone between Austria and Germany, which becomes effective today (1 October), saw higher prices for Austria than Germany, writes the Austrian Energy ...
The Green Party emphasises the importance of solar power in a position paper ahead of the general elections in September, reports Passauer Neue Presse. 鈥淭he caps for expansion, feed-in and self-consumption have led to an 80-percent slump in annual ...
16 Apr 2019, 14:41 The opening of a new offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea gives Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel an opportunity to show her climate policy credentials and welcome the German-Norwegian project as a milestone for the energy ...
22 Sep 2022, 13:52 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv The German industry plans to stick to existing ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:24 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Resources & Recycling 91tv German solar power and recycling companies have released a joint proposal for ...
The federal government plans to ease the burden that high electricity grid fees present to eastern German federal states, said Brandenburg鈥檚 state secretary Dietmar Woidke, according to news agency dpa. The federal government aims to align the ...
The federal state of Saxony deliberately blocks the expansion of wind power on its territory, the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) says in a press release. 鈥淭he sole focus of Saxony鈥檚 energy policy is on romanticising lignite in Lusatia, and this ...
05 Mar 2021, 14:14 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind EU Handelsblatt In a blow to Germany's ambitious wind power ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:35 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government 91tv ...
The German power market will not be split into two separate price zones, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 council of federal state governments, the Bundesrat, has said in a press release. The council greenlighted a legal ordinance by the acting federal government that prevents ...
13 Oct 2023, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities Heating 91tv The largest river-based heat pump in Germany has started operations in the southern city of Mannheim. It will use water from the Rhine River to heat some 3,500 households, the local ...
A range of comparatively simple measures could increase the capacity of the German power grid within the next two to four years, energy think tank Agora Energiewende * finds in a study. An ad-hoc investment programme could improve the transmission grid to ...
Most Germans say the costs for renewable energy expansion are not fairly distributed across the country, Th眉ringische Landeszeitung reports. A representative survey by pollster Kantar Emnid found 59 percent of respondents said the costs paid by power ...
Regional smart markets can help lower re-dispatch costs in the German power grid, according to a new study by think tank Agora Energiewende.* Depending on the local conditions, measures such as using more power-to-heat or actively controlling night ...
18 Nov 2021, 13:25 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen 91tv Germany will not be able to import enough renewable hydrogen to reach the targets laid out in its national hydrogen strategy, according to an analysis conducted by the ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 additional auctions for wind and solar power have been planned too late to have a meaningful impact on the country鈥檚 climate action record or on the smooth expansion of renewable capacity in the country, Daniel Wetzel writes in an opinion piece ...
Power lines to carry wind power from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 north to its industrial south have been delayed over and over, creating problems for the Energiewende, writes Klaus Stratmann in the Handelsblatt. The current power network is reaching its limits in dealing ...
12 Nov 2019, 12:40 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
21 Apr 2023, 13:27 S枚ren Amelang Gas Policy Society dpa German chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and economy and climate minister Robert Habeck (Greens) have defended controversial government plans for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on the ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Utilities dpa / Tagesspiegel / Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung German energy industry heavyweight RWE has called for a roundtable of stakeholders to make progress on ending the current slump of onshore wind power ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany will be able to fully fill its gas storage facilities over the summer even if only a moderate volume of the fuel is available in the EU internal market, but there is still a risk of a ...
