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 ...
27 May 2021, 13:28 Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv The next government after the ...
08 Jan 2025, 12:06 The application of sustainable finance principles across the EU will take a major step forward in 2025 as reporting duties for environmental data are expanded to cover a much wider range of companies, says Matthias H眉bner, head of the ...
31 May 2023, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung About four million fossil heating systems in Germany will reach their legal runtime limit of 30 years in 2024, newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung聽 reported 聽based on a ...
With projects officially defined as citizens鈥� energy again dominating the second onshore wind auction, the risk of not reaching the expansion targets after 2018 increases, writes the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) in a press release. 鈥淲e see the ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Airplanes in Germany will be made more environmentally friendly by supplying them with clean electricity during stops at the airport, the country鈥檚 transport minister, Volker Wissing, has said. Airplanes ...
19 Mar 2019, 13:53 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Storage GreenTech Media Researchers in Germany are exploring possibilities to turn the country鈥檚 coal plants into ...
Transmission grid operator TenneT and the Energiewende ministry of northern German state Schleswig-Holstein report that 3,000 gigawatt-hours of renewable electricity had to be curbed in 2015 because of imminent grid congestions. Congestion events should ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Germany has completed its final auction to provide compensation for the early retirement of coal plants, with fewer operators participating in the tenders than initially hoped for, the Federal ...
07 Oct 2022, 13:32 The state election in Lower Saxony on 9 October is the first major vote in the country since the energy crisis fueled by Russia's war has started to take a toll on the German economy. The ballot in the state that hosts most of ...
10 Dec 2018, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Grid Security Handelsblatt Germany must be careful to 鈥渘ot overstep the mark鈥� on supply security when deciding on the process of phasing out coal-fired power production, Boris Schucht, CEO of ...
The I脰W has published a study on the role small home power generating installations can play in the German energy system, with regulatory recommendations to encourage their use. A growing number of citizens and businesses are generating power and partly ...
10 Feb 2023, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Fossil fuels Transport Policy 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background It is no longer necessary to prioritise the transport of coal, mineral oil and gas on German trains, the transport companies鈥� association VDV ...
15 Dec 2022, 11:57 Germany urgently needs an overarching plan to reduce transport emissions in the new year, given that the government didn鈥檛 make any headway during its first year in office, Wiebke Zimmer, deputy executive director of clean mobility ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the parliament (German Bundestag) to find an agreement on national power grid fee alignment before the summer break, said economy minister Brigitte Zypries at the German energy industry conference BDEW Congress in ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 91tv German consumers saw the greatest rise in prices ever recorded for electricity, gas and heating oil in 2021, comparison website Verivox has said. The price for gas climbed by almost ...
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03 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv BDEW 鈥淓nergiewende continues to be major topic for population鈥� 93 percent of Germans believe the Energiewende is important or very important, according to a survey by ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has pledged to maximise focus on the extension of the country鈥檚 power grid as a priority of his work. 鈥淭he Energiewende will succeed if we get ahead with the grid extension,鈥� Altmaier told ...
22 Aug 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Efficiency n-tv / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 construction minister has opposed stricter energy efficiency requirements for new housing in order to boost the struggling sector. As Germany reaches ...
15 Jul 2021, 14:04 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Solar 91tv Germany registered strong demand in its ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cars Policy dpa / Reuters / BR Only one day after opening a state support programme for installing solar panels for charging electric vehicles (EVs), 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national development bank KfW closed the application ...
German utility E.ON has denied rumours it is considering selling parts of its grid business, the dpa news agency reports. E.ON instead aimed to 鈥渟uccessfully implement鈥� its strategy agreed on during the last annual shareholders鈥� meeting, dpa quoted an E ...
Germany needs a 鈥渞easonable readjustment鈥� of its energy transition to get a grip on the 鈥渃osts that are out of control鈥�, Christoph M. Schmidt, head of the German Council of Economic Experts (Wirtschaftsweisen), says in an article on Focus Online. 鈥淲ith ...
01 Sep 2020, 12:48 Coal 91tv / dpa / Der Spiegel Coal company LEAG says it is dismantling buildings in the Sorbian town of M眉hlrose in the eastern Lausitz region as part of the plan to relocate the town鈥檚 residents. The town is slated for ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:01 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas energate messenger / taz The energy group Uniper no longer believes in the construction of an LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminal in northern German Wilhelmshaven, reports ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:52 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parliament decided on allowing tenants to benefit from solar power panels installed on their buildings a few weeks ago and now renters seizing this opportunity say they were able to reduce their power bill with it, news agency dpa reports in an ...
20 Dec 2023, 10:40 Money that Germany has earmarked for climate action should be spent on projects that have a direct impact on key sectors, says Claudia Kemfert from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). The economist warns against cross ...
23 May 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen dpa / ARD / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gas storage capacity is insufficient for the planned expansion of the use of hydrogen, according to gas storage network operator INES. Current gas storage facilities ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 91tv Energy industry association BDEW has聽 presented a proposal 聽for a new electricity market design in Germany, with a new capacity mechanism at the heart of the plan. 鈥淭he current ...
07 May 2020, 09:31 Slumping power demand due to the coronavirus crisis combined with April鈥檚 strong wind and solar power production have revealed that Germany's fossil and renewable electricity generation, as well as electricity demand, need to ...
The power grid in southern German states Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg is not ready to cope with a large increase of electric vehicles, news agency dpa says in an article carried by website General-Anzeiger online. Industry experts estimate that the ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / Der Spiegel A proposed subsidised electricity price for heavy industry would not be effective for the economy as a whole, according to a report by the German Institute for ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables expansion with the help of the EEG surcharge has cost the country much more than necessary, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in an opinion piece in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淜ick-starting clean energy was basically a good idea. But nobody ...
09 Jun 2023, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating International 91tv The French city of Strasbourg and the German town of Kehl, which are located on opposite sides of the river Rhine, are planning to connect their heating systems in a cross-border ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:54 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Hamburger Abendblatt The energy crisis in ...
29 Mar 2021, 13:47 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility 91tv The future German government needs to implement a federal mobility law to ensure the transition to a climate-friendly transport sector, says transport and environmental association ...
14 Feb 2022, 13:55 Jessica Bateman Gas dpa / ntv The construction of Germany's first liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal remains uncertain as a key project continues to face delays, reports newswire dpa in an article carried by ntv. There is still ...
Welt Online / dpa East German state premier criticises power price differences Once again, an eastern German state premier has criticised regional discrepancies in the power price, dpa news agency reports in an article carried by Welt Online. Brandenburg ...
21 Sep 2021, 13:23 Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal 91tv Eastern German lignite power plants that are scheduled to ...
10 Aug 2023, 13:02 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions fell nine percent in the first half of the year as a weakening economy deflated energy use, according to聽 an analysis 聽by climate and energy ...
11 May 2023, 13:11 Edgar Meza Policy Security Handelsblatt / 91tv Economy minister Robert Habeck has warned against over-reliance on China and called for the broadening of supply chains while reassessing 鈥渢he opportunities and risks of our ...
30 Nov 2020, 15:24 Charlotte Nijhuis Utilities Digitalisation Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung New electricity providers that focus on green electricity and make extensive use of digitalisation are entering the German market despite the already stiff ...
Industrial enterprises are increasingly using power-to-heat technology to save on energy bills, the Handelsblatt reports. A sugar factor in east Germany, for example, needs constant heat for its production processes, Jakob Struller writes. At times when ...
Grid operator TenneT has paid 295 million euros in contingency payments to wind power operators in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein in 2015 because their electricity could not be transported through congested grids, Olaf Preu脽 writes in Die ...
11 Dec 2023, 12:20 Italy aims to become an important player once again at the table of international climate negotiations, the country鈥檚 recently appointed special envoy for climate Francesco Corvaro said. The university professor and engineer said that ...
16 Mar 2023, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility 91tv The number of e-bikes sold in Germany might overtake conventional bikes for the first time in 2023, cycling industry associations ZIV and VDZ said. Last year, almost every second bicycle sold ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:56 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv The hasty buildout of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 liquefied natural gas (LNG) import infrastructure is turning into a ...
09 Jun 2021, 13:14 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Renewables Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚聽Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union聽(NABU) has blasted聽 German government plans 聽to expand areas of the Baltic and North Seas for聽 offshore wind power ...
13 Dec 2023, 13:47 German and European politicians, scientists, businesses and civil society have overwhelmingly welcomed the key message of this year鈥檚 UN climate change conference COP28 in Dubai: the agreement to "transition away" from fossil ...
The eastern German city of Leipzig is slated to become the 鈥渃entre of the Energiewende鈥檚 digitalisation,鈥� Wolfgang Brinkschulte writes for the public broadcaster MDR. The federal government wants the 鈥淪mart Infrastructure Hub鈥� to become a pivot for ...
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07 Oct 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Bloomberg Business, Greenpeace,聽S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淕reenpeace says can find cash to buy Vattenfall coal assets鈥� Bloomberg Business reports that Greenpeace has registered its interest in buying ...
19 Jun 2023, 13:14 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv Investors are willing to build offshore wind farms in German waters in the Baltic and North Sea without state support, and will now even have to pay to be awarded a contract. In the ...
04 Jan 2024, 12:51 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions fell around ten percent last year to the lowest level since around 1950, as a weak economy and high prices caused energy-intensive industry to lower production and electricity generation from coal ...
16 Sep 2019, 12:31 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport transition is largely dependent on the adoption of widely circulated concepts based on new technologies and planned infrastructure developments, Deutsche Bank Research says in a ...
11 Sep 2019, 13:55 The German wind power industry has warned of the "precarious" situation of the country's dominant renewable power technology. As the industry gathered in the northern German town of Husum for one of the sector鈥檚 most ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:21 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Carolina Kyllmann Renewables 91tv Renewable ...
17 Oct 2022, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government Bild / Der Spiegel The dispute over delaying the completion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear phase-out drags on within the country鈥檚 coalition government. A meeting between chancellor Olaf Scholz from ...
22 Nov 2019, 12:01 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Solar 91tv Business sentiment in the German solar power ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Policy 91tv More than one billion euros will be invested by the German government on fusion research over the next five years. "Fusion is a huge opportunity to solve all our energy ...
12 Jun 2023, 13:53 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv Germany is likely to reach its gas storage target levels early, but a shortage risk for the coming winter remains if average temperatures drop significantly, gas storage operator INES said in a ...
After 15 years of construction, the new power transmission line from eastern Germany to Bavaria in the south 鈥渃loses one of the most severe bottlenecks in the European power grid,鈥� Daniel Wetzel writes in Die Welt. The 200-kilometre-long line connecting ...
02 Jul 2021, 13:13 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Wind Die Welt / dpa / 91tv The North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state parliament has passed a new climate protection law that paves the way for climate neutrality by 2045, five years earlier than ...
06 Mar 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background A draft update of the German government鈥檚 2020 national hydrogen strategy assumes a higher demand for the fuel than three years ago, when the country launched its first national strategy ...
The conflict over coal-mining expansion in the Hambach Forest, where police have started evicting anti-coal activists, is becoming an issue that could threaten the stability of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission, news website Spiegel Online writes. Commission ...
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13 Dec 2024, 15:30 The coming year will show whether the EU can use a new strategy to clean its industry and continue the path laid out over the past five years in the European Green Deal, or whether increasing global competition and protectionist efforts ...
27 Apr 2023, 12:44 Julian Wettengel International Table.Media German chancellor Olaf Scholz will have an opportunity to improve his 鈥� and the country鈥檚 鈥� international credibility on climate when the government invites ministers from several dozen ...
German grid operator Amprion has started an early public consultation process on possible routes for a 300 km direct current underground power line to transport electricity 鈥渇rom the wind-rich north to the consumption centres in western and southern ...
27 Apr 2023, 13:00 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Policy dpa Cities and municipalities in the state of Bavaria have demanded more money from the state government for climate protection measures, according to a dpa report in Die Zeit. The state government ...
09 Aug 2019, 13:59 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Freja Eriksen Utilities German fossil utility Uniper cited rising costs for carbon allowances as a main reason for declining ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:49 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv The climate ...
18 Aug 2020, 14:13 Renewables Hydrogen Energate Messenger The roll-out of electric cars and the production of synthetic hydrogen-based fuels will push up Germany's demand for electricity in the years to come, resulting in a need to speed up the ...
25 Jan 2017, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy policy will see little change as former justice minister Brigitte Zypries replaces Sigmar Gabriel as economy and energy minister this week, according to policy experts. Gabriel鈥檚 Social Democratic party colleague ...
Resistance against wind energy is growing in Germany because the country already has 26,600 turbines- many of which need to be switched off when it is windy because of grid overload, writes Franz Hubik in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. The ...
Blogger and author Craig Morris is leaving the "Energy Transition: The Global Energiewende" blog to work for the Renewables Grid Initiative *. Morris has been the Energy Transition blog鈥檚 main blogger and the lead author of its annually updated ...
Germany and Sweden will build a 300 kilometre-long, 700 megawatt direct current power line connecting storage-rich Scandinavia with wind- and solar-powered continental Europe. 鈥淭he cable improves the integration of renewable energies in the transmission ...
15 Mar 2024, 13:21 Germany is largely on track to reaching its national target to reduce total greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent by 2030, but is set to fail its EU goal for sectors such as transport, buildings and agriculture, according to ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:19 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung The head of German engineering company Siemens expects power prices in the country to increase for some years, as the country undergoes a ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:12 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Plans by Germany's economy and climate ministry to lower industry power prices with ...
The future government coalition of Christian Democrats (CDU) and Free Democrats (FDP) in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) wants to slow down wind power expansion and keep energy generation from fossil fuels as 鈥渂ridging technologies for the foreseeable future ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Der Spiegel Applications for heat pump subsidies in Germany dropped by roughly half in the first six months of 2023 following a subsidy cut, newspaper Der Spiegel reported. According to ...
04 Dec 2018, 15:34 Federal Association of Offshore Wind Farm Operators The association of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind farm operators (BWO) has welcomed a government proposal to increase the country鈥檚 offshore wind power capacity from 15 to 20 gigawatt (GW) by ...
05 May 2021, 12:35 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices EU Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel Background Many European Union member states are rejecting calls to expand emissions trading to聽the heating and transport聽sectors in the bloc in order to more ...
German battery company sonnen wants to equip electric car users with a new charging box that not only allows them to draw electricity from solar panels on their homes, but also connects them to other users, making them part of a larger battery pool. The ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) would be wise to 鈥渕assively advocate鈥� for shifting the financial foundation of the country鈥檚 energy transition from national subsidies to a better functioning European Emissions Trading System ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:09 Edgar Meza International 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany expects cooperation with Indonesia to expand and intensify in the coming years, particularly in the areas of renewable energy and raw materials, the ...
There are no regions in Germany where power grid bottlenecks justify the government鈥檚 plan to slow down renewable development with the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), according to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) ...
27 Sep 2022, 14:07 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv High energy prices and possibly also pleas by the German government to save gas appear to show an effect among households in the country: The head of the federal grid agency (BNetzA) Klaus ...
Grid operator Tennet, one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 four major electricity network companies, has warned that a toll on power transmission from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 windy north to industrial centres in the south could create substantial obstacles for the country鈥檚 planned ...
13 Dec 2019, 13:52 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Freja Eriksen Wind 91tv Wind energy will be Germany's most important power ...
German engineering giant Siemens has rejected criticism from the Green party that it lets private households pay for its electricity bill as 鈥渕isleading鈥� and 鈥渙utrightly wrong鈥�, Handelsblatt Online reports. Green MP B盲rbel H枚hn previously said it was ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang Transport Hydrogen Heating Policy Handelsblatt The German government wants to use hydrogen for decarbonising road transport and heating, in addition to industry, according to a highly anticipated revamp of the national ...
A projected substantial increase in the number of e-cars in Germany will pose major challenges for the country鈥檚 energy providers and power grids, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) says in a press release. The ZEW has carried out a survey ...
13 Jan 2021, 13:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Efficiency Heating RND Although the building sector is considered a key part of Germany's energy transition, the share of renewable energies used for heating and cooling buildings has stagnated at a low level for ...
28 Feb 2020, 13:48 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Wind 91tv / Tagesspiegel ...
18 Aug 2023, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Start-ups Business & Jobs 91tv / Die Welt A lack of skilled workers makes it increasingly difficult for German companies to bring innovative technologies and procedures to the market, according to ...
In an interview with the Handelsblatt, the head of power network operator Tennet, Lex Hartmann, says that the company will invest 22 billion euros in the next 10 years, with the lion鈥檚 share in network expansion in Germany. Regulatory hurdles for ...
14 Nov 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv Denmark tops the latest edition of the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) by NewClimate Institute, Climate Action Network and Germanwatch, which saw Germany fall ...
24 Nov 2023, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy Die Welt / Stern / NDR / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Governments in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal states are concerned that the recent ruling by the country鈥檚 highest court declaring parts of the federal government鈥檚 budget ...
19 May 2022, 12:00 Germany has reacted largely positively to EU plans for ending dependence on Russian fossil fuel imports. Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the European Commission鈥檚 RePowerEU Plan an 鈥渋mportant initiative鈥� that could give fresh impetus to ...
28 Aug 2019, 14:02 Edgar Meza Coal Government 91tv Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 cabinet on Wednesday adopted a draft law submitted by Germany's economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier aimed at strengthening coal regions following the ...
31 Mar 2023, 11:37 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / MDR The energy ministers from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 sixteen states have called on the federal government to examine lowering the electricity tax to the European minimum, and supporting ...
24 Nov 2024, 15:30 Politicians and civil society from Germany have said that the agreement on future climate finance at the UN climate change conference COP29 shows that international cooperation has prevailed even in a challenging geopolitical context. ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:59 S枚ren Amelang Coal Bild 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Chancellor Angela Merkel has privately warned that the country鈥檚 coal exit will fail without 鈥渆normous effort,鈥� Ralf Schuler reports for tabloid Bild. 鈥淲e have to really want this,鈥� Merkel said at a ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:11 As German stakeholders eagerly await the European Commission鈥檚 proposals on overhauling the EU鈥檚 energy and climate policy, the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) has said new EU laws could mean that the country has to once again ...
The compulsory switch to smart meter readers will lead to higher costs and threats to the privacy of power customers 鈥渨ithout holding any observable advantages up to now,鈥� Kathrin Emse writes on shz.de. 鈥淪mart grids help grid operators 鈥� by allowing them ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:24 S枚ren Amelang Industry Hydrogen 91tv Converting hydrogen to ammonia will be "the dominant transport technology" in order to ship the fuel to Germany, according to a report 聽commissioned by the World Energy Council ...
The project 鈥渆nera鈥� in the rural North-Western German region of Eastern Frisia could become the next step on the way to establishing smart energy grids across Germany, writes Angela Schmid in WirtschaftsWoche. 鈥渆nera鈥� is aimed at steering energy flows so ...
08 Aug 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Funke Mediengruppe Global warming could make Germany a breeding ground for mosquitos and ticks transmitting tropical diseases such as dengue fever, the president of Germany's national disease ...
17 May 2023, 12:53 S枚ren Amelang Heating Policy Stuttgarter Nachrichten The leader of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Social Democrats (SPD) said it was the party's imperative to prevent sharp cost increases for tenants during the shift to climate-friendly heating systems ...
17 Jun 2015, 00:00 The shared electricity market between Austria and Germany was seen as a major achievement in 2002 but now it is coming under pressure from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 increasing generation from renewables, showing the disintegrative side effects the ...
19 May 2023, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Policy WirtschaftsWoche / WAZ / FAZ The cronyism allegations and subsequent departure of energy state secretary Patrick Graichen, as well as the public dispute about government plans for a de-facto ban of fossil heaters ...
11 Aug 2023, 13:16 S枚ren Amelang Wind Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv Investors have agreed to pay 784 million euros for the right to build wind farms in four locations in the North Sea in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest offshore wind tender. The wind ...
12 Feb 2019, 14:14 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen 91tv German power grid operator Amprion and gas grid operator Open Grid Europe (OGE) are planning to build a 100 megawatt (MW) power-to-gas plant along with hydrogen infrastructure, a project they ...
Smart distribution grids are a pre-requisite for the success of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transition to a low-carbon energy system, according to a press release from Westnetz, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest distribution system operator. While 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition has been ...
German transmission grid operators published their provisional route proposals for SuedLink and SuedOstLink, the direct current high-voltage power lines to connect 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 windy north with the power-hungry south. The routes were 鈥渘ot set in stone,鈥� said ...
Several German federal states have revamped their approach towards the energy transition and climate protection. In a joint initiative, the states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate are calling for a reform of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Renewable Energy Act (EEG) to speed ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:05 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv ...
17 Dec 2020, 10:36 If Germany doesn鈥檛 help existing and promote new renewable energy installations, it risks a 鈥済reen power gap鈥� in 2030, Simone Peter, President of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) says. With the EU tightening its climate ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:19 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv The demand for solar power panels in Germany has ...
02 Dec 2020, 13:39 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel / dpa 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new price on carbon in the heating and transport sectors does not always reflect 鈥渟ocial realities鈥�, environment minister Svenja Schulze and finance minister Olaf Scholz ...
Germany would have enough power for 1 million electric cars and the power grid would be able to cope with the charging pattern of these vehicles, Michael Brecht, author at eMobilitaetsblog.de writes in an opinion piece for Welt online. Brecht rejects the ...
15 May 2023, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society 91tv The majority of citizens in the German state of Bavaria would accept wind turbines in their vicinity under certain circumstances, a survey commissioned by the Initiative Climate ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:27 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party ...
A regional branch of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) intends to push for a moratorium on wind power expansion in northern federal states in order to protect birds from being killed by wind turbine blades, David Joram writes in ...
23 Jun 2023, 13:11 Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background / Handelsblatt / pv magazine 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy minister Robert Habeck announced there will be new government funding to rebuild the country鈥檚 solar industry, ...
24 Jan 2023, 13:20 Edgar Meza Solar 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has increased maximum support rates for ground-mounted solar system tenders by 25 percent to 7.37 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh). The move is expected to make ...
07 Dec 2023, 13:07 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities ...
The new governing coalition of conservative CDU and economic liberal FDP in Germany's most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) seems intent on curbing wind power expansion but is hit by resistance from the job-creating industry, Guido ...
International efforts in the framework of the G20 to limit the effects of climate change will have to rely on wind power as a pillar of low-carbon energy generation, the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) says in a press release. 鈥淎uctions for wind and ...
25 Feb 2021, 13:17 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Tagesspiegel Background / Tagesschau ...
An increase in extreme weather events like storms, floods and snow pushed up the average electricity blackout time in Germany last year. The average interruption per power consumer rose to 15.14 minutes from 12.80 minutes in 2017, according to the Federal ...
10 Oct 2022, 14:07 Julian Wettengel Transport 91tv German postal service Deutsche Post DHL is testing emission-free delivery on Berlin鈥檚 Spree river with a solar-powered ship. The pilot project in the capital is an addition to the company鈥檚 ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister, Svenja Schulze, has weighed in on the dispute between environmental groups and energy company RWE over the expansion of a lignite mine and the clearing of a nearby forest, tagesschau.de reports. 鈥淚f we want to achieve a ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:15 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity ...
16 Jun 2016
16 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Volkswagen Group VW aims to sell 2-3 million e-cars by 2025 Car giant VW plans a "major electrification initiative" with more than 30 new聽purely battery ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that federal and state governments were 鈥渢rying to find a solution鈥� in the dispute about nationwide grid fee alignment. 鈥淎t the moment, a difficult battle is raging on how we best succeed in managing this surcharge ...
04 Nov 2020, 13:57 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv The reform of Germany& ...
07 Feb 2020, 12:58 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Energiewende WirtschaftsWoche Germany needs to revamp its energy policy to avoid issues with supply security and ...
鈥淲e will correct the ideological, much too fast expansion of wind energy鈥� in North Rhine-Westphalia, said the Free Democrats鈥� (FDP) state chairman Christian Lindner in a video on Twitter, talking about coalition negotiations. His comments came just hours ...
04 Jun 2015
04 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv BDI / IG BCE Industry Association joins forces with mining union to combat coal levy Leading German industry association BDI has thrown its weight behind mining union IG BCE 鈥檚 efforts to thwart ...
13 Jan 2023, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv Germany is facing a severe skills shortage to key economic transformation efforts, in areas such as e-mobility and renewable energy,聽the Association of German Chambers of Industry ...
Over 60 companies have criticised government plans to substantially limit the possibilities for wind power expansion in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Hilmar Riemenschneider writes for K枚lner Stadtanzeiger. In a letter to ...
02 Aug 2024
02 Aug 2024, 14:20 Six months after the new ruling coalition in Poland came to power, there are still no significant changes to the country鈥檚 energy policy. The government of Donald Tusk, however, is finally getting back to work on key laws for the energy ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 acting government has adopted a draft regulation that bans transmission grid operators (TSOs) from unilaterally splitting the German power trading zone. 鈥淲hat distinguishes the German trading zone is its unity, which ensures equal conditions ...
10 May 2021, 14:29 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Policy Elections & Politics Zeit Online / Reuters 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Social Democratic Party ...
04 Aug 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland / 91tv / Welt / BR The German nuclear power phase-out 鈥渨ill not be revised鈥� as a result of the current gas supply crisis, the co-leader of the ...
A significant drop in the price of PV modules has so far had only a moderate effect on solar power investments in Germany, according to website strom-report.de. Prices for PV modules fell by more than 70 percent between 2010 and 2016 while at the same ...
28 Mar 2019, 13:23 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Rachel Waldholz Utilities Reuters / 91tv German utility EnBW will invest billions of euros in its power grids and other ...
31 Oct 2022, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 91tv The price of gas in Germany on average increased by 17.7 percent for private households and 38.9 percent for businesses and other large consumers in the first half of this year ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Heating ARD A large new power-to-heat facility, running on wind energy has come into operation in the northern German city of Hamburg which is technically capable of providing about 27,000 households with low ...
The expansion of the gas pipeline Nord Stream, linking Germany and Russia via the Baltic Sea, angers Poland and the Baltic States as they fear Russia鈥檚 influence in Europe will be made stronger by the project, WirtschaftsWoche Online reports. 鈥淭his is no ...
29 Dec 2015
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Sven Egenter Spiegel Online 鈥淗endricks criticises massive rise in electricity exports鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister Barbara Hendricks is concerned about the country鈥檚 CO2 emissions, writes Stefan Schultz at Spiegel Online ...
08 Oct 2021, 12:00 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
A project in Hamburg combines dozens of old e-car batteries to form a large power storage plant in the city鈥檚 industrial port, industry newspaper THB reports. Carmaker BMW, Bosch and energy company Vattenfall jointly operate the project, called Battery 2 ...
Construction of the direct current connection NordLink for the exchange of renewable energy between Germany and Norway has started, writes transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT in a press release. 鈥淔or the first time, the interconnector will directly ...
21 Sep 2021, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs 91tv / rbb Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has announced the closure of a blade factory in eastern German state Brandenburg. The company is axeing over 450 jobs in the town ...
The would-be coalition partners鈥� plan to reach a 65 percent share of renewables in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power mix by 2030 is an 鈥渁mbitious target,鈥� said Jochen Homann, president of the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), at a meeting 聽held on the eve of the E-world ...
High wind power production during a storm led to a total of 35 hours of negative wholesale power prices over the holidays in Germany, writes Daniel Wetzel for Welt Online. 鈥淏ecause of the holidays, industry did not need the power,鈥� and grid operators at ...
The renewable energy sector will be competitive without financial support within the next four to five years, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier said on the sidelines of the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue. As an example, ...
German technology company Bosch and utility EnBW have opened a new large battery storage facility that helps stabilise the power grid, Bosch says in a press release. The battery consists of 768 lithium-ion modules that can provide energy quickly and help ...
The joint power-to-gas (PtG) project by power and gas transmission grid operators Amprion and Open Grid Europe (OGE) should not come as a surprise, as especially the gas industry worries about its future in a decarbonised Germany, writes Andreas Mihm in ...
14 Jun 2022, 12:11 Kerstine Appunn Industry Business & Jobs 91tv The German government has set up a new 鈥淭ransformation Alliance鈥� between the chancellery, several ministries and representatives from businesses and trade unions, research ...
15 Sep 2023, 11:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Gas Wind Freight 91tv / Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chancellor Olaf Scholz has unveiled plans to strengthen the country鈥檚 ports to support the expansion of offshore wind power and LNG and ...
29 Nov 2019, 13:58 Expert Enercon GmbH Wind turbine manufacturer Wind Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Germany's leading wind turbine producer Enercon says the first major crisis in the company& ...
06 May 2025, 13:00 Germans cast their vote in the country's federal election on 23 February. Conservative CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz is set to become the next chancellor and will now lead the formal coalition negotiations with the Social Democrats ...
27 Jul 2022, 15:02 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv The German government plans to spend 177.5 billion euros of the federal budget for climate action, and the transformation of the country鈥檚 economy, from 2023 to 2026. The cabinet ...
More than 60 civil society groups under the umbrella organisation Climate Alliance are calling for an ambitious phase-out of coal-fired power generation, a higher goal for renewables expansion, and a CO鈧� floor price in the power sector. The alliance has ...
11 Dec 2023, 13:24 S枚ren Amelang Coal dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung East German coal mine operator LEAG has said it expects to extract lignite from its opencast pits past 2030, even though the government hopes to exit coal by that date. 鈥淲e are very ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:39 Preview 2020: Solar power in Germany has bottomed out from its breakdown a few years back and looks ahead at 2020 full of confidence that the odds are in its favour in the country thanks to the introduction of carbon pricing in the ...
22 Sep 2022, 14:02 Jessica Bateman Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Prices for firewood and wood pellets are almost double what they were the same time last year, figures from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal statistics office (Destatis) have shown. In August ...
28 Feb 2022, 13:58 The outbreak of war in eastern Europe is sending shockwaves through 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 political class and is reshaping the energy transition debate, as the country鈥檚 most important energy trading partner Russia increasingly turns into a ...
10 Oct 2019, 13:43 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Clean ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:27 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Freja Eriksen Wind 91tv Leading global wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has won an order to build a 29 megawatt (MW) wind power plant at a steel ...
22 Sep 2022, 14:08 Jessica Bateman Technology EU Tagesspiegel Background The German government will propose a 鈥淓uropean Alliance for Transformation Technologies鈥� at an upcoming meeting of EU ministers responsible for industry policy and the internal ...
Over half of the power consumed within transmission grid operator 50Hertz鈥檚 control area last year (53.4 percent) was generated from renewables, the company says in a press release presenting its 2017 balance sheet. 鈥淲e are proud that with this record ...
08 Sep 2021, 12:30 The Left Party would enter negotiations to form 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government with a demand to abolish the recently introduced carbon price on transport and heating fuels, according to MP Lorenz G枚sta Beutin, a climate and energy expert ...
28 Jun 2024
28 Jun 2024, 12:00 Carolina Kyllmann Julian Wettengel Associated Press: Von der Leyen, Costa and Kallas endorsed for the EU鈥檚 top jobs European Union leaders have agreed on the officials who will lead the EU鈥檚 powerful executive branch. News agency AP ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:22 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Bavaria is making up lost ground in the rollout of wind power following the recent easing of strict distance rules, and also aims to become a European solar power leader, its ...
The government coalition of conservative CDU and pro-business FDP in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has passed legislation on the limitation of wind power expansion, Welt Online reports. NRW鈥檚 economy minister Andreas ...
23 Feb 2025, 20:20 Germany's coalition government collapsed聽in November 2024 due to internal disputes over budget and economic policy. The country now gears up for snap elections in early 2025, against the backdrop of a flagging economy, the war in ...
31 Mar 2020, 13:06 Freja Eriksen Wind 91tv The Bundesrat, Germany's council of state governments,聽 wants to increase 聽planning security for wind power project developers. It has proposed changes to the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) which ...
24 May 2024, 12:00 The far-right populist Alternative f眉r Deutschland (AfD) is Germany's only large party to unequivocally reject any action against climate change- but its impact on the country's efforts has been limited. The AfD has not yet ...
04 Dec 2020, 13:01 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Tagesspiegel Background Germany will fail to achieve its 2030 target of a 65 percent renewables share in power consumption, even with added ambition in the latest draft for the ...
09 Jun 2021, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Policy International Tagesspiegel Background The EU's Fit for 55 package must reconcile climate protection with a prosperous economy and leave member states with enough flexibility, the German ...
German economic liberal party FDP is increasingly wooing adversaries of the energy transition and climate policy sceptics in its bid to reenter parliament, write Anna-Sophia Lang and Gerald Traufetter in Der Spiegel. The FDP fell short of the required ...
12 Oct 2023, 11:38 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & ...
16 May 2023, 13:40 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices BR In the month after ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:38 S枚ren Amelang Gas Heating Welt / 91tv / Zeit / taz 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gas industry has welcomed the coalition government鈥檚 compromise on the transition to climate-friendly heating, while some media commentators and environmental ...
09 Oct 2015
09 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt 鈥淣uclear Energy? Never Again!鈥� The history of nuclear energy in Germany is a total fiasco, write J眉rgen Flauger and Klaus Stratmann in a 鈥渃losing balance sheet鈥� in business daily Handelsblatt. The ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 cyber crime agency in the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) warns that attacks on energy providers in the country could lead to a Europe-wide blackout, news website Spiegel Online reports. According to an internal BKA document seen by Spiegel ...
The Chinese state enterprise SGCC has already signed a contract to buy a 20-percent share of grid operator 50Hertz, but the German government is trying to reverse the deal 鈥� which it says concerns 鈥渃ritical infrastructure鈥� 鈥� before it takes effect, Thomas ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv The output of Europe's solar power panels is influenced by particulate matter in the atmosphere that can partly block sunlight from reaching the earth's surface, researchers from the ...
A gradual reduction of coal-fired power production and the parallel expansion of renewable energy sources to 65 percent of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2030 power mix would reduce electricity costs and emissions and allow the country to reach its climate target in the ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Renewables EU 91tv German economy minister Robert Habeck has welcomed a deal among EU institutions to raise the target share of renewable energy in the bloc鈥檚 overall energy consumption. 鈥淭oday's ...
30 Jul 2019, 13:50 Freja Eriksen Start-ups Handelsblatt / 91tv German start-up Ecoligo has created a crowd investment structure to encourage the expansion of solar power in developing countries, writes business daily Handelsblatt. The two ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest tender for new onshore wind power installations failed to attract enough bids to award the full offered amount of 670 megawatts, the country鈥檚 grid regulator said. The average support rate for the accepted bids with a total amount of 363 ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:43 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 91tv Energy supplier EnBW has given the green light to build 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest solar park in ...
17 Oct 2019, 13:31 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Aniket Narawad Electricity Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv / dpa Germany's net exports of electricity in the first half of this year were significantly lower than in the same period in 2022. The ...
German and Austrian energy regulators have agreed to cap peaks in the exchange of power from October 2018 to reflect lagging grid development between the two countries, announced Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and E-Control in separate press releases. ...
28 Feb 2023, 14:17 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 soaring grid costs and negative power prices will likely be tackled during the talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) on renewing their grand coalition, reports Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. 鈥淲e ...
15 Jun 2020, 10:30 A mainly fossil energy guzzler, heating in Germany has taken a back seat to the Energiewende's poster child, the power sector. But the 鈥淲盲rmewende鈥�, or heating transition, has significant potential to curb emissions and is ...
Civil protection units in the eastern German city of Dresden 鈥渋ntensively train for a large-scale blackout 鈥�, Thomas Baum-Hartwig writes in Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten. Dresden鈥檚 mayor Detlef Sittel said the energy transition had made grids far more ...
Police forces in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have moved into the embattled Hambach Forest that energy company RWE wants to cut down to make room for a nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. On Twitter, police said they ...
08 May 2023, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology 91tv With the inauguration of a new onshore wind power testing mast with a height of 300 metres, project developers in Germany hope it will pave the way for a new generation of wind ...
27 Sep 2019, 13:44 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Renewables Solar 91tv The expansion of renewable power generation in Germany's urban areas has ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:26 Kerstine Appunn Wind Hydrogen Germany's energy ministry (BMWi) has proposed a set of rules to determine which concepts are eligible for areas for the construction of new renewable energy projects in the offshore sector in the North ...
16 May 2022, 13:08 Julian Wettengel Renewables Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal and state governments will meet on 2 June to forge a 鈥減act to speed up planning, permitting and implementation鈥� for infrastructure projects, many of which are central ...
Expanding electric transport could be used to exploit existing power grid capacity, if the right smart grid technologies are deployed and combined with the inherent flexibility in when electric vehicles (EVs) can be charged, writes the Regulatory ...
28 Feb 2024, 13:14 The German government is aiming to introduce a 2060 target for net-negative greenhouse gas emissions, as well as intermediate targets for technical carbon sinks, as key elements of its contribution to the Paris climate targets. By the ...
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TU M眉nchen) are working on an open source map to track聽 bottlenecks and overcapacities in power grids around the globe, the university said in a press release. The resulting 鈥渨orld map of power grids鈥� was ...
The ongoing cost debate over 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transition from fossil to renewable energy sources could give the impression that the 鈥淓nergiewende means saying farewell to super-cheap energy鈥�, strom-report.de reports. 鈥淏ut that is not the case,鈥� the article says. ...
A new project by grid operator Tennet will facilitate the power supply from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind parks to the densely populated regions in the country鈥檚 west, business magazine stadt+werk reports. Tennet recently started construction of the extra-high ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:46 Edgar Meza Industry EU 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Institute for Economic Research (ifo) has urged the European Union to refrain from further debt-financed subsidies as a response to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). "The EU ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:38 Edgar Meza Business 91tv The majority of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 large companies expect that the transformation to a climate neutral economy will have no negative or even positive effects on their international competitiveness, and ...
24 Jun 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Wind International 91tv The German Wind Energy Association (BWE) has called on the government to stand by the aim of achieving net-zero emissions across Europe by 2050 and urged concrete ...
26 Jan 2023, 13:05 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Transport Cars 91tv Germany's strategy for transport infrastructure development is not oriented towards the country鈥檚 climate and environmental goals, according to an analysis conducted by ...
Average German wholesale electricity prices fell almost nine percent to 28.96 euros per megawatt-hour last year, according to a power market review by grid operator TenneT. Redispatch volumes fell for the first time since 2013, due to a decrease in wind ...
The number of companies in Germany that do not pay grid fees is set to rise further, Spiegel Online reports. According to an answer by the federal government to a parliamentary inquiry by the Green Party, there were about 3,670 fee exemptions in 2016 and ...
Outgoing economy minister Sigmar Gabriel runs an election campaign at the expense of eastern German power consumers, some of whom pay grid fees twice as high as consumers in the west, writes Norbert Block in a commentary in Th眉ringische Landeszeitung. He ...
21 Apr 2015
21 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淎 grand coalition against CO2 targets鈥� German carmakers VW, BMW and Mercedes, as well as metalworkers union IG Metall, are lobbying against the EU Commission鈥檚 plan ...
11 Jan 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Digitalisation Tagesspiegel Background A lack of IT specialists is becoming a cyber security risk for German energy industry companies, reports newsletter service Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity. 鈥淓lectricity grid ...
20 Jan 2021, 13:37 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Wind 91tv / Der Spiegel German wind farms in the North Sea produced more electricity last year than ever before. In 2020, the amount produced rose by 12.4 percent to 22.76 terawatt ...
Bavarian conservative parties Christian Socialist Union (CSU) and Free Voters have signed a coalition treaty for the coming five years in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 southern economic power house and largest federal state. The alliance aims to make climate protection a ...
30 Jan 2020, 13:43 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's ...
15 Oct 2021, 12:32 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables levy will decrease to its lowest level in ten years as high wholesale power prices and support from the federal budget lower the need for payments from electricity consumers. This is good news for the economy and ...
22 Jan 2015
22 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Wirtschaftswoche 鈥淩WE: shut down or sale?鈥� RWE 鈥檚 deputy chairman of the executive board Rolf Martin Schmitz said that power stations hit by falling electricity prices could no longer turn a profit ...
The use of batteries to level out intermittent solar and wind generation in the Tennet and Sonnen project shows that 鈥渢he Energiewende is making progress,鈥� writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淣ew offshore wind parks have been approved ...
The Lower Rhine Chamber of Industry and Commerce has warned against planned legislation to standardise electricity grid fees across the country, the聽Rheinische Post reports. The organisation, which represents business interests in the region appealed to ...
28 Nov 2018, 16:16 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cars Cost & Prices Fraunhofer ISI The growing number of electric cars in Germany could in the long run bring down household power prices, the research institute Fraunhofer ISI says in a press ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen 91tv Norway has said it can supply industry customers in northern Germany with so-called blue hydrogen to push the ramp-up of hydrogen infrastructure in Germany, Norwegian government ...
24 Apr 2023, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Politics rbb / taz The city of Berlin has edged a decisive step closer to a new government coalition led by the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), after the incumbent Social Democrats (SPD) gave the green light to ...
Two of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest energy companies, RWE and E.ON, will publish their balance of accounts this month 鈥� a move that is likely to highlight the difficulties the industry is still grappling with amid the country鈥檚 energy transition, news agency dpa ...
Decentralised renewable energy sources increase the importance of local distribution grids for making 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition work, a new study on municipal utilities by consulting agency Ernst & Young (EY) says. Distribution grid operators become ...
Stefan Kapferer, managing director of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), welcomed the agreement by the EU member states鈥� energy ministers on the Union鈥檚 future energy policy, because it meant that the existing power price zones ...
21 Sep 2022, 12:59 Julian Wettengel Solar 91tv 2022 will become a record year for solar power generation in Germany, data by research institute Fraunhofer ISE鈥檚 Energy Charts suggests. 鈥淏y mid-September, solar plants in Germany had already ...
01 Jul 2021, 12:38 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Electricity Industry 91tv As ...
05 Dec 2022, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Welt am Sonntag The German government is considering setting up a company with state participation to oversee the establishment of a national hydrogen network as part of the country鈥檚 move to climate neutrality ...
Germany can reach its target of increasing the share of renewable energy to 65 percent of power consumption by 2030 from the current 36 percent at moderate costs,聽according to energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. Agora proposes a series of measures to ...
The current mood in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 wind power industry is 鈥� miserable,鈥� but just like the solar power industry before, the companies are victims of a crisis of their own making, Franz Hubik writes in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt Online. Annual wind power ...
20 Apr 2023, 12:37 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Heating Tagesspiegel Background Due to a rapid rise in the number of reduced power tariffs reserved for heat pumps, their operating costs in Germany are currently up to a third lower than gas heating, ...
30 Aug 2024, 14:17 As Europe鈥檚 most intense heatwave in recent years finally comes to an end, following at least 35 days of well-above average temperatures, life in Italy has slowed into the summer break. In mid-August, the entire country grinds to a halt ...
After two years of construction and trial phases, German utility EnBW鈥檚 subsidiary TransnetBW is beginning operation of its central control room, dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. The grid operator intends to manage the Baden-Wuerttemberg ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:30 S枚ren Amelang Cars Utilities 91tv / Die Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy industry wants to give up on the government target of installing one million charging points for electric cars in the country by 2030, but faces headwind from ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:30 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Expert VKU- German Association of Local ...
13 May 2020, 13:32 91tv 91tv Wind Business & Jobs Business confidence within the German wind power industry has reversed its downward trend for the first time in two years. While still in negative territory, market sentiment in both the ...
03 Sep 2020, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Policy 91tv The coronavirus pandemic has created new problems for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, according to management consultancy McKinsey. The pandemic had particularly slowed the ...
01 Sep 2020, 12:46 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Coal Die Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first coal phase-out auction aimed at shutting down ...
28 May 2020, 12:34 German industry and energy sector associations have welcomed the coronavirus recovery proposal presented by the European Commission. Lobby group BDI said the funds should focus on sustainability not only in regard to climate and ...
11 Nov 2014
11 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online "Energy efficiency in companies: Hidden chances for climate protection" Greater energy efficiency efforts by companies could help Germany save nearly a quarter of the聽CO2 emissions necessary to ...
23 Feb 2023, 13:43 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Zeit Online / 91tv The premier of eastern German lignite mining state Brandenburg has said he is open to talks about an earlier coal phase-out under certain conditions. Energy supply must be reliable ...
17 May 2024, 15:00 Just as France is marking the biggest drop in its greenhouse gas emissions in almost a decade, the debate about the country鈥檚 future energy policy continues in full swing. This applies to almost all sectors of the economy 鈥� and the ...
There is an 鈥渁rtificial monopoly鈥� connecting 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind parks with the mainland, said Martin Neubert, managing director of Orsted Wind Power Germany (formerly DONG Energy), write Franz Hubik and Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. While ...
Many pro-Energiewende politicians are complaining bitterly about plans to rein in renewables expansion through the reform of Renewable Energy Act, but in reality, the government is still going ahead with plans for a 45 percent renewables share in 2025, up ...
11 Dec 2020, 13:07 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Frankfurter Rundschau 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government and parliament are struggling to complete the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), the law that guides the ...
16 Mar 2021, 13:29 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Climate & CO2 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background German energy utility RWE is struggling to make the transition to climate-neutrality, according to a report published by EnergyComment and commissioned ...
Germany needs regional power markets and a legislation overhaul to cope with its increasingly decentralised electricity system, and replace the current 鈥渃haos鈥� in grid fees, levies and taxes, according to think tank Agora Energiewende.* 鈥淲e need to all ...
11 Aug 2022, 14:07 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities 91tv German energy company RWE will spend about 5 billion euros 鈥� 30 percent more than originally planned 颅鈥� on ...
11 Oct 2023, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU 91tv France and Germany could soon agree on a reform of the EU electricity market, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz have said after their meeting in ...
Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT will invest 28 billion euros in new power grid infrastructure over the next ten years because of energy transition targets in Germany and the Netherlands which will lead to an increase in renewable power, ...
23 Apr 2021, 12:17 The governing coalition parties in German parliament have agreed on higher tender volumes for next year's wind and solar PV installations. But parliamentarians did not make headway on a new renewables target for 2030, which has ...
04 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Europe must debate a framework to ramp-up a hydrogen economy on the continent as a key element of its move towards climate neutrality, said German energy industry association BDEW. 鈥淭here ...
03 Jan 2019, 11:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Electricity market Cost & Prices ...
15 Feb 2023, 12:57 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv Germany and Belgium agreed to link their hydrogen networks, double gas flow into Germany and explore the possibility of a second high-voltage electricity interconnector for cross-border ...
01 Aug 2023, 12:47 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv The European Commission has set important framework conditions for planned German state support to build and operate about 24 gigawatts (GW) hydrogen power plants and fossil gas units ...
07 Mar 2018
07 Mar 2018, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has chosen her close ally and former head of the Chancellery Peter Altmaier as the next economy and energy minister. This puts the political heavy-hitter in charge of shaping 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende at a ...
12 Feb 2020, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen International Reuters / Handelsblatt Germany plans to set up a production and import chain for renewable hydrogen in a joint project with Western African countries, news agency Reuters聽 reports. " ...
11 Nov 2019, 12:58 Expert Enercon GmbH Wind turbine manufacturer Wind Business & Jobs Technology Freja Eriksen Wind Business & Jobs dpa German wind turbine maker Enercon has announced it will cut up to 3,000 jobs, saying the federal government& ...
In light of fluctuating supply and congestions in the power grid, the wind power sector has to increase its focus on surrounding infrastructure and technology, such as storage, smart grids and data streams, to cope with the challenges of the Energiewende, ...
03 Aug 2018, 08:44 Conventional power stations, like hard coal, gas-fired or nuclear plants, are forced to curb generation because of the heat wave hitting Germany. While the stability of the power system as such is not in peril and most renewables are ...
15 Oct 2015, 00:00 The levy to finance green power investment, which is added to Germans' electricity bills, will rise slightly in 2016 after falling this year for the first time since its 2000 introduction, German power grid operators said Thursday. ...
30 Oct 2019, 13:45 S枚ren Amelang Solar Wind Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Solar energy has made a "spectacular comeback" in Germany- in sharp contrast to struggling wind power,聽 reports Anna Steiner in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The ...
22 May 2020, 14:07 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace Germany ...
Green power provider Greenpeace Energy uses 鈥渢he weapons of capital鈥� to push for a German coal exit by offering a power contract that lets customers invest in renewables expansion in the country鈥檚 lignite areas, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller for S眉ddeutsche ...
Germany needs to recover millions of euros in illegal aid from certain large electricity users exempted from grid charges in Germany in 2012-2013 after the European Commission declared past regulation was against EU State aid rules. 鈥淔ully exempting ...
German utility RWE and French counterpart Engie are studying a possible share swap that could create a Franco-German giant in power grids, renewables and energy services with a market value of about 50 billion euros, report Arno Schuetze, Geert De Clercq ...
17 Mar 2015
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv 聽 Fraunhofer IWES/Agora Energiewende "The Eclipse 2015: Preview of the Power System in 2030" Friday鈥檚 solar eclipse will provide a taste of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power system in 2030, according to a ...
Germany and France jointly defend priority grid access for electricity generated from renewable sources, reports Politico. The European Commission, meanwhile, is considering removing priority dispatch ahead of power coming from fossil fuels. In a so ...
09 Nov 2015
09 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥�Grid fees push up power price鈥� An internal analysis by the federal grid agency reveals that the systemic costs of the Energiewende will push up grid fees, reports ...
16 Mar 2020, 14:04 Rachel Waldholz Renewables Policy dpa / Energie & Management / Der Spiegel Environment minister Svenja Schulze 聽 is calling on German state and federal officials to act quickly to resolve disagreements over the expansion of ...
23 Jun 2023, 13:13 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Technology 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 research ministry, which is led by the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), wants to accelerate research into nuclear fusion with a new funding programme. 鈥淭he energy ...
28 Jan 2016
28 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt 鈥淕overnment wants to kill the engine鈥� Onshore wind power is the backbone of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, but government reform plans for the Renewable Energy Act risk slowing down its ...
29 Apr 2022, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Policy 91tv German consumers will no longer have to pay the renewables surcharge on the power price as of 1 July 2022. The German federal parliament (Bundestag) passed ...
04 Nov 2020, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Opposition parties in Germany have criticised energy minister Peter Altmaier for insisting that the country will consume less electricity in 2030 than it does today, ...
Power generating units with a total capacity of about 13,658 megawatt (MW) are scheduled for closure in Germany, but only about 7,667 MW have already been shut down, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said in a press release. The remainder of nearly ...
19 Dec 2018, 13:49 EU institutions have agreed on new rules for the internal electricity market, including capacity mechanisms, coal subsidies, cross-border power flows and access for more market actors who are free to set their own prices. The German ...
06 Jul 2020, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 91tv The council of German state governments has called for a speedy and comprehensive reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) to ensure the country reaches its 2030 target of expanding ...
19 Oct 2020, 12:57 Kerstine Appunn Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Higher costs for gas infrastructure and the new CO2 price in the heating sector are set to increase gas costs for German households in 2021, consumer comparison site Verivox has ...
01 Feb 2021, 13:52 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Welt am Sonntag 聽 Please note: an earlier version of this blurb sent on ...
The massive increase in grid fees announced by TenneT and other operators signals a new chapter in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. 鈥淎 new phase begins whereby capacity growth no longer takes centre stage, but the system ...
31 Jan 2023, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv At his first meeting with the newly elected Brazilian president Luiz In谩cio Lula da Silva, German chancellor Olaf Scholz has focused on joint efforts to protect the ...
27 Jan 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International 91tv Germany and Australia plan to intensify their cooperation in the areas of energy, climate protection and emissions reduction, German economy minister Robert Habeck together with ...
27 Sep 2022, 13:56 Julian Wettengel Electricity Gas 91tv The German government will stick to its plan to add gas power capacity in the country, despite the difficult supply situation for the fossil fuel caused by the energy crisis. 鈥淚 would ...
23 Aug 2023, 09:00 The German coalition government鈥檚 Climate Action Programme 2023 is insufficient to meet 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets- and overestimates its total potential to lower emissions, said the country鈥檚 Council of Experts on ...
26 Aug 2015
26 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt 鈥淯pwind鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind development is accelerating, write Franz Hubik and Daniel Delhaes in the Handelsblatt. While the first wind parks suffered from delays, exploding costs ...
28 Nov 2022, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs 91tv / Handelsblatt A shortage of more than 200,000 skilled workers threatens to slow down 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, according to a report by the Institute of the German Economy (IW) ...
20 Jan 2023, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv Data centres could provide excess heat to Frankfurt鈥檚 district heating network, energy provider Mainova and data centre operator Interxion announced after signing a memorandum of understanding ...
26 Jul 2016
With the energy transition the amount of decentralised produced power and the number of distributed consumers is increasing which is putting pressure on the distribution grid, says the BNE, an association of independent energy suppliers and service firms. ...
28 May 2021, 13:29 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 push to replace conventional power with renewables like wind and solar PV has not only altered its energy system and shaken up established energy utility giants, it has also turned millions of Germans into electricity ...
The cost of expanding 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power transmission grid onshore and in the Baltic and North Seas to adapt to the future power system brought on by the Energiewende could be between 50-52 billion euros until 2030, the country鈥檚 four transmission system ...
21 Jan 2021, 11:30 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country鈥檚 16 states and the federal parliamentary elections in September. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of ...
Germany's current power grid development plans for 2030 are not aligned with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, write the NGOs Environmental Action Germany (DUH), Germanwatch, and WWF in a joint press release. "Until now, none of the ...
18 May 2022, 12:25 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 91tv Development ministers of the seven leading western industrialised states (G7) are meeting in Berlin on 18-19 May to discuss the German G7 presidency鈥檚 plans for so-called Just Energy ...
German offshore wind power costs are set to fall significantly, due to industrialisation of the sector, more efficient turbine construction, the switch from feed-in tariffs to auctions, and better coordination with grid operators, Olaf Preu脽 writes for ...
German wind turbine manufacturer Siemens has announced that it will provide offshore wind farms capable of generating power at levelled costs of below 8 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) as of 2025. These costs would include the grid connection to the shore, ...
German-American energy storage company Younicos says it landed contracts during 2016 to build systems able to hold 75 megawatts (MW) of electricity, which if completed would mean a 60 percent increase in systems either installed or under construction. The ...
29 Oct 2020, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Society Berliner Zeitung / 91tv Activists calling for a halt of a highway project have occupied the Green Party's headquarters in Berlin, arguing that the environmentalist party is complicit ...
01 Jul 2022, 13:02 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv / NDR The closure of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 last wind turbine rotor ...
12 Aug 2019, 12:27 S枚ren Amelang Coal 91tv Germany's coal phase-out and the continued rollout of renewables will only have "very little" impact on electricity prices, according to a study by energy think tank Agora Energiewende ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:28 Julian Wettengel Wind Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German economy ministry is working on a proposal to subsidise offshore electricity for industry customers through an auction scheme in order to shield companies against ...
25 Sep 2015
25 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online 鈥淓xhaust affair: VW tricks increase doubts about climate calculations鈥� Car manufacturers are not only using tricks to stay under nitrogen oxide thresholds in tests but also to reduce ...
09 Feb 2015
09 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online / Energy Brainpool / Fraunhofer IWES "This is what the power market of the future could look like" In order to incorporate fluctuating power from millions of small, decentralised producers, the ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:30 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Renewables Solar 91tv Almost 3,000 ...
12 May 2022, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Society G20 & G7 91tv / Die Zeit Several major environmental groups have urged German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to step up the country鈥檚 climate action efforts and make the topic a priority of the G7 ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:16 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Expert Verdi ver.di Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Society taz / DLF / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German service sector labour union Verdi has come ...
25 Aug 2022, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Bioenergy 91tv Germany is betting on more biogas production in order to save natural gas with a view to possible shortages during the winter. The government will remove regulatory hurdles to an increase of ...
17 Dec 2020, 14:20 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv The German parliament has passed the聽 latest reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG),聽which specifies a timeline of tenders for renewable power installation additions until ...
The German power grid was on the brink of a blackout on the 24 th of January because of an extended period of little wind and cloudy skies, the Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries (IG BCE) warned in the Rheinische Post. Energy ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid fees on average will increase in 2017, but regional disparities and those based on the consumption volume will grow, according to a short analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende.* Consumers in rural areas with strong renewables ...
The acting German government is planning a quick reform of the power market even before the new government coalition is formed, Andreas Mihm writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The reason is concerns that the EU might force German transmission ...
10 Aug 2023, 14:20 Nearly halfway through its four-year term, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government faces increasing public discontent over its switch from two years of energy crisis management to controversial climate policies. The coalition government of the Social ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:39 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Technology 91tv Discarded chicken eggshells can be used in electro-chemical energy storage systems, an international group of researchers has found. Maximilian Fichtner from the ...
20 Sep 2019, 10:12 Today, the grand coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) aim to agree on a major policy package to bring Germany back on track to reaching the international ...
18 Dec 2019, 13:25 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Hamburger ...
The combined used of onshore and offshore wind power, solar power and a European power network can significantly can stabilise weather-related power production during periods of little wind and sunshine, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 National Meteorological Service (DWD) ...
Onshore wind power in Germany grew by about 1,700 turbines, with a total capacity of roughly 5,300 megawatts (MW) in 2017, a gross increase of 15 percent compared to the previous year, according to the German Wind Energy Association (BWE). In a press ...
07 Feb 2024, 10:30 The European Commission has recommended that the bloc reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040, saying the EU's Green Deal now needs to become an "industrial decarbonisation deal." Politicians from member ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:09 Members of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 governing coalition have agreed on new rules to ensure a significant increase in the country鈥檚 renewable power production. However, exact targets of the much-anticipated reform of the country's landmark ...
Offshore wind power generation in German waters has passed a symbolic threshold, as the number of wind turbines exceeded 1,000 for the first time, Kai Eckert writes for energy industry magazine Energie & Management. According to figures of the Federal ...
02 Nov 2022, 13:31 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv German railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has begun to electrify rail lines in the north of the country with an innovative new electrical infrastructure that will charge battery-powered trains and ...
02 Nov 2022, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Politics Tagesspiegel Background The northwestern German state of Lower Saxony plans to become climate neutral by 2040. Following a regional parliamentary election in October, the ruling Social ...
15 Dec 2023, 11:31 Industry and grid investments must be at the heart of the follow-up to the landmark European Green Deal policy package after the 2024 EU elections, says Bas Eickhout, member of the European Parliament. The results of the vote will shape ...
23 Feb 2021, 11:54 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Charlotte Nijhuis Cars EU Handelsblatt / Focus Online Europe needs to show more speed and commitment to the expansion of charging infrastructure for electric ...
Planned power lines to link renewable production in windy north-eastern Germany to demand in the country鈥檚 industrial south are likely to cost three times the 4 billion euros originally projected, writes Christian Sebald in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Public ...
The security of electricity supply in Germany continues to be at a high level, also thanks to the integration of the country鈥檚 power grid with neighbouring countries, writes the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) in a press release. A ...
19 Dec 2023, 13:31 The German government must be on guard in 2024 to ensure it can meet its increasingly distant target of having 15 million electric cars on the road by 2030, says Wiebke Zimmer, deputy executive director of clean mobility think tank ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv / Bayrischer Rundfunk Bavaria's state cabinet has adopted a climate action law and additional measures to reach its target of becoming climate neutral between 2040 and 2050. The ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The announcement by Spain, Portugal and France to pull the plug on the MidCat gas pipeline project across the Pyrenees comes as a 鈥渄isappointment鈥� for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government, which had hoped to ...
07 Oct 2021, 12:17 Germany can reach its target of climate neutrality by 2045 but enormous tasks such as the massive expansion of renewable energy and transformation of whole industries have to be initiated as quickly as possible by the country鈥檚 next ...
Parts of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity transmission highway dubbed Suedostlink, running from the windy north to industrial centres in the south, could be constructed above the ground- contrary to earlier planning, Marko Jeschor writes in Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:55 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert Fraunhofer ISI Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewables Freja Eriksen Gas ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:46 The EU member states' agreement on reforming the bloc's electricity market has been hailed as a success from ministers in France and Germany, whose dispute over the role of nuclear power in European climate action has ...
German grid operator 50Hertz is installing phase shifters to stop excess electricity from spilling over into neighbouring countries like Poland, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Electricity current normally takes the path of least ...
08 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
19 Oct 2015
19 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv National Geographic 鈥淕ermany Could Be a Model for How We鈥檒l Get Power in the Future鈥� In a long feature for National Geographic, Robert Kunzig takes an in-depth look at the 鈥渆pochal transformation鈥� ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Digitalisation Policy 91tv The proposed energy efficiency laws in Germany might place a too heavy burden on data centres and could drive them out of the country, digital association Bitkom said in a press ...
29 Jan 2020, 14:32 The German government has officially approved the end of coal-fired power production in Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet adopted a law detailing plant shutdowns and compensation payments for coal companies, confirming a ...
The lack of flexibility in conventional power plants is a 鈥渒ey problem of the Energiewende鈥�, writes Jakob Schlandt in Hamburger Abendblatt. While conventional plants continue to run at times of grid congestion, 鈥渨hole wind parks are being switched off ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid operators are calling for the construction of new conventional power plants in southern Germany to bridge the gap between the country鈥檚 nuclear phase-out and the completion of major new high-voltage power lines聽 supplying ...
16 May 2023, 13:47 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen Heating Zeit Online 鈥淗ydrogen-ready鈥� gas boilers are nothing but window dressing because they delay effective climate action, are unlikely to be ever powered by renewable gas, and could end up being very expensive ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:30 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) wants to 鈥渕ake every effort鈥� to complete three direct current high-voltage power lines connecting 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 windy north with the power-hungry south by 2025, the agency says in its 2016 fourth quarter grid development ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:28 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Society 91tv Three in four houseowners in Germany wish ...
The challenges that the US state of Ohio will face with its power grid will be similar to those that Germany is dealing with today, a situation that could provide some lessons learned, writes Kathiann Kowalski for US non-profit news site Midwest Energy ...
10 May 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system will need 鈥榞reen鈥� gas to become climate neutral, but government must set the right framework conditions to ensure the ramp-up of the hydrogen economy, said several gas ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said that current amendment plans for the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) do not yet include 鈥渟pecial auctions鈥� for onshore wind and solar PV, which were agreed in the grand coalition treaty, reports ...
13 Jun 2023, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv The German economy and buildings ministries aim to connect 100,000 buildings to district heating annually in a bid to bring the sector closer to its climate targets. 鈥淲e believe that district ...
18 Feb 2020, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry 91tv Germany's government plans to use the country's EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020 to advocate a common European maritime economy strategy aimed at strengthening the ...
The EUREF-Campus in the German capital Berlin has become a showcase for efficient energy use, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The campus combines existing technologies with a software that analyses weather data and regulates the use of ...
To be able to avoid high re-dispatch costs for grid stabilisation, German researchers are testing a new system to better predict power generation of wind and solar PV parks, writes the science journal nature. With the research project EWeLiNE, Fraunhofer ...
Germany should use its public budget surplus for preventative investments in transmission grids, transportation infrastructure and other areas, the Federation of German Industries (BDI) writes in a press release. Investments that could 鈥減repare for hard ...
17 May 2022, 12:51 Edgar Meza Efficiency 91tv The economy and climate ministry has presented plans to make Germany save more energy and increase efficiency, particularly in view of the impact of the war in Ukraine on Russian fossil fuel ...
21 Sep 2021, 10:43 Regional votes in two German states on 26 September are being overshadowed by the federal election on the same day. But the outcome in German capital Berlin and in the north-eastern state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will affect how ...
31 Jan 2023, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables EU 91tv The implementation into national law agreed by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government of an EU emergency regulation on the accelerated buildout of renewable energy sources will greatly boost the country鈥檚 ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Renewables Wind 91tv / Handelsblatt The demand for zero-support renewable electricity is booming and the latest sign is a large-scale power purchase agreement (PPA) energy company EnBW concluded with ...
Protests continue against 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned SuedLink power transmission line, the news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. Guntram Ziepel of the national association of citizen initiatives against SuedLink says his organisation 鈥� ...
30 Jan 2023, 12:54 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine The heads of many renewable energy companies showed mixed opinions in whether Germany can meet its targets for green electricity generation, according to an article in newspaper ...
03 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas Table.Media / Spiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has postponed a decision to include a planned new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal off the coast of the Baltic Sea island of R眉gen in the country鈥檚 LNG ...
The EU Commission鈥檚 new energy package is likely to meet resistance from some member states and energy industry players, writes Thorsten Knuf in Frankfurter Rundschau. EU energy commissioner Miguel Arias Canete called the聽package a 鈥渦nique opportunity to ...
20 Apr 2016
20 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv BMUB / Deutsche Welle 鈥淕ermany asks Belgium to hit the switch on disputed Tihange and Doel nuclear reactors鈥� Environment minister Barbara Hendricks submitted an ...
12 Mar 2018, 00:00 In a deal that could drastically re-shape Germany's power sector, RWE and E.ON have agreed to split RWE subsidiary innogy and focus each on different parts of the business. E.ON will largely be in charge of distribution grids while ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:53 Jessica Bateman Gas Society S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Local activists in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein are protesting the government鈥檚 liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure construction plans, newspaper S眉ddeutsche ...
17 Aug 2023, 14:02 S枚ren Amelang Heating 91tv / Table.Media 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government has agreed on a draft law requiring municipalities to submit plans for the transition to climate-neutral heating, but has softened interim targets for ...
21 Mar 2022, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Die Welt The lack of skilled workers to install wind turbines, build train tracks or install heat pumps is a major hurdle to German government plans to transform the country鈥檚 economy in line with ...
29 Mar 2022, 12:06 Edgar Meza Coal Der Spiegel A state court in North Rhine-Westphalia has ruled in favour of German utility RWE in a land dispute linked to the expansion of its Garzweiler lignite opencast mine located in the western German hamlet of ...
18 Mar 2022, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Efficiency Policy dpa The German government has announced a comprehensive programme for energy savings as part of its push to reduce Germany's dependence on fossil fuel imports. "As the federal government, we ...
The first so-called 鈥渕otion conference鈥� for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned power transmission highways, dubbed SuedLink and SuedOstLink, has allowed a glimpse into the difficulties that lie ahead for the 2,000-kilometre long project鈥檚 implementation, Jens Tartler ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:17 S枚ren Amelang Industry 91tv Existing estimates on how much green hydrogen 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chemical industry will need to decarbonise vary widely, according to a meta-analysis by the country鈥檚 science academy acatech and DECHEMA, ...
29 Nov 2022, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv Challenges such as high energy prices, lowered competitiveness, skilled worker shortages or the high need for investment threaten to push industry investments away from Germany, but the ...
24 Jun 2022, 14:08 The German government has launched the second of a total of three escalation stages of its national gas supply security plan, which was drawn up in reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After triggering the first "early ...
23 Nov 2022, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang Storage Hydrogen International EU 91tv France and Germany plan to intensify cooperation on strategically important energy transition technologies, including battery cell production and green hydrogen. ...
19 May 2020, 14:23 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 Jan 2020, 14:14 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 & Jobs Cost & Prices International Freja Eriksen Renewables ...
Eastern German state premiers are urging the federal government to agree quickly on planned legislation to standardise electricity grid fees across the country, writes Albert Funk in Der Tagesspiegel. In a letter to the Chief of the German Chancellery ...
Germany plans to split the common power price zone with its neighbour Austria in July 2018, according to a press release by the federal economy ministry (BMWi). This did not mean a split of the countries' power markets, said state secretary Rainer ...
14 Jul 2022, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Gas Security 91tv Europe will be faced with gas shortages until new import infrastructure, a reduction of gas consumption, as well as better coordinated cooperation between European countries are in place to ...
29 May 2020, 13:01 The German government is set to make the large-scale use of offshore wind power to produce emission-free hydrogen a cornerstone of its long-anticipated national hydrogen strategy, reports Tagesspiegel Background. With additional ...
German households that reduce their power consumption are being 鈥減unished鈥� by paying relatively more for every unit they use, energy think tank Agora Energiewende* says in a press release. "Poor or聽 thrifty power consumers are faring comparatively ...
15 Jun 2022, 13:00 Gas flows from Russia to Germany through the key Nord Stream 1 pipeline will be drastically reduced for an unspecified period, state-owned Russian gas provider Gazprom has announced. The company said that German engineering company ...
19 Sep 2022, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende 91tv The German government has to urgently step up its energy transition efforts in response to the 鈥淶eitenwende鈥� (turn of an era) brought on by Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine, an ...
20 Aug 2020, 13:39 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Coal Tagespiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit is threatening the country鈥檚 supply of gypsum, Steven Hanke reports in Tagesspiegel Background. More than half of the gypsum used in Germany is derived ...
14 Apr 2022, 12:41 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility Institut f眉r Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilit盲t Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv The EU should review its planned ...
19 May 2023, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Politics Tagesspiegel Background / Bild / ARD / Table.Media / PV Magazine Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck is seeking to quickly replace energy state secretary Patrick Graichen, whose exit following ...
06 Jan 2023, 13:13 S枚ren Amelang Transport dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung An increasing number of cruise ships have switched their propellant from liquefied natural gas (LNG) to diesel fuel because of high LNG prices,聽 reports 聽newswire dpa in an article ...
The climate change campaign group聽 350.org 聽has launched an international petition demanding an immediate stop to coal expansion and a rapid coal phase-out in Germany. 鈥淭his petition is being launched ahead of a highly anticipated coal phase-out proposal ...
Deutsche WindGuard has published offshore wind statistics for the first six months of 2016. 聽Compared to the first half of 2015, less offshore wind turbines (OWT) were added to the grid. Forty-three OWT with a capacity of 258 megawatt (MW) first fed into ...
02 Sep 2019, 13:08 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices dpa Economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said he aims to lower German electricity prices in the country's climate cabinet, where聽 key decisions 聽on German climate action legislation ...
04 Aug 2020, 14:50 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Coal 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) ...
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25 Oct 2021, 14:08 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv 91tv Germany lags far behind other European countries in the electrification of its railway network, according to railway lobby group Allianz pro Schiene. With only 61 percent of its ...
22 Nov 2019, 12:02 Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Wind Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Some German states have said they will make use ...
21 Jul 2023, 11:27 Switching to climate-friendly heating to keep homes warm requires both subsidies for clean technologies and restrictions on dirty ones, says Duncan Gibb, senior advisor at climate think tank Regulatory Assistance Project and founder of ...
The dispute about the decision to split the German-Austrian common power price zone shows the difficulties of designing a common EU energy market in light of missing grid infrastructure, writes Paul Hodgson for EurActiv. Trans-border power trade, as well ...
17 Feb 2023, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Policy 91tv A government-sponsored "renaissance of Europe's solar industry" is needed to ensure secure access to resources and hardware components that are ...
15 Feb 2023, 12:59 Expert Allensbach Institute The Institut f眉r Demoskopie Allensbach (IfD Allensbach) Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility Cars 91tv Decarbonisation in the mobility sector is the most important area for ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:08 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv The southern German states of Baden-W眉rttemberg and Bavaria have joined forces to push hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, and to ensure their industrial centres will receive sufficient supplies. ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:28 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Industry 91tv Germany's largest energy company RWE, together with oil company BP, chemicals producer Evonik and gas ...
09 Oct 2019, 17:06 The German government cabinet has adopted the country鈥檚 first framework climate law and a detailed programme of measures to reach national and European targets for 2030. Against the backdrop of climate action protests by the Extinction ...
18 Aug 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Gas n-tv Power production with natural gas increased in Germany in May and July despite political pledges to minimise the fossil fuel鈥檚 use amid the supply crunch caused by Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine, news ...
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30 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淕overnment puts pressure on municipal utilities鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 municipal utilities have criticised the federal government鈥檚 plans for digitalising the Energiewende and its ...
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10 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Renewable Energy Prospects: Germany A new IRENA report 鈥淩enewable Energy Prospects Germany鈥� examines the country鈥檚 energy transition in the last ...
24 Oct 2019, 12:06 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal 91tv Leading environmental NGOs have called on the government of western German mining region North Rhine-Westphalia to protect ...
07 Oct 2019, 14:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Der Spiegel Hundreds of companies may have used a loophole in Germany's Renewable Energy Act to avoid paying their share of the country's renewables support- and passed on the energy ...
Many operators of nuclear, gas or coal-fired power plants in Germany do not throttle feed-in at times of 鈥� negative power prices,鈥� the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) has said in a press release. Although operators of conventional plants have to pay for ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 鈥榞reen energy account鈥� had a surplus of 3,688,937,633.01 euros in June 2016, according to new figures published by the four transmission grid operators (TSOs). This is about 500 million euros less than in June 2015. The TSOs provide a balance of ...
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15 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Reuters "Merkel dashes loss-making power plants' aid hopes" Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was sceptical about capacity markets that would give extensive support to old coal fired ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:20 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency S枚ren Amelang Coal Finance International 91tv German government-owned business and development bank KfW stops financing all coal ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security ZDF The cold snap that has gripped large parts ...
The diesel emissions fraud scandal has given impetus to calls for a swift transition to electric cars in Germany, but despite great technological progress, the technology continues to be too expensive and impractical to replace conventional cars, ...
07 Apr 2022, 12:55 Kerstine Appunn Solar Resources & Recycling pv magazine Both installers and customers of photovoltaic installations and battery storage systems are facing delays due to supply bottlenecks of some key components, pv-magazine has ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Electricity market Utilities 91tv The European Commission has approved ...
07 Apr 2020, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The slump in wind power expansion in Germany has prevented a new record for investments in the technology in Europe, industry association WindEurope says in an analysis of 2019 financing trends ...
Fossil power plants can react much more flexibly to large feed-ins of power from renewables than studies have indicated, writes Jakob Schlandt in an article in Tagesspiegel Background Energie & Klima. The newspaper's calculations showed that the ...
14 Oct 2022, 13:56 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv The sixth tender for early shutdowns of hard coal plants in Germany was undersubscribed and only one plant was successful, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. As part of its plan to end ...
01 Jun 2022, 14:16 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv Renewable energies will be at the heart of supply security in Germany in the future, but the country will continue to need gas and must 鈥渢hink big鈥� when it comes to ramping up hydrogen, ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Germany is set to produce a record 256 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity from renewable sources this year, but the amount is still insufficient to put it on track to its 2030 targets, ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Security 91tv Only just under one-third of German companies have an emergency plan in place in the event of an energy shortage, but their responses vary widely depending on the business ...
Many Central and Eastern European countries have reacted extremely sceptical to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, but they have been proven wrong, writes Jan Ondrich in a blog post on energytransition.de. 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid remains one of the most stable in Europe ...
11 Oct 2016, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 consumer surcharge to fund renewable electricity will rise to a record high in 2017, but less than experts predicted, according to a report by German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Grid operators will officially ...
21 Dec 2021, 14:21 Energy consumption in Germany has increased in 2021, as the economy recovered from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the country weathered a cold winter. At the same time, a year of depressed wind power production let the ...
30 Jan 2020, 13:55 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Renewables 91tv The volume of new renewable energy projects backed by a purchase power agreement (PPA) in Germany trails that of other European countries, according to a report by energy ...
03 Mar 2022, 13:50 Kerstine Appunn Renewables International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German renewables stocks have surged amid prospects of an accelerated energy transition after the government emphasised plans to speed up renewables expansion as a ...
Germany will have generated as much solar power in the first three quarters of 2018 as in all of 2017, writes the German Solar Association (BSW) in a press release. 鈥�2018 will be a record year for solar power,鈥� writes the association. BSW managing ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Storage Business Wire Bavarian energy storage group Sonnen is building a virtual power plant from private storage systems as part of a joint project with US energy supplier Rocky Mountain Power and the Wasatch ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:42 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government 91tv聽 The German government coalition's first year in office has brought much-needed progress in key energy transition areas but still falls ...
10 Oct 2022, 14:09 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics 91tv / Frankfurter Rundschau The Social Democratic Party (SPD) has won the regional parliamentary election in Lower Saxony, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest wind power producer, with 34 percent ...
The European Commission pressures Germany to make progress on expanding its power transmission grid and the important north-south SuedLink and SuedOstLink power lines, Michael Bauchm眉ller and Thomas Kirchner write in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The 700 ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas Business & Jobs 91tv In preparation for a possible 鈥� if unlikely 鈥� severe shortage of natural gas supply during winter, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has decided it will take into account ...
Citizens of Munich have voted to shut down the city鈥檚 single largest source of CO 2 emissions ahead of schedule, klimaretter.info reports. Around 60 percent voted in favour of close the Munich Nord heating plant by 2022, instead of 2035 as planned by the ...
07 Aug 2019, 13:51 S枚ren Amelang Storage 91tv The rapid spread of home batteries in Germany has brought the European residential storage market to an economic tipping point, according to a report by energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie. 鈥淕ermany ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Solar 91tv A 鈥渞adical simplification鈥� in the registration, installation and commissioning of plug-in solar units is needed in Germany to involve more homeowners and tenants to ...
27 Aug 2018, 14:30 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 current boom in residential solar batteries has profound effects on the Energiewende (energy transition), says Kai-Philipp Kairies, director of technical consulting at RWTH Aachen University, one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest technical ...
