05 Feb 2021, 14:02 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Society 91tv The majority of people living near the central German coal mining region are in favour of the country's coal phase-out and as well as accompanying structural changes to local job ...
17 Sep 2021, 12:45 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations ...
More than a dozen villages are to be demolished and thousands of families relocated to make way for the expansion of Garzweiler opencast lignite mine, Stefanie Glinski reports for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Located in the German federal state of ...
02 Feb 2021, 14:05 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Renewables Solar pv magazine / 91tv New photovoltaic capacity in ...
16 Sep 2021, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 EU 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung While climate policy is one of the top issues in the September federal election campaign, climate and energy policy on a European level hardly features at all, ...
11 Mar 2020, 14:13 S?ren Amelang Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv The number of German energy companies that consider the energy transition good for business has risen considerably, according to a survey by business consultancy Horvath & ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:16 Expert Difu- German Institute of Urban Affairs Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik Cities Society Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Society 91tv German citizens would like to see their municipalities act more on climate ...
02 Dec 2020, 13:42 Kerstine Appunn Business & Jobs 91tv Up to two thirds of the gross value added by investments in local energy infrastructure and production remain in the German state where the investment takes place, an? analysis ?by ...
04 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
Members of the German business association Economic Council, associated with Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), want an end to the grand government coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD), and call for a “realignment” of the country’s ...
An expansion of the available area for solar power plants has led to “a significant drop of the price level” in the latest round of PV auctions in Germany, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said in a press release. The average support rate for new ...
10 Dec 2021, 14:07 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Several citizens in two German states have filed lawsuits against their state ...
10 Dec 2021, 14:02 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv The ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:37 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Elections & ...
Germany’s 2020 climate target is practically out of reach, and the country now needs an emergency programme to reach its 2030 targets, Andreas Kuhlmann, head of the German Energy Agency (dena), told the Frankfurter Rundschau. In their blueprint for ...
Germany’s grand coalition government is considering ways to enable municipalities located near wind farms to share in the profits of the turbines, reports Daniel Wetzel in Welt am Sonntag. The economy ministry has invited experts to discuss several ...
27 Jan 2021, 13:29 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv The ...
In a new analysis, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) looks at how different types of renewables support regimes can effectively keep costs low for transforming the energy system. Uncertainty about future power prices is now the main risk ...
Germany must “expand the lessons it has learned to the European level” and integrate the German and European energy systems in order to make the energy transition a durable success, writes Thomas Cunningham in an in-depth paper for the Global Energy ...
The cost of wind farm construction in the North Sea continues to decline as these farms become connected to the grid, according to the European electricity transmission system operator TenneT. In the tender for a new substation and its 90-kilometre cable ...
27 May 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Handelsblatt German industry leaders expressed concerns that Germany will lose out when it comes to building a hydrogen economy, Handelsblatt reports. "It is five to twelve," Martin Brudermüller, CEO ...
The German Energy Agency (dena) and its French counterpart ADEME welcome the initiative to renew the seminal ?lysée Treaty between the two countries, and to intensify cooperation in many areas, including energy policy and climate protection, the dena says ...
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There was “strong competition” in the first solar tender following this year’s changes in Germany’s Renewable Energy Law, according to the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA). Winning bids for arrays with a capacity of more than 750 kilowatts averaged 6.58 cents ...
03 Mar 2023, 12:55 By insisting on a future for new combustion engine vehicles after 2035, German finance minister Christian Lindner has upended hopes for those aiming to agree an effective ban for the technology at a vote on EU car emissions initially ...
06 Sep 2021, 13:49 Edgar Meza Cars Cost & Prices Focus / Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel The German Taxpayers Federation is calling for an end to the high state subsidies for electric vehicles, news weekly Focus reports. The federation’s call follows on ...
15 Dec 2020, 14:12 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
04 Sep 2020, 14:00 Kerstine Appunn Cars Focus Online German transport minister Andreas Scheuer has called for a “well-developed and cross-border network of [charging] stations in Europe which guarantees uncomplicated and fast recharging” for electric and ...
Peter Altmaier’s track record as Germany’s economy and energy minister lacks actions, particularly in energy policy, Antje H?ning and Birgit Marschall write in the Rheinische Post. “The energy transition resembles a construction site, and the planned coal ...
28 Jul 2023, 14:30 The European Union’s two largest economic and industrial leaders, Germany and France, have spearheaded efforts to put the EU ahead in the global scramble for green industry leadership and decarbonisation technologies. Despite ...
Exempting citizens’ energy projects from subsidy auctions for green power fed into the grid – laid out in the Renewable Energy Act reform – could ensure the continued presence of these small decentralised companies and thus the population’s support for ...
03 Sep 2021, 12:12 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics Die Zeit, Handelsblatt, taz Climate protection has been high on the agenda in the run-up to Germany’s 26 September federal election, but one issue has been conspicuously absent from the debate: the ...
09 Feb 2023, 15:22 The spread of corporate net zero targets is starting to make itself felt across the world – not only among businesses, but also far beyond. An increasing number of companies have started to scan- and then reduce- the climate impact of ...
15 Feb 2022, 14:11 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Business & Jobs dpa / Der Spiegel German economy and climate protection minister Robert Habeck said hydrogen would soon establish itself as a key component of the energy transition, according to a dpa report ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:31 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Wind Hydrogen 91tv Engineering conglomerate Siemens, oil giant Shell and German grid operator TenneT have called for stepping up the country’s plans to roll out offshore wind, in ...
The government of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has stopped the clearing of anti-coal activist camps in Hambach Forest “until further notice” after a journalist fell to his death, writes Der Tagesspiegel. “We cannot simply return to business ...
20 May 2021, 12:31 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv A new masterplan developed by three Fraunhofer research institutes outlines how a successful hydrogen industry can be developed in eastern Germany. The transition from fossil fuels to sustainably ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:40 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Edgar Meza Solar Elections & Politics Welt am Sonntag Armin Laschet, North Rhine-Westphalia’s state premier and chancellor ...
The outcome of the struggle over the embattled Hambach Forest, which German energy company RWE wants to cut down to make way for the expansion of a lignite mine, will have “profound significance for the future of energy in Germany, as well as for climate ...
German gas company Thyssengas is planning a new pipeline that would connect its grid with the proposed Russian project Nord Stream 2- even while the latter is strongly disputed, writes Jürgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. The company argues that gas supplies ...
15 Aug 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv Leading members of the German government have renewed calls for perseverance and willingness to make sacrifices to beat the energy crisis, with the upcoming heating season set to drive up ...
In its 2017 first quarter results report, German renewables utility innogy warned that prospects in the British retail market had sharply deteriorated as a result of fierce competition, Reuters reports. Overall, the company posted an increase in earnings ...
The costs of financing Germany’s transition to a low-carbon economy should be more fairly distributed, as low-income households currently spend a higher share of their income on the electricity levies and taxes that help finance the Energiewende, writes ...
26 Aug 2021, 13:39 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Germans doubt that climate protection and economic growth can ...
05 Jan 2021, 12:58 Julian Wettengel EU Tagesspiegel Background Future energy relations between the European Union and the UK remain somewhat uncertain after the post-Brexit trade agreement reached over the holidays delegated many decisions to expert ...
The head of German energy company RWE’s workers’ council, Harald Louis, says activists in the embattled Hambach Forest who are trying to prevent the expansion of a nearby coal mine are “blackmailing” the company by using the country’s coal exit commission ...
The need for reform in German energy policy is “piling up” under the current grand coalition government, said Oliver Krischer, deputy leader of the Greens parliamentary group in a plenary debate on the economy and energy budget for 2019. Economy minister ...
14 Feb 2019, 13:52 Rachel Waldholz Utilities Handelsblatt A deal by German power companies RWE and E.ON to reshape German energy markets could face resistance from regulators, Jürgen Flauger, Till Hoppe and Jeremy Gray report for business daily ...
Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler is accelerating its electric car programme, after it failed to cut fleet emissions in Europe for the first time since 2007 last year, Ilona Wissenbach and Edward Taylor report for Reuters. “In the coming years, the company will ...
03 Feb 2022, 13:46 Jessica Bateman Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Background The new German government has not yet agreed on a joint position for the EU’s car emissions reduction plans, business newspaper Handelsblatt reports. The ...
Stefan Kapferer, head of Germany’s largest energy industry association BDEW (Association of Energy and Water Industries), says the country’s next government would be prudent to repeal the electricity tax. The tax "can no longer be justified" and ...
10 Aug 2021, 13:00 German politicians and other stakeholders said the latest major report on climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an urgent warning that rapid emission cuts are needed to keep the Paris Agreement target ...
If the extensive deal between E.ON and RWE goes through, “old rivals" will "become partners under the pressure of the energy transition” and create “a new order in the German energy industry” by organising a clear “division of labour”, Helmut ...
23 Sep 2022, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics WirtschaftsWoche The energy crisis forces Germany to rapidly rearrange its energy policy plans and will make a faster coal phase-out by 2030 impossible, Stephan Weil, state premier of ...
21 Jun 2016
21 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) Climate Action Plan 2050 delayed The Climate Action Plan 2050 that is to describe a pathway and policy measures for Germany to cut its ...
Germany’s wind power industry is located in the northern parts of the country but the western and southern federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Wurttemberg are home to a large number of suppliers, Klaus Stratmann writes on Handelsblatt ...
Unfavourable political conditions have stalled plans for the construction of the Franzosenkopf pumped-storage hydropower plant near the city of Mainz, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The plant is meant to store power from solar and wind power for ...
23 Feb 2015
23 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Tagesspiegel “Distribute radioactive legacy throughout the country” Because only two German states have volunteered to store nuclear waste returning from processing plants abroad, the radioactive ...
Germany is not the “poster child” it likes to portray itself as, writes Ursula Weidenfeld in an opinion piece in Tagesspiegel. She points to the German government’s Nord Stream 2 policy, years of electricity loop flows through neighbouring countries, and ...
The price for onshore wind power fell a further ten percent in Germany’s third auction for the technology to an average of 3.8 cents per kilowatt-hour. The federal grid agency (BNetzA) said the winning bids came almost exclusively from projects proposed ...
Dutch sustainable energy group Eneco has teamed up with Japanese industrial giant Mitsubishi to build Europe’s largest battery in the north of Germany, which will supply sustainable reserve capacity to the grid. “The battery system will be able to take ...
The new government coalition of CDU, Greens and FDP in Germany’s northern wind-power state Schleswig-Holstein means many wind power projects will need re-examining, Schleswig-Holsteinische Landeszeitung reports. The federal state’s interior ministry was ...
A household near Berlin has commissioned Germany’s 100,000 th residential battery storage system. At an official ceremony, state secretary Thomas Bareiss called the threshold an “ important milestone ” for the country’s energy transition. “Storage systems ...
The German coastal city of Bremerhaven used to be a thriving centre for the offshore wind power but now struggles to hold on to the sector’s few remaining companies, Peter Hanuschke writes for the Weser Kurier. Bremerhaven once hosted about 3,000 jobs in ...
To secure the transport of large quantities of renewable power to the main consumption centres in Europe, an extension of the current electricity grid is needed, according to the ten-year network development plan (TYNDP) published by European Network of ...
04 May 2021, 12:12 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Security Handelsblatt / 91tv German politicians have said that Ukraine could have “a key role” in Europe’s future supply with hydrogen,? reports business daily Handelsblatt. Germany and Europe had ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall expects Germany’s capital Berlin to boast about 250,000 electric cars by the end of the next decade, compared to 1,700 currently registered in the city, Jens Tartler writes in the Tagesspiegel. Vattenfall’s Thomas Sch?fer says ...
Many of Germany’s medium-sized industrial companies say they are under pressure from rising electricity costs, and businesses want the government to cut levies that fund Germany’s renewables expansion, writes Klaus Stratmann in the Handelsblatt Online. ...
German utility RWE saw a 13 percent earnings drop in the first nine months of the year, reflecting tough conditions in conventional power generation in Germany, reports Guy Chazan for the Financial Times. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and ...
28 Jan 2022, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government 91tv / Tagesspiegel The new German government’s supplementary budget that includes the rededication of about 60 billion euros of credit authorisations from the country’s ...
Sixty-eight percent of Germans say that the future federal government should put more effort into implementing the Energiewende – with just 24 percent claiming the government should continue as before, according to a representative Forsa survey, ...
All German energy-related taxes and levies should be substituted by a national price on greenhouse gas emissions (CO? levy), which would increase continuously over the coming years, according to a proposal by the newly-founded association for a national ...
Helmar Rendez, chairman of Germany’s newest lignite company LEAG, has pushed for a swift decision over the possible expansion of open pit mining in the Eastern German region of Lusatia, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. “This is no decision that we can ...
29 Apr 2020, 13:15 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy ...
08 Apr 2022, 14:13 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & ...
Germany’s indignation over the US Senate’s planned expansion of economic sanctions on Russia illustrates “the whole extent of irritation in the current transatlantic relationship”, Richard Herzinger writes in Die Welt. Leading German officials find ...
21 Apr 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Solar International 91tv Germany has joined an international alliance of 75 countries to further the expansion of solar energy generation, the ministries for energy and development announced after a cabinet ...
06 Aug 2021, 13:18 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Handelsblatt None of the German ...
The exceptionally sunny weather in Germany is lavishing owners of solar panels with a lot of money, according to an article published on Welt Online. However, the rate of remuneration varies widely: those who installed solar panels in the early 2000s ...
03 Aug 2021, 14:52 Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics If they are part of a future government, the German Greens want to install a climate ministry that has the right to veto other ministry’s plans in case they are not compatible with the Paris ...
04 May 2020, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Solar 91tv / pv magazine Solar ...
In a joint press release, regional branches of the German Wind Energy Association (BWE), the Industrial Union of Metalworkers (IG Metall) and the German Trade Union Association (DGB) have called on the future Schleswig-Holstein government “to continue to ...
29 Oct 2019, 17:41 Germany is headed for second consecutive year of substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as a sharp drop in coal consumption is driving a decline of the country’s overall energy use in 2019. If this trend continues, the ...
Germany can take the most climate-damaging coal power stations off the grid by 2020 while also accelerating its nuclear exit without putting supply security at risk, according to an analysis by Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). In a detailed “shutdown ...
In an opinion piece for Süddeutsche Zeitung, Michael Bauchmüller asks if Chancellor Angela Merkel can be trusted, after the parties in exploratory talks to form a new grand coalition government dropped Germany’s 2020 climate target.?The outgoing coalition ...
Private households in Germany paid more than 10 billion euros in taxes and levies on power consumption to the state in 2017, the German Taxpayer Institute (DSi) of the German Taxpayers Federation (BdSt) says in an analysis seen by the 91tv. ...
German utility RWE’s green subsidiary innogy reported a 7 percent fall in EBITDA? in the first nine months of 2016 compared to the same period last year. The decline in profits comes one month after the company’s stock market debut in October. “The ...
The German solar industry is confident that the country’s renewables expansion targets and the growing impact of energy storage solutions will boost the sector’s progress, Welt Online reports. Carsten K?rnig, head of the German Solar Industry Association ...
19 Dec 2018, 13:58 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Financial Times Germany’s last hard coal mine in the Ruhr area will officially close on Friday 21 December and with it the era of a “fuel that propelled the nation’s economic and political expansion – for ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:12 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Electricity ...
The EU emissions trading system (ETS) is not sufficient for ensuring that Germany meets either its CO 2 emissions reduction goals or the other targets of its energy transition, the German government says in an answer to a parliamentary inquiry by the Left ...
Europe’s energy intensive industry sectors have been benefitting from exemptions and special regulations on energy taxes and levies, but they “have been among the slowest in the EU to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and invest in solutions to ...
Germany’s next government will have to ramp up efforts to advance the country’s transition to renewable energy sources in order to replace nuclear power and enable gradual decarbonisation, the Energy Watch Group think tank says. The “former global leader” ...
The former border between West and East Germany could become a problem for the country’s much-needed power transmission highways SuedLink and SuedOstLink, Andreas Mihm writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The government of the eastern German ...
Germany needs a reform of its renewables support system to bring down costs for power consumers but Berlin lacks “the political will” to do anything before the federal elections in September, writes Angela Hennersdorf in an opinion piece for ...
09 Apr 2021, 12:15 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Spiegel Germany needs to do more on climate, Markus S?der, leader of the ...
The mining and manufacturing industry in Germany contributed 11.2 percent of the country’s gross power production in 2016, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has said in a press release. With a total of 54 terawatt hours, the share was 0.8 ...
26 Jul 2021, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU Tagesspiegel The European Union has set itself “a damn ambitious” greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030 and must therefore quickly negotiate and implement the relevant legislation, said German ...
10 Dec 2018, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society ARD The UN is unlikely to find a solution to the world’s climate crisis, most Germans believe according to a survey commissioned by the public broadcaster ARD. In the ...
A new online platform by German utility association BDEW and business consultancy PwC aims to share experiences with alternative mobility and integrated city concepts, BDEW said in a press release. The website eco-mobility.org introduces the latest ...
06 Apr 2021, 12:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Wind 91tv State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn and utility RWE extend their renewable energy contract with an additional 190 gigawatt hours (GWh) of offshore wind power annually, the railway ...
24 Nov 2020, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Hydrogen 91tv State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn plans to test a hydrogen-powered train in an effort to ...
German consumers overwhelmingly support an open and competitive electricity market, while many blame the country’s green energy levy and additional taxes for rising electricity costs, Kathrin Witsch writes in Handelsblatt, citing a survey conducted by ...
An 18 percent drop in global expenditure on renewable energy last year does not mean the energy transition is losing support, Stefan Merx writes for Handelsblatt. Figures compiled by Bloomberg New Energy Finance merely reflected that costs for installing ...
The planned construction of a second Baltic Sea natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, known as Nord Stream 2, is not necessary to secure natural gas supplies for Germany and Europe, according to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research ...
10 Jan 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government dpa / t-online With a set of immediate measures, Germany’s new economy and climate minister Robert Habeck wants to kickstart the government’s ambitious plans for fast emissions reduction and ...
25 May 2020, 14:58 Experts have criticised the German government's draft coal exit law for deviating from the compromise found by the coal commission in early 2019. At a parliamentary committee hearing, representatives from industry, research ...
A fight over immigration policy between Germany’s two conservative sister parties paralyses the work of conservative ministers in charge of energy transition policies, Nikolaus Doll, Michael Fabricius and Daniel Wetzel write in Die Welt. Energy and ...
June was the strongest month so far in 2016 for solar PV expansion, with 119.4 megawatt additional installed capacity reported to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), writes pv magazine. Of the total, 90.5 megawatt were from small solar PV facilities, ...
Mining Union IG BCE, which represents many workers at car industry suppliers and is a fierce opponent of a quick coal exit, has called for a “future commission transport transition” shortly after the upcoming elections, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
Despite very different conditions for solar power in India and Germany, the former could learn from the European country’s experience that the government is not the primary actor in the market, but should act as a facilitator, writes Tobias Engelmeier for ...
Industry, transport and manufacturing have benefitted from exemptions and rebates in the power sector to the tune of about 17 billion euros, much of which was shouldered by private households, said the SPD-affiliated Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) in a ...
German utility RWE may build a gas power plant to replace power generation currently provided by nuclear power station Gundremmingen in Bavaria, writes Michael Gassmann in Welt. One of the two remaining reactors at Gundremmingen is scheduled for shutdown ...
Eastern German coal-fired power plants proved to be flexible in unstable weather conditions over the holidays, writes Simone Wendler in Lausitzer Rundschau. The plants had to quickly be powered down or restarted at times of volatile wind power feed-in ...
12 Feb 2016
12 Feb 2016, 00:00 91tv 91tv Energytransition.de “Gas makes a (small) comeback in Germany” There are signs that gas turbines have become profitable again in Germany, even though they continue to produce very little power, Craig Morris reports ...
The auto sector will remain one of the steel industry's biggest customers, because the switch to e-mobility demands large quantities of steel for component parts, charging stations, power grids and power stations, Helmut Bünder writes for?Frankfurter ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:28 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Digitalisation Government Security Handelsblatt The Association of Energy Market Innovators (BNE), a lobby group of grid-independent energy suppliers in Germany, has criticised the German ...
Germany and other industrial nations have in the past set ambitious climate targets, but failed to decide and introduce concrete instruments and measures to reach these, writes Klaus Stratmann in an opinion piece for German business daily Handelsblatt. ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU Handelsblatt Proposed changes to EU state aid regulations are causing concern among Germany's most energy-intensive companies that are currently benefiting from rebates that shield them from paying the ...
25 Mar 2022, 15:02 Germany is making considerable progress in weaning itself off fossil fuel imports from Russia and could become virtually independent of the country’s coal and oil by the end of this year, said economy and climate minister Robert Habeck ...
The Energiewende enters a new phase with more emphasis on new technologies and e-mobility – driven by citizens – than on the nuclear exit and the switch to renewable energies, German utility EnBW’s CEO, Frank Mastiaux, tells Bernd Freytag and Susanne ...
08 Jan 2016
08 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Greens sharpen their eco-profile” Germany’s Green Party has called for a coal exit by 2036, Barbara Gillmann reports in the Handelsblatt. By that time, petrol and diesel cars should ...
A vast majority of Germans broadly support the Energiewende’s aim to decarbonise the economy but a large proportion also says that the associated burden is not shared equally, the Social Sustainability Barometer study by the Institute for Advanced ...
13 Nov 2020, 15:01 Charlotte Nijhuis Cars 91tv The majority of driving license holders in Germany would consider buying an electric car, a survey by E.ON shows. “In principle, 64 percent would consider purchasing such a vehicle,” says Jonas ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:01 Expert DHL Express Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Freight 91tv German postal service Deutsche Post DHL is investing seven billion euros in climate-neutral logistics until 2030, the company ...
The expansion of wind power in Germany must be accelerated both onshore and offshore to make good on climate action plans outlined in the government’s coalition treaty, industry organisations German Wind Energy Association (BWE) and Offshore Wind Energy ...
German power customers are at risk of paying more if nuclear plants in regions with a high share of renewable energy sources are allowed to produce more energy, the council of federal state governments in Germany (Bundesrat) has warned. Nuclear plant ...
Several industry representatives support the call to abolish the electricity tax in Germany, writes Jens Tartler in Tagesspiegel. Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) and German Engineering Federation (VDMA) argue that power ...
11 Oct 2021, 14:02 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv The next German government must get a great deal of ambitious policy underway very quickly to put Germany on a path towards climate neutrality by 2045 right ...
Ilse Aigner, economy minister of Germany’s biggest state Bavaria, aims to make lowering power prices a key topic in the coalition negotiations after the general elections in September, reports news agency dpa. She demands a reform of Germany’s renewables ...
About a third of German utilities will raise their electricity prices by an average of 3.5 percent in 2017, according to price comparison website verivox. This means additional costs of 41 euros per year for an average four-person home. The suppliers ...
19 Aug 2020, 14:03 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities 91tv 91tv Coal WirtschaftsWoche The energy firm RWE is auctioning off a mammoth coal digger known as a bucket wheel excavator,? WirtschaftsWoche writes. ...
The country needs a “sustainable and binding” CO? price in all sectors, including transport and heating, to correct mistakes in Germany’s energy tax and levy system, CEO of utility E.ON Johannes Teyssen told Die Welt in an interview. “With this, many ...
12 Mar 2021, 13:34 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Kerstine Appunn Industry Cost & Prices EU 91tv A carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) ...
22 Jul 2019, 14:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society 91tv Increased regulation threatens German citizens’ energy cooperatives, according to a survey by the national cooperative association DGRV. The cooperatives, which allow independent ...
Germany might have to discontinue a central instrument of the Energiewende in light of EU Commission plans to remove priority dispatch for renewable electricity, writes Stefan Schultz for Spiegel Online. In countries where renewables facilities produce a ...
Today’s judgement by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg on import tariffs on Chinese pv modules will determine the course of a possible resurrection for the industry in Germany and other EU countries, Michael Bauchmüller writes in Süddeutsche ...
The Social Democrat-led Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of the eastern German state of Brandenburg has called for abolishing the country’s core law on financing? the roll-out of renewables, the Renewable Energy Act (EEG). The law is unfair ...
Spinning off its fossil operations into Uniper is costing German utility E.ON dear, reports Jürgen Flauger in business daily Handelsblatt. Because Uniper’s market capitalisation is much lower than the figure on E.ON’s books, the company had to post a net ...
The environment group Nabu plans to advocate for “stricter limits” on the construction of wind turbines in Germany’s forests, writes Daniel Wetzel in Welt Online. Despite being “generally in favour of the energy transition and wind power expansion”, a ...
A rapid decommissioning of fossil and nuclear power plants in Germany “poses the risk of knowingly causing an undersupply of guaranteed capacity by 2023 the latest”, says the Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) in a response to an analysis ...
Extreme weather events in Germany led to a slight increase in power outages in 2015, according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). The average outage per consumer rose to 12.7 minutes from 12.28 minutes in 2014. “The slight increase in supply ...
12 Dec 2019, 16:06 The European Union’s new executive has presented its highly anticipated Green Deal to tackle climate change. The policy package? commits the EU to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. The 91tv presents reactions to the ...
Rail industry associations and key companies have presented their joint vision of a climate friendly, cost-effective regional rail transport of the future, so that it can “bid farewell to the diesel drive”, writes the transport alliance Allianz pro ...
Electric cars are going to spread in Germany sooner or later, and the country’s infrastructure must be made ready for this boom soon, Hans Riebsamen writes in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Especially the larger urban areas that ...
Heat pumps as an alternative to fossil fuels for heating could be a viable option for northern German regions but less so in the country’s south, Harald Czycholl writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Northern German regions, like neighbouring Denmark, ...
Citizens, politicians, and the industry all agree that Germany’s energy transition must continue- but a clear plan on exactly how does not exist, writes Joachim Wille in Frankfurter Rundschau. “How central or decentral should the Energiewende be designed? ...
93 percent of Germans say further expansion of renewables is important or very important, according to a study by TNS Emnid, commissioned by the Renewable Energies Agency (AEE). The approval rate for renewables facilities in their own neighbourhood fell ...
The surplus on Germany’s green energy account continues to exceed five billion euros, compared to 4.3 billion euros in May 2016, reports Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. But the surplus will shrink over the summer to pay for seasonally ...
Germany invested 14.6 billion US dollars in clean energy in 2017, a decrease of 26 percent compared to the previous year, and the lowest since 2004, says Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) in its 2017 report on global investment in renewable energies. ...
01 Mar 2024, 14:06 At the height of its popularity just a few years ago, the climate protest movement Fridays for Future brought over a million people to the streets in Germany and across the world. Yet the movement now fights against losing relevance in ...
28 Jun 2022, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Cars Efficiency EU 91tv European energy ministers have agreed on reaching a share of 40 percent renewables in the EU’s energy mix by 2030, thus increasing the previous 32-percent target and ...
E.ON CEO Johannes Teyssen has compared Germany's energy policy with excessive state control in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). In an interview with tabloid Bild Zeitung, Teyssen said regarding Germany's energy transition: "The ...
Germany’s energy transition not only misses 2020 climate targets but fails on many other accounts too, according to the head of an expert commission tasked with monitoring the Energiewende’s progress. “Efficiency is a particular problem,” economist ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:18 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Gas 91tv Oil and natural gas production in Germany continues to decline sharply, shows an annual report for 2020 published by the Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG). It ...
Regulatory hurdles hamper flexible energy storage systems from contributing to their full potential to the success of Germany’s energy transition, Stefan Kapferer, head of utilities lobby BDEW, said in a press release. “It’s time energy storages received ...
Germany enjoys one of the highest levels of power supply security in the world, Lausitzer Rundschau reports, citing information provided by the German government in response to an enquiry by the Green Party. The country’s already high level of power ...
As global new investment in renewable energies grew in 2017, Germany spent less on new renewable installations because the costs of offshore wind power have dropped, and the shift to auctions for onshore wind has created uncertainty, according to a report ...
18 Jun 2021, 13:05 Edgar Meza Wind Tagesspiegel Background The German government is examining how it can support the domestic offshore wind sector, which is suffering from a slowdown in activity, Steven Hanke writes in Tagesspiegel Background, citing a ...
The grid reform proposal threatens to undermine the economics of decentralised power stations, according to utility association BDEW. “The government risks that controllable and flexible decentralised power generators are pushed out of the market,” said ...
Electric vehicles already have a smaller carbon footprint than conventional ones, even though Germany still has a high volume of fossil-fuels in its power mix, writes Institute for Applied Ecology (?ko Institut) in a press release. Because the fuel source ...
Nearly seven years after Germany’s first offshore wind farm “alpha ventus” began operating in 2010, the industry is thriving, Stephanie Wehkamp writes in maritime trade journal Schiff und Hafen. There are now 15 fully operational windfarms in the North ...
Chinese solar panels will no longer be subject to trade controls such as minimum prices in the European Union, the European Commission announced in its official journal. The trade restrictions, introduced in 2013 to shield the European Union’s solar power ...
Germany’s next government will have to find a way to change the current system of energy surcharges, regulations and economic incentives, which “leads into a cul-de-sac”, Andreas Kuhlmann, head of the German Energy Agency (dena) says in an interview with ...
Germany’s federal government lacks an overall strategy for the electrification of the country’s railway network, according to the lobby group Pro-Rail Alliance. Citing the latest EU comparative figures, the Alliance said there were large differences in ...
The tenant electricity draft law by the German economy ministry (BMWi) is “an overdue step towards more equality” among the country’s power consumers, Bernward Janzing writes in a commentary for taz. It allowed tenants not to pay the entire renewable ...
Innogy, the green subsidiary of German energy provider RWE, could be the biggest stock market launch of any German company since the year 2000 – but renewable energy likely only plays a minor role for its expected success, write Varinia Bernau and ...
The ongoing transformation of Germany’s energy system towards decentralised renewable power sources could reduce the country’s dependence on fossil fuel reserves in the event of a major blackout, Peter Lauwe of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and ...
The deal between energy companies E.ON and RWE is an attempt to stem their decline by each focusing on a part of the old conventional energy world that may come costly to consumers and ultimately to the whole economy, energy economist Claudia Kemfert from ...
10 Feb 2021, 12:49 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen ...
The share of taxes and levies German households have to pay for power has reached a new all-time high, price comparison website Verivox said in a press release. The state’s share in the power bill “now accounts for 56 percent for private customers – an ...
14 Jun 2023, 19:55 The German economy and climate ministry has presented a long-awaited climate action package, but the comprehensive policy proposals will remain insufficient for putting Europe’s largest economy on track for meeting its 2030 emission ...
Germany’s social democrat economy minister Sigmar Gabriel has rejected ideas of coalition partner CDU to phase out the support of renewables, Dow Jones Newswires and Spiegel Online report. The CDU “should think this over. I don’t think it’s going to work, ...
If Germany wants to remain true to its pledge to generate most of its energy from renewable sources by 2050, the additional land area used for windfarms and solar PV installations will be significant, Dirk Asendorpf writes in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit ...
The German Energiewende could fail due to policymakers’ unrealistic goal of an energy system relying almost entirely on electricity by 2050, former German Energy Agency head Stephan Kohler writes in an op-ed for the Handelsblatt. “There has probably never ...
12 Nov 2014, 00:00 After more than a decade of rising electricity prices, German utilities are passing on some of their savings from lower wholesale prices and a cut in the renewable energy surcharge. But with a number of government decisions on the next ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:54 Julian Wettengel Coal Bloomberg Germany’s government has allocated less money for closing coal-fired power plants than the utilities that own them expected, reports Bloomberg. A government official told the news outlet that Chancellor ...
Two months after the surprise departure of CEO Peter Terium, renewable utility innogy is in crisis, and neither the management nor majority owner RWE have a plan to get out of the mess created by a profit drop, writes Angela Hennersdorf in the business ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:00 Strong popular demand for climate action and a push towards more energy autonomy in the wake of the war in Ukraine have led Hungary’s populist leader Viktor Orbán to describe himself as an advocate of climate-friendly power generation. ...
The two major German insurance companies Allianz and Munich Re have until now often been viewed as “being in the camp of climate activists”, but a study by NGO Unfriend Coal now suggests both companies are quite active in insuring Poland’s coal industry, ...
31 Oct 2014, 00:00 The German government plans a complete overhaul of energy sector legislation. But one key question is as yet unanswered: Do fossil power plants need subsidies if Germany is to avoid power shortages? A green paper on energy market reform ...
13 Aug 2015
13 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv RWE RWE operating result down by 11 percent / increased earnings from renewables Germany’s second biggest energy utility RWE reported a reduced operating result and EBITDA for the first six months ...
An abandoned coal mine in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia is set to become a 200 megawatt pumped hydropower storage capable of powering over 400,000 households, Brian Parkin reports for Bloomberg. The 600-metre deep Prosper-Haniel hard ...
23 Nov 2021, 14:23 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Elections & Politics 91tv The new German government should enable ...
The share of global electricity generated by solar PV could grow to as much as 13 percent by 2030, according to a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). “The solar industry’s expansion is driven primarily by cost reductions, with ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:50 Expert Vattenfall Energy company Electricity market Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Cost & Prices Tagesschau / 91tv The modern coal plant Moorbug owned by Swedish energy company Vattenfall had turned into a liability ...
In 2016, private citizens owned 31.5 percent of installed renewable power capacity in Germany, making them the most important investors in the sector ahead of energy companies (15.7 percent), developers (14.4 percent), farmers (10.5 percent), and funds ...
The chief energy policy negotiator of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU in the ongoing ‘Jamaica coalition’ talks, North Rhine-Westphalia’s (NRW) State Premier Armin Laschet, said that Germany could give up coal-fired power production by ...
Costs such as the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) surcharge and power grid fees make electricity artificially expensive and keep companies from ramping up production at times of low wholesale power prices, Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) president Eric ...
21 Jul 2015
21 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Vattenfall Impairment losses and higher provisions for German operations Impairment losses and higher provisions for its German activities, as well as low electricity prices, widened losses at Swedish utility ...
Katherina Reiche, managing director of the municipal utility association VKU wants the government to establish better conditions for local utilities and keep an eye on the cost efficiency of the energy transition and security of supply in Germany, she ...
25 Aug 2021, 13:18 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Wirtschaftswoche The German Council of Economic Experts member Veronika Grimm has criticised Germany’s climate policy and called for a market-based approach that builds on the already existing Emissions ...
10 Nov 2023, 10:15 Germany’s ruling coalition has reached a deal on how to support industry struggling with high electricity prices in the coming five years. The package of measures, worth 12 billion euros in 2024 alone, includes lowering the electricity ...
19 Jan 2021, 13:49 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Technology 91tv ...
The German government continues to assume that a planned security standby of lignite plants will result in costs of about 230 million euros over seven years, it said in an answer to a parliamentary inquiry by the Green party. The security standby is also ...
With a record amount of 5.57 terawatt hours (TWh), Germany’s solar power plants in May almost generated as much electricity as all of the country’s nuclear power plants combined (5.65 TWh), the German Solar Industry Association (BSW Solar) said in a press ...
Despite a somewhat successful shift to more renewable sources in the power sector, Germany’s energy transition is making little to zero progress in the transportation and heating sectors, Joachim Wille writes for Frankfurter Rundschau. “The gradual ...
22 Jan 2021, 14:13 S?ren Amelang Coal Hydrogen 91tv Germany's most prominent hard coal power plant to be decommissioned as part of the country's coal exit is set to become a production site for renewable hydrogen. Oil major Shell, ...
18 Aug 2021, 13:35 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Business & Jobs 91tv / Handelsblatt A large majority of German car industry suppliers have initiated the ...
It is in Germany’s immediate interest to embrace the European dimension of the Energiewende, argues Rebecca Bertram in a blog post for energytransition.org. “Germany needs Europe to drive its own Energiewende forward,” writes Bertram, citing German power ...
In a guest commentary published by the business daily Handelsblatt, Franz Untersteller, environment minister of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, and Green member of the federal parliament Oliver Krischer call for a CO? price to be set for energy sources ...
01 Mar 2022, 13:29 The world is already facing “unequivocal" consequences of climate change and damages will increase rapidly with rising temperatures, the United Nation’s climate science body IPCC is warning in its new landmark report. The paper on ...
07 May 2021, 12:01 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Cost & Prices Clean ...
German utility EnBW’s CEO,? Frank Mastiaux, said a coal exit decided by? Germany’s next government ?would “not be an existential problem" for the company. In an interview with Greenpeace Magazin, Mastiaux said his company had “already included”? a ...
06 May 2021, 13:06 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Sectors of German industry are struggling with rising carbon prices and demanding help from the government, which has made CO2 pricing a key part of its climate protection ...
28 Mar 2022, 18:45 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv The international community must not lose sight of major issues such as climate change despite the new situation Russia’s war against Ukraine has brought, said German ...
The stock market launch of innogy could make RWE’s green subsidiary Germany’s most valuable utility, writes Antje H?ning in Rheinische Post. If the stock price of 36 euros- determined by auction- remains unchanged, innogy will be worth around 20 billion ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the country’s renewable reform is a profound paradigm shift. “We can’t feel it yet […] but it will change the landscape considerably,” Merkel said with reference to the transition from pre-fixed feed-in tariffs to ...
Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel’s assessment of why his Social Democratic party suffered so many losses in recent elections is “hypocritical”, J?rg Staude says in a commentary for klimaretter.info. Gabriel said his party had neglected its voters’ core ...
In 2017, renewables represented a record of around 38.5 percent of public net power generation (33.8 percent in 2016), writes Bruno Burger of Fraunhofer ISE in an end-of-year assessment. In total, renewables contributed 15 percent more to Germany’s public ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:38 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 International 91tv German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is under particular pressure to underline Germany's climate policy credibility when ministers from 40 countries meet at the 13th ...
Grid operators TenneT and TransnetBW published a variety of updated route suggestions to lay direct current power lines from Germany’s windy north to the industrial south, after protests against overhead lines had forced the companies to revise original ...
German energy company innogy has teamed up with technology company Kiwigrid to develop a new platform for organising a decentralised power supply system, innogy said in a press release. “Centralised power plants are a thing of the past,” innogy writes, ...
The new German system for tendering renewable energy projects to the cheapest bidder urgently needs to be amended to avoid severe planning insecurity for the wind industry, the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) says in a press release. The reduction of ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:40 Sven Egenter Finance Security 91tv Russia’s cuts to natural gas supplies and the wider economic fallout from the war against Ukraine will push the German economy into recession, analysts at Deutsche Bank forecast. “A likely ...
Environmentalists and critics of current Energiewende policies are intensifying protests against major high-voltage transmission lines traversing Germany from north to south, news agency dpa reports. Environmental organisation Friends of the Earth Germany ...
The economy ministers of the German coal states Brandenburg, Saxony, and North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have warned the country’s coal exit commission against coming up with “hasty” scenarios for phasing out fossil power sources. In a press release issued ...
30 Jun 2020, 13:44 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Clean ...
For now, Germany’s southern neighbour Austria benefits greatly from exports of cheap German power, but this arrangement is about to come to an end, Irmgard Kirschko writes in the Austrian newspaper Kurier. An “artificial shortage” at the border, which is ...
Forest protection has played an important role in the history of Germany’s Energiewende, or energy transition, and the current developments at the Hambach Forest, which is under threat by the expansion of a lignite mine, could end up as another example in ...
Germany’s fifth largest power producer STEAG plans to shut down about half of its power production capacity sooner than originally planned, writes Jürgen Flauger in the Handelsblatt. The company that operates several hard-coal power plants in the Ruhr ...
Russian oil company Rosneft is set to increase its business activities in Germany, Daniel Wetzel writes in Welt Online. Russia’s largest oil producer is doubling its investments in the country to 600 million euros over the next five years, CEO Igor Sechin ...
12 Aug 2020, 13:50 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv Germany’s federal government has appointed the members of the “Expert Council on Climate Issues”, an independent body that is to advice the government on the implementation of ...
The changes brought about in Germany’s energy supply structure by the Energiewende pose a great threat to the country’s municipal utilities, Thomas Brucker writes in a study for the SPD-associated Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES). Regional energy ...
30 Jul 2019, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Electricity market Renewables Clean ...
26 Apr 2021, 13:26 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel The vice chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group Andreas Jung is launching a new ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:10 With its third energy cost relief package since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the German government hopes to alleviate concerns over skyrocketing prices for heating and electricity in the coming winter. The large package worth ...
21 Mar 2022, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv / ARD Germany’s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has launched an energy partnership with the Emir of Qatar which includes both the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and ...
04 Aug 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices EU FAZ / 91tv Forty-one percent of economics professors said the EU should do more on climate, according to a survey by the Institute for Economic Research (ifo), writes Frankfurter ...
The German wind power industry keeps jumping from one output and price record to another, but it is nevertheless headed for a slump in 2019 if policymakers do not intervene soon, Jürgen Gei?inger, CEO of German turbine producer Senvion, says in a guest ...
18 Feb 2020, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Cars dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung More than half of Germany’s automotive suppliers are planning to cut jobs, according to a survey by the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) reported by ...
Planning company ILF has managed many difficult projects around the world – from pipelines in Nigeria to an airport in Kazakhstan – but building the electricity superhighway Südlink, which is meant to bring wind power to Germany's industrial south, ...
Even though international wholesale prices for natural gas prices fell in 2016, suppliers did not fully pass this decline on to consumers, according to a study by consultancy EnergyComment, commissioned by the Green parliamentary group in the German ...
The effect of think tank Agora Energiewende’s* proposal for an ecologic tax reform on Germany’s major political parties will be limited, Hannes Koch writes in a commentary for tageszeitung (taz). Agora Energiewende suggests lowering fees on electricity ...
22 Dec 2020, 13:05 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Policy 91tv A large majority of Germans are prepared to make significant lifestyle changes to help ...
23 Aug 2018, 18:15 Germany’s coal commission will not give any recommendation regarding mining-owner RWE’s plans to continue clearing forest for the planned extension of the Hambach lignite mine in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The country's ...
Germany is constantly worried that it might lose its image of climate protection pioneer, which appears to be a legitimate fear due to its stalling performance in CO 2 emissions reduction and sluggish renewable energy expansion, Axel Bojanowski writes in ...
27 Jul 2021, 13:36 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Handelsblatt Germany needs gas-fired ...
While 69 percent of residents in eastern Germany still support the country’s energy transition in principle, this figure is well below the 78 percent that expressed approval in 2015, Die Welt reports, citing a study by energy provider enviaM and Leipzig ...
10 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022, 13:30 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K?ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv / RND Quickly rising prices for raw materials needed to build a fossil-free energy infrastructure could ...
23 Jul 2020, 14:20 Solar International Die Zeit A Swiss solar energy company is looking to revive eastern Germany’s “Solar Valley”, write Barbara Achermann and Martin Nejezchleba in Zeit Schweiz. The solar park, covering 160 hectares in the federal state ...
11 Apr 2016, 00:00 [Updated 11 April with results from fourth round of solar PV auctions] Feed-in tariffs (FITs) have driven the expansion of renewable energy in Germany, but in 2014 the government decided to gradually replace them with an auction system. ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:33 Edgar Meza Freight Hydrogen Technology 91tv In a new report examining the status of the German and European hydrogen fuel cell markets, the German government-backed National Platform Future of Mobility (NPM) says there is ...
27 Nov 2015
27 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv dpa Criticism of environment minister’s ‘solo’ push for coal exit North-Rhine Westphalia’s state premier Hannelore Kraft and her economy minister Garrelt Duin have criticised Federal Environment ...
23 Jul 2021, 13:24 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv, Welt Activists are protesting for better climate protection measures after ...
The grand coalition of the conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) disagree on the possible introduction of a price on CO? emissions in sectors not covered by the European Union Emissions Trading System (ETS), write Jakob ...
The new governing coalition of conservative CDU and economic liberal FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is set to undermine the country’s climate protection goals, environmental organisation WWF says in a press release. The CDU-FDP coalition agreement ...
The Prime Minister of Germany’s most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Armin Laschet, will represent Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party in the areas of climate, energy, and transport in the ‘Jamaica coalition’ talks, the ...
The federal economy ministry (BMWi) is working on a concept for technology-independent renewables support auctions that would have wind turbines competing against solar PV facilities, writes Stefan Schultz for Spiegel Online. In a pilot project from 2018 ...
09 Apr 2021, 09:39 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv [CLARIFICATION: Agora Energiewende said Q1 developments in the power market show greenhouse gas emissions could rise in 2021. Drops reference to 2020 target.] ? Unfavourable weather ...
08 Mar 2022, 13:33 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Government Clean Energy ...
With more cooperation on energy infrastructure, European states could counter the risks associated with fluctuating supply of wind power, Ralph Diermann writes on Spiegel Online. According to a study in Nature Climate Change, variable weather conditions ...
The passing of a new law on the “Digitalisation of the Energiewende” in the second house of the German parliament, the Bundesrat, has been overshadowed by the vote on the reform ?of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), according to an article in pv magazine. ...
The new governing coalition in Germany’s most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) may not care too much about climate protection despite ambitious promises, Ralf K?pke writes in a commentary for Energie & Management. The conservative ...
07 Apr 2021, 12:56 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Background Less money has been spent out of the Federal Energy and Climate Fund (EKF) than was available in 2020, Tagesspiegel Background writes after seeing the 2020 balance sheet of the ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices EU 91tv The German chemical industry says the European Commission’s proposals to fight the energy price crisis in Europe may be sufficient to fight energy poverty but are not likely to help ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:36 S?ren Amelang Renewables International 91tv Germany trails China and the US in a global ranking of installed renewable power capacity. Excluding hydropower, capacity in Germany added up to 113 gigawatts (GW) in 2018, ...
The row between Germany, Austria and the US Senate over a planned expansion of US sanctions on Russia has renewed the energy transition’s importance as a means to achieve greater energy supply security, Petra Pinzler writes in a column for Zeit Online. ...
The German government must take precautions to secure citizens’ acceptance for future wind power expansion, as it is a central pillar of the country’s energy transition, writes the energy think tank Agora Energiewende* in a report. Municipalities located ...
11 Oct 2021, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU Die Welt Europe’s bid to become the world’s first climate neutral continent can only succeed if nuclear energy gets a role in the region’s decarbonisation plans, French economy and finance minister ...
09 Dec 2020, 15:17 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Society International 91tv Around 77 percent of Germans say the EU should raise its 2030 climate target. In a? survey ?commissioned by the country's utility association BDEW, only ...
29 Apr 2022, 13:15 S?ren Amelang Coal Utilities 91tv / Handelsblatt A vast majority of RWE shareholders have rejected a request to force management to start preparations for a spinoff of the company's brown coal activities, but major ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:27 S?ren Amelang Utilities Reuters German utility RWE will win unconditional EU antitrust approval to buy the renewables businesses of E.ON and Innogy in a deal that will reshape the German energy market, according to an unsourced Reuters ...
12 Jul 2021, 13:23 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Wind 91tv Researchers in Germany are ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:39 Rachel Waldholz Storage 91tv German industrial conglomerate Siemens has launched its first battery storage system geared toward private homes. Homes that generate their own electricity from sources like solar panels will be ...
Germany’s Federal Court of Auditors (BRH) has renewed its criticism of the government’s lacking overview of energy transition costs, a court spokesperson told the 91tv. Website Spiegel Online originally reported that the court asked the ...
The prospects of permanently increasing energy prices due to the renewables development have caused a dispute between Germany’s governing coalition partners from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), writes Tobias ...
07 Dec 2015
07 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Still up in the air” There are still many hurdles to an agreement in Paris and there is a real danger of disappointment, writes Klaus Stratmann in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. ...
The start of evictions of anti-coal activists in the Hambach Forest “has already done enormous damage to the image of [energy company] RWE”, which could turn into a veritable “disaster” once the company starts cutting trees in October, Jürgen Flauger, ...
17 Mar 2016
17 Mar 2016, 00:00 (UPDATES with new quotes from the conference. Please note: this item will be updated throughout the conference)- The world has to move from negotiations to actions on climate change and the transition to a low carbon economy after the ...
01 Mar 2022, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas Wind 91tv / Spiegel / Bloomberg The German government is set to introduce a law to prescribe minimum levels for the country’s gas storages, according to economy and climate ministry plans seen by ...
German utility E.ON’ chief operating officer for grids and renewable energies, Leonhard Birnbaum, demands a change to the country’s onshore wind power auctions to ensure that professional wind power project developers cannot benefit from advantages given ...
01 Dec 2015
01 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv RWE / Handelsblatt Utility RWE follows E.ON example, to split in two One of Germany’s largest utilities RWE will split in two, the company announced on Tuesday. Renewables, grids and retail activities in Germany ...
Germany still has a long way to go before “the aim of a post-fossil society” is reached, Klaus Stratmann writes in Handelsblatt. “The share of renewables in primary energy consumptions so far stands at only 14 percent,” he explains. The 30 percent share ...
25 Mar 2021, 13:52 Expert Borderstep Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability Start-ups Business & Jobs Expert German Startups Association Bundesverband Deutsche Startups Start-ups Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Start-ups Clean ...
French multinational utility Engie reviews its investments in one of the world’s most modern coal-fired power plants in the northern German town of Wilhelmshaven, Gerd Abeldt writes in Nordwest-Zeitung. “Today,? nobody would build a coal plant anymore,” ...
Installing PV arrays on private homes and consuming the generated electricity is financially attractive, but will not have a large effect on Germany’s power system as a whole, according to a study by consultancy Prognos commissioned by energy think-tank ...
Cheap German power exports hinder neighbouring countries’ energy transitions, Austrian environment minister Andr? Rupprechter told German weekly Der Spiegel. “Germany produces too much cheap electricity that other countries like Austria have to accept. ...
25 Jan 2019, 14:23 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Gas Reuters Norway, one of Germany’s top three gas suppliers with Russia and the Netherlands, could make further inroads into the German market as the country phases out coal, a top executive ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:37 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Energiewende Society Spiegel Online The switch from fossil ...
Power demand across Germany is likely to grow after 2030 as increased sector coupling facilitates the shift from other energy sources, research institute Fraunhofer ISI has found in an analysis commissioned by transmission grid operators. In all scenarios ...
15 Oct 2021, 14:29 Three weeks after Germany’s election, the country is moving one step closer towards its first three-party government coalition. Following several days of intensive preliminary talks, the Social Democrats, the Green Party and the Free ...
The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has called on the government to get the costs of the country’s energy transition under control. “The brake on costs promised by the economics ministry has turned out to be no more than wishful thinking,” said BDI ...
Parties will discuss ways to “stabilise” Germany’s renewables levy in the coalition talks following the general elections on 24 September, Chief of the Chancellery Peter Altmaier told Andreas Mihm in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ...
06 Jul 2021, 13:01 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Edgar Meza Bioenergy 91tv The use of renewable biomethane is on the rise, resulting in increasing ...
The German energy system would become more complex, unfair and expensive if the government were to introduce support models for tenant electricity, as costs avoided by tenants would have to be paid by other consumers, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion ...
18 Mar 2021, 14:02 S?ren Amelang Elections & Politics Handelsblatt The German Greens propose a large public investment programme to support the transition to a climate-friendly economy and a phase-out of combustion engine car sales by 2030 in their ...
18 Mar 2021, 13:57 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 EU 91tv The European Union is planning to make the CO2 uptake of natural sinks part of its path toward climate neutrality, but depending on the specific rules a loss in stored greenhouse ...
16 Sep 2019, 14:05 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv Nine out of 10 businesses are in favour of ...
03 Jun 2019, 13:31 S?ren Amelang Renewables Renew Economy Germany’s share of renewable energy in net public electricity generation rose to 47 percent in the first five months of 2019, reports Giles Parkinson in Renew Economy on the basis of data by ...
26 Jan 2016
26 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv manager magazine / Bloomberg “Gas-fired power stations rise from the dead” What might be the biggest absurdity of the German Energiewende could now be ending, as relatively clean gas-fired power ...
It is surprising that the would-be government coalition partners of Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) did not agree to push for a fundamental reform of Germany’s energy taxes and levies system in the coalition talks, because ...
13 Oct 2014
13 Oct 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv Der Spiegel “Energy transition: Gabriel to put more pressure on utilities” German Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel plans to put more pressure on utilities by taking 10 gigawatts of coal-fired power ...
26 Jun 2020, 12:12 Expert F?S- Green Budget Germany Forum ?kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Coal Tagesspiegel Background Experts have criticised the lack of transparency in the contract between lignite ...
The growth of solar energy has been grossly underestimated in the results of the models of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), writes Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in a press release. A new MCC ...
The EU Commission’s decision to extend the tariffs on Chinese PV products has raised concerns among environmental organisations that a slower expansion of solar power production might hinder the German energy transition’s (Energiewende) progress, writes ...
Environmentalists suspect trees that provide a habitat for protected birds of prey have been cut down to make way for a wind farm in the German costal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Maik Baumg?rtner writes for Spiegel Online. Wildlife NGO Nabu ...
Germany's energy transition has to become more European and more innovative, Michael Fuchs writes in Handelsblatt. Fuchs — who serves as vice chairman of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU) and is in charge of economy and ...
Armin Laschet, state premier of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), has unsuccessfully called for the early shutdown of two nuclear reactors near the Belgian-German border in a meeting with Belgium’s Prime Minister Charles Michel, reports Moritz Küpper for ...
The energy policy plans of the new government of Germany’s most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) bear the risk that the state “in the medium and long run is left behind as an energy region ”, Peter Berger writes in K?lner Stadtanzeiger. In ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:15 The two most influential members of the EU, Germany and France, agree on the urgent need to jointly decarbonise Europe’s energy system and put supply security on a safer footing after the tumultuous energy crisis year 2022. Russia’s war ...
17 Jun 2021, 11:51 S?ren Amelang Cars Tagesspiegel Tesla may have to stop construction of its "Gigafactory" near Berlin following new legal action brought by environmental NGOs, reports Thorsten Metzner in the newspaper Tagesspiegel. The ...
17 Jun 2021, 11:49 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Elections & Politics 91tv Germany’s next government after the September election must quickly introduce measures and instruments to ensure the country reaches the ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:21 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv The German environmental NGO umbrella association DNR and 54 other organisations are calling on the German government to back up the soon-to-be revised Climate Action Law with ...
21 Aug 2019, 11:59 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities S?ren Amelang Cars Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German utility EnBW plans to order up to 14,000 electric cars for its employees, ...
Wind power turbines are Germany’s most important renewable energy source and in 2017 produced more electricity than coal plants for the first time, Thorsten Preuschgas, CEO of Soventix, writes in a guest commentary in the pv magazine. ?But it is “a false ...
The Green parliamentary group in the German Bundestag (parliament) has introduced a motion calling on the government to give “top priority” to Germany’s target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020, initiating a debate in the plenary. ...
Contracts for difference (CFD) for renewable energy funding are the best available method to pass on cost reductions in different renewable technologies to the average power customer, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) says in its weekly ...
Social Democrat state premier of Brandenburg Dietmar Woidke warns that certain coal related provisions in a late draft of the environment ministry’s climate plan could endanger power supply security in Germany, reports Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. In a ...
Experts of the governing Social Democrats (SPD) call for a rapid expansion of railway traffic in Germany, writes Markus Balser in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “We want to achieve a doubling of capacities of the railway network by 2030”, Balser quotes an SPD ...
23 Oct 2020, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Handelsblatt The German government’s draft update of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) is not ambitious enough, as it fails to take into account developments that increase the need for renewable ...
A new draft of federal environment minister Barbara Hendricks’ contentious Climate Action Plan 2050 says that there would be no new coal-fired power plants or expansions of existing open pit mines, writes Michael Bauchmüller in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “With ...
10 Jun 2021, 13:56 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Wind Business & Jobs 91tv The future of the wind power sector is looking increasingly rosy according to the latest? WindEnergy trend:index (WEtix), published by global wind energy event ...
10 Jun 2021, 13:49 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport Hydrogen Heating 91tv German industry has called on the government to include transport and heating in the hydrogen economy ramp-up. "Policymakers must not leave out the ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:47 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Business International Allianz / Germanwatch Germany has ceded its position as the G20’s most attractive market for renewable energy investments to its neighbour France, the Climate ...
Germany’s energy transition needs a “restart” as many companies struggle to cope with the additional financial burden in the form of surcharges, levies and other costs put on every kilowatt hour (kWh) of electricity, Klaus Stratmann writes in an op-ed for ...
01 Apr 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 91tv Power customers in Germany paid the highest power prices ever registered in the country during the first three months of 2019, price comparison website Verivox says. With 29.42 cents ...
Renewable energies around the globe are growing at a rate “never thought possible by many some years ago” but Germany “is botching up” the technology and is haunted by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s continued failure in energy policy, former Green MP Hans ...
With 967.5 million euro, German utility EnBW has achieved a 24.2 percent lower operating result in the first six months of 2016 than in the same period in 2015. The company expects results for the whole year to be five to 10 percent lower than last year. ...
New guidelines for the industry in the German government’s Climate Action Plan 2050 bear traces of a planned economy, writes Christoph Eisenring in Neue Zürcher Zeitung. He cites measures such as expanding the area of arable land reserved for ecological ...
Germany’s parliament (Bundestag) has voted to allow tenants to directly source their electricity from solar panels on their roofs, the parliament has said in a press release. The so-called “tenant electricity” concept says that landlords receive a premium ...
02 Aug 2019, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Solar Technology 91tv New textile-based solar cells woven into truck tarps could soon be producing the electricity needed to power cooling systems or other onboard equipment, writes Fraunhofer Institute for ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:52 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars 91tv A rapid roll-out of charging infrastructure as planned by the German government could significantly speed up the uptake of electric vehicles, according to a report by the ...
18 May 2020, 14:06 Edgar Meza Renewables Security Germany boasts the highest energy security level in the world, due in large part to the wide spread use of renewable energy sources in the country, according to a study by Abdelrahman Azzuni and Christian ...
The net output of renewable energy sources in Germany’s power mix has reached a new record share in the first half of 2018, the website Energy Charts run by research institute Fraunhofer ISE says. With a net generation of 113 terawatt hours (TWh) between ...
Back in December 2015, the Paris Climate Agreement was hailed as a “historic” achievement- 17 months later it rather looks like international diplomacy has incurred an on-the-job accident of historic proportions, Andreas Mihm writes in Frankfurter ...
21 Aug 2019, 11:57 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Citizens' energy Tagesschau The expansion of renewable electricity ...
11 May 2020, 13:48 Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables Technology Freja Eriksen Society 91tv Almost 60 percent of Germans said the climate crisis will have larger long-term effects than the coronavirus? in a ...
30 Mar 2022, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities Berliner Morgenpost / Der Tagesspiegel An announcement by Germany’s federal transport ministry (BMDV) to expand a motorway in the centre of Berlin has caused a stir among local politicians and could also ...
08 Oct 2020, 14:21 S?ren Amelang Coal Policy dpa / Zeit Online The controversial resettlement of five villages in the Rhenish lignite mining area in Western Germany to expand an opencast mine is set to continue, reports news agency dpa in an? article ...
Due to the introduction of auctions for renewables support, Germany’s renewables levy (EEG-surcharge) will not increase from 2020, and will then decrease from 2022, according to a forecast by think tank Agora Energiewende,* reports Christian Schlesiger in ...
Germany’s across-the-board taxes, levies and surcharges on power consumption limit flexibility and innovation in the energy sector, Fabian Reetz writes on Zeit Online. More than 80 percent of the German power price is made up of such fees imposed by the ...
The transition to a low-carbon economy cannot be brought about by subsidising clean energy sources and will unfold by itself if market forces are allowed to come into play, Helmut Stalder writes in Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). “Germany ...
Most people in Germany doubt that the country’s energy transition can be pursued according to plans and without greater difficulties, according to a representative survey that utility RWE presented at a debate meeting in Berlin. A majority of 69 percent ...
12 Mar 2019, 14:10 Rachel Waldholz Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Cost & Prices IWR Online Germany’s “green energy account”, ?which funds the country’s renewable roll-out, currently shows a record surplus of 5.7 billion euros, according to ...
12 May 2020, 13:19 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Freja Eriksen Coal Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Coal's share in Germany's net public power production fell to around 16 ...
Michael Liebreich,?founder of renewable energy research organisation Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), has called the zero-support bid in German offshore wind power auctions “ a risky and brave move.” Successful bidders EnBW and Dong Energy were ...
11 Feb 2021, 13:32 Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG Coal Fossil fuels Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Tagesspiegel / dpa The German federal government and ...
The offer by some bidders in Germany’s first offshore wind power auction to build their projects with zero financial support has raised a lot of questions, Michael Bauchmüller writes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Wind parks have been sponsored by the ...
15 Apr 2016
15 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy New draft version of Renewable Energy Act released The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has released a new draft of the Renewable ...
28 Apr 2020, 12:28 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union ...
Solar power plants Germany produced more electricity than ever before in May, which brought 275 hours of sunshine instead of the average 196, the Renewable Energy Industry Initiative (IWR) reports. According to preliminary data by grid operators, solar ...
20 May 2021, 12:29 Expert Energy Brainpool Energy consultancy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Edgar Meza Coal Climate & CO2 91tv Germany’s recently revamped Climate Action Law calls for the energy sector to reduce CO2 emissions from ...
The energy industry hovers between shock and sensation since it has become clear that several companies are ready to build offshore wind power plants without any support payments, Frank-Thomas Wenzel writes in Frankfurter Rundschau. The German Engineering ...
While the German and Californian transport transitions face common challenges, German lawmakers could derive valuable best practices from the US state’s “more advanced stage”, according to a report by the Ahead project, a joint initiative of the Potsdam ...
Traces of hazardous heavy metals in solar panels could put a serious strain on the environment if the world’s estimated 3,700 square kilometres of panels are not disposed of carefully, Daniel Wetzel writes in the weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag. ...
22 Apr 2020, 15:05 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs S?ren Amelang Solar 91tv The business confidence of Germany's ...
25 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Greenpeace Energy “Power-to-gas reduces costs for Energiewende by billions and enables 100-percent renewable power supply” By using technology to store excess wind and solar power as ...
Germany’s Energiewende is on track in areas such as extending renewables, employment, and securing power supply. But other goals- such as reducing power consumption and carbon emissions, and the limit on costs- seem increasingly out of reach, consultancy ...
German green power support costs exceeded 25 billion euros in 2016 for the first time, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, citing figures released by the four German transmission grid operators (TSO). With 22.8 billion euros, ...
10 Apr 2017
Germany’s current system of levies, taxes, and fees on energy is unsuitable for the next phase of the country’s energy transition, according to an analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. For heating oil, these add up to a mere 0.6 cents per ...
The chief of the German chancellery, Peter Altmaier, says Germany can still meet its own national 2020 climate protection goals despite increased emissions in 2016. He told public TV channel ZDF’s show “Berlin direkt” that he would “ not give up on the ...
12 Aug 2021, 13:25 Expert Energy Brainpool Energy consultancy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal ...
Danish offshore wind company Dong’s subsidy-free bid at Germany’s first auction for new offshore wind parks was based on sound economics, Martin Neubert, managing director of the company’s German operations, said at the Hanover Fair 2017, Germany’s ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Finance Handelsblatt The operators of Germany’s coal plants should receive some compensation for closing facilities in line with the exit plan proposed by the country’s coal commission, but demands must be ...
27 Oct 2021, 16:14 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Elections & Politics WDR / 91tv / Die Zeit Conservative CDU politician Hendrik Wüst has been voted in as new state premier of Germany’s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia ...
A quick end of coal-fired power production in Germany and a parallel expansion of wind and solar power capacities would reduce carbon emissions sufficiently to meet the 2020 and 2030 climate target in line with the Paris Agreement, a study by research ...
10 Sep 2020, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society 91tv A group of villagers that reject a resettlement due to the expansion of the Garzweiler lignite mine in German federal state North Rhine-Westphalia have? said ?they filed a constitutional ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:54 Julian Wettengel Coal Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The federal government has largely rejected calls by German states to make changes to the planned coal exit law, reports Nora Zaremba in energy and climate policy ...
The four parties that currently negotiate whether to form Germany’s next coalition government must adopt a programme designed to break the “vicious cycle” of energy prices, Michael Bauchmüller writes in an op-ed for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. A drop in ...
03 Jul 2015
03 Jul 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Ruby Russell Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy State secretary Baake: power market 2.0 guarantees supply security Germany’s economy and energy ministry is proposing a reform of the power market based on an energy ...
16 Jan 2020, 13:14 Freja Eriksen Energiewende 91tv Only a mix of centralised and decentralised technologies can make German energy supply "climate-friendly, secure and affordable," say researchers from three of the country's ...
07 Apr 2015
07 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv ? Süddeutsche Zeitung Unions – CO2 levy could erase 100,000 jobs The additional CO2 levy on old power plants, proposed by the German government to achieve climate targets, puts up to 100,000 jobs ...
The approval processes for coal plants and mine expansions will not be halted while the upcoming multi-stakeholder commission on Germany’s coal exit – the so-called coal commission – discusses the country’s phase-out-path, indicates the economy ministry ...
23 Mar 2022, 15:41 A sudden stop of energy imports from Russia would threaten "hundreds of thousands of jobs" and push Europe's economy into recession, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned. He said Germany will end its energy dependence as ...
For 2018, the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) projects a slight decrease in the country’s levy to finance renewables expansion, the organisation says in a press release. The Renewable Energy Act (EEG) surcharge will drop to about 6.71 euro cents ...
More investors offered to build offshore wind farms without any financial support in Germany’s second offshore wind power auction, but the average support rate increased significantly compared to the previous auction, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) ...
03 Sep 2020, 13:50 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport 91tv Global aviation is responsible for 3.5 percent of human-made climate ...
03 Aug 2021, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv / Die Welt The earnings from selling allowances in the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) for the German state look set to reach a new record level in 2021 ...
German utility EnBW reports a 1.8 billion euros net loss after already fully incorporating in the 2016 financial statements an expected payment of 4.7 billion euros into the country’s nuclear clean-up fund. “Due to the law of reorganising responsibility ...
German energy providers have insufficient IT security against cyber attacks which could lead to large power blackouts, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. Many providers lacked “contingency plans” for attacks by hackers and did not have a ...
German energy company RWE and environmental organisations have met to discuss the situation in the embattled Hambach Forest that energy company RWE wants to cut down to make room for a nearby coal mine, reports Spiegel Online. RWE head Rolf Martin Schmitz ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:40 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Energiewende Financial Times Agreeing on a phase-out plan for German coal was hard, implementing it will be harder still, writes Tobias Buck in an article for the Financial Times. Buck uses the ...
31 Aug 2020, 13:48 91tv 91tv Digitalisation Handelsblatt Germany’s government wants to make server farms climate neutral by 2030, sparking concern in the industry, Handelsblatt reports. Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze said she ...
05 Jan 2021, 12:53 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Utilities manager magazin / Handelsblatt Stocks of German wind and solar park operators had a successful start to 2021 as ...
05 Jan 2021, 12:51 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit?t zu K?ln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity ...
25 Sep 2019, 14:02 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Digitalisation 91tv While three quarters of German energy companies expect artificial ...
02 Apr 2020, 13:44 S?ren Amelang Storage 91tv German storage company Tesvolt says it has started production in "Europe's first gigafactory for commercial battery storage systems." The new production line, in the Eastern German ...
11 Jan 2016
11 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Agora Energiewende “How the exit from coal power generation by 2040 can be managed” Germany can exit coal by 2040 without significant effects on power prices or supply security, and the government ...
The new federal government has to work out a comprehensive concept to secure the German industry’s competitiveness, write Christoph Schmidt and Steffen Elstner of the Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI Essen) in a guest commentary ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:10 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs Utilities Der Spiegel If the asset swap of energy companies and utilities RWE and E.ON goes ahead as planned, the resulting company would have “unprecedented market power”, Ines ...
Germany’s levy to support renewables expansion, the EEG surcharge, will decrease to around 6.74 euro cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) in 2018, from this year’s 6.88 ct/kWh, according to calculations by think tank Agora Energiewende.* A predicted rise in ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:52 Freja Eriksen Solar Wind Tagesspiegel Background / pv magazine The coronavirus crisis is spilling over into the solar and wind energy industry, which is already facing a slump in Germany, write Christian Schaudwet and Steven Hanke in ...
14 Sep 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government 91tv The proposal for a " historic consensus " in German society on the need for climate action and the goal of greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050 by economy ...
Armin Laschet, premier of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany’s largest federal state, is not willing to act as a mediator in the negotiations between environmental activists and the energy company RWE over the clearing of a forest near the Hambach ...
17 Oct 2016, 00:00 Germany’s consumer surcharge to fund renewable electricity will rise less than expected in 2017. Still, discussions about the cost of the country’s Energiewende project and ways to reform the renewables support dominated the public ...
17 Mar 2023, 12:21 German government officials have welcomed proposals by the European Commission to boost net-zero industries and the competitiveness of European companies in an effort to keep up with other regions of the world, such as the U.S. and ...
07 May 2024, 10:00 The impact of a populist party opposed to climate action is starting to make itself clearly felt in Spain. From climate budget cuts to suspending low-emission zones and reversing plans for green taxes: As a partner in several city and ...
The incoming German government must not agree to phase out coal-fired power production in exchange for concessions to diesel cars, Michael Vassiliadis, head of Germany’s largest mining trade union,? IG BCE, said in an interview with the General-Anzeiger ...
The use of coal-fired power production and other fossil energy sources has to be quickly reduced in Germany in order to keep aging wind turbines cost-efficient, environmental organisation Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH), green energy provider Naturstrom AG and ...
20 Sep 2019, 12:54 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Renewables 91tv Renewable energy sources in Germany generated a total of 56 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity that was ...
Tenants in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) will be able to benefit from solar PV panels installed on the rooftop of the buildings they live in. The state government has introduced a support programme for self-consumption power ...
25 Mar 2020, 13:56 Expert RNE- German Council for Sustainable Development Rat für nachhaltige Entwicklung Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Electronic devices turned into standby-mode cost German households about 448 ...
20 Apr 2021, 13:04 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business ...
12 Oct 2021, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The reconstruction of villages destroyed in the extreme floods in western Germany in July does not adequately provide protection from similar events ...
11 Mar 2020, 13:33 Rachel Waldholz Solar Cities pv magazine / 91tv The city of Berlin has adopted a plan to vastly expand the deployment of solar panels across the city’s rooftops, with the goal of supplying some 25 percent of the city’s ...
09 May 2019, 14:08 S?ren Amelang Renewables Utilities Rechargenews / Reuters German utility EnBW plans to spend 12 billion euros by 2025 in generation and infrastructure, with renewable expansion being a strategic priority, reports Bernd Radowitz for ...
10 Aug 2020, 13:30 Cars Frankfurter Rundschau The reality of having to shift to climate-neutral production and products has finally hit German automakers, writes Rolf Obertreis in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter Rundschau. A combination of political ...
The governments of France and Germany intend to reinforce European carbon trading in the electricity sector and aim to initiate a reform of the EU’s emissions trading system (ETS) before the UN’s COP 23 in November, news agency Reuters reports. Brune ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:15 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International Tagesspiegel Background The German government has presented an incomplete National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) draft to the European Commission at the last minute ...
The plans for wind power expansion in Germany are “illusory” since the growing density of turbines across the country is set to diminish the yield per installation so much that power production targets can no longer be met by simply increasing the number ...
Many German wind power projects that appear to be owned by citizens’ energy cooperatives can be associated with the major wind power planning company UKA, German national TV station MDR says in an article on its website. According to MDR, UKA is Germany’s ...
16 Dec 2020, 15:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars electrive.net / Der Spiegel Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess has prevailed in an internal power struggle at Germany's largest carmaker, allowing him to pursue the company's ambitious e-mobility agenda as ...
02 Jan 2023, 12:53 Germany's government needs to devise support for the country's energy-intensive industry in 2023 in order to keep it competitive, says Carsten Rolle, who heads the climate and energy division at industry association BDI. ...
09 May 2019, 14:06 S?ren Amelang Gas Storage Technology Forbes Germany’s share of renewable energy continues to rise but the capacity of the national grid is constrained, putting a spotlight on power-to-x technologies to store the renewable energy, ...
15 Dec 2020, 14:17 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Wind Hydrogen Clean ...
15 Dec 2020, 14:14 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 EU ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables dpa / Focus Online Solar power systems and wind turbines in Germany fed 39.3 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity into the public grid from June to August, a 10 percent increase compared to the same ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:34 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal Climate & CO2 91tv German energy company RWE's opencast ...
Bavarian storage manufacturer sonnen will offer a free power flat rate to consumers that install the company’s integrated solar PV and home storage systems, sonnen announced in a press release. The flat rates will be financed with revenues the company ...
09 Jul 2021, 12:25 Expert Leuphana University of Lüneburg Energiewende Business & Jobs Society Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Citizens' energy Renewables pv magazine, ...
Power prices for an average German four-person-household will be about one percent higher in January 2017, compared to the same month last year, according to price comparison website verivox. That would lead to an annual total of 1,111 euros. “Following a ...
The expansion of wind power capacities will slow down significantly in Germany’s coastal state Schleswig-Holstein, writes Matthias Popien in Hamburger Abendblatt. The state government recently announced that 1,300 of the current 3,100 windmills in the ...
29 Mar 2021, 13:54 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Mobility Agriculture Hamburger Abendblatt Germany’s meat consumption needs to be reduced by half in order ...
29 Mar 2021, 13:52 Kerstine Appunn Electricity 91tv German households can expect an overall increase in their energy costs despite reductions in the renewables levy on power prices, comparison website Verivox says. Due to the new CO2 charges ...
09 Oct 2017, 00:00 As Germany digests the result of this year’s federal election, the country prepares for yet another important vote, this time in the state of Lower Saxony. The early election in the country’s number one wind power state is seen as vital ...
A reform of Germany’s system to finance the country’s Energiewende is needed to distribute costs more fairly and push renewable electricity use in heating and transport, writes a cross-sector alliance of associations in a joint statement. In comparison to ...
08 Aug 2019, 14:00 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Freja Eriksen Renewables Utilities 91tv German utility E.ON has reaffirmed largely stable operating earnings of around 3 billion euros for 2019, thanks in ...
Damages discovered at Germany’s Brokdorf nuclear power plant seem to support the theory that nuclear power is not suitable as a bridging technology which could rapidly adapt power generation to the fluctuating supply of renewable electricity, writes ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage 91tv The capacity of pumped storage hydro power stations available to the German energy system is expected to grow by about 1.4 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, with roughly one third of the capacity being ...
25 Mar 2021, 13:58 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany must prepare different ...
22 Jun 2017
Germany’s chancellery chief Peter Altmaier has stressed the need to maintain caps on new offshore wind development in order to incentivize companies to lower the cost of the technology. Limits to the amount of new capacity in the tenders were necessary ...
25 Mar 2019, 13:39 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv A mandatory minimum distance for wind turbines from residential areas would severely ...
18 Apr 2019, 12:20 S?ren Amelang Utilities Reuters German utility RWE expects to spend heavily in the US green energy market as it maps out its future in global renewables after its pending asset swap with peer E.ON, Tom K?ckenhoff, David French, and Vera ...
The German cabinet has paved the way for projects located in other EU countries to take part in national renewable energy auctions, the Federal Ministry for the Economy and Energy (BMWi) has said in a press release. Five percent of annual bidding capacity ...
22 Jun 2021, 13:48 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German government aims to spend some 5.2 billion euros next year in climate protection investments as part of an emergency climate pact that is expected to be approved by ...
Germany will likely miss several of its key energy transition goals, according to leading experts commissioned by the German economy ministry (BMWi) to monitor the progress of the country‘s energy transition. Among the three elements of the government& ...
24 Jul 2019, 14:19 Freja Eriksen Coal Solar 91tv Solar power could “fully substitute” coal-fired power generation in European coal regions in transition, according to a study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. Researchers ...
26 Feb 2024, 15:55 The German government has proposed plans to make carbon capture and storage (CCS) possible to help the country reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045. State support would focus on capturing and storing or using carbon from industrial ...
13 Nov 2020, 15:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Elections & Politics HR / Der Spiegel The dispersal of a protest camp against the construction of a highway in the central German state of Hesse by the police is exposing a deepening rift between climate ...
17 Nov 2020, 15:33 Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Cars 91tv The goal of the German government to get ten million electric cars on the road by 2030 is unrealistic, according to a study conducted by the consulting firm Deloitte. Under the current ...
Switzerland should be careful not to repeat the same mistakes as Germany when preparing for a nuclear phase-out, Christoph Eisenring writes in Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Swiss people voting on 27 November on whether to limit the operating time of the country’s ...
30 Mar 2022, 13:52 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association ...
20 Jan 2020, 12:37 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Electricity market ...
07 Jul 2020, 13:22 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices Green stimulus 91tv German households ...
Apart from questions about political regulation and technological challenges, Germany’s energy transition is a phenomenon that changes the social conditions in many regions across the country, write Tom Morton and Katja Müller in scientific journal Energy ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv People living near onshore wind farms in Germany should be compensated financially, chancellor Angela Merkel has said. At a New Year's event in the eastern coastal state of Mecklenburg ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:01 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs Utilities Reuters German utility E.ON forecast largely stable operating earnings of around three billion euros for 2019 thanks to rising renewables and network profits,? reports ...
04 Mar 2021, 12:29 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Wind Handelsblatt / 91tv German energy ...
03 Mar 2021, 12:20 Expert Ferdinand Dudenh?ffer Professor and Director, Center for Automotive Research (CAR) Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv Germany should double the price for diesel and petrol fuel ...
06 Nov 2020, 14:19 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Green stimulus Handelsblatt Leading figures of Germany's conservative CDU/CSU alliance have called ...
Scientists of the Technical University of Dresden are calling for a “readjustment” of Germany’s energy policy as power prices are turning negative due to the expansion of renewable energy sources and persisting nuclear and fossil power generation capacity ...
09 Jun 2021, 13:23 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas Heating 91tv Germany should immediately increase its national carbon price and better support renewables to initiate the phase-out of fossil gas in buildings heating, said think ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:09 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Renewables 91tv Germany must pay more attention to the impact of renewable power development on habitats and species, the country’s Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) says. ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:01 Expert RNE- German Council for Sustainable Development Rat für nachhaltige Entwicklung Society Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen 91tv Germany’s government and industry should enter into a "hydrogen pact" to make the gas ...
03 May 2018, 00:00 Negotiators from 184 countries gather in the city of Bonn from 30 April to 10 May to work on the implementation of the landmark Paris Agreement, designed to limit global warming to under 2°C. The German government is a longtime ...
15 Oct 2019, 12:24 Expert F?S- Green Budget Germany Forum ?kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables ...
The next German government will have to overhaul the country’s system of energy-related taxes and surcharges in order to allow the next phase of the energy transition, the head of the department for energy policy (heating and efficiency) at the economy ...
23 Feb 2021, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / Dlf Several chip and semiconductor manufacturers have criticised high taxes and levies on electricity as a disadvantage for Germany as an industry location in ...
29 Oct 2020, 13:44 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
German utility E.ON’s first-quarter adjusted earnings before interest and taxes of just over 1 billion euros was around 34?percent below the previous-year figure, in line with the company’s expectations, the company has said in a press release. This was ...
Economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has proposed quickly retiring five gigawatts of lignite power generation capacity with a view to the country’s ongoing talks about a coal phase-out, sources told the Rheinische Post. In addition, he suggested ...
18 Feb 2019, 13:33 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Coal Business & Jobs dpa / Rheinische Post German utility RWE estimates costs of 1.2 billion euros for each gigawatt (GW) of ...
21 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
24 Feb 2021, 12:37 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen Heating 91tv German energy companies Uniper and Siemens Energy have proposed a project to set up a renewable power-based energy plant at the site of ...
18 Dec 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Wind Capital The wind power industry in Germany is facing challenges similar to those the country's solar power companies were having a few years ago and it could wane into insignificance if the current ...
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18 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federation of German Consumer Organisations “Consumers remain paymasters of the Energiewende in 2016” A new survey shows that two thirds of German consumers are sceptical that the government can ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:44 Expert Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Edgar Meza Nuclear phase-out Finance 91tv / Reuters An overwhelming majority of Germans see no place for nuclear power in sustainable investments, according to ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:24 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Freja Eriksen Agriculture 91tv / Der Tagesspiegel Both climate action and adaptation to climate change must be given "higher priority" ...
08 May 2019, 10:26 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
07 Sep 2017, 00:00 Germany must urgently step up its CO2 reduction efforts immediately after the upcoming elections if it wants to prevent a spectacular miss of its 2020 climate targets, according to think tank Agora Energiewende. Instead of reducing ...
Expanding the capacity of renewable energy sources in Germany should be focussed on long-term stabilisation effects on the energy system rather than cutting costs by maximising output, a study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) suggests. ...
17 Aug 2021, 13:29 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv The German transport ministry (BMVI ...
25 May 2021, 13:15 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry Handelsblatt / 91tv ?The German government’s goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2045 has put companies from energy-intensive industries, such as steel, chemicals, paper and cement, ...
Greenpeace Energy and its subsidiary Planet energy aim to support citizens’ wind power projects in their planning phases in light of regulatory changes brought on by the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG). “The new EEG slows down the expansion of ...
12 Feb 2021, 13:57 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Cars 91tv Germany’s parliament ...
15 Oct 2020, 13:56 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices 91tv Prices at electric car charging points in Germany are not ...
18 Jan 2019, 13:33 S?ren Amelang Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Reuters The German government wants to extend beyond 2020 CO2-related compensation for energy-intensive industry, sources close to the coal commission told Reuters. The economy ...
