22 Feb 2019, 13:23 Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv Grid operators TenneT and TransnetBW have presented their detailed plans for the route of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 large north-south electricity line 鈥淪uedLink鈥�, running from windy Schleswig-Holstein down to ...
17 Sep 2024, 13:59 Jack McGovan Industry 91tv / Handelsblatt Germany's steel-producing states and industry associations have called on the federal government to introduce measures for competitive energy prices, to ramp-up the hydrogen ...
08 Sep 2022, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security 91tv / BR Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has reacted with irritation to a German nuclear plant operator鈥檚 objection to his plans for putting two of the remaining ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv The Green Party is calling for major investments in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 infrastructure, energy system, industry and administration to use decarbonisation and the energy transition as an ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Tagesspiegel Background / Bloomberg The first gas flows into the German grid from the new floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven are expected on 22 December, newspaper ...
18 Dec 2024, 10:13 Italy is considering a return to nuclear power as part of its strategy to achieve carbon neutrality and increase energy independence. The debate has reignited political tensions over the issue, with proponents arguing that nuclear ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Grid 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
20 Sep 2018, 18:33 Energy minister Peter Altmaier has announced new plans to accelerate the expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grid, which is behind schedule but vital to the growth of renewable power production. The majority of new connections could be ...
25 Jan 2023, 13:10 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Several environmental NGOs call on the German government to align the more rapid buildout of renewable energy with protecting and expanding 鈥� green infrastructure 鈥� such as natural wetlands ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid WirtschaftsWoche / Economy & Energy Ministry German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said the government will raise the compensation payments for land owners who provide their property for the ...
23 Dec 2020, 13:43 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Kerstine Appunn Grid Storage Cars ...
14 Aug 2018, 14:31 Technical fixes, better communication and smoother planning procedures are to accelerate 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid expansion, the energy minister has proposed in a new plan. Heading off on a visit to contested power line building sites in western ...
12 Jun 2024, 13:25 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Policy 91tv There is a gap of 41 billion euro in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 public sector budgets over the next five years for investments and funding programmes dedicated to greening the economy, the country ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:15 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Grid Renewables Hydrogen Policy 91tv The separate planning procedures for electricity, gas, and hydrogen infrastructure must be combined to pave the way towards a low-carbon economy, ...
03 Jul 2024, 13:25 Jack McGovan Solar 91tv / PV Magazine There are too few installations of solar panels on the roofs of apartment buildings across Germany, making rental homes an underutilised source for renewable energy generation, ...
10 Aug 2023, 13:11 S枚ren Amelang Wind Elections & Politics dpa A fifth of all mayors in Bavaria have called on the regional government to speed up the construction of wind turbines in the state,聽newswire dpa reported. In a cross-party appeal, 432 ...
19 Jan 2021, 12:18 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert bne- Association of Energy ...
21 Dec 2021, 13:27 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Grid Utilities ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:12 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Nuclear phase-out pv magazine / Clean ...
11 Sep 2024, 13:00 German industry association BDI has said that the country鈥檚 industrial success in the future depends on businesses doing well on green technologies such as modern power grids, wind energy, green hydrogen production, electric mobility, ...
26 Jun 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are well positioned to play a key role in a future global hydrogen economy- but must strengthen cooperation on infrastructure projects, said ...
14 Dec 2020, 11:13 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid expansion is making headway 鈥� despite the Covid19 pandemic 鈥� but the power market is in need of a thorough overhaul if the country is to pursue its ambitious electrification targets while keeping up high levels of supply ...
21 Mar 2025, 15:30 French prime minister Francois Bayrou may have fended off a vote of no-confidence in parliament for the adoption of the 2025 finance bill, but the nation still has a long way to go to recover from the political turmoil brought by last ...
12 Apr 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government ARD / ntv / Funke Mediengruppe Only days before nuclear power production is set to end in Germany on 15 April, the government coalition party Free Democrats (FDP) has suggested to mothball ...
02 Sep 2022, 12:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Handelsblatt The grid 鈥渟tress test鈥� conducted by Germany's power transmission grid operators suggests that letting two of the remaining three nuclear plants in the country run longer than planned ...
14 May 2019, 13:33 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Grid Renewables 91tv The cost of stabilising the ...
29 Jan 2025, 11:18 As Germans prepare to head to the polls for the 23 February snap election, the weakness of the country鈥檚 large industrial base has become a campaign focus. Some opposition policymakers blame exaggerated climate policies for the troubles ...
07 Aug 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind International n-tv / Bloomberg / 91tv A new offshore wind power project in the German North Sea is causing a stir in the European wind power industry, as the project will be the first of its kind to ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:05 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices 91tv More than half of German companies say that the energy transition has negative effects on their competitiveness, shows the energy transition barometer survey by the German Chamber ...
21 Jan 2020, 13:21 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Germany's four ...
27 Feb 2025, 13:51 The European Commission unveiled a series of plans to make the bloc's industry more competitive, reduce energy costs and cut red tape. Germany's industry associations called the proposals an important first step in the right ...
09 Aug 2019, 13:54 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Grid Renewables Wind Costs for maintaining a ...
07 Apr 2022, 11:20 Germany wants to fight the climate crisis and its heavy dependence on fossil fuel imports by speeding up the rollout of renewables with a massive overhaul of key energy legislation. In the 鈥渂iggest energy policy reform in decades,鈥� the ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:22 S枚ren Amelang Adaptation Renewables Changing weather patterns will boost the role of hydropower in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, Bavarian industry associations聽 have said. 鈥淒ue to increasingly rainy winter months, [we] expect an increase ...
11 Aug 2020, 11:40 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator ...
10 Jul 2019, 12:56 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche ...
16 May 2019, 14:02 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables 91tv A new law that is aimed at ...
28 Mar 2023, 11:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv The governments of Germany and the Netherlands have agreed on closer cooperation to connect their respective hydrogen pipeline networks in the future, they said in a joint statement. 鈥淲e ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen 91tv Domestic production of green hydrogen should play a much bigger role in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plans to scale-up the hydrogen economy, which is currently based on a more often inefficient and costly ...
14 Jul 2021, 13:05 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal 91tv Germany's ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:17 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Rachel Waldholz Grid Renewables reNews / Handelsblatt The German grid operator 50Hertz reported delivering a record 60 terawatt hours of renewable electricity ...
17 Oct 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Cities 91tv Relevant stakeholders at a parliamentary hearing on 16 October called for more financial resources and less bureaucracy for the decarbonisation of聽Germany's heating grids. The ...
01 Apr 2021, 13:55 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Coal 91tv Two German hard coal power stations and ...
19 Jul 2019, 13:52 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Security BNetzA / Handelsblatt The German Federal Network ...
10 Nov 2020, 14:09 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Edgar Meza Electricity market Grid 91tv German and Belgian transmission system operators Amprion and Elia Group have completed the first direct current ...
25 May 2020, 12:40 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale ...
24 Mar 2025, 11:00 Geopolitical disruption through events like Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine or a new transatlantic rift can speed up the rapid build-up of renewable energies, says Francesco La Camera, director-general of the International Renewable Energy ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said his government would pave the way for prolonging the runtime of all three of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 remaining reactors until April 2023. The German leader thus intervened to settle a dispute about the delayed end of ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:49 Edgar Meza Society EU 91tv People in Germany would like to see more European cooperation in energy and climate policy, according to a survey conducted by market research institute Prolytics on behalf of the German ...
07 Mar 2025, 15:00 Winter may finally be on the way out but Italy is still grappling with high electricity prices, with average wholesale prices in February among the highest in Europe. Under increasing pressure to halt further rises, the government ...
19 Jul 2024, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The number of operational onshore wind turbines installed in Germany has shrunk in the first six months of 2024, when 250 new installations were added while 280 older ones were taken ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:00 S枚ren Amelang Grid Renewables Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal states have decided on a joint approach in climate policy, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. State premiers agreed to push ahead with the ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:30 Burning less coal and an increase in renewable electricity has helped cause a drop in greenhouse gas emissions of three percent in Germany last year, said think tank Agora Energiewende. Preliminary calculations show that real ...
02 Aug 2022, 13:05 German consumers are swarming to shops to buy electric heaters as fears of a true gas shortage caused by Russia's war on Ukraine rise, but experts warn this could pose problems for power supply security. The majority of heating and ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:18 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine ...
07 Sep 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out n-tv The German Green Party has rejected criticism from the conservative CDU/CSU opposition alliance over economy and climate minister Robert Habeck鈥檚 decision to put two of the country鈥檚 remaining ...
24 Jun 2022, 13:25 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Kerstine Appunn Grid Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The German ...
02 May 2023, 13:34 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Jessica Bateman Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background An analysis of solar power ...
02 May 2024, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Solar 91tv Almost a third of Germany's residents are planning to install 鈥� or have already installed聽鈥� a small plug-in solar photovoltaic (PV) unit, often known as a balcony ...
26 Nov 2019, 13:04 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Expert TenneT Grid operator ...
25 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Grid Rheinische Post German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has called for faster progress on updating the country鈥檚 energy grids as this was essential to a coal-free energy system. In an interview with the ...
06 May 2020, 13:29 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Grid Renewables 91tv Germany's electricity supply can remain secure until 2050 as renewable energy installations and decentralised units such as storages will be able to contribute ...
03 Apr 2020, 13:50 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Grid Storage 91tv A German data centre will for the first time be able to help ensure grid stability, says energy company RWE. Data centres ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities Der Spiegel District heating could help to decarbonise up to 20 million of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 roughly 43 million households, if the government introduced the right subsidies and framework conditions, the industry ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:01 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Grid 91tv The German power grid ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy ministry and the operators of two of the country鈥檚 three remaining nuclear plants have agreed on a concept for keeping them in an emergency reserve beyond ...
23 Jul 2019, 13:52 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices 91tv A German court has ruled to revoke the so-called mixed-price system used to set prices on the energy balancing market. The Higher Regional Court of D眉sseldorf鈥檚 decision follows a ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:23 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Electricity Renewables 91tv ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:53 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit盲t zu K枚ln Electricity market Business & ...
21 May 2024, 14:05 Jack McGovan Renewables Government 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background A law reform agreed by lawmakers from Germany's government coalition would speed up approval processes around the planning and construction of new ...
12 Feb 2019, 13:01 S枚ren Amelang Grid Storage Spiegel Online German grid operators plan to build three gigantic batteries with combined discharge capacity of 900 megawatts (MW) to relieve grid congestion from 2025, Manuel Berkel reports for Spiegel Online ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv All six eastern German states have set up a joint initiative on renewables-based hydrogen. It is intended to closely connect politics, business and science on the fuel "in order to fully ...
11 May 2020, 13:46 Freja Eriksen Electricity market Grid Tagesspiegel Background Germany's single power price zone could come under threat as the coronavirus has practically slowed power grid expansion to a standstill, reports Steven Hanke in the ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology 91tv A new research project aimed at solving one of the major technological difficulties of the energy transition is seeking to use the energy from wind turbines' moving rotors and ...
28 Jan 2021, 13:59 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, ...
02 Apr 2019, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind Handelsblatt The regions singled out by the government to slow wind power expansion because of lacking grid capacities do not match the areas where a curtailment is needed most, according to grid operators, ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:43 Milou Dirkx Wind Cost & Prices FAZ New offshore wind farms could give an economic boost to German shipyards, but shipbuilding companies say they might not be able to finance the necessary investments without support, Frankfurter ...
05 Feb 2024, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU 91tv The European Union could achieve an ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target of 90 percent by 2040, compared to 1990, but the bloc must "consistently" implement the ...
25 Oct 2022, 14:03 Kiprotich Koros Digitalisation 91tv A successful transition to renewables will only be achieved if there is a comprehensive digitalisation of the whole energy sector, a report by research institute Fraunhofer IEE has ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables dpa / Welt Online Several German states and the federal government have reached an agreement on key aspects of the country鈥檚 much-needed transmission grid expansion, news agency dpa reports in an ...
14 May 2020, 14:03 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen 91tv Germany can establish an initial grid for transporting green hydrogen made with renewables by 2030 at limited costs, according to the country's gas transmission grid operator umbrella ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:22 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Grid Cars Spiegel Online The roll-out of electric vehicles in Germany could lead to grid overload in ...
08 Apr 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Renewables 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ministries for the economy, the environment and construction have released a draft for translating the EU鈥檚 renewable energy directive (RED) into German law to speed up the roll-out of ...
30 May 2024, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv Germany's cabinet has agreed to give hydrogen infrastructure planning and approval priority to drive the rapid development and expansion of its production, storage and supply. The draft ...
05 Aug 2019, 13:09 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Wind Frankfurter Rundschau Sluggish power grid expansion ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Residents in eastern German states are generally critical of the federal government鈥檚 energy and climate policies, while at the same time endorsing measures to reduce ...
07 Jan 2019, 13:02 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Grid The German Green Party has called for an adjusted grid expansion plan in Germany that accounts for a drastically reduced coal power capacity as well as the foreseeable progress in ...
14 Feb 2024, 14:03 Ruby Russel Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv The Bavarian Industry Association vbw's energy price index fell by nearly 30 percent in 2023, but the group says companies are still suffering from high energy ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:28 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Grid Cost & Prices 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Court of Justice has forced the country鈥檚 grid agency (BNetzA) to further reduce transparency on grid fees. Following a ruling by the court, ...
25 Apr 2023, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 district heating networks should be planned more efficiently in the long term and operators need better financial incentives to convert the infrastructure, so that the technology can ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:01 Expert Vattenfall Energy company Electricity market Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Grid 91tv The Moorburg coal plant in Hamburg will be taken offline completely in July 2021, after Germany's four grid operators ...
07 Feb 2019, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Storage 91tv The batteries of electric cars can make a significant contribution to keeping the power grid stable as power generation shifts towards intermittent renewable energy sources, carmaker ...
31 May 2023, 13:24 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Bioenergy Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv ...
20 Jun 2022, 12:23 Edgar Meza Wind Security Der Spiegel Growing tensions between the West and China are leading to increasing concern over the role of Chinese companies in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy sector, particularly in the wind power segment, Spiegel reports. A ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:47 Jack McGovan Solar Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most recent push to boost the rollout of solar photovoltaics (PV) in the country, which is set to be agreed upon in parliament on Friday (26 April), could result in ...
13 Jun 2024, 13:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating 91tv / Klimareporter Supplying households with green hydrogen for heating should not play a major role in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heating sector decarbonisation because of huge planning and implementation ...
01 Feb 2022, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Jessica Bateman Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Wind pv magazine / Die Welt The total ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Coal dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Seven lignite-fired power plant units with a combined capacity of 3.1 gigawatt will finally be shut down in Germany at the end of March, after their decommissioning had been postponed due ...
02 Jul 2019, 17:48 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grid was strained at several moments in June because too little electricity was fed into the system, according to the four power transmission grid operators (TSO). Power market experts said the reason for the 鈥渧ery tense ...
22 Dec 2023, 15:00 The German government has to fund a wide range of its ambitious climate and energy transition projects for 2024 with considerably less money than initially planned. A ruling by the country's highest court on the constitutionally ...
01 Aug 2022, 13:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security dpa / Zeit Online The first retired hard coal ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:44 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv The International Energy Agency鈥檚 (IEA) latest report on renewable ...
25 Sep 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv Propelled by a rapid transformation in the heating sector, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 demand for natural gas looks set to plummet by one third by 2030 and by another third in the following decade, consultancy ...
10 Feb 2022, 14:06 Jessica Bateman Wind Die Zeit The northernmost German state of Schleswig-Holstein has announced it wants to help push forward the energy transition by building artificial power islands in the North Sea, newspaper Die Zeit reported. ...
20 Jul 2022, 12:58 S枚ren Amelang Gas 91tv Germany will use a fifth floating liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal in its drive to wean itself off Russian gas imports at a pace 鈥渘ever seen before鈥� in the country. A private consortium will ...
23 Aug 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv / Rheinische Post Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called the sluggish rollout of wind power in the south of the country "depressing" and warned that the three southern states 鈥� Hesse, Baden ...
17 Apr 2024, 12:48 Jennifer Collins Fossil fuels Gas 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany covered just 6 percent of its natural gas and 2 percent of oil demand with domestic supplies in 2023 as production continues to sink, according to an ...
05 Apr 2019, 12:40 New legislation passed yesterday by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal parliament is to ensure the timely completion of crucial power grid connections that transport renewable electricity throughout the country. This law will bring the energy transition ...
03 Jun 2024, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices n-tv / 91tv Germany will achieve its target of achieving a share of 80 percent renewable energy in its electricity use by 2030, according to chancellor Olaf Scholz. Speaking at ...
01 Sep 2021, 13:34 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Grid Renewables 91tv Citing the ...
05 Jul 2024, 15:07 Months of negotiations among the parties in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 governing coalition about the country鈥檚 2025 budget have ushered in 鈥渞ecord investments鈥� into renewable power, industrial decarbonisation, electric mobility and a faster transition ...
01 Apr 2021, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Grid 91tv The conversion of large parts of the German gas infrastructure to reflect changing supply is well underway, the country鈥檚 gas grid operators write in their implementation report for the ...
09 Oct 2019, 10:42 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Next Kraftwerke Operator of virtual power plant & Power trader ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:25 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Grid Renewables ...
04 May 2021, 12:10 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Cars Cost & Prices 91tv The expansion of electric mobility in Germany could lead to lower household electricity prices, said Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures ...
20 Aug 2021, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Grid Industry dpa / Reuters / Tagesspiegel SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz is aiming for a new law to ensure industry has enough renewable electricity to decarbonise over the coming decades, ...
29 Sep 2022, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government 91tv The Free Democrats (FDP) in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government coalition have criticised the decision by Green Party economy and climate minister Robert Habeck to transfer two of the ...
27 May 2019, 13:46 Rose-Anne Clermont Grid Renewables n-tv Federal economy minister Peter Altmaier of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) met with the heads of departments of all 16 German federal states in Hanover on 24 May to discuss how to better ...
02 May 2024, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Renewable energy capacity has increased rapidly in Germany in the past year, but the expansion must be accelerated further for the country to meet its target of sourcing ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:15 Next year will be a difficult one for climate policy, says Susanne Dr枚ge, head of climate protection and energy at the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Governments will have to show whether they are still committed to strong climate ...
20 Jan 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Wind 91tv A new area development plan for the expansion of offshore wind energy is a key step in helping Germany come closer to its target of installing at least 30 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, the economy and ...
07 Mar 2023, 12:26 Carolina Kyllmann Utilities 91tv Municipal utilities are at the forefront of implementing the energy transition and should 鈥渋nvest in the green future of their business,鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chancellor Olaf Scholz said at the annual ...
18 Jun 2021, 13:07 Edgar Meza Grid Solar Spiegel, rbb As expected, the Berlin House of Representatives has passed a law making solar photovoltaic (PV) systems mandatory on residential and non-residential buildings in the city, Spiegel writes. The Berlin ...
07 Jul 2022, 14:21 Germany's ruling parties have dropped the target of 鈥渘ear 100 percent renewables鈥� in the power grid by 2035 but agreed on more favourable conditions for solar PV and strict wind power expansion targets for laggard states in their ...
10 Jan 2025, 09:59 Croatian citizens ended 2024 with a first round of presidential elections, marking the finale of a super election year. In terms of the climate, it was yet another year of above-average warmth, accompanied by numerous extreme weather ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:29 Future nuclear fusion power plants will not be able to complement wind and solar electricity production because they will likely need to run around the clock for economic and technical reasons, a German parliamentary report concludes. ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:26 Edgar Meza Electricity Solar 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has simplified the registration of plug-in balcony solar photovoltaic (PV) units or 'balcony power plants' as of 1 April. "People ...
19 Mar 2024, 13:58 The global growth of renewable power sources is an encouraging trend for climate action but needs to be better coordinated to ensure international targets are met, according to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and foreign affairs ministers. ...
27 Jun 2019, 12:30 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices ...
05 Aug 2022, 11:34 With natural gas deliveries from Russia dwindling, the German government is preparing for a winter without sufficient supplies of the fossil fuel it relies on heavily for heating homes. As well as increasing the import of liquified gas ...
The costs for power grid stabilising measures rose to a record 1.4 billion euros in 2017 (880 million euros in 2016), says the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in its report on grid and system security measures. This was due to lagging grid expansion, a ...
25 Jan 2021, 12:35 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Grid Cars Tagesspiegel Background German energy company EnBW has said that planned legislation to support the expansion of e ...
12 Dec 2018, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Grid Renewables Augsburger Allgemeine 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity consumers paid 228 million euros in the first three months of 2018 in compensation to renewable energy operators because their power ...
02 Jul 2024, 13:42 Ruby Russel Heating 91tv Industry groups have criticised recommendations by Germany's Monopolies Commission to keep the consumer cost of district heating in check 鈥� claiming the proposed measures would actually ...
16 Nov 2022, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Handelsblatt German chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) plans to streamline planning and approval procedures for faster construction of wind turbines, rail projects and even houses, newspaper Handelsblatt聽 reports. The ...
28 Feb 2024, 12:30 Jennifer Collins Wind Business & Jobs Die Welt The management board of Siemens Energy faced down displeased shareholders looking for answers to spiralling losses from wind turbine subsidiary Siemens Gamesa at the group's annual ...
02 Nov 2016, 00:00 German power consumers will have to shoulder grid fee rebates for energy-intensive industry in excess of 1 billion euros next year, sparking renewed calls for reform of the system to pay for keeping the grid stable as renewable power ...
11 Dec 2024, 13:10 Importing green hydrogen via ships is not a viable strategy for the decarbonisation of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 steel and chemical industries, the country鈥檚 government-funded Ariadne energy transition research alliance聽 has warned. These sectors ...
19 Jul 2021, 13:35 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Germany should refurbish its ...
The German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) says the ruling by a German court blocking a significant decrease in grid operators' guaranteed returns will boost necessary infrastructure investments. 鈥淭he聽 rate determined by the Federal ...
16 May 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann EU Table.Media Members of parliament from France and Germany have called for intensifying efforts to create a more coherent energy policy together with Poland, Table.Media reported. The three major EU member states ...
11 Oct 2019, 14:13 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables 91tv The average duration of ...
21 Feb 2024, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Cost & Prices 91tv Germany will provide up to 3.53 billion euros in the period 2027 to 2036 to procure hydrogen and hydrogen-based derivatives from different regions, said the economy ministry ...
10 Jul 2019, 12:53 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kennedy Nyavaya Grid Wind 91tv Several European grid operators have proposed to build at least ten artificial 鈥渆nergy islands鈥� as wind power hubs in the North ...
15 Dec 2023, 13:16 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv In its latest auction for onshore wind turbines, Germany failed to secure enough investment deals to ensure the rollout of the technology proceeds with sufficient speed to reach renewable ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen 91tv Four years after the launch of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national hydrogen strategy, the buildout of hydrogen infrastructure is behind schedule and could run into serious trouble that scares away ...
04 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas EU 91tv The European Union can cut its fossil gas use in half by 2030 and fully exit the fuel by 2050聽while maintaining supply security and industrial production at today鈥檚 levels without disruptive ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Government 91tv The German government鈥檚聽 new building energy legislation 聽to phase out the use of fossil fuel heating systems has generated mixed reactions from industry associations and ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has released its 2030 grid development scenarios, including a 鈥渟ubstantially altered鈥� scenario based on a 65 percent share of renewables in the power mix, and on the additional auctions for wind and solar power promised ...
A decision by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) to cap grid operators鈥� profits has led to a 鈥渞evolt鈥� in the industry, Michael Gassmann writes for Die Welt. Over 1,000 companies, including many municipal utilities, have filed a complaint against ...
10 May 2024, 15:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Society rbb / Die Welt Activists protesting against the expansion of the Tesla factory in Gr眉nheide have tried to enter the factory's premises, leading to clashes with police and arrests made on the US ...
27 Feb 2015, 00:00 Amidst political tussle over new power lines crossing Germany from north to south, which many see as one of the next big steps in the country's energy transition, the grid agency in charge has called the power highways in question ...
Power transmission grid operators Amprion, TenneT and Transnet-BW are planning to increase grid fees by between 9 and 45 percent, Andreas Mihm聽writes聽for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Grid expansion and measures to stabilise the grid 鈥� such as re ...
The need for, and costs of, power grid stabilising measures grew to a record high in 2017 for transmission grid operator TenneT, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. According to preliminary data, TenneT said it ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:55 Edgar Meza Julian Wettengel Bioenergy Renewables Wind 91tv Recent tenders for onshore wind, biomass and biomethane plants in Germany attracted fewer bidders than expected, leaving all three rounds clearly undersubscribed, ...
15 Feb 2019, 11:34 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Electricity market Gas Grid Tennet / Gasunie Gas and electricity grid infrastructures need to be much better aligned to guarantee the ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Hydrogen trade with the EU could play an important role in rebuilding the economy and energy infrastructure of Ukraine, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government-appointed National Hydrogen Council has said. ...
05 Oct 2022, 13:48 Carolina Kyllmann Coal dpa The premier of eastern German lignite mining state Saxony-Anhalt has said his state will not follow an聽 agreement 聽on an early coal phase-out made in the heavy industry state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in ...
15 Dec 2021, 12:09 S枚ren Amelang Coal 91tv A large hard coal power station and two small-scale combined heat and power plants in Germany are set to stop selling electricity by May 2023 as part of the country's coal exit. In the fourth ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:43 Charlotte Nijhuis Nuclear phase-out Renewables Focus Online The shutdown of the last nuclear power plant in Schleswig-Holstein will boost wind power in the northern German state, its environment minister Jan Philipp Albrecht (Greens) ...
07 Apr 2022, 13:51 Expert Energy Brainpool Energy consultancy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv Letting existing nuclear plants run longer will lead to large amounts of renewable energy ...
24 Feb 2023, 13:03 Expert VDE- Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies Verband der Elektrotechnik Informationstechnik e.V. Technology Carolina Kyllmann Solar Handelsblatt / 91tv The installation of plug-in ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:36 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin ...
16 Aug 2023, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
15 Apr 2021, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Wind Seven European transmission grid operators (TSO) have launched an initiative for interconnecting offshore wind platforms across Europe. The aim of 鈥淓urobar鈥� is to securely and efficiently ...
04 Feb 2015, 00:00 The debate over grid extensions to balance over-supply of wind power in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 north with high demand in the south continues as the consulting process in Bavaria fails to yield a concrete decision on their necessity. Grid The ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices dpa / n-tv / 91tv Falling wholesale power prices have torn a hole in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 financing of renewable energy sources, whose operators receive state support if revenues from ...
German transmission grid operators say fears about an overstraining of the grid due to an increased use of e-cars and heat pumps are unfounded, Dow Jones Newswires Germany reports. Utility associations in southern Germany recently warned that the nuclear ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:44 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs ...
Germany is running the risk of investing too much money in grid extensions, according to grid operator Tennet. Company CEO Lex Hartman warned of stranded assets because artificial intelligence would play an increasingly important role for the power grid, ...
The winter power capacity reserve, designed to keep the grid stable in critical situations, will be reduced by one third for 2018/2019 compared to previous winters, the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) announced. The capacity of power plants in ...
Green Party energy expert Ingrid Nestle says renewable power plants are not responsible for record grid management costs, which according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) amounted to 1.4 billion euros in 2017. 鈥淚 warn against making renewables a ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:02 S枚ren Amelang Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal government, several of its states and grid operators have agreed on how to implement the country鈥檚 more ambitious targets for the expansion of offshore wind turbines. With the ...
Transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT will raise grid fees by 9 percent at the turn of the year, executive board member Urban Keussen told Klaus Stratmann for the Handelsblatt. The rise is due to costs from measures to stabilise the power grid, such as ...
German energy minister Peter Altmaier is 鈥済oing all out鈥� with his new 鈥淧ower Grid Action Plan鈥� to make the country鈥檚 grid fit for the growing volume of renewable energy sources 鈥� and rightfully so, because grid expansion has become the decisive bottleneck ...
30 May 2024, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Cars 91tv / n-tv Large petrol station companies will need to offer at least one fast charging point for electric vehicles from 2028, according to a draft law agreed by Germany's government ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:31 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Renewables Storage 91tv Germans ...
20 Dec 2023, 09:05 Europe has no time to lose in formulating its renewed emissions reduction ambitions after the results of next June鈥檚 European Parliament elections become known, says Simone Peter from the German Renewable Energy Federation. A 鈥淔it-for ...
19 Jun 2024, 11:51 One week after the shock results for East Germany in the European elections, where populist parties made strong gains while the government coalition parties took a beating, chancellor Olaf Scholz met with state leaders from the East to ...
German power grid operator Amprion and its Belgian counterpart Elia have started building the first power grid connection between the two countries, according to an article by German newswire dpa carried by business weekly Wirtschaftswoche. Amprion said ...
Chinese grid company SGCC鈥檚 plan to acquire 20 percent share in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid operator 50Hertz worries German politicians and could refuel the debate on establishing a state-run transmission grid company, reports the Handelsblatt. It was a ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:44 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Energiewende Government WirtschaftsWoche / BMWi The Green Party鈥檚 energy minister in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Franz Untersteller, has lamented a 鈥渟tandstill of federal energy policy鈥� ahead of a meeting ...
A 300-kilometre power cable under the Baltic Sea will transport excess German wind power to Swedish hydropower plants, according to plans by German grid operator 50Hertz and Swedish company Svenska kraftn盲t, Andre Wornowski reports for regional newspaper ...
12 Mar 2019, 14:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Grid International Tagesspiegel In order to achieve the best possible climate action in ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:24 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Bioenergy Cost & Prices 91tv The latest ...
22 Aug 2022, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out dpa / Zeit Online Extending the runtime of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three remaining nuclear power plants will do very little to help the country weather the looming gas supply crisis, economy and climate minister ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ruling conservative CDU party says its coalition partner Social Democrats (SPD) have to acknowledge that the expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable energy capacity will be more difficult than initially thought, Focus Online reports. So far, the SPD ...
29 Nov 2024, 13:45 The collapsed coalition of chancellor Olaf Scholz achieved a few important breakthroughs for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition that should not be sacrificed for point-scoring in election campaigns, says Wolfram Axthelm from the Renewable ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:46 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Wind Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 distribution grid operators are calling for a legal reform to limit the transmission grid operators鈥� (TSO) powers to intervene in distribution聽grids, Klaus Stratmann writes for Handelsblatt. An increasingly decentralised power supply due to the ...
The German power grid will need more backup power plants to safeguard the system against blackouts during the next winter, the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) said in a press release. 鈥淲e still need backup capacities to stabilise the grid in critical ...
Under a ruling by a regional court in Germany in favour of the country鈥檚 grid operators, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) cannot聽 cut the guaranteed rate of return 聽on power and natural gas grids, meaning that customers鈥� hopes for lower power prices ...
05 Jan 2024, 11:47 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 installed renewable power production capacity has increased by about 17 gigawatt in 2023 (to some 170 GW total), figures released by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) ...
Around 70 partners, including grid operators, power producers, consumers, and traders in eastern Germany, have launched a trial to find cheap and efficient ways of resolving costly grid congestion on windy days, for example by using demand flexibility, ...
Germany does not have a power supply security issue, but its grid stability may be at risk in the long run, Jochen Homann, president of the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) told Deutschlandfunk in an interview. The country currently has sufficient power ...
The energy transition will mainly play out in power grids in the years to come, according to E.ON CEO Johannes Teyssen. In an interview with the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, he said grids were his company鈥檚 most important business, which also ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:25 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Storage 91tv The total power storage capacity ...
The planners of future grid extensions in Germany must pay more attention to new technologies, according to grid operator Tennet. The company鈥檚 CEO, Lex Hartmann, said that the increasing digitalisation of power grids could replace the construction of ...
02 May 2017, 00:00 A German pilot project will hook up thousands of household batteries to balance out intermittent renewable power production. Grid operator Tennet and solar battery maker Sonnen said they will use blockchain technology to build a network ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:12 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables 91tv More than 55 percent of power consumed last year in the area of north-eastern Germany covered by grid ...
02 Jun 2021, 10:44 After 20 years, many pioneer clean energy projects are losing their guaranteed feed-in tariff, with possible repercussions for citizen involvement in the energy transition. In the solar sector, this change is mainly affecting households ...
27 Jul 2022, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Nuclear phase-out 91tv / RTL Germany should rethink its approach towards domestic fossil fuels and nuclear energy as prices rise and the country is facing potential shortages, fuelled by the ...
Chinese grid operator SGCC is again trying to obtain a 20 percent share in German transmission network operator 50Hertz, Klaus Stratmann reports for the business daily Handelsblatt. In March 2018, SGCC failed to buy a 20 percent stake in 50Hertz, when ...
14 May 2024, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Finance 91tv Germany should invest an additional 213 billion euros compared to current budget plans over the next ten years in public services and infrastructure to decarbonise its economy ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission network operators have raised their prices, which leads to higher grid fees payable by consumers with their power price, reports Andreas Macho for the WirtschaftsWoche. Eastern German grid operators rose fees by up to 80 percent, ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Grid International Enerdata The European Commission has asked transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT to increase the electricity trading capacity between western Denmark and Germany and to ensure ...
25 Mar 2021, 14:02 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv With the aim to scale hydrogen technology and ensure its integration in the energy market, a new project partnership in northern Germany will invest 1.3 million euros to create a 鈥淐lean ...
Western German grid operator Amprion鈥檚 decision to raise power grid fees by about 45 percent in 2018 is in large part due to French supply issues this past winter, reports Andreas Macho in WirtschaftsWoche. Amprion was forced to frequently employ grid ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Solar ARD / Tagesspiegel Background The head of Germany's treasury, finance minister Christian Lindner, has reiterated his opposition to more state support for Germany's domestic solar industry. In an ...
Fast decisions on climate targets, renewable growth and fossil fuel phase-out are required to plan the future German grid system, a study by the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) within a project funded by the Ministry for Education and ...
24 Feb 2025, 13:57 Conservative CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz wants to enter coalition talks with the Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz, after the German elections鈥� result has paved the way for the two parties to form a government ...
24 Feb 2025, 11:00 German businesses, researchers and civil society have called for speedy coalition negotiations following the country's snap elections on 23 February. Planning security and clarity are essential in view of the stagnating economy and ...
Managing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grids is becoming increasingly expensive, Klaus Stratmann writes in Handelsblatt. There has been a 鈥渕assive increase鈥� in so-called 鈥渞e-dispatch鈥� measures, where power plants are started or shut down to keep the grid stable, ...
It could be cheaper to connect future German North Sea wind parks to the Dutch power grid rather than running the cables to, and through, Germany, Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT suggests in its half-year report published on Wednesday. ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Digitalisation Security Digitalisation offers an opportunity to make power grids more resilient during transition to renewable power sources but may also make the energy system more vulnerable, 聽researchers of the tech ...
As renewable energy facilities supply a growing share of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity, the power grid is struggling to cope with their fluctuating output, Peter Ilg writes for Zeit Online. On very sunny or windy days, too much electricity surges into the network ...
10 Oct 2019, 13:57 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices 91tv / Montel News Transmission system operators (TSO) in Germany are considering splitting the country's single power market bidding zone into different zones as the first step of ...
04 Sep 2020, 16:24 Swedish utility Vattenfall wants to shut down its youngest and most efficient coal-fired power plant in Germany because it is unprofitable. After participating in the first hard coal phase-out tender, CEO Magnus Hall said that if his ...
02 Feb 2021, 13:40 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities A group of local utilities in Germany will double ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU dpa / Focus Online A new pipeline connecting Spain with France and the northern European grid could be finished within a year, the head of Spanish gas grid operator Enagas, Arturo Gonzalo Aizpiri, told news ...
04 Dec 2020, 13:29 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Cost & Prices Utilities Digitalisation WirtschaftsWoche Energy company E.ON is teaming up with software company SAP to digitalise its power grid ...
The Free Voters, new coalition partners in Bavaria, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 southern economic powerhouse state, reject important grid expansion plans that are meant to improve the distribution of electricity from renewable power sources across the country, Claudia ...
Grid fees will be aligned across Germany despite economy minister Sigmar Gabriel鈥檚 recent backtracking on such plans, Reuters reports citing government sources. Responding to pressure from eastern German federal states the government is working on a bill ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The German government has said it will carry out a second assessment of the benefits of extending the runtime of the country鈥檚 remaining nuclear plants beyond their ...
The costs for so called re-dispatch measures, necessary to keep the power grid stable in times of high power input and lacking grid capacities, have increased to 402.5 million euros in 2015 compared to 185.4 million euros in 2014, the Federal Network ...
On a visit to communities affected by new grid development, German energy minister Peter Altmaier said the transition to an energy system based largely on renewables was a project for the whole community that couldn't be implemented by going over ...
13 Mar 2024, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities 91tv / rbb Construction of one of the largest heat pumps in Europe has started in Berlin in a bid to bring the German capital closer to its goal of decarbonising its heating system. The heat ...
14 Jul 2022, 12:52 Jessica Bateman Gas Security RND Germany's public is yet to experience the full impact of rising gas prices as bills could 鈥渢riple鈥� from 2023, Klaus M眉ller, the president of the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), has warned in ...
The planning procedures for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission power grid expansion, including the two large direct-current power lines between the North and South of the country (SuedLink and SuedOstLink), have seen 鈥渄istinct progress鈥� in 2017, the Federal Network ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:06 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
11 Aug 2022, 14:08 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Utilities Tagesspiegel Background Energy company E.ON has said it is 鈥渙pen to discussions鈥� about a possible runtime extension of its ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Solar Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Transmission grid operator Tennet has certified the solar power home battery producer Sonnen to become a control energy provider for the German power grid, ...
12 Nov 2020, 14:21 Expert Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe Expert agency for renewable raw materials Bioenergy Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Business & Jobs Kerstine ...
08 Aug 2022, 12:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv The southern German state of Bavaria continues to lead the field in solar power expansion in the country, increasing its capacity by more than 1 gigawatt (GW) in the first half of 2022 alone. ...
28 Jul 2020, 12:23 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Edgar Meza Wind 91tv Dutch transmission grid operator聽TenneT recorded a more than 21 percent increase in offshore wind energy transmission from the North Sea to ...
German households will have to pay 30 euros more per year for electricity as grid operator TenneT plans to raise its grid fees by 80 percent in the new year, writes Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. 鈥淭he main reason for this increase is that the grid ...
The German government has used a 鈥渃unning trick鈥� by making the state-owned business development bank KfW acquire a stake in grid operator 50Hertz that had been eyed by Chinese power company SGCC, Andreas Mihm writes in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter ...
04 Jan 2021, 12:49 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian ...
Grid operator Amprion鈥檚 statement that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grid was at its limits last winter shows that the energy transition is not on track, because supply security was endangered, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
15 Feb 2023, 13:02 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt The expansion targets for renewable power in ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Rachel Waldholz Coal Electricity market ...
25 Oct 2023, 12:55 Julian Wettengel Security 91tv The German government has promised an additional 195 million euros in support to Ukraine, about half of which is designated for the protection and rebuilding the country鈥檚 energy ...
A dispute between the two south-eastern European states Serbia and Kosovo is said to be responsible for a voltage drop in the European power grid, which has caused many electronic clocks on the continent to run slow, Norbert Lossau writes in Die Welt. ...
The German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has launched the first joint tender for onshore wind and solar power. The auctioned capacity is 200 megawatts (MW), the agency says in a press release. 鈥淭he technologies directly compete for the lowest cost in ...
08 Sep 2023, 13:28 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv Corrects tender volumes to GW from MW. Investors again showed insufficient interest to build all of the onshore wind farms on offer in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest tender. The auction remained ...
Influential partisans of Social Democrat Sigmar Gabriel continue to rebuke the economy minister for budging from plans to align grid fees across Germany, Ulrich Milde writes in Leipziger Volkszeitung. 鈥淚鈥檓 very angry that the promised fairer allocation of ...
There will be no nationwide grid fee alignment in Germany according to a proposal by the economy ministry approved by the government cabinet, contrary to聽 earlier press reports. However, the proposal for a grid fee reform will gradually abolish payments ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Heating 91tv The vast potential of geothermal energy generation for heating has so far been under-utilised in Germany, but a new exploration process launched by the economy and climate ministry ...
19 Aug 2022, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Government dpa / Der Spiegel Bavaria鈥檚 ruling conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party has accused the German grid agency (BNetzA) of actively discriminating certain regions of the country in the gas supply ...
Grid fees in western Germany are set to rise sharply in 2017, while fees in the east fall, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. According to the research institute ewi ER&S, industrial enterprises connected to the high voltage grid will see ...
23 Feb 2025, 20:42 Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz鈥� conservatives have won 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 snap election, while the current government parties booked significant losses, indicating a reduced focus on climate policies in a future government. But it remained ...
29 May 2019, 12:13 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Grid Cars Tagesspiegel Background / BDEW ...
The Social Democratic Union (SPD) wants a nationwide alignment of grid fees, SPD鈥檚 energy politician and member of the Bundestag Hubertus Heil told news agency Dow Jones. The grand coalition鈥檚 (CDU/CSU, SPD) federal cabinet had introduced a draft for a ...
14 Sep 2022, 13:50 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German Council of Economic Experts is calling for the country鈥檚 last nuclear power plants to remain in use until the current energy crisis is definitely over. The ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) wants to 鈥渕ake a pact with the states鈥� and present a law to accelerate the building of new power lines, he told Funke Mediengruppe ahead of today鈥檚 Grid Summit with the states鈥� energy ministers in Berlin. ...
Renewable energies place a greater burden on power grids than previously thought, according to an article by scientists from the Jacobs University Bremen published in the 鈥淪cientific Reports鈥� journal. Even the slightest fluctuations can be measured over ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal states continue to disagree on the planned reform of the country鈥檚 electricity grid fee structure, writes Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. It follows economy minister Sigmar Gabriel鈥檚 backtracking on plans to standardise fees across the ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:35 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:20 Franca Quecke Digitalisation 91tv Digitalisation can induce almost one quarter (24 percent) of the emission reduction that Germany needs to reach its 2030 greenhouse gas target, according to the country鈥檚 digital industry ...
15 Dec 2022, 14:03 Julian Wettengel Gas Government Table.Media 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy ministry expects a significant import overcapacity if all planned floating and fixed onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals are implemented as planned, reports Table ...
06 Sep 2022, 14:05 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Germany must use the price advantage of renewable energy sources to weather the energy crisis over the coming winter and beyond, said the renewables association BEE. The lobby group said ...
The aim of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 emerging coalition government to speed up the expansion of renewable energy sources could render the current scenarios for expanding the country鈥檚 power grid obsolete, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The ...
Distribution grids used to have a reputation as a boring low-profit business but have become a key source of revenue for German utility innogy, Helmut B眉nder writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Just like its competitor E.ON, the subsidiary of RWE ...
A combination of lack of transparency and denial of legal protection means that German power grid fees cannot be sufficiently checked by consumers, consumer organisations, or even politicians, according to a legal analysis published by the Regulatory ...
29 Jul 2020, 13:43 Grid Cars 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal government believes the country has sufficient power generation capacity to accommodate a major expansion in the number of electric cars, according to a parliamentary report. The government ...
After the German federal government decided on 27 July to buy a 20 percent stake in north-east German transmission grid operator 50Hertz in order to protect this critical infrastructure from being partially owned by Chinese grid operator SGCC, the head of ...
Belgian transmission system operator Elia will exercise its pre-emptive right to buy a 20 percent stake in German power transmission grid operator 50Hertz for 976.5 million euros, beating the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), reports Reuters. The ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Security 91tv German energy industry lobby ...
The unexpected deal between 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 two largest utilities E.ON and RWE to divide RWE鈥檚 spin-off innogy between them and focus on two different fields of the energy industry in the future is more than a mere reshuffling of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power market, Angela ...
The German power grid urgently needs to be expanded, as it was at times stretched to its limits during the past winter, said transmission grid operator Amprion in a press release. The reasons were unscheduled plant overhauls in France and historic lows in ...
05 Dec 2024, 11:49 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government must focus on the shift to climate-friendly mobility to secure industry competitiveness and ensure a socially just energy transition, says Christian Hochfeld, director of green mobility think tank Agora ...
German transmission grid operators (TSO) have already had to use large amounts of this year鈥檚 "winter reserve", a pool of conventional backup power plants to prevent shortfalls in power supply, according to a joint press release from grid ...
19 Aug 2022, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Tagesspiegel Background A second wholesale levy on natural gas on top of the existing gas consumption levy in Germany signals that the country鈥檚 gas trading platform Trading Hub Europe (THE) is preparing ...
12 Apr 2022, 11:51 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Solar 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest auction for large ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:30 S枚ren Amelang Solar Storage 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 boom in stationary batteries linked to solar PV systems accelerated last year, doubling the total number of units to more than one million, reports solar industry association BSW. ...
The federal economy ministry plans to introduce a common transmission grid fee across Germany, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Grid fees currently differ depending on the region and are higher where the development of renewables ...
Transmission grid operators are protesting the lowering of their equity capital return, suggested by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. Hans-J眉rgen Brick, CCO at grid operator Amprion, told the paper that ...
The fees that consumers pay for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity grid are too high and unfairly distributed across the country's regions, writes Malte Kreutzfeldt in an opinion piece in tageszeitung (taz). He calls for a nationwide harmonisation of the ...
07 Jul 2020, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv 91tv Grid Hydrogen 91tv German energy company E.ON has called for a green gas quota to help to reduce the share of fossil gas in the ...
Car manufacturer VW has made an agreement with transmission grid operator Tennet to provide weather data automatically collected by VW vehicles in Germany, Daniel Wetzel writes on Welt Online. 鈥淯sing built-in rain, light, and sun sensors, the cars will ...
Municipal utilities say 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 four transmission grid operators (TSO) are establishing a new 鈥渆nergy oligopoly鈥�, because of their request to construct and also operate 鈥渘etwork stability鈥� gas power plants in southern Germany, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel ...
28 Jan 2020, 13:50 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany's gas industry plans to establish a pipeline network measuring 5,900 kilometres to enable the large-scale use of hydrogen in the country. According to a plan seen by business daily ...
Regional power suppliers call on the federal government to put more emphasis on the development of the distribution grid, instead of focussing solely on the higher-voltage transmission grid, reports Johannes Schiller for German broadcaster MDR. 鈥淭hese ...
01 Jul 2019, 13:51 Sven Egenter Grid Digitalisation Tagesspiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid operators are working on their defenses against hacker attacks on their critical infrastructure, Christian Schaudwet writes for energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
Federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel is backtracking on plans to standardise electricity grid fees across the country, angering several state governments, writes Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). 鈥淚f the economy ministry鈥檚 ...
10 Feb 2023, 12:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Gas Politics 91tv The transformation of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system away from fossil fuels must quickly be reinforced by sufficient 鈥渕olecule-based鈥� power plant capacity that can back up the ...
The German energy ministry considers limiting the feed-in priority for renewable power to reduce the costs of managing grid bottlenecks, Stefan Schulze writes on Spiegel Online. 鈥淕reen power plants could generally become part of bottleneck management,鈥� an ...
The four German transmission grid operators and Austrian grid operator APG have agreed to cooperate on secondary balancing power. The aim is for grid operators to work more closely to shape a harmonised European market for secondary balancing power. By ...
Utility EnBW starts a field test to find out how a large number of electric cars in a concentrated area affect grid stability, Susanne Preu脽 and Thiemo Heeg write in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淲hat happens if everyone plugs in their car when ...
Protestors have called on the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state premier to call an immediate halt to the construction of wind turbines in the state, Welt reports. They argue that the construction of wind farms unfairly burdens state citizens and ...
The costs for grid congestions management in German grid operator 50Hertz鈥檚 control area in north-eastern Germany were almost halved to 180 million euros in 2016, compared to 354 million euros in 2015, according to 50Hertz. 鈥淭his very clearly shows: grid ...
A study by the 脰ko-Institut for the Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI) and Germanwatch聽says Germany has little chance of generating electricity close enough to consumers to make planned grid expansion unnecessary. In a meta-study comparing the conclusions ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid operators fear that from 2020 the country may have to import electricity in extreme cases of adverse weather, as more and more conventional power plants are taken offline, Daniel Wetzel writes for Die Welt. The four transmission grid ...
26 Jul 2022, 11:23 S枚ren Amelang Gas 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plans for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to replace Russian supplies exceed requirements and put the country鈥檚 and European climate targets at risk, argues a report commissioned by ...
Eighty-six companies and business associations from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 North, East, and South have complained to Chancellor Angela Merkel about 鈥渦nfair鈥� grid fees, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. They argue in a letter that grid fees must be the same all ...
The German government has reached a compromise on aligning contested regional differences in power grid fees paid by consumers, according to the Social Democratic Party (SPD). 鈥淎ccording to the draft law, grid fees will be aligned in four yearly steps ...
Companies in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industrial powerhouse North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have called for the postponement of the grid fee reform, which the government plans to pass this week, the regional newspaper Rheinische Post reports. Some local branches of the ...
Saxony鈥檚 federal state parliament has voted for aligning grid fees across Germany, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. The parliament called on Saxony鈥檚 state government to work towards repealing 鈥渆xisting regional imbalances on ...
05 Dec 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Wind Freight Handelsblatt / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Association of Offshore Wind Energy (BWO) is calling for greater capacity for the country鈥檚 ports in order to expand turbine installations at sea. Offshore wind ...
Norwegian hydropower company Statkraft and Dutch grid operator TenneT plan to intensify cooperation in the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein in order to optimise the market integration of wind power, TenneT has said in a press release. Statkraft, ...
24 Aug 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Die Zeit 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy industry representatives don鈥檛 expect threatening bottlenecks in energy supply during the coming winter, newspaper Die Zeit reports. 鈥淭he next winter is similarly challenging as the last ...
02 Jul 2020, 13:03 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Gas Hydrogen Clean ...
19 Dec 2022, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) opened on Saturday, 17 December, and is slated to supply gas to the German grid within days. 鈥淭his is a very special moment ...
27 Nov 2024, 13:15 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most powerful industry association has said the future government must reconsider the country鈥檚 strategy for becoming climate-neutral. Against the background of a sagging economy and news about mass layoffs, the head of the ...
Germany can take coal plants with a combined capacity of seven gigawatts off grid- and might even improve the security of the power supply by doing so, according to an unofficial document by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy & energy ministry (BMWi) and the Federal ...
10 Jul 2024, 13:15 S枚ren Amelang Coal Policy Tageszeitung / 91tv The German government does not intend to introduce a law to pull forward the country鈥檚 coal power phase-out聽from the officially agreed 2038 exit date to 2030. "A legal ...
28 Oct 2020, 10:44 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Renewables Solar 91tv Germany has already surpassed last year鈥檚 ...
Consumer grid fees rose by nine percent last year, and are unlikely to decrease much next year, according to a market report drafted by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), which is due to be published soon and was leaked to the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
The need for, and costs of, power grid stabilising measures decreased significantly in 2016, mainly due to lower production of wind and solar power and improved grid management, says the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in its report on grid and system ...
Robert Habeck, state Energiewende minister of Schleswig-Holstein, claims the federal government plans to limit wind power development in northern Germany due to lagging grid expansion by establishing 鈥�grid congestion zones鈥�, while nuclear and coal-fired ...
Germany hosts about 120 generating units capable of a 鈥渂lack start鈥�, meaning they will be available for repowering the grid from scratch in the event of a, so far unprecedented, major blackout, Anna Ringle writes in Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten. ...
26 Oct 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 91tv Energy costs in Germany have dropped 30 percent since the height of the energy crisis 12 months ago, according to analysis by price comparison website Verivox. Costs for heating, ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:48 S枚ren Amelang Coal Grid National Geographic Advocates of an American Green New Deal should look to other countries, including Germany, for successful examples, Alejandra Borunda writes for National Geographic. Germany, she says, shows ...
Regional differences in grid fees increased the power price disparities between German federal states in 2016, according to comparison website Verivox. 鈥淸The Energiewende] not only has a direct impact on the power bill through the rising Renewable Energy ...
22 May 2019, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Grid Cars Utilities E.ON / Tagesspiegel Background E.ON's distribution grids in Germany will be able to support a complete switch to electric ...
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 Europe鈥檚 power grids are supposed to become increasingly integrated 鈥� but right now the opposite seems to be happening. 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 eastern neighbours complain that the country鈥檚 renewable power production is putting a strain on their ...
30 Aug 2019, 14:12 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany's ...
03 May 2021, 12:55 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest onshore ...
Plans by the economy committee in the German Bundesrat to amend the current draft of incentive regulations concerning power grid expansion in Germany would cost the taxpayers an additional 3.5 billion euros until 2028, Achim Zerres, the head of energy ...
According to grid operators, German power consumers will have to shoulder grid fee rebates for energy-intensive industry in excess of 1 billion euros next year, sparking renewed calls for reform of the system to pay for keeping the grid stable as ...
14 Nov 2019, 13:46 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Electricity market Grid 91tv Germany is ranked ...
The German government has agreed to abolish large regional differences in transmission grid fees by standardising them across the country in five equal steps. The implementation will begin at the start of next year, and completion is planned by early 2023 ...
Rising grid fees, increased wholesale prices, and the high oil price level will likely lead to rising natural gas prices for household consumers in 2019, writes the price comparison website CHECK24 in a press release. Grid fees, which make up about one ...
16 Mar 2020, 14:09 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Security 91tv The far-reaching measures taken in Germany and across ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Hydrogen Clean ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:50 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, ...
The national alignment of expansion costs for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power transmission grid- a core energy policy demand of eastern German states- could fall prey to dispute between the ruling social democratic (SPD) and conservative (CDU/CSU) parliamentary groups, ...
26 Feb 2021, 12:20 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Grid Renewables EU 91tv A largely CO2-free German and European power supply by 2050 with renewable energy as ...
German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has rebuffed opponents of the planned SuedLink power transmission line by reportedly not joining a planned meeting in the economy ministry (BMWi), Heinz Wraneschitz writes in the pv magazine. Critics also ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:17 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Freja Eriksen Renewables Wind 91tv Wind energy carried from the North Sea by transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT rose by 16 percent in the first half of ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid expansion is only slowly progressing, according to a report by the federal economy ministry. About half of the 22 most crucial high voltage grid projects 鈥� determined by the German Power Grid Expansion Act 鈥� are approved, but only 650 of ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:41 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind Klimareporter Rapidly rising costs could jeopardise the construction of already planned wind turbines with a total capacity of several gigawatts, news outlet klimareporter聽 reports. Up to 4 gigawatts (GW) ...
Germany is seeking to limit China鈥檚 investment in sensitive firms, following revelations that state-owned China Southern Power Grid purchased a substantial share of a 1,650-kilometre natural gas distribution network and a 420-kilometre high- and medium ...
Representatives of the electricity and gas grid industry in Germany are looking for solutions to run their businesses in an 鈥渁ll-electric world鈥� where the sectors of power generation, transport and heating are linked, a gathering at the Treffpunkt Netze ...
25 Oct 2024, 16:00 Poland鈥檚 new government has updated the country鈥檚 energy strategy, which it says is more ambitious, but implementation remains uncertain as it depends on how coal miner unions react. In its push to increase nuclear power generation, the ...
25 Feb 2020, 14:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ...
The government of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein wants a fairer distribution of grid fees in Germany and will introduce a draft law in the council of federal state governments (Bundesrat). 鈥淭he draft is to enable the federal government to bring ...
Grid operators such as utilities are protesting plans by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) to lower grid fees by decreasing the return on equity operators invest in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid infrastructure, write J眉rgen Flauger and Klaus Stratmann in the ...
09 Oct 2023, 14:22 S枚ren Amelang Gas Heating 91tv Few households in Germany turned down their heating last year to save energy, despite warnings of a supply crisis and sharply rising prices, according to an聽 analysis 聽by non-profit ...
24 Sep 2015, 00:00 UPDATE 24 Sept | The European grid regulator has recommended that the Austrian-German electricity trading zone should be partially disconnected. Countries including Poland and the Czech Republic have called for the split, to prevent ...
Germany will have to make a collective effort to expand the country鈥檚 power grid in the coming years, said Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 8th Energy Policy Dialogue by CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag. 鈥淚 predict that we will need to ...
12 Aug 2020, 13:52 Storage Tagesspiegel Online A large electric battery unit in the German town of Schwarze Pumpe, in the state of Brandenburg, will soon help stabilise the grid as renewable energy sources make up a larger portion of power supply, Ralf ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:53 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Jack McGovan Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Clean ...
Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT has posted a consolidated EBIT of 417 million euros (324 million in Germany) in the first six months of 2016 and invested 875 million euros in聽the grid infrastructure (642 million in Germany). The EBIT ...
Germany should optimise the use of existing grid connections in the North Sea to connect as much offshore wind power capacity to the grid as possible, operator Tennet says in a press release. 鈥淲e can see a clear potential to optimise the use of existing ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:34 With a significant 鈥渟afety buffer鈥� of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity, the German government aims to ensure that the country and neighbouring states will receive sufficient supply of natural gas in the coming years, says ...
A power grid stress test by network operator TenneT shows that the need for grid expansion could be significantly lower after 2030. According to the study, increased use of combined PV and storage in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 south, together with less wind power ...
Grid operator 50Hertz registered a record wind power feed-in of more than 14,000 megawatt in its control area during a storm on 4 January, the company announced in a press release. 鈥淲e have been successful in securely managing our transmission grid even ...
Germany and Denmark have agreed to increase the minimum cross-border electricity trade, according to a press release by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). 鈥淭he agreement acknowledges that Germany is undergoing a fundamental ...
30 Jan 2023, 15:52 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv / Table.Media / taz [CLARIFICATION: It is not just Agora Energiewende which says LNG expansion plans are oversized. The grid operators in their draft plan state that if all planned LNG capacity is ...
28 Jul 2022, 12:25 S枚ren Amelang Society Tagesspiegel Background Far-right extremists in Germany have started to mobilise for a 鈥渉ot autumn鈥� of protests against soaring energy prices on social media, reports energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
09 Jan 2019, 11:59 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Grid Utilities Reuters Energy group Uniper is building a gas-fired power plant in Germany, the country鈥檚 first in a decade, to serve as a 鈥渟afety cushion鈥� for grids coping with intermittent ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:54 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 91tv The number of bids in the ...
08 Dec 2020, 13:32 Edgar Meza Utilities 91tv German energy and telecommunications group EWE has said it plans to become climate-neutral by 2035. In order to achieve its target, the company is exiting coal-fired power generation and investing ...
The Association of Energy Market Innovators (BNE) and the renewable power provider LichtBlick welcome plans by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) to lower grid fees by decreasing the return on equity operators invest in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid infrastructure, ...
Bavaria's government wants to keep the nuclear plant Isar 2 running as long as possible, arguing that lagging grid development could leave the state short of power without it, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The maximum amount of ...
22 Jul 2022, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Rural districts in Northern Germany have the country鈥檚 largest potential for green hydrogen production due to their windpower capacities, according to a 鈥� Hydrogen Atlas ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Gas Grid Hydrogen Technology 91tv Renewables-based gases such as hydrogen and synthetic methane will be increasingly important for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 to reach climate targets, say gas transmission grid operators ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:40 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Nuclear phase-out S眉ddeutsche Zeitung A second runtime extension for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 remaining nuclear power plants ...
The government cabinet has approved a new regulation on how grid operators are paid for investments into the extension of the distribution network. This is important to make sure the energy transition in the distribution grid is making progress, state ...
The State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) is reaching out for a 20 percent share in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid operator 50Hertz in a bid to gain valuable insights into a business area in which China strives for a leading global role, Thomas Sigmund and ...
The German government will acquire a temporary 20 percent stake in power transmission grid operator (TSO) 50Hertz from Belgian Elia 鈥渙n national security grounds鈥�, the economy ministry (BMWi) said in a press release. The ministry said the decision was ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:55 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Grid Renewables Finance Bavarian Economy and Energy Ministry Since according to a new report Germany has been overtaken by France as the G20鈥檚 most attractive target country for investment in ...
Transmission grid operator TenneT and the European Commission are聽 proposing 聽1,300 megawatts of power trading capacity between Germany and Denmark, but consumer groups warn this will increase electricity costs for German households, Jacob Schlandt writes ...
Electric cars will be needed both as a greener form of transport and as storage devices for a power grid that relies on intermittent renewable energy sources if Germany is to hit its Paris Climate Agreement targets, Michael Nei脽endorfer writes in the ...
The power distribution grid of German federal state Hesse is in part ready for the transition to over 90 percent renewables in power production and heating that Germany strives to attain by 2050, according to a study by the Fraunhofer research institute ...
The EU will invest another 100 million euros in the planned power line Nordlink that is meant to exchange electricity between wind and hydro power plants in Germany and Norway, the European Commission says in a press release. The European Investment Bank ...
Leaked documents on energy regulation reform show that the European Commission plans to take away important competences regarding power grid management from member states, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. 鈥淩egional Operation Centres (ROC) would then ...
Due to the slow progress made in modernising 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grid to cope with the large number of renewable energy installations, energy politician Jens Koeppen of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU party says the country should stop wind power ...
Despite the significant changes in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system, the reliability of the power grid shows that there is a strong innovation dynamic in system services, writes the German Energy Agency (dena) in a report, citing redispatch measures as an example. ...
05 May 2022, 13:48 Edgar Meza Solar Wind 91tv Renewable energy sources accounted for 50 percent of electricity consumption in Germany in the first quarter of 2022 鈥� around nine percentage points more than in the same period last year, ...
28 Jun 2024, 16:00 French citizens are awaiting the upcoming snap election brought about by the dissolution of parliament following president Emmanuel Macron鈥檚 loss to the far-right in this June鈥檚 EU elections. The vote could have a profound impact on the ...
German transmission grid operators (TSO) are in a dispute about the distribution of costs for re-dispatch measures to stabilise the German power grid, writes J眉rgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. TenneT and 50Hertz, who manage 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 windy north, carry out ...
The Social Democratic Party (SPD), the junior partner in Germany's coalition government, has criticised Economy and Energy Minister Peter Altmaier, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), for failing to take action on ...
07 Oct 2022, 14:40 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) ...
07 Jun 2021, 13:50 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Renewables Wind Tagesspiegel Background A new draft plan for offshore wind power expansion by the German government has allocated ...
Modifying the power grid so that it can cater to an increasing number of electric cars will require investment to the tune of 11 billion euros by 2030, a study authored by the Munich-based consultancy TCW for ABB, a supplier of聽products and solutions for ...
24 Nov 2021, 12:15 Jessica Bateman Nuclear phase-out 91tv The shutdown of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 last remaining nuclear power plants will not cause supply shortages, according to calculations by the department of energy, transport and environment at the ...
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10 Sep 2024, 13:44 With the summer break coming to an end, lawmakers in Brussels are back to school. After the newly elected European Parliament started its legislative term last July, all eyes are now on the formation of the next European Commission. ...
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European power trading causes more fluctuation in the electricity grid than the feed-in of renewable power, according to a study by the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation. The grid displays particular large fluctuations every 15 ...
14 Apr 2023, 13:42 The decade-long debate about the the role of nuclear power in Germany flared up for a last time before the remaining three reactors are shut down on Saturday 15 April. Politicians from government coalition party FDP and the opposition ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) will lower the equity interest rates for operators of power grids and gas networks from 9.05 to 6.91 percent for new, and from 7.14 to 5.12 percent for old facilities. The lower rates- to be applied in 2018 for gas and ...
16 Nov 2023, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen 91tv The expansion of green hydrogen production efforts Germany is slowing down, says a聽 report 聽commissioned by utility E.ON. 鈥淭he hydrogen generation capacity planned by 2030 has risen from 8.1 ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:27 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The ...
Germany will have to build new power plants in the south of the country to preserve supply security after its nuclear exit in 2022, according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). Rapid response plants with a total capacity of 1.2 gigawatts will be ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:12 Expert Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector, State of Baden-W眉rttemberg Ministerium f眉r Umwelt, Klima und Energiewirtschaft, Baden-W眉rttemberg Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel ...
26 Jul 2023, 13:36 The German government coalition has presented a long-expected update to its National Hydrogen Strategy with the aim of speeding up the development of a market for the fuel, which it sees as essential on the path to climate neutrality by ...
20 Mar 2015
20 Mar 2015, 00:00 Clear and sunny weather, a solar eclipse and no blackout- Germany's power system has passed an important test. The eclipse was a taste of the future, as the rise in renewables will make fluctuations of this magnitude regular events ...
06 Jan 2025, 12:12 Germany is of central importance when it comes to the EU defining its priorities in energy and industrial policies, says Simone Tagliapietra, senior fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. He argues that the country鈥檚 next ...
The German government plans to put the brakes on wind power development in the country鈥檚 windy north because the electricity grid could not be extended quickly enough, writes Philip Oltermann in The Guardian. 鈥淪ome analysts argue that while Germany is ...
The regional state of North Rhine-Westphalia plays a key role in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition and needs to heavily expand its power grid infrastructure despite local opposition, writes Guido M. Hartmann for Welt am Sonntag. The industry-heavy state ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy ZDF German economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck defended the German government鈥檚 decision to cut government support payments for energy transition and climate action projects as well as energy cost ...
11 Jan 2019, 14:01 S枚ren Amelang Wind 91tv Grid operator TenneT has increased offshore wind capacity to 6,232 megawatts (MW) in 2018, thus closing in on the 2020 government target of 6,500 MW. 鈥淎lready this year, TenneT will exceed this goal ...
Power grid operator Tennet and household power storage provider Sonnen plan to use a network of small-scale batteries to help reduce costs caused by grid bottlenecks between 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 windy North and the power-hungry South, reports Michael Bauchm眉ller in ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 excess power spilling over into Poland and Czech Republic on days with high renewables generation creates political and economic tension, writes Zeke Turner for Wall Street Journal. 鈥淭he fallout has become acute for Polish and Czech coal power ...
25 Aug 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Handelsblatt / 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged to greatly expand the use of geothermal energy in Germany. The Social Democrat (SPD) said his goal was to tap into the renewable energy鈥檚 ...
10 Jul 2023, 12:10 James Jackson Adaptation Efficiency Heating Around one in eight German households already use air-condition units, according to a survey by price comparison website Verivox. 鈥淓ighty seven percent of respondents get by without an air ...
24 May 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Security Tagesspiegel Background A string of apparently targeted cyberattacks on German wind farms has led to worries that the country鈥檚 main future power source is not聽 sufficiently protected, Simon Frost reports ...
A large-scale roll-out of electric vehicles in Germany could overstrain the power grid, and the country should invest billions of euros to prevent a breakdown in the future, J眉rgen Flauger and Franz Hubik write in the Handelsblatt. According to ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:53 Kerstine Appunn Heating 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany should include hydrogen for heating houses in its energy transition to successfully decarbonise the heating sector, gas grid operator umbrella organisation FNB ...
A pilot project by Dutch grid operator TenneT and German company Sonnen is meant to test power grid stabilisation with blockchain technology based on Sonnen鈥檚 decentralised home energy storage systems, TenneT says in a press release. TenneT will integrate ...
Wind power development in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 windy northern states will be limited to cope with lagging grid expansion, according to a regulation draft by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), seen by S眉ddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). Mecklenburg Western-Pomerania, ...
German car company BMW has placed an order worth over one billion euros with Chinese battery producer CATL, BMW CEO Harald Kr眉ger told Handelsblatt in an interview. 鈥淐ATL will open a factory in Europe,鈥� Kr眉ger added. In a separate press release, BMW said ...
09 Aug 2019, 13:49 S枚ren Amelang Grid Wind 91tv Germany and other European countries offer important lessons for the development of offshore wind in New York, according to the US state's Power Authority (NYPA). 鈥淲e see great value in ...
11 Feb 2015, 00:00 Analysts have welcomed a new planning framework for the German grid that works on the basis of less lignite being burned in Germany, saying grid development must serve the country鈥檚 climate targets. Expert DIW- German Institute for ...
The average German household (consumption of 3,500 kilowatt hours/year) will have to pay 23 euros more (10 percent) in 2017 for grid fees with their electricity bill, according to an analysis by renewable energy provider LichtBlick. 鈥淭he grid fees for ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Renewables 91tv The buildout of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable power capacity is a 鈥渉erculean task鈥� that will likely take longer than planned and therefore make an early end to gas and coal-fired power ...
German economy minister Sigmar Gabriel鈥檚 decision to scrap the harmonisation of grid fees across the country continues to outrage politicians in eastern Germany, Jens Tartler writes in Tagesspiegel. Heads of eastern states accuse the federal government of ...
12 Jul 2022, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government is expected to adopt a regulation on 13 July that would allow operators of certain hard coal plants to temporarily reactivate their units to help ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has suggested lowering the equity interest rate for operators of power grids and gas networks as of 2018/19, it said on Wednesday. The lower rates mirror current low interest rates on financial markets, BNetzA president ...
Power transmission grid operator Amprion and gas transmission grid operator Open Grid Europe (OGE) want to test power-to-gas (PtG) technologies on an industrial scale in Germany to better integrate electricity with the other sectors, the companies ...
Neither the addition of gas-fired power plants in southern Germany nor a sharp decrease in power production from lignite in eastern Germany would limit the need for new power grid infrastructure, a study by Prognos AG, RWTH Aachen, E-Bridge and FGH on ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:02 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Grid Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The government of the western German coal state and industrial ...
The government of central German federal state Thuringia strictly opposes the construction of major high-voltage transmission lines on its territory, Th眉ringer Allgemeine reports. The government led by the Left Party (Linke) argues the grid operators鈥� ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 public utilities will be at the forefront of implementing the decentralised energy supply required by the Energiewende, Katherina Reiche, director of the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU), said in an interview with Welt kompakt. Reiche ...
21 Sep 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is conducting test runs today (21 September) for a possible聽gas supply crisis, aiming to practice what would happen should the agency need to order ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Energiewende International Handelsblatt Despite EU Commissioner Maros Sefcovic announcing this month that the European energy union has become reality, unifying Europe鈥檚 big energy markets is more an ...
20 Sep 2024, 15:02 The worst floods in at least a decade hit southern Poland and neigbouring regions in mid-September due to extreme rainfall, which scientists said was likely more intense due to climate change. The situation has received wide political ...
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 UPDATE-- While millions of Europeans will look skyward for a glimpse of a rare solar eclipse on March 20, technicians at German power grid operator TenneT will be glued to their controls. When the moon covers parts of the sun, the ...
Raising grid fees substantially- and the resulting rise in cost for electricity in Germany announced for the turn of the year 鈥� is not fully justified, Claudia Kemfert of the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin), told Frankfurter Rundschau. ...
Only a small part of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 inflexible conventional power generation is required to guarantee grid stability, according to the German Renewable Energy Federation BEE. The lobby group said the Federal Grid Agency鈥檚 (BNetzA) finding that many plants do ...
10 Jul 2019, 18:03 LEAG, eastern 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest energy and mining company, is building a 50 MW battery that could help stabilise the country鈥檚 electricity grid partly through renewable energy. Environment minister Svenja Schulze lauded the project in ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 failure to聽resolve national alignment of power grid fees is down to politicians 聽stalling in order to appease voters in the country鈥檚 most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Former ...
09 Aug 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Der Spiegel Nuclear plant operators in Germany are unenthusiastic about the prospect of having to revise their long-prepared decommissioning plans despite growing calls for the extension of runtimes, ...
20 Oct 2020, 12:34 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Wind Handelsblatt German electricity transmission grid operator 50Hertz wants to see a more aggressive expansion of wind power in the Baltic Sea than currently ...
10 Nov 2022, 13:39 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market ...
14 Sep 2023, 14:03 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany plans to ...
18 Oct 2024, 10:56 The new government of prime minister Michel Barnier was announced on 21 September, with the 2025 budget following on 10 October. To reduce the public deficit to 5 percent of the country's economy by 2025, and to 3 percent by 2027, ...
The first day-ahead auction on the EPEX SPOT power exchange after the split of the common power price zone between Austria and Germany, which becomes effective today (1 October), saw higher prices for Austria than Germany, writes the Austrian Energy ...
The federal government plans to ease the burden that high electricity grid fees present to eastern German federal states, said Brandenburg鈥檚 state secretary Dietmar Woidke, according to news agency dpa. The federal government aims to align the ...
22 Sep 2022, 13:52 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv The German industry plans to stick to existing ...
20 Dec 2023, 12:49 Julian Wettengel Transport Policy Government 91tv / Table.Media The German government aims to raise the levy on passenger flights as part of a comprehensive budget package for 2024 and the following years to fill the ...
15 Oct 2024, 14:30 Fifteen companies in Germany have been awarded support guarantees in the first round of the so-called 鈥榗limate contracts鈥� scheme that is meant to put the country鈥檚 industry sector on track towards climate neutrality. Economy minister ...
The German power market will not be split into two separate price zones, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 council of federal state governments, the Bundesrat, has said in a press release. The council greenlighted a legal ordinance by the acting federal government that prevents ...
A range of comparatively simple measures could increase the capacity of the German power grid within the next two to four years, energy think tank Agora Energiewende * finds in a study. An ad-hoc investment programme could improve the transmission grid to ...
13 Oct 2023, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities Heating 91tv The largest river-based heat pump in Germany has started operations in the southern city of Mannheim. It will use water from the Rhine River to heat some 3,500 households, the local ...
Regional smart markets can help lower re-dispatch costs in the German power grid, according to a new study by think tank Agora Energiewende.* Depending on the local conditions, measures such as using more power-to-heat or actively controlling night ...
Power lines to carry wind power from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 north to its industrial south have been delayed over and over, creating problems for the Energiewende, writes Klaus Stratmann in the Handelsblatt. The current power network is reaching its limits in dealing ...
Landowners should receive 鈥渂etter compensation鈥� if power transmission lines are built on their premises, the German Farmers' Association (DBV) said in a press release. They聽should be eligible for recurring compensation payments instead of receiving a ...
18 Jan 2016
18 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv WindGuard / VDMA 2015 record year for offshore wind power installation Offshore wind capacity of 2,282.4 megawatt (MW) was connected to the German grid in 2015, Deutsche WindGuard has calculated. ...
31 May 2023, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung About four million fossil heating systems in Germany will reach their legal runtime limit of 30 years in 2024, newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung聽 reported 聽based on a ...
