10 Dec 2018, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Grid Security Handelsblatt Germany must be careful to 鈥渘ot overstep the mark鈥� on supply security when deciding on the process of phasing out coal-fired power production, Boris Schucht, CEO of ...
19 Mar 2019, 13:53 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Storage GreenTech Media Researchers in Germany are exploring possibilities to turn the country鈥檚 coal plants into ...
Transmission grid operator TenneT and the Energiewende ministry of northern German state Schleswig-Holstein report that 3,000 gigawatt-hours of renewable electricity had to be curbed in 2015 because of imminent grid congestions. Congestion events should ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Airplanes in Germany will be made more environmentally friendly by supplying them with clean electricity during stops at the airport, the country鈥檚 transport minister, Volker Wissing, has said. Airplanes ...
Grid congestion at the Austrian border that led to last week鈥檚 decision by the German government to prepare the split of the common power price zone was a 鈥渉omemade problem鈥�, writes Christian Geinitz in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ...
The I脰W has published a study on the role small home power generating installations can play in the German energy system, with regulatory recommendations to encourage their use. A growing number of citizens and businesses are generating power and partly ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Germany has completed its final auction to provide compensation for the early retirement of coal plants, with fewer operators participating in the tenders than initially hoped for, the Federal ...
02 Dec 2014, 00:00 An annual report from Germany's grid regulator highlights developments in the German power sector. The report shows a high degree of grid stability in 2013 and only a small increase of average prices paid by households as ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the parliament (German Bundestag) to find an agreement on national power grid fee alignment before the summer break, said economy minister Brigitte Zypries at the German energy industry conference BDEW Congress in ...
Using power storages and other technologies to relieve the electricity grid can significantly lower the cost of the energy transition and avoid grid expansion, writes German Energy Agency (dena) in a new study. 鈥淲e need a bridge between the market and the ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 91tv German consumers saw the greatest rise in prices ever recorded for electricity, gas and heating oil in 2021, comparison website Verivox has said. The price for gas climbed by almost ...
30 Mar 2020, 13:56 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Rachel Waldholz Solar 91tv / pv magazine The number of sites that both operate ...
03 May 2016
03 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv BDEW 鈥淓nergiewende continues to be major topic for population鈥� 93 percent of Germans believe the Energiewende is important or very important, according to a survey by ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has pledged to maximise focus on the extension of the country鈥檚 power grid as a priority of his work. 鈥淭he Energiewende will succeed if we get ahead with the grid extension,鈥� Altmaier told ...
15 Jul 2021, 14:04 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Solar 91tv Germany registered strong demand in its ...
German utility E.ON has denied rumours it is considering selling parts of its grid business, the dpa news agency reports. E.ON instead aimed to 鈥渟uccessfully implement鈥� its strategy agreed on during the last annual shareholders鈥� meeting, dpa quoted an E ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cars Policy dpa / Reuters / BR Only one day after opening a state support programme for installing solar panels for charging electric vehicles (EVs), 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national development bank KfW closed the application ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parliament decided on allowing tenants to benefit from solar power panels installed on their buildings a few weeks ago and now renters seizing this opportunity say they were able to reduce their power bill with it, news agency dpa reports in an ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:01 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas energate messenger / taz The energy group Uniper no longer believes in the construction of an LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminal in northern German Wilhelmshaven, reports ...
The power grid in southern German states Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg is not ready to cope with a large increase of electric vehicles, news agency dpa says in an article carried by website General-Anzeiger online. Industry experts estimate that the ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:30 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
22 Mar 2024, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out 91tv / Reuters Novel nuclear power plant designs do not resolve the technology鈥檚 fundamental challenge of hazardous nuclear waste, a report commissioned by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Office for ...
Grid operators have to intervene ever more often to stabilise the grid due to the rapid expansion of wind power, writes Franz Hubik in business daily Handelsblatt. The blackout prevention cost 1 billion euros in 2015 and the grid agency warns that annual ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:34 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy ministry has proposed to extend current regulation to the extent to which gas storage facilities have to be filled at certain times of the year, said the economy ministry in a ...
Welt Online / dpa East German state premier criticises power price differences Once again, an eastern German state premier has criticised regional discrepancies in the power price, dpa news agency reports in an article carried by Welt Online. Brandenburg ...
09 Jun 2023, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating International 91tv The French city of Strasbourg and the German town of Kehl, which are located on opposite sides of the river Rhine, are planning to connect their heating systems in a cross-border ...
14 Feb 2022, 13:55 Jessica Bateman Gas dpa / ntv The construction of Germany's first liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal remains uncertain as a key project continues to face delays, reports newswire dpa in an article carried by ntv. There is still ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:54 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Hamburger Abendblatt The energy crisis in ...
18 Dec 2015, 00:00 Second parliament chamber passes laws for combined heat and power support and new power cables / Progress in grid expansion and more money for efficient power stations will advance energy transition and national climate targets, says ...
Industrial enterprises are increasingly using power-to-heat technology to save on energy bills, the Handelsblatt reports. A sugar factor in east Germany, for example, needs constant heat for its production processes, Jakob Struller writes. At times when ...
Grid operator TenneT has paid 295 million euros in contingency payments to wind power operators in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein in 2015 because their electricity could not be transported through congested grids, Olaf Preu脽 writes in Die ...
25 Oct 2023, 11:00 Germany's economy ministry wants to strengthen the country as an industrial location with a new industry strategy, a key aspect of it being a so-called bridge electricity price for energy-intensive companies. Robert Habeck wants to ...
The eastern German city of Leipzig is slated to become the 鈥渃entre of the Energiewende鈥檚 digitalisation,鈥� Wolfgang Brinkschulte writes for the public broadcaster MDR. The federal government wants the 鈥淪mart Infrastructure Hub鈥� to become a pivot for ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy ministry is drafting a law to accelerate the development of the country鈥檚 electricity network, Michael Bauchm眉ller reports in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The draft, seen by the paper, will include streamlining the planning procedure, ...
19 Jun 2023, 13:14 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv Investors are willing to build offshore wind farms in German waters in the Baltic and North Sea without state support, and will now even have to pay to be awarded a contract. In the ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:21 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Carolina Kyllmann Renewables 91tv Renewable ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Transport Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv German railway operator Deutsche Bahn has reportedly waved higher fees demanded from renewable project operators needing to install power cables under ...
17 Oct 2022, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government Bild / Der Spiegel The dispute over delaying the completion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear phase-out drags on within the country鈥檚 coalition government. A meeting between chancellor Olaf Scholz from ...
After 15 years of construction, the new power transmission line from eastern Germany to Bavaria in the south 鈥渃loses one of the most severe bottlenecks in the European power grid,鈥� Daniel Wetzel writes in Die Welt. The 200-kilometre-long line connecting ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Policy 91tv More than one billion euros will be invested by the German government on fusion research over the next five years. "Fusion is a huge opportunity to solve all our energy ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Policy 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz has proposed a "Pact for Germany" in which all levels of government and the opposition pull together to guarantee the country's success in the future. ...
12 Jun 2023, 13:53 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv Germany is likely to reach its gas storage target levels early, but a shortage risk for the coming winter remains if average temperatures drop significantly, gas storage operator INES said in a ...
German grid operator Amprion has started an early public consultation process on possible routes for a 300 km direct current underground power line to transport electricity 鈥渇rom the wind-rich north to the consumption centres in western and southern ...
29 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Energy associations Call for fair competition conditions for power storage facilities Energy business associations BDEW, BEE, BNE, BVES, VDMA and VKU have called on the parliamentary ...
14 Jan 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind industry is placing great hope on the new government鈥檚 ambitious renewables expansion plans, after no turbines were added to German waters throughout the whole ...
09 Aug 2019, 13:59 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Freja Eriksen Utilities German fossil utility Uniper cited rising costs for carbon allowances as a main reason for declining ...
Resistance against wind energy is growing in Germany because the country already has 26,600 turbines- many of which need to be switched off when it is windy because of grid overload, writes Franz Hubik in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. The ...
Blogger and author Craig Morris is leaving the "Energy Transition: The Global Energiewende" blog to work for the Renewables Grid Initiative *. Morris has been the Energy Transition blog鈥檚 main blogger and the lead author of its annually updated ...
Germany and Sweden will build a 300 kilometre-long, 700 megawatt direct current power line connecting storage-rich Scandinavia with wind- and solar-powered continental Europe. 鈥淭he cable improves the integration of renewable energies in the transmission ...
27 Apr 2018
The German energy transition demands not only the expansion, but also the聽 optimal use of the power grid, says the council of Germany's federal state governments (Bundesrat). Possible measures include power line monitoring, or the use of high ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:19 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung The head of German engineering company Siemens expects power prices in the country to increase for some years, as the country undergoes a ...
German battery company sonnen wants to equip electric car users with a new charging box that not only allows them to draw electricity from solar panels on their homes, but also connects them to other users, making them part of a larger battery pool. The ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Der Spiegel Applications for heat pump subsidies in Germany dropped by roughly half in the first six months of 2023 following a subsidy cut, newspaper Der Spiegel reported. According to ...
There are no regions in Germany where power grid bottlenecks justify the government鈥檚 plan to slow down renewable development with the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), according to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Wind EU 91tv The governments of Denmark and Germany have signed a legally binding cooperation agreement for a joint offshore wind power project on the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm, the economy ...
Grid operator Tennet, one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 four major electricity network companies, has warned that a toll on power transmission from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 windy north to industrial centres in the south could create substantial obstacles for the country鈥檚 planned ...
German engineering giant Siemens has rejected criticism from the Green party that it lets private households pay for its electricity bill as 鈥渕isleading鈥� and 鈥渙utrightly wrong鈥�, Handelsblatt Online reports. Green MP B盲rbel H枚hn previously said it was ...
27 Sep 2022, 14:07 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv High energy prices and possibly also pleas by the German government to save gas appear to show an effect among households in the country: The head of the federal grid agency (BNetzA) Klaus ...
A projected substantial increase in the number of e-cars in Germany will pose major challenges for the country鈥檚 energy providers and power grids, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) says in a press release. The ZEW has carried out a survey ...
The German Free Democratic Party (FDP) wants to 鈥渆nd the sustained subsidies system of the [Renewable Energy Act] EEG鈥� with its priority grid access and feed-in tariffs for renewables, writes the party in its draft programme for the autumn federal ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang Transport Hydrogen Heating Policy Handelsblatt The German government wants to use hydrogen for decarbonising road transport and heating, in addition to industry, according to a highly anticipated revamp of the national ...
30 Aug 2024, 12:42 Three eastern German states will elect a new government in September 2024, marking a potentially pivotal moment in the post-reunification history of the country and for the future of its climate and energy transition policies. The ...
12 Jul 2023, 14:02 Differing views on the place of nuclear power in Europe have dominated public perceptions of energy policy cooperation between France and Germany for years. Given the urgent need to agree on European energy policy strategies in light of ...
The Association of Local Utilities (VKU) said the support for combined heat and power plants in the grid fee agreement was a 鈥渟trong signal for the value of decentral generation鈥� and created planning security. 鈥淢unicipal utilities can now work intensively ...
The vice-chairman of the CDU's parliamentary group, Michael Fuchs, says wind power expansion in northern Germany "urgently"聺 needed to be stopped due to mounting costs linked with Germany's lagging grid expansion, Andreas Mihm writes ...
24 May 2023, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Policy AFP / Tagesspiegel Installing plug-in solar run 鈥榖alcony power plants鈥� in German households should be simplified through a reduction of regulatory hurdles, the country's economy ministry (BMWK) has ...
24 Nov 2023, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy Die Welt / Stern / NDR / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Governments in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal states are concerned that the recent ruling by the country鈥檚 highest court declaring parts of the federal government鈥檚 budget ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:59 S枚ren Amelang Coal Bild 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Chancellor Angela Merkel has privately warned that the country鈥檚 coal exit will fail without 鈥渆normous effort,鈥� Ralf Schuler reports for tabloid Bild. 鈥淲e have to really want this,鈥� Merkel said at a ...
31 Mar 2023, 11:37 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / MDR The energy ministers from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 sixteen states have called on the federal government to examine lowering the electricity tax to the European minimum, and supporting ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:42 Carolina Kyllmann Industry International 91tv Germany has signed agreements to intensify its cooperation on climate and energy with Chile and Uruguay, with strong focus on decarbonising emission-intensive industry. At the ...
The digital transaction technology blockchain is regarded by some as the death knell for energy providers, while others believe it is far from being mature and applicable, Susanne Ehlerding writes in Der Tagesspiegel. 鈥淲e don鈥檛 panic,鈥� Maximilian Rinck, ...
The compulsory switch to smart meter readers will lead to higher costs and threats to the privacy of power customers 鈥渨ithout holding any observable advantages up to now,鈥� Kathrin Emse writes on shz.de. 鈥淪mart grids help grid operators 鈥� by allowing them ...
The project 鈥渆nera鈥� in the rural North-Western German region of Eastern Frisia could become the next step on the way to establishing smart energy grids across Germany, writes Angela Schmid in WirtschaftsWoche. 鈥渆nera鈥� is aimed at steering energy flows so ...
17 Jun 2015, 00:00 The shared electricity market between Austria and Germany was seen as a major achievement in 2002 but now it is coming under pressure from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 increasing generation from renewables, showing the disintegrative side effects the ...
17 May 2023, 12:53 S枚ren Amelang Heating Policy Stuttgarter Nachrichten The leader of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Social Democrats (SPD) said it was the party's imperative to prevent sharp cost increases for tenants during the shift to climate-friendly heating systems ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:24 S枚ren Amelang Industry Hydrogen 91tv Converting hydrogen to ammonia will be "the dominant transport technology" in order to ship the fuel to Germany, according to a report 聽commissioned by the World Energy Council ...
12 Feb 2019, 14:14 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen 91tv German power grid operator Amprion and gas grid operator Open Grid Europe (OGE) are planning to build a 100 megawatt (MW) power-to-gas plant along with hydrogen infrastructure, a project they ...
11 Aug 2023, 13:16 S枚ren Amelang Wind Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv Investors have agreed to pay 784 million euros for the right to build wind farms in four locations in the North Sea in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest offshore wind tender. The wind ...
Smart distribution grids are a pre-requisite for the success of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transition to a low-carbon energy system, according to a press release from Westnetz, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest distribution system operator. While 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition has been ...
German transmission grid operators published their provisional route proposals for SuedLink and SuedOstLink, the direct current high-voltage power lines to connect 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 windy north with the power-hungry south. The routes were 鈥渘ot set in stone,鈥� said ...
Germany would have enough power for 1 million electric cars and the power grid would be able to cope with the charging pattern of these vehicles, Michael Brecht, author at eMobilitaetsblog.de writes in an opinion piece for Welt online. Brecht rejects the ...
04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv BDEW / afp 鈥淭he power price turn-around鈥� Electricity has become cheaper for private consumers for the first time since 2000, the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) reports. ...
German power consumers might face a further rise of electricity costs caused by grid expansions required for e-mobility, according to a report by news agency dpa carried by the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Supplying e-car charging stations with electricity ...
An increase in extreme weather events like storms, floods and snow pushed up the average electricity blackout time in Germany last year. The average interruption per power consumer rose to 15.14 minutes from 12.80 minutes in 2017, according to the Federal ...
23 Dec 2022, 14:20 The German government coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz looks back at a turbulent first year in office, which has been dominated by the reality check of Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine and the European energy crisis. The turmoil in global ...
07 Dec 2023, 13:07 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities ...
16 Jun 2016
16 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Volkswagen Group VW aims to sell 2-3 million e-cars by 2025 Car giant VW plans a "major electrification initiative" with more than 30 new聽purely battery ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that federal and state governments were 鈥渢rying to find a solution鈥� in the dispute about nationwide grid fee alignment. 鈥淎t the moment, a difficult battle is raging on how we best succeed in managing this surcharge ...
20 Jun 2023, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government ARD German chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that the federal government is to reduce its spending and return to 鈥渇iscal policy normality鈥� after state support for citizens and businesses ...
23 Jan 2025, 10:30 Making German homes less climate-damaging and keeping them affordable for residents at the same time will be a central task for the country's next government. The heated controversy over a phaseout law for oil and gas boilers is ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 acting government has adopted a draft regulation that bans transmission grid operators (TSOs) from unilaterally splitting the German power trading zone. 鈥淲hat distinguishes the German trading zone is its unity, which ensures equal conditions ...
04 Aug 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland / 91tv / Welt / BR The German nuclear power phase-out 鈥渨ill not be revised鈥� as a result of the current gas supply crisis, the co-leader of the ...
28 Mar 2019, 13:23 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Rachel Waldholz Utilities Reuters / 91tv German utility EnBW will invest billions of euros in its power grids and other ...
02 Aug 2024
02 Aug 2024, 14:20 Six months after the new ruling coalition in Poland came to power, there are still no significant changes to the country鈥檚 energy policy. The government of Donald Tusk, however, is finally getting back to work on key laws for the energy ...
29 Dec 2015
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Sven Egenter Spiegel Online 鈥淗endricks criticises massive rise in electricity exports鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister Barbara Hendricks is concerned about the country鈥檚 CO2 emissions, writes Stefan Schultz at Spiegel Online ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission system operators are moving ahead with plans to build electricity highways connecting the northern and southern parts of the country, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. Beginning in the middle of the next decade, four lines ...
New power lines are needed urgently to incorporate an increasing amount of renewable electricity in the power grid, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the 20-year anniversary of the Federal Network Agency. 鈥淚t鈥檚 obviously also a question of the ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Heating ARD A large new power-to-heat facility, running on wind energy has come into operation in the northern German city of Hamburg which is technically capable of providing about 27,000 households with low ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv Italy and Germany are pushing for the construction of a new natural gas and hydrogen pipeline via Austria to strengthen inter-European energy trade- the 鈥� SoutH2 Corridor 鈥� project. 鈥淭he ...
08 Oct 2021, 12:00 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
26 Jul 2018
26 Jul 2018, 16:22 Following last year鈥檚 strong growth, wind energy expansion in the first half of 2018 dropped substantially. Wind power groups are calling on the government to launch the special auctions for renewable energies that it agreed to hold in ...
A project in Hamburg combines dozens of old e-car batteries to form a large power storage plant in the city鈥檚 industrial port, industry newspaper THB reports. Carmaker BMW, Bosch and energy company Vattenfall jointly operate the project, called Battery 2 ...
Construction of the direct current connection NordLink for the exchange of renewable energy between Germany and Norway has started, writes transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT in a press release. 鈥淔or the first time, the interconnector will directly ...
The would-be coalition partners鈥� plan to reach a 65 percent share of renewables in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power mix by 2030 is an 鈥渁mbitious target,鈥� said Jochen Homann, president of the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), at a meeting 聽held on the eve of the E-world ...
High wind power production during a storm led to a total of 35 hours of negative wholesale power prices over the holidays in Germany, writes Daniel Wetzel for Welt Online. 鈥淏ecause of the holidays, industry did not need the power,鈥� and grid operators at ...
The renewable energy sector will be competitive without financial support within the next four to five years, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier said on the sidelines of the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue. As an example, ...
German technology company Bosch and utility EnBW have opened a new large battery storage facility that helps stabilise the power grid, Bosch says in a press release. The battery consists of 768 lithium-ion modules that can provide energy quickly and help ...
The joint power-to-gas (PtG) project by power and gas transmission grid operators Amprion and Open Grid Europe (OGE) should not come as a surprise, as especially the gas industry worries about its future in a decarbonised Germany, writes Andreas Mihm in ...
10 Oct 2019, 13:43 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Clean ...
22 Sep 2022, 14:02 Jessica Bateman Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Prices for firewood and wood pellets are almost double what they were the same time last year, figures from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal statistics office (Destatis) have shown. In August ...
Over half of the power consumed within transmission grid operator 50Hertz鈥檚 control area last year (53.4 percent) was generated from renewables, the company says in a press release presenting its 2017 balance sheet. 鈥淲e are proud that with this record ...
11 Dec 2023, 13:24 S枚ren Amelang Coal dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung East German coal mine operator LEAG has said it expects to extract lignite from its opencast pits past 2030, even though the government hopes to exit coal by that date. 鈥淲e are very ...
22 Sep 2022, 14:08 Jessica Bateman Technology EU Tagesspiegel Background The German government will propose a 鈥淓uropean Alliance for Transformation Technologies鈥� at an upcoming meeting of EU ministers responsible for industry policy and the internal ...
28 Jun 2024
28 Jun 2024, 12:00 Carolina Kyllmann Julian Wettengel Associated Press: Von der Leyen, Costa and Kallas endorsed for the EU鈥檚 top jobs European Union leaders have agreed on the officials who will lead the EU鈥檚 powerful executive branch. News agency AP ...
06 May 2025, 13:00 Germans cast their vote in the country's federal election on 23 February. Conservative CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz is set to become the next chancellor and will now lead the formal coalition negotiations with the Social Democrats ...
01 Apr 2019, 13:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables Policy Clean ...
09 Oct 2015
09 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt 鈥淣uclear Energy? Never Again!鈥� The history of nuclear energy in Germany is a total fiasco, write J眉rgen Flauger and Klaus Stratmann in a 鈥渃losing balance sheet鈥� in business daily Handelsblatt. The ...
If future power needs are around 600 terawatt-hours, Germany would need 97 gigawatt (GW) of onshore wind, 25-35 GW offshore wind and 102 GW solar PV capacity, Schleswig-Holstein鈥檚 energy transition minister and head of the federal Green Party Robert ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 cyber crime agency in the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) warns that attacks on energy providers in the country could lead to a Europe-wide blackout, news website Spiegel Online reports. According to an internal BKA document seen by Spiegel ...
The Chinese state enterprise SGCC has already signed a contract to buy a 20-percent share of grid operator 50Hertz, but the German government is trying to reverse the deal 鈥� which it says concerns 鈥渃ritical infrastructure鈥� 鈥� before it takes effect, Thomas ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv The output of Europe's solar power panels is influenced by particulate matter in the atmosphere that can partly block sunlight from reaching the earth's surface, researchers from the ...
12 Oct 2023, 11:38 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & ...
16 May 2023, 13:40 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices BR In the month after ...
14 Jul 2015
14 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv RWE 鈥淧oll 鈥� Lignite is essential stabiliser for energy supply鈥� Two thirds of Germans believe electricity prices have a large influence on the competitiveness of German industry, according to a ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:38 S枚ren Amelang Gas Heating Welt / 91tv / Zeit / taz 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gas industry has welcomed the coalition government鈥檚 compromise on the transition to climate-friendly heating, while some media commentators and environmental ...
13 Jan 2022, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Industry dpa/ Die Welt / Handelsblatt / 91tv Industry companies are calling for an end to the southern German state of Bavaria鈥檚 particularly strict minimum distance wind power rules. Bavarian ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest tender for new onshore wind power installations failed to attract enough bids to award the full offered amount of 670 megawatts, the country鈥檚 grid regulator said. The average support rate for the accepted bids with a total amount of 363 ...
23 Feb 2025, 20:20 Germany's coalition government collapsed聽in November 2024 due to internal disputes over budget and economic policy. The country now gears up for snap elections in early 2025, against the backdrop of a flagging economy, the war in ...
German and Austrian energy regulators have agreed to cap peaks in the exchange of power from October 2018 to reflect lagging grid development between the two countries, announced Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and E-Control in separate press releases. ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 soaring grid costs and negative power prices will likely be tackled during the talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) on renewing their grand coalition, reports Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. 鈥淲e ...
Civil protection units in the eastern German city of Dresden 鈥渋ntensively train for a large-scale blackout 鈥�, Thomas Baum-Hartwig writes in Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten. Dresden鈥檚 mayor Detlef Sittel said the energy transition had made grids far more ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Aniket Narawad Electricity Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv / dpa Germany's net exports of electricity in the first half of this year were significantly lower than in the same period in 2022. The ...
28 Feb 2023, 14:17 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband ...
06 Feb 2015
06 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv DIW studies 鈥淓lectricity Grids and Climate Targets: New Approaches to Grid Planning鈥� The latest assumptions that will be used in the government's grid development plan take new climate ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:26 Kerstine Appunn Wind Hydrogen Germany's energy ministry (BMWi) has proposed a set of rules to determine which concepts are eligible for areas for the construction of new renewable energy projects in the offshore sector in the North ...
Expanding electric transport could be used to exploit existing power grid capacity, if the right smart grid technologies are deployed and combined with the inherent flexibility in when electric vehicles (EVs) can be charged, writes the Regulatory ...
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TU M眉nchen) are working on an open source map to track聽 bottlenecks and overcapacities in power grids around the globe, the university said in a press release. The resulting 鈥渨orld map of power grids鈥� was ...
A new project by grid operator Tennet will facilitate the power supply from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind parks to the densely populated regions in the country鈥檚 west, business magazine stadt+werk reports. Tennet recently started construction of the extra-high ...
Average German wholesale electricity prices fell almost nine percent to 28.96 euros per megawatt-hour last year, according to a power market review by grid operator TenneT. Redispatch volumes fell for the first time since 2013, due to a decrease in wind ...
The number of companies in Germany that do not pay grid fees is set to rise further, Spiegel Online reports. According to an answer by the federal government to a parliamentary inquiry by the Green Party, there were about 3,670 fee exemptions in 2016 and ...
Outgoing economy minister Sigmar Gabriel runs an election campaign at the expense of eastern German power consumers, some of whom pay grid fees twice as high as consumers in the west, writes Norbert Block in a commentary in Th眉ringische Landeszeitung. He ...
The populism by the Christian Social Union in Bavaria has delayed the grid expansion by years and increased costs by billions of euros, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He says that the Bavarian government had ...
The dispute between 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid operators highlights the 鈥減artly absurd distortions鈥� the expansion of renewable energies has brought about, writes J眉rgen Flauger in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. 鈥淭he primary goal to quickly increase ...
20 Jan 2021, 13:37 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Wind 91tv / Der Spiegel German wind farms in the North Sea produced more electricity last year than ever before. In 2020, the amount produced rose by 12.4 percent to 22.76 terawatt ...
11 Jan 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Digitalisation Tagesspiegel Background A lack of IT specialists is becoming a cyber security risk for German energy industry companies, reports newsletter service Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity. 鈥淓lectricity grid ...
16 Aug 2016, 00:00 The rise of volatile wind and solar power in the share of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity generation means that keeping the grid stable becomes an ever more complex 鈥� and potentially costly 鈥� task. Predicting how many renewable megawatts will be ...
15 Oct 2021, 12:32 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables levy will decrease to its lowest level in ten years as high wholesale power prices and support from the federal budget lower the need for payments from electricity consumers. This is good news for the economy and ...
22 Jan 2015
22 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Wirtschaftswoche 鈥淩WE: shut down or sale?鈥� RWE 鈥檚 deputy chairman of the executive board Rolf Martin Schmitz said that power stations hit by falling electricity prices could no longer turn a profit ...
The use of batteries to level out intermittent solar and wind generation in the Tennet and Sonnen project shows that 鈥渢he Energiewende is making progress,鈥� writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淣ew offshore wind parks have been approved ...
The Lower Rhine Chamber of Industry and Commerce has warned against planned legislation to standardise electricity grid fees across the country, the聽Rheinische Post reports. The organisation, which represents business interests in the region appealed to ...
28 Nov 2018, 16:16 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cars Cost & Prices Fraunhofer ISI The growing number of electric cars in Germany could in the long run bring down household power prices, the research institute Fraunhofer ISI says in a press ...
06 Mar 2023, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Energiewende Security 91tv Germany will have to build new gas-fired power plants and introduce additional measures to avoid electricity supply shortages during peak demand periods as the ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen 91tv Norway has said it can supply industry customers in northern Germany with so-called blue hydrogen to push the ramp-up of hydrogen infrastructure in Germany, Norwegian government ...
Decentralised renewable energy sources increase the importance of local distribution grids for making 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition work, a new study on municipal utilities by consulting agency Ernst & Young (EY) says. Distribution grid operators become ...
Two of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest energy companies, RWE and E.ON, will publish their balance of accounts this month 鈥� a move that is likely to highlight the difficulties the industry is still grappling with amid the country鈥檚 energy transition, news agency dpa ...
Stefan Kapferer, managing director of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), welcomed the agreement by the EU member states鈥� energy ministers on the Union鈥檚 future energy policy, because it meant that the existing power price zones ...
21 Sep 2022, 12:59 Julian Wettengel Solar 91tv 2022 will become a record year for solar power generation in Germany, data by research institute Fraunhofer ISE鈥檚 Energy Charts suggests. 鈥淏y mid-September, solar plants in Germany had already ...
Germany can reach its target of increasing the share of renewable energy to 65 percent of power consumption by 2030 from the current 36 percent at moderate costs,聽according to energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. Agora proposes a series of measures to ...
After two years of construction and trial phases, German utility EnBW鈥檚 subsidiary TransnetBW is beginning operation of its central control room, dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. The grid operator intends to manage the Baden-Wuerttemberg ...
05 Dec 2022, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Welt am Sonntag The German government is considering setting up a company with state participation to oversee the establishment of a national hydrogen network as part of the country鈥檚 move to climate neutrality ...
12 Aug 2019, 12:25 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 ...
20 Apr 2023, 12:37 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Heating Tagesspiegel Background Due to a rapid rise in the number of reduced power tariffs reserved for heat pumps, their operating costs in Germany are currently up to a third lower than gas heating, ...
03 Sep 2020, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Policy 91tv The coronavirus pandemic has created new problems for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, according to management consultancy McKinsey. The pandemic had particularly slowed the ...
27 Feb 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International 91tv Closer cooperation with Germany on renewable power and other energy transition technologies could help India increase its energy sovereignty, chancellor Olaf Scholz has聽 said ...
01 Sep 2020, 12:46 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Coal Die Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first coal phase-out auction aimed at shutting down ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:30 S枚ren Amelang Cars Utilities 91tv / Die Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy industry wants to give up on the government target of installing one million charging points for electric cars in the country by 2030, but faces headwind from ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:30 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Expert VKU- German Association of Local ...
31 Mar 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Court of Auditors (BRH) has criticised the government for its 鈥渋nadequate鈥� management of the energy transition. In a new report, the BRH argues that the economy ministry ...
Twenty municipalities along the planned route for HVDC (high-voltage direct current) transmission lines to carry wind power from northern Germany to industrial centres in the south, have requested they be constructed as overhead cables rather than buried ...
30 Aug 2024, 14:17 As Europe鈥檚 most intense heatwave in recent years finally comes to an end, following at least 35 days of well-above average temperatures, life in Italy has slowed into the summer break. In mid-August, the entire country grinds to a halt ...
31 May 2023, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Policy dpa / n-tv The German government coalition has agreed on a draft law for reforming municipal heating regulation as part of a wider package to decarbonise the country鈥檚 heating sector, news agency dpa ...
There is an 鈥渁rtificial monopoly鈥� connecting 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind parks with the mainland, said Martin Neubert, managing director of Orsted Wind Power Germany (formerly DONG Energy), write Franz Hubik and Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. While ...
13 Jul 2023, 13:40 Oil majors BP and TotalEnergies pledged to pay a combined 12.6 billion euros for the right to build wind farms in the North and Baltic seas in the world鈥檚 largest ever offshore wind auction. Environmentalists hailed the result as a ...
Germany needs regional power markets and a legislation overhaul to cope with its increasingly decentralised electricity system, and replace the current 鈥渃haos鈥� in grid fees, levies and taxes, according to think tank Agora Energiewende.* 鈥淲e need to all ...
Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT will invest 28 billion euros in new power grid infrastructure over the next ten years because of energy transition targets in Germany and the Netherlands which will lead to an increase in renewable power, ...
The economy minister of the state of Hesse Tarek Al-Wazir called the federal economy ministry鈥檚 plan to declare parts of the state as grid congestion zones 鈥渓udicrous鈥� and 鈥減reposterous,鈥� writes the Rhein-Main-Zeitung. This would 鈥渧aporise the ...
Politicians in the Eastern German state of Thuringia have called on the federal government to align power prices across the country, Th眉ringer Allgemeine reports. Federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel鈥檚 backtracking on plans to standardise electricity ...
03 Jan 2019, 11:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Electricity market Cost & Prices ...
17 May 2024, 15:00 Just as France is marking the biggest drop in its greenhouse gas emissions in almost a decade, the debate about the country鈥檚 future energy policy continues in full swing. This applies to almost all sectors of the economy 鈥� and the ...
11 Oct 2023, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU 91tv France and Germany could soon agree on a reform of the EU electricity market, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz have said after their meeting in ...
04 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Europe must debate a framework to ramp-up a hydrogen economy on the continent as a key element of its move towards climate neutrality, said German energy industry association BDEW. 鈥淭here ...
12 Feb 2020, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen International Reuters / Handelsblatt Germany plans to set up a production and import chain for renewable hydrogen in a joint project with Western African countries, news agency Reuters聽 reports. " ...
Germany and Norway have started construction on NordLink, the first direct power line between the two countries that will allow the exchange of renewable energy from 2019 on, reports dpa. The 620 kilometre long, mostly underwater transmission line showed ...
In light of fluctuating supply and congestions in the power grid, the wind power sector has to increase its focus on surrounding infrastructure and technology, such as storage, smart grids and data streams, to cope with the challenges of the Energiewende, ...
03 Aug 2018, 08:44 Conventional power stations, like hard coal, gas-fired or nuclear plants, are forced to curb generation because of the heat wave hitting Germany. While the stability of the power system as such is not in peril and most renewables are ...
26 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024, 11:43 German ministers and lawmakers, just like most of their peers across the European Union, are heading into the parliaments鈥� summer 2024 recess and some time off. However, there are exceptions: three eastern German federal states will ...
06 Apr 2023, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Wind Business & Jobs dpa / 91tv Germany needs to increase its workforce in the windpower industry for the planned doubling of installed wind power capacity by 2030, industry association BWE聽 told news ...
15 Oct 2015, 00:00 The levy to finance green power investment, which is added to Germans' electricity bills, will rise slightly in 2016 after falling this year for the first time since its 2000 introduction, German power grid operators said Thursday. ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Hydrogen International 91tv Germany has pledged at least 112 million euros to support Kenya in implementing 鈥渋ts ambitious goal of switching entirely to renewable energy sources by 2030,鈥� the ...
The Bavarian state government is a powerful supporter of German farmers鈥� demand to receive recurring compensation payments if power transmission lines are built on their premises, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The governing ...
Germany needs to recover millions of euros in illegal aid from certain large electricity users exempted from grid charges in Germany in 2012-2013 after the European Commission declared past regulation was against EU State aid rules. 鈥淔ully exempting ...
German utility RWE and French counterpart Engie are studying a possible share swap that could create a Franco-German giant in power grids, renewables and energy services with a market value of about 50 billion euros, report Arno Schuetze, Geert De Clercq ...
17 Mar 2015
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv 聽 Fraunhofer IWES/Agora Energiewende "The Eclipse 2015: Preview of the Power System in 2030" Friday鈥檚 solar eclipse will provide a taste of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power system in 2030, according to a ...
09 Nov 2015
09 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥�Grid fees push up power price鈥� An internal analysis by the federal grid agency reveals that the systemic costs of the Energiewende will push up grid fees, reports ...
Germany and France jointly defend priority grid access for electricity generated from renewable sources, reports Politico. The European Commission, meanwhile, is considering removing priority dispatch ahead of power coming from fossil fuels. In a so ...
28 Jan 2016
28 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt 鈥淕overnment wants to kill the engine鈥� Onshore wind power is the backbone of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, but government reform plans for the Renewable Energy Act risk slowing down its ...
05 Dec 2022, 13:55 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Fossil gas will be a crucial part of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power and energy supply for at least another ten years, because the expansion of renewables and the electricity grid are lagging behind, said ...
Power generating units with a total capacity of about 13,658 megawatt (MW) are scheduled for closure in Germany, but only about 7,667 MW have already been shut down, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said in a press release. The remainder of nearly ...
23 Jun 2023, 13:13 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Technology 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 research ministry, which is led by the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), wants to accelerate research into nuclear fusion with a new funding programme. 鈥淭he energy ...
19 Dec 2018, 13:49 EU institutions have agreed on new rules for the internal electricity market, including capacity mechanisms, coal subsidies, cross-border power flows and access for more market actors who are free to set their own prices. The German ...
Even though new power transmission lines in Bavaria are going to be buried underground, environmental organisation Friends of the Earth (BUND) is still opposing the grid expansion in the southern state, dpa writes. There was no need for new large power ...
The massive increase in grid fees announced by TenneT and other operators signals a new chapter in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. 鈥淎 new phase begins whereby capacity growth no longer takes centre stage, but the system ...
19 Oct 2020, 12:57 Kerstine Appunn Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Higher costs for gas infrastructure and the new CO2 price in the heating sector are set to increase gas costs for German households in 2021, consumer comparison site Verivox has ...
The 800 km 鈥淪眉dlink鈥� cable from the North Sea to Baden-W眉rttemberg and the 500 km south-east connection between Saxony-Anhalt and Bavaria will both not be finished before 2025, Ulrich Milde writes in the Leipziger Volkszeitung. The grid operators have to ...
05 Jul 2018, 13:29 The climate advantage of natural gas can contribute to immediate CO鈧� reduction by replacing coal and oil in the power sector and in heating, says J眉rgen Fuhlrott, Head of Business Development at 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest gas transmission grid ...
26 Jun 2015
26 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Berliner Morgenpost /dpa 鈥淰attenfall stops resettlement plans near lignite mine in Nochten鈥� Energy utility Vattenfall has stopped plans to resettle around 1700 people near its open cast lignite ...
07 Aug 2015
07 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Carl Morris 91tv 91tv WirtschaftsWoche 鈥淕ood solution for new energy鈥� The German state could become responsible for offshore scoping and measuring activities if future wind parks in the sea are paid via a ...
02 May 2023, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 91tv By April, household energy costs in Germany had dropped nearly one third in the six months since the peak of the energy crisis, an聽 analysis 聽by price comparison website Verivox has ...
The Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) has called on the new German government to "reboot" financing of the energy transition. The costs of building up renewable capacity and updating the grid must be more fairly distributed, the ...
20 Jan 2023, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv Data centres could provide excess heat to Frankfurt鈥檚 district heating network, energy provider Mainova and data centre operator Interxion announced after signing a memorandum of understanding ...
26 Jul 2016
With the energy transition the amount of decentralised produced power and the number of distributed consumers is increasing which is putting pressure on the distribution grid, says the BNE, an association of independent energy suppliers and service firms. ...
German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) head Stefan Kapferer warns that calls from the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) for recurring compensation payments to farmers if power transmission lines are built on their premises would make ...
The cost of expanding 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power transmission grid onshore and in the Baltic and North Seas to adapt to the future power system brought on by the Energiewende could be between 50-52 billion euros until 2030, the country鈥檚 four transmission system ...
06 Feb 2024, 09:42 Germany is set to hold auctions to support the construction of new gas-fired power plants in the short term, which would then be converted to run on hydrogen in the mid-to-late 2030s, the ruling coalition said. The plants are considered ...
Germany's current power grid development plans for 2030 are not aligned with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, write the NGOs Environmental Action Germany (DUH), Germanwatch, and WWF in a joint press release. "Until now, none of the ...
The renewables surcharge rise is long since decoupled from the expansion of wind and solar power, and is rather a consequence of low wholesale power prices, writes Georg Ehring in an opinion piece for Deutschlandfunk. 鈥淭he price at the electricity ...
05 Jun 2018, 00:00 Germany's energy minister Peter Altmaier said there won't be any changes to fees on power and heat during his term, refuting the idea of a price for CO2 emissions floated by coalition partner SPD and the environment ministry. ...
German offshore wind power costs are set to fall significantly, due to industrialisation of the sector, more efficient turbine construction, the switch from feed-in tariffs to auctions, and better coordination with grid operators, Olaf Preu脽 writes for ...
German wind turbine manufacturer Siemens has announced that it will provide offshore wind farms capable of generating power at levelled costs of below 8 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) as of 2025. These costs would include the grid connection to the shore, ...
German-American energy storage company Younicos says it landed contracts during 2016 to build systems able to hold 75 megawatts (MW) of electricity, which if completed would mean a 60 percent increase in systems either installed or under construction. The ...
24 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv As 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 hydrogen (H2) economy takes shape, a double supply gap is emerging in the country鈥檚 south, a report by consultancy PWC found. While the north is well positioned, the country鈥檚 ...
09 Feb 2015
09 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online / Energy Brainpool / Fraunhofer IWES "This is what the power market of the future could look like" In order to incorporate fluctuating power from millions of small, decentralised producers, the ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:28 Julian Wettengel Wind Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German economy ministry is working on a proposal to subsidise offshore electricity for industry customers through an auction scheme in order to shield companies against ...
The German head of Danish North Sea windpark operator Dong Energy, Martin Neubert, told German press agency dpa that a discussion over expanding wind power by 700-800 megawatts per year is 鈥渋n the distant future,鈥� because infrastructure isn鈥檛 expanding ...
The German power grid was on the brink of a blackout on the 24 th of January because of an extended period of little wind and cloudy skies, the Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries (IG BCE) warned in the Rheinische Post. Energy ...
25 Aug 2022, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Bioenergy 91tv Germany is betting on more biogas production in order to save natural gas with a view to possible shortages during the winter. The government will remove regulatory hurdles to an increase of ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid fees on average will increase in 2017, but regional disparities and those based on the consumption volume will grow, according to a short analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende.* Consumers in rural areas with strong renewables ...
The acting German government is planning a quick reform of the power market even before the new government coalition is formed, Andreas Mihm writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The reason is concerns that the EU might force German transmission ...
04 Jul 2019, 12:45 Electricity supply in Germany is secure even as the country is phasing out coal-fired power generation, according to a monitoring report which sets new standards for supply security from the economy ministry. The report also changes the ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:39 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Technology 91tv Discarded chicken eggshells can be used in electro-chemical energy storage systems, an international group of researchers has found. Maximilian Fichtner from the ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Policy The age of nuclear power in Germany ended on Saturday (15 April) after more than 60 years with the decommissioning of the country鈥檚 three remaining reactors. Operators said the switch-off happened ...
The combined used of onshore and offshore wind power, solar power and a European power network can significantly can stabilise weather-related power production during periods of little wind and sunshine, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 National Meteorological Service (DWD) ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:01 The Social Democrats- emerging from a legislative period with a 鈥済reat deal of dissent鈥� in energy policy with its conservative coalition partner- are hoping to find new partners and new ways to drive forward the expansion of renewable ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:19 Jessica Bateman Nuclear phase-out 91tv The Emsland nucelar power plant in northern Germany can only make a minimal contribution to gas savings and energy price reduction, a report by analysis company Energy Brainpool ...
The cost of electricity for final consumers remained high in the first half of 2016 as most suppliers raised their tariffs despite low wholesale power prices, writes dpa-AFX. One reason was the expensive grid expansion needed for the renewables ...
22 Feb 2023, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Better financing, hedging tools and support for innovation are needed to strengthen the production of energy transition technologies in Germany and Europe, economy ...
30 Mar 2020, 14:11 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
Planned power lines to link renewable production in windy north-eastern Germany to demand in the country鈥檚 industrial south are likely to cost three times the 4 billion euros originally projected, writes Christian Sebald in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Public ...
The security of electricity supply in Germany continues to be at a high level, also thanks to the integration of the country鈥檚 power grid with neighbouring countries, writes the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) in a press release. A ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2030 emissions targets can only be achieved if the country "substantially" changes track and carries out "enormous efforts" to electrify its ...
15 Dec 2023, 11:31 Industry and grid investments must be at the heart of the follow-up to the landmark European Green Deal policy package after the 2024 EU elections, says Bas Eickhout, member of the European Parliament. The results of the vote will shape ...
Parts of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity transmission highway dubbed Suedostlink, running from the windy north to industrial centres in the south, could be constructed above the ground- contrary to earlier planning, Marko Jeschor writes in Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:55 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert Fraunhofer ISI Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewables Freja Eriksen Gas ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The announcement by Spain, Portugal and France to pull the plug on the MidCat gas pipeline project across the Pyrenees comes as a 鈥渄isappointment鈥� for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government, which had hoped to ...
German grid operator 50Hertz is installing phase shifters to stop excess electricity from spilling over into neighbouring countries like Poland, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Electricity current normally takes the path of least ...
07 Jan 2019, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Politics WirtschaftsWoche 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has disappointed many observers with 聽what they consider an 鈥渆rratic and sluggish鈥� administration of his department, ...
19 Oct 2015
19 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv National Geographic 鈥淕ermany Could Be a Model for How We鈥檒l Get Power in the Future鈥� In a long feature for National Geographic, Robert Kunzig takes an in-depth look at the 鈥渆pochal transformation鈥� ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Renewables 91tv For the first time since December 2020, an onshore wind power auction was oversubscribed in Germany. Developers submitted 210 bids totalling 1,824megawatt (MW) for the tender volume of 1,492 ...
The lack of flexibility in conventional power plants is a 鈥渒ey problem of the Energiewende鈥�, writes Jakob Schlandt in Hamburger Abendblatt. While conventional plants continue to run at times of grid congestion, 鈥渨hole wind parks are being switched off ...
The market power of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 four large electricity suppliers has decreased significantly over the past years, according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and the Federal Cartel Office鈥檚 Monitoring Report 2016 on the developments in the German ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid operators are calling for the construction of new conventional power plants in southern Germany to bridge the gap between the country鈥檚 nuclear phase-out and the completion of major new high-voltage power lines聽 supplying ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) wants to 鈥渕ake every effort鈥� to complete three direct current high-voltage power lines connecting 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 windy north with the power-hungry south by 2025, the agency says in its 2016 fourth quarter grid development ...
20 Feb 2023, 16:47 On the path to a climate neutral electricity system that is largely covered by renewable sources, Germany is planning a reform to its electricity market. Inaugurating the 鈥楥limate Neutral Electricity System Platform鈥�, the economy and ...
16 May 2023, 13:47 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen Heating Zeit Online 鈥淗ydrogen-ready鈥� gas boilers are nothing but window dressing because they delay effective climate action, are unlikely to be ever powered by renewable gas, and could end up being very expensive ...
The challenges that the US state of Ohio will face with its power grid will be similar to those that Germany is dealing with today, a situation that could provide some lessons learned, writes Kathiann Kowalski for US non-profit news site Midwest Energy ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said that current amendment plans for the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) do not yet include 鈥渟pecial auctions鈥� for onshore wind and solar PV, which were agreed in the grand coalition treaty, reports ...
The EUREF-Campus in the German capital Berlin has become a showcase for efficient energy use, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The campus combines existing technologies with a software that analyses weather data and regulates the use of ...
18 Feb 2020, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry 91tv Germany's government plans to use the country's EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020 to advocate a common European maritime economy strategy aimed at strengthening the ...
To be able to avoid high re-dispatch costs for grid stabilisation, German researchers are testing a new system to better predict power generation of wind and solar PV parks, writes the science journal nature. With the research project EWeLiNE, Fraunhofer ...
Germany is quickly reducing its conventional power capacities, risking a lack of secure capacity by 2023 at the latest, says the energy industry association BDEW in an analysis of the country鈥檚 power plants. Germany currently has power overcapacities. The ...
Germany should use its public budget surplus for preventative investments in transmission grids, transportation infrastructure and other areas, the Federation of German Industries (BDI) writes in a press release. Investments that could 鈥減repare for hard ...
10 May 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system will need 鈥榞reen鈥� gas to become climate neutral, but government must set the right framework conditions to ensure the ramp-up of the hydrogen economy, said several gas ...
Several German start-ups prepare to revolutionise the national energy market, writes Helmut B眉nder in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淲e鈥檒l get rid of established suppliers鈥� for instance is the slogan of Sonnen GmbH, a high-tech company from the German ...
29 Aug 2022, 13:20 Hannah Naylor Wind ZDF Bavarian state premier Markus S枚der has announced plans to build 鈥渙ver 1,000 new wind turbines鈥� in Germany's largest state, which has been accused of putting the brakes on the expansion of windpower. Bavaria ...
The surcharge German power customers pay with their power bill to finance the expansion of renewable energy is going to remain largely stable next year, according to calculations made by the energy policy think tank Agora Energiewende*. The renewables ...
03 Feb 2023, 13:36 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 91tv Solar PV expansion in Germany jumped ...
Protests continue against 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned SuedLink power transmission line, the news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. Guntram Ziepel of the national association of citizen initiatives against SuedLink says his organisation 鈥� ...
The EU Commission鈥檚 new energy package is likely to meet resistance from some member states and energy industry players, writes Thorsten Knuf in Frankfurter Rundschau. EU energy commissioner Miguel Arias Canete called the聽package a 鈥渦nique opportunity to ...
12 Mar 2018, 00:00 In a deal that could drastically re-shape Germany's power sector, RWE and E.ON have agreed to split RWE subsidiary innogy and focus each on different parts of the business. E.ON will largely be in charge of distribution grids while ...
Placing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned power transmission lines below ground will require a massive material and political effort, Andreas Macho writes in WirtschaftsWoche. The exact location of the two transmission lines SuedLink and SuedOstLink, which are supposed ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:53 Jessica Bateman Gas Society S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Local activists in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein are protesting the government鈥檚 liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure construction plans, newspaper S眉ddeutsche ...
03 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas Table.Media / Spiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has postponed a decision to include a planned new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal off the coast of the Baltic Sea island of R眉gen in the country鈥檚 LNG ...
The first so-called 鈥渕otion conference鈥� for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned power transmission highways, dubbed SuedLink and SuedOstLink, has allowed a glimpse into the difficulties that lie ahead for the 2,000-kilometre long project鈥檚 implementation, Jens Tartler ...
17 Aug 2023, 14:02 S枚ren Amelang Heating 91tv / Table.Media 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government has agreed on a draft law requiring municipalities to submit plans for the transition to climate-neutral heating, but has softened interim targets for ...
The European offshore wind industry is booming, but lagging grid expansion and a lack of major storage sites could hold back further rapid expansion of the sector, writes Christian Schw盲gerl for Yale Environment 360. The problem of too little progress in ...
29 Apr 2016
29 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv VW / Handelsblatt 鈥淲e plan to make electric cars one of Volkswagen鈥檚 new hallmarks鈥� German carmaker Volkswagen wants to be at the forefront of big changes in the auto industry, in ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:17 S枚ren Amelang Industry 91tv Existing estimates on how much green hydrogen 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chemical industry will need to decarbonise vary widely, according to a meta-analysis by the country鈥檚 science academy acatech and DECHEMA, ...
24 Jun 2022, 14:08 The German government has launched the second of a total of three escalation stages of its national gas supply security plan, which was drawn up in reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After triggering the first "early ...
09 Feb 2018, 00:00 The provisions on climate, energy, and transport in the coalition treaty agreed by Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) recognise the big challenges of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition project, but ...
23 Nov 2022, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang Storage Hydrogen International EU 91tv France and Germany plan to intensify cooperation on strategically important energy transition technologies, including battery cell production and green hydrogen. ...
12 Apr 2022, 09:53 Russia鈥檚 attack on Ukraine has added a new dimension to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ambitious aims for ramping up the share of renewables in its energy system. Marking a 鈥� historic turning point,鈥� the fast elimination of fossil fuel imports for Germany ...
Germany plans to split the common power price zone with its neighbour Austria in July 2018, according to a press release by the federal economy ministry (BMWi). This did not mean a split of the countries' power markets, said state secretary Rainer ...
Eastern German state premiers are urging the federal government to agree quickly on planned legislation to standardise electricity grid fees across the country, writes Albert Funk in Der Tagesspiegel. In a letter to the Chief of the German Chancellery ...
German households that reduce their power consumption are being 鈥減unished鈥� by paying relatively more for every unit they use, energy think tank Agora Energiewende* says in a press release. "Poor or聽 thrifty power consumers are faring comparatively ...
28 Oct 2021, 13:37 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas 91tv / EurActiv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chancellor-in-waiting Olaf Scholz (SPD) has re-iterated that the country must build new gas-fired power plants to complement renewables and guarantee ...
15 Jun 2022, 13:00 Gas flows from Russia to Germany through the key Nord Stream 1 pipeline will be drastically reduced for an unspecified period, state-owned Russian gas provider Gazprom has announced. The company said that German engineering company ...
13 Jan 2023, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv For the comprehensive electrification of sectors like heating and road transport, Germany must massively expand renewables and update its energy infrastructure with investments of 900 ...
11 Jan 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Technology 91tv The German government cabinet has adopted draft legislation to accelerate the sluggish introduction of smart meters in the country. Economy minister Robert Habeck called it an important step ...
02 Mar 2023, 14:06 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 ...
03 Feb 2015
03 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淏avaria does not need two grid extensions鈥� The southern German state of Bavaria, one of the country鈥檚 industrial powerhouses, has completed a three-month 鈥淓nergy Dialogue鈥� ...
Deutsche WindGuard has published offshore wind statistics for the first six months of 2016. 聽Compared to the first half of 2015, less offshore wind turbines (OWT) were added to the grid. Forty-three OWT with a capacity of 258 megawatt (MW) first fed into ...
06 Jan 2023, 13:13 S枚ren Amelang Transport dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung An increasing number of cruise ships have switched their propellant from liquefied natural gas (LNG) to diesel fuel because of high LNG prices,聽 reports 聽newswire dpa in an article ...
Power storage devices need a clearer legal definition in German law to create a better investment environment for the industry, BSW Solar says in a press release. 鈥淢any disputes and uncertainties stem from the fact that storages sometimes count as ...
States like Lower Saxony are pushing for more wind power development even though the grid connections to transport the green power are lacking, Der Spiegel writes. There are no incentives for the state government to accelerate the construction of new ...
02 Sep 2019, 13:08 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices dpa Economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said he aims to lower German electricity prices in the country's climate cabinet, where聽 key decisions 聽on German climate action legislation ...
02 Jun 2016, 00:00 The latest reform of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable energy law is taking shape 鈥� on Tuesday the federal government and the heads of the 16 states reached an agreement on essential aspects of a reformed bill, such as the amount of onshore wind and ...
04 Aug 2020, 14:50 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Coal 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) ...
The dispute about the decision to split the German-Austrian common power price zone shows the difficulties of designing a common EU energy market in light of missing grid infrastructure, writes Paul Hodgson for EurActiv. Trans-border power trade, as well ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:34 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 ...
21 Jul 2023, 11:27 Switching to climate-friendly heating to keep homes warm requires both subsidies for clean technologies and restrictions on dirty ones, says Duncan Gibb, senior advisor at climate think tank Regulatory Assistance Project and founder of ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:28 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Industry 91tv Germany's largest energy company RWE, together with oil company BP, chemicals producer Evonik and gas ...
02 May 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Technology 91tv Germany is interested in finding an agreement with neighbouring Switzerland on how the Alpine country could contribute to German and European power supply security, the German ...
The preparation procedure for building 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 high-voltage transmission highway SuedLink has entered a crucial stage, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. Following submission of the sectoral planning application for SuedLink鈥檚 ...
30 Dec 2015
30 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淕overnment puts pressure on municipal utilities鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 municipal utilities have criticised the federal government鈥檚 plans for digitalising the Energiewende and its ...
18 Aug 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Gas n-tv Power production with natural gas increased in Germany in May and July despite political pledges to minimise the fossil fuel鈥檚 use amid the supply crunch caused by Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine, news ...
10 Nov 2015
10 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Renewable Energy Prospects: Germany A new IRENA report 鈥淩enewable Energy Prospects Germany鈥� examines the country鈥檚 energy transition in the last ...
07 Oct 2019, 14:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Der Spiegel Hundreds of companies may have used a loophole in Germany's Renewable Energy Act to avoid paying their share of the country's renewables support- and passed on the energy ...
17 Jul 2019, 12:47 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert WindGuard Deutsche WindGuard Renewables Julian Wettengel Wind Deutsche WindGuard / VDMA German offshore ...
Many operators of nuclear, gas or coal-fired power plants in Germany do not throttle feed-in at times of 鈥� negative power prices,鈥� the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) has said in a press release. Although operators of conventional plants have to pay for ...
22 Dec 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza Society Government S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German Green Party co-leader Ricarda Lang has welcomed criticism from climate activists about the government coalition's climate policies in its first year in office, saying their ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 鈥榞reen energy account鈥� had a surplus of 3,688,937,633.01 euros in June 2016, according to new figures published by the four transmission grid operators (TSOs). This is about 500 million euros less than in June 2015. The TSOs provide a balance of ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:20 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency S枚ren Amelang Coal Finance International 91tv German government-owned business and development bank KfW stops financing all coal ...
06 Oct 2020, 13:16 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Hydrogen Heating Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Clean ...
The diesel emissions fraud scandal has given impetus to calls for a swift transition to electric cars in Germany, but despite great technological progress, the technology continues to be too expensive and impractical to replace conventional cars, ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Electricity market Utilities 91tv The European Commission has approved ...
Fossil power plants can react much more flexibly to large feed-ins of power from renewables than studies have indicated, writes Jakob Schlandt in an article in Tagesspiegel Background Energie & Klima. The newspaper's calculations showed that the ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security ZDF The cold snap that has gripped large parts ...
13 Dec 2023, 14:38 Germany will earmark billions of euros less for climate and transformation projects every year until 2027 in order to make the government budget comply with constitutionally enshrined limits on borrowing. One month after a seminal ...
29 Jan 2015
29 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau Minister sees Bavaria as showcase for the Energiewende Bavarian economy minister Ilse Aigner says that far from blocking the energy transition, her state is a driver of the ...
06 Feb 2023, 13:26 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices Clean Energy ...
14 Oct 2022, 13:56 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv The sixth tender for early shutdowns of hard coal plants in Germany was undersubscribed and only one plant was successful, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. As part of its plan to end ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Security 91tv Only just under one-third of German companies have an emergency plan in place in the event of an energy shortage, but their responses vary widely depending on the business ...
Many Central and Eastern European countries have reacted extremely sceptical to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, but they have been proven wrong, writes Jan Ondrich in a blog post on energytransition.de. 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid remains one of the most stable in Europe ...
11 Oct 2016, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 consumer surcharge to fund renewable electricity will rise to a record high in 2017, but less than experts predicted, according to a report by German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Grid operators will officially ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Germany is set to produce a record 256 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity from renewable sources this year, but the amount is still insufficient to put it on track to its 2030 targets, ...
30 Jan 2020, 13:55 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Renewables 91tv The volume of new renewable energy projects backed by a purchase power agreement (PPA) in Germany trails that of other European countries, according to a report by energy ...
02 Sep 2019, 13:13 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Renewables Wind S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany's "green fairy tale is in danger" as wind power expansion in the country has almost come to a "complete standstill,"聽 writes Michael ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Solar pv magazine The coronavirus crisis ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Storage Business Wire Bavarian energy storage group Sonnen is building a virtual power plant from private storage systems as part of a joint project with US energy supplier Rocky Mountain Power and the Wasatch ...
The European Commission pressures Germany to make progress on expanding its power transmission grid and the important north-south SuedLink and SuedOstLink power lines, Michael Bauchm眉ller and Thomas Kirchner write in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The 700 ...
Citizens of Munich have voted to shut down the city鈥檚 single largest source of CO 2 emissions ahead of schedule, klimaretter.info reports. Around 60 percent voted in favour of close the Munich Nord heating plant by 2022, instead of 2035 as planned by the ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas Business & Jobs 91tv In preparation for a possible 鈥� if unlikely 鈥� severe shortage of natural gas supply during winter, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has decided it will take into account ...
07 Aug 2019, 13:51 S枚ren Amelang Storage 91tv The rapid spread of home batteries in Germany has brought the European residential storage market to an economic tipping point, according to a report by energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie. 鈥淕ermany ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Solar 91tv A 鈥渞adical simplification鈥� in the registration, installation and commissioning of plug-in solar units is needed in Germany to involve more homeowners and tenants to ...
27 Aug 2018, 14:30 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 current boom in residential solar batteries has profound effects on the Energiewende (energy transition), says Kai-Philipp Kairies, director of technical consulting at RWTH Aachen University, one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest technical ...
25 Mar 2015
25 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Institute for Applied Ecology / Friends of the Earth Germany Exit from lignite possible by 2030 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national and regional climate goals imply that lignite mining will have to stop much ...
05 May 2017, 00:00 Nicknamed the 鈥渃radle of the Energiewende鈥� by its own government, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein, embodies some of the most pressing challenges and solutions to the country鈥檚 energy turnaround. With their decision in ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:26 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency S枚ren Amelang Digitalisation 91tv Artificial intelligence (AI) has started to arrive in some areas ...
20 May 2016
20 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Institute for Renewable Energy (IWR) 鈥淲ind power overtakes nuclear energy for first time in Germany鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 wind turbines will generate more electricity this year than nuclear ...
11 Jul 2022, 12:23 Kerstine Appunn Gas EU 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and climate minister Robert Habeck is visiting Prague and Vienna to hold talks on intensified bilateral and European cooperation in securing gas supplies. Habeck (Green Party) ...
22 Nov 2022, 13:56 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables 91tv / Reuters Germany is examining the introduction of state guarantees for investments in wind and solar power to improve the country鈥檚 industrial potential, economy minister Robert Habeck has ...
19 Apr 2022, 13:37 Kerstine Appunn Gas Handelsblatt The German finance ministry has approved the spending of up to three billion euros from the budget to finance floating terminals for liquified natural gas (LNG) in German ports. With the signing of the ...
17 Mar 2023, 14:25 A year after the launch of Russia's attack on Ukraine, Germany appears to be emerging from the energy crisis relatively unscathed. Russia鈥檚 war has dealt a heavy blow to Europe鈥檚 biggest economy, because it was particularly ...
02 Jul 2019, 14:09 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 91tv For the first time, solar energy topped the list of sources for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 net public electricity ...
23 May 2023, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The buildout of onshore wind power in Germany can be doubled in 2023 with respect to the previous year and set the country on track towards its ambitious renewable power goals, economy ...
16 Sep 2022, 13:45 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen 91tv A first hydrogen test delivery from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has arrived in Germany. The shipment in the form of the hydrogen derivative ammonia reached the port of Hamburg, the economy ...
01 Jun 2016
01 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Federal government 鈥淔ederal and state governments agree on key points of the Renewable Energy Act reform鈥� State premiers and the federal government have agreed on ...
14 Sep 2022, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang Coal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Readying retired German coal plants for use during the winter in case of gas shortfalls is not economically viable for the sector, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal industry has said. The lifetime ...
15 Nov 2022, 12:11 Edgar Meza Renewables 91tv Germany still needs a bigger push to speed up renewables expansion to avoid a prolonged cost crisis and ensure that the country reaches its targets, said the Renewable Energy Federation (BEE). ...
30 Jun 2022, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv Germany wants to rapidly increase the expansion of heat pumps and install 500,000 new units annually from 2024 onwards, said the economy and climate ministry, after agreeing a joint declaration ...
04 Jan 2023, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German transport minister Volker Wissing has triggered a fresh debate over the government decision to switch off the country鈥檚 remaining nuclear plants ...
12 Dec 2017
The fact that offshore wind turbines produce more power than previously thought is good news in the long run but might currently rather lead to more problems, Jens Heitmann writes in an opinion piece for the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淚f the ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The merger of German energy company E.ON with parts of utility RWE will not make it too dominant on the country鈥檚 energy market, E.ON CEO Johannes Teyssen ...
07 Sep 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government plans to rapidly accelerate the expansion of solar power capacity in the country with several legal changes, energy policy newsletter Tagesspiegel Background reports. ...
22 Dec 2021, 12:42 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Energiewende Handelsblatt The new German government must quickly fill its ambitious energy transition plans with action, according to Markus Krebber, ...
04 Feb 2016
04 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Decision on e-car support postponed The German government has postponed the decision about how to boost e-cars until March after a high-level meeting with ...
15 Oct 2018, 14:44 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable energy surcharge that is paid by consumers with their electricity bill and supports wind, solar, biomass and hydro power installations, is to fall by 5.7 percent in 2019, transmission grid operators have calculated. ...
01 Sep 2022, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Digitalisation 91tv The German government has said its new digitalisation strategy will help in the fight against the climate crisis and in efforts to transform the economy. Environmental data and ...
25 May 2016
25 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Reuters Campaigners urge Germany to stop financing coal projects abroad Environmental groups urged G7 nations led by Japan and Germany to stop financing coal projects abroad, reports ...
German household power prices will remain largely unchanged in 2019 as higher grid fees and wholesale prices outweigh a dip in the surcharge paid for the roll-out of renewable energy sources. The German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) expects the ...
17 Aug 2015
17 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv dpa / S眉ddeutsche.de 鈥淩aid on Garzweiler鈥� Hundreds of activists entered the open cast lignite mine of Garzweiler, in North-Rhine Westphalia, on Saturday, the German press agency dpa reports. Some ...
23 Feb 2016, 00:00 A reformed energy-only market and interconnections with electrical neighbours are Germany's visions for a future European power system, energy state secretary Baake says. Utility industry head Kempmann warns against splitting power ...
21 Nov 2019, 13:03 Hydrogen production with renewable power is seen by many countries as an essential tool to decarbonise the economy. The UK and Germany, the world鈥檚 two leading offshore wind power nations, have started to sound out how they could ...
23 Jun 2015
23 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv World Energy Council/Roland Berger 鈥淓nergiewende requires new financing models鈥� Traditional utilities can no longer shoulder the huge infrastructure investments necessary for the Energiewende, ...
20 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:12 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Germany covered over one third of its entire net electricity ...
15 Oct 2014, 00:00 Consumers can expect a reduction in the surcharge they pay on energy bills next year but analysts say it will rise again in 2016 as green power production continues to expand. 91tv 91tv Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Cost ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Hydrogen 91tv The national infrastructure for producing and using green hydrogen in Germany is beginning to take shape, as the government seeks to support market scale-up for the renewable fuel. ...
18 Mar 2019, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage International 91tv The governments of Poland and Germany have agreed on pooling their efforts to establish an independent battery production in Europe. At the bilateral German-Polish economy forum ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cost & Prices 91tv With its largest offshore wind power auction to date, Germany aims to make progress on its ambitious target to nearly quadruple capacity by the end of the decade 鈥� and could ...
19 Mar 2019, 14:11 Kerstine Appunn Coal Climate & CO2 91tv The growth in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable electricity output triggered by the country鈥檚 energy transition policy is 鈥渜uite an achievement,鈥� the JP Morgan Energy Outlook 2019 authored by ...
09 Dec 2014
09 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv EurActiv 鈥淕lobal comparison reveals Germany's 'Energiewende dilemma'鈥� Germany scored average results (place 22 of 61) in the global climate protection index, compiled by the NGO ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:08 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Electricity prices have risen particularly high for Germans with a low level of consumption due to a rise in basic costs of 30 percent from 2014 to 2019, according to an analysis by ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Wind Hydrogen NDR Germany's northern coastal states are set to expand their efforts to bring hydrogen production from wind power to an industrial scale and better use the turbines' energy potential, ...
04 Mar 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The use of nuclear power in Germany will come to an end by the end of 2022 as planned, operators of the country鈥檚 remaining nuclear plants have told the ...
08 Dec 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv The planned infrastructure for direct imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coastlines are 鈥渕assively oversized鈥� and state involvement means that taxpayer money is used for what could ...
31 Aug 2020, 13:42 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
01 Jun 2021, 10:25 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. Without the support of the feed-in tariff, power production ...
09 Apr 2019, 17:18 Innovation to make the use of energy cleaner, more flexible and efficient is the central quest of the global energy transition. At the Berlin Start-up Energy Transition Tech Festival, the German Energy Agency (dena) promotes start-ups ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:23 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert bne- Association of Energy ...
06 Oct 2015
06 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Bloomberg/The Economic Times/Environment Ministry 鈥淢erkel pledges 1 billion euros to fund Indian solar projects鈥� During Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 state visit to India, Germany pledged investment of more than one ...
27 Apr 2020, 14:13 Expert bne- Association of Energy Market Innovators Bundesverband Neue Energiewirtschaft Electricity market Grid Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables ...
13 May 2022, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv An alliance of environmental NGOs has called on parliamentarians to make significant changes to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned acceleration of liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects to ensure that the current ...
17 May 2024
17 May 2024, 11:28 After months of negotiations, politicians in the Netherlands reached a deal to form a new government that will include populist parties: the nationalist Party for Freedom (PVV) and the agrarian-populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB). ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv The German energy crisis has not ended yet, but has become 鈥渕anageable鈥� to a point where the government is confident it could be overcome for good by 2024, economy and climate minister ...
26 Jul 2022, 11:54 Hannah Naylor Efficiency Heating 91tv Modernising the most energy-inefficient homes will not only help the climate, but also shield those most prone to energy poverty, according to a report by the Institute for Applied ...
20 Jul 2015
20 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv WirtschaftsWoche 鈥淕abriel鈥檚 energy concept will cost Germany dearly鈥� Energy minister Sigmar Gabriel has called his energy concept a 鈥渉istoric pact for new prosperity鈥� but what he didn鈥檛 say was ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:00 The European Parliament elections this week (6-9 June) are unlikely to cause a big rollback of existing EU Green Deal legislation, but a projected shift to right-wing 鈥� and often climate action sceptic 鈥� parties could lower ambition ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine The first ship designed to convert liquefied natural gas (LNG) back 聽to gaseous state has聽 arrived 聽in Germany, Deutsche ReGas, 聽the company developing the country's ...
04 Jul 2019, 12:43 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv More than 60 local German utilities have called for the introduction of a mandatory share of renewables-based gases to be added to the country鈥檚 natural gas supply for sectors not covered ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Tagesspiegel Background The European energy crisis, which has been dominated by skyrocketing prices for gas and oil so far, 聽could soon spill over to the electricity market, energy policy newsletter ...
18 Jul 2022, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Renewables 91tv Renewables have increased their power output in Germany to 49 percent in the first half of 2022, according to first estimates published by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). ...
16 Sep 2022, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang Gas Security Handelsblatt Germany will only be able to find out at short notice whether it will face any form of gas shortage in winter, which will then be impossible to prevent, according to the country鈥檚 grid agency ...
15 Nov 2017, 00:00 The German coalition talks on climate and energy policy stumble over a dispute over the reduction of coal fired power production. Just days before exploratory talks are scheduled to finish, the Green Party and its negotiating partners ...
20 May 2021, 13:34 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first movers in hydrogen generation using electricity will be supported by lower power prices and a wide definition of 鈥済reen鈥� hydrogen, the government has decided. By creating 鈥渃lear and pragmatic鈥� requirements for green ...
Members of the Christian Democratic and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) parliamentary group in the German Bundestag have called for closer cooperation on energy policy within the European Union at the group鈥檚 8 th Energy Policy Dialogue on Monday in ...
First a Chinese battery factory in Thuringia (and renewed interest of the Chinese state grid in German network operator 50Hertz), then the Nord Stream 2 controversy 鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy cooperation with the East is coming into focus, something our visiting ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:46 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 91tv, Tagesschau, Focus Online The German cabinet has passed a climate emergency programme allocating an additional 8.1 billion euros for climate protection measures over the next five ...
07 May 2020, 08:58 The performance of Germany's electricity system during the coronavirus pandemic offers important lessons for the future of the country's landmark energy transition, says Hanns Koenig from consultancy Aurora Energy Research. ...
12 Sep 2022, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang Transport Freight Hydrogen 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national railway operator Deutsche Bahn plans to transport large amounts of green hydrogen on trains, offering an alternative to transport through non-existent ...
15 Oct 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government 91tv The surcharge on German power customers' bills to support the expansion of renewable energy sources will fall from currently 6.75 to 6.5 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) ...
14 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 聽 Ernst & Young 鈥淐autious upward trend: Approval of the Energiewende rises slightly鈥� Business approval for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy is gradually rising, according to Ernst & Young鈥檚 quarterly Energiewende Index ...
02 May 2022, 14:14 Voters in the northern wind power state of Schleswig-Holstein head to the polls this Sunday (8 May) to elect a new parliament in one of the regions most crucial to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 efforts to phase out Russian fossil fuel imports and massively ...
08 Nov 2022, 14:08 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv The southern German state of Bavaria is set to invest 500 million euros in renewable energy and hydrogen production projects, the state鈥檚 economy minister, Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters), ...
04 Jul 2022, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Heating 91tv The German heating sector must be reformed from its core and made more efficient to weather the energy supply challenges ahead, the state-funded Federal Environmental Foundation ...
02 Aug 2024, 12:34 The upcoming elections in three Eastern German states in September have put the region at the centre of attention of the country鈥檚 political landscape in 2024, especially due to the expected success of populist parties which could shake ...
09 Sep 2022, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU dpa / n-tv A delivery of uranium is on its way from Russia to Germany six months after the beginning of the war on Ukraine and the ensuing energy trading sanctions imposed by the EU, news agency ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:06 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur f眉r Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Sven Egenter Solar Society 91tv An overwhelming majority of people in Germany continue to support the expansion ...
29 Dec 2014
29 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Hamburger Abendblatt 鈥淗amburg puts focus on development of green energies鈥� The city-state of Hamburg is profiting from Germany's Energiewende in the form of investment and new jobs, the ...
06 Jun 2016
06 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Tagesspiegel 鈥�80 percent renewables are not a problem鈥� There is much more flexibility in the German power grid to cope with renewables development than currently needed, said Boris ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation ...
Only solar bids have been successful in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first joint solar and onshore wind auction for renewables support, said the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in a press release. 鈥淚n competition, it simply is the technology that offers the lowest costs ...
02 Mar 2016
02 Mar 2016, 00:00 tageszeitung 鈥淪hort-sighted cap fans鈥� Despite fighting climate change being a national objective and renewables now the cheapest source of energy, leading conservative politicians want to use reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) to ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:25 Expert German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation Stiftung Offshore-Windenergie Renewables Freja Eriksen Renewables Wind 91tv / dpa / Focus Online Germany's northern states and federal government want to nearly triple the ...
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 2016 is set to be another eventful year in German energy policy. The Paris climate summit underlined the need to reduce emissions even further, which will ultimately involve painful decisions about the future of coal. A series of ...
23 Feb 2022, 14:35 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen EU 91tv The EU Commission's proposals for adapting the gas market to climate targets are not enough to ensure a rapid scale-up of the hydrogen economy, according to Germany's hydrogen ...
23 Dec 2022, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv In order to bolster the capacity for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG), Germany will support the construction of three so-called LNG bunker vessels. Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck ...
Fossil power plants are disappearing from the market too quickly when they are still needed to supply the country with power on days with little sun or wind, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. 鈥淎t the moment, the bad economic framework conditions lead to ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society WirtschaftsWoche The renewed push for renewable energy expansion in Germany leaves no more room for the NIMBY (not in my backyard) mentality that has long stalled the buildout of wind turbines, solar ...
29 Aug 2022, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Handelsblatt The economy and climate ministry is pondering a new power market design for Germany that decouples electricity prices from gas prices in response to the current turmoil on energy markets ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:12 Jessica Bateman Gas Policy 91tv It is possible to ensure the efficient use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a transitional solution in Germany over the coming winter and beyond without losing sight of the climate ...
28 May 2020, 17:30 A slowing economy and mild weather lowered Germany's energy demand significantly in the first quarter of 2020. Latest data also confirmed that renewable energy sources accounted for more than half of the electricity fed into ...
08 Feb 2016
08 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Der Tagesspiegel 鈥淕overnment could use mercury limits to take coal plants offline鈥� The government 鈥渉as a plan B up its sleeve" in case there is no political agreement on a coal exit, reports ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:36 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency S枚ren Amelang Transport Cars 91tv The trend towards heavy and fuel-guzzling sports utility vehicles ...
03 Sep 2019, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy ...
18 Aug 2022, 14:03 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices t-online Companies in certain parts of ...
23 Aug 2022, 13:29 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Solar 91tv Investors have shown only limited interest in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most recent call for solar installations on buildings and noise protection walls, further dampening hopes of speeding up the roll ...
24 Mar 2022, 12:07 Jessica Bateman Gas Der Spiegel The energy minister of Lower Saxony has called on the German federal government to provide partial funding for four liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals in his state, Der Spiegel reports. In a letter to ...
17 Oct 2022, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Wind Handelsblatt Meteorological institutes forecast mild weather in their new winter prognostics for Europe, concluding that less heating gas could be used but also that wind power production might decline as a ...
15 Jun 2016
15 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淏uyer鈥檚 premium for e-cars still cannot be applied for鈥� Customers still cannot apply for a buyer鈥檚 premium for new e-cars after the ...
13 Apr 2023, 13:08 Edgar Meza Gas Security Zeit Online As the German government follows through with its plan to shut down its last remaining nuclear power plants for good, the country鈥檚 energy sector is calling for the construction of new hydrogen-ready ...
09 Aug 2024, 13:30 A number of key issues relating to France鈥檚 ecological transition have been put on hold after the rise of the far-right Rassemblement National party in June鈥檚 European elections caused president Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National ...
24 Jan 2022, 13:31 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Renewables Policy dpa / Stern The German coalition government has promised to accelerate the country's landmark energy transition and other core legislation procedures, newswire dpa report s in ...
12 Nov 2020, 14:26 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gas demand is set to increase significantly from 90 billion cubic metres (Bcm) today to 110 Bcm by 2034 as the country exits both nuclear and coal, said the energy research company and ...
11 Oct 2022, 14:16 Carolina Kyllmann Nuclear phase-out AFP The German coalition government hasn鈥檛 been able to come to an agreement over the economy minister鈥檚 proposed runtime extension scheme for two of the country鈥檚 three remaining nuclear power plants ...
