³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ? renewables surcharge ?is to rise from 6.35 cents per kilowatt-hour (ct/kWh) to 6.88 ct/kWh next year, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) learned from grid operator sources. The 8 percent increase would be less than? predicted by experts. This ...
02 Mar 2023, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security Die Zeit The possible earlier coal phase-out in eastern Germany continues to lead to clashes between the federal government and state governments in the east, with views differing on how a coal exit in ...
01 Dec 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 91tv Germany's electricity market design needs a fundamental overhaul more urgently than ever before to make the economic value of supply security visible, the country's energy ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:45 Rachel Waldholz Gas Grid Hydrogen 91tv Producing hydrogen from renewable energy is already cost-competitive in niche markets and likely to be competitive in industrial-scale applications within a decade, according to a ...
07 Oct 2022, 14:55 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Gas Cost & Prices 91tv There ...
19 Jul 2024, 15:00 Every year in August, Italy and its political scene grind to an almost complete halt for the summer holidays. The debate around the country¡¯s energy transition has almost entirely narrowed down to a single topic: whether to return to ...
27 Jul 2018, 13:55 Germany's coal mines seen from space, the talk on electric cars and Chinese-German battery production cooperation- 91tv's 2018 visiting cartoonist Mwelwa Musonko presents his view of the Energiewende and its many big and small ...
Car manufacturer Daimler has opened its third large battery storage facility in Elverlingsen, southern Westphalia, the company writes in an announcement. Together with Mercedes-Benz Energy, GETEC Energie, and The Mobility House, Daimler will store battery ...
15 Nov 2022, 14:04 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen NDR / 91tv The first jetty for arrival of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been completed in northern German Wilhelmshaven, with the first delivery set to arrive in mid-January 2023, reports ...
14 Feb 2023, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background While heat pump sales increased more than 50 percent in 2022, oil and gas boilers continued to dominate the German heating market, according to the annual heating ...
14 Dec 2017, 00:00 The energy transition has profound implications for Germany's preparations for an "unlikely but possible" large-scale power blackout, civil protection experts say. While renewable energy sources could replace fuel depots ...
06 May 2022, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv The head of energy industry association BDEW has called on the government to examine further measures that could relieve households amid rising energy prices. ¡°Since the beginning of ...
15 Sep 2022, 13:44 S?ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv Calculations by the ifo Institute for Economic Research suggest that postponing the decommissioning of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ three remaining nuclear power plants would not help the ...
01 Oct 2014
01 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online "Subsidies: Brussels' billion-euro gift to the nuclear lobby" German parliamentarians are ?appalled" after EU competition commissioner Joaqu¨ªn Almunia allowed the ...
31 May 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Hydrogen dw.com ¡°Lobby battle over Energiewende¡± There is a lot of pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers to hammer out a compromise at tonight¡¯s ...
25 Apr 2022, 12:52 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Resources & ...
22 Feb 2024, 13:35 Two years after Russia¡¯s invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing energy crisis, Germany continues to struggle with its full economic recovery ¨C even if energy prices are losing in relevance for the country¡¯s growth prospects. Presenting the ...
23 Aug 2021, 13:36 Edgar Meza Electricity Renewables 91tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition and increasing share of decentralised generation capacity are having no negative effects on the quality of its power supply,? according to ?the Federal ...
06 Jul 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs WirtschaftsWoche The local availability of renewable power sources could increasingly become a boon for northern German states and could shift the country¡¯s industrial centre of gravity ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:51 Edgar Meza Renewables Tageszeitung / 91tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ hydropower sector is up in arms over the federal government¡¯s plan to stop the subsidisation of small hydroelectric power plants due to nature conservation concerns, ...
19 Mar 2015
19 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Bloomberg ¡°RWE said to consider 10 percent stake sale to Abu Dhabi investors¡± ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ second largest utility RWE, grappling with rising debt, is considering selling a ten percent stake to ...
19 Dec 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security Die Welt Coal mining states in eastern Germany have warned that the energy crisis makes an early phase-out of the fossil fuel too risky for the country¡¯s energy supply. ¡°Lignite is needed now and for the ...
Chemical companies BASF, Evonik, and Clariant seek to use excess renewable power in Germany to make synthetic fuels and other chemicals, reports Ludwig Burger for Reuters. According to ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ chemical industry lobby VCI, so-called power-to-X technology ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices 91tv German leaders see the country well-equipped to get through the coming winter in the ongoing energy crisis. The government had initiated the necessary preparations to secure ...
02 Sep 2022, 12:46 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv The German government has chartered a fifth floating import terminal (FSRU) for liquefied natural gas (LNG) to help the country wean itself off Russian pipeline gas and ensure supply security,? the ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:09 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen 91tv Germany aims to secure a full supply of green hydrogen in its drive to become climate neutral, but may use blue hydrogen made with natural gas and carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Norway for a ...
29 Jun 2022, 12:59 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv An undersubscribed auction for solar power ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables Energiewende 91tv Germany will use auctions to ensure new gas power plants are built, which the government sees as necessary to secure supply at times when renewable energy does not deliver ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Resources & Recycling 91tv To succeed in the energy transition, Germany will focus on warranting secure supply chains and reliable production capacities required for renewable ...
12 Mar 2019, 13:48 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Thanks to strong winds, electricity production in Germany achieved a new record share of nearly 65 ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:46 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU Handelsblatt Excessive EU regulation is stalling the development of competitive hydrogen infrastructure in Europe, the head of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ...
30 Jul 2021, 11:36 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv High natural gas and hard coal prices and expensive allowances in the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) have significantly pushed up the power price over recent months, ...
17 Apr 2020, 13:45 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Clean Energy ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:18 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal Nuclear phase-out 91tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ nuclear and coal phase-out both took a step towards their completion on the last day of 2021, when ...
The German Renewable Energies Agency has published its ¡°Atlas of the Energiewende¡± in English. The online digital book illustrates the potential of renewable energies, as well as current challenges such as grid expansion and storage, on more than 100 ...
19 Feb 2015
19 Feb 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Die Welt ¡°Berlin wants to close its coal-fired power plants by 2020¡± The German capital of Berlin will shut its four remaining coal-fired power plants by 2020, according to provisional results from a parliamentary ...
27 Feb 2019, 16:36 An expert panel advising the German government has called for a price on CO2 to spur the development of new technologies that are key for the energy transition. ¡°Innovations are driven into the ground without a CO2 price signal,¡± said ...
09 Jul 2015
09 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Die Zeit ¡°We have to exit within 25 or 30 years¡± German environment minister Barbara Hendricks expects coal to be phased out in Germany by 2045 at the very latest. ¡°We have to exit the burning of coal step by step ...
16 Nov 2015
16 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online ¡°Grid Agency: About 350,000 households had their power cut off¡± The number of power cut-offs in Germany rose by two percent to a new record in 2014, reports Spiegel Online. According ...
16 Jun 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Rheinische Post To save gas and money, German households should be incentivised to use less energy for heating, the president of the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), Klaus M¨¹ller, has told newspaper ...
Utility company RWE has unveiled the name of its new ¡°colourful, cheerful and innovative¡± subsidiary: ¡°Innogy¡±. The new company pools the German and international renewables, grid and infrastructure and retail business. ...
14 Oct 2019, 11:00 Starting in 2021 and throughout the 2020s, many of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ pioneer wind turbines, solar PV installations and biogas plants will stop receiving fixed feed-in tariffs, meaning many gigwatts in renewable capacity may be shut down if they ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:24 Edgar Meza Coal Renewables 91tv German energy group LEAG, the country¡¯s second biggest electricity producer and a key lignite company, plans to build the country¡¯s largest renewable energy site in the eastern Lusatia coal ...
15 Oct 2015
15 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Bloomberg ¡°Germany considers emissions levy as CO2 reduction target wobbles¡± Germany may have to introduce a tax on emissions in order to meet its target of cutting CO2 emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by ...
Offering municipalities financial incentives for building new power lines needed for the energy transition does not change the acceptance rate of the local population, according to a study by Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI Essen ...
08 Jun 2020, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables 91tv The? price drop on electricity markets ?due to the coronavirus pandemic has led to calls for extending Germany's renewable energy support for wind turbines that are poised to fall out ...
10 Feb 2015
10 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Reuters ¡°Study ¨C Germany spends billions on export of coal technology¡± Germany and France are the EU¡¯s biggest sponsors of the export of coal technology, according to a confidential OECD study ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity 91tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ five biggest power ...
29 Nov 2021, 13:13 Expert BBH- Becker B¨¹ttner Held energy law firm Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & ...
02 Oct 2024, 13:00 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ three-party coalition government is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in several elections, casting a shadow over the progress of the country¡¯s energy transition. Energy industry and ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 91tv The majority of Germans (74%) are prepared to make changes to their lifestyle to prevent global warming, a survey among 1,000 consumers commissioned by heating technology company ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:10 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 91tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government coalition parties have locked horns over the envisaged 65 percent share of renewables in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ gross power ...
The federal government has prolonged a legal statute that regulates support for ¡°interruptible loads¡±, i.e. power consumers who can reduce their electricity consumption in times of scarcity in order to stabilise the grid. Read the government press release ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:20 Leading German economists have urged more innovation and investments to put the country that is still grappling with the fallout of the energy crisis and inflation back on a growth track. The German Council of Economic Experts forecasts ...
07 Nov 2022, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen COP27 WirtschaftsWoche Plans by Egypt¡¯s government and other governments in the region to make northern Africa and the Middle East (MENA) a major exporter of green hydrogen raise hopes within the German ...
22 May 2020, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland An alliance of hard coal plant operators plans to achieve an expansion of the runtime of Germany's seven most modern hard coal plants by ...
20 Nov 2020, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Wind International 91tv The plans by the European Commission to significantly ramp up renewable energy generation at sea have been mostly welcomed by German policymakers ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal grid agency (BNetzA) has launched the second round of PV auctions, under new rules agreed last year. A volume of 200 megawatts will be auctioned off, and bids must not exceed 8.91 cents/kWh. Find the press release in German? here. For ...
India has entered into a pact with Deutsche Gesellschaft f¨¹r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)- the German government's international development agency- to help integrate renewable energy into its grid,?The Economic Times reports. India¡¯s Union ...
11 Jul 2022, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv / Dlf Russian natural gas supplier Gazprom halted flows almost entirely through Nord Stream on Monday morning (11 July) as about ten days of planned maintenance work began, with the German ...
02 Jul 2018, 15:13 The production of renewable energy in Germany dashes to a new record output, providing more than 40 percent of the country's power supply in the first half of 2018. Yet, the good news for proponents of Germany's trademark ...
21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Greenpeace Energy ¡°Flawed subsidies¡± Britain is planning a different kind of energy transition, writes Bj?rn Finke in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. While they want to shut down all ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Industry Business & Jobs Augsburger Allgemeine The head of industry chamber IHK Schwaben has warned ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ southern economic powerhouse Bavaria could fall behind regions in the north and east of the country ...
03 Apr 2019, 12:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cost & Prices 91tv The German government says the jury is still out on the question whether the operators of coal plants are eligible for compensation payments once their facilities are taken off ...
22 Dec 2015
22 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt ¡°Several companies dig for Vattenfall's brown coal¡± The timing of the sale of Vattenfall¡¯s lignite operations, only days after the end of the Paris Climate Summit, could hardly be worse, writes ...
05 May 2022, 13:32 Germany is rapidly pushing several infrastructure projects for the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in order to wean itself off Russian natural gas. Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck visited the kick-off ceremony for the ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:43 The EU is struggling to decarbonise its buildings, most of which are heated by fossil fuels that spew planet-heating gasses. But it has the technologies to go green. The bigger problem, experts say, is overcoming the barriers to rolling ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:49 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Cars 91tv Germany is to accelerate the expansion of its electromobility charging network to facilitate the switch to electric vehicles, transport minister Volker Wissing (FDP) announced after ...
11 Feb 2015
11 Feb 2015, 00:00 Agora Energiewende ¡°Without a decisive change of course the emissions trading system will fail permanently¡± Only the rapid introduction of a market stability reserve to increase the price of CO2 emissions can salvage the European system ...
30 Jun 2022, 14:07 On 1 July,?Germany marks the end of its landmark renewables levy on consumer power prices. The surcharge helped to spur the growth of wind and solar power capacity for more than two decades but has also been criticised for contributing ...
26 Aug 2021, 13:45 Charlotte Nijhuis Solar Cities 91tv German cities are failing to fully utilise solar PV installations on new building rooftops, according to the country¡¯s largest green power provider LichtBlick. The ratio of newly ...
The state government of Thuringia in central Germany opposes the construction of new power lines connecting it with Bavaria because these would cut through a rich cultural and natural landscape, Welt Online reports. They also reject three alternative ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out 91tv / NDR / Bloomberg A nuclear power plant in northern Germany has come to the verge of being taken off the grid on Friday, a Lower Saxony state environment ministry spokesperson told ...
05 Feb 2015
05 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Vattenfall / Reuters Vattenfall Annual report: Focus on renewables in Germany Swedish utility Vattenfall, who operates power stations, mines and other energy businesses across Europe, highlights in ...
02 Dec 2019, 13:40 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Power production with renewable energy ...
08 Jun 2016
08 Jun 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Federal government Renewables law reform gets government approval Angela Merkel¡¯s cabinet has decided on the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) that is to take ...
21 Dec 2023, 10:12 Preparing a fast expansion of renewable power will be a key challenge for governments across Europe in 2024, says Sarah Jilibert-Schabram of the Franco-German Office for the Energy Transition (DFBEW). France and Germany both have stated ...
09 Sep 2015
09 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Summer, sun and sorrows¡± There has never been more green energy in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ grid than in the first half of this year, state secretary Uwe Beckmeyer from the Ministry for ...
Renewable energy sources produced about 34 percent of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ net power generation for public electricity supply in 2016, according to first projections by solar energy research institute Fraunhofer ISE. ¡°The share of renewables therefore remained ...
The European Commission attests Germany ¡°serious deficits¡± in certain areas of the energy transition, writes Gerwin Klinger for energate messenger. In the 2018 country report on Germany, the Commission says that Germany is on track to meet its Europe2020 ...
02 Sep 2020, 12:55 A faster deployment of more renewable installations that run into less problems with citizens and are able to quickly survive in the market without government support are at the centre of a renewables law reform proposal by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:33 Edgar Meza Digitalisation 91tv Increased digitalisation in the energy sector can offer significant but limited opportunities to save greenhouse gases, according to a new report by the Institute for Ecological Economic ...
03 Jan 2022, 14:13 Edgar Meza G20 & G7 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany would use its year-long presidency of the Group of Seven (G7), which began 1 January, ¡°to make this group of countries a trailblazer for a climate-neutral ...
17 Jun 2015
17 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv European Commission ¡°EU on track to meeting 20 percent renewable energy target¡± The EU expects member states are on track to meet their target of a 20 percent share of renewables in gross final ...
The German town of Wolfhagen reclaimed its grid when a lease with E.ON expired more than ten years ago, overcoming strong resistance from the utility, and setting off a wave of municipalities taking back control of privatised infrastructure, reports ...
28 Sep 2021, 13:40 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess is calling for a faster increase in the CO2 price, an earlier coal phaseout and a greater expansion of renewables. The day after the September 26 ...
11 Feb 2020, 14:31 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Expert The German Gas and Hydrogen Industry Fossil fuels Gas Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv As Germany plans to exit both nuclear and coal power generation over the next years, gas plants ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ last lignite-fired power plant will go off-line by 2040, the Social Democratic energy politician Bernd Westphal said at an event of innogy, the renewables spin-off of utility RWE, which owns many of the country¡¯s lignite plants. But the move ...
Germany has built about 850 kilometres of a total of 7,700 kilometres of ¡°high priority¡± transmission lines, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) says in a press release accompanying its annual report. ¡° Until these transmission lines are implemented, we ...
The environmental NGOs participating in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal exit commission have proposed to take around 16 gigawatt (GW) of coal power capacity off grid by 2022, reports newswire dpa in an article carried by Die Welt. Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth Germany ...
24 Mar 2016
24 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online ¡°E-car subsidies ¨C Sch?uble dampens hopes of a buyer¡¯s premium¡° There is increasing scepticism within the federal government concerning subsidies for e-cars. Vice ...
The huge gas turbines Siemens makes are models destined for phase-out, writes Markus Balser in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°Electricity is no longer produced in a few large power plants, but in many places. An ever-increasing number of households are turning ...
A coal-fired power plant in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, is to be replaced by a gas-fired plant with turbines delivered from Siemens, Handelsblatt Online reports. Upon its completion, expected in four years, it will be one of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest gas ...
19 Apr 2017
19 Apr 2017, 00:00 Operators have offered to build offshore wind farms in the North Sea without relying on support payments, in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ first competitive auction for the technology. Instead, the operators only will rely on the market rate for ...
25 May 2022, 13:39 S?ren Amelang Wind Tagesspiegel Background Bidders offering to implement offshore wind power projects with the lowest CO2 footpring? could have an advantage in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ future renewable power auctions that determine who gets to install ...
07 Apr 2016
07 Apr 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Bundestag Federal government rejects national CO? price floor The federal government continues to have reservations over a national price floor for carbon allowances, according to ...
06 May 2015
06 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) New incentive programme for energy efficiency measures The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) has announced a new support package to ...
31 May 2016, 00:00 [UPDATE with new details on 2025 renewable target in paragraph 3, ads News Digest items] German Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers will meet on Tuesday to work out a compromise on reforming the core piece of legislation behind ...
German utility Steag is currently in the process of selling stakes in power grids, district heating, wind parks and bio energy in several countries to help the company through its current crisis, writes J¨¹rgen Flauger in an article for the Handelsblatt. ...
23 May 2022, 13:19 S?ren Amelang Gas International Tagesspiegel Background The EU¡¯s and, in particular, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ urgent drive to replace Russian gas imports has revived controversial liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Canada, to the dismay of ...
13 Sep 2021, 13:50 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Jessica Bateman Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel The head of the Federation of German Consumer ...
German utility EnBW is reducing the price for natural gas from 1 October because of low wholesale prices- despite rising grid fees, according to a press release. The company also said that it would not raise the cost for the basic supply until April 2018. ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) called for the removal of five gas grid development measures from current plans because the expansion of the German-Russian pipeline Nord Stream was ¡°still too uncertain¡±, the agency said in a press release. The ...
06 May 2015, 00:00 The growing share of renewables forced German wholesale electricity prices down to among the lowest in Europe last year, according to a study by grid operator TenneT. And government figures indicate that consumers are benefitting too, ...
04 Jan 2019, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Handelsblatt Edison The combined electricity generation of wind turbines (111 terawatt-hours (TWh)) and hydro power (17 TWh) in 2018 equalled the electricity consumption of all German households (estimated at ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:05 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cars dpa / Focus Online Carmaker VW says an earlier German coal exit is necessary for the company to ensure its electric car fleet receives the clean power it needs to ...
20 Mar 2019, 11:49 91tv is stepping up its coverage of how business is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world¡¯s fourth largest economy, we are launching a series on start-ups that ...
Three of the remaining eight German nuclear power stations are currently offline, writes renewable energy industry institute IWR in an article on IWR Online. Gundremmingen C and Isar 2 were offline for about a month in the summer for routine inspections, ...
18 May 2022, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv / FAZ There will be no fixed shutdown sequence with regard to individual consumers or sectors in case of a stop or stark reduction of gas supply from Russia, the Federal Network Agency ...
22 Mar 2022, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Tagesspiegel Background The European gas infrastructure would have to be changed quickly and extensively to be able to maintain supply in the event of an embargo or export ban on supplies from Russia, but ...
The government should invest in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ power infrastructure so as to achieve energy independence through renewables, Dave Keating writes in a commentary in Forbes. The share of renewables in power generation has risen substantially over the years, but ...
20 Dec 2018, 13:59 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Cars Alternative fuel passenger cars are benefitting from declining sales ...
Power and gas grid operators Tennet, Gasunie, and Thyssengas plan the construction of a plant to store renewable power in the form of gas on an industrial scale, according to a dpa newswire article carried by the Wirtschaftswoche. A Tennet spokesperson ...
28 Feb 2022, 13:46 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Policy International Security The German government will push the construction of what would be the country¡¯s first two liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals as part of ...
11 May 2022, 13:10 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche ...
10 Mar 2015, 11:02 Since the energy transition took off in 2000, millions of Germans have become energy producers, investing in solar panels on their houses and buying shares in wind parks. Citizens' engagement is one reason that support for the ...
13 Jan 2021, 11:41 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country¡¯s 16 states and the federal parliamentary elections in autumn. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of ...
22 Jan 2016
22 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv BDEW ¡°Taxes and fees reach a new record high¡± The power price remained steady at the beginning of 2016 compared to a year ago, the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) reports. ...
In a series of stakeholder dialogues, environmental NGO Germanwatch and the Global Climate Forum have investigated where important Energiewende players see obstacles and opportunities. A close cooperation between core business areas such as institutional ...
German renewable power company sonnen has said it will offer e-car charging infrastructure free of charge with flat rate electricity contracts to customers switching to the provider, reports Henning Peitsmeier in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ¡°We ...
21 Feb 2022, 13:52 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Almost one quarter of German small and medium-sized industrial companies say the high energy prices endanger their survival, according to a survey by the Federation of German ...
26 Mar 2019, 13:10 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / 91tv Energy company EnBW¡¯s CEO Frank Mastiaux said Germany will build a ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a ¡°huge mistake¡° when she argues that the question of ending coal-fired power generation should only be dealt with after ensuring the economic future of the affected workers, Green Party co-head Annalena Baerbock told ...
Reducing emissions across all sectors in Germany and gearing the energy system towards renewables and greater efficiency will be a ¡°long-distance run that you can hardly practise for¡±, Anton Berger writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in a ...
18 Oct 2022, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU Die Welt / 91tv Plans by the Czech government to build a new nuclear plant close the border with German state Bavaria is causing a dilemma for the governing conservative CSU, which ...
09 Feb 2016
09 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Rheinische Post ¡°We can¡¯t cope with a premature lignite exit¡± The Paris Agreement has no consequences for Germany, because the country already has the most ambitious climate targets, according to ...
17 Nov 2021, 13:03 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Electricity market Renewables 91tv Green power purchase ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:49 S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Security 91tv Europe¡¯s entire energy system from availability to consumption is potentially vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events, according to the European Environment ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Federal ...
On 14 October, German grid operators will announce the renewables surcharge (EEG-Umlage) for 2017. For this occasion, the Institute for Applied Ecology (?ko-Institut) has put together a paper that discusses important legal changes to the EEG made over the ...
The port of Hamburg, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest commercial harbour, is changing part of its container transport system to electric vehicles, port operator HHLA says in a press release. Battery-powered transporters will move the cargo containers between ships and ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) introduced a new website that aggregates power market data from different transmission grid operators almost in real time and provides them in a user-friendly way, the agency said in a press release. Data includes power ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:26 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world¡¯s fourth largest economy, we' ...
30 Jan 2015
30 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Zeit Online "Germany warns against overly strict thresholds for cars" Under EU regulations, by 2021 CO2 emissions from new cars must not exceed an average of 95 grams per kilometre. By ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:36 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Efficiency 91tv Three quarters of German buildings are ...
05 Oct 2022, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt A new gas pipeline that would connect the Iberian peninsula with northern Europe through the Pyrenees is causing a stir in France, Spain and Germany amid the energy crisis, business daily ...
26 Jul 2021, 12:26 Jessica Bateman Wind 91tv The total share of German wind power produced by North Sea plants rose to 16.63 percent so far in 2021 despite an overall generation decrease compared to the first half 2020 due to calm weather, ...
German energy company E.ON will integrate the emergency power generators of airport operator Fraport at Frankfurt airport ¨C ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest airline hub ¨C in its virtual power plant, the company said. The diesel generators can feed up to 5 megawatt of ...
31 Aug 2021, 11:38 Ahead of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ September federal election, almost all parties in parliament are calling for climate policies that quickly and lastingly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The country¡¯s plans to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 ...
German economy minister Peter Altmaier pays lip service to the consequences of climate change for ¡°our children and grandchildren,¡± but his words are not matched by actions, writes Tagesspiegel Background Energie in its daily newsletter. Altmaier wants to ...
01 Apr 2020, 15:11 Germany produced more than half of its electricity with renewable power in the first three months of 2020, the first full quarter in which renewables covered the majority of the country¡¯s electricity needs. The numbers were driven by ...
Electricity in rural areas costs on average 2 percent more than in German cities, writes price comparison website verivox in a press release. Households consuming 4,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) per year on average paid 1,138 euros in rural areas, while the ...
German power transmission grid operator TenneT has started laying the first underwater kilometres of NordLink, a direct power connection between Norway and Germany, the company announced in a press release. Over the coming months, TenneT will lay 99 ...
Drones and digital technologies can be harnessed in order to increase the reliability of producing, transmitting and distributing energy, writes management consultancy PwC in its study ¡°Clarity from above¡±. The use of drones could bring down costs for ...
18 Jan 2022, 12:40 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv The German government will use whatever state funds necessary to support the transition of the country¡¯s industry to climate neutrality through so-called carbon contracts for difference (CCfD) ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:28 Edgar Meza Solar Cost & Prices pv magazine Solar photovoltaics (PV) became the main source in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ net power production in the month of June while also achieving its highest price ever, Sandra Enkhardt writes in pv magazine, ...
Increasing the deployment of ¡°volatile¡± renewable energies in Europe threatens power supply security across the continent, Klaus Stratmann writes in the Handelsblatt, citing an analysis from the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), ...
The first bicycle lane made out of solar panels in Germany has been opened on a 90-meter stretch near the western German city Cologne, Florian Gontek reports for Spiegel Online. The path consists of 150 solar power modules that are capable of feeding ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ renewable support levy paid by consumers as part of their power bills will fall slightly below 6.8 cents from the current 6.88 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2018, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has learned from an industry source. Nevertheless, ...
09 Sep 2015, 00:00 The government is sticking to a controversial plan to pay power operators for keeping old coal plants in reserve in case wind and solar power are not available to meet demand, details of a draft electricity market law show. Clean Energy ...
Andreas Mihm takes a closer look at NordLink, a direct power connection between Norway and Germany for the exchange of Norwegian hydropower and German wind energy, in a long article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The more the Energiewende was ...
The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), with the support of the federal economy ministry (BMWi), will invest about 18 million euros in a research project on possible effects on human health by power lines, BfS said in a press release. ¡°So far, ...
23 Sep 2022, 14:02 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit?t zu K?ln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International S?ren Amelang Gas Security Clean ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ offshore wind power production in the North Sea in 2017 was 47 percent higher than in 2016, writes grid operator TenneT in a press release. With a record of 15.97 terawatt hours (TWh), North Sea wind made up a total of 15.9 percent of all German ...
20 Sep 2022, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security dpa / Zeit Online / 91tv One of the two nuclear plants in Germany slated to go into an emergency reserve until April 2023 has to undergo urgent maintenance work due to a valve ...
29 May 2024, 15:19 One year later than originally planned, French president Emmanuel Macron paid a three-day state visit to Germany that allowed him to reinforce calls for closer European cooperation in the week before the EU elections. Both Macron and ...
03 Aug 2022, 13:37 Russia is ready to use ¡°pretexts and invented reasons¡± to obstruct Europe¡¯s energy supply, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said as his government prepares for a possible full halt to natural gas trading with the country¡¯s most ...
15 Sep 2022, 13:46 S?ren Amelang Solar Policy dpa / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The German government is introducing tax breaks for the operation of small-scale photovoltaic systems and removing other bureaucratic hurdles to speed up the ...
Wholesale power prices in Germany were comparatively low in 2017, grid operator TenneT says in a press release. Especially during the winter months, average prices in Germany and the Netherlands were much lower than in France and Belgium, TenneT reports, ...
Disagreement between German environment minister Svenja Schulze and economy minister Peter Altmaier over important measures like a carbon tax or the expansion of the electricity grid is burdening the economy, write Klaus Stratmann and Silke Kersting in ...
13 Jun 2018, 00:00 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ policymakers have not kept pace with the energy industry¡¯s rapid transformation caused by the Energiewende, and must catch up urgently, according to the utility association BDEW. The utilities also say that Germany needs a ...
12 Feb 2019, 18:04 Against the backdrop of escalating tensions over the Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, Germany and the US aim to boost industry cooperation on liquefied natural gas (LNG). German economy minister Peter Altmaier invited US ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new minister for the economy and energy, Peter Altmaier, wants to lower power prices for small and middle-sized companies. In an interview with Handelsblatt, Altmaier says companies that do not benefit from rebates for energy-intensive ...
The German Solar Industry Association BSW and the German Wind Energy Association BWE say joint auctions for solar and wind power capacity won¡¯t achieve a well-balanced mix of renewables, Sandra Enkhardt reports for pv magazine. While prices are currently ...
23 Jan 2015
23 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt / sh:z ?The North focuses on wind power¡° ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ northern state of Schleswig-Holstein wants to increase its share of renewables in the power mix and for heating and wants to lower energy ...
Having received state support for twenty years through the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), the German wind power industry ¡°still cannot stand on its own feet,¡± writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In the current ...
20 Dec 2021, 13:33 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Policy Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Robert Habeck, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new minister for economic affairs and climate protection, will present an ¡°opening balance¡± at the ...
20 Sep 2021, 13:18 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices The renewable surcharge Germans pay with their power bills to finance the roll-out of wind and solar energy will decrease substantially next year, economy minister Peter Altmaier ...
13 Jul 2022, 12:03 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Heating Government 91tv German government ministries have launched a set of immediate action programmes that are to ensure emission reductions in the laggard buildings and transport sectors ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ grid agency (BNetzA) has launched the first 2018 onshore wind and solar tenders. In a change to previous auctions, all onshore wind projects now need to have a planning permission to place a bid, the agency said in a press release. Citizen ...
Schleswig-Holstein¡¯s state Energiewende minister and Green politician Robert Habeck calls for abolishing the electricity tax, reforming grid fees and lowering the Renewable Energy Act (EEG)-surcharge to relieve consumers of high power costs, report dpa ...
04 Dec 2015
04 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Federal Network Agency / TenneT New law on underground cables in the transmission grid German parliament has passed a law detailing that new direct current transmission lines will be put underground ¨C this will be ...
Flexible energy options, such as energy storage, smart charging electric vehicles, demand response, and interconnectors are needed to ensure that the energy transition proceeds on an optimal path, according to a Bloomberg NEF report focused on the UK and ...
15 Dec 2021, 13:44 Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Renewable energy made up approximately 42 percent of the electricity consumed in Germany in 2021, according to preliminary calculations by the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen ...
15 Sep 2021, 13:05 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S?ren Amelang Hydrogen German utilities have said that the ...
In 2016, the German power supply system was more reliable than ever before, according to the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE). The average German power consumer had to cope without electricity for 11.5 minutes, ...
Germany can decommission half of its coal power plants by 2030 without endangering supply security, according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). ¡°But this hinges on the precondition that the necessary grid extensions are finished by then, and that ...
Large-scale renewable power production and the development of storage technology, both with power-to-x systems and batteries, can provide viable economic prospects for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal mining regions as the fossil fuel is gradually phased out, a study ...
Advantageous regulations, decreasing overall costs, a wider offer of different models and increased demand mean that e-mobility is on the verge of breakthrough in Germany, according to consultancy McKinsey. Similar to the developments in the solar PV ...
The ¡°spectacular growth¡± of the wind power sector over recent years looks unlikely to continue, because of new policy frameworks such as reduced state support for renewables, as well as public opposition and slow grid expansion, writes Franz Hubik in ...
Vattenfall started operation of a battery storage with its pilot project ¡°Battery 2 nd Life¡± in Hamburg. The storage is made up of 2,600 used battery modules from more than 100 electric vehicles. It has a power capacity of 2 megawatts and a storage ...
The transition to a climate-friendly transport sector can deliver a net economic benefit for Germany in some scenarios, but only if the country invests heavily in charging and grid infrastructure as well as workforce adjustments, according to a study by ...
11 Jan 2017, 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 ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ eastern European neighbours and Russia are not following the phase-out of nuclear energy that is part of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition, writes historian Anna Veronika Wendland in a guest article for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Eastern ...
05 Sep 2016
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ power supply security has improved despite the nuclear phase-out, according to a study by think tank Energy Brainpool on behalf of green energy provider Greenpeace Energy. The number of power outages has decreased significantly since the ...
The energy transition remains the German government coalition¡¯s ¡°largest construction site,¡± due to its gigantic regulatory needs, writes Die Welt. ¡°The goal of cutting CO? emissions by 40 percent by 2020 will clearly be missed. [¡] Grid expansion was ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE) trade union, which covers workers in the mining, chemicals and energy sectors, has welcomed the move by likely coalition partners CDU/CSU and SPD to give up on 2020 climate protection targets, Detlef ...
A coal exit in Cottbus, the largest city of one of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ most important coal producing regions, is inevitable, writes Nick Reimer in Zeit Online. The municipal utility¡¯s lignite power plant will be taken off the grid and replaced by a new gas-fired ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:33 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG ...
German utility E.ON uses a smart grid with solar and wind energy, as well as a large battery, to supply a Swedish village exclusively with renewable electricity. ¡°In order to support the balancing of the local energy system, customers are engaged to ...
Sweden¡¯s Vattenfall AB and Norway¡¯s Statkraft AS say they might close some pumped-hydro plants in Germany, while Alpiq Holding AG may sell some units in Switzerland because they are no longer as profitable as they once were, write Weixin Zha and Jesper ...
In a parliamentary debate, representatives of the centre-left SPD and Greens again called on Peter Altmaier, the federal minister for economic affairs and energy, to set a date for the promised special auctions for a combined 4 gigawatts of solar ...
For the time being, economy minister Peter Altmaier will not specify a date for the launch of additional auctions for wind and solar energies, according to an article in the Handelsblatt. In their coalition treaty, the parties that make up the current ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Finance Der Spiegel The planned end of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ renewables levy will not become a burden on the country¡¯s budget this year, news magazine Der Spiegel reports. The country¡¯s so-called EEG account, which ...
The governments of Germany and India aim to strengthen their energy partnership, particularly in the field of renewables. ¡°The Indian expansion target is an additional power generation capacity of 100 gigawatts (GW) of solar PV, 60 GW of wind and 15 GW of ...
Wind energy fed from offshore North Sea facilities to the mainland by German grid operator TenneT more than doubled to 5.18 terawatt hours (TWh) in the first half of 2016 ¨C compared to 2.26 TWh in the same period last year, TenneT says in a press release. ...
Social Democrat and federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel blocked a reform of power grid fees for political reasons, writes Heike G?bel in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Gabriel backtracked because a reform ¡°would be very ...
The average successful bid in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ first tender for offshore windparks was ¡°far below expectations¡± at 0.44 cents/kWh, according to the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA). ¡°Offshore wind energy emphatically demonstrates its competitiveness,¡± said the ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:44 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 ...
The European Commission has approved the funding scheme for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ plan to grant public support to landlords planning to install solar panels on the roof of apartment buildings, the Federal Ministry for the Economy & Energy (BMWi) says in a press ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition is not yet perceived as a model for other countries to follow, but a successful implementation could still make it a success story and an inspiration, according to the study ¡¯Energiewende, an interim review ¨C International ...
27 Sep 2022, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background / Deutsche Welle Authorities in Germany, Sweden and Denmark are investigating a sudden drop of pressure in the two offshore Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines ...
The European Commission is considering antitrust proceedings against ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest transmission grid operator, TenneT, over suspicions that the company is creating artificial power bottlenecks on the Danish-German border, the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:30 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Corporate decision makers in Germany have voted hydrogen technologies as the most important field of action for energy ...
E.ON¡¯s record loss is the result of massive management mistakes, according to Greenpeace. ¡°Anyone who ignores the energy transition for many years, and instead bets on fossil energies, shouldn¡¯t be surprised about huge losses,¡± said Greenpeace energy ...
The German electronics industry has called on the next German government to speed up the country¡¯s energy transition, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by wallstreet-online.de ¡°The Energiewende must finally regain its momentum,¡± Michael ...
German wind power company Max B?gl Wind has built the world¡¯s tallest wind power turbine near the southern German city of Stuttgart. In a press release, the company says the turbine, with a hub height of 178 metres and a total height of over 246 metres, ...
Sweden¡¯s Vattenfall has signed a supply contract with German carmaker BMW for batteries ¨C normally used in BMW¡¯s i3 ¨C which the utility plans to use for storage projects in wind farms in Hamburg, near Amsterdam, and in Wales, Vattenfall said in a press ...
France and Germany have agreed to hold joint auctions for renewable energies, the German ministry for the economy and energy (BMWi) said in a press release. The two countries also agreed to set up a cross-border experiment dubbed ¡°Smart Border Initiative¡± ...
Household power prices in Germany were the EU's highest in the second half of 2017, according to eurostat. Germans paid an average of 30.5 cents per kilowatt hour, followed by Denmark with 30.1 cents per kilowatt hour. The prices reflected that the ...
The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has published demands for the coming legislative period in the form of a 10-point plan. It calls for new ways to finance renewables expansion, tax-based support for energy-efficient building renovation, grid fee ...
26 Jan 2015
26 Jan 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv S¨¹ddeutsche Online ¡°Aigner under pressure¡± Writing for S¨¹ddeutsche Online, Frank M¨¹ller reports on tensions between Bavarian energy minister Ilse Aigner and state prime minister Horst Seehofer, as Aigner prepares ...
This summer's heatwave show that Germany must exit coal quickly, according to Greenpeace. The NGO said 10 of their activists ascended a glacier on ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ highest mountain, the Zugspitze, to unfold a banner saying ¡°Summer 2018: heat, drought, ...
German utility E.ON will go ahead with listing its spin-off company Uniper in September 2016, according to a press release. The vast majority- 99.7 percent- of shareholders had agreed to the split in June and no legal case had been made against the ...
The new Renewable Energy Act (EEG) is disadvantaging operators of flexible power storage devices that can switch between supplying power to the grid and self-consumption, Photovoltaik magazine?reports. Operators of such batteries must pay the renewables ...
Schleswig-Holstein¡¯s state energy minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) has said NordLink ¨C a direct power connection between Norway and Germany, currently under construction ¨C is an important step for the European energy transition, Olaf Preu? reports for ...
A massive expansion of France¡¯s renewable power capacity could lead to a wave of cheap nuclear power flooding the energy markets of Germany and other European countries, Markus Becker writes on Spiegel Online. The French ¡°transition ¨¦nerg¨¦tique¡± could ...
Siemens has launched a new offshore wind turbine with a capacity of 8 megawatts, promising a 10 per cent increase in annual energy production compared to its previous 7MW model, reports BusinessGreen. The German engineering giant, currently in the process ...
30 Jan 2017
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ grid regulator BNetzA starts its first call for tenders for offshore wind power plants, the Federal Network Agency said in a press release. After introducing tenders for new solar power plants, the BNetzA ¡°now begins the transition to a ...
E.ON¡¯s interest in competitor RWE¡¯s renewables spin-off innogy is also triggered by innogy¡¯s 4,000-odd existing contracts with municipalities, which grant the latter company the right to operate local grids, or give it a stake in local utilities, writes ...
German municipalities see energy supply and mobility management as important topics in 2030, according to a survey by the Society of Automotive?and Traffic Systems Technologies of the Association of German Engineers (VDI). 68.3 percent of the surveyed ...
A coal phase-out is unnecessary and threatens energy security, the Coal Importer Association writes in a press release. Coal-fired power plants are needed to supply electricity to the grid during times when renewable energies cannot meet total power ...
The planned deal between German utility heavyweights RWE and E.ON to split up RWE¡¯s spin-off innogy between them has attracted the attention of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ cartel office, the Bundeskartellamt, Handelsblatt reports based on information provided by news ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ fourth largest utility EnBW plans to pull out of fossil power generation by 2025, according to an internal strategy paper, reports J¨¹rgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. Conventional power generation does not feature in the company¡¯s medium-term plan ...
German utility innogy will assist the country¡¯s telecommunication heavyweight Telekom in expanding its broadband internet access, Ina Karabasz and J¨¹rgen Flauger write in Handelsblatt Global Edition. Initially reluctant to rely on partners to develop high ...
After the sudden departure of CEO Peter Terium, German utility innogy is ¡°reviewing discretionary spending across all segments¡±, the company says in a press release. The spin-off of energy company RWE says it ¡°reiterates its financial discipline targets¡±, ...
A trial by utility Stadtwerke Hannover and university researchers has shown that electric cars are suitable to serve as flexible power storage to balance the grid, reports Bernd Haase in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. During the trial with 40 e-cars, it ...
¡°Considerable legal concerns¡± could stand in the way of German farmers¡¯ demand for recurring compensation payments if power lines are built on their land, according to a law firm report commissioned by energy industry association the German Association of ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy and climate policy lacks decisiveness and a coherent approach, according to representatives of the country¡¯s industries. ¡°Germany must urgently take an integral approach to the climate-friendly modernisation of our economy, instead of ...
10 Jan 2022, 13:26 Edgar Meza Gas Security WirtschaftsWoche As energy prices in Germany continue to rise, the chairman of the German Bundestag¡¯s climate committee, Klaus Ernst, is pushing for the controversial Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline to begin ...
German household power prices rose by an average of 3 percent in 2017, price comparison website check24.de says in a press release. ¡°Power customers on average pay 1,426 euros for 5,000 kilowatt hours. At the beginning of the year, the price was 1,387 ...
The German Free Democratic Party (FDP) approved its election campaign programme at a federal party conference. The FDP wants to ¡°end the sustained subsidies system of the EEG [Renewable Energy Act]¡± with its priority grid access and feed-in tariffs for ...
Robert Habeck, Schleswig-Holstein state minister for the Energiewende, calls for reducing ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ renewables surcharge, instead of increasing it as grid operators did today, writes the regional newspaper shz. Habeck proposes a government-administered ...
Germany needs a four-pronged strategy to get its Energiewende on track to meet emissions and renewables targets, writes Felix Matthes, head of the Institute for Applied Ecology (?ko-Institut), in an opinion piece for weekly newspaper Die Zeit. The country ...
The tenant electricity draft law introduced by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ economy ministry (BMWi) is an ¡°utterly wrong¡± policy approach that turns the principle of ¡°competition instead of allocation¡± upside down, Andreas Mihm writes in an opinion piece for Frankfurter ...
20 Dec 2021, 10:55 The start of Germany's new government makes 2022 a crucial year for the country's landmark energy transition. All eyes are on the three-way coalition's first steps towards implementing its ambitious climate plans, which ...
Contrary to many utilities in other European countries, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ E.ON and RWE lack a proper strategy for dealing with the energy transition, Bloomberg analyst Elchin Mammadov says on Dow Jones Newswires. The split-up of RWE¡¯s spin-off innogy between ...
Europe¡¯s solar industry should think about cooperating with China instead of placing import tariffs on Chinese PV products, writes Stephan Scheuer in an op-ed for Handelsblatt. The tariffs disadvantage consumers in Europe and slow down the solar expansion ...
10 Jul 2015
10 Jul 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt Experts disappointed by government deal on coal, grid extension Most members of the Handelsblatt¡¯s Energy Academy ¨C a group made up of around 230 energy experts ¨C are disappointed with ...
Next year¡¯s power price increase is not the fault of wind and solar power generation operators, writes Olaf Ridder in a commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. The rise is the price consumers have to pay for the delay in grid extensions, one of many ...
28 Nov 2018, 16:19 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Wind Technology International Stiftung Offshore Wind Energy Together with international partners, the German economy and energy ministry (BMWi) has initiated a project to study the removal of ...
Nearly 50 percent of the almost 690,000 jobs in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy industry depend on renewable energy sources, Hinrich Neumann writes on website Top Agrar. According to a study by energy consultancy GWS Research, almost 340,000 people were employed in the ...
Europe¡¯s first ever cross-border solar tender sees five Danish solar developers snapping up 50 megawatts in a German tender for construction of five solar projects in Denmark, reports Ian Clover in pv magazine. Winning bids of EUR 5.38 cents/kWh were ...
17 Apr 2019, 09:50 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world¡¯s fourth largest economy, we' ...
07 Jan 2021, 13:56 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur f¨¹r Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende Society 91tv An overwhelming but slightly shrinking majority of people ...
The German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) and the Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) have called for an increased focus on energy transition in heating to enable Germany to reach its emissions reduction targets. ¡°Unlike in the power market, the share ...
The governments of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, two of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ northernmost federal states, have announced the goal to supply the region with 100 percent renewable power by 2035, reports Andreas Dey in Hamburger Abendblatt. Hamburg Mayor Peter ...
11 Mar 2022, 13:45 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Security G20 & G7 Clean ...
Despite their massive size, offshore wind farms only contribute 1.3 percent to ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ power supply because they are expensive and grid connections are problematic, writes J¨¹rgen D?schner in a commentary for public regional broadcaster Radio Bremen. ...
German utility EnBW acquired a 37.5 percent stake in each of three offshore wind projects in Taiwan with a potential total volume of approximately 2,000 megawatt, marking the first such investment outside Europe in the group¡¯s renewables expansion, ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Wind 91tv Offshore wind power capacity in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ territorial waters grew steadily in 2018, but the wind power industry says it will have to speed up to meet energy transition ...
20 May 2015
20 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) ¡°The godmother of climate receives visitors¡± The Petersberg Climate Dialogue is Angela Merkel¡¯s reaction to the failed climate summit of Copenhagen ...
07 Mar 2022, 13:56 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Clean Energy ...
07 Mar 2022, 13:52 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & ...
08 Mar 2017
Between 1.5 and 2.8 million birds die each year in Germany from colliding with high-voltage overhead power lines, according to a report published by Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU). ¡°In light of the transmission grid expansion needed for ...
16 Aug 2018, 16:59 While touring critical power grid projects in northern Germany, energy minister Peter Altmaier also faced a troubled wind industry that fears its golden years in the country are over. Under pressure from workers and local politicians, ...
Household electricity costs will reach a high in 2017, price comparison site Verivox has calculated. The average annual price per kilowatt-hour (kWh) will be 28.18 cents, 3 percent more than in 2016 and up from 17.81 cents in 2004. This means a family of ...
Last year, German households had their power cut off due to unpaid bills?around 330,000 times, according to the draft of the Federal Network Agency's (BNetzA) annual monitoring report, seen by news agency dpa. This represents a small year-on-year ...
The next federal government should help low-income households afford electricity, through measures such as special rates or free basic volumes that cannot be cut off, Timot Szent-Ivanyi says in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Rundschau. Szent-Ivanyi says ...
German transmission grid operators confirmed today that the Renewable Energy Act (EEG)-surcharge will rise from the current 6.35 cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) to 6.88 ct/kWh in 2017. The EEG surcharge covers the difference between the wholesale market ...
Wholesale power prices in Germany fell by four percent in 2017, price comparison website Verivox says in a press release. Prices at the electricity exchange EEX fell to 31.3 euros per megawatt hour (MWh), compared to 32.6 eur/MWh in the year before, ...
24 Apr 2020, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Storage Cost & Prices S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Reinsurer Munich Re has said it will be the first to offer insurance of the long-term performance of large-scale storage facilities, writes S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. The possibility ...
22 Feb 2021, 12:28 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv A large majority of Germans opposes a general ban of combustion engine ...
15 Jun 2021, 12:50 Edgar Meza Digitalisation 91tv The digitalisation of the energy transition process again made noticeable progress last year, but long-awaited regulations are still pending, according to the latest study commissioned by the ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ grid agency BNetzA has said it will lower the maximum support rate in the second round of auctions for offshore wind power. Support will be reduced to a maximum of 10 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), after average support in the first round ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:20 Expert BVMW- German Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses Bundesverband mittelst?ndische Wirtschaft Cost & Prices S?ren Amelang Renewables Wind Business & Jobs 91tv Germany's sea ports are not ...
The decision to lay ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ planned major high-voltage power transmission lines S¨¹dLink and S¨¹dOstLink predominantly below ground has done little to calm resistance to both projects, writes Laura Cwiertnia for Zeit Online. Farmers worry that their soil ...
A joint venture of BMW, Bosch, Daimler, EnBW, RWE and Siemens wants to enable e-car drivers to charge their vehicles using only renewable power at more than half of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ e-car charging stations, reports business magazine Wirtschaftswoche. Their ...
In his final speech in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament in Kiel on Thursday, Robert Habeck, former state environment minister and current Green Party co-chair, praised the positive economic impact of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition. ¡°It is a ...
By the end of 2017, renewables expansion in Germany exceeded targets by a considerable margin, but the country still lags behind on several other energy transition indicators, writes Hubertus Bardt for the industry-sponsored research institute IW K?ln in ...
15 Aug 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv Leading members of the German government have renewed calls for perseverance and willingness to make sacrifices to beat the energy crisis, with the upcoming heating season set to drive up ...
02 Dec 2020, 13:42 Kerstine Appunn Business & Jobs 91tv Up to two thirds of the gross value added by investments in local energy infrastructure and production remain in the German state where the investment takes place, an? analysis ?by ...
The German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) says the country¡¯s coal exit plan should be accompanied by a plan to achieve 100 percent renewable energy supply. ¡°Only planning security for industry can lay the foundations for investments¡± and prevent ...
Renewable energy generation in Germany is being disadvantaged by the practice of leading utilities RWE, E.ON and Vattenfall of selling electricity well into the future, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR) reports. By ...
German farmers and land owners should be compensated when their property is used for? planned underground direct current power lines, the German Farmers¡¯ Association¡¯s (DBV) general secretary Bernhard Kr¨¹sken has said in a letter to the economy ministry, ...
20 Jan 2015
20 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt ¡°Attack on coal¡± // Interview with Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy has "ended the debate over capacity payments to fossil-fuelled ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:17 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K?ln Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv At the Handelsblatt Energy Summit earlier this month, German economy ...
Nigeria, Africa¡¯s most populous country and largest economy, can cover a big share of its growing energy demand with solar power, the German industry lobby group BSW Solar says in a press release. In an in-depth analysis of Nigeria¡¯s solar power potential ...
23 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Reuters Nuclear commission wants utilities to supplement clean-up provisions The commission on payments for the nuclear clean-up insists that nuclear power station ...
Germany could ramp up its biomethane production from the current 9 terawatt hours (tWh) per year to 100 tWh by 2050, the German Energy Agency (dena) says in a press release. ¡°Biomethane can contribute significantly to the energy transition without any ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ planned financial support for reserve power plants has been met with scepticism by the European Commission, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Handelsblatt. The Commission has doubts about the necessity of this ¡°important part of ...
20 May 2021, 12:31 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv A new masterplan developed by three Fraunhofer research institutes outlines how a successful hydrogen industry can be developed in eastern Germany. The transition from fossil fuels to sustainably ...
Many electricity suppliers in Germany will not lower their prices in 2018, even though falling wholesale power prices and grid fees mean they have leeway to do so, Thomas ?chsner reports for the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ average 2017 power price was ...
01 Sep 2021, 13:29 Edgar Meza Solar 91tv / pv magazine The German Solar Association (BSW Solar) is calling for a ¡°rapid dismantling of market barriers¡± in view of an ongoing slump in the commercial rooftop photovoltaic (PV) segment. Companies ...
04 Sep 2020, 14:00 Kerstine Appunn Cars Focus Online German transport minister Andreas Scheuer has called for a ¡°well-developed and cross-border network of [charging] stations in Europe which guarantees uncomplicated and fast recharging¡± for electric and ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:03 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Solar Storage 91tv The number of solar power storage devices ...
According to business consultancy PwC, there are around 100 "virtual power plants" in Germany, which usually pool different kinds of renewable energy projects, Steffen Ermisch reports in Handelsblatt. 37 of them participate in the market for ...
Oskar Lafontaine, a prominent German politician and Left Party leader in the small German state Saarland, frequently makes his opposition towards rapid expansion of wind power a campaign topic for this week¡¯s state elections, writes Christoph Schmidt ...
18 Aug 2015
18 Aug 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°The Goliath in open-cast mining¡± The illegal protests against open-cast mining in Western Germany over the weekend are strongly reminiscent of the violent demonstrations in the country against ...
Cooperation and the bundling of resources can help local German utilities cope with? challenges brought on by the energy transition, writes J¨¹rgen Flauger in the Handelsblatt. Local utilities in Cologne, D¨¹sseldorf and Duisburg have initiated cooperation ...
08 Apr 2022, 14:13 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & ...
Peter Altmaier¡¯s track record as ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ economy and energy minister lacks actions, particularly in energy policy, Antje H?ning and Birgit Marschall write in the Rheinische Post. ¡°The energy transition resembles a construction site, and the planned coal ...
The German Energy Agency (dena) and its French counterpart ADEME welcome the initiative to renew the seminal ?lys¨¦e Treaty between the two countries, and to intensify cooperation in many areas, including energy policy and climate protection, the dena says ...
The cost of wind farm construction in the North Sea continues to decline as these farms become connected to the grid, according to the European electricity transmission system operator TenneT. In the tender for a new substation and its 90-kilometre cable ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:31 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Wind Hydrogen 91tv Engineering conglomerate Siemens, oil giant Shell and German grid operator TenneT have called for stepping up the country¡¯s plans to roll out offshore wind, in ...
Germany must ¡°expand the lessons it has learned to the European level¡± and integrate the German and European energy systems in order to make the energy transition a durable success, writes Thomas Cunningham in an in-depth paper for the Global Energy ...
Germany spent a record 26.3 billion euros on supporting renewable energy development in 2017, reports Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, citing data released by the country¡¯s four power transmission grid operators (TSO) on Renewable ...
04 May 2021, 12:12 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Security Handelsblatt / 91tv German politicians have said that Ukraine could have ¡°a key role¡± in Europe¡¯s future supply with hydrogen,? reports business daily Handelsblatt. Germany and Europe had ...
08 Feb 2017
There was ¡°strong competition¡± in the first solar tender following this year¡¯s changes in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Renewable Energy Law, according to the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA). Winning bids for arrays with a capacity of more than 750 kilowatts averaged 6.58 cents ...
Exempting citizens¡¯ energy projects from subsidy auctions for green power fed into the grid ¨C laid out in the Renewable Energy Act reform ¨C could ensure the continued presence of these small decentralised companies and thus the population¡¯s support for ...
Denmark is the only European country where customers pay more for power than in Germany, Michael H?fling writes in weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Danes pay about 31 euros for 100 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity ¨C one euro more than the Germans and ...
14 Feb 2019, 13:52 Rachel Waldholz Utilities Handelsblatt A deal by German power companies RWE and E.ON to reshape German energy markets could face resistance from regulators, J¨¹rgen Flauger, Till Hoppe and Jeremy Gray report for business daily ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:00 Strong popular demand for climate action and a push towards more energy autonomy in the wake of the war in Ukraine have led Hungary¡¯s populist leader Viktor Orb¨¢n to describe himself as an advocate of climate-friendly power generation. ...
The need for reform in German energy policy is ¡°piling up¡± under the current grand coalition government, said Oliver Krischer, deputy leader of the Greens parliamentary group in a plenary debate on the economy and energy budget for 2019. Economy minister ...
21 Dec 2020, 12:52 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Utilities Tagesspiegel / Die Welt German energy company RWE has shut down its first lignite unit as part of the country's coal phase-out, ...
In its 2017 first quarter results report, German renewables utility innogy warned that prospects in the British retail market had sharply deteriorated as a result of fierce competition, Reuters reports. Overall, the company posted an increase in earnings ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:36 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Energiewende ...
German gas company Thyssengas is planning a new pipeline that would connect its grid with the proposed Russian project Nord Stream 2- even while the latter is strongly disputed, writes J¨¹rgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. The company argues that gas supplies ...
08 Sep 2015
08 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau Nuclear decommissioning: Environmental activists worried about security An alliance of 76 environmental groups is demanding stricter security standards and more public ...
17 Jun 2021, 12:00 As the German election campaign kicks into its next gear, the chancellor candidates of the country¡¯s major parties met face to face on Wednesday to discuss climate and energy issues at an event organised by energy industry association ...
29 Apr 2020, 13:15 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy ...
Financial support for pv installations in Germany has fallen slightly for plants starting operation in the second quarter of 2017, the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) said in a press release. Remuneration for small pv plants fell from 12.30 to 12.27 cents ...
If the extensive deal between E.ON and RWE goes through, ¡°old rivals" will "become partners under the pressure of the energy transition¡± and create ¡°a new order in the German energy industry¡± by organising a clear ¡°division of labour¡±, Helmut ...
A household near Berlin has commissioned ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ 100,000 th residential battery storage system. At an official ceremony, state secretary Thomas Bareiss called the threshold an ¡° important milestone ¡± for the country¡¯s energy transition. ¡°Storage systems ...
14 Aug 2015
14 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Network Agency / German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) 33 successful bids in second PV auction round ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ second-ever photovoltaic tendering round has resulted in 33 successful bids ...
09 Apr 2021, 12:20 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Cars 91tv Berlin has expanded its ...
The price for onshore wind power fell a further ten percent in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ third auction for the technology to an average of 3.8 cents per kilowatt-hour. The federal grid agency (BNetzA) said the winning bids came almost exclusively from projects proposed ...
Germany is not the ¡°poster child¡± it likes to portray itself as, writes Ursula Weidenfeld in an opinion piece in Tagesspiegel. She points to the German government¡¯s Nord Stream 2 policy, years of electricity loop flows through neighbouring countries, and ...
Unfavourable political conditions have stalled plans for the construction of the Franzosenkopf pumped-storage hydropower plant near the city of Mainz, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The plant is meant to store power from solar and wind power for ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall expects ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ capital Berlin to boast about 250,000 electric cars by the end of the next decade, compared to 1,700 currently registered in the city, Jens Tartler writes in the Tagesspiegel. Vattenfall¡¯s Thomas Sch?fer says ...
21 Jun 2016
21 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) Climate Action Plan 2050 delayed The Climate Action Plan 2050 that is to describe a pathway and policy measures for Germany to cut its ...
Dutch sustainable energy group Eneco has teamed up with Japanese industrial giant Mitsubishi to build Europe¡¯s largest battery in the north of Germany, which will supply sustainable reserve capacity to the grid. ¡°The battery system will be able to take ...
The German Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries (IG BCE) has called for a comprehensive investment programme in order to meet the country¡¯s climate targets for 2020, Jens Heitmann writes in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ). The ...
17 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016, 00:00 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Federal Environment Agency ¡°Climate protection contributions of the transport sector by 2050¡± Germany's transport sector will need to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by about 98 percent to ...
The exceptionally sunny weather in Germany is lavishing owners of solar panels with a lot of money, according to an article published on Welt Online. However, the rate of remuneration varies widely: those who installed solar panels in the early 2000s ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:19 S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Die Zeit Germany is lagging behind in climate action and the country is likely to miss its sectoral targets for emission reductions this year, the country's new climate and economy "super ...
German utility RWE saw a 13 percent earnings drop in the first nine months of the year, reflecting tough conditions in conventional power generation in Germany, reports Guy Chazan for the Financial Times. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and ...
To secure the transport of large quantities of renewable power to the main consumption centres in Europe, an extension of the current electricity grid is needed, according to the ten-year network development plan (TYNDP) published by European Network of ...
23 Feb 2015
23 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Tagesspiegel ¡°Distribute radioactive legacy throughout the country¡± Because only two German states have volunteered to store nuclear waste returning from processing plants abroad, the radioactive ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal elections in September will also be a decision ¡°on the direction of the country¡¯s energy policy¡± and a lot depends on which parties form a government coalition, Arne Jungjohann writes on website China Dialogue. With near-term [climate ...
11 Mar 2022, 13:50 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The second oversubscribed onshore wind ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:12 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Electricity ...
Germany can take the most climate-damaging coal power stations off the grid by 2020 while also accelerating its nuclear exit without putting supply security at risk, according to an analysis by Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). In a detailed ¡°shutdown ...
Fairer distribution of the costs of the Germany's energy transition could save consumers and the retail sector up to 5.2 billion euros, according to a joint paper from the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) and the Association of ...
28 Jun 2022, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Cars Efficiency EU 91tv European energy ministers have agreed on reaching a share of 40 percent renewables in the EU¡¯s energy mix by 2030, thus increasing the previous 32-percent target and ...
German utility RWE¡¯s green subsidiary innogy reported a 7 percent fall in EBITDA? in the first nine months of 2016 compared to the same period last year. The decline in profits comes one month after the company¡¯s stock market debut in October. ¡°The ...
10 Nov 2023, 10:15 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ruling coalition has reached a deal on how to support industry struggling with high electricity prices in the coming five years. The package of measures, worth 12 billion euros in 2024 alone, includes lowering the electricity ...
The former border between West and East Germany could become a problem for the country¡¯s much-needed power transmission highways SuedLink and SuedOstLink, Andreas Mihm writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The government of the eastern German ...
The mining and manufacturing industry in Germany contributed 11.2 percent of the country¡¯s gross power production in 2016, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has said in a press release. With a total of 54 terawatt hours, the share was 0.8 ...
The German Solar Association (BSW) and the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) ¡°regard the first joint auction [for onshore wind and solar power] as a failure,¡± and call for separate auctions to be held in the future, the two organisations write in a ...
German consumers overwhelmingly support an open and competitive electricity market, while many blame the country¡¯s green energy levy and additional taxes for rising electricity costs, Kathrin Witsch writes in Handelsblatt, citing a survey conducted by ...
The planned construction of a second Baltic Sea natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, known as Nord Stream 2, is not necessary to secure natural gas supplies for Germany and Europe, according to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research ...
A new online platform by German utility association BDEW and business consultancy PwC aims to share experiences with alternative mobility and integrated city concepts, BDEW said in a press release. The website eco-mobility.org introduces the latest ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:28 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Digitalisation Government Security Handelsblatt The Association of Energy Market Innovators (BNE), a lobby group of grid-independent energy suppliers in Germany, has criticised the German ...
An 18 percent drop in global expenditure on renewable energy last year does not mean the energy transition is losing support, Stefan Merx writes for Handelsblatt. Figures compiled by Bloomberg New Energy Finance merely reflected that costs for installing ...
Mining Union IG BCE, which represents many workers at car industry suppliers and is a fierce opponent of a quick coal exit, has called for a ¡°future commission transport transition¡± shortly after the upcoming elections, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
30 Dec 2014, 00:00 After an eventful 2014 ¨C marked by the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), a new climate action package and the first fall in CO2 emissions for two years ¨C German energy policy is primed for action in 2015. Expert AGEB- AG ...
14 Dec 2021, 13:07 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband ...
The auto sector will remain one of the steel industry's biggest customers, because the switch to e-mobility demands large quantities of steel for component parts, charging stations, power grids and power stations, Helmut B¨¹nder writes for?Frankfurter ...
German utility RWE may build a gas power plant to replace power generation currently provided by nuclear power station Gundremmingen in Bavaria, writes Michael Gassmann in Welt. One of the two remaining reactors at Gundremmingen is scheduled for shutdown ...
Eastern German coal-fired power plants proved to be flexible in unstable weather conditions over the holidays, writes Simone Wendler in Lausitzer Rundschau. The plants had to quickly be powered down or restarted at times of volatile wind power feed-in ...
Despite very different conditions for solar power in India and Germany, the former could learn from the European country¡¯s experience that the government is not the primary actor in the market, but should act as a facilitator, writes Tobias Engelmeier for ...
The German commercial and industrial, as well as utility-scale storage markets, are surprisingly weak compared to the booming residential storage market, writes Julian Spector for Greentech Media. The weakness comes ¡°in part because of its regionally ...
German power customers are at risk of paying more if nuclear plants in regions with a high share of renewable energy sources are allowed to produce more energy, the council of federal state governments in Germany (Bundesrat) has warned. Nuclear plant ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:38 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Frankfurter Rundschau The three candidates in the race to succeed CDU party leader Armin ...
12 Feb 2016
12 Feb 2016, 00:00 91tv 91tv Energytransition.de ¡°Gas makes a (small) comeback in Germany¡± There are signs that gas turbines have become profitable again in Germany, even though they continue to produce very little power, Craig Morris reports ...
The Energiewende enters a new phase with more emphasis on new technologies and e-mobility ¨C driven by citizens ¨C than on the nuclear exit and the switch to renewable energies, German utility EnBW¡¯s CEO, Frank Mastiaux, tells Bernd Freytag and Susanne ...
18 Jun 2021, 13:05 Edgar Meza Wind Tagesspiegel Background The German government is examining how it can support the domestic offshore wind sector, which is suffering from a slowdown in activity, Steven Hanke writes in Tagesspiegel Background, citing a ...
The Economy Minister of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Andreas Pinkwart, has called for compensation payments from the federal budget if Germany accelerates its coal exit, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. ¡°The ...
08 Jan 2016
08 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt ¡°Greens sharpen their eco-profile¡± ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Green Party has called for a coal exit by 2036, Barbara Gillmann reports in the Handelsblatt. By that time, petrol and diesel cars should ...
About a third of German utilities will raise their electricity prices by an average of 3.5 percent in 2017, according to price comparison website verivox. This means additional costs of 41 euros per year for an average four-person home. The suppliers ...
10 Sep 2021, 14:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cost & Prices 91tv The latest round of offshore wind power auctions in Germany has led to three bids claiming zero support for their operations wining the tender, the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) ...
A rapid decommissioning of fossil and nuclear power plants in Germany ¡°poses the risk of knowingly causing an undersupply of guaranteed capacity by 2023 the latest¡±, says the Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) in a response to an analysis ...
Germany might have to discontinue a central instrument of the Energiewende in light of EU Commission plans to remove priority dispatch for renewable electricity, writes Stefan Schultz for Spiegel Online. In countries where renewables facilities produce a ...
Spinning off its fossil operations into Uniper is costing German utility E.ON dear, reports J¨¹rgen Flauger in business daily Handelsblatt. Because Uniper¡¯s market capitalisation is much lower than the figure on E.ON¡¯s books, the company had to post a net ...
04 Feb 2020, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Energiewende ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ power supply is secure at the moment, but continued grid expansion delays would pose a great challenge, the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) said in a press release accompanying its 8th ...
Rail industry associations and key companies have presented their joint vision of a climate friendly, cost-effective regional rail transport of the future, so that it can ¡°bid farewell to the diesel drive¡±, writes the transport alliance Allianz pro ...
The EEG surcharge ¨C ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ levy to support renewables expansion that consumers pay with their power bill ¨C will fall to 6.792 cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) in 2018, from 6.88 ct/kWh in 2017. The country¡¯s four transmission grid operators (TSOs) ...
Electric cars are going to spread in Germany sooner or later, and the country¡¯s infrastructure must be made ready for this boom soon, Hans Riebsamen writes in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Especially the larger urban areas that ...
After several hours of negotiations on diesel emissions and immigration, the federal government coalition also agreed that it would decide to implement special renewables auctions ¡°to contribute to closing the gap in the 2020 climate target¡± in a cabinet ...
Germany invested 14.6 billion US dollars in clean energy in 2017, a decrease of 26 percent compared to the previous year, and the lowest since 2004, says Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) in its 2017 report on global investment in renewable energies. ...
Heat pumps as an alternative to fossil fuels for heating could be a viable option for northern German regions but less so in the country¡¯s south, Harald Czycholl writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Northern German regions, like neighbouring Denmark, ...
Extreme weather events in Germany led to a slight increase in power outages in 2015, according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). The average outage per consumer rose to 12.7 minutes from 12.28 minutes in 2014. ¡°The slight increase in supply ...
The surplus on ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ green energy account continues to exceed five billion euros, compared to 4.3 billion euros in May 2016, reports Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. But the surplus will shrink over the summer to pay for seasonally ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition not only misses 2020 climate targets but fails on many other accounts too, according to the head of an expert commission tasked with monitoring the Energiewende¡¯s progress. ¡°Efficiency is a particular problem,¡± economist ...
Citizens, politicians, and the industry all agree that ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition must continue- but a clear plan on exactly how does not exist, writes Joachim Wille in Frankfurter Rundschau. ¡°How central or decentral should the Energiewende be designed? ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:50 Expert Vattenfall Energy company Electricity market Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Cost & Prices Tagesschau / 91tv The modern coal plant Moorbug owned by Swedish energy company Vattenfall had turned into a liability ...
Germany enjoys one of the highest levels of power supply security in the world, Lausitzer Rundschau reports, citing information provided by the German government in response to an enquiry by the Green Party. The country¡¯s already high level of power ...
The continued renewables development in Germany could be realised with only half of the high-voltage direct current power lines currently planned, according to a study by Prognos AG, commissioned by German power supplier N-Ergie. ¡°The currently lagging ...
As global new investment in renewable energies grew in 2017, Germany spent less on new renewable installations because the costs of offshore wind power have dropped, and the shift to auctions for onshore wind has created uncertainty, according to a report ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal government lacks an overall strategy for the electrification of the country¡¯s railway network, according to the lobby group Pro-Rail Alliance. Citing the latest EU comparative figures, the Alliance said there were large differences in ...
Regulatory hurdles hamper flexible energy storage systems from contributing to their full potential to the success of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition, Stefan Kapferer, head of utilities lobby BDEW, said in a press release. ¡°It¡¯s time energy storages received ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:40 Sven Egenter Finance Security 91tv Russia¡¯s cuts to natural gas supplies and the wider economic fallout from the war against Ukraine will push the German economy into recession, analysts at Deutsche Bank forecast. ¡°A likely ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:10 With its third energy cost relief package since the start of Russia¡¯s war on Ukraine, the German government hopes to alleviate concerns over skyrocketing prices for heating and electricity in the coming winter. The large package worth ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:54 Julian Wettengel Coal Bloomberg ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government has allocated less money for closing coal-fired power plants than the utilities that own them expected, reports Bloomberg. A government official told the news outlet that Chancellor ...
The grid reform proposal threatens to undermine the economics of decentralised power stations, according to utility association BDEW. ¡°The government risks that controllable and flexible decentralised power generators are pushed out of the market,¡± said ...
The deal between energy companies E.ON and RWE is an attempt to stem their decline by each focusing on a part of the old conventional energy world that may come costly to consumers and ultimately to the whole economy, energy economist Claudia Kemfert from ...
The ongoing transformation of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy system towards decentralised renewable power sources could reduce the country¡¯s dependence on fossil fuel reserves in the event of a major blackout, Peter Lauwe of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and ...
Innogy, the green subsidiary of German energy provider RWE, could be the biggest stock market launch of any German company since the year 2000 ¨C but renewable energy likely only plays a minor role for its expected success, write Varinia Bernau and ...
22 Jan 2021, 14:13 S?ren Amelang Coal Hydrogen 91tv Germany's most prominent hard coal power plant to be decommissioned as part of the country's coal exit is set to become a production site for renewable hydrogen. Oil major Shell, ...
20 Dec 2022, 13:19 The new year is going to pose the great challenge for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government to ensure that companies hit by the ongoing energy price crisis do not choose to relocate their business, according to Frederik Moch, head of energy policy at ...
20 May 2022, 13:44 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg ...
01 Apr 2020, 15:12 S?ren Amelang Renewables Solar pv magazine The combined capacity of Germany's solar pv installations rose to almost 50 gigawatts (GW) in February, further approaching the controversial government cap of 52 gigawatts,? reports ...
Two months after the surprise departure of CEO Peter Terium, renewable utility innogy is in crisis, and neither the management nor majority owner RWE have a plan to get out of the mess created by a profit drop, writes Angela Hennersdorf in the business ...
Nowhere in Germany are the effects of the energy transition more visible than in the Northwest, the centre of the country¡¯s wind power industry, writes Volker K¨¹hn in Nordwest-Zeitung. ¡°With wind power¡¯s stormy expansion on and offshore, the region has ...
The chief energy policy negotiator of German Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU in the ongoing ¡®Jamaica coalition¡¯ talks, North Rhine-Westphalia¡¯s (NRW) State Premier Armin Laschet, said that Germany could give up coal-fired power production by ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:24 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities Handelsblatt The coronavirus crisis is accelerating investments in sustainability rather than pushing aside climate change as a ...
10 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022, 13:30 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K?ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv / RND Quickly rising prices for raw materials needed to build a fossil-free energy infrastructure could ...
12 May 2022, 13:38 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 ...
Costs such as the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) surcharge and power grid fees make electricity artificially expensive and keep companies from ramping up production at times of low wholesale power prices, Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) president Eric ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ offshore wind industry calls on the next federal government to increase the expansion corridors for offshore wind to at least 20 gigawatt (GW) by 2030 (at the moment: 15 GW), and to 30 GW by 2035, according to a joint press release issued by ...
12 Nov 2014, 00:00 After more than a decade of rising electricity prices, German utilities are passing on some of their savings from lower wholesale prices and a cut in the renewable energy surcharge. But with a number of government decisions on the next ...
13 Aug 2015
13 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv RWE RWE operating result down by 11 percent / increased earnings from renewables ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ second biggest energy utility RWE reported a reduced operating result and EBITDA for the first six months ...
Katherina Reiche, managing director of the municipal utility association VKU wants the government to establish better conditions for local utilities and keep an eye on the cost efficiency of the energy transition and security of supply in Germany, she ...
31 Oct 2014, 00:00 The German government plans a complete overhaul of energy sector legislation. But one key question is as yet unanswered: Do fossil power plants need subsidies if Germany is to avoid power shortages? A green paper on energy market reform ...
21 Jul 2015
21 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Vattenfall Impairment losses and higher provisions for German operations Impairment losses and higher provisions for its German activities, as well as low electricity prices, widened losses at Swedish utility ...
The German government exports the Energiewende and supports the development of renewable energies outside the country¡¯s borders, like on the Greek island of Tilos, writes Handelsblatt. Economy minister Sigmar Gabriel is on a two day visit to Greece to ...
31 Mar 2020, 14:14 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 ...
The German government continues to assume that a planned security standby of lignite plants will result in costs of about 230 million euros over seven years, it said in an answer to a parliamentary inquiry by the Green party. The security standby is also ...
17 Jul 2015
17 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) "European Commission has missed the opportunity for innovation in CO2 intensive materials" The EU Commission¡¯s proposal for carbon leakage ...
It is in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ immediate interest to embrace the European dimension of the Energiewende, argues Rebecca Bertram in a blog post for energytransition.org. ¡°Germany needs Europe to drive its own Energiewende forward,¡± writes Bertram, citing German power ...
The strength of the Greens in this autumn¡¯s federal elections will depend on the party¡¯s results in the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in May, says the state¡¯s Energiewende minister and Green politician Robert Habeck in an interview with Welt am ...
In 2017, renewables represented a record of around 38.5 percent of public net power generation (33.8 percent in 2016), writes Bruno Burger of Fraunhofer ISE in an end-of-year assessment. In total, renewables contributed 15 percent more to ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ public ...
The economy ministers of the German coal states Brandenburg, Saxony, and North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have warned the country¡¯s coal exit commission against coming up with ¡°hasty¡± scenarios for phasing out fossil power sources. In a press release issued ...
Germany will not be able to phase out coal-fired power production by 2030, said Rolf Martin Schmitz, head of RWE, the country¡¯s biggest power producer and Europe¡¯s biggest private emitter of CO 2. In an interview with the Rheinische Post on the eve of the ...
German utility EnBW¡¯s CEO,? Frank Mastiaux, said a coal exit decided by? ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ next government ?would ¡°not be an existential problem" for the company. In an interview with Greenpeace Magazin, Mastiaux said his company had ¡°already included¡±? a ...
The stock market launch of innogy could make RWE¡¯s green subsidiary ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ most valuable utility, writes Antje H?ning in Rheinische Post. If the stock price of 36 euros- determined by auction- remains unchanged, innogy will be worth around 20 billion ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the country¡¯s renewable reform is a profound paradigm shift. ¡°We can¡¯t feel it yet [¡] but it will change the landscape considerably,¡± Merkel said with reference to the transition from pre-fixed feed-in tariffs to ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called the expansion of the country¡¯s power grid an ¡°absolute priority¡± for the next legislative period. At a convention of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), Merkel said Germany was ¡°lagging behind on all ...
20 Nov 2023, 16:30 Germany will invest 4 billion euros in sustainable energy projects in Africa until 2030 to help improve the continet¡¯s role in renewable power, green hydrogen and critical raw material extraction, chancellor Olaf Scholz announced at the ...
German energy company innogy has teamed up with technology company Kiwigrid to develop a new platform for organising a decentralised power supply system, innogy said in a press release. ¡°Centralised power plants are a thing of the past,¡± innogy writes, ...
A group of trade unionists, regional economics and energy ministers and industry leaders has called for Germany to increase its offshore capacity to at least 20 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, and at least 30 GW by 2035, Craig Richard reports for Windpower ...
Grid operators TenneT and TransnetBW published a variety of updated route suggestions to lay direct current power lines from ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ windy north to the industrial south, after protests against overhead lines had forced the companies to revise original ...
Environmentalists and critics of current Energiewende policies are intensifying protests against major high-voltage transmission lines traversing Germany from north to south, news agency dpa reports. Environmental organisation Friends of the Earth Germany ...
Russian oil company Rosneft is set to increase its business activities in Germany, Daniel Wetzel writes in Welt Online. Russia¡¯s largest oil producer is doubling its investments in the country to 600 million euros over the next five years, CEO Igor Sechin ...
The changes brought about in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy supply structure by the Energiewende pose a great threat to the country¡¯s municipal utilities, Thomas Brucker writes in a study for the SPD-associated Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES). Regional energy ...
07 May 2020, 13:56 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Solar pv magazine Germany's market for solar energy and home storage systems will collapse if the government doesn't deliver on its promise to remove the existing cap for support payments, ...
09 Dec 2020, 15:17 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Society International 91tv Around 77 percent of Germans say the EU should raise its 2030 climate target. In a? survey ?commissioned by the country's utility association BDEW, only ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ fifth largest power producer STEAG plans to shut down about half of its power production capacity sooner than originally planned, writes J¨¹rgen Flauger in the Handelsblatt. The company that operates several hard-coal power plants in the Ruhr ...
Due to the end of their 20-year life span of guaranteed support payments, about 20 gigawatt (GW) of wind power capacity in Germany will be retired by 2023 as their operation is no longer profitable, Simone Peter, head of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Renewable Energy ...
Planning company ILF has managed many difficult projects around the world ¨C from pipelines in Nigeria to an airport in Kazakhstan ¨C but building the electricity superhighway S¨¹dlink, which is meant to bring wind power to Germany's industrial south, ...
06 Jul 2021, 13:01 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Edgar Meza Bioenergy 91tv The use of renewable biomethane is on the rise, resulting in increasing ...
01 Dec 2020, 14:09 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Cars 91tv New registrations of cars with alternative drive systems ...
Even though international wholesale prices for natural gas prices fell in 2016, suppliers did not fully pass this decline on to consumers, according to a study by consultancy EnergyComment, commissioned by the Green parliamentary group in the German ...
25 Mar 2021, 13:57 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen 91tv Germany should use hydrogen ...
While 69 percent of residents in eastern Germany still support the country¡¯s energy transition in principle, this figure is well below the 78 percent that expressed approval in 2015, Die Welt reports, citing a study by energy provider enviaM and Leipzig ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:27 S?ren Amelang Utilities Reuters German utility RWE will win unconditional EU antitrust approval to buy the renewables businesses of E.ON and Innogy in a deal that will reshape the German energy market, according to an unsourced Reuters ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:39 Rachel Waldholz Storage 91tv German industrial conglomerate Siemens has launched its first battery storage system geared toward private homes. Homes that generate their own electricity from sources like solar panels will be ...
With more cooperation on energy infrastructure, European states could counter the risks associated with fluctuating supply of wind power, Ralph Diermann writes on Spiegel Online. According to a study in Nature Climate Change, variable weather conditions ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Federal Court of Auditors (BRH) has renewed its criticism of the government¡¯s lacking overview of energy transition costs, a court spokesperson told the 91tv. Website Spiegel Online originally reported that the court asked the ...
The passing of a new law on the ¡°Digitalisation of the Energiewende¡± in the second house of the German parliament, the Bundesrat, has been overshadowed by the vote on the reform ?of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), according to an article in pv magazine. ...
26 Jun 2020, 12:12 Expert F?S- Green Budget Germany Forum ?kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Coal Tagesspiegel Background Experts have criticised the lack of transparency in the contract between lignite ...
04 Feb 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Policy Welt am Sonntag The parliamentary group leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative party CDU, Ralph Brinkhaus, told newspaper Welt am Sonntag in an interview that the German ...
German utility E.ON¡¯ chief operating officer for grids and renewable energies, Leonhard Birnbaum, demands a change to the country¡¯s onshore wind power auctions to ensure that professional wind power project developers cannot benefit from advantages given ...
03 Jun 2019, 13:31 S?ren Amelang Renewables Renew Economy ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ share of renewable energy in net public electricity generation rose to 47 percent in the first five months of 2019, reports Giles Parkinson in Renew Economy on the basis of data by ...
17 Mar 2016
17 Mar 2016, 00:00 (UPDATES with new quotes from the conference. Please note: this item will be updated throughout the conference)- The world has to move from negotiations to actions on climate change and the transition to a low carbon economy after the ...
