26 May 2025, 12:04 ұԲ’s plans for the ramp-up of a green hydrogen economy has run into significant uncertainties, including over the fuel’s future price, regulation, and the necessary infrastructure development, said an energy industry report. ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:39 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany should act quickly to kickstart the hydrogen economy with concrete steps as not enough has been done in practice so far, said the Association of German Engineers ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Storage Hydrogen 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany can store enough hydrogen in salt caverns alone to meet more than the maximum expected national and European demand needs, the economy ministry (BMWK ...
10 Feb 2025, 13:21 Bennet Ribbeck Industry Handelsblatt The German steel industry, which is central to Europe’s plans to establish a green hydrogen economy, is calling for postponing existing deadlines for using the climate-neutral gas, reported business ...
14 Jan 2025, 13:08 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv A robust political strategy based on realistic expectations for hydrogen production is needed as demand for the gas remains low due to its high costs and other factors, researchers at the Potsdam ...
20 Feb 2025, 13:38 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Policy 91tv The German government has started its largest green hydrogen import auction yet. For the first time, one portion of the tender worth 2.5 billion euros in total will be funded jointly by ...
21 May 2025
21 May 2025, 12:50 91tv Team Bloomberg: EU likely to propose quota to ban Russia gas imports by end 2027 The European Union is likely to propose a quota as the mechanism to enforce a bloc-wide import ban on Russian gas by the end of 2027, which officials ...
23 Jan 2025, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Cost & Prices Die Welt Representatives of the German energy industry say that the policy announcements by the new U.S. administration could benefit their country’s competitiveness if the next government ...
23 Jan 2025, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International 91tv Government representatives from Algeria, Austria, Italy, Germany, and Tunisia have signed a joint letter of intent for a new hydrogen corridor that should connect southern ...
03 Apr 2025, 11:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende Cost & Prices 91tv Germany could achieve climate neutrality by 2045 at a much lower cost through a combination of energy efficiency measures and a slower expansion of power generation and ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:57 Jack McGovan Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt Plasma technologies could open new options for decarbonising heat supply in industrial processes, offering an alternative to the use of green hydrogen, newspaper Handelsblatt reported. Swedish ...
06 Jan 2025, 12:45 Jennifer Collins Grid Hydrogen dpa / 91tv The buildout of crucial energy infrastructure in Germany is making progress: The first 525 kilometres of Germany's hydrogen core grid will be built in 2025, with gas operators ...
18 Mar 2025
18 Mar 2025, 12:02 91tv Team BETD: German government hosts 11th Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue Event brings together representatives from over 130 countries to discuss the financing and roll-out of the global energy transition. S&P Global: Gascade ...
04 Feb 2025
04 Feb 2025, 12:00 91tv Team EEA: EU maritime transport: progress made but environmental, sustainability challenges persist Europe’s maritime sector is making progress towards greater sustainability but will need to increase its efforts over the coming ...
11 Dec 2024, 13:10 Importing green hydrogen via ships is not a viable strategy for the decarbonisation of ұԲ’s steel and chemical industries, the country’s government-funded Ariadne energy transition research alliance has warned. These sectors ...
31 Oct 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Germany should consider the import of direct reduced iron as a way to produce the hydrogen that is needed to generate electricity in its planned backup power plants, says a report by Norwegian ...
18 Oct 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Grid Industry Hydrogen Technology Policy Handelsblatt Doubts over Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe’s (TKSE) strategy to decarbonise using hydrogen puts ұԲ’s plans for the construction of a hydrogen core grid at risk, gas grid ...
29 Oct 2024, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The projected demand for green hydrogen in Europe can largely be covered by domestic production, said researchers from ұԲ’s Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Integrated Energy Systems ...
09 Oct 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Danish electricity and gas transmission system operator Energinet has postponed the planned commissioning date for the first cross-border hydrogen pipeline into Germany to the end of 2031 ...
26 Sep 2024, 13:00 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Policy 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Industry representatives have largely welcomed Germany's plans to ramp up the hydrogen market, but called for amendments to a draft law to broaden ...
23 Oct 2024, 13:05 Germany will see the first hydrogen flow in pipelines from next year after the country’s "core hydrogen grid" was approved. The backbone of the long-distance transmission network for hydrogen will be slightly smaller than ...
17 Apr 2025
17 Apr 2025, 11:28 91tv Team Euronews: "The West as we knew it no longer exists," von der Leyen argues amid Trump tensions "We don't have bros or oligarchs making the rules," European Commission head says in interview. Bloomberg: ...
26 Feb 2025
26 Feb 2025, 10:30 Sören Amelang Bloomberg: EU pitches new Clean Deal as industries struggle to compete European Commission to outline measures to reduce energy costs. Politico: Europe’s impossible choice: Which industries should survive the green ...
13 Sep 2024, 12:06 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv Planned hydrogen storage projects remain significantly behind forecasted demand, an issue which could affect ұԲ’s attempts to move towards a renewable energy system, found a report ...
11 Oct 2024, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen FAZ German energy company Uniper has postponed its target to invest eight billion euros in growth and the green transformation by 2030 also due to a lack of demand for green hydrogen, CEO Michael Lewis told ...
04 Sep 2024, 13:36 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen 91tv Germany is betting big on green hydrogen imports but the country should strengthen its own production as well because it is "uncertain" where those imports will come from in relevant ...
05 Sep 2024, 13:22 Jennifer Collins Wind Hydrogen Technology A European hydrogen test project has successfully linked a wind turbine with two electrolysers, which could make it possible to generate off-grid green hydrogen at sea and drive down production ...
24 Jul 2024, 13:38 Germany is betting on sustainable hydrogen to decarbonise its economy and will largely have to import the fuel in future due to unfavourable local conditions for renewable electricity production. With its hydrogen import strategy, the ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:44 Edgar Meza Industry Policy EU 91tv Expectations among industrial players and environmental NGOs are high for the EU’s highly anticipated Clean Industrial Deal, a follow-up to the European Green Deal that aims to build on ...
05 Dec 2024, 13:05 Sören Amelang Electricity Industry Hydrogen 91tv German industry demand for electricity will rise steeply during the sector’s decarbonisation even if it opts for intensive use of hydrogen, according to a report by a ...
27 Aug 2024, 13:29 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Hydrogen NDR German state-run energy company Uniper is trialling the use of a former salt mine in northern Germany for large-scale hydrogen storage, public broadcaster NDR ...
05 Feb 2025, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Handelsblatt The German government and industry players are considering using parts of the contentious Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline connecting Russia and Germany through the Baltic Sea for hydrogen deliveries ...
28 Aug 2024, 14:06 Jack McGovan Storage Hydrogen MDR / 91tv The German government is co-funding a hydrogen storage project in the Saale region, with economy minister Robert Habeck having handed over the funding notice of 61 million euros on ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:20 Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Handelsblatt The German government is concerned about the country’s oil refineries, which are facing the most serious crisis in decades caused by the rising cost of emissions, cheap fuel imports, weak demand ...
23 Jul 2024, 13:17 Jack McGovan Hydrogen ұԲ’s gas transmission system operators have submitted a joint application for a planned hydrogen core network to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). Due to be completed by 2032, the planned network would ...
24 Apr 2025
24 Apr 2025, 13:14 91tv Team Reuters: German economy to flatline in 2025 as tariff turmoil hits, government says The German government cut its economic growth forecast and now sees stagnation in 2025 instead of a 0.3% expansion as uncertainty from global ...
16 Jul 2024, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The German government plans to have a diversified import structure for green hydrogen, shows a draft strategy seen by Tagesspiegel Background. It counts on pipelines to supplier ...
07 Mar 2025, 15:00 Winter may finally be on the way out but Italy is still grappling with high electricity prices, with average wholesale prices in February among the highest in Europe. Under increasing pressure to halt further rises, the government ...
11 Sep 2024, 12:56 Julian Wettengel Wind Handelsblatt Offshore wind parks located far away from ұԲ’s coast would be more profitable if they produce green hydrogen to send to the mainland by pipeline as well as having a direct electricity connection, ...
22 Jul 2024, 13:05 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Handelsblatt Industry in southwestern Germany worries it will be left behind as planning for the country's core hydrogen grid advances. According to a survey among regional chambers of industry and ...
14 May 2025
14 May 2025, 12:30 91tv Team Bloomberg: Merz risks coalition spat with call to scrap EU supply-chain law ұԲ’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, reiterated a call for the European Union to scrap rules designed to make companies pursue sustainable ...
01 Oct 2024, 13:09 Sören Amelang Wind Hydrogen 91tv Building “energy islands” in the North Sea to produce green hydrogen using 20 gigawatts of offshore wind power can save Germany billions of euros, according to a report by the Fraunhofer ...
18 Jun 2024, 13:19 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv Nine gas transmission system operators (TSOs) from countries bordering the Baltic Sea have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that declares the aim to coordinate and facilitate the buildout ...
05 Jul 2024, 14:38 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv A large part of Germany's future hydrogen demand could be supplied to the country via pipelines from neighbouring countries, according to a report by think tanks Agora Energiewende and ...
21 Nov 2024, 13:11 Ruby Russel Freight 91tv Battery-electric trucks are the best option to reduce emissions from road freight transport, and market forces are working in their favour, according to a report by the German Institute for Economic ...
12 Jul 2024, 13:36 Sören Amelang Hydrogen International 91tv In its highly anticipated first auction for the import of green hydrogen products, Germany has awarded a contract to receive green ammonia from Egypt. “Between 2027 and 2033, at ...
30 May 2024, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv Germany's cabinet has agreed to give hydrogen infrastructure planning and approval priority to drive the rapid development and expansion of its production, storage and supply. The draft ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen 91tv Four years after the launch of ұԲ’s national hydrogen strategy, the buildout of hydrogen infrastructure is behind schedule and could run into serious trouble that scares away ...
24 Jul 2024, 13:21 Joey Grostern Hydrogen 91tv Methanol derived from green hydrogen could play an important role in ұԲ’s transition to a decarbonised economy, a paper from the German Energy Agency (dena) has found. The compound, which is ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:39 Jennifer Collins Policy International 91tv / FAZ / ARD Germany's economy and climate minister Robet Habeck and Indian renewable energy minister Pralhad Joshi are set to unveil a green hydrogen roadmap during a meeting ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Grid Renewables 91tv Dividing ұԲ’s single power price zone into several individual regions could reduce final electricity prices for consumers across the country, said a report by ...
18 Nov 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv In order to reach climate neutrality in the most affordable way, Germany must ensure it can transport energy across its regions by expanding its electricity and hydrogen grids, ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Electricity market Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Germany's plan to secure the supply of electricity at all times through hydrogen-ready gas power plants could not materialise ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:44 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen Handelsblatt Construction of a hydrogen "core" network in Germany has been further delayed as its future operators and the electricity grid agency BNetzA await an EU decision on state aid, reported ...
16 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024, 10:45 91tv Team The Guardian: Germany: parliament to declare no confidence in chancellor Olaf Scholz Chancellor triggered path to elections, due to take place on 23 February, by firing finance minister Christian Lindner last month. DeSmog: ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:21 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Freight 91tv A consortium linked to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has built a plant at the Mannheim wastewater treatment plant that cleans generated biogas and uses the resulting ...
31 May 2024, 12:50 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International 91tv Germany has signed a declaration of intent with Italy and Austria to develop a green hydrogen import corridor in a bid to improve future energy security, the economy ministry ...
31 Oct 2024, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind Hydrogen 91tv Europe could cover its electricity and green hydrogen needs with domestic production, but only if renewables expansion proceeds as planned, said researchers from ...
13 May 2024, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Germany will need more hydrogen than previously expected across all economic sectors by 2030, said the national hydrogen council in an updated assessment of future demand. The council gauged ...
28 Jan 2025, 12:58 Slowing down industry decarbonisation in Germany would result in a dangerous loss of competitiveness in emerging green markets, says Philipp Verpoort, a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Instead, the ...
07 May 2024, 13:31 Expert Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Climate & CO2 Resources & Recycling Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt ...
12 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025, 10:57 91tv Team Reuters: RWE, TotalEnergies agree long-term green hydrogen supply deal Germany's top utility agrees to supply French oil major with around 30,000 t of green hydrogen a year from 2030, in one of the sector's biggest ...
23 May 2024, 14:41 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Jack McGovan Cars Hydrogen Handelsblatt The head of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), Hildegard Müller, has called on the government to expand ...
13 Jun 2024, 13:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating 91tv / Klimareporter Supplying households with green hydrogen for heating should not play a major role in ұԲ’s heating sector decarbonisation because of huge planning and implementation ...
25 Jul 2024, 13:12 Jack McGovan Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The German government drafted a law to accelerate the expansion of onshore wind, solar farms and energy storage facilities by shortening approval times for projects and designing so ...
17 May 2024, 12:34 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv There is a significant potential in the northern Baltic states, especially in Finland, to produce green hydrogen for export to central Europe, said a report by certifier and consultancy DNV, ...
10 Apr 2024, 13:48 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Hydrogen 91tv Industry association vbw has ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:19 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Germany's energy industry has warned that the country might struggle to find investors to build new hydrogen-ready gas power plants, following the end of a ...
15 Apr 2024, 12:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Der Spiegel / 91tv The German parliament (Bundestag) has given the green light for the construction of a 9,700-kilometre pipeline network to transport hydrogen across the country and to its ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Hydrogen trade with the EU could play an important role in rebuilding the economy and energy infrastructure of Ukraine, ұԲ’s government-appointed National Hydrogen Council has said. ...
18 Mar 2024, 13:03 Sören Amelang Hydrogen International 91tv An alliance of social and environmental NGOs has called on the German government to include concrete and binding sustainability and justice standards in its hydrogen import strategy ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv All six eastern German states have set up a joint initiative on renewables-based hydrogen. It is intended to closely connect politics, business and science on the fuel "in order to fully ...
11 Sep 2024, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Technology 91tv ұԲ’s key document laying out its climate and energy policy targets and plans shows that the country “is underestimating the scale and complexity of the ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Several southern German states have called on the federal government to design state support rules for electrolysers in a way that includes their regions, reported ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv Countries like Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany should form a joint hydrogen alliance to use their market power as future importers of hydrogen derivatives, said researchers from ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:27 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv Salt caverns could be an effective location for storing hydrogen in Germany due to their geological, physical and chemical properties, according to a report published by the Institute of Energy ...
16 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025, 12:00 Sören Amelang World Economic Forum: These are the biggest risks we face now and in the next 10 years "Extreme weather events" rank second in the short term of two years and first in the long term of 10 years. Bloomberg: ...
22 Mar 2024, 13:19 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Heating 91tv More than 200 climate and energy organisations have warned German municipalities against falling prey to gas industry lobbying for including hydrogen in their obligatory local plans for ...
21 Feb 2024, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Cost & Prices 91tv Germany will provide up to 3.53 billion euros in the period 2027 to 2036 to procure hydrogen and hydrogen-based derivatives from different regions, said the economy ministry ...
12 Feb 2025
12 Feb 2025, 10:35 91tv Team European Commission presents 2025 work programme The Commission has adopted its 2025 work programme, outlining its ambition to boost competitiveness, enhance security, and bolster economic resilience in the EU. EIB Investment ...
21 Jan 2025, 12:35 Edgar Meza Electricity Cost & Prices 91tv Net electricity consumption in Germany may not rise as much in the coming years as assumed in current regulatory planning, according to a report by consultancy McKinsey. ...
02 Oct 2024
02 Oct 2024, 11:21 91tv Team Bruno Burger (Fraunhofer ISE): In the first three quarters of 2024, around 106 million tonnes of CO2 were emitted from electricity generation in Germany This is 15 per cent less than in the first three quarters of 2023 and ...
16 May 2025, 14:30 As Croatia goes to the polls for local elections on 18 May the green transition has been relatively absent in political campaigns. Citizen participation in the transition has picked up with the opening of the first large-scale solar ...
29 Jan 2025, 11:18 As Germans prepare to head to the polls for the 23 February snap election, the weakness of the country’s large industrial base has become a campaign focus. Some opposition policymakers blame exaggerated climate policies for the troubles ...
07 Oct 2024
07 Oct 2024, 10:53 91tv Team Bruegel: Europe’s 2040 climate target: four critical risks and how to manage them Achieving target will require massive expansion of renewable electricity generation, drastic reductions in fossil-fuel use, energy efficiency ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:53 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln Electricity market Business & ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:42 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A planned hydrogen "core" network in Germany has come under criticism for being larger than necessary and therefore becoming too expensive, reports Handelsblatt. ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Freight Hydrogen 91tv Trains could play a key role in ensuring a comprehensive transport network for distributing imported green hydrogen across Germany, a report by research institute Fraunhofer ...
20 May 2025, 13:09 Edgar Meza International 91tv Germanwatch is calling for greater support for Africa’s energy transition as the continent continues to provide raw materials for Europe’s green transformation. An upcoming meeting between ...
23 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024, 11:23 91tv Team DW: Germany increases 'Deutschlandticket' price to €58 The "Deutschlandticket" monthly travel pass allows passengers unlimited trips on local and regional trains, trams and buses. Starting in 2025, the ...
07 Feb 2025
07 Feb 2025, 11:27 91tv Team Climate Home: UN gives countries more time to submit “quality” climate plans for 2035 The head of the UN climate change body has urged countries to submit new “first-rate” climate targets by September, after only a handful of ...
09 Apr 2024, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International 91tv Representatives of the Nama people in Namibia are preparing an appeal to the German government to consider its colonial past in its plans to make the southern African country a ...
17 Apr 2024, 12:50 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / Handelsblatt Germany's government wants to boost the expansion of hydrogen projects by giving them "overriding public interest" status, which would streamline planning ...
27 Nov 2024
27 Nov 2024, 11:03 91tv Team Euronews: Parliament gives final approval for new European Commission A majority of Members of the European Parliament gave the final approval to the new European Commission of Ursula von der Leyen, allowing the executive to ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The German government is open to partnering with African countries on fossil gas projects, as well as blue hydrogen production (made from fossil gas, ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:34 Edgar Meza Mobility Freight 91tv Economic experts in Germany and France are calling for the two countries to coordinate strategies in the decarbonisation of road freight transport. In a joint statement, the Franco-German ...
27 Jun 2024, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Der Spiegel Germany's highly anticipated government strategy for constructing gas power plants as a backup for rapidly increasing renewable generation will be delayed by one year, news magazine Der ...
16 Feb 2024, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The construction of hydrogen storage facilities beyond the existing caverns is crucial for the energy system of the future, especially as a basis for solar photovoltaics (PV) ...
16 Feb 2024, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv The European Union has given Germany and six other EU countries the green light to provide a total of 6.9 billion euros in state support to companies for 33 projects along the hydrogen ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Germany has become the first member state to join an EU scheme to support domestic renewable hydrogen production through the European Hydrogen Bank. Under the "Auctions-as-a-Service” ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Hydrogen 91tv Eastern ұԲ’s largest lignite mine operator, LEAG, is ready to build one of Germany's first hydrogen-ready gas power plants. The company said the gas turbine power plant ...
12 Jan 2024, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Czechia and eastern German state Saxony have agreed to deepen their cooperation on a joint network for hydrogen and to generally intensify research and industry exchange in the budding ...
15 Feb 2024, 13:30 Ruby Russel Transport Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Projects to build green hydrogen electrolysers at refineries are being cancelled because oil companies lack guarantees that the investments will be profitable, even though the ...
08 Feb 2024, 13:36 Sören Amelang Hydrogen International 91tv Germany and Algeria are discussing closer bilateral cooperation in the rollout of renewables and green hydrogen during a visit by economy minister Robert Habeck to the north African ...
04 Dec 2024, 12:23 Sören Amelang Electricity market 91tv An energy system dominated by solar and wind energy does not require baseload power stations to guarantee supply security, German research academies have said. “The academy project ...
16 Jan 2024, 12:51 Edgar Meza Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU Süddeutsche Zeitung A global rush to find natural hydrogen (H2) is intensifying the focus on what could turn out to be a much cheaper source for the gas, seen to play a key role in the energy ...
08 Feb 2024, 13:33 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Utilities 91tv German energy company Uniper plans to operate salt caverns as large-scale hydrogen storage within around six years. “The initially envisaged storage capacity will be 250 to 600 GWh, ...
27 Jun 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Hydrogen 91tv Achieving ұԲ’s energy transition and climate targets still requires a lot of political efforts to keep supply secure and affordable, the government-appointed expert commission ...
08 Nov 2023, 14:13 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen International Handelsblatt Norwegian shipping company Höegh LNG is set to convert its floating liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals in Germany to import hydrogen starting 2028, the company's CEO, Erik ...
10 Dec 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung The steel industry is “of geopolitical importance” for German industry and will therefore receive assistance from the government in mastering its ...
01 Oct 2024
01 Oct 2024, 10:44 91tv Team dpa: Renewables cover 56% of Germany's electricity in first three quarters This represents an increase from 52% in the same period last year. Energytransition.org: Germany's mixed record disappoints the climate ...
26 Sep 2023, 12:32 Expert GTAI- Germany Trade & Invest Economic development agency of the Federal Republic of Germany Business & Jobs International Edgar Meza Wind Hydrogen dpa / Handelsblatt Germany and the UK aim to cooperate on the expansion of ...
05 Jul 2024, 14:29 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Gas 91tv The German government will hold the first round of tenders for hydrogen-ready gas fired power plants by the end of 2024 or beginning of 2025, the economy ministry (BMWK) has ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen EU Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Background One of Germany's major gas grid operators has joined the pipeline project "H2Med", which is set to transport hydrogen from the Iberian Peninsula towards ...
08 Apr 2025, 13:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables 91tv Germany needs more clarity on the future role of fossil gas in its energy system to allow industry to make the right investment choices, said the International Energy Agency (IEA) in a ...
07 Apr 2025, 13:15 Sören Amelang Transport Industry 91tv Climate-neutral industrial alcohol made with renewable electricity appears to be the most suitable synthetic fuel to decarbonise international shipping, researchers from the Institute ...
19 May 2025, 17:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Gas Policy 91tv [UPDATE adds quotes by minister Reiche, Commissioner Ribera] The new German government should largely adopt the previous government's plans for building new gas power ...
13 Nov 2023, 13:38 Julian Wettengel Storage Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The German economy ministry warns of a significantly higher future demand for hydrogen storage capacity than previously assumed, reported Tagesspiegel Background. In its ‘Green ...
26 Jul 2023, 13:36 The German government coalition has presented a long-expected update to its National Hydrogen Strategy with the aim of speeding up the development of a market for the fuel, which it sees as essential on the path to climate neutrality by ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:24 Sören Amelang Industry Hydrogen 91tv Converting hydrogen to ammonia will be "the dominant transport technology" in order to ship the fuel to Germany, according to a report commissioned by the World Energy Council ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:24 Bennet Ribbeck Industry 91tv The electrification of industrial processes with renewable energy is the most cost-effective transformation path for the sector, the research consortium IND-E has stated in a report. The authors ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:37 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv There’s a large imbalance between current investment and the potential for cheap hydrogen production in individual European regions, according to a new report. Regions with high potential to ...
12 Jul 2024, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Industry Policy 91tv / WirtschaftsWoche The German government’s plans for a so-called capacity market, which would reward power plant operators for providing generation capacity rather ...
06 Nov 2024
06 Nov 2024, 13:24 91tv Team Euronews: Thousands of jobs to go at German car parts maker Schäffler The company is downsizing at 10 locations in Germany and five other sites in Europe, further illustrating the challenges facing the European car industry. ...
06 Sep 2024, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Electricity Gas 91tv Electricity connectors and pipelines are crucial to leverage the potential of closer cooperation on energy and climate between Europe and the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA) region, ...
14 Sep 2023, 14:03 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany plans to ...
15 Nov 2023, 11:44 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv The German government is supporting the construction of a 9,700-kilometre-long pipeline network to transport hydrogen across the country and to its neighbours, the economy ministry said in ...
17 Oct 2023, 13:33 Edgar Meza Gas Hydrogen 91tv The first long-distance gas pipeline in Germany is being converted for hydrogen use, gas infrastructure company Open Grid Europe (OGE) announced. Hydrogen is expected to play a key role in the ...
04 Aug 2023, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Dimethyl ether (DME) – a compound used as propellant in deodorant sprays – is a “hitherto underestimated” way to store and transport hydrogen over long distances, said researchers of the ...
05 Sep 2023, 12:11 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen 91tv Algeria, Tunisia and Spain could be the best and most cost-effective countries from which Germany can import green hydrogen if pipelines are ready for transport, according to an analysis by ...
22 Nov 2024, 09:30 The collapse of ұԲ’s coalition government has thrown climate policymaking in Europe’s largest economy into disarray, and added many question marks to the progress of its landmark energy transition. The sacking of finance minister ...
07 Nov 2023, 13:05 Edgar Meza Hydrogen International 91tv The German government is supporting the establishment of Africa’s first green ironworks with a grant of 13 million euros. A consortium consisting of three German companies, CO2Grab, TS ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen 91tv Domestic production of green hydrogen should play a much bigger role in ұԲ’s plans to scale-up the hydrogen economy, which is currently based on a more often inefficient and costly ...
16 Nov 2023, 13:52 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv The expansion of green hydrogen production efforts Germany is slowing down, says a report commissioned by utility E.ON. “The hydrogen generation capacity planned by 2030 has risen from 8.1 ...
21 Nov 2024, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv New large scale batteries and hydrogen electrolysers could see their grid connection fee lowered in areas where there is surplus electricity, according to proposals made by ...
03 Aug 2023, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen EU Handelsblatt / 91tv ұԲ’s economy minister Robert Habeck and the European Commissioner for energy Kadri Simson have called on EU member states to join the ‘H2 Global’ initiative in a bid to ...
28 Jun 2023, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv A new analysis shows that domestic green hydrogen is “more competitive than expected” compared to imports of the snythic gas made with renewable power sources, which are the focus of the ...
26 Feb 2024, 13:30 Sören Amelang Industry Hydrogen 91tv The European Commission has approved 1.3 billion euros of German state aid to help multinational steelmaker ArcelorMittal make its operations in the country more climate-friendly. The ...
15 Apr 2025
15 Apr 2025, 11:55 91tv Team Copernicus/WMO: European State of the Climate Report- 2024 warmest year on record During the year, there was a striking east-west contrast in climate conditions, with extremely dry and often record-warm conditions in the east, ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Business & Jobs 91tv With a new factory for building electrolysers in Berlin, ұԲ’s Siemens Energy and France’s Air Liquide hope to lay the groundwork for a flourishing hydrogen economy in ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:53 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv In addition to electrification and a massive ramp-up of renewables, a greater use of diverse technologies such as seasonal heat storage or feed additives that reduce methane emissions from ...
26 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Reuters: German, French companies less hopeful over economic recovery Companies in the euro zone's two largest economies are growing more pessimistic, surveys showed on Thursday (26 July), raising concerns over ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:26 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv / Table.Media The production of green hydrogen in Germany will not be financially viable also in the long term, according to a report commissioned by the European Commission. A hydrogen economy ...
23 May 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen dpa / ARD / 91tv ұԲ’s gas storage capacity is insufficient for the planned expansion of the use of hydrogen, according to gas storage network operator INES. Current gas storage facilities ...
24 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv As ұԲ’s hydrogen (H2) economy takes shape, a double supply gap is emerging in the country’s south, a report by consultancy PWC found. While the north is well positioned, the country’s ...
04 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Europe must debate a framework to ramp-up a hydrogen economy on the continent as a key element of its move towards climate neutrality, said German energy industry association BDEW. “There ...
23 Nov 2023, 12:49 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv Germany and Italy have agreed to expand energy cooperation in order to strengthen supply security and the transition to climate neutrality, with gas and hydrogen pipelines across the Alps ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:33 Sören Amelang Transport Hydrogen Heating Policy Handelsblatt The German government wants to use hydrogen for decarbonising road transport and heating, in addition to industry, according to a highly anticipated revamp of the national ...
25 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Euractiv: Italy to present hydrogen corridor plan in autumn, may involve Switzerland The so-called SouthH2 Corridor would connect North Africa, Italy, Austria and Germany, allowing renewable hydrogen produced in the ...
07 Aug 2024
07 Aug 2024, 13:41 91tv Team Reuters: German drugstore chain shuns Teslas over Musk's support for Trump Rossmann drugstore chain, which is among the largest in Europe, said its decision was with immediate effect and due to what it called an " ...
05 Aug 2024
05 Aug 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Politico: No, the EV isn’t dead — just briefly comatose Despite gloomy stories about the collapse in sales of electric vehicles, what’s really happening on the markets is more of a pause than a retreat. Benar News: New ...
04 Nov 2024
04 Nov 2024, 13:17 91tv Team Bloomberg: ұԲ’s shaky coalition heads for a €75 billion budget reckoning Top judges to scrutinize levy on high earners and businesses. The ruling could bring the fragile coalition to the brink of collapse. S&P Global: ...
01 Aug 2023, 12:47 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv The European Commission has set important framework conditions for planned German state support to build and operate about 24 gigawatts (GW) hydrogen power plants and fossil gas units ...
30 May 2025, 12:41 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv Current planning for electricity grid development in Europe and Germany may underestimate infrastructure and flexibility needs as it uses simplified weather assumptions and idealised prosumer ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen 91tv Norway has said it can supply industry customers in northern Germany with so-called blue hydrogen to push the ramp-up of hydrogen infrastructure in Germany, Norwegian government ...
01 Jul 2024
01 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Reuters: Germany, Morocco agree alliance to support green hydrogen production and exports Germany is seeking to expand its reliance on hydrogen as a future energy source to cut greenhouse emissions for highly polluting ...
06 Feb 2024, 09:42 Germany is set to hold auctions to support the construction of new gas-fired power plants in the short term, which would then be converted to run on hydrogen in the mid-to-late 2030s, the ruling coalition said. The plants are considered ...
02 May 2023, 13:26 Jessica Bateman Grid Hydrogen NDR The German government and gas operators are putting together detailed plans for a nationwide hydrogen network, the country’s economy minister Robert Habeck has said. The Green politician said the final ...
20 Nov 2023, 14:48 Sören Amelang Hydrogen NDR One of Europe’s first plants to produce green hydrogen on a large scale in northern Germany has been scrapped due to high construction costs, reports public broadcaster NDR. The investors – a consortium that ...
09 Jul 2024, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Electricity market Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's government is planning a new levy for electricity consumers to fund the construction of the country's planned ...
10 Dec 2024, 13:33 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs 91tv Achieving climate neutrality before mid ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:17 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 ...
07 Dec 2023, 13:07 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities ...
26 Jun 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are well positioned to play a key role in a future global hydrogen economy- but must strengthen cooperation on infrastructure projects, said ...
16 Sep 2024
16 Sep 2024, 12:13 91tv Team Bloomberg: Travel chaotic, damage mounts after Central European floods Widespread flooding in central and eastern Europe from days of unrelenting rain is playing havoc with rail transportation and causing more evacuations of ...
01 Aug 2024
01 Aug 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Footprint Network: August 1st marks Earth Overshoot Day With the beginning of August, humanity’s demand on nature’s resources this year surpasses Earth’s capacity to regenerate them, the international sustainability ...
16 May 2023, 13:47 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Heating Zeit Online “Hydrogen-ready” gas boilers are nothing but window dressing because they delay effective climate action, are unlikely to be ever powered by renewable gas, and could end up being very expensive ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Bids from southern states for support in building new gas power plants will be given priority to ensure the projects are built where they are most needed, according to key ...
06 Mar 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background A draft update of the German government’s 2020 national hydrogen strategy assumes a higher demand for the fuel than three years ago, when the country launched its first national strategy ...
05 Dec 2022, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Welt am Sonntag The German government is considering setting up a company with state participation to oversee the establishment of a national hydrogen network as part of the country’s move to climate neutrality ...
28 Mar 2023, 11:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv The governments of Germany and the Netherlands have agreed on closer cooperation to connect their respective hydrogen pipeline networks in the future, they said in a joint statement. “We ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:29 Future nuclear fusion power plants will not be able to complement wind and solar electricity production because they will likely need to run around the clock for economic and technical reasons, a German parliamentary report concludes. ...
13 Jan 2023, 13:38 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Handelsblatt Several researchers interviewed by business daily Handelsblatt are sceptical that Germany will be able to ramp up its hydrogen supply to the extent the government plans to. It is “highly uncertain ...
20 Dec 2024, 12:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Lower demand for electricity could substantially reduce ұԲ’s bill for expanding the power grid to accommodate its growing fleet of renewable power installations, business daily ...
28 Mar 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background, 91tv With the development of green hydrogen forming a key part of ұԲ’s energy transition, leading research institutions have thrown their support behind the idea of ...
25 May 2023, 14:01 Sören Amelang Grid Hydrogen 91tv / dpa The German government has agreed rules to build an initial “core” hydrogen network that is set to enter operation by 2032. "Our goal is the rapid ramp-up of the hydrogen market, ...
05 Dec 2024
05 Dec 2024, 10:30 91tv Team Corporate Europe Observatory: How frontline communities are impacted by the EU’s green extractivism Europe’s scramble for green hydrogen in South Africa will have a devastating impact on local communities, report says. ...
29 Mar 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv The steel pipelines used in ұԲ’s gas grid are generally suitable for the transport of hydrogen, said the German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water (DVGW). “The ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Hydrogen 91tv Construction of ұԲ’s and also Europe’s first network of hydrogen pipelines are set to start this week in the country’s east, the federal economy ministry and its counterpart in the ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:28 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Industry federations from France and Germany are lobbying for ...
24 Mar 2025
24 Mar 2025, 12:30 91tv Team IEA: Growth in global energy demand surged in 2024 to almost twice its recent average IEA’s Global Energy Review is the first global assessment of 2024 trends across the energy sector. Based on the most recent data, it covers ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Hydrogen 91tv Producing synthetic alcohol with renewable power could become a significant energy storage option for the energy transition, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) research ...
02 Dec 2022, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The German economy ministry (BMWK) aims to solidify targets to double the country’s electrolysis capacity- which is needed to split water into hydrogen and oxygen- by 2030 by revising ...
21 Mar 2025
21 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: German energy transition could be 300 billion euros cheaper with more efficiency, finds report BCG & BDI industry association say investments currently planned in renewables, power grids and hydrogen far exceed ...
08 Mar 2023, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv A leaked draft update to ұԲ’s National Hydrogen Strategy does not yet set the right conditions for the investments needed to build up the country’s hydrogen economy according to the ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Hydrogen 91tv The national infrastructure for producing and using green hydrogen in Germany is beginning to take shape, as the government seeks to support market scale-up for the renewable fuel. ...
25 May 2023, 13:26 Sören Amelang Hydrogen International 91tv In cooperation with German investors, Namibia has commissioned Sub-Saharan Africa’s largest green hydrogen production project. The government cabinet approved the entry into the 10 ...
21 Mar 2024, 14:07 Sören Amelang Grid Cost & Prices Die Zeit / Handelsblatt The German economy ministry is considering to stabilise electricity prices with a new instrument designed to reign in rising grid fees. "I want us to protect private ...
21 Sep 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt Sewage treatment plants could unlock their clean power potential by producing and using hydrogen while treating wastewater, business daily Handelsblatt reports. ...
27 Mar 2025
27 Mar 2025, 12:11 91tv Team Bloomberg: Trump unveils 25% auto tariff, threatens new levies on allies The new tariffs, which will hit German automakers in particular, will take effect on 3 April — one day after a broader range of so-called reciprocal ...
27 Jan 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International 91tv Germany and Australia plan to intensify their cooperation in the areas of energy, climate protection and emissions reduction, German economy minister Robert Habeck together with ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:17 Sören Amelang Industry 91tv Existing estimates on how much green hydrogen ұԲ’s chemical industry will need to decarbonise vary widely, according to a meta-analysis by the country’s science academy acatech and DECHEMA, ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:50 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Efficiency Heating Der Spiegel Gas boilers sold as "hydrogen ready" deceive consumers and are set to cost buyers dearly, according to German consumer organisations. Hydrogen produced with renewables will ...
02 Aug 2024
02 Aug 2024, 14:20 Six months after the new ruling coalition in Poland came to power, there are still no significant changes to the country’s energy policy. The government of Donald Tusk, however, is finally getting back to work on key laws for the energy ...
24 Jul 2024
24 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: EU wind industry warns Germany over large Chinese turbine deal Europe’s wind industry warned Germany that a deal for 16 Chinese offshore wind turbines risks fostering unfair competition for local suppliers ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:50 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Stuttgarter Nachrichten / 91tv Regional transmission system operator Terranets bw in Baden ...
30 May 2025, 12:37 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Government 91tv The new German coalition government has agreed which measures and policies to tackle as priorities in the coming months, including an act to unlock hundreds of billions of ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv Italy and Germany are pushing for the construction of a new natural gas and hydrogen pipeline via Austria to strengthen inter-European energy trade- the “ SoutH2 Corridor “ project. “The ...
15 Nov 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The German government is setting up two new funds with a total of 550 million euros to support the development of the global hydrogen economy through cooperation, especially with emerging and ...
01 Nov 2024, 16:30 As the world heads to the international climate summit COP29, the European Union is in a tricky position. The Brussels machine is still getting back up and running after the June elections, with the European Commission chiefs yet to be ...
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 ...
28 Feb 2023, 14:17 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband ...
01 Sep 2022, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Germany has to speed up the development of its infrastructure for hydrogen use, as the country faces several energy-related crises at once, gas transmission grid operators said during the ...
12 Sep 2022, 13:37 Sören Amelang Transport Freight Hydrogen 91tv ұԲ’s national railway operator Deutsche Bahn plans to transport large amounts of green hydrogen on trains, offering an alternative to transport through non-existent ...
08 Dec 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The German government has launched a 900-million-euro auction scheme for green hydrogen imports. The idea of the so-called H2 Global mechanism is to procure the fuel on the world market and ...
06 Jun 2023, 12:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling dpa / Der Stern The lack of mineral resources could become a challenge for the planned ramp-up of hydrogen industry in Germany, Europe and worldwide, news agency dpa writes in an ...
16 Sep 2022, 13:45 Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen 91tv A first hydrogen test delivery from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has arrived in Germany. The shipment in the form of the hydrogen derivative ammonia reached the port of Hamburg, the economy ...
25 Nov 2024, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Politics Tagesspiegel Background / Table.Media / Zeit A planned law to ensure new gas power plants can be built in Germany to secure electricity supply as the country phases out coal power continues to hang ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:08 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv The southern German states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria have joined forces to push hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, and to ensure their industrial centres will receive sufficient supplies. ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt Energy politicians from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) are proposing to introduce a mandated share of climate-friendly gases into the German gas mix, reported Handelsblatt. Companies that ...
21 Feb 2025
21 Feb 2025, 12:18 91tv Team E3G: German election – What’s at stake? Next government must develop joint EU strategy for competitiveness and decarbonisation. DW: German election: Parties face off over Ukraine, NATO, Trump Top German politicians traded ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power was a "historic mistake," Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) told business daily Handelsblatt. ...
05 Jul 2024
05 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: Germany to scrutinize Chinese turbine deal for offshore project-Government to look at impact on security and competition-Hamburg-based asset manager set to purchase 16 turbines Electrive: Tesla gets ...
10 May 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv ұԲ’s energy system will need ‘green’ gas to become climate neutral, but government must set the right framework conditions to ensure the ramp-up of the hydrogen economy, said several gas ...
28 Apr 2025, 13:55 Conservative CDU member Katherina Reiche looks set to become ұԲ’s new economy and energy minister in a government led by Friedrich Merz as chancellor. Reiche looks back at ten years in the energy industry, where she assumed leading ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:28 Jack McGovan Gas Business & Jobs 91tv Two new power plants will be constructed in Saudi Arabia after a 1.5 billion dollar deal with the German energy corporation Siemens Energy. They will combine gas and steam turbines ...
18 Nov 2022, 13:23 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv ұԲ’s first terminal for the import of green hydrogen and its derivatives will be built in the northern port city of Hamburg. Economy minister Robert Habeck said the terminal is set to start ...
15 Jun 2022, 12:20 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv Germany should be able to import green hydrogen from Australia at competitive prices, a feasibility study has revealed. German industry association BDI and the National Academy of Science and ...
24 Apr 2025, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables 91tv Unfavourable weather conditions led to a decrease of renewable energy generation in Germany at the start of the year, outweighing a growth in renewable capacity, figures released by energy ...
10 May 2024, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt / Der Spiegel Representatives of ұԲ’s energy industry have voiced doubts whether the government’s planned Power Plant Strategy, which is supposed to pave the way for the use of new ...
17 May 2022, 11:49 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv / SZ / Tagesspiegel Background German energy industry association BDEW has called for a “hydrogen ramp-up law” to ensure that the country quickly takes the steps necessary to build up a market ...
05 Aug 2022, 13:53 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt Industry lobby groups in Germany have called on environment ...
10 May 2024, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann International Security 91tv Germany has vowed to support the reconstruction of war-torn Ukraine’s power grid, which has been greatly damaged by missile attacks over the past two years in the context of ...
24 Mar 2025, 11:00 Geopolitical disruption through events like Russia’s war on Ukraine or a new transatlantic rift can speed up the rapid build-up of renewable energies, says Francesco La Camera, director-general of the International Renewable Energy ...
02 Aug 2022, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany will be able to procure the volumes of hydrogen imports needed by 2030 if it quickly sets the right infrastructural, legal and entrepreneurial course, a team of researchers ...
30 Nov 2023, 13:07 Edgar Meza Electricity Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt ұԲ’s budget crisis has forced economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck to postpone his ministry’s long-awaited power plant strategy, Handelsblatt reports. Ministry sources ...
02 Jul 2024
02 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Euractiv: Brussels urges EU countries to submit climate plans ‘as soon as possible’ On 30 June, EU countries were legally obliged to submit their national energy and climate plans until 2030 (NECPs). These are key ...
22 Jul 2022, 13:43 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Rural districts in Northern Germany have the country’s largest potential for green hydrogen production due to their windpower capacities, according to a “ Hydrogen Atlas ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Utilities dpa / n-tv ұԲ’s local utility association VKU has called for public support to finance the decommissioning of the country’s natural gas grid and avoid high fees for customers, news agency dpa ...
03 Apr 2023, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International 91tv Germany is exploring ways to expand cooperation with Australia on hydrogen and raw materials in a bid to diversify its import partners and reduce dependencies. Together with a ...
25 Aug 2022, 13:58 Hannah Naylor Transport Hydrogen 91tv / Der Spiegel Germany saw the commencement of the world’s first regular operation of hydrogen-powered trains this week, making "railway history," operator company EVB said. ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal Renewables Policy Tagesspiegel Background Germany's economy ministry (BMWK), which is currently run by the Greens, who will likely not be part of the new coalition government, has presented ...
20 Apr 2023, 12:33 Sören Amelang Wind Hydrogen International Handelsblatt Nine European gas transmission grid operators have agreed to construct a pipeline network in the North Sea to transport hydrogen made in offshore wind farms, business daily ...
19 Apr 2022, 12:24 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Handelsblatt As green hydrogen was more than twice as expensive as hydrogen produced with fossil fuels, its widespread use wasn’t expected for another decade, but the skyrocketing cost of natural gas has changed that ...
14 Jun 2022, 13:02 Edgar Meza Gas Hydrogen 91tv The German state of Bavaria and Scotland have signed an agreement aimed at the joint development of green hydrogen. The letter of intent expands cooperation on business and science. Bavarian ...
14 Apr 2022, 12:41 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility Institut für Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilität Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv The EU should review its planned ...
06 Apr 2022, 13:09 Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen 91tv Germany must accelerate the ramp-up of a hydrogen economy in response to Russia's aggressions to secure and diversify its energy supply, according to the hydrogen council (NWR), which ...
12 May 2025, 13:44 Sören Amelang Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's new economy and energy minister, Katherina Reiche from chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democrats ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany should ensure an orderly retirement of its gas distribution grid to avoid enormous costs for consumers and billions of euros of stranded assets for operators, as the pipeline network is set ...
24 May 2022, 13:49 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Sören Amelang Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:25 Bennet Ribbeck Industry Elections & Politics 91tv German industry association BDI has called on the next government to focus on lowering energy prices at both the national and European level. In its recommendations for ...
14 Apr 2025, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Handelsblatt / ARD Railway and road infrastructure are priority areas for ұԲ’s major investment package for infrastructure and climate neutrality, the country’s chancellor-in ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:35 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Germany's should not jeopardise its national climate goals by committing to green hydrogen on a long-term technology path today, as it is still out in the open how innovations and ...
24 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024, 11:31 Julian Wettengel IRENA: Record growth drives cost advantage of renewable power Eighty-one percent of renewable additions in 2023 were cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives, offering countries a compelling business and investment case to ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:27 Sören Amelang Wind Transport Hydrogen German coastal states want hundreds of millions of euros from the federal government to transform their ports into energy hubs for liquefied natural gas, hydrogen, and offshore wind, reports ...
08 Apr 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU Focus Online The Desertec project- which caused a hype in the German solar power industry around 2010 but was later largely abandoned due to unclear political and economic perspectives- is being resurrected ...
13 Nov 2024, 13:39 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Elections & Politics ...
28 Jul 2023, 14:30 The European Union’s two largest economic and industrial leaders, Germany and France, have spearheaded efforts to put the EU ahead in the global scramble for green industry leadership and decarbonisation technologies. Despite ...
21 May 2024, 14:09 Jack McGovan Grid International 91tv The construction of a major power line connecting Great Britain to Germany through the North Sea has begun in the coastal city Wilhelmshaven in northwestern Germany. Spanning a total ...
18 Mar 2022, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Utilities 91tv Energy company RWE plans to build an ammonia terminal at the site of the planned import harbour for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the northern German city of Brunsbüttel to ...
07 Nov 2024
07 Nov 2024, 10:00 91tv Team Politico: Scholz bows out of COP29 climate summit after government collapses The decision follows a dramatic breakdown of ұԲ’s three-party coalition government. Bloomberg: Italy renews push to revise EU’s combustion ...
23 May 2022, 13:14 Sören Amelang Hydrogen International G20 & G7 91tv The burgeoning global trade in green hydrogen risks becoming an environmental and social burden in producing countries, and the G7 must take steps to ensure it will ...
23 Feb 2022, 14:35 Sören Amelang Hydrogen EU 91tv The EU Commission's proposals for adapting the gas market to climate targets are not enough to ensure a rapid scale-up of the hydrogen economy, according to Germany's hydrogen ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:09 Sören 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 ...
07 Mar 2022, 14:13 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Cities 91tv / Die Welt The city of Hamburg is aiming to play a key role in the German and European shift towards a hydrogen economy with a new import strategy for the climate-friendly fuel. The ...
24 Feb 2022, 13:17 Edgar Meza Industry Hydrogen 91tv Stakeholders are in broad agreement on the necessary drivers and obstacles for Germany's hydrogen market ramp-up, a poll by the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) ...
31 Mar 2022, 13:53 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv Transnational cooperation in the development of a common hydrogen market and the construction of hydrogen infrastructure can strengthen the Netherlands and Germany in the decarbonisation of their ...
15 Feb 2022, 14:11 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Business & Jobs dpa / Der Spiegel German economy and climate protection minister Robert Habeck said hydrogen would soon establish itself as a key component of the energy transition, according to a dpa report ...
04 Jul 2023, 13:32 Edgar Meza Carbon removal Technology 91tv NGO Germanwatch, which promotes sustainable development and climate protection, is warning against the country’s CO2 management policy opening the door to “a permanent extension of ...
15 Oct 2021, 11:31 Edgar Meza Hydrogen International Die Welt German seaports could soon become key sites for the development of the country’s hydrogen economy, according to a recent report by the German Maritime Center (DMZ) in Hamburg. Hydrogen is seen ...
13 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024, 10:16 91tv Team Bloomberg: EU car lobby aims for two-year delay of 2025 emissions targets Informal paper says car industry faces fines up to €16 billion. Reuters: DSV to create global logistics giant with $15.9 billion Schenker takeover ...
04 Jan 2023, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International Tagesspiegel / 91tv Germany plans to intensify its international cooperation on the energy transition with Norway and Portugal, with government ministers visiting both countries this ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:40 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs 91tv The biggest bottleneck in skilled labour supply affecting Germany's energy transition is in electrical construction, according to a report by the German Economic Institute’s (IW) ...
25 Apr 2025, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 91tv Setting up multiple local pricing zones instead of having one big market area could help bring electricity prices down in Germany and increase supply security, according to a report ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Germany will support green hydrogen projects in other countries with up to 350 million euros by 2024 and has published a directive with the relevant guidelines, the economy ministry said in a ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:42 Sören Amelang Electricity market Gas Tagesspiegel Background U.S. gas turbine manufacturer GE Vernova has expressed doubts about the plans by ұԲ’s prospective next government to connect 20 gigawatts of gas-fired power plants to the ...
31 May 2024, 12:54 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv / dpa / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's economy minister has awarded steelmaker ArcelorMittal 1.3 billion euros to drive the decarbonisation of its production sites in the states of ...
08 Oct 2021, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv European Union states will produce about half of the hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuels it needs by 2050, with the other half imported from partner countries, said a report by the World ...
03 Nov 2021, 12:33 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv ...
01 Jun 2022, 14:16 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv Renewable energies will be at the heart of supply security in Germany in the future, but the country will continue to need gas and must “think big” when it comes to ramping up hydrogen, ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:46 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU Handelsblatt Excessive EU regulation is stalling the development of competitive hydrogen infrastructure in Europe, the head of ұԲ’s ...
17 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024, 11:00 Julian Wettengel EU Council greenlights €2.3 billion energy transition support for Germany The EU approved ұԲ’s amended recovery and resilience plan, which now includes an additional €2.3 billion to contribute to accelerating ...
08 Apr 2025, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Security 91tv Accelerating the transition to largely domestically produced sustainable energy such as wind and solar electricity is the only way to really ensure energy security in Europe, said the European ...
29 Nov 2022, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv Germany will have to employ different technologies and solutions to get the heating sector to climate neutrality, as the country’s regions have vastly varying conditions to start with, ...
05 Aug 2021, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv On the path to making industry climate neutral, corporate decision-makers in Germany call for allowing the use of “blue” hydrogen made from natural gas where the CO2 is captured and stored – ...
01 Oct 2021, 12:51 Expert IG Metall-Industrial Union of Metalworkers IG Metall Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German government’s current hydrogen strategy is insufficient, according to the ...
06 Apr 2022, 09:49 Europe must act as a true green electricity and hydrogen union to stand its ground in a competitive world that moves to climate neutrality, says energy analyst Kirsten Westphal. The continent should establish hydrogen corridors to ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Hydrogen International 91tv Germany has pledged at least 112 million euros to support Kenya in implementing “its ambitious goal of switching entirely to renewable energy sources by 2030,” the ...
03 Jan 2024, 12:19 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Cost ...
19 Jul 2021, 13:35 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Germany should refurbish its ...
01 Oct 2021, 12:50 Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen 91tv Regulation that will enable green hydrogen production in the North Sea entered into force on 1 October. With the new ordinance, the German government facilitates the testing of hydrogen ...
05 Jul 2021, 13:13 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv Germany's hydrogen council has said the country must urgently make up its mind whether to use hydrogen made with fossil fuels in its market ramp-up of the technology deemed key to reach ...
11 Jun 2024, 13:35 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv The German car industry produces the most electric cars in Europe and globally comes second only to China, ...
04 Jun 2021, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv ұԲ’s industry, transport and heating sectors will need significantly more hydrogen to help reach future climate targets than the government currently expects, said the head of the ...
11 Apr 2025, 13:00 ұԲ’s prospective coalition government has agreed to continue the country’s landmark energy transition without major adjustments, and stick to existing climate targets. In their coalition treaty, conservatives and Social Democrats ...
10 Jun 2021, 13:49 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport Hydrogen Heating 91tv German industry has called on the government to include transport and heating in the hydrogen economy ramp-up. "Policymakers must not leave out the ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:43 Jack McGovan Heating Elections & Politics 91tv The new German government after the election on 23 February should implement an ambitious heating package that promotes the expansion of climate-neutral heat supply, said ...
14 Feb 2024, 14:36 Ruby Russel Resources & Recycling International 91tv German industry is calling for the country's international development budget to increase the country’s access to resources from developing countries. A paper by ...
30 Oct 2023, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen International 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Chancellor Olaf Scholz travelled to Nigeria in a bid to secure new energy and economic partnerships, and help diversify Germany's energy ...
08 Nov 2022, 14:08 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv The southern German state of Bavaria is set to invest 500 million euros in renewable energy and hydrogen production projects, the state’s economy minister, Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters), ...
12 Dec 2023, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen Die Welt Steel producers in the western German state of Saarland have been granted 2.6 billion euros in state support to transform their production procedures towards climate neutrality. Economy and ...
23 Sep 2021, 13:40 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen 91tv One year on from the National Hydrogen Strategy launch, ұԲ’s government and industries are divided over its implementation. While the government’s interim report ...
28 May 2021, 12:48 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv As part of ұԲ’s long-term strategy to make hydrogen a cornerstone of its energy transition, the federal ministries for economic affairs and energy (BMWi) and of transport and digital ...
15 Jul 2024, 13:52 Jack McGovan Industry Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Many industrial companies have submitted proposals for low emission investments to the German government's scheme to reimburse them for the extra costs associated with climate ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:27 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The ...
21 May 2021, 13:16 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Edgar Meza Hydrogen International 91tv The German government is taking firs steps to partner with West African nations in the development of a ...
20 Jun 2024, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Heating Tagesspiegel Background Municipalities should expand their mandatory planning for future climate-friendly heating to encompass general energy distribution, think tank Agora Energiewende has proposed, ...
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 ...
22 Aug 2022, 13:07 Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen Rheinische Post / 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz and economy minister Robert Habeck want to deepen ұԲ’s energy ties with Canada during a three-day state visit, with a particular focus on future ...
15 Sep 2021, 12:33 Jessica Bateman Hydrogen The number of hydrogen partnerships around the world is increasing and is likely to grow even further, data from the World Energy Council suggests. In a press release, the organisation counts 41 import-export ...
01 Sep 2022, 13:42 Energy policy links between the UK and the European Union have remained strong since the UK officially left the bloc in January 2020, in contrast to complications in many other policy areas. A new renewable power interconnector project ...
15 Jun 2021, 10:52 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The German economy ministry will support building up a market for green hydrogen with 900 million euros through the H2 Global Foundation, newly-set up by German industry players such as ...
02 May 2025, 09:30 The European Union should strive for a well-connected energy system designed in a way that allows different national strengths to complement each other, says Nikos Tsafos, deputy energy minister of Greece. The country is expected to ...
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 ...
18 Nov 2021, 13:25 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen 91tv Germany will not be able to import enough renewable hydrogen to reach the targets laid out in its national hydrogen strategy, according to an analysis conducted by the ...
29 Jan 2025, 13:14 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Security 91tv Germany and Europe are well prepared to deal with serious disruptions to their gas supply in the long term, according to a report by consultancy PwC assessing the reliability of gas ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Cities 91tv The prospective future government coalition of ұԲ’s smallest state, the City of Bremen, is betting on green hydrogen and its derivates to decarbonise local industries, such as ...
23 Jun 2021, 13:28 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv As Germany ramps up development of hydrogen technologies, it should focus entirely on the production of green hydrogen using wind and solar energy, the German Advisory Council on the Environment ...
25 Mar 2021, 14:02 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv With the aim to scale hydrogen technology and ensure its integration in the energy market, a new project partnership in northern Germany will invest 1.3 million euros to create a “Clean ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:38 Sören Amelang Gas Heating Welt / 91tv / Zeit / taz ұԲ’s gas industry has welcomed the coalition government’s compromise on the transition to climate-friendly heating, while some media commentators and environmental ...
14 Jun 2021
14 Jun 2021, 13:03 Edgar Meza 91tv, Reuters The German and Australian governments have signed a letter of intent on sustainable hydrogen production, according to the German ministries of economic affairs and energy and education and research. ...
12 Mar 2021, 13:36 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen International ...
23 Jan 2025, 14:07 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Almost three years after the peak of Europe’s energy crisis in 2022, many people in Germany are ...
03 Feb 2025, 14:49 Germany is increasingly looking outwards to find skilled workers to fill its green labour gap, especially to India. Joint collaborations aim to tackle a critical challenge faced by both nations: securing a skilled workforce capable of ...
20 May 2021, 13:34 ұԲ’s first movers in hydrogen generation using electricity will be supported by lower power prices and a wide definition of “green” hydrogen, the government has decided. By creating “clear and pragmatic” requirements for green ...
31 May 2021, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / Handelsblatt Industry representatives have criticised that little has happened since the German government decided its hydrogen strategy one year ago, reports Marcus ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:45 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Expert IZES- Institute for Future Energy Systems Institut für Zukunfts Energie Systeme Citizens' energy Electricity market Expert ...
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 ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:30 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Corporate decision makers in Germany have voted hydrogen technologies as the most important field of action for energy ...
12 Apr 2021, 13:53 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Technology 91tv German energy provider EWE has completed the first stage of a test project to see whether the safe storage of green hydrogen in underground caverns is possible. The ...
09 Oct 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen FAZ / 91tv ұԲ’s finance minister Christian Lindner, a Free Democrat (FDP), has proposed several tax exemptions for combustion engine cars that run exclusively on renewables-based ...
24 Jan 2022, 12:51 Jessica Bateman 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Die Welt Investors plan to build an import terminal for synthetic methane made in the Middle East on Germany's North Sea coast, reports newspaper Die Welt. The company Tree Energy ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:31 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv In its quest for global green hydrogen leadership, Germany has launched three flagship zero-emission technology projects. Following a call for ideas, the country's research ministry said it ...
10 Nov 2020, 14:00 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv The state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is accelerating the development of a future-oriented hydrogen economy, energy minister Andreas Pinkwart announced on Monday. By 2025, NRW is set to have its ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv Ahead of the German snap election, an alliance of industry associations has called on political parties to push for a government strategy to decarbonise heat that businesses use in their ...
01 Apr 2022, 12:57 Sören Amelang Transport Freight 91tv Discount supermarket chain Lidl is switching the entire battery-electric vehicle fleet of a logistics hub to fuel cells powered by green hydrogen, making it the first of its kind in ...
03 May 2022, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Hydrogen 91tv Germany and India have signed a declaration of intent on a "Partnership for Green and Sustainable Development" which will include German support for reforestation in India ...
17 Mar 2025, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv The German energy transition requires a “restart” as the country is on the verge of establishing a climate neutral energy system and renewables already account for about ...
19 Jan 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Heating 91tv The city of Berlin could cover up to ten percent of its future heating demand with waste heat, according to a report by the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and the Institute for ...
22 Mar 2021, 12:17 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv ...
30 Mar 2021, 13:37 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen 91tv Green hydrogen technology can help reduce emissions from industry, transport and heating in ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:51 Julian Wettengel Gas Politics Handelsblatt German chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed the buildout of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export infrastructure and increased efforts to extract fossil fuels in the U.S. in an interview with ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:30 Jennifer Collins Transport Freight 91tv Germany's ports require huge investments to maintain their crucial position in supplying energy and goods, and to keep up with the energy transformation, said coastal state ...
03 Dec 2020, 13:48 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG Hydrogen 91tv The German government has decided to free producers of green hydrogen from paying the renewables levy on the electricity they use in the process. Chancellor Angela ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Süddeutsche Zeitung A large green hydrogen production project currently planned in the southern African state of Namibia aimed at supplying ұԲ’s industry with the fuel has led the German ...
07 Jun 2023, 11:49 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Gas Tagesspiegel Background The government’s plan to introduce a tender system to ensure new gas-fired power plants are built – which the government considers necessary as a supplement to renewables ...
26 Sep 2023, 12:30 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Edgar Meza Transport Hydrogen Die Welt / 91tv Aviation industry representatives and political leaders in Germany have vowed ...
09 Nov 2020, 13:14 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Kerstine Appunn Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany should not solely ...
06 Oct 2020, 13:30 Expert Left Party Die Linke Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Hydrogen International 91tv The German government says green hydrogen production projects with partner countries should not come at the expense of local ...
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 Sören Amelang Hydrogen German utilities have said that the ...
07 Sep 2020, 14:21 Sören Amelang Hydrogen EU dpa / finanzen.net The French government is planning to cooperate with Germany in the development of hydrogen technologies, reports newsagency dpa in article carried by finanzen.net. French economy minister ...
26 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024, 11:43 German ministers and lawmakers, just like most of their peers across the European Union, are heading into the parliaments’ summer 2024 recess and some time off. However, there are exceptions: three eastern German federal states will ...
25 Feb 2021, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Handelsblatt / FAZ Almost 200 submitted hydrogen project proposals showed a “high interest” and readiness to invest in the technology in Germany, the economy ministry told business daily Handelsblatt. The ...
11 Sep 2024, 13:00 German industry association BDI has said that the country’s industrial success in the future depends on businesses doing well on green technologies such as modern power grids, wind energy, green hydrogen production, electric mobility, ...
17 Jan 2023, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv Germany imported around 62 billion euros of Norwegian natural gas, oil and condensates in 2022 and has become the country’s number one goods importer, said the German-Norwegian chamber ...
18 Jan 2022, 12:37 Jessica Bateman Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen EU Tagesspiegel Background German industry association BDI has criticised the EU’s natural gas taxonomy plans due to conditions regarding the share of climate-friendly gases in newly built ...
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 ...
17 Mar 2022, 13:55 Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen International 91tv / Spiegel Germany and Norway will consider building a hydrogen pipeline between the two countries in a bid to reduce Europe's dependence on Russian fossil gas. Norway wants ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:14 The European Union wants to establish itself as the world leader in hydrogen technologies and will focus on ramping up electrolyser capacities in the next four years. According to the European Commission's hydrogen strategy, the ...
11 Apr 2025, 15:30 The biggest hurdles to building Germany's next government have fallen: a historic spending package has laid the groundwork for coalition negotiations between the conservative CDU/CSU alliance – winner of February’s snap election – ...
03 Nov 2020, 13:40 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Hydrogen 91tv ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:16 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv ұԲ’s chemical industry will have to place a strong focus on recycling of products, the switch to electricity-based process heat and the use of renewable raw materials on its way to ...
11 Nov 2024, 13:52 Several days of little sunshine and wind have pushed down renewable electricity production in Germany in early November, causing an increase of fossil fuel use and high power prices. However, energy analysts said such conditions are ...
27 Jan 2022, 12:59 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Key raw materials needed for most types of clean hydrogen production could become scarce and much more expensive, Germany's Federal Institute ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:24 Sören Amelang Transport Freight Technology 91tv The association of German engineers (VDI) and technology organisation VDE insist on the large-scale deployment of hydrogen trucks for long-range road transport to reach the EU ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Hamburger Morgenpost / Tagesspiegel / Die Zeit / Merkur / Radio Hamburg Just one week after their defeat at ұԲ’s snap election, the Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing chancellor Olaf ...
17 Dec 2020, 13:53 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen ...
26 May 2021, 13:25 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv Germany will need some 60 terawatt-hours of hydrogen by 2030 and domestic production can only cover a third of that demand, according to a paper by Berlin-based think tank Climate Neutrality ...
01 Dec 2020, 14:07 Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen International 91tv A joint German-Australian study will investigate the feasibility of a green hydrogen supply chain, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) states. The BMBF and ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:58 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Germany should not focus exclusively on "green hydrogen" made with renewable electricity in its highly anticipated strategy for creating a ...
03 Apr 2024, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany should have an honest conversation about how much strategic sovereignty it wants, and figure out what it is willing to pay to keep production of key energy-intensive sectors in the ...
02 Sep 2021, 14:03 Edgar Meza Cars Hydrogen 91tv The Monopolies Commission, an independent expert committee that advises the German government and legislature on competition issues, is urging the government to ensure fair competition in the ...
17 Nov 2020, 13:53 Expert GIZ- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit German development agency International Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Handelsblatt A new project launched by Germany's development cooperation ...
12 Feb 2021, 13:58 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Hydrogen Handelsblatt Renewables energy company Siemens Gamesa is to start production of green hydrogen in addition to wind power, CEO Andreas Nauen said in an interview ...
08 Dec 2020, 13:28 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv The large-scale import of green hydrogen is highly complex and many studies underestimate the problems that still need to be solved, says a report by the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and ...
20 Dec 2023, 09:05 Europe has no time to lose in formulating its renewed emissions reduction ambitions after the results of next June’s European Parliament elections become known, says Simone Peter from the German Renewable Energy Federation. A “Fit-for ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has approved the German gas transmission grid operators’ framework scenario to develop the grid over the next ten years, but called on them to identify natural ...
24 Jul 2020, 10:40 The rivalry between Europe and China in emission-free hydrogen technologies could become one of the defining business stories in the global effort to stop climate change. Scarred by its painful experience in solar PV manufacturing, ...
07 Jul 2020, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv 91tv Grid Hydrogen 91tv German energy company E.ON has called for a green gas quota to help to reduce the share of fossil gas in the ...
24 Feb 2021, 12:37 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen Heating 91tv German energy companies Uniper and Siemens Energy have proposed a project to set up a renewable power-based energy plant at the site of ...
08 Jun 2022, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Security Handelsblatt Germany and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will cooperate on an accelerated energy transition to meet their climate neutrality targets, the UAE’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International ...
30 Jan 2023, 12:48 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz wants promote energy cooperation and secure critical raw materials for the energy transition from South America. The politician is visiting Argentina, Chile ...
27 Nov 2020, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International 91tv The German economy ministry (BMWi) will join the environment ministry (BMU) in managing the government's international power-to-X hub to facilitate the production of ...
10 Jun 2020, 16:10 Germany places a large bet on hydrogen produced using renewable energy in its highly anticipated national hydrogen strategy that serves to underpin the country's ambitions to become a global leader in the technology. The strategy ...
31 Aug 2020, 13:51 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Security 91tv Business and government representatives and researchers from Russia and Germany want to establish a bilateral cooperation on hydrogen, the German-Russian ...
29 May 2020, 13:01 The German government is set to make the large-scale use of offshore wind power to produce emission-free hydrogen a cornerstone of its long-anticipated national hydrogen strategy, reports Tagesspiegel Background. With additional ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Hydrogen Clean ...
23 Dec 2020, 13:54 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Handelsblatt Hydrogen technology can become a key component of Siemens Energy’s business model, the company’s CEO, Christian Bruch, told Handelsblatt in an interview. ...
24 Nov 2020, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Hydrogen 91tv State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn plans to test a hydrogen-powered train in an effort to ...
08 May 2024, 13:34 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EUElections2024 Clean Energy ...
27 May 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Handelsblatt German industry leaders expressed concerns that Germany will lose out when it comes to building a hydrogen economy, Handelsblatt reports. "It is five to twelve," Martin Brudermüller, CEO ...
10 Mar 2020, 14:01 Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen 91tv Germany's highly anticipated strategy to pave the way for a hydrogen economy must focus on green hydrogen made with renewables and be "truly ambitious," says German ...
23 Jan 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv Germany and France have reiterated their wish to work together on the energy transition, technological sovereignty, supporting industry in the transition to climate neutrality and ...
29 Jul 2024
29 Jul 2024, 11:00 Julian Wettengel Reuters: Trump effect in clean tech sector deepens angst in Europe's boardrooms European companies focused on clean energy are abandoning expansion plans, bracing for lower sales or see funding of U.S projects in ...
29 Aug 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Heating EU Contexte Énergie Several European energy experts warn that the German government coalition row over a planned law to phase out fossil fuel-powered boilers could have repercussions for similar ongoing ...
07 Aug 2020, 15:11 Hydrogen Industry 91tv A pilot plant for producing green hydrogen energy for low-emission production of chemicals and fuel has opened in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Fraunhofer Centre for Chemical-Biotechnological ...
21 Sep 2022, 13:23 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Wholesale electricity prices in Germany will be significantly higher in the next few years than they were during the 2019-2020 period due to the country’s energy mix and their continued dependence on gas ...
06 Oct 2020, 13:16 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Hydrogen Heating Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Clean ...
27 Jul 2020, 09:50 Europe's economy is well placed to benefit from the fledgling global hydrogen economy and should decisively follow through with its hydrogen strategies, says Veronika Grimm, a member of Germany's council of economic experts, ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:28 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Industry 91tv Germany's largest energy company RWE, together with oil company BP, chemicals producer Evonik and gas ...
22 Sep 2020, 13:52 Expert World Energy Council Germany Weltenergierat Electricity market Fossil fuels Hydrogen 91tv / Handelsblatt Twenty countries have already decided on national hydrogen strategies or are planning to adopt them in the ...
08 Aug 2024
08 Aug 2024, 15:22 91tv Team NewClimate Institute: Unpacking ұԲ’s hydrogen import strategy: 3 considerations for Global South partners Expectation that lower production costs can partially offset high conversion losses & transport costs may not ...
18 May 2020, 14:16 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen 91tv Germany should aim to build up large capacities of hydrogen ...
03 Feb 2020, 13:44 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Gas ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:33 Edgar Meza Freight Hydrogen Technology 91tv In a new report examining the status of the German and European hydrogen fuel cell markets, the German government-backed National Platform Future of Mobility (NPM) says there is ...
06 Jan 2025
06 Jan 2025, 10:43 91tv Team HydrogenInsight: German chancellor calls on EU to shelve 'excessively strict' green hydrogen definition Scholz argues that planned projects cannot compete based on what the European Commission will accept is a ...
24 Feb 2020, 13:56 Freja Eriksen Gas Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt The Netherlands has identified Germany as its main ally in building Europe's future hydrogen structure, writes the business daily Handelsblatt. "Our aim is to intensify ...
01 Sep 2020, 12:47 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Hydrogen Cost & Prices 91tv The price of green hydrogen will be significantly ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:53 Kerstine Appunn Heating 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany should include hydrogen for heating houses in its energy transition to successfully decarbonise the heating sector, gas grid operator umbrella organisation FNB ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Heating 91tv Sales of heat pumps in Germany dropped by almost half (46%) in 2024 but the industry is confident that support mechanisms will quickly lead to a strong increase in ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:34 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Industry 91tv Germany's hydrogen strategy is a "quantum leap" that will lift the energy transition and climate protection to a "new qualitative level," according to the ...
07 Oct 2024, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Storage 91tv / electrive State funding cuts for battery research projects mean that ұԲ’s government is exiting a key future technology, while other regions of the world increase their research and ...
28 Jan 2020, 13:50 Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany's gas industry plans to establish a pipeline network measuring 5,900 kilometres to enable the large-scale use of hydrogen in the country. According to a plan seen by business daily ...
27 Apr 2020, 13:10 In the fight against climate change, hydrogen made with renewable electricity is increasingly seen as a silver bullet for sectors with particularly stubborn emissions, such as heavy industry and aviation. As a result, the emission-free ...
02 Jul 2020, 13:03 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Gas Hydrogen Clean ...
20 May 2020, 13:44 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln Electricity market Business ...
06 Sep 2021, 14:12 Edgar Meza Bioenergy Hydrogen Süddeutsche Zeitung Bayernoil, Bavaria’s biggest oil refinery, is planning to move away from petrol and heating oil and towards e-fuels created with sustainably produced hydrogen, but legal uncertainties ...
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 ...
30 Jan 2020, 13:21 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The lack of ...
11 Dec 2023, 13:27 Sören Amelang Electricity market Grid Storage 91tv Electric cars, heat pumps and home storage systems can make electricity systems much more flexible in the future, saving generation costs and thus lowering overall ...
05 Nov 2019, 14:43 The German government believes hydrogen is key not only for a successful energy transition, but also for the future of the country's famed industry. This is why Germany must beat Asian countries – in particular China and Japan – to ...
11 May 2020, 13:44 Edgar Meza Gas Hydrogen Technology Handelsblatt/Energate Messenger German research minister Anja Karliczek, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party, is pushing for a prompt government decision on a national ...
22 Jul 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International 91tv The production of green hydrogen and prevention of pandemics are prime examples for promising research cooperation in the EU, German education minister Anja Karliczek said on ...
20 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024, 09:53 91tv Team NewClimate Institute: Climate Change Performance Index 2025 Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK take the lead in this year. Germany drops two places to 16th in this year’s CCPI. Bloomberg: EU considers changes to carbon border ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Der Spiegel / 91tv The decommissioning of local gas grids in German cities should be flagged ten years in advance to allow households to prepare accordingly and avoid the purchase ...
17 Mar 2023, 12:21 German government officials have welcomed proposals by the European Commission to boost net-zero industries and the competitiveness of European companies in an effort to keep up with other regions of the world, such as the U.S. and ...
03 Apr 2023, 13:47 ұԲ’s coalition government has reached an agreement over rules for the transition to climate-friendly heating, settling a months-long debate over the details of a law that would de facto ban fossil heating systems. From next year, ...
11 Feb 2021, 13:34 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 ...
23 Jul 2020, 12:30 The EU's and Germany's plans to push the use of green hydrogen to decarbonise the economy are likely to trigger a competitive race with China that will be crucial for a global breakthrough of the technology, says Kobad ...
22 Jun 2020, 12:40 Edgar Meza Hydrogen dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung ұԲ’s push for greater hydrogen use is gaining momentum. Some 50 representatives from business, science and government have come together to promote 25 projects in northern Germany that ...
08 Jan 2024, 14:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Technology Dlf Alternatives to fossil fuel-based agricultural machinery are scarce and often fall behind their emissions-intensive counterparts in practical tests, says electric engineer Michael Sterner in ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv A new start in German-African relations is needed to diversify raw material providers and reduce dependencies, a report by the Federation of German Industries (BDI) ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:18 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine ...
21 Mar 2025, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Electricity market 91tv A projected increase in electricity demand and a reduction of power plant capacity able to supply electricity at any moment are set to represent concrete challenges for Germany' ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Energy sector experts as well as industry representatives have warned that a shortage of constantly available electricity capacity could lead to new short-lived but ...
07 Jan 2022, 11:54 Kerstine Appunn International ARD The escalation of violence in Kazakhstan is causing concern among German businesses who were planning to tap into the country’s rich potential for developing climate-friendly technologies, renewable ...
07 Aug 2020, 14:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Business & Jobs dpa / RTL Online Germany's remote North Sea island Heligoland is hoping for a rapid increase in green hydrogen production with offshore wind power, news agency dpa reports in an ...
13 Apr 2023, 13:08 Edgar Meza Gas Security Zeit Online As the German government follows through with its plan to shut down its last remaining nuclear power plants for good, the country’s energy sector is calling for the construction of new hydrogen-ready ...
12 Feb 2020, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen International Reuters / Handelsblatt Germany plans to set up a production and import chain for renewable hydrogen in a joint project with Western African countries, news agency Reuters reports. " ...
02 Dec 2024, 12:47 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs International 91tv The expansion of renewable energies, in particular geothermal, as well as ұԲ’s shortage of skilled workers needed to implement its landmark energy transition will be ...
10 Feb 2023, 12:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Gas Politics 91tv The transformation of ұԲ’s energy system away from fossil fuels must quickly be reinforced by sufficient “molecule-based” power plant capacity that can back up the ...
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 ...
03 Mar 2020, 14:13 Sören Amelang Energiewende Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt German ministries continue to be divided over plans for a hydrogen economy, delaying publication of the country's highly anticipated strategy to lower emissions in high ...
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19 Sep 2024, 09:33 91tv Team Electric-Vehicles.com: Nio in talks to buy Audi’s factory in Belgium Move is part of its strategy to establish local production in Europe and avoid European Commission tariffs on imported Chinese EVs. Euractiv: Europe's ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:01 Expert RNE- German Council for Sustainable Development Rat für nachhaltige Entwicklung Society Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen 91tv ұԲ’s government and industry should enter into a "hydrogen pact" to make the gas ...
18 Sep 2024, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating 91tv Germany's industry could save up to 21 billion euros in energy costs annually if it generated heat more efficiently for the manufacture of products, according to a report ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) has said in its draft election campaign programme that it aims to ensure the country is competitive in industry ...
17 Feb 2020, 14:13 Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Germany's environment minister Svenja Schulze has proposed to speed up the large-scale use of renewable hydrogen with a quota for aeroplane fuels and tenders for production. "For me it is ...
22 Dec 2023, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv ұԲ’s Green Party lawmakers in federal parliament (Bundestag) want the country to use carbon capture and storage (CCS) or capture and use (CCU) in sectors where – with ...
22 Jan 2021, 14:13 Sören 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, ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Coal Renewables 91tv The incoming coalition government in the eastern German state of Brandenburg has said it aims to continue the expansion of renewable energies to make the region surrounding the country ...
11 Oct 2024, 12:28 Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende 91tv Germany should give greater consideration to the uncertain development of economic output and population trends when planning the country’s future energy and infrastructure ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:55 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert Fraunhofer ISI Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewables Freja Eriksen Gas ...
25 Sep 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv Propelled by a rapid transformation in the heating sector, ұԲ’s demand for natural gas looks set to plummet by one third by 2030 and by another third in the following decade, consultancy ...
18 May 2021, 13:33 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. ...
19 Jul 2022, 14:23 Hannah Naylor Gas Hydrogen General Anzeiger Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pledged to assist ұԲ’s move towards independence from Russia by supplying natural gas and agreed on a green hydrogen partnership during a meeting ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:42 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity ...
02 Oct 2024, 12:45 Sören Amelang Storage Technology 91tv The number of large-scale battery storage projects in Germany will increase rapidly over the next two years, the country’s solar industry association BSW said. Around seven gigawatt ...
08 Sep 2020, 14:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Süddeutsche Zeitung The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Germany could soon enter an energy partnership that would see the central African country provide hydropower capacity to produce ...
26 Nov 2019, 13:04 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Expert TenneT Grid operator ...
23 Mar 2022, 12:37 Kerstine Appunn Coal Hydrogen 91tv The site of the closed-down coal power station Moorburg in the city state of Hamburg would lend itself to producing green hydrogen at a capacity of up to 500 megawatt (MW), a feasibility ...
06 Sep 2019, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Storage Hydrogen NDR / Die Welt / 91tv The city of Hamburg in Northern Germany aims to become home to the world's largest hydrogen electrolysis plant with a capacity of 100 megawatts, reports the ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:30 Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt Despite the much-anticipated release of its National Hydrogen Strategy this summer, uncertainty still surrounds ұԲ’s green hydrogen plans, making the path forward unclear despite the government’s ...
28 Oct 2019, 14:06 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Renewables Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The Federation of German Industries ...
15 Feb 2023, 12:57 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv Germany and Belgium agreed to link their hydrogen networks, double gas flow into Germany and explore the possibility of a second high-voltage electricity interconnector for cross-border ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Business Industry Reuters / n-tv The German state and a number of banks have agreed to support Siemens’ financially struggling subsidiary Siemens Energy with guarantees of about 12 billion euros, news agency Reuters ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:09 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business ...
16 Apr 2021, 13:48 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Hydrogen 91tv German utility company Uniper has dropped plans for an import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the German port of Wilhelmshaven and now plans to build a ...
22 Apr 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has praised the role of Norway in ұԲ’s energy supply, lauding the country as a reliable partner both during the energy crisis and ...
03 Apr 2019, 14:18 Sören Amelang Gas Cars Hydrogen 91tv It is certain that hydrogen will be used on a large scale in future cars, according to German industrial gas supplier Linde. “We’re absolutely sure about the future of hydrogen in ...
28 Nov 2024, 11:55 Ruby Russel Renewables 91tv [UPDATE adds FA Wind survey] The vast majority (80%) of people in Germany support the country's ongoing transition to renewable energy, a survey commissioned by the German Renewable Energy ...
17 Aug 2023, 14:02 Sören Amelang Heating 91tv / Table.Media ұԲ’s coalition government has agreed on a draft law requiring municipalities to submit plans for the transition to climate-neutral heating, but has softened interim targets for ...
18 Mar 2020, 13:40 Sören Amelang Coal Gas Hydrogen Policy 91tv / Handelsblatt / Energate The German government has adjourned a decision on the country's highly anticipated strategy on how to boost the use of hydrogen to decarbonise ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:21 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Coal Hydrogen Handelsblatt The German coal industry is looking to hydrogen production as an alternative in light of the ...
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19 Aug 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Euractiv: Expert: EU, Greece should change mentality to face future wildfires By only focusing on firefighting without a prevention-focused holistic approach, it will be hard for the EU countries to face future ...
16 Sep 2024, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Policy International 91tv / Bloomberg / Tagesspiegel Background German chancellor Olaf Scholz is strengthening ties with the Central Asian region, signing accords for energy and ...
29 Jul 2020, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt / TASS The Russian government is urging the country's leading energy companies to quickly expand their hydrogen production capacities and is considering using the controversial offshore ...
23 Nov 2020, 13:41 Expert German Steel Federation Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt The German government wants to help the steel and chemical industry become ...
07 Dec 2023, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas dpa / Zeit Online The German government must quickly present a strategy for the building of new gas-fired power plants to avoid missing the 2030 end date for coal-fired power production in western state North ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:00 Carolina Kyllmann Gas International COP27 91tv The German government has signed two memoranda of understanding with Egypt to strengthen partnerships on liquefied natural gas (LGN) and green hydrogen. The cooperation, which ...
21 Nov 2024, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating Society 91tv The German government should protect poorer households against incurring higher costs from the rising national carbon price, researchers at the Mercator Research ...
18 Jan 2023, 12:59 Carolina Kyllmann Government Handelsblatt The conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group opposition is calling on the German government to accelerate planning and approval procedures and greater investment in the expansion of ...