23 Aug 2024, 15:00 The summer holiday peak has arrived across Europe and most parliaments on the continent have gone into recess. But while federal politics won’t fully resume in Germany before 8 September, politicians and their observers have already ...
06 Jun 2023, 13:14 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Industry 91tv Steel and iron production plants dominate in a list of the 30 most polluting industrial facilities in Germany ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:30 The UK government is embracing carbon removal technologies as a part of its net-zero ambition and wants to use carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to revive the industrial heartlands in the North of the country and create tens ...
05 Apr 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv The use of synthetic fuels, also known as e-fuels, is unsuitable for road transportation in the medium to long term based on current knowledge, a report by the Fraunhofer Institute for ...
12 Feb 2021, 13:54 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert IG Metall-Industrial Union of Metalworkers IG Metall Transport Business & Jobs Expert PIK- The ...
11 Aug 2022, 14:07 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities 91tv German energy company RWE will spend about 5 billion euros – 30 percent more than originally planned – on ...
22 Dec 2021, 12:42 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Energiewende Handelsblatt The new German government must quickly fill its ambitious energy transition plans with action, according to Markus Krebber, ...
10 Aug 2022, 12:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Half of the major companies listed in Germany’s Dax 40 stock market index increased their CO2 emissions in 2021, as recovery effects from the pandemic allowed many ...
09 Oct 2020, 13:43 Sören Amelang Industry Hamburger Abendblatt Swiss-based building materials company Holcim is registering rising demand for climate-neutral concrete. "We register big interest from many companies in climate-neutral construction who ...
11 Jan 2022, 13:40 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:46 Edgar Meza Industry EU 91tv Germany’s Institute for Economic Research (ifo) has urged the European Union to refrain from further debt-financed subsidies as a response to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). "The EU ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:38 Edgar Meza Business 91tv The majority of Germany’s large companies expect that the transformation to a climate neutral economy will have no negative or even positive effects on their international competitiveness, and ...
11 Aug 2020, 12:22 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Elections & Politics 91tv The German Social Democrats (SPD) will make the ...
13 May 2020, 13:21 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices International 91tv Germany's ranking in the World Economic Forum's Energy Transition Index has slid to 20th this year from 17th last year. "It ...
14 Aug 2023, 13:02 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung / Neue ...
20 Jan 2022, 10:22 Germany's new government must take rapid policy decisions at home and actively engage at the EU level and beyond to pave the way for urgent emission cuts in energy-intensive industry. The start of the country's government ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:56 Sören Amelang Mobility Kontext The German car industry association's call for a technology-neutral approach in the shift to low-emission vehicles is an excuse for inaction, according to a union representative on Daimler's ...
04 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas EU 91tv The European Union can cut its fossil gas use in half by 2030 and fully exit the fuel by 2050 while maintaining supply security and industrial production at today’s levels without disruptive ...
11 Jul 2022, 12:23 Kerstine Appunn Gas EU 91tv Germany’s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck is visiting Prague and Vienna to hold talks on intensified bilateral and European cooperation in securing gas supplies. Habeck (Green Party) ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The uncertain future of combustion engine cars is unsettling workers at German car industry supplier Bosch, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported. Some 17 ...
14 Sep 2023, 13:36 Increasing international competition in the transition to a more sustainable economy will require tight-knit cooperation among EU countries and a tough stance on defending the bloc from unlawful trade subsidies abroad, the economy ...
24 Feb 2023, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 91tv Chemicals company BASF will cut up to 2,600 jobs worldwide due to cost pressure from the energy crisis, with the majority of positions axed in Germany. The company said it will cut ...
20 Dec 2021, 10:55 The start of Germany's new government makes 2022 a crucial year for the country's landmark energy transition. All eyes are on the three-way coalition's first steps towards implementing its ambitious climate plans, which ...
27 Sep 2022, 13:56 Julian Wettengel Electricity Gas 91tv The German government will stick to its plan to add gas power capacity in the country, despite the difficult supply situation for the fossil fuel caused by the energy crisis. “I would ...
13 May 2020, 13:36 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Hydrogen International 91tv German chancellor Angela Merkel has said EU member states will have to re-negotiate their contributions to greenhouse gas emission ...
20 May 2020, 13:50 Months of dispute within the government coalition and the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have significantly slowed down progress on a number of important German energy transition projects. The coal exit law has yet to be adopted by ...
02 Sep 2021, 12:00 In its pursuit of climate neutrality by 2045, Germany has set its sights on extending the energy transition to its famed heavy industry. All major parties address the topic in their programmes for the election on 26 September, ...
10 Jun 2022, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Renewables International 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz should focus on climate change mitigation during his visit to Kosovo, Serbia, North Macedonia and Bulgaria this week, NGO Germanwatch has said. ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Policy 91tv Carbon contracts for difference (CCfDs) alone will not be sufficient to enable a rapid decarbonisation of Germany's energy-intensive industry, the academic advisory board of the ...
07 Nov 2023, 12:25 With a wide range of measures to cut red tape and ease licensing procedures, Germany’s federal and state governments want to speed up investments in and construction of renewable power installations, transmission lines, hydrogen ...
08 Jun 2022, 13:51 Kerstine Appunn Gas Security Reuters To counteract future gas supply shortages, the government cabinet has decided on new regulations for the provision of backup power stations and to minimise the use of natural gas in power generation, ...
08 May 2019, 13:31 German industry heavyweights including chemical maker BASF, HeidelbergCement, gas supplier Linde and steelmaker Salzgitter say they are prepared for profound emissions cuts, but still lack the necessary market signal from policymakers. ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Die Welt As solar power deployment is picking up fast around the globe, Germany and Europe must act now to regain a stronger position in the production of solar PV hardware so as to reduce ...
31 Jan 2023, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv At his first meeting with the newly elected Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, German chancellor Olaf Scholz has focused on joint efforts to protect the ...
15 Sep 2021, 12:29 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Jessica Bateman Fossil fuels The German government has issued export credit guarantees to 12 billion euros’ worth of fossil fuel projects over the ...
03 Nov 2014, 00:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Online "Power in ...
24 Aug 2022, 13:32 Edgar Meza Cars Spiegel / Automobilwoche The Volkswagen group’s future CEO, Oliver Blume, who is set to take the reins at the German carmaker on 1 September, has again expressed his support for electrofuels, also known as e-fuels and ...
28 Mar 2022, 13:18 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables Clean Energy ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Wind 91tv Germany’s wind energy sector requires faster approval procedures and better working conditions to attract the skilled workers needed reach expansion targets, a report commissioned by ...
22 Mar 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Grid Energate The higher renewable targets of Germany’s government will require a faster expansion of the power grid, Tim Meyerjürgens, COO of transmission grid operator TenneT, has told Energate. Connecting the ...
13 May 2022, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv An alliance of environmental NGOs has called on parliamentarians to make significant changes to Germany’s planned acceleration of liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects to ensure that the current ...
13 May 2022, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv With the current legal framework for energy and climate policy, Germany’s building sector climate target would be missed by a wide margin, said energy industry association BDEW in a report. The ...
25 Jun 2020, 13:24 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv The German government cabinet has approved the programme for its EU Council presidency one week before the start of its six-month tenure next week (1 ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Government 91tv The German government’s new building energy legislation to phase out the use of fossil fuel heating systems has generated mixed reactions from industry associations and ...
10 Mar 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Industry EU 91tv / Financial Times / Reuters / NY Times German economy minister Robert Habeck has welcomed the European Commission’s decision to further relax state aid rules for clean technologies as part ...
15 Dec 2023, 11:31 Industry and grid investments must be at the heart of the follow-up to the landmark European Green Deal policy package after the 2024 EU elections, says Bas Eickhout, member of the European Parliament. The results of the vote will shape ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:37 Sören Amelang Coal Grid Nuclear phase-out Renewables Germany will not experience an electricity shortage as a result of an exit from coal and nuclear power generation if it rolls out renewables as planned, even if the country’s power ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Finance EU 91tv The European emissions trading system (EU ETS) and national carbon pricing brought Germany a record 13.2 billion euros from the sale of carbon dioxide pollution rights in 2022, the Federal ...
21 May 2021, 10:32 Germany has increased the emissions reduction targets in its transport sector. Following changes introduced by parliament, the sector has to reach a share of 32 percent renewables by 2030. The use of biofuels made from palm oil will be ...
21 Jul 2023, 11:27 Switching to climate-friendly heating to keep homes warm requires both subsidies for clean technologies and restrictions on dirty ones, says Duncan Gibb, senior advisor at climate think tank Regulatory Assistance Project and founder of ...
07 Nov 2024, 10:29 Following the break-up of Germany's governing coalition, the country's energy industry urged rapid snap elections to give companies much-needed investment security in uncertain times. Youth climate movement Fridays for Future ...
20 Apr 2022, 13:39 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv Almost half of all new cars registered in Germany earlier this year were equipped with alternative fuel engines. The share of newly registered battery electric, hybrid, fuel cell, gas and hydrogen ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU dpa / Focus Online A new pipeline connecting Spain with France and the northern European grid could be finished within a year, the head of Spanish gas grid operator Enagas, Arturo Gonzalo Aizpiri, told news ...
A new research project by Fraunhofer institute IWM in Freiburg is going to investigate the secure use of hydrogen in natural gas pipelines. The project will run for 4 years and cost 9.4 million euros, 1 million of which will be contributed by the federal ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Government International 91tv The German government plans to support climate and environmental protection projects in Indonesia with credits worth 2.5 billion euros by 2025, the German development ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:22 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Government EU 91tv The NGO Germanwatch has called on the European Commission to present an ambitious second part of the “Fit for 55 package” of energy and climate ...
27 Sep 2021, 14:05 The Social Democrats (SPD) under chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz have narrowly won Germany's federal elections. According to preliminary final results, the SPD received 25.7 percent of votes, while the conservatives (CDU/CSU) ...
17 Dec 2020, 10:36 If Germany doesn’t help existing and promote new renewable energy installations, it risks a “green power gap” in 2030, Simone Peter, President of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) says. With the EU tightening its climate ...
21 Feb 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Tagesspiegel Background / ARD A draft law that would require all newly installed heating systems in Germany to run on 65 percent renewable energy from 2024 is making “good progress” after many delays, energy ...
08 Dec 2020, 08:03 The European Union and Germany will continue to deal with the general question of energy sovereignty and strategic autonomy even with a new US administration led by Joe Biden, says Kirsten Westphal, senior associate at the German ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:34 With a significant “safety buffer” of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity, the German government aims to ensure that the country and neighbouring states will receive sufficient supply of natural gas in the coming years, says ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:32 As Germany strives for a renewable-driven power sector, regulators should enable a more flexible electricity demand, says Nicolas Leicht, energy market expert at Aurora Energy Research. Incentives such as locational price signals, as ...
22 Nov 2021, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Transport 91tv There is a rush for electric buses as many German municipalities and cities are decarbonising their public transport systems, the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) said in a ...
24 Jan 2022, 13:31 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Renewables Policy dpa / Stern The German coalition government has promised to accelerate the country's landmark energy transition and other core legislation procedures, newswire dpa report s in ...
15 Aug 2023, 14:07 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs 91tv China is increasingly pushing Germany out of the top spot in exports to ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Germany’s ambitious goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 can only be achieved through a comprehensive and multi-layered approach that includes ...
29 Nov 2022, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv Challenges such as high energy prices, lowered competitiveness, skilled worker shortages or the high need for investment threaten to push industry investments away from Germany, but the ...
04 Jan 2022, 08:37 German ministers have criticised EU plans to label nuclear energy as a sustainable investment, but the government coalition is split on also including fossil gas in the taxonomy. Finance minister Christian Lindner of the pro-business ...
17 Jun 2022, 14:15 Sören Amelang Renewables Business & Jobs Handelsblatt / 91tv Germans strive for energy independence in droves, but a lack of skilled workers and long delivery times for heat pumps, solar panels and batteries put a break ...
15 May 2023, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Six German state leaders have spoken out against splitting the country’s power price zone because of geographically uneven wind power capacities. Northern states had called for ...
07 Sep 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The preparations for a collapse of gas trading with Russia have advanced enough to get Germany through the coming winter, chancellor Olaf Scholz has said. “We are prepared ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:15 Germany's government has removed the last hurdles to finalising the country's much-anticipated coal exit law, clearing the way for a passage of the bill in parliament at the end of the week. The draft agreement grants ...
22 Jun 2020, 12:33 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Hydrogen EU Leopoldina / Acatech / Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities In a joint statement, leading German scientific institutions, including the German National Academy of Sciences ...
The German Farmers' Association (DBV) has criticised German and EU transport policy, saying conventional biofuels were necessary for climate protection beyond 2020. “Traditional biofuels” based on rapeseed, sugar beet or grains are sustainable, and ...
14 Feb 2025, 14:20 The conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz is widely tipped to become Germany’s next chancellor – but remains ambiguous on a range of policy fields, notably on energy and climate. Despite being known as a senior policymaker for decades, ...
08 Feb 2022, 14:48 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 International Die Zeit The EU’s Africa summit in mid-February is an ideal opportunity for Germany to look at how it can better support the continent in adapting to climate change, Olumide Abimbola, ...
10 Feb 2022, 14:06 Jessica Bateman Wind Die Zeit The northernmost German state of Schleswig-Holstein has announced it wants to help push forward the energy transition by building artificial power islands in the North Sea, newspaper Die Zeit reported. ...
11 Feb 2020, 14:31 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Expert The German Gas and Hydrogen Industry Fossil fuels Gas Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv As Germany plans to exit both nuclear and coal power generation over the next years, gas plants ...
29 Mar 2023, 14:19 The German government coalition has overcome a month-long dispute with a deal on comprehensive reforms in climate and environmental protection, the acceleration of major infrastructure projects, and billions for the modernisation of ...
Transitioning to efficient and zero-emissions road freight transport will significantly reduce European spending and dependence on oil imports and spur economic growth, the European Climate Foundation and Cambridge Econometrics say in a report backed by ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel EU G20 & G7 91tv Climate action tops the agenda of the German presidency of the G7 group of influential economies, which the new economy and climate ministry aims (BMWK) to use to improve greenhouse gas ...
30 Jul 2020, 13:37 The construction of new wind turbines in Germany picked up slightly again in the first six months of 2020, but expansion figures are still far too low to bolster an industry that suffered two years of steeply declining growth. As the ...
23 Dec 2022, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv In order to bolster the capacity for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG), Germany will support the construction of three so-called LNG bunker vessels. Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck ...
27 Jun 2022, 13:57 Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv Germany’s federal parliament (Bundestag) has passed a first batch of energy legislation, designed to accelerate the expansion of the power grid and protect consumers from rising energy prices when ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:33 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Business 91tv German companies make up a high share of the dynamically growing green technologies market, a report ...
The government cabinet approved the second phase of a programme to support hydrogen and fuel cell technology, according to a transport ministry press release. From 2016 to 2019, the programme provides almost 250 million euros to support innovations in ...
26 Jul 2022, 11:23 Sören Amelang Gas 91tv Germany’s plans for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to replace Russian supplies exceed requirements and put the country’s and European climate targets at risk, argues a report commissioned by ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:18 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal Nuclear phase-out 91tv Germany’s nuclear and coal phase-out both took a step towards their completion on the last day of 2021, when ...
23 Jul 2020, 13:50 Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Business & Jobs Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Hydrogen 91tv The number of biogas plants installed in Germany is ...
10 Oct 2022, 14:09 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics 91tv / Frankfurter Rundschau The Social Democratic Party (SPD) has won the regional parliamentary election in Lower Saxony, Germany’s biggest wind power producer, with 34 percent ...
15 Feb 2023, 12:59 Expert Allensbach Institute The Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach (IfD Allensbach) Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility Cars 91tv Decarbonisation in the mobility sector is the most important area for ...
The first quarter of 2017 has seen a new record for e-car registrations in Germany, the scientific foundation Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Wuerttemberg (ZSW) said in a press release. A total of 11,624 electric vehicles was ...
21 Sep 2022, 13:22 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 SWR The state government of Baden-Württemberg has passed a new version of its Climate Protection Act in an effort to further reduce greenhouse gases with ambitious new goals, but critics say the legislation ...
01 Jul 2022, 13:08 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv Transmission grid operator Amprion has announced that it will cut CO2 emissions in its operations by a minimum of 63 percent by 2032. ...
01 Dec 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 91tv Germany's electricity market design needs a fundamental overhaul more urgently than ever before to make the economic value of supply security visible, the country's energy ...
07 Aug 2020, 14:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Die Welt / WirtschaftsWoche / Tagesspiegel Three Republican senators have threatened the US will impose "crushing legal and economic sanctions" on the port of Sassnitz on the German Baltic Sea ...
29 Nov 2021, 13:13 Expert BBH- Becker Büttner Held energy law firm Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & ...
13 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) State secretary Baake says Germany must stop registering fossil fuel vehicles by 2030 At a panel discussion Tuesday, ...
23 Nov 2022, 14:00 Sören Amelang Solar Resources & Recycling Germany must reduce its reliance on China in green technologies and should be more demanding on climate issues when dealing with the Asian country, states a foreign ministry draft paper seen ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:13 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars ...
18 Mar 2022, 13:41 Julian Wettengel International Security 91tv The climate crisis and its effects on people’s lives around the world will be at the heart of the National Security Strategy being developed by the German government, said ...
18 Nov 2021, 13:18 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Cities Tagesspiegel The city of Berlin plans to speed up its coal exit, regional newspaper Tagesspiegel reports. The prospective city government composed of the Social Democrats (SPD), the ...
09 Jul 2018, 15:15 Natural gas is needed to complement renewable energies today and will increasingly be replaced by ‘green gases’, enabling the continued use of existing infrastructure, says Timm Kehler, head of the gas industry initiative Zukunft ERDGAS ...
07 Mar 2022, 14:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv Several environmental groups are calling on Germany’s government to quickly present “a binding phase-out path for fossil gas” by 2040 in order to enable the country’s complete decarbonisation and ...
04 Mar 2022, 13:16 Sören Amelang Renewables Finance Süddeutsche Zeitung The EU’s green investments label could slow down Germany's energy transition as many renewable projects don't qualify for it, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports. Banks are only ...
09 Nov 2022, 13:55 Kiprotich Koros Renewables COP27 91tv Kenya and Germany have signed a roadmap for a climate and development partnership that will see the East African country increase its share of renewables in the power system to 100 ...
07 Nov 2022, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Resources & Recycling BR The great reliance on hardware supply from China is causing concern among Germany’s solar power industry, public broadcaster BR reports. About 95 percent of the solar cells installed ...
31 May 2022, 14:14 Edgar Meza Industry Heating Handelsblatt As Germany reorients its energy policy in the wake of the Ukraine war and seeks to increase gas imports from other sources than Russia, it should also promote greater energy efficiency and make ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:15 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity ...
Powering a large country like Germany entirely with renewable energy is possible, and could even be cheaper than conventional energy sources, according to a study by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Technical solutions for all of the well ...
10 Feb 2022, 13:48 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU 91tv European imports ...
25 Oct 2022, 14:03 Kiprotich Koros Digitalisation 91tv A successful transition to renewables will only be achieved if there is a comprehensive digitalisation of the whole energy sector, a report by research institute Fraunhofer IEE has ...
07 Feb 2022, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung High energy prices for gas, oil and electricity should be seen as “an advertisement for the energy transition,” economist Monika Schnitzer has said in an ...
04 Oct 2021, 13:44 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel The German Environment Agency (UBA) has called to raise the country’s greenhouse gas emission ...
14 Feb 2023, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background While heat pump sales increased more than 50 percent in 2022, oil and gas boilers continued to dominate the German heating market, according to the annual heating ...
28 Sep 2021, 13:40 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess is calling for a faster increase in the CO2 price, an earlier coal phaseout and a greater expansion of renewables. The day after the September 26 ...
05 May 2022, 13:48 Edgar Meza Solar Wind 91tv Renewable energy sources accounted for 50 percent of electricity consumption in Germany in the first quarter of 2022 – around nine percentage points more than in the same period last year, ...
05 May 2022, 13:32 Germany is rapidly pushing several infrastructure projects for the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in order to wean itself off Russian natural gas. Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck visited the kick-off ceremony for the ...
18 Jul 2022, 13:33 Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv Germany’s push for energy independence triggered by the Ukraine war could boost the country’s emission reduction efforts in the medium term, as well as economic growth and ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:24 Edgar Meza Coal Renewables 91tv German energy group LEAG, the country’s second biggest electricity producer and a key lignite company, plans to build the country’s largest renewable energy site in the eastern Lusatia coal ...
Fuel cells are no longer a major part of Daimler’s plans, reports Fortune. CEO Dieter Zetsche said declining battery costs have made fuel cell vehicles uncompetitive with electric cars, according to a report by news site Smart2Zero. Zetsche’s statements ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:30 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Edgar Meza Industry Welt am Sonntag German energy giant RWE is accelerating the expansion of renewable energy sources, Guido M. Hartmann writes in Welt am Sonntag. ...
31 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Hydrogen dw.com “Lobby battle over Energiewende” There is a lot of pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers to hammer out a compromise at tonight’s ...
10 Sep 2021, 14:56 Germany could transform its economy to net zero emissions by 2045 at net zero costs, because switching to green technologies opens up new markets and opportunities for growth, consultancy McKinsey has found. In its report „Net-Zero ...
03 Jul 2020, 12:48 In a vote that has been hailed as "historic", Germany's parliament has adopted a law that will ensure the phase-out of coal power by no later than 2038. The decision follows two years of intense debate about the country& ...
11 Aug 2021, 13:49 Kerstine Appunn Finance 91tv One of the main objectives of this year’s UN Climate summit in Glasgow (COP26) should be reworking the details of international climate finance and include more links to reciprocal efforts in ...
12 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Hydrogen DENEFF / PwC “10 percent turnover growth in the efficiency sector” Companies in the business of supplying energy efficiency solutions grow much faster than the rest of the economy, ...
15 Dec 2021, 13:33 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has unveiled a new aviation strategy that sets the path for emission-free flying. The goal is the development of highly efficient aircraft that use climate ...
04 Aug 2021, 13:55 Charlotte Nijhuis Freight 91tv Electricity-based synthetic fuels – so-called power-to-x fuels (PtX) – are a “central building block” in making maritime and air transport climate-friendly, environment minister Svenja Schulze ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics International 91tv In the context of the formation of Germany’s new government, former environment minister Svenja Schulze moves on to lead the country’s development ministry (BMZ) ...
German steel manufacturer Thyssen-Krupp launched a research project on using steel mill gases like nitrogen, methane or hydrogen oxide as resources for chemical materials, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The project, dubbed Carbon2Chem, showed how ...
07 Dec 2021, 12:54 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Jessica Bateman Coal Grid 91tv The new German coalition government’s goal of a 2030 coal exit, eight years earlier than initially planned, will require a ...
21 Jun 2022, 12:49 Sören Amelang Transport Technology 91tv The German government has launched a new push to make the country an international leader in sustainable aviation. “With a joint effort by industry, science, politics and society, ...
23 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Reuters Nuclear commission wants utilities to supplement clean-up provisions The commission on payments for the nuclear clean-up insists that nuclear power station ...
03 Feb 2021, 09:23 Germany won't reach its 2030 energy and climate targets at the current energy transition pace, a top government advisor has warned. A higher EU 2030 climate target means Germany will likely have to raise its national greenhouse gas ...
03 Dec 2021, 13:21 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Gas EU Energate messenger, 91tv The 27 EU energy ministers have failed to ...
04 Mar 2016, 00:00 Hydrogen Die Welt “North Rhine-Westphalia cities agree to forego RWE dividend” Despite their own financial difficulties, cities in North Rhine-Westphalia that own stakes in utility RWE have accepted that there will be no dividend this ...
Germany will need to reduce transport emissions without prescribing particular technologies, according to transport minister Andreas Scheuer. “In some instances, it will be an electric car, and in other cases a hydrogen engine or synthetic fuels,” Scheuer ...
21 Nov 2023, 08:43 The debates over the fallout of last week’s shock constitutional court ruling on Germany’s state budget borrowing rules are in full swing, as the government faces difficult decisions on how to fill a 60-billion-euro gap in its special ...
10 Jul 2019, 18:03 LEAG, eastern Germany’s largest energy and mining company, is building a 50 MW battery that could help stabilise the country’s electricity grid partly through renewable energy. Environment minister Svenja Schulze lauded the project in ...
11 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Hydrogen WirtschaftsWoche " Utilities could buy their way out of nuclear responsibilities for 49 billion euros” WirtschaftsWoche reports on a study from the German Nuclear Power Commission proposing two ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:49 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Cars 91tv Germany is to accelerate the expansion of its electromobility charging network to facilitate the switch to electric vehicles, transport minister Volker Wissing (FDP) announced after ...
17 Jun 2021, 13:03 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv Germany railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) is aiming to become climate neutral a decade earlier than its previous 2050 target. Announcing its new 2040 target, the company said it would already be ...
11 Jun 2021, 14:14 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Heating 91tv Agora Energiewende * and the Climate Neutrality Foundation have unveiled a roadmap aimed at facilitating the necessary heating transition to make the building sector ...
14 Jun 2021, 13:07 Edgar Meza Electricity market Renewables WirtschaftsWoche German economic affairs and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said his ministry will submit new calculations for Germany’s expected energy demand in the coming years due to ...
Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT will invest 28 billion euros in new power grid infrastructure over the next ten years because of energy transition targets in Germany and the Netherlands which will lead to an increase in renewable power, ...
11 May 2022, 13:10 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche ...
30 Jan 2023, 15:52 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv / Table.Media / taz [CLARIFICATION: It is not just Agora Energiewende which says LNG expansion plans are oversized. The grid operators in their draft plan state that if all planned LNG capacity is ...
21 May 2024, 14:17 The EU’s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, has boosted hopes in Germany’s eastern coal mining region Lusatia that a prosperous future lies ahead in the transition towards climate-neutral industry in the area. At a visit to ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:01 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas energate messenger / taz The energy group Uniper no longer believes in the construction of an LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminal in northern German Wilhelmshaven, reports ...
German automotive supplier Bosch will enter into partnership with United Kingdom-based Ceres Power to develop solid-oxide fuel-cell (SOFC) technology, which could be used in cities, data centres, and factories and as a power source for electric vehicle ...
14 Apr 2020, 14:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Green stimulus 91tv In a bid to allow a return to regular social life and economic activity amid the coronavirus outbreak, Germany's national academy of sciences, the Leopoldina, has ...
14 May 2021, 14:16 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Coal Utilities Reuters German energy company Uniper has agreed to consider an earlier than planned shutdown of its controversial coal-fired power plant Datteln 4, Reuters reports. "Should future ...
21 Jan 2021, 14:22 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Technology Germany's largest refinery is set to add synthetic fuels to its existing mineral oil-based product portfolio, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). The regional ...
06 Apr 2020, 12:33 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation ...
07 May 2021, 12:03 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Gas Elections & Politics Security 91tv The co-leader of the German Greens, Annalena Baerbock, emphasised possibilities ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables dpa / Die Zeit Amid the debate between France and Germany over the use of nuclear power in the EU’s emissions reduction plans, the Green Party in southwestern German state Baden-Württemberg ...
07 Jan 2022, 11:56 Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government 91tv Nuclear power is not a sustainable energy generation technology and ...
The global shift to electric mobility will reach a critical point in a little over 10 years, according to VW head Matthias Müller. “We will see a global tipping point around 2030,” Müller said at an annual car industry summit organised by business daily ...
Power transmission grid operator Amprion and gas transmission grid operator Open Grid Europe (OGE) want to test power-to-gas (PtG) technologies on an industrial scale in Germany to better integrate electricity with the other sectors, the companies ...
15 Mar 2022, 13:55 Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions have increased by nearly five percent in 2021, in an expected rebound during the economic revival after the pandemic. The country's Federal Environment Agency warned that the “Corona windfall ...
26 Jan 2021, 12:05 Expert DIE- German Development Institute Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 International 91tv Germany will provide an additional 120 million euros in financial aid to ...
More than three million e-cars are registered worldwide, with 1.2 million in China, followed by 750,000 in the United States. Germany ranks eighth with 93,000 registered e-cars, says the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Wuerttemberg ...
17 Dec 2020, 10:40 Battery-electric trucks will hit Europe's roads in large numbers soon, but catenary systems could also play an important role in the decarbonisation of heavy-duty freight transport if governments now push the technology by building ...
06 Jul 2022, 12:03 Russia’s war against Ukraine pushes governments across Europe to overhaul their plans for gas infrastructure such as pipelines or import terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG). Substituting only half of Russian gas imports forces ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:29 Edgar Meza Industry Handelsblatt German conglomerate thyssenkrupp finds it increasingly difficult to spin off its troubled steelmaking division, Kevin Knitterscheidt and Martin Murphy write in Handelsblatt. In order to successfully sell ...
23 Sep 2020, 15:30 Germany's government has agreed on an overhaul of the country's Renewable Energy Act, the core legislation for its landmark energy transition, to enable a share of 65 percent renewables in 2030 power consumption and a ...
30 Mar 2022, 12:05 Edgar Meza Heating 91tv The electrification of the heating sector could be a key component in making Europe become less dependent on Russian gas, according to an internal report by S&P Global Commodity Insights. The ...
15 Dec 2021, 13:44 Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Renewable energy made up approximately 42 percent of the electricity consumed in Germany in 2021, according to preliminary calculations by the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen ...
15 Dec 2021, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Renewables Government 91tv The new German government's plan to more than double power production from renewable sources by 2030 presents a “gigantic task” for the country, said Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...
14 Dec 2021, 12:12 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Gas 91tv A new report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions conducted by the International Institute for Sustainability Analysis and Strategy (IINAS) on behalf of renewable energy consultancy DWR ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:15 The two most influential members of the EU, Germany and France, agree on the urgent need to jointly decarbonise Europe’s energy system and put supply security on a safer footing after the tumultuous energy crisis year 2022. Russia’s war ...
18 Mar 2021, 14:00 Sören Amelang Mobility Cars 91tv BMW has stepped up its plans for the electrification of its vehicle fleet and will turn Mini into a pure e-car brand. The Munich-based carmaker said the last new Mini with a combustion ...
06 Dec 2021, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling Hamburger Abendblatt Copper producer Aurubis from Hamburg will enter the budding e-car battery recycling market and plans to open an industrial-scale pilot plant within the next five years, ...
06 Aug 2021, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Transport Heating dpa / 91tv Germany’s state-owned railway company Deutsche Bahn will have to pay between 40 million and 50 million euros for the use of fossil fuels like diesel and heating ...
02 Jun 2020, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Green stimulus Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German government's coronavirus recovery programme will likely mobilise funds of about 80 billion to 100 billion euros, Kerstin Schwenn reports in newspaper ...
15 Jan 2021, 10:19 While our roads are increasingly abuzz with electric cars and scooters, low-emission trucks are conspicuous by their absence. But this is about to change as new climate targets force sharp emission cuts in heavy duty transport. The ...
“In the next twelve to eighteen months, important conditions for a breakthrough in electric mobility will be created," innogy head Peter Terium told news agency dpa ahead of the Handelsblatt energy conference in Berlin. Innogy, a spin off from RWE, ...
02 Dec 2020, 13:42 Kerstine Appunn Business & Jobs 91tv Up to two thirds of the gross value added by investments in local energy infrastructure and production remain in the German state where the investment takes place, an analysis by ...
04 May 2020, 13:37 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Heating 91tv ...
14 Aug 2020, 13:56 Renewables Industry industrie.de Engineering and technology firm Bosch is expanding its use of renewable electricity, with the goal of reaching climate neutrality at its 400 worldwide locations by the end of the year. According to ...
18 Feb 2022, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices EU 91tv The German government should intensify its efforts for introducing a new EU carbon emissions trading system for the transport and buildings sectors, a group of climate science ...
14 Feb 2022, 13:55 Jessica Bateman Gas dpa / ntv The construction of Germany's first liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal remains uncertain as a key project continues to face delays, reports newswire dpa in an article carried by ntv. There is still ...
26 Jan 2021, 12:04 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Wind Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv Deutsche Bahn (DB) will help to continue the operation of two wind farms marketed ...
27 Jan 2021, 13:29 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv The ...
30 Oct 2020, 11:42 Mobility 91tv Europe’s transport sector needs a comprehensive overhaul if the continent is to meet its climate targets, a group of German environmental organisations said on Friday. The transport sector is currently ...
07 Feb 2022, 13:51 Jessica Bateman Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cost & Prices 91tv Rising energy costs have led to a drop in approval ratings for Germany’s coal exit in eastern German mining regions, according to the Central Germany Monitor ...
25 Oct 2021, 13:53 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Coal International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany could play a decisive role in the global transition to renewable energy, Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:49 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Heating 91tv The ...
28 Jan 2022, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt A sharp reversal halting the drop in prices for solar panels, wind turbines and batteries caused by supply chain problems and rising raw material costs could ...
22 Sep 2022, 13:52 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv The German industry plans to stick to existing ...
13 Oct 2021, 13:25 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
29 Jun 2020, 13:06 Industry Handelsblatt Politicians must urgently implement EU-wide mechanisms that help Germany’s heavy industry to continue to be successful while transitioning to greenhouse gas neutrality, says Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. ...
15 Jun 2020, 10:30 A mainly fossil energy guzzler, heating in Germany has taken a back seat to the Energiewende's poster child, the power sector. But the “Wärmewende”, or heating transition, has significant potential to curb emissions and is ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:04 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG ...
30 Sep 2021, 13:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Handelsblatt The steel industry needs financial support of 13 to 35 billion euros to make the shift to climate-friendly steel production, according to an analysis conducted by think tank Agora Energiewende and ...
14 Jan 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Germany’s offshore wind industry is placing great hope on the new government’s ambitious renewables expansion plans, after no turbines were added to German waters throughout the whole ...
13 Jan 2022, 14:11 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Sören Amelang Industry G20 & G7 91tv Germany should use its G7 presidency to push for more ...
Chemist Robert Schlögl, from Germany’s Max-Planck-Research-Institute, wants to save combustion engine technology and its infrastructure from being gradually replaced with electric vehicles by developing synthetic fuel from hydrogen and carbon dioxide (CO ...
12 May 2021, 13:53 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Technology Policy Handelsblatt German education and research minister Anja Karliczek is calling for immediate investment in research and development of technologies to remove CO2 from ...
10 May 2021, 14:32 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Renewables Utilities Die Welt Germany's largest electricity producer RWE has set its sights on becoming the leading provider of renewable energy in numerous industrialised countries. In an ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:52 Kerstine Appunn Wind Die Welt Shipping, fisheries, offshore wind power, raw material extraction and nature conservation all have been assigned their space in the German waters in the latest plan of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic ...
24 Nov 2020, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage EU 91tv A conference on battery cell production in Europe launched under the aegis of Germany's EU Council Presidency aims to get European battery production off the ground. "We want ...
04 May 2020, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Solar 91tv / pv magazine Solar ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv The number of flights taken in Germany to domestic as well as international destinations continues to rise, the Destatis national statistical office has found. In the first half of 2019, the ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:36 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Energiewende ...
Renewable gas used in existing gas infrastructure could help reduce Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by mid-century, in accordance with the Paris Climate Agreement goals, according to a study conducted by the consultancy Ecofys and ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:34 Energy exports to western Europe are one of the pillars a future Ukrainian economy could rest on, Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a conference in Berlin on the war-torn country’s ...
12 Apr 2021, 14:18 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Gas International Tagesspiegel The U.S. government is increasing pressure on the German government to halt the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Hans Monath writes in newspaper Tagesspiegel. President Joe ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:30 German government officials and industry associations have welcomed the EU’s proposal for a “Green Deal Industrial Plan,” intended to enhance the competitiveness of Europe's industry on the path to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions ...
28 Oct 2020, 14:52 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Technology Handelsblatt Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is set to increase funding to convert carbon dioxide emissions in heavy industry into useful chemical products, Barbara ...
11 Aug 2022, 17:39 Julian Wettengel Gas EU 91tv [UPDATE adds paragraph on third relief package] German chancellor Olaf Scholz has said he is confident European Union member states will show solidarity in the energy crisis exacerbated by ...
17 Aug 2021, 13:33 Expert German Trade Union Association Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Bundesvorstand Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Society Elections & Politics dpa / Zeit Online Climate change and the energy transition should ...
06 Dec 2021, 13:36 Jessica Bateman Renewables Elections & Politics Handelsblatt The incoming German coalition government’s ambitious energy and climate goals can only be achieved with industrial transformation on a scale never before seen in Germany, ...
02 Aug 2024, 12:34 The upcoming elections in three Eastern German states in September have put the region at the centre of attention of the country’s political landscape in 2024, especially due to the expected success of populist parties which could shake ...
23 Jun 2020, 14:00 Helping European Union member states find a compromise on a coronavirus recovery package in July will be a first test for the German EU Council presidency in the second half of 2020, says Sophie Pornschlegel, senior policy analyst at ...
15 Jun 2020, 08:46 The independent expert commission in charge of monitoring Germany's energy transition says the European Green Deal requires the country to do more to fight climate change. The government advisors say a quicker-than-planned coal ...
More and more new car buyers in Germany are considering vehicles that don't just run on fossil fuels, the German Energy Agency (dena) writes in a press release. According to a survey commissioned by dena, 27 percent of respondents said they intended ...
12 Feb 2019, 18:04 Against the backdrop of escalating tensions over the Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, Germany and the US aim to boost industry cooperation on liquefied natural gas (LNG). German economy minister Peter Altmaier invited US ...
07 Mar 2022, 13:52 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & ...
01 Oct 2020, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Carbon removal Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s energy and economy ministry will launch a new round of debates on using carbon capture and storage (CCS), an idea that was deemed dead after a 2012 law ...
09 Apr 2019, 17:18 Innovation to make the use of energy cleaner, more flexible and efficient is the central quest of the global energy transition. At the Berlin Start-up Energy Transition Tech Festival, the German Energy Agency (dena) promotes start-ups ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:20 Expert BVMW- German Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses Bundesverband mittelständische Wirtschaft Cost & Prices Sören Amelang Renewables Wind Business & Jobs 91tv Germany's sea ports are not ...
The federal cabinet approved reform drafts for the energy and electricity tax laws to adapt regulation on national tax exemptions to EU state aid law, the finance ministry writes in a press release. The draft would extend tax exemptions for natural ...
09 Jun 2020, 13:15 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
16 Jul 2021, 13:04 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv International 91tv Germany and the U.S. have entered a partnership aimed at strengthening climate ambition and deepening the countries’ collaboration on policies and sustainable ...
07 Jul 2021, 13:13 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry ...
28 Jun 2024, 16:00 French citizens are awaiting the upcoming snap election brought about by the dissolution of parliament following president Emmanuel Macron’s loss to the far-right in this June’s EU elections. The vote could have a profound impact on the ...
18 Dec 2019, 14:05 Germany has seen a second year of significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, as coal use fell by more than 20 percent and energy production from renewables increased, preliminary calculations by energy research group AG ...
18 Jun 2021, 13:05 Edgar Meza Wind Tagesspiegel Background The German government is examining how it can support the domestic offshore wind sector, which is suffering from a slowdown in activity, Steven Hanke writes in Tagesspiegel Background, citing a ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:18 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Gas 91tv Oil and natural gas production in Germany continues to decline sharply, shows an annual report for 2020 published by the Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG). It ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:11 Current polls suggest Germany's elections on 26 September will be followed by complicated coalition talks, but the Green Party refuses to reveal what they consider red lines during the negotiations. The party's climate policy ...
08 Oct 2021, 12:00 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
11 Apr 2022, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Gas Funke Mediengruppe / 91tv Germany should look into the option of using fracking technology to extract domestic natural gas in light of the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia’s war against ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:39 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Society 91tv Through climate change, air pollution, plastic waste and other environmental effects, the German economy creates external costs at the level of 13-19 percent ...
06 Jan 2021, 11:52 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 Julian Wettengel Wind Tagesspiegel ...
10 Jul 2020, 12:41 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism ...
27 May 2021, 13:28 Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv The next government after the ...
20 Feb 2019, 11:13 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Storage Europe needs to pool its strengths with “a genuine European industrial policy” to remain a manufacturing powerhouse in the transition to a low-carbon economy, according to France and Germany ...
28 Mar 2022, 14:25 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels International Security 91tv After a meeting with his G7 counterparts, German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck said on Monday (28 March) that Putin's demand to only receive payment ...
19 May 2021, 13:36 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics International RND German federal finance minister Olaf Scholz has proposed the creation of an international organisation of countries to lead the way in climate protection, Andreas Niesmann writes for ...
14 May 2021, 14:05 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Policy 91tv Germany's government has agreed on a "climate pact" that sketches out steps to achieve the more ambitious emission reduction targets approved by cabinet this ...
08 Dec 2020, 13:32 Edgar Meza Utilities 91tv German energy and telecommunications group EWE has said it plans to become climate-neutral by 2035. In order to achieve its target, the company is exiting coal-fired power generation and investing ...
14 Dec 2021, 13:07 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband ...
25 Mar 2022, 15:02 Germany is making considerable progress in weaning itself off fossil fuel imports from Russia and could become virtually independent of the country’s coal and oil by the end of this year, said economy and climate minister Robert Habeck ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:00 Sören Amelang Grid Renewables Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany’s federal states have decided on a joint approach in climate policy, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. State premiers agreed to push ahead with the ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:42 The German government’s target of sourcing 80 percent of the country’s electricity from renewable sources by 2030 is very much achievable for Germany if current positive trends persist, economy minister Robert Habeck has said at a ...
25 Nov 2020, 13:46 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Technology 91tv Two new large-scale research centres will be established in the German state of Saxony in order to help lead the coal mining regions deal with the transition away from the fossil fuel, ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:38 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Frankfurter Rundschau The three candidates in the race to succeed CDU party leader Armin ...
07 Dec 2021, 12:55 Jessica Bateman Cars Business & Jobs 91tv Following a "mixed technology approach" in the decarbonisation of Europe's transport sector could deliver significant CO2 emissions reduction while simultaneously ...
09 May 2019, 14:06 Sören Amelang Gas Storage Technology Forbes Germany’s share of renewable energy continues to rise but the capacity of the national grid is constrained, putting a spotlight on power-to-x technologies to store the renewable energy, ...
07 Apr 2021, 12:56 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Background Less money has been spent out of the Federal Energy and Climate Fund (EKF) than was available in 2020, Tagesspiegel Background writes after seeing the 2020 balance sheet of the ...
23 Nov 2021, 14:23 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Elections & Politics 91tv The new German government should enable ...
31 Mar 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity 91tv Germany’s Federal Court of Auditors (BRH) has criticised the government for its “inadequate” management of the energy transition. In a new report, the BRH argues that the economy ministry ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:25 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Storage 91tv The total power storage capacity ...
27 Jul 2021, 13:36 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Handelsblatt Germany needs gas-fired ...
28 Mar 2022, 10:56 A complete disruption of energy trading between Russia and the rest of Europe would have grave consequences for the economies of Germany and other EU countries, says energy and security policy expert Kirsten Westphal. If the flow of gas ...
08 Jul 2022, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv Both the federal parliament (Bundestag) and the council of state governments (Bundesrat) have passed this year’s first major batch of energy ...
08 Feb 2022, 14:10 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Government EU 91tv France and Germany, who have recently been at odds over the future role of nuclear and gas, will intensify their cooperation on climate action in Europe and work ...
26 Oct 2021, 13:21 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv The German economy could suffer climate change-related damage totalling 730 billion euros in the next 50 years if countermeasures are not taken early enough, a new ...
05 Jul 2021, 13:06 Expert BTU- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg Renewables Hydrogen Technology Efficiency Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches ...
12 Apr 2022, 11:50 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv / Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Background Plans to build import infrastructure for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Germany are quickly taking shape as more companies decide to invest, but NGOs and ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:44 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs ...
13 Jan 2022, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Industry dpa/ Die Welt / Handelsblatt / 91tv Industry companies are calling for an end to the southern German state of Bavaria’s particularly strict minimum distance wind power rules. Bavarian ...
03 Sep 2020, 13:50 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport 91tv Global aviation is responsible for 3.5 percent of human-made climate ...
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10 Jan 2022, 13:30 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv / RND Quickly rising prices for raw materials needed to build a fossil-free energy infrastructure could ...
17 Jun 2021, 11:51 Sören Amelang Cars Tagesspiegel Tesla may have to stop construction of its "Gigafactory" near Berlin following new legal action brought by environmental NGOs, reports Thorsten Metzner in the newspaper Tagesspiegel. The ...
10 Jun 2021, 13:56 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Wind Business & Jobs 91tv The future of the wind power sector is looking increasingly rosy according to the latest WindEnergy trend:index (WEtix), published by global wind energy event ...
24 Feb 2023, 11:00 One year after Russia started its devastating war on Ukraine, the energy policy landscape of Germany and most of Europe has changed radically. European states to a large extent lowered or even completely cut their reliance on Russian ...
14 Aug 2020, 14:27 Utilities Tagesspiegel Background Major German energy companies are making “rapid progress” with their green energy transition thanks to renewables becoming clear profit-makers that are attractive to investors, Jakob Schlandt writes in ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:38 Storage Cars 91tv A test of power consumption in electric cars shows that they consume between 10 and 25 percent more electricity than their on-board computers show, largely due to charging station losses, car drivers' ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:30 Preview 2020: Wind power became Germany's single most important power source in 2019 and appears well under way to fulfill its role as the central technology of the country's energy transition. Nevertheless, the wind industry ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage 91tv The capacity of pumped storage hydro power stations available to the German energy system is expected to grow by about 1.4 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, with roughly one third of the capacity being ...
30 Aug 2019, 14:25 Freja Eriksen Bioenergy Cars 91tv Together with nine other industry players, the automotive, farmers' and biofuel industry associations have agreed in a position paper that biofuels and electricity-based fuels must be ...
17 Jul 2020, 14:12 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Volkswagen does not expect the pandemic to slow the introduction of its flagship e-car model ID.3, Carsten Germis writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The ...
06 Sep 2021, 14:04 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Industry dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung / RND German industry federation BDI has warned ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:31 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Cars 91tv The share of renewable energies used in Germany’s transport sector stagnated at 5.6% in 2019, a study ...
01 Mar 2022, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas Wind 91tv / Spiegel / Bloomberg The German government is set to introduce a law to prescribe minimum levels for the country’s gas storages, according to economy and climate ministry plans seen by ...
The global energy transition will require the presence of a sizeable international market for synthetic fuels and Germany will have to import significant amounts of green fuels created by converting renewable energy with so-called power-to-x technologies, ...
12 May 2022, 13:38 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables 91tv Renewable power generation looks set to cover more than 46 percent of Germany's power consumption in 2020, preliminary figures published by energy industry association BDEW and the ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
27 Apr 2021, 13:43 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
21 Feb 2022, 13:46 Sören Amelang Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany needs an "energy plan" to ensure energy prices remain affordable for households and businesses while protecting the climate, two conservative state premiers write in ...
23 Dec 2022, 14:20 The German government coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz looks back at a turbulent first year in office, which has been dominated by the reality check of Russia’s war on Ukraine and the European energy crisis. The turmoil in global ...
25 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Grid Rheinische Post German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has called for faster progress on updating the country’s energy grids as this was essential to a coal-free energy system. In an interview with the ...
01 Nov 2019, 13:29 Germany can become largely carbon-neutral by the middle of the century at tolerable cost by overhauling its entire economy, but in order to do so must specify its 2050 emissions target as soon as possible, according to a study by ...
06 Nov 2019, 14:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs 91tv A proactive economic policy that embraces the challenges of climate change and the energy transition and provides reliable climate policy will improve the economy's resilience ...
06 May 2022, 14:04 The effects of the war in Ukraine will have a major impact on Germany’s most important state election this year, making next week’s vote in heavy industry heartland North-Rhine Westphalia another gauge of the public’s view of the ...
13 Feb 2019, 13:14 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Business & Jobs 91tv The number of electric cars worldwide rose 64 percent last year to reach 5.6 million in early 2019, according to the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen ...
12 Nov 2020, 14:22 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport ...
11 Nov 2020, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Freight Bayerischer Rundfunk / AFP / 91tv Germany’s transport minister Andreas Scheuer continues to pursue a ‘cash for clunkers’ scheme for old lorries. Since large lorries with alternative drive systems, ...
23 Dec 2021, 13:13 A new German government has started its work shortly before Christmas, kicking off its four-year term with a key promise to make the country ready for its ambitious bid to become climate neutral before the middle of the century. At a ...
26 Mar 2021, 13:46 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Power ...
23 Jul 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Politics International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit Green party co-leader and chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock has criticised the Nord Stream 2 agreement with the U.S. government. On 21 July, Berlin ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:51 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Transport Technology 91tv Civil airlines should be required to use at least two ...
15 Jul 2021, 13:58 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Wind 91tv Germany will not add ...
15 May 2019, 12:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A Climate Action Law in Germany that spells out clear sectoral emissions reduction targets is in the interest of energy-intensive industries like steel, environment ...
German luxury and utility vehicle producer Daimler is weighing its options as it searches for the best possible engine for its heavy-duty vehicles in the future, testing potential solutions like electric engines, hydrogen, synthetic and natural gas, ...
09 Jun 2022, 13:29 Sören Amelang Transport dpa / 91tv German industry groups and other car lobby organisations have said the European Parliament’s decision to back a ban of new combustion engine cars in 2035 is a blow to climate protection ...
06 Sep 2019, 13:38 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Freja Eriksen Cost & Prices 91tv German financial aid in the fields of environment and energy is "rising ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:49 Edgar Meza Renewables Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The new CEO of Germany's largest energy company RWE, Markus Krebber, expressed hope that Germany’s next government will quickly clear hurdles currently ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:11 As German stakeholders eagerly await the European Commission’s proposals on overhauling the EU’s energy and climate policy, the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) has said new EU laws could mean that the country has to once again ...
22 Feb 2021, 12:29 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Cars Handelsblatt / Financial Times German carmaker Daimler is considering an earlier end to the combustion engine for its Mercedes brand than the currently envisaged ...
18 Sep 2020, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Der Spiegel German household power costs are moderate as a share of GDP per capita when compared to other European countries, despite being among the highest in absolute terms, an analysis by price ...
15 Sep 2020, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG energate messenger / Tagesspiegel Background The latest version of amendments to Germany’s Renewable Energy Act (EEG) includes a tougher climate goal for the electricity sector, which should ...
10 Feb 2021, 12:54 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party ...
27 Sep 2021, 14:01 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics 91tv At first sight, this election result could be interpreted as a defeat for climate action because both the Green Party and the Left Party, which have the most convincing answers ...
30 Nov 2021, 10:50 The three "traffic light coalition" parties have agreed to form Germany's next government and tabled a coalition treaty that they promise will put the country on a path compatible with Paris Climate Agreement 's ...
25 Aug 2020, 13:26 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG ...
20 Jan 2020, 13:34 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Coal Handelsblatt Germany ...
29 May 2019, 12:15 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 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
21 Jul 2020, 13:34 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Wind Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German energy company Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) is running trials of a floating wind turbine ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:49 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Gas International Handelsblatt Tumbling prices for liquefied natural gas (LNG) due to the coronavirus pandemic are worsening conditions for planned gas import terminals in Germany, Klaus Stratmann ...
22 May 2019, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Grid Cars Utilities E.ON / Tagesspiegel Background E.ON's distribution grids in Germany will be able to support a complete switch to electric ...
28 Apr 2021, 13:15 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die ...
23 Apr 2021, 12:53 Sören Amelang Transport Industry Handelsblatt / Financial Times In contrast to a growing number of truckmakers, car parts supplier Bosch bets heavily on hydrogen fuel cell trucks, reports Martin Buchenau in Handelsblatt. The company ...
04 Dec 2020, 13:29 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Cost & Prices Utilities Digitalisation WirtschaftsWoche Energy company E.ON is teaming up with software company SAP to digitalise its power grid ...
01 Dec 2020, 14:13 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 EU In an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau, Green Party colleagues Lisa Badum, a member of the German parliament, and ...
18 Jun 2020, 15:16 Solar Wind 91tv / Handelsblatt Germany’s parliament is preparing to pass regulation about the minimum distance of wind turbines and support payments for solar power, resolving two major points of contention that have nagged ...
The German government should quickly narrow down its mid-century greenhouse gas reduction goal because energy policy decisions in the here and now depend on it, said German Energy Agency (dena) head Andreas Kuhlmann. “My recommendation to the government ...
27 Nov 2019, 14:08 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Renewable Energies Agency ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:45 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv The EU can meet its 2030 climate targets and even ratchet up its commitments in time for the 2020 UN climate summit, writes energy transition think tank Agora Energiewende* in a ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Transport Cars Welt Online The EU Commission has criticised the German government for not making sufficient progress on setting up a countrywide network of service stations offering charging ...
09 Mar 2021, 13:20 Kerstine Appunn Cars Business & Jobs Süddeutsche Zeitung In setting ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gases, the European Union and its member states should be careful not to forget about the impact this has on the bloc’s ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:30 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables 91tv The share of ...
22 Sep 2020, 10:30 As the coronavirus crisis drives many governments across the globe to introduce emergency plans to cushion the immediate economic effects, there are growing calls to align any mid and long-term stimulus efforts with climate targets. ...
26 Feb 2021, 12:17 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Citizens' energy Energiewende 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background German citizens want to participate in the energy ...
15 Jul 2021, 09:30 The German environment ministry has called new EU proposals to reform the bloc's climate and energy policy “nothing less than a new industrial revolution in the European Union.” The European Commission's comprehensive proposal ...
30 Aug 2019, 14:12 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany's ...
01 Feb 2021, 13:47 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Handelsblatt The German industry is confident that the goal of achieving ...
23 Mar 2020, 14:01 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility Institut für Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilität Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Freja Eriksen Renewables Policy 91tv Up to 100 projects in the field ...
09 Sep 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Green stimulus 91tv The German government is examining additional options for supporting the country's car industry amid the twin challenges of a COVID-19 related drop in sales and the ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:51 The German government has refused to sign on to a COP26 climate summit declaration on zero emissions cars and vans because the transport and environment ministries could not agree on whether to include e-fuels in the country’s ...
29 Jul 2019, 13:39 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Storage 91tv The production of so-called power-to-x fuels must be regulated in ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Technology Die Welt Leading German aircraft engine manufacturer MTU Aero Engines does not expect electric aviation with large commercial airplanes to become reality anytime soon, Gerhard Hegmann writes for ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:18 The German government overall has done a good job in maintaining energy supply security in the country in the turbulent year 2022, but risks to the energy system's stability persist also in 2023, says Andreas Kuhlmann, head of the ...
29 Jan 2020, 14:09 Freja Eriksen Grid 91tv Corrects position of Felix Matthes, who is research coordinator at the Institute for Applied Ecology, not the institute's head. Power grid expansion is set to become the German energy transition ...
14 Apr 2021, 15:02 Sören Amelang Policy Elections & Politics 91tv Germany's pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) plans to enter the election campaign with a pledge to extend emissions trading as the main tool for fighting climate ...
14 Jan 2020, 10:06 Germany's shift to electric mobility looks set to get underway in earnest in 2020, and the country's mighty carmakers look ahead with trepidation to what promises to be a tremendous effort for the industry. Against the ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Gas Freight 91tv A maritime energy transition in line with the Paris Climate Agreement is only possible with the help of liquefied natural gas (LNG), says the Maritime LNG Platform in a press release. LNG ...
28 Oct 2021, 13:37 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas 91tv / EurActiv Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Olaf Scholz (SPD) has re-iterated that the country must build new gas-fired power plants to complement renewables and guarantee ...
13 Jul 2023, 13:40 Oil majors BP and TotalEnergies pledged to pay a combined 12.6 billion euros for the right to build wind farms in the North and Baltic seas in the world’s largest ever offshore wind auction. Environmentalists hailed the result as a ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv Germany can remain a leading market and innovator in mobility and car production also after the shift to electric vehicles – but this will be a “herculean task” and corresponding policies ...
12 Dec 2019, 16:06 The European Union’s new executive has presented its highly anticipated Green Deal to tackle climate change. The policy package commits the EU to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. The 91tv presents reactions to the ...
23 Feb 2025, 20:20 Germany's coalition government collapsed in November 2024 due to internal disputes over budget and economic policy. The country now gears up for snap elections in early 2025, against the backdrop of a flagging economy, the war in ...
16 Dec 2019, 12:00 The UN climate summit COP25 in Spain is the last meeting of its kind before countries around the world are supposed to step up their ambitions under the Paris Climate Agreement in 2020. Germany has made several key climate action ...
04 Nov 2020, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Opposition parties in Germany have criticised energy minister Peter Altmaier for insisting that the country will consume less electricity in 2030 than it does today, ...
01 Mar 2021, 14:33 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Cities 91tv Climate activists have protested at a coal-fired heating plant in Hamburg that could be converted to use imported wood as a fuel due to the coal-phase out plans of Germany's second ...
26 Feb 2021, 12:14 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry ...
07 Dec 2021, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Elections & Politics 91tv Designated German climate and economy minister Robeck Habeck has said that faster construction of new wind turbines and solar panels will be a “core task” for his ...
12 Apr 2022, 09:53 Russia’s attack on Ukraine has added a new dimension to Germany’s ambitious aims for ramping up the share of renewables in its energy system. Marking a “ historic turning point,” the fast elimination of fossil fuel imports for Germany ...
14 Oct 2019, 13:28 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Gas Finance EurActiv / ...
17 Dec 2020, 14:20 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv The German parliament has passed the latest reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), which specifies a timeline of tenders for renewable power installation additions until ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:25 Expert German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation Stiftung Offshore-Windenergie Renewables Freja Eriksen Renewables Wind 91tv / dpa / Focus Online Germany's northern states and federal government want to nearly triple the ...
17 May 2021, 12:31 Edgar Meza Transport Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel As Germany’s election year campaigning heats up, political leaders hoping to succeed chancellor Angela Merkel are taking aim at cheap flights and domestic air travel as they ...
11 Jul 2019, 13:33 The shift to a low-carbon future is turning the economy inside out. Policy has a crucial role to play, but ultimately it is businesses that will make the energy transition happen. In Energiewende home country Germany, many start-ups are ...
20 Sep 2019, 10:12 Today, the grand coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) aim to agree on a major policy package to bring Germany back on track to reaching the international ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security WirtschaftsWoche Russia is defying threats from the U.S. over the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, making plans to finish the German-Russian project despite American pressure on companies working ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:08 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv German Chancellor Angela Merkel said reaching the country's climate targets in the transport sector will be a great challenge for the car industry and the government. Reducing ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:23 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert bne- Association of Energy ...
02 Aug 2021, 12:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out International Die Welt Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power means that it must replace the energy source with climate-harmful coal and gas, the executive director of state-owned French ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:22 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 dpa / Handelsblatt Germany's Green Party is proposing a plan to make the country's energy-intensive industries like steel and cement more climate-friendly, using a comprehensive package of ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:37 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – ...
18 Oct 2021, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv / RND Industry representatives in Germany have largely welcomed the ideas proposed by the possible next government coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and ...
09 Mar 2022, 13:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Security 91tv The pivot away from Russian energy imports will require Germany to double down on its energy transition efforts and apply a speed similar to that of Tesla with its new ...
24 Nov 2020, 13:21 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology 91tv Wind power production in Germany could be ...
18 Nov 2020, 13:43 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Green stimulus 91tv Corona stimulus packages in G20 countries are set to delay climate action, according to a report published by Climate Transparency, an international partnership ...
10 May 2019, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Start-ups 91tv German E-car start-up e.GO has started to deliver its compact car model e.GO Life in a bid to stir up the country’s automotive industry with its low-price electric vehicle. The company ...
16 Oct 2020, 13:44 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Cars Clean Energy ...
29 Nov 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv Global climate action and environmental protection can only work with an active Russian engagement, Germany's development minister Gerd Müller said at the German ...
08 Feb 2021, 13:27 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics ZEIT online / Tagesspiegel The German Social Democrats (SPD) want to put ...
25 Sep 2020, 13:34 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Sören Amelang Cars 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Wall Street Journal The German car industry has criticised California's decision to ban ...
04 Aug 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Süddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt / Zeit / FAZ German media commentators have taken a closer look at the Green Party’s climate action emergency programme for the first 100 ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:14 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 Climate & CO2 ...
30 Jul 2020, 13:34 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Gas Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / 91tv The companies involved in the controversial Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project, which connects Germany with Russia via the ...
24 Feb 2020, 13:59 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Euractiv / Tagesschau / Watson The Green Party surged into second place in the Hamburg regional elections this weekend, doubling its share of the vote after a campaign in which ...
23 Jun 2023, 11:00 The role of nuclear power within Europe’s energy transition is a clear point of contention between Paris and Berlin. However, there is much more agreement between the EU’s two largest powers on major strategic priorities, including the ...
16 Aug 2019, 10:00 Voters in the eastern German states of Saxony and Brandenburg head to the polls on 1 September for crucial state elections. The results could have an outsized impact on German climate policy for three reasons. First, these states are ...
12 Feb 2020, 13:27 Sören Amelang Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Long-term company contracts for the supply of renewable energy – also called corporate green power purchase agreements (PPAs) – are already often cheaper than conventional ...
17 Mar 2021, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics n-tv A group of 29 MPs of Germany's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) has proposed a radical makeover of Germany's system of taxes, levies and surcharges on ...
19 Dec 2022, 13:52 Filling gas storages in 2023 might not be as easy as this past year in the absence of Russian pipeline gas, and Europe should focus on energy saving and finding ways to increase especially LNG supply to address the global shortage next ...
30 Aug 2024, 12:42 Three eastern German states will elect a new government in September 2024, marking a potentially pivotal moment in the post-reunification history of the country and for the future of its climate and energy transition policies. The ...
13 Dec 2023, 14:38 Germany will earmark billions of euros less for climate and transformation projects every year until 2027 in order to make the government budget comply with constitutionally enshrined limits on borrowing. One month after a seminal ...
14 Oct 2020, 15:14 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal ...
14 Oct 2020, 15:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv Most people in Germany regard the mobility sector as a great threat to the country's climate targets and call for measures to reduce the impact of transport on greenhouse gas ...
02 May 2023, 13:39 Internationally agreed targets to expand renewable energies and increase energy efficiency are needed to put the global economy back on a path towards limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5°C, Germany's foreign minister ...
02 Jun 2021, 13:21 Voters in the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt will head to the ballot box on 6 June to elect a new state government. Home to one of Germany’s three main coal mining regions, the state is dealing with the transition away from lignite ...
20 May 2019, 13:12 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Policy Hamburger Abendblatt / 91tv The idea by socialist EU Commission ...
29 Nov 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The premiers of Germany's five northern coastal states demand a renegotiation of the controversial 1,000-metre minimum distance rule from residential areas for onshore wind turbines included ...
17 Apr 2020, 13:45 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Clean Energy ...
28 Aug 2020, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv Germany has made decisive steps in regards to the climate challenge in past years, but efforts have to increase, Chancellor Angela Merkel told journalists ...
18 Dec 2020, 14:35 Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Transport Germany is to increase the greenhouse gas reduction quota for transport fuels from currently six to 22 percent in 2030, an environment ministry bill which has been approved by the other ministries ...
16 Dec 2019, 10:24 Germany will miss its climate targets without leaps in technological innovation, even taking into account the recently agreed climate package, says Georg Nüßlein, deputy parliamentary group head of chancellor Angela Merkel’s ...
21 Jun 2023, 09:00 The governments of China and Germany have agreed to introduce a “Climate and Transformation Dialogue” to speed up their transition towards a more climate friendly economy. Fighting climate change remained a main concern for the two ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal The state premier of Germany's most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Armin Laschet, has called for a "week of decisions" regarding the country's planned coal phase-out, ...
24 Mar 2022, 14:07 Vladimir Putin’s announcement to only accept payment in roubles for gas deliveries to Europe has rattled Germany’s energy industry and sent natural gas prices soaring. Economy minister Robert Habeck called Russia’s move a “breach of ...
27 May 2022, 13:31 The Group of Seven western industrialised states (G7) has committed to making their electricity systems “predominantly” carbon-free by 2035, but stopped short of setting a concrete date for exiting coal. Following their meeting in ...
The conservative alliance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU and its Bavarian sister party CSU has pledged to stick to the country’s national climate targets, including the long fought-over Climate Action Plan 2050. The two parties’ joint programme ...
The conservative alliance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU and its Bavarian sister party CSU has pledged to stick to the country’s national climate targets, including the long fought-over Climate Action Plan 2050. The two parties’ joint programme ...
29 Apr 2020, 13:49 Government help for Germany’s green start-ups is vital to overcome the economic crisis while also fighting climate change, a new survey of the lively sector showed. Current policies do not do enough to honour the "double dividend ...
03 Sep 2020, 13:49 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 Julian Wettengel ...
07 Sep 2020, 13:58 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Cars t-online / Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / dpa / 91tv Labour unions and political parties in ...
14 Jun 2023, 13:45 Exceeding the 1.5°C temperature limit of the Paris Climate Agreement would jeopardise the prospect of living in security and prosperity in Germany and globally, says Germany’s first-ever National Security Strategy. In the document, the ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:43 The new chapter of the 6th report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) focuses on mitigating climate change effects. Commentators from Germany regard the report as “a clear call to society and policymakers for ...
05 Nov 2019, 13:49 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv The buyer's ...
15 Oct 2021, 14:29 Three weeks after Germany’s election, the country is moving one step closer towards its first three-party government coalition. Following several days of intensive preliminary talks, the Social Democrats, the Green Party and the Free ...
07 Oct 2022, 13:32 The state election in Lower Saxony on 9 October is the first major vote in the country since the energy crisis fueled by Russia's war has started to take a toll on the German economy. The ballot in the state that hosts most of ...
11 Jun 2021, 12:54 Green delegates are pushing for more ambitious climate policies in the party's election manifesto to be finalised at a party congress over the weekend, as the party seeks to stem a recent slide in the polls. Against the backdrop of ...
28 Jun 2022, 17:16 G7 leaders have finished their three-day meeting in the Bavarian Alps with a commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, even as they agreed that public funding could be necessary for some fossil gas projects to reduce dependence on ...
17 May 2021, 09:59 Germany’s target of achieving greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045 has a very important sub-goal: The expansion of renewable energy capacity to provide green power for transport, heating and making hydrogen. But running such an integrated ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:00 Voters in the EU will head to the polls in June 2024 to elect the next European Parliament, kicking off a months-long process to pick the bloc’s new leadership that will shape climate policy until the end of the decade. It will face the ...
06 Nov 2019, 09:11 Energy and climate policy observers grade Angela Merkel's government 3.7 points out of 10 for climate efforts in a mid-term review. Industry experts, researchers and lobbyists say plans for a CO2 price in transport and heating ...
11 Mar 2022, 13:03 As president Vladimir Putin continues to wage war in Ukraine and the U.S. is preparing to ban all oil imports from Russia, calls are getting louder for Germany and Europe to follow Washington’s lead. European countries are paying ...
20 Oct 2022, 14:27 The German government has said it increased public climate finance for developing and emerging countries to 5.34 billion euros last year, meaning the country is on track towards reaching its target of 6 billion euros by 2025. Together ...
15 Oct 2020, 13:42 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 Oct 2020, 13:25 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband ...
29 Apr 2021, 12:30 With its Climate Action Law and the Climate Action Programme 2030, Germany's government coalition has presented a far-reaching climate strategy that is aimed at putting the country on track towards reaching its climate targets. The ...
29 Sep 2022, 17:37 The German government has agreed on a relief package worth up to 200 billion euros to fight soaring energy prices. “Prices must go down – that’s our conviction, and the government will do anything to achieve that,” said chancellor Olaf ...
21 Sep 2022, 13:02 Gas importer Uniper will be put under control of the German state after the company has accrued crushing losses over the past months due to skyrocketing gas prices resulting from Russia’s war on Ukraine. The German government provides ...
27 Jun 2019, 10:20 Germany’s engineering prowess and excellent support programmes have spawned a world-leading scene of start-ups dedicated to pushing the energy transition with innovative ideas, according to start-up expert Klaus Fichter. There are ...
26 Jun 2019, 12:45 Renewable energy sources delivered a fresh record in Germany in the first half of 2019 with a share of 44 percent in electricity consumption as stormy weather boosted wind power production on land and at sea, utility association BDEW ...
15 Nov 2023, 13:53 A ruling by Germany’s highest court on the government’s budget planning has declared the current funding mechanism for tens of billions of euros in climate policies is unconstitutional. The judges ruled that chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ...
18 Mar 2022, 14:48 The new German three-party coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz had started its term at the end of last year with optimism to launch a vigorous climate action programme after two difficult years in a pandemic. But the “traffic light ...
28 Apr 2020, 18:30 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she welcomes the proposal by the European Commission to raise the bloc’s greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030 to between 50 and 55 percent. In her speech at the 11th Petersberg Climate ...
23 Jun 2023, 10:00 As the two largest economies in the European Union, France and Germany, for at least a decade have acted as the bloc’s key drivers of more ambitious climate action. A glaring gap in the two countries’ energy policy has been exposed in ...
16 Feb 2023, 13:59 The world’s top management consultancies, who for decades have advised the biggest polluters, are now piling into the business of helping companies cut emissions to become more sustainable. They are retraining staff, poaching ...
18 Jan 2021, 13:57 Armin Laschet has been elected the new leader of Germany's largest party, the Christian Democrats (CDU), clearing a major hurdle on what could be his way to becoming next German Chancellor. The premier of Germany's largest ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:07 Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel has reassured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Germany would do everything to ensure Ukraine remains a gas transit state even after the completion of the contentious Nord Stream 2 pipeline. ...
05 Apr 2019, 09:08 German e-car pioneer Günther Schuh, who runs the e-car startup e.GO Mobile and spearheaded the development of the electric delivery van StreetScooter now used by Deutsche Post DHL, has set his sights on conquering the air. Schuh, ...
13 Jun 2016
13 Jun 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Don’t miss the transition” Renewable energies have become so cheap that many countries have started an Energiewende, only for Germany to hit the brakes with its ...
12 Jul 2021, 12:20 Germany's upcoming general election adds fuel to the debate about whether combustion engines have a future in the birth country of the automobile and whether a general speed limit should be introduced on its famed autobahns. Given ...
12 Jul 2023, 14:02 Differing views on the place of nuclear power in Europe have dominated public perceptions of energy policy cooperation between France and Germany for years. Given the urgent need to agree on European energy policy strategies in light of ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:40 Higher energy efficiency, a "paradigm shift" in the circular economy, innovative production processes, as well as carbon capture and usage or storage could make Germany's industry CO2-neutral by 2050, but the government& ...
18 Apr 2018, 00:00 German ministers and European Commissioners will be among those explaining why an energy transition is a good idea for the world, at the fourth Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue on 17-18 April 2018. The 91tv will give a ...
16 Sep 2020, 12:50 German industry, politicians and environmental NGOs have criticised first details of the European Commission proposal for a more ambitious 2030 climate target. Plans for more stringent passenger car emission rules and the inclusion of ...
17 Mar 2023, 14:25 A year after the launch of Russia's attack on Ukraine, Germany appears to be emerging from the energy crisis relatively unscathed. Russia’s war has dealt a heavy blow to Europe’s biggest economy, because it was particularly ...
28 Aug 2020, 10:02 German coal regions will finally be able to use state support funds from the landmark phase-out agreement to help with their transition away from the fossil fuel. Federal and state governments signed a deal in Berlin to make official ...
15 Jun 2022, 15:01 German states will have to actively look for areas that can be designated for wind farm construction in order to meet government targets. The cabinet is forwarding another set of draft laws aimed at accelerating the country’s energy ...
10 Feb 2022, 09:25 Germany aims to strengthen its climate foreign policy with the appointment of Greenpeace International head Jennifer Morgan as special envoy. The new “face of Germany’s international climate policy” will expand partnerships with other ...
07 Dec 2020, 09:46 Germans should not expect a lot of climate policy decisions next year, as the debates will be firmly in the grip of the national and state election campaigns, says Brigitte Knopf, secretary general of the Mercator Research Institute on ...
01 Oct 2015
01 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW)/Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) “Wind power generation 2015 already exceeds last year’s level” Thanks to strong winds and the addition ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:10 With its third energy cost relief package since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the German government hopes to alleviate concerns over skyrocketing prices for heating and electricity in the coming winter. The large package worth ...
31 Aug 2021, 11:38 Ahead of Germany’s September federal election, almost all parties in parliament are calling for climate policies that quickly and lastingly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The country’s plans to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 ...
04 Feb 2021, 11:15 Germany will increase the share of renewable energies in its transport sector to 28 percent by 2030, the government cabinet decided today, agreeing on draft legislation proposed by the environment ministry. The greenhouse-gas reduction ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:34 On its planned path to climate-neutrality by the middle of the century, Germany could achieve complete decarbonisation of its power sector already by 2040 – and EU climate targets might even compel the country to greatly speed up the ...
23 Mar 2022, 15:41 A sudden stop of energy imports from Russia would threaten "hundreds of thousands of jobs" and push Europe's economy into recession, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned. He said Germany will end its energy dependence as ...
07 Jul 2022, 14:21 Germany's ruling parties have dropped the target of “near 100 percent renewables” in the power grid by 2035 but agreed on more favourable conditions for solar PV and strict wind power expansion targets for laggard states in their ...
28 Jun 2022, 15:11 Civil society groups and others have largely reacted with criticism of the German presidency's role in furthering climate action within the G7 group of influential economies. With the energy crisis caused by Russia's invasion ...
03 Nov 2020, 15:03 Governments in Germany and elsewhere in Europe are wary of the impact the US election could have on international climate action cooperation. While a win by incumbent President Donald Trump would likely exacerbate existing disputes on ...
07 Feb 2024, 10:30 The European Commission has recommended that the bloc reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040, saying the EU's Green Deal now needs to become an "industrial decarbonisation deal." Politicians from member ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said his government would pave the way for prolonging the runtime of all three of Germany’s remaining reactors until April 2023. The German leader thus intervened to settle a dispute about the delayed end of ...
