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  • 19 Sep 2024 |

    EU's net-zero emissions plans shift focus to carbon management solutions

    Role of CCS, CCU and negative emissions in Europe's quest for climate neutrality by 2050 19 Sep 2024, 11:44 As the European Union's aim to reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050 begins to be filled with concrete measures, the bloc has begun to ...
  • Germany gets serious about decarbonising its prized heavy industry

    17 Jun 2020, 11:28 In its pursuit of climate-neutrality by mid-century, Germany has set its sights on extending the energy transition to its famed heavy industry. Sectors such as steel, cement and chemicals are some of the Energiewende's toughest ...
  • Vote25: 2030 climate and energy targets hinge on next German government

    Collapse of Scholz's coalition leaves unfinished policy business 23 Feb 2025, 21:00 The collapse of chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition government led to snap elections in Germany in early 2025. Climate and energy policy played a major role in ...
  • 03 Feb 2020 |

    Preview 2020: Germany’s targets under scrutiny in year of global climate action

    03 Feb 2020, 14:53 2020 will be a year of global climate action as countries are called upon to ratchet up ambitions under the Paris Agreement. The shaky German government will be in the midst of what many hope to be a European diplomatic effort to ...
  • 16 Dec 2016 |

    Green pioneer Germany struggles to make climate protection a reality

    The energy transition and climate change 16 Dec 2016, 00:00 As the home country of the Energiewende, Germany is considered a pioneer in the fight against man-made climate change. But despite a spectacular rise in power generation from renewables, the ...
  • German industry embraces Energiewende transformation challenge

    The energy transition's effects on the economy 20 Apr 2018, 00:00 After balking at the Energiewende for many years, German industry has made a notable shift- embracing the energy transition with a new fervour. To be sure, efforts to curb climate ...
  • EEG 2.0 – A new legal framework for the German energy transition

    Germany revamps renewables law as it adapts to future with green power 01 Aug 2014, 00:00 Germany’s energy market is bracing for the most far-reaching legislative changes since green power incentives were introduced a quarter of a century ago. The ...
  • 06 Aug 2015 |

    Energiewende effects on power prices, costs and industry

    German industry and its competitive edge in times of the Energiewende 06 Aug 2015, 00:00 Industrial competitiveness in times of an energy transition: few issues have been watched as closely as this. So far, German manufacturers have kept their competitive ...
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  • 10 Dec 2024 |

    Germany's steel industry “of geopolitical importance”, will receive subsidies – Scholz

    10 Dec 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung The steel industry is “of geopolitical importance” for German industry and will therefore receive assistance from the government in mastering its ...
  • 24 Feb 2020 |

    German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp funded climate sceptic – report

    24 Feb 2020, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Industry AFP / RP Online / taz German industrial giant ThyssenKrupp was one of several companies that funded influential Dutch climate change sceptic Frits Böttcher, according to a major new ...
  • German steelmaker thyssenkrupp aims to be climate neutral by 2050

    03 Jul 2019, 14:05 Freja Eriksen Hydrogen Business & Jobs Technology 91tv Germany’s largest steelmaker thyssenkrupp has set itself the target of cutting its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. “Thyssenkrupp aims to be climate ...
  • 30 Aug 2021 |

    Thyssenkrupp Steel under increasing pressure to go green

    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 ...
  • Thyssenkrupp tests use of hydrogen in steel production to bring down emissions

    12 Nov 2019, 12:47 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Business & Jobs Technology 91tv Germany’s largest steelmaker thyssenkrupp has launched a series of tests into the use of hydrogen in a working blast furnace aimed at reducing CO2 emissions ...
  • Thyssenkrupp green steel doubts put Germany's hydrogen network at risk – grid operator

    18 Oct 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Grid Industry Hydrogen Technology Policy Handelsblatt Doubts over Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe’s (TKSE) strategy to decarbonise using hydrogen puts Germany’s plans for the construction of a hydrogen core grid at risk, gas grid ...
  • 23 Apr 2024 |

    German industry aims high with green steel definition and sustainable cement production

    23 Apr 2024, 14:16 Two new projects for the climate-friendly production of steel and cement illustrate the ambition of Germany’s industry to meet sustainability targets without ceding market share to foreign competitors. Economy minister, Robert Habeck, ...
  • 26 Jan 2021 |

    Industrialist Gupta aims to acquire Thyssen-Krupp's steel business and make it climate-friendly

    26 Jan 2021, 12:06 Edgar Meza Industry Handelsblatt Industrialist Sanjeev Gupta, the only bidder for German conglomerate Thyssen-Krupp's loss-making steel business, plans to convert the mills to produce green steel if he’s successful, reports German ...
  • 28 Jun 2016 |

    “Thyssen-Krupp wants to use steel mill gases as a resource”

    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 Oct 2021 |

    thyssenkrupp Steel unveils climate-friendlier production process

    07 Oct 2021, 13:46 Edgar Meza Industry In its efforts to slash CO2 emissions in steel production, thyssenkrupp Steel has announced what it describes as a milestone on its path to climate-neutral steel – its new bluemint Steel brand, produced with less ...
  • 31 May 2024 |

    Steelmaker ArcelorMittal to receive €1.3 bln in subsidies for green transformation of German sites

    31 May 2024, 12:54 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv / dpa / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's economy minister has awarded steelmaker ArcelorMittal 1.3 billion euros to drive the decarbonisation of its production sites in the states of ...
  • 30 Aug 2017 |

    “E-cars need a lot of steel, too”

    The auto sector will remain one of the steel industry's biggest customers, because the switch to e-mobility demands large quantities of steel for component parts, charging stations, power grids and power stations, Helmut Bünder writes for Frankfurter ...
  • 21 Sep 2018 |

    German steel firm starts world’s first carbon-to-methanol production from steel mill gases

    German steel company thyssenkrupp has started production of the synthetic fuel methanol from CO₂ and other emissions in steel production, the company says in a press release. The fuel production from side products of steel smelting is part of the so ...
  • 12 Apr 2024 |

    Energy costs, regulation see drastic steel output reduction at German factory – Thyssenkrupp

    12 Apr 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices WDR Steelmaker Thyssenkrupp has announced a substantial production reduction at its site in Duisburg in western Germany, a step that will also lead to job cuts for its roughly 13,000 ...
  • 09 Dec 2024

    In brief | 9 December '24

    09 Dec 2024, 13:40 91tv Team Reuters: Germany's Scholz not ruling out Berlin taking stake in Thyssenkrupp steel Chancellor meets top representatives of ailing steel sector to discuss high energy prices, cheap competition and shift to decarbonisation. ...
  • 17 Sep 2024 |

    German steel industry calls for cheaper electricity, hydrogen, lead markets for green transition

    17 Sep 2024, 13:59 Jack McGovan Industry 91tv / Handelsblatt Germany's steel-producing states and industry associations have called on the federal government to introduce measures for competitive energy prices, to ramp-up the hydrogen ...
  • 28 Oct 2020 |

    German science ministry ups support for CO2 conversion in industry

    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 ...
  • 28 Aug 2020 |

    German economy minister says willing to support climate-friendly steel production

    28 Aug 2020, 13:22 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 91tv 91tv ...
  • 21 Jul 2023 |

    EU Commission approves funding for largest industry decarbonisation project in Germany so far

    21 Jul 2023, 13:58 Jack McGovan Industry EU 91tv / Die Welt Germany’s largest industry decarbonisation project to date has been approved for funding by the EU Commission,  according to  the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate ...
  • 22 Jan 2019 |

    Thyssenkrupp to switch to hydrogen-based steel production by 2050

    22 Jan 2019, 13:33 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Technology Handelsblatt German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp plans to phase out CO₂-intensive coke-based steel production and replace it with a hydrogen-based process by 2050, ...
  • 10 Feb 2020 |

    Germany's steel industry needs political support to cope with CO2-reduction – opinion

    10 Feb 2020, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt The German steel industry accounts for about one third of the country's total industry emissions, meaning that becoming carbon-neutral by 2050 comes with particular challenges to the ...
  • 01 Jul 2020 |

    Hydrogen alliance between E.ON and Thyssenkrupp announced

    01 Jul 2020, 13:18 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine ...
  • 17 Dec 2020 |

    Germany backs major international green hydrogen project in Saudi-Arabia

    17 Dec 2020, 13:53 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen ...
  • 04 Apr 2025 |

    German energy and industry sectors worried about “destructive US trade policy”

    04 Apr 2025, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Industry International energate messenger / Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv German energy and industry representatives have expressed concern over the new tariff announcements by US president Donald Trump, ...
  • 07 Nov 2022 |

    Egypt’s green hydrogen plans met with keen interest by German industry

    07 Nov 2022, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen COP27 WirtschaftsWoche Plans by Egypt’s government and other governments in the region to make northern Africa and the Middle East (MENA) a major exporter of green hydrogen raise hopes within the German ...
  • 12 Jul 2017 |

    innogy CEO starts pro-Europe initiative

    Peter Terium, CEO of German renewable energies company innogy, started a pro-EU initiative, ‘We4Europe’, and calls for unified energy policy in an interview with Handelsblatt. “Europe is the foundation on which we build our business” and it was in innogy ...
  • 07 Sep 2017 |

    Thyssenkrupp bets on e-cars – and warns the Greens”

    German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp’s CEO Heinrich Hiesinger said that a strict combustion engine ban could cost the auto industry a lot of money because of the long-term planning of affected companies, writes Carsten Dierig for Welt Online. “The immediate ...
  • 12 Jun 2024 |

    German managers no longer consider green transformation a top priority – survey

    12 Jun 2024, 13:22 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Sustainability issues have slid down the list of German managers’ priorities, a poll by business consultancy Horvath has revealed,  reports  newspaper Handelsblatt. The green transformation ...
  • 26 Feb 2024 |

    EU approves German subsidies for ArcelorMittal green steel plans

    26 Feb 2024, 13:30 Sören Amelang Industry Hydrogen 91tv The European Commission has approved 1.3 billion euros of German state aid to help multinational steelmaker ArcelorMittal make its operations in the country more climate-friendly. The ...
  • 15 Jan 2016

    Renewables a 'massive opportunity' / More investment into efficiency

    15 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau “Full wind speed ahead” The reason why payments for renewables have increased to 24.1 billion euros in 2015 is to be found in their success, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in a Q ...
  • “New company alliance wants to produce battery cells in Germany”

    A consortium of German companies has made a fresh attempt to establish battery cell production in the country, Alfons Frese writes in Tagesspiegel. Plant manufacturers Thyssen-Krupp, M+W and Manz have teamed up with cell producers Litarion, ...
  • 12 May 2017 |

    “Save the world, a little bit”

    Think tank Agora Energiewende* will present proposals to take better account of industry needs in the German energy transition, Angela Hennersdorf and Christian Schlesiger write in WirtschaftsWoche. In its "Charter for Energiewende Industrial Policy ...
  • 14 Jan 2022 |

    German steelmaker Salzgitter says it will stop using blast furnaces by mid-2030s

    14 Jan 2022, 13:36 Sören Amelang Industry Hydrogen Reuters / Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German steelmaker Salzgitter wants to shift its entire steel production from blast furnaces to low-emission technologies by the middle of the next ...
  • 12 Sep 2018 |

    German heavy industry powerhouse NRW launches initiative to curb industry emissions

    The German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), the country’s most populous state and home to numerous emissions-intensive heavy industries, has launched an initiative to examine options for bringing down industry’s carbon footprint, the NRW ...
  • 08 Dec 2022 |

    Germany launches first auction for green hydrogen imports

    08 Dec 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The German government has launched a 900-million-euro auction scheme for green hydrogen imports. The idea of the so-called H2 Global mechanism is to procure the fuel on the world market and ...
  • 18 May 2017

    “A pact between government and industry on clean energy policy and industry policy”

    In its “Future Pact Energiewende Industrial Policy”, think tank Agora Energiewende and consultancy Roland Berger have presented proposals on how to reconcile the competitiveness of the country’s industry with Germany’s energy transition after the federal ...
  • 04 Nov 2021 |

    German big business CEOs say they expect reaching CO2 neutrality in 14 years

    04 Nov 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Business Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany’s leading business executives are taking climate and environmental protection increasingly serious, according to a survey presented at the COP26 climate ...
  • 08 Feb 2019 |

    Rebates save German industry eight billion euros in power costs in 2017

    08 Feb 2019, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices Spiegel Online Preferential treatment of energy-intensive industries in Germany  cost households and non-privileged companies up to eight billion euros in 2017, Stefan Schultz ...
  • 15 Jun 2021 |

    Germany provides €900 mio for green hydrogen ramp-up via new auction platform

    15 Jun 2021, 10:52 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The German economy ministry will support building up a market for green hydrogen with 900 million euros through the H2 Global Foundation, newly-set up by German industry players such as ...
  • 22 Apr 2021 |

    Industry representatives deem hydrogen scale-up most important energy policy task

    22 Apr 2021, 13:30 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Corporate decision makers in Germany have voted hydrogen technologies as the most important field of action for energy ...
  • 06 Jun 2023 |

    Iron and steel plants top NGO’s “dirty thirty” list of most polluting industry facilities in Germany

    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 ...
  • 05 Nov 2021 |

    NGOs call on German corporations to invest more in climate protection

    05 Nov 2021, 12:21 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs COP26 91tv Instead of distributing increasing amounts of their profits to shareholders, publicly-listed German corporations should invest more in climate protection, development and aid NGO ...
  • 04 Oct 2021 |

    Climate action proponents cry foul at CO2 hedging by major emitters

    04 Oct 2021, 12:21 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices EU Handelsblatt Some of Germany’s biggest CO2 emitters have taken advantage of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) to ensure their own emissions remain low-priced, according to a Handelsblatt report by ...
  • 05 Feb 2020 |

    Green hydrogen “elixir of life” of future-proof steel industry – env min

    05 Feb 2020, 13:20 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Industry Clean ...
  • 05 Aug 2021 |

    German corporate decision-makers support using blue hydrogen for some time – survey

    05 Aug 2021, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv On the path to making industry climate neutral, corporate decision-makers in Germany call for allowing the use of “blue” hydrogen made from natural gas where the CO2 is captured and stored – ...
  • 23 Jan 2019 |

    Industry leaders say can cope with coal exit in debate ahead of commission report

    23 Jan 2019, 10:55 Power prices are less of a concern for some industry sectors and coal-heavyweight RWE has long been about “much more than coal” – industry representatives offered an unusual take on the German coal exit debate in a panel discussion ...
  • 29 Apr 2020 |

    Europe’s steel industry must invest 100 billion euros for climate neutrality by 2050 – study

    29 Apr 2020, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Industry 91tv At least 100 billion euros of investments are necessary to make European steel production climate neutral by 2050, according to a study by Munich-based consultancy Roland Berger. ...
  • 27 May 2021 |

    German industry leaders call for “accelerated ramp-up” of hydrogen market

    27 May 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Handelsblatt German industry leaders expressed concerns that Germany will lose out when it comes to building a hydrogen economy, Handelsblatt reports. "It is five to twelve," Martin Brudermüller, CEO ...
  • 04 Oct 2019 |

    State premier of Saarland calls for billions in support to turn steel industry climate neutral

    04 Oct 2019, 13:42 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German steel industry should receive billions in ...
  • Hydrogen start-up Sunfire reports rising demand from cosmetics industry

    04 Apr 2019, 13:51 Sören Amelang Gas Business Hydrogen Start-ups Technology 91tv The cosmetics industry is increasingly interested in using renewable hydrogen, according to German electrolysis start-up sunfire. Hydrogen made with renewable ...
  • 31 May 2021 |

    Industry criticises lack of progress one year after approval of Germany’s hydrogen strategy

    31 May 2021, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / Handelsblatt Industry representatives have criticised that little has happened since the German government decided its hydrogen strategy one year ago, reports Marcus ...
  • 29 Jan 2019 |

    German wind industry worries about public resistance as installations slump

    29 Jan 2019, 15:02 Following a sharp drop in new onshore wind power installations in Germany in 2018, the industry warns that mounting resistance against new turbines endangers a sufficient supply of renewable energy demanded by industry and national ...
  • 11 Apr 2016 |

    German steelworkers fight EU plans for emissions trading

    11 Apr 2016, 00:00 With backing from economy minister Sigmar Gabriel, thousands of German steelworkers rallied against EU reform plans for the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) on Monday. Gabriel said there must be no contradiction between climate ...
  • 07 Jul 2020 |

    E.ON calls for green gas quota and tackles hydrogen network

    07 Jul 2020, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv 91tv Grid Hydrogen 91tv German energy company E.ON has called for a green gas quota to help to reduce the share of fossil gas in the ...
  • 25 Mar 2021 |

    Must lay groundwork for climate neutrality 2050 now – German Energy Agency

    25 Mar 2021, 13:58 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany must prepare different ...
  • 17 Nov 2020 |

    New development cooperation project to lay foundations for German hydrogen imports

    17 Nov 2020, 13:53 Expert GIZ- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit German development agency International Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Handelsblatt A new project launched by Germany's development cooperation ...
  • 09 Sep 2019 |

    Major German companies back position paper calling for climate neutrality

    09 Sep 2019, 13:41 Expert Alliance for Climate and Economy Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv Germany should aim for greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050, a position paper ...
  • 25 May 2021 |

    German heavy industry demands financial support for ambitious climate goals

    25 May 2021, 13:15 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry Handelsblatt / 91tv  The German government’s goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2045 has put companies from energy-intensive industries, such as steel, chemicals, paper and cement, ...
  • 15 Jan 2020 |

    Adani coal mine row with climate activists backfires on Siemens CEO Kaeser – media commentaries

    15 Jan 2020, 14:06 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Society Handelsblatt / WirtschaftsWoche / Focus Online The row over German industrial heavyweight Siemens's involvement in the controversial Adani coal mine project in ...
  • 23 Nov 2020 |

    German steel, chemicals industry lament lack of support for net-zero transition

    23 Nov 2020, 13:41 Expert German Steel Federation Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt The German government wants to help the steel and chemical industry become ...
  • 07 Jan 2016

    How to achieve a transport Energiewende / A 'Monopile Monopoly'

    07 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau “No climate protection without an energy transition in transport” Transport is absolutely crucial to decarbonising the economy and Germany should embrace a leading role, but ...
  • Steelmaker Salzgitter expects policymakers to help fund massive decarbonisation project

    04 Apr 2019, 14:09 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Gas Hydrogen Technology 91tv German steelmaker Salzgitter has expressed confidence that policymakers will provide the support necessary to realise a large-scale hydrogen project to ...
  • 22 Feb 2021 |

    Germany still lacks business model for clean industry- think tank

    22 Feb 2021, 12:23 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Alliance for Climate and Economy Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft ...
  • 27 Jul 2020 |

    German corporations see 'enormous savings potential' in reducing business trips

    27 Jul 2020, 13:03 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Society dpa / WirtschaftsWoche / 91tv The COVID-19 pandemic is leading German companies to rethink the need for business trips and promote video conferencing instead, according to a report by ...
  • Energy-intensive companies call for 'aggressive' renewables roll-out

    29 Nov 2019, 14:00 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Sören Amelang Renewables Hydrogen ...
  • Europe vies with China for clean hydrogen superpower status

    24 Jul 2020, 10:40 The rivalry between Europe and China in emission-free hydrogen technologies could become one of the defining business stories in the global effort to stop climate change. Scarred by its painful experience in solar PV manufacturing, ...
  • 27 Nov 2024 |

    German industry reiterates call for rethink of country’s decarbonisation strategy

    27 Nov 2024, 13:15 Germany’s most powerful industry association has said the future government must reconsider the country’s strategy for becoming climate-neutral. Against the background of a sagging economy and news about mass layoffs, the head of the ...
  • 27 Oct 2015

    A world of solar power and batteries / Vattenfall phases out 1GW of lignite

    27 Oct 2015, 00:00 CORRECTION- Vattenfall's underlying operating profit was 3,388 million SEK in the third quarter of 2015, not 3,388 billion. Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Vattenfall 3rd quarter results / Two 500 MW lignite units will be ...
  • 22 Nov 2024 |

    Dispatch from Germany | November '24

    22 Nov 2024, 09:30 The collapse of Germany’s coalition government has thrown climate policymaking in Europe’s largest economy into disarray, and added many question marks to the progress of its landmark energy transition. The sacking of finance minister ...
  • 22 May 2019 |

    Can Salzgitter cut Germany's CO2 emissions with low-carbon steel project?

    22 May 2019, 11:33 Volker Hille’s passion project could cut Germany’s entire CO2 output by almost one percent. He is head of corporate technology at Salzgitter Group, one of Europe’s largest steelmakers, which currently emits around eight million tonnes ...
  • Germany launches “pioneering” subsidy system to slash industry emissions

    05 Jun 2023, 14:24 Germany is starting a novel subsidy programme worth billions of euros in a bid to make its prized heavy industry climate neutral. Following a preparatory phase beginning in early June, the country plans to introduce so-called Carbon ...
  • German industry needs policy trigger for deep emission cuts

    24 Jan 2020, 12:12 Pressure is rising fast on industry to join the great decarbonisation race. Many energy-intensive German companies, like chemical giant BASF or steelmaker thyssenkrupp, already have detailed plans for drastic emission cuts, but lack ...
  • 10 Jun 2020 |

    German hydrogen strategy aims for global leadership in energy transition

    10 Jun 2020, 16:10 Germany places a large bet on hydrogen produced using renewable energy in its highly anticipated national hydrogen strategy that serves to underpin the country's ambitions to become a global leader in the technology. The strategy ...
  • 07 Oct 2015

    In the media: Greenpeace enters race for Vattenfall's coal operations

    07 Oct 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Bloomberg Business, Greenpeace, Süddeutsche Zeitung “Greenpeace says can find cash to buy Vattenfall coal assets” Bloomberg Business reports that Greenpeace has registered its interest in buying ...
  • Global companies’ “net zero” targets amount to only 36% emissions cut – report

    13 Feb 2023, 13:45 The “net zero” climate plans of 24 of the world’s largest companies add up to emissions reductions of only 36 percent, according to a  report  by the NewClimate institute and non-profit Carbon Market Watch. The strategies of the self ...
  • 10 Dec 2018 |

    COP24 blog- Germany drops in climate performance

    10 Dec 2018, 09:03 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
  • Merkel: Need to develop a certain passion and joy for the Energiewende

    24 Apr 2017, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Germans to go beyond a rational take on the Energiewende and develop “a certain passion and joy” for the country’s generational project. Speaking at an event by her conservative CDU/CSU group in the ...
  • 23 Jul 2020 |

    EU plans 'completely change outlook' for global hydrogen economy- BloombergNEF

    23 Jul 2020, 12:30 The EU's and Germany's plans to push the use of green hydrogen to decarbonise the economy are likely to trigger a competitive race with China that will be crucial for a global breakthrough of the technology, says Kobad ...
  • Consultancies cash in on climate advice as firms race towards net zero

    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 ...
  • 08 Jul 2020 |

    EU wants to become market leader in hydrogen technologies, create 1 million jobs

    08 Jul 2020, 13:14 The European Union wants to establish itself as the world leader in hydrogen technologies and will focus on ramping up electrolyser capacities in the next four years. According to the European Commission's hydrogen strategy, the ...
  • Without innovation leaps, Germany will fail on climate action – conservative German MP

    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 ...
  • 20 Jan 2022 |

    German government push is key to kickstarting EU industry decarbonisation

    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 ...
  • 05 Apr 2016

    Industry emissions almost unchanged / Wind-powered lamps

    05 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Federal Environment Agency “Emissions trading: industry’s emissions almost unchanged in 2015” The CO₂ emissions of German energy intensive industry remained virtually unchanged for the ...
  • 27 Jul 2020 |

    Europe must take ambitious lead in green hydrogen – German govt advisor

    27 Jul 2020, 09:50 Europe's economy is well placed to benefit from the fledgling global hydrogen economy and should decisively follow through with its hydrogen strategies, says Veronika Grimm, a member of Germany's council of economic experts, ...
  • Merkel endorses proposal to raise 2030 EU emission reduction target

    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 ...
  • 03 Dec 2015 |

    COP21 Interview: Next innovation wave in economy will be “green"

    03 Dec 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty have kicked off in Paris. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The 91tv ...
  • 27 Apr 2020 |

    Germany’s top politicians, companies throw weight behind green stimulus

    27 Apr 2020, 14:17 Top politicians from Germany and more than 60 large companies have warned that the climate crisis must continue to be a top priority, even as the world economies grapple with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Ahead of this week’s ...
  • 04 Sep 2020 |

    Germany faces packed election year as voters weigh climate against pandemic recovery

    04 Sep 2020, 15:15 The era of Chancellor Angela Merkel will come to an end when Germans head to the polls next autumn after what looks set to become an unusually dramatic run-up to the federal elections. With no clear front-runner for her succession in ...
  • Germany bets on green hydrogen in quest for climate neutrality

    27 Apr 2020, 13:10 In the fight against climate change, hydrogen made with renewable electricity is increasingly seen as a silver bullet for sectors with particularly stubborn emissions, such as heavy industry and aviation. As a result, the emission-free ...
  • Q&A – Germany plans to shield industry with electricity tax breaks, subsidies

    13 Nov 2023, 11:15 Germany plans to boost the international competitiveness of its prized heavy industry by lowering electricity taxes and expanding existing subsidy schemes. The package of measures worth 12 billion euros in 2024 alone is set to end a ...
  • 30 Oct 2017 |

    COP23- See the energy transition in Germany's industrial centre

    30 Oct 2017, 00:00 Germany’s coal mining state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) hosts the United Nations’ COP23 climate summit in Bonn. The epicentre of Germany’s industrialisation, this region is responsible for almost one percent of global CO2 emissions, ...
  • 20 Mar 2020 |

    High-profile advisory group lays out proposals for Germany's sustainable finance push

    20 Mar 2020, 17:00 Germany's government has aimed to make the country the leading location for a sustainable financial system. In a bid to establish a coherent strategy for aligning public and private investments made in the country with ...
  • 91tv Network Blog
  • 29 Mar 2019 |

    A tectonic shift: 91tv on the business upheaval triggered by the energy transition

    29 Mar 2019, 15:01 Sören Amelang Business Technology Stepping up 91tv's coverage of the business upheaval triggered by the energy transition, and our upcoming Global Energy Transition Journalism conference #GETJO19, led me to reflect on ...
  • All aboard for the green economy: Can Europe perform an energy transition that leaves no one behind?

    16 Feb 2021 Berlin As Europe has set the course to become the first climate neutral continent by 2050, a profound economic transformation is picking up pace, with plenty of new opportunities but also with the risk of leaving some behind. Europe's ...
  • At the heart of the energy-intensive industry: The ThyssenKrupp steel mill in Duisburg

    Thyssen Krupp's business area 'Steel Europe' is one of the world’s leading suppliers of carbon steel flat products. With around 27,000 employees and highly efficient facilities, the company produces over 13 million tonnes of crude steel per ...
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