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  • 06 Aug 2018 |

    How Germany is greening its growing freight sector to meet climate targets

    Cargo transport and the energy transition 06 Aug 2018, 11:00 The Dieselgate scandal has put passenger car emissions in the public spotlight in Germany, but an even bigger road polluter 鈥 freight transport 鈥 remains a sideshow. Transporting goods by road, ...
  • Clean resources and recycling crucial to make energy transition truly sustainable

    More efficient use of raw materials key to renewable power system 26 May 2021, 12:53 The energy transition aims for a sustainable economy based on renewable power. But making the necessary wind turbines, solar panels, electric car batteries, and other ...
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  • 14 Aug 2020 |

    Heating remains energy transition's 'forgotten sector' 鈥 commentary

    14 Aug 2020, 14:12 Heating While renewables now account for a significant portion of electricity consumption in Germany, energy used for heating and cooling is lagging far behind,聽 Kathrin Witsch writes in Handelsblatt. About half of total energy consumed ...
  • 16 Oct 2017 |

    COP23 鈥 Heartland of coal and renewables hosts climate summit

    16 Oct 2017, 00:00 Not far from Germany's largest brown coal mine, the United Nations鈥 23rd COP climate summit will take place in Bonn. While implementing the Paris Agreement will take centre stage under the presidency of Fiji, the host country ...
  • 09 Jan 2019 |

    Utility manager takes crucial energy state secretary job in Germany's econ ministry

    09 Jan 2019, 13:53 Municipal utility chief executive Andreas Feicht will take on the role as Germany's energy state secretary on 1 February. With his appointment, economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier fills a position crucial to the progress of ...
  • 19 Jun 2023 |

    Bidders in Germany鈥檚 largest ever offshore wind auction forgo subsidies

    19 Jun 2023, 13:14 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 Investors are willing to build offshore wind farms in German waters in the Baltic and North Sea without state support, and will now even have to pay to be awarded a contract. In the ...
  • 13 Oct 2021 |

    Macron鈥檚 nuclear plans illustrate Franco-German rift in EU energy policy 鈥 op-ed

    13 Oct 2021, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The announcement by French President Emmanuel Macron to ramp up the country鈥檚 hydrogen production capacity and invest in the development of small modular nuclear ...
  • 11 Oct 2016 |

    Transport minister 鈥 Ban on combustion engines in 2030 鈥渢otally unrealistic鈥

    Germany鈥檚 transport minister Alexander Dobrindt has dismissed a Green Party proposal to ban new registrations of fossil-fuel powered cars in 2030, reports Berlin daily Tagesspiegel. 鈥淎 complete end to combustion engines from 2030 is totally unrealistic,鈥 ...
  • 14 Mar 2018 |

    Coalition watch 鈥 The making of a new German government

    14 Mar 2018, 00:00 The 2017 September election results have led to unprecedented difficulties in forming a new government in Germany. After the longest government building process in modern Germany, Angela Merkel was re-elected as chancellor of a renewed ...
  • Germany set to retire 20 GW of wind power by 2023 - Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation head

    Due to the end of their 20-year life span of guaranteed support payments, about 20 gigawatt (GW) of wind power capacity in Germany will be retired by 2023 as their operation is no longer profitable, Simone Peter, head of Germany鈥檚 Renewable 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 12 Aug 2019 |

    Germany's coal exit likely to lower industry power prices 鈥 study

    12 Aug 2019, 12:27 S枚ren Amelang Coal 麻豆无码版 Germany's coal phase-out and the continued rollout of renewables will only have "very little" impact on electricity prices, according to a study by energy think tank Agora Energiewende ...
  • 04 Dec 2018 |

    Offshore wind operators want legal basis for raised capacity target

    04 Dec 2018, 15:34 Federal Association of Offshore Wind Farm Operators The association of Germany鈥檚 offshore wind farm operators (BWO) has welcomed a government proposal to increase the country鈥檚 offshore wind power capacity from 15 to 20 gigawatt (GW) by ...
  • 30 Aug 2024 |

    Dispatch from Italy | August '24

    30 Aug 2024, 14:17 As Europe鈥檚 most intense heatwave in recent years finally comes to an end, following at least 35 days of well-above average temperatures, life in Italy has slowed into the summer break. In mid-August, the entire country grinds to a halt ...
  • 01 Aug 2016 |

    鈥淓U demands radical change of auto industry鈥

    EU Commissioner in charge of 麻豆无码版 Union Maro拧 艩ef膷ovi膷 says that the auto industry 鈥渕ust finally get moving鈥 and make considerable progress in the area of zero emission vehicles, according to an article in Die Welt. 鈥淲ith the combustion engine the ...
  • 12 Jun 2020 |

    麻豆无码版 markets recovering from corona shock, but coal faces 'toxic mix' 鈥 experts

    12 Jun 2020, 13:31 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Electricity market Tagesspiegel Background 麻豆无码版 markets have largely recovered from the聽 upheaval caused by the coronavirus, and most experts expect few lasting consequences except that coal ...
  • 16 Sep 2019 |

    German economy ministry counts on gas for energy transition

    16 Sep 2019, 17:01 Gaseous energy sources will play a "crucial role" in Germany's long-term energy supply and industrial production, with CO鈧-neutral or carbon-free gases, such as green hydrogen, being a key element, according to a draft ...
  • 17 Jan 2020 |

    Germany's carmakers will need state aid to overcome greatest disruption yet 鈥 opinion

    17 Jan 2020, 12:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The possible end of combustion engines in the not-so-distant future spells great challenges for Germany's car industry, which is accustomed to success but now could struggle to master the ...
  • Mining state economy minister warns against coal exit 鈥渁t all costs鈥

    Germany must not enter a coal exit at the expense of power supply security and industrial competitiveness, according to Andreas Pinkwart, economy minister for the west German coal mining state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), and member of the pro ...
  • Climate protection and economic growth go hand in hand, but companies move too slow

    The BDI study showing that climate protection and economic growth can go hand in hand should kill off the last arguments against ambitious climate protection, according to Greenpeace. 鈥淭he economic association is right to call for planning security in ...
  • 14 Jan 2022 |

    New German government must prepare offshore wind boom after expansion halt in 2021 鈥 industry

    14 Jan 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 offshore wind industry is placing great hope on the new government鈥檚 ambitious renewables expansion plans, after no turbines were added to German waters throughout the whole ...
  • Renewables overtake coal as Germany鈥檚 most important power source

    10 Jul 2018, 15:01 Wind and solar power, together with other renewable sources, have overtaken coal as Germany鈥檚 most important power source, figures released by the industry group BDEW show. But this milestone in the history of the country鈥檚 energy ...
  • 14 Oct 2024 |

    Lufthansa CEO warns against German 鈥渟olo attempts鈥 to curb aviation emissions

    14 Oct 2024, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Business & Jobs Bild The head of Germany鈥檚 largest airline Lufthansa, Carsten Spohr, has warned that the country鈥檚 aviation sector is facing huge difficulties due to higher state charges. 鈥淚 worry greatly ...
  • 13 Jun 2016

    Battle over renewables act continues / 鈥業nsane鈥 efficiency support

    13 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淒on鈥檛 miss the transition鈥 Renewable energies have become so cheap that many countries have started an Energiewende, only for Germany to hit the brakes with its ...
  • 20 Feb 2025 |

    CORRECTION: Low electricity prices relative to gas will boost European heat pump uptake 鈥 report

    20 Feb 2025, 13:45 Jack McGovan Electricity Heating 麻豆无码版 Corrects third paragraph to specify share of heat pump sales compared to all heating sytems sold, a previous version of the article incorrectly stated this was the share of heat pumps ...
  • 11 Jan 2019 |

    Berlin start-up to transform 1000 city street lights into e-car charging stations

    11 Jan 2019, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars Cities 麻豆无码版 Berlin start-up Ubitricity will transform up to 1000 street lights in the German capital into charging stations for electric vehicles. An additional 600 wallboxes ...
  • 11 Feb 2020 |

    Storm 'Ciara' blows German wind power production to new record

    11 Feb 2020, 13:36 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin ...
  • 17 Jun 2020 |

    External mobility costs for German society amount to 149 billion euros per year 鈥 NGO

    17 Jun 2020, 15:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility 麻豆无码版 The external costs caused by traffic and other mobility activities in Germany are in the range of 149 billion euros per year, transport NGO Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) has stated in a ...
  • 01 Jul 2021 |

    German government seeks consensus on climate-friendly farming akin to coal phase-out deal

    01 Jul 2021, 13:26 Expert DBV- German Farmers鈥 Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der ...
  • 07 Jul 2016 |

    鈥淗eadwind for new course鈥

    Germany鈥檚 northern most state Schleswig-Holstein will be the ninth of 16 states to have a climate protection law, taz reports. The state cabinet passed the draft law on Wednesday, now parliament has to approve it. Targets established in the law are ...
  • 28 Jan 2025

    In brief | 28 January '25

    28 Jan 2025, 11:44 麻豆无码版 Team Reuters: Germany election 2025: Parties, polls and key issues Here are the main parties contending, their poll standings, and the key policy issues ahead of a snap national election on 23 February. Bloomberg: Germany fears ...
  • 12 Mar 2019 |

    Court hears case against clearing of Hambach Forest to protect bat species

    12 Mar 2019, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Aachener Nachrichten A court in the western German city of Cologne has started to hear a case by NGO Friends of the Earth (BUND) against the clearing of the embattled Hambach Forest, news agency dpa ...
  • Preview2018- 麻豆无码版 economist fears for Germany's climate reputation

    18 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
  • 10 Jan 2022 |

    Concern over earlier coal exit grows in Germany鈥檚 biggest mining region

    10 Jan 2022, 13:18 Edgar Meza Coal Business & Jobs S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The German government鈥檚 stated goal of moving the country鈥檚 coal exit deadline forward from 2038 to 2030 has sparked concern in the Rhenish lignite mining region in western Germany ...
  • Additional auctions for wind and solar power come too late for Germany 鈥 opinion

    Germany鈥檚 additional auctions for wind and solar power have been planned too late to have a meaningful impact on the country鈥檚 climate action record or on the smooth expansion of renewable capacity in the country, Daniel Wetzel writes in an opinion piece ...
  • 30 Oct 2019 |

    Central banks must stay neutral on climate policy, German Bundesbank says

    30 Oct 2019, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 麻豆无码版 / Financial Times The German central bank (Bundesbank) has to maintain market neutrality and cannot become a proactive advocate of climate action, Bundesbank head Jens Weidmann聽 said 聽at a ...
  • 05 Feb 2021 |

    Digital & decentralised energy system both opportunity and risk for supply security- Researchers

    05 Feb 2021, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Digitalisation Security Digitalisation offers an opportunity to make power grids more resilient during transition to renewable power sources but may also make the energy system more vulnerable, 聽researchers of the tech ...
  • 08 Jan 2015

    No room for Energiewende complacency despite 2014 CO2-drop

    08 Jan 2015, 00:00 Proving Energiewende critics wrong or only a minor step in the right direction? Recent data indicated that Germany has started substituting power from hard coal with renewable electricity while lower power consumption has contributed to ...
  • G19 should have own text on climate and energy 鈥 Greenpeace head

    The US negotiating team is 鈥渨orking hard to water down鈥 climate texts for the upcoming G20 summit at the preceding negotiations,聽said International Executive Director at Greenpeace Jennifer Morgan at the Global Solidarity Summit in Hamburg. It is ...
  • 13 Jul 2020 |

    German construction company Hochtief doubles down on Australian coal

    13 Jul 2020, 14:04 Coal International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German-based construction group Hochtief is enjoying a coal boom in Australia despite growing criticism of mining in its home country, write Jonas Jansen and Christoph Hein in the ...
  • 23 Mar 2020 |

    Power lines for trucks could save a fifth of German road freight emissions 鈥 study

    23 Mar 2020, 14:06 Expert ifeu- Institute for 麻豆无码版 and Environmental Research Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Freja Eriksen Cars Freight 麻豆无码版 A 3,200-kilometre network of overhead power lines (catenary) for hybrid trucks would cut ...
  • 18 Oct 2017 |

    麻豆无码版 transition in building sector should not just focus on electrification - study

    The energy transition in the building sector can be implemented most efficiently without a focus on any one technology, writes the German 麻豆无码版 Agency in a joint study with several associations and companies. 鈥淎ll available efficiency technologies must ...
  • 28 Jan 2016

    Government 'wants to kill wind engine' / Grid fees drive costs

    28 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Die Welt 鈥淕overnment wants to kill the engine鈥 Onshore wind power is the backbone of Germany鈥檚 energy transition, but government reform plans for the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act risk slowing down its ...
  • 03 May 2018 |

    Germany wants transparent global climate reporting to ensure trust

    03 May 2018, 00:00 Negotiators from 184 countries gather in the city of Bonn from 30 April to 10 May to work on the implementation of the landmark Paris Agreement, designed to limit global warming to under 2掳C. The German government is a longtime ...
  • 07 Jun 2021 |

    Germany plans to grant more space to offshore wind in North and Baltic Sea

    07 Jun 2021, 13:50 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Renewables Wind Tagesspiegel Background A new draft plan for offshore wind power expansion by the German government has allocated ...
  • 15 Nov 2021 |

    Carbon markets 鈥 COP26 closes biggest loopholes but lacks clarity on voluntary trade

    15 Nov 2021, 13:56 Negotiators in Glasgow reached a breakthrough on the rules for global carbon emission reduction trade. After five years of unsuccessful deliberations since the Paris Agreement laid down the framework for a new market where states and ...
  • 01 Feb 2019 |

    German govt almost certain to accept coal exit proposal, action must start now- Forbes

    01 Feb 2019, 14:08 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Germany's grand coalition government is almost certain to accept the coal exit commission 's recommendation and transpose it into law, but if the first phase-out deadline of 2022 is ...
  • 18 Mar 2020 |

    Investors urge Finnish utility to drop support for new German coal plant

    18 Mar 2020, 13:45 Freja Eriksen Utilities 麻豆无码版 / taz Eight European financial institutions have criticised the Finnish state-owned utility Fortum for聽endorsing the opening of the German coal-fired Datteln 4 power plant, set to be the last ...
  • German firms must diversify supply chains for energy transition resources 鈥 analysis

    30 Jun 2022, 13:25 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Resources & Recycling 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 31 Mar 2021 |

    Government auditors call for reform of Germany's energy taxes and levies

    31 Mar 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 Federal Court of Auditors (BRH) has criticised the government for its 鈥渋nadequate鈥 management of the energy transition. In a new report, the BRH argues that the economy ministry ...
  • 26 Aug 2019 |

    Study finds CO2 price of 50 euros per tonne would be 'socially balanced' for Germany

    26 Aug 2019, 13:34 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 ...
  • E-mobility could help lower household electricity prices 鈥 researchers

    04 May 2021, 12:10 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Cars Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 The expansion of electric mobility in Germany could lead to lower household electricity prices, said Fraunhofer Research Institution for 麻豆无码版 Infrastructures ...
  • German nuclear industry cautious about usefulness of small reactors for energy transition

    05 Nov 2020, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Small Modular Reactors (SMR) are increasingly hailed as an effective way for using nuclear power to curb the climate crisis without the major risks associated with ...
  • 26 Jul 2017 |

    鈥淭he one-eyed鈥

    Debates about diesel engines constantly confuse fact with fiction, family enterprise lobbyist Lutz Goebel writes in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt. Regardless of the cartel allegations against Germany鈥檚 most important carmakers, seeing the shift to e ...
  • German Greens want higher CO2 price and ramp-up of hydrogen production

    26 Apr 2021, 13:29 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity market Hydrogen Elections & Politics Handelsblatt The German Green Party wants to restructure the electricity market to ...
  • 02 Jun 2023 |

    Denmark, Germany sign agreement on joint offshore wind project "Bornholm 麻豆无码版 Island"

    02 Jun 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Wind EU 麻豆无码版 The governments of Denmark and Germany have signed a legally binding cooperation agreement for a joint offshore wind power project on the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm, the economy ...
  • 05 Feb 2020 |

    Green hydrogen 鈥渆lixir of life鈥 of future-proof steel industry 鈥 env min

    05 Feb 2020, 13:20 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Industry Clean ...
  • Extending nuclear plants鈥 runtime not advisable, German govt concludes

    08 Mar 2022, 13:35 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
  • 12 Jan 2017 |

    Government lacks overview of Energiewende costs- auditors

    12 Jan 2017, 00:00 The German government lacks clear overview of the costs of the country鈥檚 shift to renewable energy, according to the country鈥檚 Federal Court of Auditors. The auditors said the economy ministry had 鈥渘o overview of the financial ...
  • 11 Oct 2021 |

    Several German cities halt use of e-buses following series of unresolved cases of fire

    11 Oct 2021, 13:44 Edgar Meza Transport Cities Die Welt The potential risks of electromobility are being closely examined in Germany after a third major fire in a bus depot apparently caused by an electric bus. Public transport companies are taking action ...
  • 25 Mar 2020 |

    German insurers slow to turn to corporate social responsibility 鈥 analysis

    25 Mar 2020, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 麻豆无码版 Insurance providers in Germany are slowly beginning to put greater emphasis on their corporate social responsibility (CSR) but still struggle to fully appreciate the concept's importance, ...
  • Germany, Mexico, some US states and others pledge more cooperation on carbon trading

    The governments of Germany, Mexico, South Korea, California and several other countries and sub-national entities have pledged to intensify their cooperation on developing international carbon emissions trading, the International Carbon Action Partnership ...
  • 10 Feb 2025 |

    Failed law reform means Germany loses one year in efforts to establish CCS 鈥 cement industry

    10 Feb 2025, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Industry WirtschaftsWoche Parties鈥 failure to agree on final details of a reform to allow carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Germany ahead of the election on 23 February will set efforts back significantly, industry ...
  • 12 Apr 2022 |
    Gas

    German LNG plans receive boost as critics warn of stranded assets

    12 Apr 2022, 11:50 Julian Wettengel Gas 麻豆无码版 / 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 ...
  • 07 Oct 2021 |
    Gas

    Gas squeeze in Europe causing headaches for German industry

    07 Oct 2021, 13:57 Edgar Meza Gas Tagesspiegel Background Skyrocketing gas prices in Europe are triggering panic in the market and raising concerns in German industry, Tagesspiegel Background reports. On Wednesday, the spot market price for natural gas ...
  • Energiewende acceptance remains high 鈥 survey

    A large majority of Germans says the continued expansion of renewable energies is important (24 percent) or very important (68 percent), according to a survey conducted by forsa and commissioned by the energy company EnBW and the newspaper Welt. Only a ...
  • 25 Oct 2019 |

    German government's sustainable finance advisors at odds over obligations for financial sector

    25 Oct 2019, 14:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 麻豆无码版 Germany's Sustainable Finance Advisory Council (SFC) is in disagreement about the extent to which financial actors should be obligated to align their business with sustainability goals. ...
  • 07 Nov 2016 |

    "Saxony battles the coal exit"

    The federal state of Saxony intends to forge a coalition of coal-producing German states against a possible nation-wide coal exit, the Leipziger Volkszeitung reports. Saxony鈥檚 Christian-democrat state premier Stanislaw Tillich called the aim to tackle ...
  • 01 Nov 2024

    In brief | 1 November '24

    01 Nov 2024, 11:32 麻豆无码版 Team European Commission: EU gas storages 95% full ahead of 1 November, surpassing the 90% target The current gas storage level EU-wide is over 95 percent, according to the latest figures released by Gas Infrastructure Europe. ...
  • 20 Feb 2018 |

    Referendum for bottom-up coal exit in Germany鈥檚 second city Hamburg

    A referendum in Hamburg, Germany鈥檚 second largest city, seeks to ban the use of coal power for heating and electricity generation by 2030, Sven-Michael Veit writes for the Tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淲e in Hamburg have to take the coal exit in our own hands,鈥 ...
  • 17 May 2019 |

    Nature conservation and the energy transition are compatible 鈥 study

    17 May 2019, 12:48 Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende NABU / Wuppertal Institute It is possible to reduce Germany鈥檚 energy-related greenhouse gas emissions by up to 100 percent by 2050 while at the same time maintaining a high level of nature ...
  • 28 Jun 2019 |

    Little progress at Bonn climate change conference

    28 Jun 2019, 12:38 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 COP24 tageszeitung (taz) / Clean ...
  • Germany鈥檚 energy price caps prove too cumbersome to effectively reduce costs for companies 鈥 report

    22 Aug 2023, 13:44 Jack McGovan Industry Cost & Prices Policy 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 energy price caps, implemented to help consumers with rising costs during the energy crisis, often did not compensate businesses for price increases to the ...
  • 29 Jul 2020 |

    Germany generates enough power to meet e-car growth, government says

    29 Jul 2020, 13:43 Grid Cars 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 federal government believes the country has sufficient power generation capacity to accommodate a major expansion in the number of electric cars, according to a parliamentary report. The government ...
  • 28 Nov 2023 |

    German grid operators allowed to throttle electricity in bid for faster expansion of heat pumps, EV chargers

    28 Nov 2023, 13:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Carolina Kyllmann Grid 麻豆无码版 Grid operators in Germany will be ...
  • 13 Dec 2024

    In brief | 13 December '24

    13 Dec 2024, 12:03 麻豆无码版 Team Carbon Brief: State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming Strong El Ni帽o event contributed to exceptionally high global temperatures early in the year. IEA: Technology breakthroughs are unlocking ...
  • 17 Jan 2020 |

    鈥淗istoric compromise鈥 or 鈥減act of unreason鈥? 鈥 media reactions to Germany鈥檚 coal exit deal

    17 Jan 2020, 13:36 German media commentators have mixed views on the coal exit path fixed by the federal government, mining states and utilities. While some call it a 鈥渉istoric鈥 deal that could make Germany a global role model, others say it turned out to ...
  • Macron and Merkel back EU carbon neutrality 2050, European green deal

    18 Oct 2019, 11:38 France and Germany have backed the goals put forward by the incoming EU commission in a joint declaration, calling for a rapid adoption for the proposed European Green Deal. German chancellor Angela Merkel stressed in a speech to ...
  • 28 Apr 2020 |

    Coronavirus crisis highlights risks of U.S.-European LNG deals diplomacy

    28 Apr 2020, 10:59 The coronavirus crisis has put a spotlight on deteriorating transatlantic relations as both continents focus on the well-being of their own populations and U.S. President Donald Trump continues to push his America First strategy. Over ...
  • 06 Apr 2021 |

    RWE to supply German rail company with additional North Sea wind power

    06 Apr 2021, 12:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Wind 麻豆无码版 State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn and utility RWE extend their renewable energy contract with an additional 190 gigawatt hours (GWh) of offshore wind power annually, the railway ...
  • 30 Oct 2018 |

    Rapid state action required to clean up road freight transport 鈥 study

    The technologies required to drastically cut road freight emissions in Germany are readily available, but policies to incentivise the transition are urgently needed, according to a study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ...
  • 05 Dec 2024 |

    Electricity grid upgrades will cost Germany 650 billion euros by 2045- report

    05 Dec 2024, 13:11 S枚ren Amelang Grid 麻豆无码版 Germany will have to invest around 650 billion euros into the expansion of its electricity grids by 2045, according to a聽 report 聽by the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) of the Hans B枚ckler ...
  • 07 Jun 2019 |

    Deutsche Bahn CEO plans more ambition on climate and higher capacity

    07 Jun 2019, 13:06 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Transport Freight Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The CEO of German rail company Deutsche Bahn, Richard Lutz, has set a ...
  • 06 Jan 2020 |

    Solar power sales in Germany grow by 30 percent on lower prices

    06 Jan 2020, 14:19 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 麻豆无码版 The demand for solar power panels in Germany has ...
  • 24 Nov 2020 |

    Germany's onshore wind power potential greater than previously thought 鈥 study

    24 Nov 2020, 13:21 Expert BWE- German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology 麻豆无码版 Wind power production in Germany could be ...
  • 01 Apr 2021 |

    Germany needs extra charging network for commercial e-vehicles- analysis

    01 Apr 2021, 13:52 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility 麻豆无码版 The German government must take into account the heterogeneity of requirements in electric commercial transport when developing charging infrastructure, the Fraunhofer Institute for ...
  • 25 Sep 2024

    In brief | 25 September '24

    25 Sep 2024, 12:17 麻豆无码版 Team Bloomberg: Climate change made Europe's deadly floods worse and more likely More intense rainfall is expected as global temperatures rise. Global warming is becoming a costlier problem for Europe. Bloomberg: Where cargo ...
  • 28 Apr 2022 |

    Germany one step away from ending dependence on Russian oil

    28 Apr 2022, 11:30 Germany has reduced its dependence on Russian crude oil from 35 to 12 percent and will take steps to replace the remaining deliveries to the Russian-operated Schwedt refinery within the next days, said the economy and climate minister. ...
  • 19 Oct 2021 |

    Operators, politicians stick to German nuclear exit schedule despite critics' last-ditch attempts

    19 Oct 2021, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Die Welt / B枚rsen-Zeitung / manager magazin Policymakers and energy companies in Germany have no intention to put the scheduled end to nuclear power production in ...
  • 10 Dec 2021 |

    Germany's fast-charging infrastructure growing quicker than demand from e-cars

    10 Dec 2021, 14:02 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 麻豆无码版 The ...
  • Greens in German-French border state want to overcome nuclear row and focus on cooperation

    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鈥檚 emissions reduction plans, the Green Party in southwestern German state Baden-W眉rttemberg ...
  • 22 Jun 2020 |

    Scientists sketch path to EU climate neutrality ahead of German Council presidency

    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 ...
  • 16 Aug 2018 |

    麻豆无码版 minister under pressure to present framework for future renewables growth

    T ravelling in the renewable- energy stronghold state of Lower Saxony, German energy minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) faced urgent calls to provide a secure framework for future wind power growth. Lower Saxony鈥檚 environment minister, Olaf Lies (SPD), said ...
  • Coal states call for legal action against EU Commission on environmental regulations for coal power plants

    Germany鈥檚 coal states are calling on the federal government to prevent stricter emissions limits for coal-fired power plants by taking legal action against the EU Commission, writes public broadcaster rbb in an article. A spokesperson for Saxony鈥檚 ...
  • 28 Oct 2024 |

    German gov't leaders host parallel industry summits focused on improving economic prospects

    28 Oct 2024, 13:10 Edgar Meza Industry 麻豆无码版 German government leaders are hosting not one but two industry summits on Tuesday (29 October) as chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 three-party coalition seeks to deal with the country鈥檚 economic woes. ...
  • 15 Sep 2016 |

    鈥淥nly weak incentives for firms to implement carbon abatement measures鈥

    A majority of German companies participating in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) do not expect the Paris Agreement to be effective in reducing global emissions, according to a survey by the German development bank KfW and Centre for European Economic ...
  • 02 Feb 2022 |

    Q&A: EU sustainable finance taxonomy and the dispute about nuclear power and gas

    02 Feb 2022, 12:52 With its Green Deal the European Union has embarked on the transition to a climate neutral economy by 2050, and it has made sustainable finance a key pillar of its efforts. The EU taxonomy 鈥 a system that defines companies鈥 activities ...
  • 14 Oct 2024

    In brief | 14 October '24

    14 Oct 2024, 10:51 麻豆无码版 Team Guardian: Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature鈥檚 carbon sink failing? The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models 鈥 and could rapidly accelerate global heating. Bloomberg: ...
  • 07 Jan 2019 |

    Germany's 2025 renewables share goal 鈥渨ithin reach鈥- think tank

    07 Jan 2019, 15:55 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Fossil fuels Renewables CORRECTION: Research institute Fraunhofer ISE calculates the share of renewables based on net power generation, which excludes self-production by industrial companies or ...
  • 30 Jan 2019 |

    Hard coal phase out gains pace in Europe, lignite exit barely started 鈥 analysis

    30 Jan 2019, 13:28 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal International The hard coal exit in Europe gathers pace as renewables increasingly displaced the fossil fuel in Germany and France in 2018, but a phase-out of lignite has barely begun, according ...
  • 25 Jun 2015

    In the media: "Coal levy- finally gone"

    25 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淕abriel takes on the energy sector鈥 麻豆无码版 minister Sigmar Gabriel was given a chilly reception by the Chairwoman of the Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries (BDEW) in ...
  • 06 Feb 2025 |

    Electrification key for a cost-effective transformation of the German industry 鈥 report

    06 Feb 2025, 13:24 Bennet Ribbeck Industry 麻豆无码版 The electrification of industrial processes with renewable energy is the most cost-effective transformation path for the sector, the research consortium IND-E has stated in a report. The authors ...
  • 01 Nov 2024 |

    Large local utilities in Germany stall on heating transition 鈥 media report

    01 Nov 2024, 11:27 Julian Wettengel Utilities Correctiv / Wirtschaftswoche Many of Germany鈥檚 large local utilities continue to bet on fossil gas for heating and stall the transition to more climate-friendly ways to heat homes, found business weekly ...
  • 03 Dec 2019 |

    Industry associations call on new EU Commission to focus on power-to-x

    03 Dec 2019, 13:51 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen Technology 麻豆无码版 Synthetic substitutes for conventional oil and gas will ...
  • Green chancellor candidate Baerbock envisions 鈥榯ransatlantic green deal,鈥 calls for halt to Nord Stream 2

    07 May 2021, 12:03 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Gas Elections & Politics Security 麻豆无码版 The co-leader of the German Greens, Annalena Baerbock, emphasised possibilities ...
  • Merkel summons transport commission leaders to ensure progress on climate goals

    14 Mar 2019, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars Government S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt Germany鈥檚 Chancellor Angela Merkel summoned the leaders of the country鈥檚 transport commission and several cabinet members to make sure the body ...
  • 15 Dec 2020 |

    EU countries need to coordinate renewables support to avoid investor hopping- study

    15 Dec 2020, 13:59 Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development Climate & CO2 Policy Edgar Meza Renewables EU EU member states need to coordinate their domestic energy reforms in order to better ...
  • 03 Nov 2020 |

    Pandemic triggers 10% cut in German energy emissions in 2020 鈥 market researchers

    03 Nov 2020, 12:53 麻豆无码版 consumption and related CO2 emissions in Germany are set to fall significantly in Germany in 2020, data by energy market research group AGEB shows. The drop in CO2 output to a large extent is caused by the coronavirus pandemic ...
  • Opposition FDP calls federal government鈥檚 energy policy unclear

    The German federal government鈥檚 uncertainty about how to achieve a 65 percent share of renewable energy by 2030 鈥渟peaks for itself,鈥 said Sandra Weeser, head of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) faction on the federal parliament鈥檚 (Budestag) Committee on ...
  • 07 Nov 2024

    In brief | 7 November '24

    07 Nov 2024, 10:00 麻豆无码版 Team Politico: 聽 Scholz bows out of COP29 climate summit after government collapses 聽 The decision follows a dramatic breakdown of Germany鈥檚 three-party coalition government. Bloomberg: Italy renews push to revise EU鈥檚 combustion ...
  • 16 May 2019 |

    Solar power industry鈥檚 business climate reaches all-time high in Germany

    16 May 2019, 14:26 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 The business climate index of ...
  • German chancellor decides runtime extension for all remaining nuclear plants, ending coalition row

    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鈥檚 remaining reactors until April 2023. The German leader thus intervened to settle a dispute about the delayed end of ...
  • Conservative MPs propose makeover of German energy tax system based on higher CO2 price

    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 ...
  • 12 Dec 2024 |

    Sustainability reporting still a black box for many smaller companies in Germany 鈥 survey

    12 Dec 2024, 13:35 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Finance 麻豆无码版 / Handelsblatt The upcoming requirements on sustainability reporting for credit ...
  • E.ON enlists software company SAP for digitalisation of energy grid

    04 Dec 2020, 13:29 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Cost & Prices Utilities Digitalisation WirtschaftsWoche 麻豆无码版 company E.ON is teaming up with software company SAP to digitalise its power grid ...
  • 15 May 2023 |

    Electricity smart meters to become standard in German homes from 2032

    15 May 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Digitalisation 麻豆无码版 Electricity smart meter should become 鈥渓argely standard鈥 in Germany鈥檚 homes by 2032 as the Bundesrat 鈥 the country鈥檚 upper house of parliament representing its 16 states 鈥 approved a ...
  • 09 Jul 2020 |

    Associations propose revival of German railway tracks totalling 4000 km

    09 Jul 2020, 13:25 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Transport Freight 麻豆无码版 In Germany, 238 railway connections with a total length of 4,016 kilometres could be reactivated, the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) and the Pro ...
  • 15 Jan 2020 |

    Adani coal mine row with climate activists backfires on Siemens CEO Kaeser 鈥 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 ...
  • 16 Nov 2016 |

    Study: 鈥淓-cars will be leading the market in 2030

    E-cars could overtake cars with conventional engines in market share by 2030, Angela Schmid writes for WirtschaftsWoche, referring to a study by consultancy PwC. 鈥淥ne in three new cars registered in Europe in 2030 could be an e-car,鈥 she writes, compared ...
  • 鈥淣RW鈥檚 new government aims to undermine building efficiency鈥

    The likely new coalition government in Germany鈥檚 most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) seems to aim for watering down energy efficiency standards for new buildings, Environmental Action Germany (DUH) said in a press release. During ...
  • 14 Dec 2020 |

    Preview 2021: 鈥榃e need a new electricity market design鈥

    14 Dec 2020, 11:13 Germany鈥檚 grid expansion is making headway 鈥 despite the Covid19 pandemic 鈥 but the power market is in need of a thorough overhaul if the country is to pursue its ambitious electrification targets while keeping up high levels of supply ...
  • 18 Mar 2021 |

    BMW steps up electrification plans, turns Mini into e-car brand

    18 Mar 2021, 14:00 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Cars 麻豆无码版 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 ...
  • 20 Mar 2020 |

    Solar and wind energy expansion in Germany faces paralysis due to coronavirus

    20 Mar 2020, 13:52 Freja Eriksen Solar Wind Tagesspiegel Background / pv magazine The coronavirus crisis is spilling over into the solar and wind energy industry, which is already facing a slump in Germany, write Christian Schaudwet and Steven Hanke in ...
  • 22 Oct 2024

    In brief | 22 Oct '24

    22 Oct 2024, 11:28 麻豆无码版 Team Reuters: Germany's Scholz working with industry to boost growth German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised on Tuesday to work with industry to revive growth in Europe's biggest economy, which he said had been hit harder ...
  • 17 Jan 2025

    In brief | 17 January '25

    17 Jan 2025, 11:35 麻豆无码版 Team Reuters: Chinese buyers interested in unwanted German Volkswagen factories, source says Buying a factory would allow China to build influence in Germany's prized auto industry, home to some of the oldest and most ...
  • 22 Sep 2020 |

    Germany鈥檚 competitors pushing ahead with green hydrogen plans- study

    22 Sep 2020, 13:52 Expert World 麻豆无码版 Council Germany Weltenergierat Electricity market Fossil fuels Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 / Handelsblatt Twenty countries have already decided on national hydrogen strategies or are planning to adopt them in the ...
  • 05 Nov 2024

    In brief | 5 November '24

    05 Nov 2024, 11:00 麻豆无码版 Team Ember: Nominated EU Commissioner for 麻豆无码版 is being put to the test in the EU Parliament Think tank Ember agrees with candidate Dan Jorgensen's stated aim to prioritise grid modernisation. T&E: Our take on the EU ...
  • 12 May 2023 |

    New wind turbine installations in Germany grow almost 50% in early 2023

    12 May 2023, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 / Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung Germany installed 128 new wind turbines with a total capacity of 0.6 gigawatts (GW) between January and April 2023, an increase in the growth rate of 46 ...
  • 21 Feb 2020 |

    Electric commercial aviation still a distant vision, synthetic fuels more realistic 鈥 engine producer MTU

    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 ...
  • 29 Oct 2020 |

    Protesters occupy Green Party headquarters in Berlin in bid to stop Autobahn expansion

    29 Oct 2020, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Society Berliner Zeitung / 麻豆无码版 Activists calling for a halt of a highway project have occupied the Green Party's headquarters in Berlin, arguing that the environmentalist party is complicit ...
  • 14 Jun 2021 |

    German government, air navigation service facilitate onshore wind power expansion

    14 Jun 2021, 13:00 Edgar Meza Wind 麻豆无码版 The German economy ministry (BMWi) is providing 14 million euros of funding to help modernise conventional navigation facilities operated by German air navigation service provider DFS, a move that will ...
  • 11 Oct 2024 |

    Germany should restrict CCS to unavoidable CO2 emissions 鈥 govt advisors

    11 Oct 2024, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Industry 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background Germany鈥檚 reform plans to allow the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies should restrict their use to emissions that are impossible to ...
  • 22 Apr 2021 |

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

    22 Apr 2021, 13:30 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Corporate decision makers in Germany have voted hydrogen technologies as the most important field of action for energy ...
  • 21 Mar 2019 |

    Saving Hambach Forest would cost over one billion euros, energy company RWE says

    21 Mar 2019, 12:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / n-tv online Halting coal mining at the embattled Hambach Forest would cost operator RWE 聽more than a billion euros, the company said in an article by news agency dpa carried by website n-tv online. ...
  • 02 Jul 2024 |

    Current carbon footprint of Germany's blue chip companies would result in 5掳C warming 鈥 report

    02 Jul 2024, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims Frankfurter Allgemeine The current carbon footprint of Germany's blue chip companies, the聽40 largest listed companies in the DAX stock market index, will cause global temperatures to rise by ...
  • 27 Aug 2019 |

    Road traffic puts immense financial burden on German society 鈥 pro-rail NGO

    27 Aug 2019, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 麻豆无码版 The bulk of external costs caused by transport in Germany is due to road traffic, which accounts for 95 percent of total costs, NGO Allianz pro Schiene (Pro Rail Alliance) said. The NGO ...
  • 07 Nov 2019 |

    EU investment bank will turn into 'climate bank,' says EIB head Hoyer

    07 Nov 2019, 14:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Focus Online The head of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Werner Hoyer, says the EIB will turn into a "climate bank" and expand the share of climate-related activities in its portfolio to 50 ...
  • 05 Jul 2016 |

    鈥淩eport: Germany suffers more coal-linked deaths than rest of EU鈥

    Germany suffered more premature deaths linked to coal plant pollution than any other EU member state, according to a new study, reports Euractiv. Some 3,630 people in Germany died from coal-related illnesses in 2013, according to the report by the Health ...
  • 06 Nov 2020

    German energy industry to receive dedicated radio frequency to weather blackouts

    06 Nov 2020, 14:10 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 The German government has resolved a dispute between the energy sector and security services over ownership of a 450 MHz digital radio frequency, in favour of the energy companies. 麻豆无码版 industry ...
  • Power consumers pay higher grid fees than required by law 鈥 think tank

    A combination of lack of transparency and denial of legal protection means that German power grid fees cannot be sufficiently checked by consumers, consumer organisations, or even politicians, according to a legal analysis published by the Regulatory ...
  • 27 Mar 2017 |

    鈥淪peed! Speed! Speed!鈥

    An expert panel wants to speed up the transformation of Germany鈥檚 transport sector to lower emissions and greater electric mobility, Sven B枚ll and Horand Knaup write for Der Spiegel. In its new study, the think tank Agora Verkehrswende*, an initator of ...
  • 27 Mar 2020 |

    German wind industry says corona must not overshadow need for action as auction once again falls short

    27 Mar 2020, 13:44 Expert BWE- German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 The current difficulties caused by the ...
  • German onshore wind power sees record growth in 2017

    Onshore wind power in Germany grew by about 1,700 turbines, with a total capacity of roughly 5,300 megawatts (MW) in 2017, a gross increase of 15 percent compared to the previous year, according to the German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association (BWE). In a press ...
  • 04 Dec 2024 |

    Baseload power stations not needed for secure renewable electricity supply 鈥 research academies

    04 Dec 2024, 12:23 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market 麻豆无码版 An energy system dominated by solar and wind energy does not require baseload power stations to guarantee supply security, German research academies聽 have said. 鈥淭he academy project ...
  • Coalition agreement 鈥渇ragmented and incoherent鈥 on climate and energy policy 鈥 consultancy

    Swiss consultancy Prognos has published a detailed and highly sceptical assessment of the coalition agreement between the conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD), including analyses of the effects on climate, energy, transport and ...
  • 21 Feb 2019 |

    EU鈥檚 new emission limits for trucks are not enough- op-ed

    21 Feb 2019, 13:35 Rachel Waldholz 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Freight taz The EU鈥檚 first-ever emission standards for trucks and buses, announced this week, are not enough for real climate protection, writes Bernhard P枚tter in a commentary for the daily ...
  • Germany鈥檚 technology scepticism inhibits progress in emissions reduction

    For a long time, Germany had been confident it was on the right track when it comes to climate action, but scepticism and resistance towards low-emission technologies are on the rise in the country today, Niklas Zaboji writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
  • Europe could do without electricity and hydrogen imports if renewables expansion proceeds as planned 鈥 researchers

    31 Oct 2024, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Europe could cover its electricity and green hydrogen needs with domestic production, but only if renewables expansion proceeds as planned, said researchers from ...
  • 22 Jun 2023 |

    麻豆无码版 market association calls for wide adoption of 鈥渂iodiversity PV鈥 in Germany

    22 Jun 2023, 14:00 Edgar Meza Renewables Solar 麻豆无码版 In an effort to make Germany鈥檚 solar expansion more socially acceptable and sustainable, the Association of 麻豆无码版 Market Innovators (bne) has presented a聽 legislative proposal 聽detailing ...
  • 15 Apr 2020 |

    Oil industry lobbies German government to boost synthetic fuels amid corona crisis

    15 Apr 2020, 15:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Green stimulus 麻豆无码版 The German Petroleum Industry Association (MWV) has urged the government to ramp up the use of synthetic fuels in the mobility sector during the "economic restart" that will ...
  • NRW state premier says coal exit by 2030 is impossible

    An end to coal-fired power generation in Germany by 2030 is impossible, according to Armin Laschet, the state premier of coal mining state North Rhine-Westphalia, and a member of Angela Merkel鈥檚 Conservatives (CDU). Wind and solar power will not be able ...
  • 24 Jun 2016 |

    鈥淟etting in the light: How solar photovoltaics will revolutionise the electricity system鈥

    The share of global electricity generated by solar PV could grow to as much as 13 percent by 2030, according to a new report by the International Renewable 麻豆无码版 Agency (IRENA). 鈥淭he solar industry鈥檚 expansion is driven primarily by cost reductions, with ...
  • 06 Nov 2014

    In the media: Energiewende awareness, coal exit and climate action plan

    06 Nov 2014, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 SolarServer 鈥淪urvey: Energiewende little known in neighbouring countries, but support for goals鈥 Public awareness of the Energiewende 鈥 or energy transition 鈥 among some of Germany鈥檚 immediate neighbours is low, ...
  • 09 Sep 2020 |

    German env min backs tighter EU climate target as industry reiterates warnings

    09 Sep 2020, 14:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Julian Wettengel Industry EU 麻豆无码版 / Handelsblatt / EurActiv The expected call by the EU Commission for an increased 2030 emissions reduction target has been welcomed by German environment minister Svenja ...
  • 30 Aug 2019 |

    German grid agency urges federal states to back wind power expansion

    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 ...
  • 18 Feb 2020 |

    Germany to promote EU maritime strategy including shore power

    18 Feb 2020, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry 麻豆无码版 Germany's government plans to use the country's EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020 to advocate a common European maritime economy strategy aimed at strengthening the ...
  • 22 Apr 2016

    Record CO2 levels / 'TTIP destroys climate achievements'

    22 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 UBA Record high CO2 measurements in Germany Germany鈥檚 Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has measured the highest annual CO2 concentrations ever in 2015. In its research stations on ...
  • 09 Apr 2018 |

    EU energy intensive industries: paid to pollute, not to decarbonise 鈥 NGO report

    Europe鈥檚 energy intensive industry sectors have been benefitting from exemptions and special regulations on energy taxes and levies, but they 鈥渉ave been among the slowest in the EU to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and invest in solutions to ...
  • 14 Apr 2016

    Dispute over renewable development / More e-car charging stations

    14 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau 鈥淐hristian Democrats put the breaks on renewable development鈥 Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party wants to make changes to the ...
  • 09 Nov 2020 |

    German trade union calls for use of 鈥渂lue鈥 hydrogen, European industry power price

    09 Nov 2020, 13:14 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Kerstine Appunn Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany should not solely ...
  • 28 Jul 2021 |

    Environmental NGOs continue legal fight against Tesla Berlin factory

    28 Jul 2021, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Cars Business Insider Legal action brought by environmental NGOs continues to be a hurdle for Tesla鈥檚 鈥淕igafactory鈥 near the German capital Berlin, reports Business Insider. The Brandenburg Nature and Biodiversity ...
  • 29 Apr 2019 |

    French utility Engie sells German and Dutch coal plants

    29 Apr 2019, 13:47 Rachel Waldholz Coal Reuters / pv magazine The French utility Engie will sell four coal-fired power plants in Germany and the Netherlands as part of the utility鈥檚 strategy to focus on its renewable energy business, Catherine Rollett ...
  • 16 Dec 2019 |

    Battery electric cars better than all alternative drives on full lifecycle emissions 鈥 study

    16 Dec 2019, 12:41 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Battery electric cars are more climate-friendly over their full lifecycle than ...
  • 13 Oct 2020 |

    Polish coal mine could pollute German water supply- Greenpeace

    13 Oct 2020, 13:58 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Coal EU 麻豆无码版 The Polish state-owned PGE energy company鈥檚 plans to expand the聽Tur贸w聽opencast mine threaten to pollute German water supplies, the advocacy ...
  • German utilities support coronavirus rescue package but warn of growing impacts

    30 Mar 2020, 14:03 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Electricity market Utilities Clean 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 11 Oct 2016 |

    鈥淲e need an e-car quota鈥

    聽 Germany鈥檚 Federal Environment Agency (UBA) suggests a binding quota of e-car sales for car manufacturers to ensure the transport sector contributes to climate protection. 鈥淕erman carmakers do not want to leave the combustion engine. In the short term, ...
  • 26 Feb 2025 |

    Germany鈥檚 former reactor operators lukewarm on Merz鈥檚 nuclear 鈥渄ismantling moratorium鈥 idea

    26 Feb 2025, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Policy S眉ddeutsche Zeitung A proposal from Germany鈥檚 likely next chancellor for a 鈥渕oratorium on dismantling鈥 the remaining decommissioned nuclear reactors in the country has been met with reluctance ...
  • 05 Feb 2021 |

    Moorburg coal plant halved Vattenfall's profits before decomissioning

    05 Feb 2021, 13:50 Expert Vattenfall 麻豆无码版 company Electricity market Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Cost & Prices Tagesschau / 麻豆无码版 The modern coal plant Moorbug owned by Swedish energy company Vattenfall had turned into a liability ...
  • Germany's proposed climate law to create certainty for businesses- op-ed

    04 Mar 2019, 13:40 Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development Climate & CO2 Policy Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Policy Zeit Online The Climate Action Law proposed by ...
  • 05 Mar 2020 |

    Solarwatt starts new PV production in Germany, says Europe can compete with Asia

    05 Mar 2020, 14:32 Rachel Waldholz Renewables Solar pv magazine The German photovoltaic (PV) system manufacturer Solarwatt plans to launch a new production line in Dresden, and the company believes solar panel production in Europe can be competitive with ...
  • Clear rules needed for shipping used e-car batteries to Africa- researchers

    22 Jun 2022, 13:09 Edgar Meza Storage Cars Resources & Recycling 麻豆无码版 Researchers and environmentalists from Germany and several African nations are calling for clear rules and improved controls to better regulate the export of used e-car ...
  • 18 Sep 2024 |

    Switch to climate-friendly process heat could save German industry billions 鈥 association

    18 Sep 2024, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating 麻豆无码版 Germany's industry could save up to 21 billion euros in energy costs annually if it generated heat more efficiently for the manufacture of products, according to a report ...
  • 鈥淓U package will lead to coal exit鈥

    The EU Commission鈥檚 鈥渨inter package鈥 on energy policy has been criticised by politicians and environmental organisations, but it does contain 鈥渟ome positive surprises,鈥 writes Verena Kern for klimaretter.info, based on an assessment by think tank Agora ...
  • 24 Sep 2019 |

    Only a quarter of German heating systems use renewable energy 鈥 industry association

    24 Sep 2019, 13:39 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Renewables Heating 麻豆无码版 The share of renewable energy in German ...
  • 02 Mar 2023 |

    Solar power battery installations increase exponentially in Germany

    02 Mar 2023, 14:21 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Storage 麻豆无码版 The number of household solar power ...
  • 麻豆无码版 minister rejects idea of changing fees and taxes on energy

    05 Jun 2018, 00:00 Germany's energy minister Peter Altmaier said there won't be any changes to fees on power and heat during his term, refuting the idea of a price for CO2 emissions floated by coalition partner SPD and the environment ministry. ...
  • 19 Feb 2019 |

    NGOs, RWE and regions argue over which coal plants to shut down first

    19 Feb 2019, 13:33 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG ...
  • 30 Aug 2016 |

    鈥淟onesome battle鈥

    The federal government is 鈥渋ncreasingly without ambition鈥 regarding concrete steps to fight global warming 鈥 with the exception of environment minister Barbara Hendricks 鈥 writes Silke Kerstig in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt. Hendricks so far is ...
  • 28 Oct 2024

    In brief | 28 October '24

    28 Oct 2024, 12:00 麻豆无码版 Team WMO: Record-breaking greenhouse gas levels surged again in 2023 World Metorological Organisation 's lastest stocktake finds CO2 levels have increased by more than 10% in just two decades. Eurostat: Germany has h ighest ...
  • 25 Feb 2021 |

    German government committee proposes steps for 'great transformation' of sustainable finance sector

    25 Feb 2021, 17:00 A committee formed in 2019 to assist Germany in making its financial sector more sustainable and aligning it with energy transition activities and international climate targets has released its final report with recommendations for the ...
  • 06 Oct 2020 |

    Germany's e-car subsidies cause 'economic damage' as pandemic strains budget 鈥 researchers

    06 Oct 2020, 13:09 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut f眉r Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 Support payments for electric mobility are part of " ...
  • German Greens call for national 鈥climate fund鈥 to finance reduction and mitigation measures

    17 Jun 2019, 12:50 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Bild am Sonntag Germany should set up a national fund endowed with billions of euros to ...
  • 29 Nov 2018 |

    Coal commission delay shows 鈥渃rucial questions鈥 are on the table 鈥 opinion

    29 Nov 2018, 15:53 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Fossil fuels Government Dow Jones Newswire The decision to extend the work of Germany鈥檚 coal exit commission shows that we have reached a point where crucial questions must be answered by the ...
  • 28 Jul 2016 |

    Environment organisations want EU infringement proceedings against Germany because of insufficient energy efficiency measures

    Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) and Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) are launching an official complaint against Germany with the European Commission because of the 鈥渋nadequate implementation鈥 of the energy efficiency directive (EED). The environment ...
  • Merkel鈥檚 Conservatives say will work on energy taxation reform, mull price on CO2

    04 Jun 2019, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background / Rheinische Post / n-tv The German conservative party CDU has said it will work on a reform of the country鈥檚 system of taxes and levies on energy to better align ...
  • 11 Nov 2019 |

    German wind turbine maker Enercon to cut 3,000 jobs

    11 Nov 2019, 12:58 Expert Enercon GmbH Wind turbine manufacturer Wind Business & Jobs Technology Freja Eriksen Wind Business & Jobs dpa German wind turbine maker Enercon has announced it will cut up to 3,000 jobs, saying the federal government& ...
  • 05 Apr 2019 |

    Energiewende can become "export hit" for Germany 鈥 op-ed by foreign minister

    05 Apr 2019, 12:46 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Security WirtschaftsWoche Many countries see Germany as a pioneer of the energy transition and the government will make greater use of this role to push action also on an international scale, writes German ...
  • 20 Sep 2017 |

    麻豆无码版 industry associations call for true storage strategy after elections

    Six major German energy industry associations have called on the country鈥檚 next government to implement a storage strategy and make storage facilities 鈥渢he fourth pillar鈥 of the energy system, Sandra Enkhardt writes in pv magazine. The letter, co-signed ...
  • 12 May 2017 |

    Government plans to phase out support for fossil fuel heating systems by 2020

    The federal economy ministry (BMWi) plans to phase out support for heating systems that run entirely on fossil fuels by 2020, as part of its new 鈥溌槎刮蘼氚 efficiency and heat from renewable energies鈥 strategy. Industry opposition to the plans is inevitable, ...
  • 31 May 2021 |

    Industry criticises lack of progress one year after approval of Germany鈥檚 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 ...
  • 03 Aug 2016 |

    Transport Infrastructure Plan: most money for roads

    The cabinet of the government today passed the Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 with a total volume of 269.6 billion euros. The largest part of 132.8 billion euros are marked for Germany鈥檚 roads, 112.3 billion euros for rail transport and 24.5 billion ...
  • 06 Dec 2019 |

    Germany needs drastic rise in fuel prices to meet climate targets, environment agency paper says

    06 Dec 2019, 15:06 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices S眉ddeutsche Zeitung A position paper by Germany's environment agency UBA calls for a drastic ...
  • 28 Sep 2021 |

    Renewables cover 43% of German electricity consumption in first three quarters of 2021

    28 Sep 2021, 13:34 Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables 麻豆无码版 Power generated from renewable sources covered around 43 percent of total electricity consumption in Germany in the first three quarters of 2021, down from 48 percent in the same period ...
  • 18 Apr 2024 |

    Climate change to hit economic growth severely 鈥 researchers

    18 Apr 2024, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 The damaging effects of climate change are set to hit economic growth severely across most countries, said researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). ...
  • 08 Feb 2021 |

    German Social Democrats put sustainability at heart of election campaign

    08 Feb 2021, 13:27 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics ZEIT online / Tagesspiegel The German Social Democrats (SPD) want to put ...
  • 02 May 2018 |

    Germany has depleted its natural resources for 2018 鈥 report

    The natural resources Germany can use sustainably in 2018 have been consumed entirely as of 2 May, public broadcaster ARD reports, citing calculations by climate action organisation Global Footprint. The fact that the date was reached about one week later ...
  • 11 Feb 2022 |

    Wind turbines will occupy only fraction of German land earmarked for expansion 鈥 think tank

    11 Feb 2022, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 Only a fraction of the two percent of land surface the German government wants to reserve for wind power production will actually be needed for constructing turbines, environmental ...
  • 05 May 2020 |

    State energy ministers call for investments in renewables, grid and hydrogen as part of coronavirus recovery

    05 May 2020, 15:07 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert VKU- German Association of Local ...
  • 16 Apr 2020 |

    More Germans dissatisfied with energy transition's implementation 鈥 survey

    16 Apr 2020, 12:55 Expert 100% erneuerbar Stiftung Foundation for the promotion of decentralised, renewable energy Electricity market Renewables Energiewende Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development ...
  • 13 May 2022 |
    Gas

    NGOs call for demolishing Nord Stream 2 to avoid environmental damages

    13 May 2022, 12:18 S枚ren Amelang Gas Die Zeit Environmental NGOs warn that leaving the unused Nord Stream 2 pipeline at the bottom of the Baltic Sea could cause environmental damages, but legal uncertainties mean it鈥檚 unclear what will happen to the 11 ...
  • 22 Jul 2015

    In the media: Five megatrends usher in global Energiewende

    22 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 energytransition.de 鈥溾5 megatrends鈥 for a global energy transition鈥 There are five global 鈥榤egatrends鈥 pointing to a world-wide energy transition, according to an overview by renewable power ...
  • 07 Dec 2018 |

    German conservatives elect Merkel-confidante as new party leader

    07 Dec 2018, 19:29 Germany's conservative Christian Democrats elected general secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel at the helm of the party. The election of Merkel's close ally and former premier in the ...
  • 09 Nov 2020 |

    Shift to e-cars only works if Germany builds 2,000 charging points per week 鈥 car lobby

    09 Nov 2020, 13:19 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport S枚ren Amelang Cars Der Spiegel Germany must speed up its charging infrastructure rollout tenfold to avoid a failure in its shift to electric mobility, which is rapidly ...
  • 30 Apr 2020 |

    EU industry strategy lacks concrete renewable energy plan 鈥 German industry

    30 Apr 2020, 12:39 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert BEE- German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' ...
  • 09 Sep 2024 |

    Germany must invest 鈧120 bln to make public buildings climate neutral by 2045 鈥 report

    09 Sep 2024, 13:29 Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Heating 麻豆无码版 Germany needs to invest 120 billion euros in energy-related ...
  • 09 Oct 2019 |

    Germany's chemical industry can become nearly greenhouse gas neutral by 2050 鈥 study

    09 Oct 2019, 10:44 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Technology 麻豆无码版 It is possible for the German chemical industry- ...
  • Germany urges prudence as Europe spars over its own green deal 鈥 report

    05 Mar 2019, 13:58 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs International Bloomberg Germany sounded a note of caution as energy ministers from EU member states debated a proposal to aim for net-zero emissions from the bloc by the middle of the century, reports ...
  • 11 May 2021 |

    New research centre for low-carbon technologies opens near Berlin

    11 May 2021, 13:30 Edgar Meza Industry 麻豆无码版 The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) has opened a new research facility in the eastern state of Brandenburg that will focus on alternatives to fossil fuels as part of its efforts to decarbonise ...
  • 21 May 2021 |

    Germany eager to partner with West African countries on green hydrogen

    21 May 2021, 13:16 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Edgar Meza Hydrogen International 麻豆无码版 The German government is taking firs steps to partner with West African nations in the development of a ...
  • 30 Nov 2015

    Coal exit needed by 2040- study / Germany's "unusually big mistakes"

    30 Nov 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Agora Energiewende 鈥淕erman climate goals for 2030 and 2040 require extensive coal exit鈥 Germany must reduce coal-fired power generation by 60 percent by 2030 and phase it out almost entirely by 2040 to achieve its ...
  • German finance minister shoots down environment ministry鈥檚 car emissions reduction plans

    Germany鈥檚 finance minister and vice chancellor Olaf Scholz has shot down a plan by environment minister Svenja Schulze to introduce ambitious emissions reduction standards across the EU in order to meet the climate targets agreed on in the Paris Agreement ...
  • 21 Mar 2018 |

    Carmakers鈥 CO2 emissions fraud costs Germany over ten billion euros in lost tax revenue 鈥 NGO

    The manipulation of exhaust emissions values by German carmakers has cost the German state in excess of ten billion euros in lost tax revenue, the NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) says in a press release. 鈥淢any carmakers have misled their customers ...
  • 27 Jul 2017 |

    Combustion engine ban 鈥渘ot on federal government鈥檚 agenda鈥 鈥 spokesperson

    The federal German government is currently not planning a combustion engine ban similar to British plans. 鈥淎 ban of diesel or petrol cars is currently not on the agenda of the federal government. It鈥檚 about making possible a low-emission mobility,鈥 a ...
  • 17 Oct 2024

    In brief | 17 October '24

    17 Oct 2024, 13:44 麻豆无码版 Team Financial Times: EU sticks to 2035 deadline for ban on sale of new petrol-driven cars Remarks prepared for incoming climate commissioner defend controversial measure, the FT says. PIK: Global water crisis threatens more than ...
  • 20 Feb 2019 |

    RWE agrees to leave Hambach Forest untouched until 2020 鈥 NRW state premier

    20 Feb 2019, 13:21 German utility and lignite mine operator RWE has agreed to refrain from clearing the embattled Hambach Forest in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) until autumn 2020, said state premier Armin Laschet in a parliamentary ...
  • 26 Sep 2019 |

    USA and China overtake Europe in energy R&D expenses 鈥 report

    26 Sep 2019, 14:01 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Technology Bizz 麻豆无码版 Europe dedicated less money to energy research and development last year, resulting in the US and China outspending the EU and its member states "for the first time", bizz energy ...
  • 24 Feb 2020 |

    Deutsche Bahn wants to go green but is tied to coal

    24 Feb 2020, 13:42 Rachel Waldholz Coal Transport Zeit Online The state-owned German railway Deutsche Bahn has tried to distinguish its service in recent years as a climate-friendly form of transit, highlighting its reliance on renewable power. But a 2007 ...
  • 12 Jun 2019 |

    Merkel invites carmakers and suppliers to discuss shift to green mobility- media

    12 Jun 2019, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Cars Spiegel Online The German government has invited major domestic car manufacturers and suppliers to Angela Merkel鈥檚 chancellery to discuss the technological challenges of the transition to renewable mobility, and ...
  • 30 Nov 2020 |

    New electricity providers take advantage of digital solutions to enter German market

    30 Nov 2020, 15:24 Charlotte Nijhuis Utilities Digitalisation Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung New electricity providers that focus on green electricity and make extensive use of digitalisation are entering the German market despite the already stiff ...
  • 14 Dec 2018 |

    COP24 blog: "We don't want just any outcome, we want a good one"- env min

    14 Dec 2018, 11:00 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail to meet 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 ...
  • 03 Jul 2019 |

    Germany鈥檚 KfW Bank rules out financing of any coal operations

    03 Jul 2019, 14:20 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency S枚ren Amelang Coal Finance International 麻豆无码版 German government-owned business and development bank KfW stops financing all coal ...
  • 15 Mar 2021 |

    Grid operator TenneT plans to double annual investment in grid expansion

    15 Mar 2021, 13:36 Charlotte Nijhuis Grid 麻豆无码版 / Handelsblatt Dutch grid operator TenneT wants to invest up to six billion euros annually in grid expansion in Germany and the Netherlands in the next three to five years, the company writes in ...
  • Germany to establish coordination hub for international power-to-x activities

    10 Dec 2019, 13:31 Expert GIZ- Deutsche Gesellschaft f眉r Internationale Zusammenarbeit German development agency International S枚ren Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology 麻豆无码版 Germany will establish a central hub to coordinate its ...
  • German coal exit may initially drive power prices - analysts

    Germany鈥檚 coal phase-out will likely increase power prices in the wholesale market, according to a newly published report by petrochemical market information provider ICIS. ICIS鈥 energy analytics team used a model to simulate the impact of four coal phase ...
  • 16 Dec 2024

    In brief | 16 December '24

    16 Dec 2024, 10:45 麻豆无码版 Team The Guardian: Germany: parliament to declare no confidence in chancellor Olaf Scholz Chancellor triggered path to elections, due to take place on 23 February, by firing finance minister Christian Lindner last month. DeSmog: ...
  • 27 Jun 2023 |
    Gas

    EU state aid rules hurdle for German plans for state support to build new gas power plants

    27 Jun 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Gas Handelsblatt The European Commission (EC) has concerns over Germany鈥檚 economy ministry plans to create incentives for the construction of new聽gas-fired power plants with a combined capacity of about 25 gigawatt (GW) ...
  • 03 Jul 2020 |

    German new car registrations hit 30-year low though e-car sales rise

    03 Jul 2020, 12:37 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Edgar Meza Cars 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background New car registrations in Germany fell 35 percent in the first half of 2020 to 1.21 million cars, reaching ...
  • 09 Nov 2021 |

    New German gov鈥檛 must back goal of 2% land area for wind power with other measures- advisors

    09 Nov 2021, 12:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 麻豆无码版 The possible next German government鈥檚 plans to dedicate two percent of the country鈥檚 land area to wind power generation will need to be backed by a wide range of additional activities to ensure ...
  • 19 May 2020 |

    Industry associations release 4-point plan to green Germany's municipal heating

    19 May 2020, 14:23 Expert BEE- German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
  • 15 Nov 2019 |

    Climate activists and researchers laud Germany's backing of EIB fossil ban

    15 Nov 2019, 13:44 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Claudia Kemfert German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Electricity market Energiewende Business ...
  • 18 May 2020 |

    Merkel's coalition partner pushes for ambitious green hydrogen production

    18 May 2020, 14:16 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy S枚ren Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Germany should aim to build up large capacities of hydrogen ...
  • 23 Aug 2018 |

    麻豆无码版 transition in German households progressing mostly in the countryside

    Almost a quarter of German households are 鈥渁ctively participating鈥 in the Energiewende by using technologies such as solar PV systems, battery storages, e-cars, or heat pumps, according to the 鈥溌槎刮蘼氚 Transition Barometer 2018鈥 published by state-owned ...
  • 17 Apr 2019 |

    Oil industry fights preference for electric mobility

    17 Apr 2019, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Transport Cars Handelsblatt Managers of BP, Exxon-Mobil, Shell and Total are opposing the push for electric mobility by Germany鈥檚 major car manufacturers, writes Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. While VW, BMW and Daimler ...
  • 18 Aug 2021 |

    German auto suppliers shift to e-cars but don't expect fast transition- survey

    18 Aug 2021, 13:35 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 / Handelsblatt A large majority of German car industry suppliers have initiated the ...
  • Greens overtake Merkel鈥檚 conservatives to lead German national polls

    07 Jun 2019, 12:57 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ ...
  • 14 Aug 2024

    In brief | 14 August '24

    14 Aug 2024, 10:30 Julian Wettengel The Guardian: Germany has issued arrest warrant for diver over Nord Stream explosions, says report Investigators said to believe Ukrainian man was one of team that planted explosives on pipelines in September 2022. ...
  • 02 May 2019 |

    Major German states demand quick implementation of tax breaks for building insulation

    02 May 2019, 13:33 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency 麻豆无码版 The economy ministers of Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia have written to federal economy minister Peter Altmaier and finance minister Olaf Scholz to demand tax breaks for home owners who ...
  • 25 Aug 2017 |

    Environmental Action Germany takes legal action on emissions limits in 45 German cities

    The NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) initiated several additional legal proceedings on emissions limits in German cities, bringing the total number of affected cities to 45, the organisation writes in a press release. 鈥淒iesel driving bans in more ...
  • 12 Sep 2018 |

    Volkswagen to face first major class action lawsuit in Germany over 鈥渄ieselgate鈥 affair

    The Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) together with auto club ADAC will file a class action lawsuit against Volkswagen for 鈥渋ntentionally and immorally causing harm to and betraying customers with software manipulation鈥 to obfuscate its ...
  • 03 Nov 2022 |

    Germany retains stance on foreign gas support despite criticism ahead of COP27

    03 Nov 2022, 13:34 German officials have reiterated that public support for new gas projects in other countries should be possible, as long as these are in line with overall climate commitments. The comments by the government come amid sharp criticism by ...
  • Green party boosts influence in German energy sector

    06 Aug 2019, 13:57 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Utilities Elections & Politics Recharge ...
  • 15 Apr 2015

    In the media: Climate levy seen as test for government's resolve

    15 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 The Guardian 鈥淕erman backlash grows against coal power clampdown鈥 The proposed levy on old coal-fired power stations is fast becoming a test of the German government鈥檚 commitment to decarbonise its ...
  • 17 Sep 2024

    In brief | 17 September '24

    17 Sep 2024, 12:27 麻豆无码版 Team Reuters: Von der Leyen names new European Commission with focus on climate change, security, competitiveness European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen named her team, which will lead the EU's most powerful ...
  • 14 Feb 2019 |

    German govt should follow coal exit proposal closely 鈥 comission co-leader

    14 Feb 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 coal exit should follow the Coal Exit Commission's final report as closely as possible, according to the commission鈥檚 co-chair ...
  • 06 Sep 2021 |

    NGOs slam carmakers as Europe's largest auto show braces for climate protests

    06 Sep 2021, 14:05 Environmentalists have denounced the car industry's continued reliance on climate-damaging vehicles as Europe's largest auto show IAA opens its doors to the public in Munich. Carmakers are presenting their visions for climate ...
  • 21 Aug 2018 |

    RWE prepares clearing of Hambach Forest for coal mining despite calls for moratorium 鈥 report

    German energy company RWE has rejected calls for a moratorium on forest clearing as part of lignite mining during its negotiations with the country鈥檚 coal exit commission, and said it would continue mining operations at the controversial Hambach mine, the ...
  • 01 Oct 2024

    In brief | 1 October '24

    01 Oct 2024, 10:44 麻豆无码版 Team dpa: Renewables cover 56% of Germany's electricity in first three quarters This represents an increase from 52% in the same period last year. 麻豆无码版transition.org: Germany's mixed record disappoints the climate ...
  • German politicians welcome govt advisors鈥 call for CO鈧 price

    15 Jul 2019, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices ZDF / 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background German politicians have largely welcomed the German Council of Economic Experts鈥 opinion on CO鈧 pricing presented last week. The ...
  • 02 May 2023 |

    Germany to present plans for nationwide "hydrogen highways" by summer- econ min

    02 May 2023, 13:26 Jessica Bateman Grid Hydrogen NDR The German government and gas operators are putting together detailed plans for a nationwide hydrogen network, the country鈥檚 economy minister Robert Habeck has said. The Green politician said the final ...
  • 31 Mar 2022 |

    RWE switches off lignite unit but conserves it in case of emergency

    31 Mar 2022, 14:00 S枚ren Amelang Coal Security 麻豆无码版 Utility RWE continues to implement the country's official coal exit timetable by switching off a unit of one of Europe's most polluting power stations, but will ensure the facility ...
  • 18 Sep 2017 |

    German election to define speed and shape of energy transition

    18 Sep 2017, 00:00 With Germans about to cast their votes in the federal election, Chancellor Angela Merkel is virtually certain to retain power. But the make-up of the next coalition will be key to how the new government tackles a host of energy and ...
  • 02 Jul 2020 |

    Germany's wind power records conceal sector's woes, industry group BWE says

    02 Jul 2020, 12:57 Expert BWE- German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business ...
  • 17 Sep 2024 |

    Investments in reducing emissions would help grow EU economy 鈥 report

    17 Sep 2024, 13:50 Jack McGovan Policy 麻豆无码版 The investments needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040 would help grow the EU economy by around two percent, think tank Agora Energiewende said in a report. It analysed the ...
  • 13 Jan 2020 |

    Successful decarbonisation in Germany also hinges on labour unions' support 鈥 Merkel

    13 Jan 2020, 13:54 Expert German Trade Union Association Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Bundesvorstand Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 Labour unions are necessary for organising the collective ...
  • 02 Sep 2019 |

    Economy minister aims to lower German electricity prices as industry moans

    02 Sep 2019, 13:08 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices dpa Economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said he aims to lower German electricity prices in the country's climate cabinet, where聽 key decisions 聽on German climate action legislation ...
  • 11 Oct 2018 |

    Merkel calls EU car emission deal 鈥渄efensible鈥

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel endorsed a hard-fought EU environment minister compromise deal for a 35 percent cut in new car emissions by 2030, reports news agency Reuters. 鈥(There is) a revisions clause for 2021, since the question of how fast we can ...
  • 06 Jun 2017 |

    Economy ministry publishes results of consultations on energy efficiency green book and 鈥淓lectricity 2030鈥 paper

    The federal economy ministry (BMWi) has published the results of the discussion process concerning last year鈥檚 green book on energy efficiency and the impulse paper on long term trends 鈥淓lectricity 2030鈥. BMWi plans a white book on energy efficiency as a ...
  • 08 Oct 2020 |

    Daimler works council opposes pure focus on e-mobility

    08 Oct 2020, 14:19 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs S枚ren Amelang Cars Automobilwoche / dpa /Handelsblatt The Daimler works council has warned the carmaker against focusing solely on electric mobility. "Electric mobility is ...
  • 08 Feb 2019 |

    Two thirds of Germans in favour of free public transport offers

    08 Feb 2019, 13:42 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Transport Cars Society 麻豆无码版 A large majority of Germans say that public transportation services should be offered free of charge, ...
  • 26 Aug 2024 |

    Bavarian draft law to boost housing construction threatens climate plans 鈥 municipalities

    26 Aug 2024, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Construction S眉ddeutsche Zeitung A draft "modernisation" law intended to speed up housing construction in the southern German state of Bavaria has met resistance in cities and municipalities, as local ...
  • 10 Oct 2019 |

    Coal exit commission members say timely phase-out in danger

    10 Oct 2019, 13:46 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Coal 麻豆无码版 / Spiegel Online Five ...
  • 06 Jan 2020 |

    Media sees Austria鈥檚 Conservative-Green coalition as role model for Germany

    06 Jan 2020, 14:22 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 Austria鈥檚 new government coalition of designated conservative chancellor Sebastian Kurz and the Green Party could serve as a role model for Germany, say several commentaries in ...
  • 08 Aug 2017 |

    2030 goal of Austrian transport minister: only emissions-free car registrations

    The transport minister of Austria wants to see new registration of conventional cars phased-out by 2030, writes Handelsblatt. 鈥淚t is my goal that in 2030, only emissions-free cars will be registered in Austria,鈥 Austrian transport minister J枚rg ...
  • 21 Jan 2019 |

    Offshore wind industry calls for more ambitious goals as generation grows

    21 Jan 2019, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Wind 麻豆无码版 Offshore wind power capacity in Germany鈥檚 territorial waters grew steadily in 2018, but the wind power industry says it will have to speed up to meet energy transition ...
  • 26 Mar 2020 |

    Climate slides on Germans' list of concerns, Merkel's party reaps credit for corona response- poll

    26 Mar 2020, 14:07 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Society RTL / n-tv A new poll finds support for Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative coalition has risen sharply as the coronavirus pandemic has hit Germany, while concern over the urgency of climate action has ...
  • 14 Feb 2019 |

    Renewable development must minimise impact on wildlife 鈥 govt agency

    14 Feb 2019, 14:09 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Renewables 麻豆无码版 Germany must pay more attention to the impact of renewable power development on habitats and species, the country鈥檚 Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) says. ...
  • 15 Sep 2020 |

    German wind industry hopeful amid expansion recovery but laments regional imbalance

    15 Sep 2020, 14:25 Expert BWE- German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Kerstine Appunn Wind 麻豆无码版 Over 2,000 megawatts (MW) of onshore wind installations ...
  • Contested forest and loud criticism cloud 3rd coal commission session

    23 Aug 2018, 11:30 The German coal exit commission has set out on a tight schedule to devise a plan for phasing out the fossil power source 鈥 but shortly before its third official meeting federal states and opposition politicians have complained about a ...
  • 28 Nov 2019 |

    New SUV registrations in Germany to exceed one million in one year

    28 Nov 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Welt Online The boom of SUVs continues unabated in Germany, topping one million newly registered vehicles in a single year for the first time in 2019, Philipp Vetter聽 writes 聽for the Welt Online. The Center for ...
  • 19 Dec 2022 |

    Preview 2023: 麻豆无码版 saving and supply increase are key to address gas shortage next year 鈥 analyst

    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 ...
  • 25 Oct 2022 |

    Renewable energy exports key pillar for Ukraine鈥檚 reconstruction 鈥 chancellor Scholz

    25 Oct 2022, 13:34 麻豆无码版 exports to western Europe are one of the pillars a future Ukrainian economy could rest on, Germany鈥檚 chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukraine鈥檚 president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a conference in Berlin on the war-torn country鈥檚 ...
  • 28 Sep 2020 |

    German govt says push for climate neutrality is major opportunity for financial sector

    28 Sep 2020, 14:12 S枚ren Amelang Finance 麻豆无码版 The German government is urging Europe's financial sector to see the shift to a more sustainable economy as a major business opportunity. "Transforming the economy towards greater ...
  • 28 Jan 2019 |

    Daimler asks economy minister for help against stricter lorry emission targets

    28 Jan 2019, 12:51 Kerstine Appunn Freight Handelsblatt German lorry producer Daimler is worried about the current debate about stricter CO2 emission rules in Brussels and has written to economy minister Peter Altmaier to intervene on their behalf at EU ...
  • 20 May 2020 |

    German government adopts higher CO2 starting price of 25 euros per tonne for transport and heating

    20 May 2020, 13:55 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
  • 02 Aug 2024

    In brief | 2 August '24

    02 Aug 2024, 11:00 麻豆无码版 Team Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: Tipping risks from overshooting 1.5 掳C can be minimised Impact can be reduced if the warming is swiftly reversed, meaning emissions reduction in the current decade is crucial for ...
  • Auditors: German govt must manage Energiewende better, need CO2 price

    28 Sep 2018, 12:24 Germany still lacks an overview of the total cost of the Energiewende and the government must improve cost transparency, efficiency and coordination of the energy transition in order to keep citizens鈥 trust, the Federal Court of ...
  • 06 Jul 2016 |

    Federal budget 2017: Investment into digitalisation and energy transition

    The federal government cabinet has today decided on the draft budget for 2017 鈥 which now has to be approved by parliament. The economy and energy department will be allocated 7.4 billion euros, 3 billion of which will be used in research, development and ...
  • 23 Oct 2015

    Bavaria's energy concept / A record-breaking fuel cell

    23 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淎n energy concept that electrifies no one鈥 Bavaria will have to import 40-50 percent of its consumed electricity in 2025, Daniela Kuhr writes in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The ...
  • Daimler partners with China鈥檚 Geely to make Smart a leading e-car brand

    29 Mar 2019, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs International 麻豆无码版 German carmaker Daimler has teamed up with China鈥檚 Geely to develop the Daimler brand Smart into a 鈥渓eader in premium-electrified vehicles,鈥 the companies say in ...
  • German coalition talks stuck over climate, energy policy

    27 Oct 2017, 00:00 Germany鈥檚 future energy and climate policy has proven the expected difficult issue in Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 effort to form a government coalition of her conservatives, the Free Democrats, and the Green Party. According to media ...
  • 26 Nov 2019 |

    EU mining regions say 鈥渃lean coal鈥 can ease transition, NGOs reject claim

    26 Nov 2019, 12:58 S枚ren Amelang Coal 麻豆无码版 Europe's mining regions call for EU support for "clean coal" technologies to ease their transition, but climate activists warned the coal exit must not be delayed by promoting " ...
  • 02 Aug 2021 |

    Time is right for European solar industry renaissance 鈥 solar industry

    02 Aug 2021, 12:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background After years of dependence on imports from Asia, the time is right to push for a renaissance of the solar industry in Europe, industry representatives Christian M眉ller ...
  • 13 Jan 2022 |

    E-fuels no solution for cleaning up existing car fleet 鈥 new German transport minister

    13 Jan 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Government Der Tagesspiegel The existing combustion engine vehicle fleet in Germany cannot be made climate-neutral by switching to synthetic e-fuels, new transport minister Volker Wissing has said. In an interview ...
  • 29 Aug 2024 |

    Insurers expect weather damage worth 7 billion euros in 2024 in Germany, call for binding adaptation

    29 Aug 2024, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Insurance companies expect damages from extreme weather events in Germany to amount to at least seven billion euros by the end of 2024 and are calling on the government to ...
  • 14 Jul 2020 |

    BlackRock's ESG shift mounts sustainability pressure on Germany's energy-hungry companies

    14 Jul 2020, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Business & Jobs Finance Handelsblatt The strategic shift of US investment management firm BlackRock to align its financial operations with sustainability criteria starts having an impact on ...
  • German economy heading for deep slump and lower emissions due to coronavirus

    20 Mar 2020, 15:00 The economic crisis caused by the new coronavirus will sharply slow economic activity and the associated greenhouse gas emissions in Germany. The extremely wide range of current economic forecasts is making detailed predictions for CO2 ...
  • The Berlin 麻豆无码版 Transition Dialogue 2018

    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 麻豆无码版 Transition Dialogue on 17-18 April 2018. The 麻豆无码版 will give a ...
  • 04 Jul 2024 |

    High-income earners in Germany emit twice as much CO2 as low-income households- report

    04 Jul 2024, 14:13 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Society 麻豆无码版 The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) has found that high-income households emit more greenhouse gases than poorer citizens due primarily to their travel habits. ...
  • 27 Sep 2022 |

    Leaks in both Nord Stream gas pipelines put European authorities on alert

    27 Sep 2022, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background / Deutsche Welle Authorities in Germany, Sweden and Denmark are investigating a sudden drop of pressure in the two offshore Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines ...
  • 28 Nov 2018 |

    E-mobility could lead to lower household power prices in Germany

    28 Nov 2018, 16:16 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars Cost & Prices Fraunhofer ISI The growing number of electric cars in Germany could in the long run bring down household power prices, the research institute Fraunhofer ISI says in a press ...
  • 27 Oct 2017

    Coalition talks on climate goals, energy policy "heated"- negotiator

    27 Oct 2017, 00:00 As expected, Germany鈥檚 future energy and climate policy has emerged as the main stumbling block in Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 effort to form a government coalition of her conservatives, the Free Democrats, and the Green Party. Talks got ...
  • 03 Feb 2025 |

    Germany warns U.S. against imposing tariffs on EU goods

    03 Feb 2025, 13:35 Jennifer Collins International K枚lner Stadtanzeiger / Tagesspiegel / 麻豆无码版 / Politico The German government has warned U.S. president Donald Trump against starting a trade war with Europe, saying that if the country imposes ...
  • 15 Oct 2024

    In brief | 15 October '24

    15 Oct 2024, 13:39 麻豆无码版 Team European Council: COP29: EU calls for efforts to keep the 1.5掳C goal within reach The Council approved conclusions that will serve as the EU鈥檚 general negotiating position for the UN climate change conference starting on 11 ...
  • 10 Aug 2016

    鈥淗ow cross-border electricity trading can work better鈥

    A study by Agora Energiewende* found that rules regulating electricity markets in the countries of Central Western Europe vary widely from each other, making it difficult for the nations to optimally use the flexibility of the electricity system. ...
  • 10 Dec 2015 |

    Pulling the plug on nuclear

    10 Dec 2015, 12:00 The question is no longer whether Germany鈥檚 future will be nuclear-free 鈥 or even when, since the government is committed to completing the phase-out by 2022. But the logistics of pulling the plug on what was until recently one of the ...
  • 03 Sep 2024

    In brief | 3 September '24

    03 Sep 2024, 11:00 麻豆无码版 Team Bloomberg: Germany鈥檚 populist surge puts nation鈥檚 climate momentum at risk With Germany facing vast changes, voters have little interest in more climate rules. The campaigns in both former communist states were mainly ...
  • 鈥淎 Sunday almost without coal power鈥

    German coal plants on last Sunday contributed the lowest amount of electricity to the country鈥檚 power mix ever recorded in recent times, energy think tank Agora Energiewende* said in a press release. Power production from coal and lignite plants stood at ...
  • 09 Aug 2023 |

    EU report says making green hydrogen in Germany uneconomical, questioning government plans

    09 Aug 2023, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 / Table.Media The production of green hydrogen in Germany will not be financially viable also in the long term, according to a聽 report 聽commissioned by the European Commission. A hydrogen economy ...
  • 29 Oct 2015 |

    COP21 Interview: Paris deal "no guaranteed home run"

    29 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 09 Nov 2017 |

    New lawsuits over diesel emissions in German cities

    Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has announced it will expand its legal action over air pollution from diesel cars to several more German cities. In a press release, the environmental organisation said it would sue authorities in the cities of Kiel, ...
  • 26 Nov 2024 |

    麻豆无码版 company RWE remains dominant in German electricity market 鈥 competition authority

    26 Nov 2024, 13:21 Jack McGovan Electricity market 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 company RWE has been found for the fifth time in a row to be in a dominant position in the German electricity market, according to a report by the Federal Cartel Office. Although ...
  • 05 Aug 2024

    In brief | 5 August '24

    05 Aug 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Politico: No, the EV isn鈥檛 dead 鈥 just briefly comatose Despite gloomy stories about the collapse in sales of electric vehicles, what鈥檚 really happening on the markets is more of a pause than a retreat. Benar News: New ...
  • 20 Aug 2020 |

    Germany鈥檚 gypsum supply threatened by coal exit- report

    20 Aug 2020, 13:39 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Tagespiegel Background Germany鈥檚 coal exit is threatening the country鈥檚 supply of gypsum, Steven Hanke reports in Tagesspiegel Background. More than half of the gypsum used in Germany is derived ...
  • 18 Jun 2018 |

    Germany's coal commission model for fair decarbonisation- union rep

    18 Jun 2018, 14:58 Social justice should be a guiding principle of modern climate policy, German environment minister Svenja Schulze said at the opening of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin. Samantha Smith of the International Trade Union ...
  • Germany assesses risks of coalition break-up over budget row as U.S. vote looms large

    05 Nov 2024, 13:24 Government members and political observers have warned that Germany must avoid a high-stakes gamble among government coalition parties at critical time for the country and Europe. As disunity in the three-party coalition becomes more ...
  • 26 Jun 2018 |

    German environment and economy ministers disagree on EU car emission reduction targets

    As the European Union is preparing to introduce new rules that will limit CO 2 emissions from cars and vans between 2021 and 2030, environment minister Svenja Schulze has called for these limits to be strict. 鈥淭he transport sector is our problem child,鈥 ...
  • 23 Dec 2021 |

    Share of alternative engines in German car registrations doubles again to over 40% in 2021

    23 Dec 2021, 12:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 麻豆无码版 / Handelsblatt More than 40 percent of all cars newly registered in Germany between January and October 2021 came with an alternative engine, the country鈥檚 federal energy agency dena said in its ...
  • A successful energy transition requires CO2-oriented energy price reform 鈥 KfW

    26 Mar 2019, 13:28 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 energy transition and integration of renewable power sources ...
  • 20 Jan 2017 |

    鈥淭ransportation Electrification Policy in California and Germany鈥

    While the German and Californian transport transitions face common challenges, German lawmakers could derive valuable best practices from the US state鈥檚 鈥渕ore advanced stage鈥, according to a report by the Ahead project, a joint initiative of the Potsdam ...
  • 03 Jun 2019 |

    VW CEO Diess under fire for suggesting postponing nuclear exit in Germany

    03 Jun 2019, 14:10 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Cars 麻豆无码版 VW CEO Herbert Diess has drawn heavy criticism for suggesting that Germany should first exit coal instead of nuclear power in order to protect the climate. Environment state ...
  • 21 Aug 2020 |
    Gas

    German municipal gas pipe leaks cause more than 1 mio t CO2 emissions

    21 Aug 2020, 13:59 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Gas Der Spiegel Methane leaks in municipal gas pipe systems produce an estimated 1.3 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents annually in Germany, according to Der Spiegel, which cites a new study by an ...
  • 10 Nov 2020 |

    麻豆无码版 industry calls on German states to harmonise species protection laws for wind power

    10 Nov 2020, 13:56 Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 Rules about bird protection will have to be standardised in all 16 states if Germany is to reach its wind power expansion targets, a group of energy industry associations have argued. ...
  • 08 Oct 2021 |

    Germany needs 20-30 GW of new gas plants to ensure supply security 鈥 RWE CEO

    08 Oct 2021, 12:00 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
  • 22 Nov 2024

    In brief | 22 November '24

    22 Nov 2024, 10:56 麻豆无码版 Team Bloomberg: VW union calls for December walkouts in dispute over cuts Labour leaders and management are struggling to agree on how to cope with a drop in demand for electric vehicles, higher operation costs and increasing ...
  • 23 Nov 2016 |

    Auto industry workers propose halving transport emissions by 2030

    Auto industry unions fear the pending transport revolution puts hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk, reports Alfons Frese in Tagesspiegel. Metalworkers union IG Metall and the heads of work councils at VW, Daimler, Opel, Bosch and Continental propose to ...
  • 16 Jun 2015

    In the media: Germany weighs further support for e-cars

    16 Jun 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Reuters 鈥淢erkel says Germany weighing further support for electric cars鈥 Chancellor Angela Merkel said further public support is needed to achieve the government鈥檚 aim of bringing 1 million electric cars on to ...
  • 22 Dec 2020 |

    Europe's wind and e-car industry dependent on China's magnetic metals

    22 Dec 2020, 13:14 Edgar Meza Industry WirtschaftsWoche The green energy industry, in particular the wind energy sector, has become increasingly dependent on China for vital magnetic metals, writes Stefan Hajek in WirtschaftsWoche Online. Wind farms are ...
  • 鈥淟usatia rejects its approaching decline鈥

    The coal mining industry in Germany鈥檚 eastern region Lusatia refuses to accept that it faces a similar destiny as the country鈥檚 nuclear industry, Daniel Wetzel writes on Welt Online. Those employed in the industry feel that 鈥渂rown coal, which has formed ...
  • 16 Sep 2024 |

    Germany should prioritise urban revitalisation over new construction 鈥 researchers

    16 Sep 2024, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Construction 麻豆无码版 Germany should make better use of existing buildings instead of focusing on new construction to solve the housing shortage, researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and ...
  • 06 Mar 2020 |

    Banks say German sustainable finance report impractical, insist on EU rules

    06 Mar 2020, 14:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 麻豆无码版 Germany's banks say the country should push for EU-wide rules on sustainable finance, instead of creating its own "counterproductive" framework. In reaction to the first interim ...
  • 24 Jan 2022 |

    Utilities welcome Germany's pro-gas taxonomy feedback, but environmentalists cry foul

    24 Jan 2022, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Gas EU 麻豆无码版 Utilities have welcomed the German government's pro-natural gas stance in its feedback to the European Commission鈥檚 sustainable finance taxonomy plans, but ...
  • 17 Jun 2024 |

    Investigating fraudulent climate projects in China 鈥渉ighest priority鈥 鈥 German govt agency

    17 Jun 2024, 12:12 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Tagesspiegel Background / ZDF The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has said that it is fully focused on investigating fraudulent emissions reduction projects in China, which oil companies ...
  • 09 Dec 2019 |

    E-mobility not the be-all and the end-all to reducing carbon says Deutsche Bank

    09 Dec 2019, 13:08 Rose-Anne Clermont Cars 麻豆无码版 Electric passenger cars are being given too much focus as a way of reducing carbon emissions, analysts at Deutsche Bank Research said in a paper, titled ' E-mobility: Without subsidies ...
  • 14 Feb 2019 |

    Saving Hambach Forest would make it 鈥淕ermany鈥檚 most expensive woodland鈥- RWE CEO

    14 Feb 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Utilities 麻豆无码版 Hambach Forest in western Germany could be saved following the German coal exit commission鈥檚 agreement, but only at great cost, RWE head Rolf Martin Schmitz said ...
  • German parliament passes renewables reform, paves way for hydrogen ramp-up

    17 Dec 2020, 14:20 Kerstine Appunn Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 麻豆无码版 The German parliament has passed the聽 latest reform of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG),聽which specifies a timeline of tenders for renewable power installation additions until ...
  • 19 Apr 2021 |

    German grid agency expects too little interest in next wind power auction, cuts capacity

    19 Apr 2021, 13:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation ...
  • Exchange of experiences necessary for successful global energy transition 鈥 report

    03 Apr 2019, 12:25 Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Energiewende International German 麻豆无码版 Agency (dena) An international exchange of experiences ...
  • 14 Sep 2016 |

    鈥淭oo many targets from Brussels鈥

    EU Commission plans for a binding efficiency energy saving target of 30 percent by 2030 do not make sense, writes Hendrik Kafsack in a commentary for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淭he EU has the clear target to reduce emissions by 40 percent by 2030. ...
  • 06 Dec 2024

    In brief | 6 December '24

    06 Dec 2024, 12:28 麻豆无码版 Team S&P Globa l: Spain's Grenergy sees Germany, US as prime markets for battery storage expansion "Fantastic opportunity in Germany for stand-alone [battery] projects," chairman says. AFP: Europe's oldest ...
  • 18 Jun 2020 |

    New VW brand chief downplays thrust of carmaker's electric transition

    18 Jun 2020, 14:47 Cars dpa / Focus Online / Auto Motor und Sport The new brand chief of VW, Ralf Brandst盲tter, has appeared to play down the group鈥檚 transition to a full focus on electric vehicles, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Focus ...
  • 30 Aug 2024

    In brief | 30 August '24

    30 Aug 2024, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann DW: Why are the German state elections so important? For the first time in post-war German history a far-right party could win a state election. Euractiv: The ins and outs of approving EU Commissioners EU member states ...
  • 01 Mar 2019 |

    Most Germans say it is right to close nuclear plants before coal plants

    01 Mar 2019, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Nuclear phase-out 麻豆无码版 Nearly half of the people in Germany say the plan to close nuclear plants before coal is right, a survey commissioned by price comparison website Verivox has found. In the ...
  • North Rhine-Westphalia key to Germany鈥檚 energy transition 鈥 report

    In order for Germany to meet its 2030 emissions reduction target, a rapid phase-out of coal-fired electricity generation is needed across the country, but especially in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), according to a report published by ...
  • 21 Nov 2019 |

    Slow, disruptive climate policies risk to financial stability 鈥 Bundesbank

    21 Nov 2019, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 麻豆无码版 Businesses' necessary adaptation to climate change and potentially disruptive policy decisions in the move to a climate-friendly low-carbon economy are the biggest risks global warming ...
  • 18 Nov 2024

    In brief | 18 November '24

    18 Nov 2024, 13:20 麻豆无码版 Team Bloomberg: Germany鈥檚 would-be leader touts his recipe for a growth miracle Merz wants voters to back a distinctly pro-business agenda Political compromises may water down what he can achieve DW: Germany approves more ...
  • Expert commission gives Energiewende status - "Greatest need for action" in transport sector

    Germany is likely to miss several of its energy transition goals by 2020, including greenhouse gas reduction and transport sector goals, writes an expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German Energiewende in a short interim ...
  • 21 Nov 2019 |

    Solar parks have positive effect on biodiversity 鈥 study

    21 Nov 2019, 13:13 Expert bne- Association of 麻豆无码版 Market Innovators Bundesverband Neue Energiewirtschaft Electricity market Grid Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 麻豆无码版 Solar parks can have a positive effect on plant and animal life ...
  • Germany must transform power system 'at Tesla speed' but tread carefully regarding Russian imports- econ min

    09 Mar 2022, 13:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Security 麻豆无码版 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 ...
  • 13 Aug 2021 |

    Europe's largest auto show to look beyond cars but activists decry 'greenwashing'

    13 Aug 2021, 13:33 Europe's largest car fair IAA is set to become a showdown between climate activists and an automotive industry eager to prove its green credentials when it takes place next month. The show, which has been moved from Frankfurt to ...
  • 13 Nov 2024 |

    German city announces decommissioning of gas grid by 2035, encourages heat pump purchases

    13 Nov 2024, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating 麻豆无码版 The transition to climate-friendly heating is slowly gathering pace in Germany with the country's first major city announcing a 2035 phase-out date for its gas grid. MVV, the local ...
  • 24 Nov 2020 |

    Hesse's hydropower operators anxious water protection decree will stifle business model

    24 Nov 2020, 13:26 Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Hydropower plant operators in the central German state of Hesse are fighting what they consider to be too strict and unjustified environmental regulations, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. A ...
  • 06 Sep 2024 |

    Infrastructure key to leverage 鈥済reat potential鈥 of Europe-MENA energy cooperation 鈥 econ minister

    06 Sep 2024, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Electricity Gas 麻豆无码版 Electricity connectors and pipelines are crucial to leverage the potential of closer cooperation on energy and climate between Europe and the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA) region, ...
  • 02 Aug 2017 |

    German carmakers pledge diesel software updates and buyer鈥檚 bonus

    02 Aug 2017, 00:00 German carmakers VW, Daimler and BMW 鈥 under pressure to act after the diesel emissions scandal 鈥 pledged to install emissions control software updates in about 5 million diesel passenger cars, offer buyer鈥檚 premiums for customers ...
  • 12 Mar 2019 |

    Germany should make its energy policy fully European to improve it 鈥 DIHK head

    12 Mar 2019, 14:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Grid International Tagesspiegel In order to achieve the best possible climate action in ...
  • 17 Jan 2023 |

    Oil and gas supplies made Germany Norway's most important export partner in 2022

    17 Jan 2023, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann International 麻豆无码版 Germany imported around 62 billion euros of Norwegian natural gas, oil and condensates in 2022 and has become the country鈥檚 number one goods importer, said the German-Norwegian chamber ...
  • 15 Aug 2024

    In brief | 15 August '24

    15 Aug 2024, 10:00 Julian Wettengel Wallstreet Journal: The story of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage Private businessmen funded the shoestring operation, which was overseen by a top general; President Zelensky approved the plan, then tried ...
  • 08 Jun 2016

    Renewables reform / Merkel: Energiewende must not destroy utilities

    08 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Federal government Renewables law reform gets government approval Angela Merkel鈥檚 cabinet has decided on the reform of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) that is to take ...
  • 16 Jan 2023 |

    Heat pump and e-car boom threatens local electricity grids 鈥 German agency

    16 Jan 2023, 13:54 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Grid Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The spread of heat pumps and electric vehicles could lead to local power cuts in parts of Germany where the grid is not yet prepared for an increase in ...
  • 30 Jan 2024 |

    Climate change allows migrating birds' early return from winter refuge to Germany- biologist

    30 Jan 2024, 13:46 Franca Quecke Climate & CO2 Adaptation The first cranes are returning to Germany already in January 2024 from their wintering grounds further south as they migrate to north-eastern Europe to breed, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
  • Renewables to dominate future EU energy supply despite nuclear buzz- German engineers

    24 Jan 2025, 12:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables 麻豆无码版 The Association of German Engineers (VDI) has cautioned that new-found enthusiasm for nuclear power, as a means to mitigate global warming, must not slow the rollout of ...
  • 10 Jul 2024 |

    Germany鈥檚 econ min says change of government would not derail climate neutrality push

    10 Jul 2024, 13:34 S枚ren Amelang Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Germany鈥檚 Green Party economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has expressed confidence that the country鈥檚 efforts to reach climate neutrality by 2045 would not be derailed by a ...
  • 麻豆无码版 industry calls on govt to facilitate EU state aid approval of renewables support

    07 Apr 2021, 12:51 Expert BEE- German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 10 Oct 2017 |

    Technology-neutral scenarios best for Germany鈥檚 future energy system - study

    Germany can lower its CO鈧 emissions by 90 percent by 2050 if current technologies are used in the most efficient way for an ambitious transformation of the country鈥檚 energy system, writes the German 麻豆无码版 Agency (dena) in a press release. The next ...
  • 15 Aug 2022 |

    German govt renews call to brace for hard winter, introduces new gas saving measures

    15 Aug 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 麻豆无码版 Leading members of the German government have renewed calls for perseverance and willingness to make sacrifices to beat the energy crisis, with the upcoming heating season set to drive up ...
  • 23 Sep 2021 |

    Government calls hydrogen strategy a success, but utilities see 'construction site'

    23 Sep 2021, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 One year on from the National Hydrogen Strategy launch, Germany鈥檚 government and industries are divided over its implementation. While the government鈥檚 interim report ...
  • German states and federal government clash over renewables law reform

    13 Nov 2020, 14:53 Kerstine Appunn Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG Government pv magazine / 麻豆无码版 The German government this week rejected a range of changes to the draft reform of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG), which had been proposed by the the ...
  • German climate envoy expects 鈥渄ifficult discussions鈥 on COP29 at upcoming minister meeting

    23 Apr 2024, 14:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 麻豆无码版 This year's Petersberg Climate Dialogue will create space for ministers from about 40 countries to have "difficult discussions" on international climate ...
  • 09 Jun 2015

    In the media: "G7 leaders bid 'Auf Wiedersehen' to carbon fuels"

    09 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淎 new world economy鈥 鈥淲hoever thought international climate policy was a temporary phenomenon, like a heavy thunderstorm with dark clouds, should quickly rethink,鈥 ...
  • 01 Dec 2015 |

    COP21 Interview: Old business models are challenged by Energiewende

    01 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 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 31 Jan 2018 |

    EU 2030 car fleet emission rules translate into quota for electric vehicles - VW head of technology

    The EU鈥檚 fleet emission limits for 2030 will have an effect similar to a quota for electric cars, according to Volkswagen. The new limits will be so low that carmakers could only reach them by selling a certain percentage of electric vehicles, said Stefan ...
  • 鈥淜ey Policy Actions for Sustainable Land and Water Use to Serve People鈥

    G20 countries should develop and share renewable energy innovation in water use, food and agriculture to ensure food security, according to policy recommendations by the G20 think tank network T20 Task Force Towards Ending Hunger and Sustainable ...
  • Germany considers subsidising offshore wind electricity for industry users

    09 Jan 2023, 14:28 Julian Wettengel Wind Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German economy ministry is working on a proposal to subsidise offshore electricity for industry customers through an auction scheme in order to shield companies against ...
  • 08 Sep 2017 |

    Frankfurt car show puts spotlight on German carmakers鈥 troubles

    08 Sep 2017, 00:00 Dieselgate, looming driving bans in German cities, an election debate on phasing out combustion engines, and the rapid ascent of e-car rival Tesla 鈥 this year鈥檚 Frankfurt car show (IAA) comes at an awkward time for German carmakers. The ...
  • 23 Sep 2024

    In brief | 23 September '24

    23 Sep 2024, 11:23 麻豆无码版 Team DW: Germany increases 'Deutschlandticket' price to 鈧58 The "Deutschlandticket" monthly travel pass allows passengers unlimited trips on local and regional trains, trams and buses. Starting in 2025, the ...
  • Solar industry warns German renewables reform could choke off roof-mounted installations

    04 Nov 2020, 13:57 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 麻豆无码版 The reform of Germany& ...
  • 12 May 2020 |

    German econ minister proposes levies, cheap electricity for wind power communities

    12 May 2020, 13:07 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Wind In聽an effort聽to reduce ...
  • 01 Jun 2022 |

    Fuel price rebate in Germany takes effect, observers expect oil companies to cash in

    01 Jun 2022, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices WDR A new controversial fuel price rebate took effect in Germany on 1 June as part of a government package aimed at cushioning the financial impact of the Ukraine war on citizens. Through ...
  • 25 Aug 2022 |

    Germany plans to increase biogas production to substitute Russian imports

    25 Aug 2022, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Bioenergy 麻豆无码版 Germany is betting on more biogas production in order to save natural gas with a view to possible shortages during the winter. The government will remove regulatory hurdles to an increase of ...
  • 14 Jun 2018 |

    EU strikes deal on 32 percent renewables target after all-night session

    Talks on renewable energy policy in Europe have achieved an unexpected breakthrough, as negotiators from the European Parliament and the EU member states were able to reach a compromise, report Dave Keating and Fr茅d茅ric Simon for EURACTIV. The deal ...
  • 29 Feb 2024 |

    Germany's 2023/24 winter unusually wet and third warmest on record 鈥 meteorological service

    29 Feb 2024, 13:44 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 / Die Zeit Germany has experienced its third warmest winter season since records began, according to the country's meteorological service,聽DWD. An average temperature of 4.1 ...
  • 17 Apr 2023 |

    Germany's nuclear power era ends as remaining reactors go offline as planned

    17 Apr 2023, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Policy The age of nuclear power in Germany ended on Saturday (15 April) after more than 60 years with the decommissioning of the country鈥檚 three remaining reactors. Operators said the switch-off happened ...
  • 17 Jun 2019 |

    Bavaria鈥檚 conservative state premier says Germany鈥檚 2038 coal exit 鈥渢oo late鈥

    17 Jun 2019, 12:47 Sven Egenter Coal Elections & Politics S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany鈥檚 planned exit from coal-fired power generation by 2038 is 鈥渢oo late from a climate policy perspective鈥, said Markus S枚der, the Bavarian state premier and leader of ...
  • 18 Dec 2020 |

    Germany needs integrated network planning for electricity and gas 鈥 study

    18 Dec 2020, 14:11 Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Electricity Grid 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background The separate planning procedures ...
  • 鈥淒ieselgate: Green group grumbles over 'Mickey Mouse' summit鈥

    The diesel summit agreement from 2 August to upgrade software in five million vehicles, set up a mobility fund, and offer buyer鈥檚 bonuses can be described as 鈥淢ickey Mouse policies鈥 that may cut harmful emissions by five percent at best, Jens Thurau ...
  • 30 Nov 2016 |

    Study shows possibilities for reduced grid expansion after 2030

    A power grid stress test by network operator TenneT shows that the need for grid expansion could be significantly lower after 2030. According to the study, increased use of combined PV and storage in Germany鈥檚 south, together with less wind power ...
  • 11 Dec 2017 |

    Private climate finance under scrutiny on eve of Paris summit

    11 Dec 2017, 00:00 A round of fresh 鈥榞reen鈥 finance pledges by companies and investors marks the kickoff on 12 December in Paris of a climate finance summit initiated by French President Emmanuel Macron. However, NGOs say that the developments so far have ...
  • 14 Mar 2018 |

    Germany鈥檚 energy transition requires grid expansion, even with decentralised solutions 鈥 study

    A study by the 脰ko-Institut for the Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI) and Germanwatch聽says Germany has little chance of generating electricity close enough to consumers to make planned grid expansion unnecessary. In a meta-study comparing the conclusions ...
  • 31 Oct 2024 |

    Germany should consider hydrogen derived from iron 鈥 report

    31 Oct 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Germany should consider the import of direct reduced iron as a way to produce the hydrogen that is needed to generate electricity in its planned backup power plants, says a report by Norwegian ...
  • 13 Dec 2018 |

    COP24 blog: Rulebook's technical details are sticking point- German negotiator

    13 Dec 2018, 17:40 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 ...
  • 18 Jun 2019 |

    Germany trails China and US in installed renewables capacity 鈥 REN21 report

    18 Jun 2019, 13:36 S枚ren Amelang Renewables International 麻豆无码版 Germany trails China and the US in a global ranking of installed renewable power capacity. Excluding hydropower, capacity in Germany added up to 113 gigawatts (GW) in 2018, ...
  • 30 Jul 2024 |

    Carbon capture to be focus of Germany's next clean industry support auction

    30 Jul 2024, 13:04 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Industry 麻豆无码版 Technologies to capture and store or use carbon dioxide from industrial processes will become "a special focus" of the next round of Germany's pioneering subsidy ...
  • 07 Oct 2024 |

    Flat-rate train ticket reduced Germany鈥檚 transport emissions by 5% in first year 鈥 analysis

    07 Oct 2024, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Transport 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 flat-rate ticket for local and regional public transport, the Deutschlandticket, helped push people to switch from using cars to taking the train, which reduced car emissions by 6.7 ...
  • 26 Nov 2020 |

    More durable consumer goods can contribute significantly to GHG reduction 鈥 study

    26 Nov 2020, 13:55 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Business Society 麻豆无码版 Purchase decisions for durable products and their long-term use contribute ...
  • German connection to Dutch carbon storage project to see years' long delay 鈥 media report

    02 Sep 2024, 13:22 Jennifer Collins Carbon removal Industry International Die Welt A project that would connect Germany's Rhine-Ruhr industrial heartland to an undersea carbon storage project in the Dutch North Sea is set to be delayed by years, ...
  • 07 Dec 2018 |

    Climate and energy views of candidates to follow Merkel at helm of CDU

    07 Dec 2018, 09:13 With her decision not to seek re-election as party chair and chancellor, Angela Merkel has kicked off what is a novelty for her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU): an organised internal election campaign for the party鈥檚 ...
  • Conservative-Green government would mean painful compromises 鈥 analysts

    09 Jul 2019, 12:40 Sven Egenter Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Deutsche Bank Research / 麻豆无码版 A coalition between Germany鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Green Party following snap elections in case of a breakdown of the ...
  • 05 Dec 2015 |

    COP21 鈥 Day 6: Hard work ahead, more finance, elephants in the room

    05 Dec 2015, 00:00 UPDATE (adds NGO statement on climate finance pledge) Agreement on a draft agreement 鈥 with lots of options / Climate funding pledges reach $94 billion / Climate risk insurance can help dealing with loss and damages / Climate blind ...
  • 20 Oct 2016 |

    鈥淪efcovic wants to up the pressure on car industry to innovate鈥

    EU Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic has welcomed political efforts in Germany to decarbonise road transport, reports bizz energy. In an interview with the magazine, Sefcovic left open whether he would support the initiative by the council of the ...
  • 12 Sep 2017 |

    "Volkswagen spends billions more on electric cars in search for mass market鈥

    Volkswagen plans to invest more than 20 billion euros in zero-emission vehicles by 2030, Reuters reports. The carmaker said on Monday it would roll out 80 new electric cars by 2025, up from a previous goal of 30, with plans to offer electric versions of ...
  • 10 Jun 2020 |

    Minister calls hydrogen strategy 鈥渜uantum leap,鈥 but NGOs fear 鈥渄ead end鈥

    10 Jun 2020, 13:34 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen Industry 麻豆无码版 Germany's hydrogen strategy is a "quantum leap" that will lift the energy transition and climate protection to a "new qualitative level," according to the ...
  • 01 Nov 2018 |

    Government coalition reaches deal to boost renewable energy capacity

    Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and its Social Democrat (SPD) partners have agreed to keep their promise to speed up the expansion of renewable power installations, ending months of wrangling, reports Thorsten Severin for Reuters. ...
  • 22 Apr 2015

    In the media: Pressure on energy minister from all sides in coal levy debate

    22 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Spiegel Online Resistance among Christian Democrats against power market law Four senior members of Angela Merkel鈥檚 ruling Christian Democrats (CDU) have send a letter to all members of the CDU-CSU ...
  • 27 Feb 2018 |

    Reactions to Germany's court ruling on diesel driving bans

    27 Feb 2018, 00:00 Germany's Federal Administrative Court has ruled that cities can ban dirty diesel cars to improve local air quality. The 麻豆无码版 presents reactions to the landmark ruling from NGOs, politicians and industry associations. ...
  • Sharp fall of renewables levy good news for German power consumers in energy crunch

    15 Oct 2021, 12:32 Germany鈥檚 renewables levy will decrease to its lowest level in ten years as high wholesale power prices and support from the federal budget lower the need for payments from electricity consumers. This is good news for the economy and ...
  • Nationalism threat to energy transition investments, says Scholz at chip plant construction start

    20 Aug 2024, 12:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Business & Jobs Technology Reuters / 麻豆无码版 Nationalism and resentment endanger investments in key future technologies,聽Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz said at the ceremony for the start ...
  • 06 Aug 2015

    In the media: Energiewende 鈥渢op or flop鈥; PV auctions trial oversubscribed

    06 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 dpa 鈥淕reen state ministers criticise Gabriel鈥檚 Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) reform plans鈥 Environment and energy ministers from nine German states have warned Federal Minister for 麻豆无码版 and Economic ...
  • 24 Jun 2016 |

    鈥淢EPs call for more ambitious and consumer-focused energy targets beyond 2020鈥

    The European Parliament has called for raising the EU鈥檚 energy efficiency target to 40 percent by 2030 and for binding targets for member states to achieve the 30 percent renewables target by 2030. There should also be binding requirements for increasing ...
  • 01 Nov 2018 |

    Germans to vent Volkswagen fury in mass dieselgate suit

    German consumer groups have filed the country鈥檚 first class action lawsuit against VW over the emissions cheating scandal, reports newswire AFP in an article carried by the Business Times. "Volkswagen will remember this day as the moment the kid ...
  • 09 Dec 2024 |

    No gas power plant deal before election threat to East German coal exit 鈥 labour union

    09 Dec 2024, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas dpa / Die Welt A legislative standstill in plans to build new gas-fired power plants poses a threat to the transformation of East German coal-mining regions, the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) has said ...
  • Heat pump boom causes Germany鈥檚 biggest chip maker to expand capacity

    28 Mar 2023, 13:52 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Digitalisation Heating Handelsblatt Germany鈥檚 shift away from Russian gas, coupled with government plans to phase out fossil fuel heating systems, has led to a massive heat pump boom that is forcing the ...
  • 11 Mar 2019 |

    German homeowners unhappy with progress in heating sector transition

    11 Mar 2019, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Government 麻豆无码版 Most homeowners in Germany support the country鈥檚 transition towards a low-carbon economy but are unhappy with the project鈥檚 slow progress, a survey commissioned by heating ...
  • 31 Oct 2016 |

    State premiers unaware they recommended to phase out conventional cars by 2030

    German states鈥 resolution to recommend the phase-out of new combustion engine vehicles at EU level by 2030 was 鈥渙ne of the most brilliant political coups of recent years鈥, even if it was mainly symbolic, write Sven B枚ll and Horand Knaup in weekly magazine ...
  • 24 Oct 2024 |

    Green hydrogen, free trade, skilled workers on the agenda as German lawmakers visit India

    24 Oct 2024, 13:39 Jennifer Collins Policy International 麻豆无码版 / FAZ / ARD Germany's economy and climate minister Robet Habeck and Indian renewable energy minister Pralhad Joshi聽are set to unveil a green hydrogen roadmap during a聽meeting ...
  • 鈥淐oal exit by 2035鈥

    For Germany to meet the Paris Climate Agreement targets, a phase out of coal-fired power generation must be complete by 2035 and the oldest facilities shut down as soon as 2019, according to a study by the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) and ...
  • 04 Jan 2024 |

    Winter floods in Europe fit climate change models predicting more rain 鈥 researchers

    04 Jan 2024, 12:03 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Table ...
  • 27 Jun 2024 |

    Two in three Germans reject lower standard of living to protect the environment 鈥 survey

    27 Jun 2024, 14:07 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Society More than two thirds of Germans say they would 鈥渞ather not鈥 or 鈥渄efinitely not鈥 make financial sacrifices and lower their personal standard of living for the benefit of the climate, according to a ...
  • 12 Feb 2019 |

    Companies plan Germany鈥檚 first industrial-scale renewable hydrogen project

    12 Feb 2019, 14:14 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 German power grid operator Amprion and gas grid operator Open Grid Europe (OGE) are planning to build a 100 megawatt (MW) power-to-gas plant along with hydrogen infrastructure, a project they ...
  • 29 Nov 2024 |

    Industry alliance calls for strategy to decarbonise process heat in Germany

    29 Nov 2024, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Industry 麻豆无码版 Ahead of the German snap election, an alliance of industry associations has called on political parties to push for a government strategy to decarbonise heat that businesses use in their ...
  • 27 Aug 2024

    In brief | 27 August '24

    27 Aug 2024, 09:00 麻豆无码版 Team Financial Times: Spanish environmentalist poised to take charge of EU鈥檚 green agenda Teresa Ribera likely to become next commissioner for climate and environmen t, reports the FT. Bloomberg: Chinese EV maker Xpeng is looking ...
  • 17 Oct 2016 |

    鈥淩age against the car: No transport transition after the energy transition, please!鈥

    The Green party鈥檚 proposed ban on petrol and diesel engines by 2030 is 鈥渆conomically damaging, ecologically questionable, and practically impossible鈥, writes the head of Germany鈥檚 pro-business party FDP, Christian Lindner, in a commentary for Die Welt. He ...
  • Advisory council recommends establishing sovereign funds for transition to sustainability

    The G20 must resolutely advance and implement both the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, according to a special report by German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), an independent scientific advisory body. The nations ...
  • Germans want to eat in a more climate-friendly way, but don鈥檛 know how 鈥 survey

    07 Feb 2024, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang Agriculture Company climate claims 麻豆无码版 Three quarters of Germans are in favour of a binding climate label for food, according to a聽 survey 聽by health insurance provider AOK. Seventy-six percent agreed with ...
  • 07 Aug 2020 |

    British energy transition cheaper, more effective than Germany鈥檚 鈥 op-ed

    07 Aug 2020, 15:05 Coal Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The British green energy transition has proven cheaper and more effective than Germany鈥檚 because of factors including its use of market mechanisms and its embrace of nuclear power, ...
  • 27 Jan 2020 |

    German lignite operator rejects media report on excessive compensation

    27 Jan 2020, 14:20 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Coal dpa / Spiegel / 麻豆无码版 Eastern German lignite mine and power plant operator LEAG has rejected ...
  • 23 Sep 2024 |

    G7 key forum for pioneering cooperation on carbon removal 鈥 researchers

    23 Sep 2024, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal G20 & G7 麻豆无码版 The Group of Seven (G7) large industrial democracies can be a key forum for 鈥減ioneering new cooperation鈥 on carbon dioxide removal (CDR), wrote researchers from Germany and ...
  • 06 May 2021 |

    Retirements won't compensate combustion engine job losses in e-car boom- report

    06 May 2021, 13:11 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport S枚ren ...
  • 02 Dec 2022 |

    Regulation must enable markets for climate neutral products 鈥 German certifier T脺V

    02 Dec 2022, 11:59 Markets are usually good at establishing standards and compliance themselves to facilitate business, but climate neutral products and emission reductions appear to be an exception to this rule, says Georgios Agrafitiotis, auditor for ...
  • 29 Jul 2024

    In brief | 29 July '24

    29 Jul 2024, 11:00 Julian Wettengel Reuters: Trump effect in clean tech sector deepens angst in Europe's boardrooms European companies focused on clean energy are abandoning expansion plans, bracing for lower sales or see funding of U.S projects in ...
  • 11 Mar 2015

    In the media: Study- "Utilities' misery their own fault"

    11 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Reuters 鈥淓.ON paves way for spin-off following record loss鈥 Germany鈥檚 biggest utility, E.ON, booked its largest ever annual loss, as a result of its ailing power plants, Reuters reports. The ...
  • 17 Oct 2024 |

    Scholz announces German industry summit and 鈥渘ew industrial policy agenda鈥 ahead of EU summit

    17 Oct 2024, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs dpa / Zeit Online German chancellor Olaf Scholz has unveiled plans to hold an industry summit later this month in a bid to address the ongoing woes in the country鈥檚 manufacturing sector. ...
  • 11 Mar 2020 |

    City of Berlin adopts plan to reach 25 percent solar power by 2050

    11 Mar 2020, 13:33 Rachel Waldholz Solar Cities pv magazine / 麻豆无码版 The city of Berlin has adopted a plan to vastly expand the deployment of solar panels across the city鈥檚 rooftops, with the goal of supplying some 25 percent of the city鈥檚 ...
  • 17 Jun 2021 |

    New environmental lawsuit threatens Tesla Berlin factory with construction stop

    17 Jun 2021, 11:51 S枚ren 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 ...
  • 04 Sep 2020 |

    Increasing interest in power from old solar PV installations

    04 Sep 2020, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Solar pv magazine A growing number of regional utility companies are showing interest in buying electricity generated from solar PV installations that are more than 20 years old and will cease to receive feed-in payments ...
  • 29 Apr 2019 |

    Standstill in grand coalition working group on renewables expansion

    29 Apr 2019, 13:43 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert SPD- Social Democratic ...
  • 04 Sep 2020 |

    Electric car registrations climb to new record high in Germany

    04 Sep 2020, 14:03 S枚ren Amelang Cars 麻豆无码版 The share of new electric vehicle registrations in Germany reached a new record in August. The number of new purely electric vehicles (BEV) rose 220 percent from last year, to 16,076 vehicles. Their ...
  • 03 Jul 2024 |

    EU Emissions Trading System reduces air pollution 鈥 report

    03 Jul 2024, 13:21 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Society EU 麻豆无码版 / Spiegel The European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has reduced the emission of hazardous air pollutants like sulphur dioxide, particulate matter, and nitrogen oxides, ...
  • Protests in France highlight why a CO2 price must be socially fair- German minister

    27 Nov 2018, 15:07 Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Society Government Germany will ultimately need a price on greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors that does not overburden citizens with lower incomes in order to complete its ...
  • Higher prices during energy crisis pushed energy efficiency, renewables in German businesses 鈥 analysis

    28 Nov 2024, 13:04 Jack McGovan Industry Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Many German companies introduced energy efficiency measures and some shifted towards renewable power sources due to higher energy prices in the aftermath of ...
  • 08 Mar 2018 |

    Nitrogen dioxide emissions 鈥渟ignificant burden鈥 on human health - study

    Nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) concentration in Germany鈥檚 air is a 鈥渟ignificant burden鈥 on human health, and statistically led to about 6,000 premature deaths from cardiovascular diseases in 2014, down from about 8,000 in 2010, writes the Federal Environment ...
  • 28 Jun 2024 |

    Use of air conditioning on the rise in Germany as summers become hotter

    28 Jun 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Heating 麻豆无码版 More and more households are turning to air conditioning to stay cool in Germany鈥檚 increasingly hot summers. The share of households using air conditioning has grown to 19 percent ...
  • Germany stops landmark mechanism that funded renewables expansion via power bills

    30 Jun 2022, 14:07 On 1 July,聽Germany marks the end of its landmark renewables levy on consumer power prices. The surcharge helped to spur the growth of wind and solar power capacity for more than two decades but has also been criticised for contributing ...
  • Catenary trucks still stand chance in race to decarbonise road freight- researcher

    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 ...
  • 16 Jan 2019 |

    Siemens-Gamesa鈥檚 new 10 MW turbine enables offshore wind power output boost

    16 Jan 2019, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 麻豆无码版 German-Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Siemens-Gamesa has unveiled its most powerful offshore turbine to date, increasing annual power production by almost a third compared to its previous ...
  • 28 Mar 2024 |

    Sustainable diets could help limit global warming to 1.5掳C 鈥 report

    28 Mar 2024, 13:34 Edgar Meza Agriculture 麻豆无码版 A global transition to healthy, more sustainable diets could considerably reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help limit global warming to the Paris Agreement goal of 1.5掳C, researchers at the ...
  • 24 Mar 2017 |

    Saarland election first test on road to next Energiewende government

    24 Mar 2017, 00:00 All eyes are on the federal state of Saarland kicking off Germany鈥檚 election year on 26 March. An otherwise unremarkable campaign started to engage national politics when the Social Democrats put forward their new federal election ...
  • 28 Jan 2019 |

    A speed limit on German motorways is 鈥渦nrealistic鈥 鈥 transport minister

    28 Jan 2019, 12:43 Kerstine Appunn Transport Bild am Sonntag The freedom to choose your speed on German motorways has proved itself and introducing a speed limit would only save a small amount of CO2, federal transport minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) told ...
  • 29 Oct 2014

    Germany's energy transition in the media 29 Oct 2014

    29 Oct 2014, 00:00 Sven Egenter Spiegel Online 鈥淕ermany starts complete remodelling of power market鈥 The German government sees at least 100 gigawatts of overcapacity in the European power market, which it aims to reduce in coming years together with its ...
  • Court's halt to forest clearing fans talk of easier German coal exit

    08 Oct 2018, 16:58 Anti-coal activists in Germany and beyond experienced a sudden change in fortune on 5 October, when a court ruling boosted their cause and provisionally stopped plans of energy company RWE to cut down the embattled Hambach Forest in ...
  • 03 Nov 2020 |

    Germany鈥檚 narrow focus on battery cars endangers CO2 targets- engineers' association

    03 Nov 2020, 13:44 Edgar Meza Storage Cars 麻豆无码版 The Association of German Engineers (VDI) has warned against what it sees as the narrow focus of the German government and parts of the country鈥檚 industry聽 on electric vehicles as a major ...
  • 16 May 2024 |

    High hurdles for technological CO2 removal measures in Germany 鈥 researchers

    16 May 2024, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal 麻豆无码版 Technological measures to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere face significant economic and institutional hurdles in Germany said a research team led by the Helmholtz Centre for ...
  • 12 Nov 2020 |

    Small fraction of Germany's biogas plants contribute to grid stability 鈥 study

    12 Nov 2020, 14:21 Expert Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe Expert agency for renewable raw materials Bioenergy Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Business & Jobs Kerstine ...
  • 13 Feb 2018 |

    Selective use of synthetic fuels essential to help decarbonise German transport, industry and heating 鈥 think tanks

    Germany will need the well-directed use of power-based synthetic fuels in connection with a phase-out of oil and natural gas to reach its long-term climate targets, the think tanks Agora Energiewende and Agora Verkehrswende* write in a joint analysis. ...
  • Far-right AfD soars in east German state elections, scoops up votes in coal regions

    02 Sep 2019, 13:15 The elections in Germany's eastern federal states Saxony and Brandenburg have dealt a blow to the country's governing parties, CDU and SPD, and brought huge gains for the far-right AfD. Even though the climate change-denying ...
  • 05 Aug 2024 |

    German coalition govt set to reopen 2025 budget talks following advisor doubts

    05 Aug 2024, 13:43 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Government ZDF / 麻豆无码版 Germany's coalition government is set to reopen budget negotiations after advisors to the finance ministry cast doubts on a draft agreement on a budget for 2025 ...
  • 15 Apr 2020 |

    Lack of charging points could slow roll-out of e-mobility in Germany, study warns

    15 Apr 2020, 15:18 Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Prognos Consultancy Energiewende S枚ren Amelang Cars 麻豆无码版 A lack of charging points in German ...
  • German coal exit could raise European emissions without CO鈧 floor price or ETS allowances cancellation

    05 Jun 2019, 12:33 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 planned coal exit in 2038 may have hardly any effect- and ...
  • 04 Aug 2020 |

    US's Nord Stream 2 threats pose 'difficult gray area' for German diplomats- legal expert

    04 Aug 2020, 14:24 Edgar Meza Gas Security Die Welt The US government's threat of sanctions against companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project has led to angry calls of defiance by government officials and business leaders in ...
  • Debate on scrapping renewables levy gathers pace in Merkel's conservative party

    17 Feb 2021, 13:18 S枚ren Amelang Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG Policy Handelsblatt / pv magazine Plans to scrap Germany's renewables levy are maturing within Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), with a new ...
  • 20 Jun 2024 |

    Agri PV can make 鈥渕ajor contribution鈥 to Germany's solar expansion targets 鈥 study

    20 Jun 2024, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Agriculture Solar 麻豆无码版 The technical potential of solar PV installations on agricultural land (also known as agri PV) in Germany largely exceeds the potential of other so far unconventional PV technologies ...
  • 25 Oct 2023 |

    German econ minister doubles down on power price subsidies with new industry strategy

    25 Oct 2023, 11:00 Germany's economy ministry wants to strengthen the country as an industrial location with a new industry strategy, a key aspect of it being a so-called bridge electricity price for energy-intensive companies. Robert Habeck wants to ...
  • 01 Oct 2019 |

    Lignite company RWE pledges to become carbon neutral by 2040

    01 Oct 2019, 10:00 Europe's largest CO2 emitter RWE has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2040. The announcement underlines the deep transformation underway at the German operator of lignite mines and power plants, which is now betting on ...
  • 05 Jan 2021 |

    Germans affected by traffic more likely to support mobility transition measures 鈥 survey

    05 Jan 2021, 12:50 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Transport 麻豆无码版 German households that are impacted by traffic are more likely to support specific measures that ...
  • 11 Oct 2024

    In brief | 11 October '24

    11 Oct 2024, 10:23 麻豆无码版 Team WBGU: German govt advisors call for international water strategy with regional platforms In a climatically and geopolitically heated world, the challenges surrounding water are becoming substantially more acute, said the ...
  • 15 Aug 2018 |

    Germany鈥檚 鈥淧ower Grid Action Plan鈥 vital for Energiewende 鈥 opinion

    German energy minister Peter Altmaier is 鈥済oing all out鈥 with his new 鈥淧ower Grid Action Plan鈥 to make the country鈥檚 grid fit for the growing volume of renewable energy sources 鈥 and rightfully so, because grid expansion has become the decisive bottleneck ...
  • 09 Mar 2021 |

    Vote in German carmaker state foreshadows national election amid pandemic uncertainty

    09 Mar 2021, 09:00 A regional vote in the south-western German state of Baden-W眉rttemberg on 14 March kicks off a busy election year in Germany that will conclude with the general elections in September and the selection of a new chancellor. While the ...
  • 20 Jul 2020 |

    BlackRock says 'fundamental change' to sustainability will sweep financial markets

    20 Jul 2020, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sustainability aspects are gaining in importance at a very quick pace and are poised to bring about "fundamental change" to the way financial market actors operate, ...
  • 28 Oct 2019 |

    Daimler unveils plan to get rid of diesel engines in commercial vehicles by 2039

    28 Oct 2019, 13:50 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 麻豆无码版 Carmaker Daimler plans to end the use of diesel engines in heavy duty vehicles over the next two decades, promising "CO2 ...
  • 17 Dec 2019 |

    Deutsche Bahn invests record sum in new trains, revives mothballed connections

    17 Dec 2019, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 麻豆无码版 / Spiegel Online The German rail service Deutsche Bahn (DB) is going to make the biggest investment in its vehicle ...
  • 21 Jun 2024 |

    Focus on prefabricated building insulation can help overcome skills shortage bottleneck- consultancy

    21 Jun 2024, 11:46 Julian Wettengel Heating Construction 麻豆无码版 The shortage of skilled labour is the decisive hurdle that keeps Germany from modernising enough buildings towards more energy-efficiency to reach climate targets, said ...
  • Germany鈥檚 CO2 pricing part of 'irreversible' path 鈥 SPD chancellor candidate Scholz

    07 Sep 2020, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 achievements in the field of climate and energy policy mustn鈥檛 mean that the country becomes complacent now, Olaf Scholz, finance minister and the ...
  • 19 Mar 2024 |

    Munich Re climatologist suggests homes destroyed by floods shouldn鈥檛 be rebuilt

    19 Mar 2024, 13:48 Jack McGovan Adaptation Tagesspiegel Reinsurance company Munich Re's top climate scientist has said that many settlements destroyed by floods shouldn鈥檛 be rebuilt. With reference to Germany's Ahr valley, which suffered 40 ...
  • 02 Sep 2019 |

    Facts on the German state elections in Brandenburg

    02 Sep 2019, 10:16 After elections in 2019, a coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), conservative CDU and the Green Party have formed Brandenburg's state government. SPD's Dietmar Woidke was re-elected premier of the scarcely populated ...
  • 30 Mar 2023 |

    Q&A: Making the EU鈥檚 electricity market fit for a climate-neutral future

    30 Mar 2023, 15:25 For years, the European Commission has hailed the electricity market design for enabling the large-scale integration of renewable energy, increasing security of supply and helping to lower wholesale prices. However, the system was ...
  • 14 Dec 2022 |

    Blackout or gas shortage 鈥 How would Germany deal with an energy emergency?

    14 Dec 2022, 12:45 Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing energy crisis have brought uncertainty to Germany鈥檚 energy supply security. Germany鈥檚 electricity system is one of the most reliable in the world, yet the possibility of a blackout 鈥 a ...
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  • 14 Mar 2022 |

    Global reporting on new IPCC report: Securing a liveable and sustainable future for all

    14 Mar 2022, 15:00 Milou Dirkx International In a report published by the IPCC two weeks ago, 270 scientists from 67 countries reviewed more than 34,000 articles to assess the effects of climate change, the vulnerability of socio-economic and natural ...
  • 04 Apr 2022 |

    More than 'green' and 'brown': How sustainable finance can enable the transition

    04 Apr 2022, 11:12 Franziska Sch眉tze Finance The debate about making investments and the financial sector more sustainable often focuses on a narrow distinction between "green" and "brown" assets that does not match the situation in ...
  • Three questions to Nickolaus Bauer, 麻豆无码版 Ambassador for South Africa

    04 Oct 2019, 12:30 Nickolaus Bauer Martha Otwinowski Renewables Business International Nickolaus Bauer is a freelance journalist and broadcaster who hunts down stories on the competing interests and economic challenges that prevent South Africa and the ...
  • 30 Aug 2019 |

    Three questions to Eric Niiler, 麻豆无码版 Ambassador for the United States (East Coast)

    30 Aug 2019, 12:00 Martha Otwinowski Politics International Eric Niiler is a freelance journalist who regularly covers the energy transition, climate change, and the circular economy. He writes for WIRED, National Geographic, Experience Magazine, The ...
  • 18 Jul 2024 |

    Covering the climate: Work experience at 麻豆无码版

    18 Jul 2024, 09:30 Milou Dirkx Franca Quecke International "Rather than treating the climate crisis as a 'single issue', 麻豆无码版 understands its overlapping root causes and consequences and integrates them into its daily coverage". In ...
  • Three questions to: Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, 麻豆无码版 Ambassador for India

    09 Aug 2019, 14:07 Renewables Government International Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar is a freelance journalist who regularly covers environment, climate change, and sustainable development. She writes for the Times of India, as well as other publications. ...
  • D2S energy & business solutions LLC (Slovenia)

    Advises government institutions, companies and agencies in the preparation of effective energy policies and strategies, and the development and implementation of energy action plans at national, regional and EU levels. www.d2s-energy.com Office info@d2s ...
  • SolarPower Europe

    The association says it aims to ensure that more energy is generated by solar than any other energy source by 2030 and to lead its members to make solar the core of a smart, sustainable, secure and inclusive energy system in order to reach carbon ...
  • Can renewables drive reindustrialisation?

    04- 06 Oct 2015 Hamburg How the energy transition is changing the economic landscape- the case of Northern Germany: The three-day media workshop in October 2015 will take stock of the potential of the energy transition for reindustrialisiation and its ...
  • Recording available: 麻豆无码版 Press Club- The 2024 US election鈥檚 impact on European climate and energy policy

    08 Oct 2024 Berlin The eyes of the world will be on the U.S. on 5 November this year, when Americans head to the ballot boxes to vote for a new president 鈥 or re-elect a former one. For Europe in particular, the U.S. elections will have enormous ...
  • 12 Oct 2023 |

    Cross-border grants: Leaving no one behind in Europe鈥檚 green transition

    12 Oct- 30 Nov 2023 Berlin Europe's aim of becoming the world's first climate neutral continent by 2050 will have significant social and economic implications creating both major opportunities and challenges for workers and communities around ...
  • 麻豆无码版 Masterclass: How to report on the construction sector鈥檚 hidden climate impact

    25 Jul 2024 Berlin Applications are closedThe climate and environmental impacts of construction have remained an afterthought in discussions about making buildings greener. While homes and offices are becoming more energy efficient, and the electricity ...
  • 13 Jul 2021 |

    The IPCC AR6: What to expect and how to make sense of the world鈥檚 most important report on climate change

    13 Jul 2021 Berlin The first part of the IPCC鈥檚 Sixth Assessment Report, the AR6, will be published in August this year. The first such report in more than six years, it is the world鈥檚 most comprehensive and most authoritative assessment of global ...
  • 17 Jan 2019 |

    The German Climate Change Act 鈥 a new legal framework for the Energiewende pioneer?

    17 Jan 2019 Berlin PRESS BRIEFING on 17 January- An extreme drought in the summer 2018, a heated controversy over the pace of a coal phase-out, the Dieselgate scandal and a continuous failure to meet its self-declared emission targets 鈥 this cocktail of ...
  • 07 Oct 2018 |

    Poland ahead of COP24

    07- 10 Oct 2018 Warsaw Update: 麻豆无码版 has compiled a list of contacts for journalists ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice (COP24). Against the backdrop of the upcoming COP24 climate conference in Poland, the 麻豆无码版 is inviting ...
  • 09 Jun 2022 |

    Closing the transparency gap: Why sustainability disclosure is key to financing the climate transition

    09 Jun 2022 Berlin Greater transparency in the workings of the economy is a prerequisite for reaching international climate targets as well as a whole range of other aims subsumed under the label of sustainable finance. The key to making business ...
  • 24 Nov 2020 |
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    Deep dive: Making the most of Europe's renewables potential

    24 Nov 2020 Berlin Hydro power from Norway, wind power from Portugal and solar PV from Greece? Europe鈥檚 potential for renewable energy varies significantly depending on the geological and geographical conditions in individual regions. While each country ...
  • Traffic control and management in automobile city Stuttgart

    Since 2006, the Integrierte Verkehrsleitzentrale (Municipal Integrated Traffic Control Center, IVLZ) has been in charge of Stuttgart鈥檚 traffic control and management. It consolidates up-to-the-minute traffic information from local police, public ...
  • Adamolekun

    Nigeria Climate & CO2 Agriculture Fossil fuels Business Nigerian Ronald Adamolekun is a financial journalist and Chief Business Correspondent at Premium Times Nigeria, also focusing on energy and climate issues. ...
  • Pioth

    Congo- Brazzaville Agriculture Society Elections & Politics Government Congolese Rosie Pioth is a freelance multi-media journalist covering various climate topics. Her work has been published by Info Congo, Gavi, Mongabay, Congo Check and others. ...
  • Ameyaw

    Ghana Climate & CO2 Adaptation Agriculture Renewables Ghanaian Emmanuel Ameyaw is the founder of The Climate Insight, an independent non-profit media platform dedicated to enhancing climate education and awareness in Ghana. His work has appeared in El ...
  • Melchiorre

    Italy Climate & CO2 Adaptation Agriculture Nuclear phase-out Company climate claims EUElections2024 Italian Alessia is a freelance journalist covering EU politics, the Mediterranean, economy, human rights and climate. Her work has been published by ...
  • Choubey

    India Climate & CO2 Adaptation Agriculture Carbon market Elections & Politics COP28 Indian Jitendra Choubey is a freelance journalist covering environmental topics including climate change, agribusiness, water, conflict, natural hazards, heatwaves ...
  • Ndossi

    Tanzania Climate & CO2 Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG Tanzanian Emanuel Ndossi is a researcher and a freelance journalist regularly contributing to Tanzania Digest. He focuses on sustainable practices in tourism and conservation. ...
  • Pange

    Romania Climate & CO2 Adaptation Company climate claims Cities Construction Green stimulus EU Romanian Georgiana Anghel Pange is a freelance journalist and used to be the environmental reporter for digital news platform Green Report. ...
  • Afolabi

    Nigeria Agriculture COP23 Nigerian Afolabi has been a journalist for the last seven years. She mainly covers agriculture and COP23. Additionally, she covers climate change and environmental pollution, Women in politics, Women and domestic violence. ...
  • Babur

    Canada Adaptation Renewables International Afghan Babur covers聽Biodiversity Loss and Conservation Efforts, Sustainable Development and Renewable 麻豆无码版, Environmental Policy and Global Cooperation topics. His work appears in AP, New Canadain Media, ...
  • Motivation

    0J About 麻豆无码版 What we do 麻豆无码版 (麻豆无码版) is an international hub for climate and energy journalism. 麻豆无码版 reports independently on the stories that matter for the move to climate neutrality in Europe with well-contextualised news, factsheets and ...
  • Gupta

    United States Climate & CO2 Adaptation Agriculture Renewables Indian Alok Gupta is a f reelance environment and climate change journalist covering wildlife, biodiversity, health, agriculture and climate adaptation. His work has been published by ...
  • Korai

    Pakistan Climate & CO2 Agriculture Carbon removal Coal Fossil fuels Pakistani Shaukat Ali Korai is a freelance journalist covering climate change impacts, clean energy and fossil fuels. His work has been published by Express Tribune, jbconnects, The ...
  • Stokic

    Serbia Climate & CO2 Serbian Luka works as meteorologist, weather forecast presenter and climate journalist at Tanjug television in Serbia and as a correspondent for broadcaster Deutsche Welle. He covers climate change, environmental protection, ...
  • Ochieng

    Kenya Climate & CO2 Adaptation Fossil fuels Society COP28 Kenyan Jacob Walter Ochieng covers environmental and social topics at Nation Media Group,聽where he reports for NTV and print. He covers climate mitigation and adaptation, fossil fuels and ...
  • Illius

    Bangladesh Climate & CO2 Adaptation Fossil fuels Renewables COP26 COP28 Bangladeshi Shamsuddin聽Illius covers climate change and environment topics, as well as migration and business. His work has been published by聽The Business Standard, AFP, The Third ...
  • de Jong

    Malta Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Politics Society EU Dutch Belle de Jong is a journalist based in Malta covering topics ranging from climate, politics, and society. She writes for the European Correspondent, Times of Malta, and the ...
  • Kotb

    Egypt Agriculture Carbon market Renewables Business COP24 COP27 Egyptian Kotb has been a full-time journalist for the last 15 years and mainly publishes in Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper and Ahram Online (Egypt's leading English-language news publications ...
  • Verronneau

    France Climate & CO2 Adaptation Agriculture Carbon removal Business Finance French Aur茅lie Verronneau covers agriculture, finance, adaptation and various other climate topics for RSEDATANEWS. ...
  • Tibenkana

    Uganda Agriculture Carbon market Bioenergy Fossil fuels Hydrogen Cities Ugandan Ivan Tibenkana is an environment-business reporter at聽Smart24 Television, focusing on climate mitigation and adaptation, renewable energy, biodiversity, e- mobility and mining ...
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