23 Jan 2015
23 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Die Welt / sh:z 鈥濼he North focuses on wind power鈥� Germany鈥檚 northern state of Schleswig-Holstein wants to increase its share of renewables in the power mix and for heating and wants to lower energy ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have vowed to work together closely at the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg to further shared goals and overcome diplomatic difficulties with third countries. During a visit in Berlin, Xi said ...
The German environment ministry (BMU) has launched an app that is meant to contribute to the climate friendly behaviour of football fans watching the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia on public screens, the ministry has said in a press release. The app shows ...
The Energiewende is a mammoth project and includes a number of risks. News agency dpa, in an article carried by Wirtschaftswoche, runs a 鈥渇act check鈥� of common claims regarding the energy transition, namely 1) the energy transition increases power costs, ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:31 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal International Project Syndicate A German commitment to phase out coal by 2038 could have ripple effects far beyond the nation鈥檚 borders, Johan Rockstr枚m and Owen Gaffney of聽the Potsdam ...
30 Apr 2019, 13:12 Kerstine Appunn Transport 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 federal council of state governments (Bundesrat), the second legislative chamber, today debates the use of e-scooters on pavements and cycle lanes. While federal transport minister ...
14 Oct 2019, 11:00 Starting in 2021 and throughout the 2020s, many of Germany鈥檚 pioneer wind turbines, solar PV installations and biogas plants will stop receiving fixed feed-in tariffs, meaning many gigwatts in renewable capacity may be shut down if they ...
Biogas production in Germany has a lot of untapped potential for contributing to the country鈥檚 climate targets and needs a proper long-term strategy to make sure it is put to the best possible use, lobby group Fachverband Biogas says in a press release. ...
The German town Saerbeck鈥檚 citizens鈥� energy project 鈥�Climate Community鈥� shows that local, small-scale ownership could be the key to a successful energy transition, writes Audrea Lim for National Observer. With a large community聽described as PIMBYs ( ...
German steel company thyssenkrupp has started production of the synthetic fuel methanol from CO鈧� and other emissions in steel production, the company says in a press release. The fuel production from side products of steel smelting is part of the so ...
04 Feb 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Policy Welt am Sonntag The parliamentary group leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative party CDU, Ralph Brinkhaus, told newspaper Welt am Sonntag in an interview that the German ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:25 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Energiewende Wall Street Journal Germany is set to have the 鈥渨orld鈥檚 dumbest energy policy鈥� after the coal exit commission recommended to end coal-fired power generation by 2038, writes the ...
17 Sep 2015
17 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Bloomberg 鈥淲hy Germany鈥檚 nuclear power exit is causing havoc for utilities鈥� Financing the nuclear phase-out is the biggest challenge yet for Germany鈥檚 large utilities, which explains this week鈥檚 ...
08 Dec 2015
08 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 DENA "Only one third of households know their electricity bills exactly" Only about one third of German households know the exact amount they pay for electricity, a survey by the German ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:49 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Elections & Politics ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:34 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 ...
02 Dec 2015
02 Dec 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淟ate, perhaps too late鈥� RWE鈥檚 plans are radical and effectively split Germany鈥檚 second largest utility in two, writes Caspar Busse in a commentary for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淭he decision is ...
25 Jan 2019, 14:23 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Gas Reuters Norway, one of Germany鈥檚 top three gas suppliers with Russia and the Netherlands, could make further inroads into the German market as the country phases out coal, a top executive ...
Doctors in Germany should do more to promote the end of coal and oil in order to improve public health, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, head of the German Medical Association (脛rztekammer), says in an interview with movum magazine. 鈥�Climate change is real, it is ...
01 Oct 2015
01 Oct 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries (BDEW)/Centre for Solar 麻豆无码版 and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) 鈥淲ind power generation 2015 already exceeds last year鈥檚 level鈥� Thanks to strong winds and the addition ...
German carmakers are the main culprits behind the problems with emissions, writes Nikolaus Doll in an opinion piece for Die Welt. 鈥淣ot all, but important companies have lied, deceived and in the end will not manage to comply with the future limit,鈥� Doll ...
Germany鈥檚 energy supply security must not depend on the support of other countries, Thomas Bareiss, state secretary in the economy and energy ministry (BMWi), said at a conference on energy and climate policy organised by newspaper Die Zeit in Berlin. ...
Key IT projects necessary for the digitalisation of the German energy transition are making no headway, endangering the 鈥渁mbitious large-scale project鈥�, journalist Peter Welchering told German radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk. These projects included ...
25 Nov 2015
25 Nov 2015, 00:00 Spiegel Online/Urgewald 鈥淕erman banks still put billions into brown coal鈥� A study by environmental NGO Urgewald shows that German banks continue to finance climate-damaging brown coal, reports Spiegel Online. Deutsche Bank alone has ...
24 Nov 2014
24 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung "Gabriel鈥檚 quiet reserve" Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel is set to present a plan targeting emissions from the power sector that could allow Germany to achieve its ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:28 Rachel Waldholz Business & Jobs International The Hill / Bloomberg Opinion Opinion writers are invoking Germany鈥檚 Energiewende in their arguments over US proposals for a Green New Deal (GND). Germany鈥檚 experience proves the Green ...
The market for green bonds is still comparably small, but ecologically sustainable bonds become more significant as climate protection is increasingly important for the population, writes Markus Fr眉hauf in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Green Bonds ...
The German energy industry is optimistic and sees itself well prepared for the future, financial services company KPMG said in its Future Readiness Index 2018. While its future readiness is "solid", it is currently facing only the beginning of a ...
By the end of 2017, renewables expansion in Germany exceeded targets by a considerable margin, but the country still lags behind on several other energy transition indicators, writes Hubertus Bardt for the industry-sponsored research institute IW K枚ln in ...
The share of diesel cars in Germany's new vehicle registrations was down 25.4 percent in March 2018, compared to a year before, according to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). Total new car registrations stood at 347,433 vehicles, 31.4 ...
04 Nov 2019, 14:01 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 The expected dismantling of thousands of old wind turbines in Germany could overburden ...
A new study published by the World 麻豆无码版 Council Germany (WEC) on the climate impact of the country鈥檚 transport sector says that policymakers fail to base their decisions on a 鈥渃oherent big picture.鈥� 鈥淭he current regulatory framework is tied to the ...
A massive expansion of France鈥檚 renewable power capacity could lead to a wave of cheap nuclear power flooding the energy markets of Germany and other European countries, Markus Becker writes on Spiegel Online. The French 鈥渢ransition 茅nerg茅tique鈥� could ...
The German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation (BEE) says the country鈥檚 coal exit plan should be accompanied by a plan to achieve 100 percent renewable energy supply. 鈥淥nly planning security for industry can lay the foundations for investments鈥� and prevent ...
12 May 2017, 00:00 In what is often dubbed 鈥渢he small-scale federal election鈥�, voters in Germany鈥檚 industrial powerhouse and most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia decide on a new government on 14 May. The exit from coal-fired power generation 鈥� a ...
28 Mar 2019, 09:15 S枚ren Amelang Start-ups Business & Jobs Technology 麻豆无码版 One in four startups in Germany contributes to environmental and climate protection, according to a report by the Borderstep Institute for Innovation and ...
06 Sep 2019, 13:44 S枚ren Amelang Cars 麻豆无码版 More than 30,000 people have put in a reservation for Volkswagen's first purpose-built electric car ID.3, which will be unveiled at next week's Frankfurt Motor Show and is a litmus test for ...
The federal government wants to soften the blow of phasing out coal by investing in large battery factories, or Gigafactories, according to an article in Die Welt. In coal-mining areas around the country, these manufacturing facilities could provide a new ...
The roll-out of renewable energies in Germany is key to reaching the country鈥檚 climate targets, according to the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). In a publication on the impact of green energies on emissions, the agency says that renewables increasingly ...
A fairer procurement of resources needed to manufacture renewable energy facilities would help the energy transition 鈥渕ake a real contribution to more global justice and climate protection,鈥� says catholic relief organisation Misereor in a press release. ...
09 Dec 2015, 00:00 [Updates party statments to new draft text] Issues of differentiation, finance, loss and damage remain / High ambition coalition seeks attention and new partners / "Preparing for long nights" says German environment minister ...
Germany鈥檚 energy transition from nuclear and fossil energy to renewables has many sceptics and requires a lot of hard work, but shows that 鈥渋t can be done,鈥� Judith Lavoie writes on Desmog Canada. Manfred Fischedick of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate ...
Falling emissions from the energy sector mean Germany鈥檚 overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell slightly in 2015, compared to 2014, according to revised data published by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). 901.9 million tonnes CO鈧� equivalents were ...
To make meaningful progress on climate change, fossil fuel money had to be taken out of politics to make it a non-partisan issue, German political scientist Arne Jungjohann said at a clean energy discussion in Ottawa, writes Elizabeth McSheffrey in ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The western German federal state of Saarland has claimed greater financial support from the federal government for cushioning the effects of the state鈥檚 phase ...
The parties currently in talks to form Germany鈥檚 next government have agreed to speed up the roll-out of renewable energies and start the phase-out of coal-fired power generation. Contrary to a draft leaked earlier this week, the blueprint agreement ...
28 Jun 2019, 12:40 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Freja Eriksen Coal 麻豆无码版 The German Aerospace Center (DLR) will establish an institute dedicated to decarbonising industrial ...
29 Aug 2019, 12:33 Edgar Meza Transport Cities 麻豆无码版 Electric scooters can contribute to sustainable urban mobility, but their integration in urban traffic must be coordinated jointly by municipalities and e-scooter providers, according to a ...
The energy consumption level of buildings in Germany was stagnant between 2010 and 2016, a report prepared by the German 麻豆无码版 Agency (dena) reveals. The trend of improving energy efficiency, which saw energy consumption drop by 20 percent between 2002 ...
Environmentally friendly technologies have become an important pillar of the German economy, the Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) says in a press release. According to the environment ministry鈥檚 new 鈥淕reenTech Atlas,鈥� the sector accounted for 15 percent ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:22 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Utilities Reuters Municipal shareholders in RWE have called on Germany鈥檚 biggest power producer to drive a hard bargain in ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:40 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Energiewende Financial Times Agreeing on a phase-out plan for German coal was hard, implementing it will be harder still, writes Tobias Buck in an article for the Financial Times. Buck uses the ...
Germany needs the new Russian-German natural gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 because ambitious climate targets make gas 鈥渁n even more important energy source鈥� and reserves in Germany and the Netherlands are decreasing, write Christian Democratic (CDU) ...
08 Apr 2019, 12:46 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Edgar Meza Coal Energiewende 麻豆无码版 German industrial trade ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Technology Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany needs a market introduction strategy for green fuels based on hydrogen, Carsten Rolle, climate and energy policy head at the Federation of German Industries ...
02 Jul 2015, 00:00 Germany will not impose an additional climate levy on old and dirty power plants. In late-night negotiations, the ruling government coalition buried a levy proposal, choosing instead to mothball and later decommission some lignite power ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Cars Deutsche Welle German car-sharing companies logged sharp growth in 2018, picking up an extra 350,000 registered customers, reports Deutsche Welle (in English). The total number of registered users increased ...
France, the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany announced at the One Planet Summit in Paris on Tuesday that they would 鈥渆xamine or introduce鈥� an effective CO 2 price in "relevant sectors," according to a 聽press release from the German ...
Deutsche Bank will no longer grant new financing for thermal coal mining or new coal-fired power plants, Germany鈥檚 largest bank said in a press release. The bank will also 鈥渞educe its existing exposure to the thermal coal mining sector,鈥� it said. Deutsche ...
Business development banks like the KfW are an important source of funding for Germany鈥檚 energy transition and they increasingly use so-called green bonds to finance endeavours in clean energy production or e-mobility, G眉nter Heismann writes in the ...
The EU emissions trading system (ETS) is not sufficient for ensuring that Germany meets either its CO 2 emissions reduction goals or the other targets of its energy transition, the German government says in an answer to a parliamentary inquiry by the Left ...
19 Nov 2019, 13:48 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out 麻豆无码版 A group of anti-nuclear activists have protested against the transport of depleted uranium from a fuel rod ...
Incoming environment minister Svenja Schulze will keep Jochen Flasbarth on as state secretary, Flasbarth confirmed to the tageszeitung (taz). The 55-year old Social Democrat is 鈥渃entral to German environment policy鈥�, well-connected in the EU and UN, and ...
A broad alliance of German business associations wants the incoming government to give building insulation a boost with tax relief in order to cut emissions. The associations said corresponding measures should be included in the coalition treaty, and be ...
The most important political decisions in Germany cannot be made by directives but must be earned by reconciling antagonist factions in society trough compromise and consideration, Thorsten Knuf writes in a commentary for the Frankfurter Rundschau. 鈥淭his ...
A whole range of different policies is needed to bring down the emissions arising from basic commodity production in Germany, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) says in its weekly report. The production and use of basic commodities like ...
The premiers of the German coal mining states of Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have said they still plan coal mining activities to continue well into the 2040s. In a guest article published in the Handelsblatt on the day of the first meeting of ...
06 Feb 2019, 14:06 Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars Technology Automotive News Europe Carmakers such as Daimler, BMW or Volkswagen are increasingly morphing into tech companies in their bid to develop the digital backbone of new mobility and fend ...
French President Emmanuel Macron鈥檚 suggestion of introducing a CO 2 tax leading to a minimum price of 25-30 euros per tonne of CO 2 is entering the debate between possible coalition partners in a new German government, writes Joachim Wille in the ...
Germany鈥檚 grand coalition government is considering ways to enable municipalities located near wind farms to share in the profits of the turbines, reports Daniel Wetzel in Welt am Sonntag. The economy ministry has invited experts to discuss several ...
The International 麻豆无码版 Agency鈥檚 (IEA) report Coal 2017 shows that the world will continue to be 鈥渁ddicted鈥� to coal for its energy supply for the coming years- Germany鈥檚 contribution to climate protection should be researching and testing new carbon ...
Germany risks 鈥渢acitly joining Donald Trump in turning its back on the Paris climate change deal鈥� as the state governments of North Rhine-Westphalia and Brandenburg 聽鈥渉ave vowed to protect鈥� the lignite mining industry, writes Olaf Storbeck for Reuters ...
The electric utility of Frankfurt an der Oder, a city located on the German-Polish border and not to be confused with Germany's banking capital Frankfurt am Main, has joined its Cottbus counterpart and decided to replace its coal-fired cogeneration ...
20 Apr 2015
20 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淢etal vs coal鈥� Unions are deeply split on the issue of the proposed coal levy, according to an article by Michael Bauchm眉ller in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Germany's聽 IG ...
Greenpeace鈥檚 Andr茅e B枚hling welcomed the call for a European e-mobility quota by SPD chancellor candidate Martin Schulz as 鈥渁 right signal to manufacturers and consumers鈥�, but criticises the lack of a date. 鈥淚f the chancellor candidate is serious about ...
A group of green startups and other organisations including CleanTechnica and Berlin-based green energy quarterly The Beam, is calling for German politicians in talks to form the next federal government to look at measures to boost green business in ...
To make their national energy transition a success, France and Germany need to closely coordinate the reduction of nuclear and coal power, French and German think tanks IDDRI and Agora Energiewende* have concluded in a joint study. 鈥淚f the two countries ...
The German government plans to ease regulations for marine geoengineering research, which could be used to bind carbon dioxide emissions by injecting certain substances into the world鈥檚 oceans that boost algae growth, Christoph Seidler writes on Spiegel ...
While Germany鈥檚 coal exit commission has already started its work, the commission tasked with finding a concept for the future of mobility in the country still lies in a 鈥渟ummer slumber,鈥� Kerstin Schwenn writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ...
31 Oct 2019
31 Oct 2019, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Reuters / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel UPDATE- Former member of coal commission tells Tagesspiegel announcement could be "bluff"聽 German utility Uniper has been given the green light to start ...
Charges that wind and solar power cause large 鈥渉idden鈥� emissions are false, because emissions remain low even when the energy needed to build them is taken into account, according to a study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). 鈥淎 ...
06 Mar 2019, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Electricity market Renewables 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 northern states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein 鈥� both of which generate more renewable electricity than they can use within their ...
Many banks and large investors 鈥� even those who have publicly committed themselves to divest from CO 2 intensive businesses and are members of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) 鈥� are still supporting new coal plants around the ...
High power prices, a heavy dependency on coal power and stagnating greenhouse gas emissions mean Germany is no longer playing a leading role in the international energy transition, according to McKinsey鈥檚 new global 麻豆无码版 Transition Index, done in ...
A court in Lower Saxony ruled against objections by environmental organisations and decided that chemical company Dow may build a coal-fired power plant in the northern German state, reports Gernot Kn枚dler in the tageszeitung (taz). The plaintiffs had ...
07 May 2015, 00:00 Superfluous emission allowances will be put into a market stability reserve from 2019 onwards, EU institutions agreed. The German government鈥檚 core demands have been included in the reform. But the chemicals industry fears for its ...
The German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), the country鈥檚 most populous state and home to numerous emissions-intensive heavy industries, has launched an initiative to examine options for bringing down industry鈥檚 carbon footprint, the NRW ...
A large increase of wind power generation pushed Germany鈥檚 renewable share of total power use to a record 36.1 percent last year, an increase of 3.8 percentage points over 2016, according to energy think-tank Agora Energiewende*. A rising number of ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society WDR A slim majority of 51 percent of citizens in Germany鈥檚 largest coal state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), say the 2038 deadline to give up all coal-fired power production in the country is 鈥渢oo late鈥�, ...
Future CO 2 regulation of cars and trucks will play a substantial role in climate policy because of road traffic鈥檚 key position in mobility, according to the Cologne Institute for Economic Research. In a compendium on European CO 2 rules, the institute ...
Until now, there has not been a 鈥渞easonable concept for the Energiewende鈥�, which is needed to secure Germany鈥檚 economic strength and make it more climate-friendly, Rudolf Staudigl, president and CEO of German chemical company Wacker Chemie AG, told ...
25 Feb 2019, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Technology 麻豆无码版 An international research project aims to assess the potential of geothermal energy as a replacement for coal-powered heating in Germany鈥檚 western state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). ...
06 Dec 2018, 14:24 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars Business & Jobs Technology 麻豆无码版 VW has said it will sell combustion engines until the early 2040s, toning down media reports that it will ...
Germany鈥檚 planned 鈥渃oal commission鈥� should focus primarily on finding economic perspectives for affected regions, rather than aiming to shut down as many coal plants as possible in the short-term, Klaus-Peter Schulze, a biologist and conservative ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 advice for other countries to invest now in climate friendly technologies proves a 鈥渂oomerang鈥�, because her own government has too often been content with the status quo, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in an opinion piece for ...
Representatives of the G20 nations are meeting in Berlin today to talk about resource efficiency. The resource dialogue came out of the G20 summit in Hamburg last summer and aims to find ways of using resources such as water and land more sustainably. ...
03 Jun 2015
03 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) / The Times Merkel: G7 ought to pioneer transition to low-carbon economy Climate protection is a large global challenge, German Chancellor Angela ...
The German coal-mining state Brandenburg will present fellow EU regions a variety of different projects aimed at steering the regional economy away from fossil power generation. As part of the Europe-wide 鈥渃oal platform鈥�, Brandenburg will show possible ...
Due to its apparent lack of will to achieve a consensus, the mandate of Germany鈥檚 coal exit commission should be annulled and the government itself should find a consensus on how to end coal-fired power production in the country, Angela Hennersdorf writes ...
Affordable climate protection is the most important task for the energy industry- and gas-fired power generation could be key, says Timm Kehler, director of natural gas industry group Zukunft Erdgas, writes Volker Budinger in an article part of a natural ...
Even before the highly anticipated official launch of Germany鈥檚 coal exit task force, the government has given up on the commission鈥檚 timetable, Silke Kersting and Klaus Stratmann report for business daily Handelsblatt. During ongoing meetings on the ...
Germany鈥檚 Energiewende 鈥� the decarbonisation of the country's economy and shift away from nuclear and fossil fuels to a renewables-based energy system 鈥� has led to 鈥渁n explosion of renewable energy technologies being installed,鈥� but has also had ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:35 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy ...
Climate-friendly construction must not hinge on high extra costs, says the German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation (BEE), based on a report published by the Institute for Building Systems Engineering Dresden (ITG). Between 2000 and 2014, tasks prescribed in ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:49 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 / Erneuerbare Energien Germany's largest carmaker, VW, has extended the suspension of ...
Acting German Chancellor and Christian Democrat (CDU) Angela Merkel and the leaders of her future coalition government partners the Christian Social Union (CSU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) have signed the coalition treaty for the coming legislative ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:09 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs Utilities Spiegel Online VW, BMW, Mercedes and utility E.ON are prime examples for German companies' innovation failure, which is partly to blame for the fact that the country is currently on the ...
A rapid decommissioning of fossil and nuclear power plants in Germany 鈥減oses the risk of knowingly causing an undersupply of guaranteed capacity by 2023 the latest鈥�, says the Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries (BDEW) in a response to an analysis ...
The energy ministers of Germany鈥檚 16 federal states have agreed to strengthen their focus on the separation of key energy policy decisions from party politics, and to improve coordination between the individual state ministries, the Environment and 麻豆无码版 ...
26 Mar 2015, 00:00 Encouraged by federal legislation such as the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act, the governments of many German states have worked hard to make the Energiewende a success, as well as a business opportunity for their citizens. Others have been slower ...
麻豆无码版 think tank Agora Energiewende* has published a booklet answering 10 frequently asked questions about Germany鈥檚 energy transition, providing a 鈥渃urrent, accurate and unbiased snapshot of the German experience鈥�. The paper is also available in a ...
The need to protect the climate and remain profitable will continue to exert pressure on coal-fired power generation businesses, and German energy company EnBW will continue to review its power plants, EnBW鈥檚 CEO Frank Mastiaux told Handelsblatt in an ...
Green Party energy spokesperson Julia Verlinden told journalists the conservatives鈥� blocking of 鈥渆ven the smallest progress鈥� in the heating sector would be 鈥渇atal鈥� for climate protection. Verlinden's statement was made in light of the government' ...
Germany鈥檚 new environment minister, Svenja Schulze, is against driving bans for diesel cars, website bild.de reports. Schulze said driving bans, aimed at curbing air pollution in inner cities, would not 鈥渕ake old diesel cars any cleaner鈥�. Instead, she ...
While the current government coalition has largely shielded the coal industry, any coalition involving The Greens would at least start the process of phasing out coal as a power source, according to an election overview by energy news provider S&P ...
16 Apr 2015
16 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 IG BCE / Friends of the Earth Germany Supporters and opponents of coal gear up for mass protests The heated debate over the future of coal in Germany will be taken to the streets next weekend, as ...
The four major German coal states demand a 鈥渟tronger voice鈥� in the planned commission tasked with preparing the end of coal-fired power production in the country, Andreas Mihm writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In a letter to Chancellor Angela ...
72 percent of Germans want the new government to implement a step-by-step exit from coal-fired power generation, according to a survey by YouGov for WWF and green power provider LichtBlick. YouGov polled 2052 people in September 2017. 41 percent said they ...
It is wrong to focus the debate about the future of transport solely on switching from diesel and petrol cars to e-mobility, writes Joachim Wille in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau. 鈥淏esides climate-friendly engines, we need a comprehensive ...
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥� conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has greenlighted talks aimed at reviving the so-called grand coalition with rival Social Democratic Party (SPD), news agency Reuters reports. A renewal of the coalition ...
Rail industry associations and key companies have presented their joint vision of a climate friendly, cost-effective regional rail transport of the future, so that it can 鈥渂id farewell to the diesel drive鈥�, writes the transport alliance Allianz pro ...
The surcharge German power customers pay with their power bill to finance the expansion of renewable energy is going to remain largely stable next year, according to calculations made by the energy policy think tank Agora Energiewende*. The renewables ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:34 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology 麻豆无码版 A new project in northern Germany aims at establishing "the world鈥檚 first" power ...
Germany saw its greenhouse gas emissions dip slightly in 2017, as wind power continued to replace coal-fired electricity generation and hard coal power plants were shut down, new estimates released by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) show. The data ...
The far-right party Alternative for Germany (Alternative f眉r Deutschland, AfD) may be largely focusing on immigration and not playing a direct role in German federal policy, but its influence can be seen even in energy and climate policy, writes ...
A resident from the German coal mining state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) demands 80 billion euros for a piece of land that energy company RWE needs for lignite mining, arguing that the sum equals the revenues the company intends to make with the local ...
02 Apr 2019, 14:08 Rachel Waldholz Wind Society Hakai Magazine Two German towns in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein present a case study in how to build local support for the energy transition- or how to lose it, writes Paul Hockenos in a feature ...
For the third year in a row, rising primary energy consumption shows that Germany has not succeeded in decoupling economic growth from its energy use, writes Klaus Stratmann in an opinion piece in the Handelsblatt. 鈥淭he development proves that the billion ...
Over two thirds of Germans say CO 2 emissions should be assigned a price to finance the transition to carbon-neutral technologies, a survey commissioned by heating manufacturer Stiebel Eltron has found. 70 percent of respondents said they favoured such ...
The German 麻豆无码版 Agency (dena) and its French counterpart ADEME welcome the initiative to renew the seminal 脡lys茅e Treaty between the two countries, and to intensify cooperation in many areas, including energy policy and climate protection, the dena says ...
Ecologic criticism of the German agriculture industry plays no role in the campaign for the upcoming general elections, contrary to previous years, writes Jan Grossarth in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Priorities now lay with topics ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:50 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 Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, ...
The incoming German government has two options to replace coal power with cleaner sources to reach climate targets, writes analyst Martin Brough in a Deutsche Bank Research paper. The first is to use natural gas as a bridge fuel, while the second is to ...
03 Jun 2019, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Cost & Prices Frankfurter Rundschau High prices for domestic coal-fired power production turned Germany into a net importer of electricity at the end of April after years of being an export champion, Frank ...
A broad alliance of trade unions, consumer, renewable, and industry associations has called on the future German government to use the federal budget to finance 鈥渁t least parts of the Energiewende costs鈥�. 鈥淲e need a new financing system for the cost ...
Schleswig-Holstein鈥檚 state energy minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) has said NordLink 鈥� a direct power connection between Norway and Germany, currently under construction 鈥� is an important step for the European energy transition, Olaf Preu脽 reports for ...
Most people in Germany say politicians are principally responsible for managing the shift towards sustainable consumption, according to a survey by the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv). The vzbv says responsibility for sustainable ...
26 Mar 2019, 13:20 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Technology Handelsblatt / 麻豆无码版 Engine manufacturer and Volkswagen (VW) subsidiary MAN 麻豆无码版 Solutions shows a firm commitment to sustainable hydrogen ...
The divergence between type-approval and real-world emission values cost Germany 1.2 billion euros in lost motor vehicle tax revenues in 2016, according to a report by the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament. This corresponds to 13 percent of the ...
Most Germans are more afraid of looming driving bans for polluting cars in inner cities than of the air pollution associated with these cars, says Klaus M眉ller, head of Germany鈥檚 federal consumer advice centre association vzbv, in an interview with Zeit ...
German business association CDU Economic Council, associated with Angela Merkel鈥檚 Christian Democratic Union (CDU), called on Germany and the EU to work towards a global regime to reduce CO鈧� emissions 鈥渓ike the ETS鈥� (European Union Emissions Trading ...
20 May 2019, 13:30 Expert RWI 鈥� Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI 鈥� Leibniz-Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities 麻豆无码版 A group of 30 ...
Economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has proposed quickly retiring five gigawatts of lignite power generation capacity with a view to the country鈥檚 ongoing talks about a coal phase-out, sources told the Rheinische Post. In addition, he suggested ...
The United States鈥� insistence to include a reference to fossil fuels in the section on climate policy in the G20 communiqu茅 remains the final sticking point to finish the document, news agency Reuters reported. Sources close to the process confirmed to ...
The plans for wind power expansion in Germany are 鈥渋llusory鈥� since the growing density of turbines across the country is set to diminish the yield per installation so much that power production targets can no longer be met by simply increasing the number ...
The next government must put much more emphasis on energy efficiency measures if climate targets are to be reached, according to the German Industry Initiative for 麻豆无码版 Efficiency (DENEFF). In an open letter addressed to Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 ...
There is still a long way to go until the financing mechanisms of the German energy transition are transferred into a sustainable market design, writes Felix Matthes, research coordinator for energy and climate policy at 脰ko Institut, in a guest ...
12 Jul 2019, 13:49 Freja Eriksen Cars 麻豆无码版 Germany is rising to become the world鈥檚 third largest electromobility market, having outpaced Norway for the first time in absolute sales figures in 2019, the Center of Automotive Management鈥檚 (CAM) ...
The Economy Minister of Germany鈥檚 most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Andreas Pinkwart, has called for compensation payments from the federal budget if Germany accelerates its coal exit, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. 鈥淭he ...
16 Mar 2016
16 Mar 2016, 00:00 鈥淎 Reporter鈥檚 Guide to the Energiewende鈥� offers journalists covering energy and climate policy an overview of key stories, experts/decision-makers and facts on Germany鈥檚 landmark energy transition. Click on the attachment on the left to ...
US business magazine Fortune published a long article by Jeffrey Ball on the generational project German Energiewende, society鈥檚 costs for the expansion of renewables, the benefits of the transition and the possibilities for other states to follow Germany ...
10 Jul 2019, 18:03 LEAG, eastern Germany鈥檚 largest energy and mining company, is building a 50 MW battery that could help stabilise the country鈥檚 electricity grid partly through renewable energy. Environment minister Svenja Schulze lauded the project in ...
04 Mar 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The use of nuclear power in Germany will come to an end by the end of 2022 as planned, operators of the country鈥檚 remaining nuclear plants have told the ...
27 Apr 2015
27 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淩esistance at the bucket wheel鈥� 10,000 coal workers demonstrated聽 in Berlin on Saturday 聽against energy minister Sigmar Gabriel鈥檚 planned climate levy. These were supported by ...
17 Dec 2015
17 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Die Zeit 鈥淲e can do it one more time鈥� Germany needs nothing less than a second energy transition in order to achieve its climate target of reducing emissions by 80-95 percent by 2050, writes Petra ...
Thomas Barei脽, member of the German parliament and energy policy representative of the conservative CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group, will become parliamentary state secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (BMWi), reports Frankfurter ...
By not publishing CO鈧� emissions test results, the federal government is protecting Germany鈥檚 auto industry and thus hindering important innovation in efficiency and climate protection, writes Bernhard P枚tter in an opinion piece in taz. 鈥淚f in ten years ...
A coalition between Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the left-leaning Social Democrats would likely mean a boon for public transport in the country, according to a report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung by Andreas Mihm ...
There are still many technical, political and financial hurdles on the path to fully electric road transport, and its final development is much less clear, writes Handelsblatt. Handelsblatt lists 鈥渟even inconvenient truths,鈥� such as 鈥渆-cars are only as ...
11 Feb 2015, 00:00 Analysts have welcomed a new planning framework for the German grid that works on the basis of less lignite being burned in Germany, saying grid development must serve the country鈥檚 climate targets. Expert DIW- German Institute for ...
The German economy ministry (BMWi) has visibly lost influence under three consecutive coalition governments led by Chancellor Angela Merkel,聽Heike Goebel writes in a commentary for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. But Merkel's CDU party now claims ...
The EU must take over America鈥檚 role and keep China and India on board with global climate protection efforts to get ahead during Donald Trump鈥檚 presidency, according to environmental organisation Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH). The EU is a global leader in ...
11 Jun 2015
11 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 DPA / Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau 鈥淐oal levy threatened鈥� The levy on emissions from old coal-fired power stations is on the brink of failure, insiders have told German press agency DPA. ...
German environment minister Svenja Schulze wants a discussion 鈥渁bout the existing models for CO鈧� pricing that do not put an additional burden on citizens, but still provide an incentive to reduce CO鈧�,鈥� she said in a parliamentary debate. Schulze said that ...
Trees in German cities are stressed by an unusual drought that affects their ability to absorb CO 2 and convert it into oxygen, biologist Michael Blaschke says in an article written by Peter Clement in the Rheinische Post. Many trees in inner cities shed ...
While Chancellor Merkel takes the lead on decarbonisation at international summits, her political group at home foils efforts to reach agreed climate targets, writes Markus Balser in an opinion piece in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淭he fourth largest economy in ...
The country needs a 鈥渟ustainable and binding鈥� CO鈧� price in all sectors, including transport and heating, to correct mistakes in Germany鈥檚 energy tax and levy system, CEO of utility E.ON Johannes Teyssen told Die Welt in an interview. 鈥淲ith this, many ...
Germany must draw up a plan to exit from coal-fired power generation next year if it is to fulfill its climate targets, according to Uniper CEO Klaus Sch盲fer, reports Andreas Lochner for Montel. 鈥淔rom my point of view it is no longer a matter of whether ...
The economically liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) will push for a market-oriented system to pay for renewable energy, and wants to get rid of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) and the surcharge for renewables on consumer power prices, Hermann Otto Solms, ...
Germany will not be able to reach its EU target of an 18-percent renewables share in final energy consumption by 2020 under the current conditions, writes the German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation (BEE) in its forecast for renewables development by 2020. ...
European carmakers are working hard to improve low-emission technologies to avoid having to pay hefty fines after 2021, when the EU鈥檚 new CO鈧� limits for cars take effect, report Jan Schwartz, Irene Preisinger, and Ilona Wissenbach for Reuters. ...
Onshore wind energy will become much cheaper in Germany over the coming years, with power costs dropping to 3 to 4.5 eurocents per kilowatt hour at top sites, according to a new study conducted by the think tank Agora Energiewende.* Find a press release ...
10 Jul 2015
10 Jul 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Handelsblatt Experts disappointed by government deal on coal, grid extension Most members of the Handelsblatt鈥檚 麻豆无码版 Academy 鈥� a group made up of around 230 energy experts 鈥� are disappointed with ...
The Unesco Heritage Committee wants plans for a wind farm near Lorch in the protected Rhine Gorge World Heritage Site to be abandoned, Barbara Dietel writes in Wiesbadener Tagblatt. The Committee said the planned 212-metre high windmills violated Unesco ...
The pro-business FDP and the environmentalist Green Party have held their first meeting on forming Germany鈥檚 next coalition government together with the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, Markus Decker reports in the Frankfurter Rundschau.聽 The two smaller ...
Following the executive order by US President Donald Trump to repeal former president Barack Obama鈥檚 鈥淐lean Power Plan,鈥� Germany鈥檚 Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks warned the US against 鈥渕aking a stand against technologic and economic change,鈥� ...
The European Union鈥檚 car industry is not in charge of proposing its own regulation for CO鈧� emissions limits, said the German environment ministry (BMUB) in reaction to a proposal by the European Automobile Manufacturers鈥� Association (ACEA). 鈥淭hese ...
18 Apr 2019, 12:25 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Mobility Transport Policy Rheinische Post / Saarbr眉cker Zeitung / Wirtschaftswoche German media commentators are sceptical of transport minister Andreas Scheuer鈥檚 proposal to encourage rail travel by ...
Supporting the business of budget airlines through tax exemptions or low landing fees hinders the transition towards a decarbonised transport, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau. 鈥淚f we want a resolute climate ...
China, Germany, Denmark, Mexico and other countries plan to form an international 麻豆无码版 Transition Coalition this year 鈥渇or accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy future鈥�, writes International Renewable 麻豆无码版 Agency (IRENA) in a press ...
Gas-based transport could help the German transport sector reach its greenhouse gas reduction targets, and it also needs more reliable political framework conditions, the German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water (DVGW) and the ...
Maritime transport is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, but a growing awareness in the sector could herald an 鈥� energy transition on the high seas 鈥�, Axel H枚pner writes in Handelsblatt. The Green Ship of the Future initiative brings industry ...
Diesel remains an option for about one out of three drivers in Germany, according to a poll by statistics service statista. Petrol cars were preferred by the largest share of respondents, topping the list with 71 percent, followed by hybrids with 41 ...
It is high-time for Germany to strongly push for the transition to zero-emissions transport, writes Green Party co-chair Cem 脰zdemir in a guest commentary for Zeit Online. 鈥淧retending鈥� that the end of diesel technology was still decades away is a 鈥渉ighly ...
The federal environment ministry supports a project that aims to create and develop new possibilities and offers for climate-friendly mobility in residential environments. These could include car sharing stations and safe parking for bicycles and ...
Germany is likely to lower its Energiewende ambitions after the upcoming general elections, according to an analysis by French government think tank France Strategie. Germany will likely miss its 2020 climate targets, while the long-term insecurity of the ...
Germany鈥檚 energy transition not only misses 2020 climate targets but fails on many other accounts too, according to the head of an expert commission tasked with monitoring the Energiewende鈥檚 progress. 鈥淓fficiency is a particular problem,鈥� economist ...
Carmakers鈥� successful lobbying for watered-down EU car emission limits is a scandal that reveals the industry鈥檚 continuing hold over politicians 鈥� even after Dieselgate, Markus Balser writes in an op-ed for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淲ithin a week, the most ...
28 May 2015
28 May 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Eurostat/ZEW German households pay second highest power price in EU Household electricity prices in Germany are among the highest in the EU. According to the EU鈥檚 statistics office Eurostat, German households on ...
Dieter Kempf, the president of Germany鈥檚 largest industry federation BDI, 聽has warned that national climate policies might increase power prices and prompt companies to relocate production abroad, Thorsten Knuf says in a commentary for the Frankfurter ...
District cooling offers property owners a more climate-friendly and potentially cheaper way to cool their buildings on hot summer days, writes Ralph Diermann in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Water running through buildings鈥� walls is centrally cooled down to ...
Former finance minister Hans Eichel advocates for an ecologic tax reform in Germany, he told Frankfurter Rundschau in an interview. This will raise the share of environmental taxes in the country鈥檚 total amount of taxes and levies, he says. 鈥淎bove all, ...
A coalition of several German environmental and energy federations urges the next government to introduce a price for emitting CO 2 to safeguard the country鈥檚 contribution to the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. The current low oil price 鈥渕akes ...
South Africa could learn from Germany鈥檚 mistakes by removing the obstacles coal power poses to integrating renewables into its electricity system early, think tank Agora Energiewende鈥檚* Markus Steigenberger says in an article for ESI Africa. Although ...
Four-way exploratory talks ahead of negotiations for a government coalition of CDU, CSU, FDP and Greens (known as a 'Jamaica' coalition, due to party colours) are likely to start only after the state parliamentary election in Lower Saxony on 15 ...
The Greens鈥� Kerstin Andreae and FDP鈥檚 Otto Fricke, both members of the Bundestag, debated the parties鈥� policy differences and potential stumbling blocks for coalition talks in a joint interview in WirtschaftsWoche. Asked if the Greens鈥� proposal to ...
Employees of German utility Uniper fear that the company could be split up after its potential acquisition by Finnish energy group Fortum, affecting many jobs, write Michael Bauchm眉ller and Benedikt M眉ller in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Should Fortum become a ...
In an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Martin Gropp argues that the Green Party's proposal for a ban on the combustion engine is heavy handed, and relying on incentives and carmakers' ingenuity would be more fruitful. 鈥淎 ban on ...
More electricity was generated in Europe from wind, sun and biomass in 2017 than from lignite and hard coal, think tanks Agora Energiewende* and Sandbag say in their annual evaluation of the European energy transition. However, renewable energy sources ...
03 Apr 2019, 12:16 S枚ren Amelang Cars Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Extending the range of battery-based electric cars with an additional hydrogen fuel cell makes more sense from an economic and environmental perspective than using huge batteries, said ...
16 Feb 2016
16 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 E-World Essen State economy minister warns against decreed coal exit Garrelt Duin,聽economy minister for Germany鈥檚 largest federal state- North-Rhine-Westphalia- warned against a ...
German utility RWE has contested a court鈥檚 evidence order from November 2017 which says that a consultant shall assess whether greenhouse gas emissions caused by the country鈥檚 largest coal user have contributed to the melting of a glacier in Peru, which ...
The option for a so-called Jamaica government coalition of CDU/CSU, Greens and Free Democrats (FDP) should be used if there was a majority for it after the general elections in September, according to CDU parliamentary state secretary in the finance ...
03 Apr 2017
German utilities RWE and EnBW are not well prepared for the transition to a low-carbon future when compared their European peers, according to an analysis by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). Austrian Verbund, Spanish Iberdrola and Finnish Fortum are ...
Solving a complex social problem like the phasing-out of coal- Germany鈥檚 traditional and still most important energy source 聽- is a 鈥渃ore task鈥� of policymakers, and to outsource this task to an external commission amounts to 鈥� cowardice and refusal to ...
Free Democratic Party (FDP) leader Christian Lindner wants to slow down wind power expansion throughout Germany, after having pushed for similar policy in the聽 new coalition agreement 聽for North Rhine-Westphalia, reports news agency dpa. 鈥淚t doesn鈥檛 make ...
29 Dec 2015
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Sven Egenter Spiegel Online 鈥淗endricks criticises massive rise in electricity exports鈥� Germany鈥檚 environment minister Barbara Hendricks is concerned about the country鈥檚 CO2 emissions, writes Stefan Schultz at Spiegel Online ...
In a telephone call, US President Donald Trump told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that he wants to help her make the G20 summit in Hamburg this week a success, according to the White House, reports S眉ddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). Before the phone call, Merkel ...
The city of Essen in western Germany used to be one of the country鈥檚 most important coal centres, but has been awarded the title of Europe鈥檚 green capital by the EU Commission, writes Peter Koekoek in the Daily Planet. According to the Commission, Essen ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:11 S枚ren Amelang Fossil fuels Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel Germany鈥檚 coal exit will have economic impacts well beyond the coal industry and regions, Andreas Mihm writes in a commentary in the ...
23 Feb 2015
23 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Tagesspiegel 鈥淒istribute radioactive legacy throughout the country鈥� Because only two German states have volunteered to store nuclear waste returning from processing plants abroad, the radioactive ...
19 Apr 2016
19 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 sandbag.org A 鈥渓ose-lose-lose鈥� situation The Vattenfall lignite sale to EPH is a lose for the climate, a lose for the Swedish government and a lose for German workers ...
The controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, which would connect Russia with Germany via the Baltic Sea, is affected by intense lobbying, especially by former Chancellor Gerhard Schr枚der, a personal friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, ...
09 Apr 2015
09 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 German Centre for 麻豆无码版 Resources Freiberg (DER) Germans deeply split about coal Germans are deeply split about the mining and use of coal, a study from the German Centre for 麻豆无码版 Resources ...
An almost 12 percent increase in fuel oil prices in December 2016 compared to the previous month accelerated inflation in Germany, according to the European Climate Foundation (ECF). 鈥淚f energy prices would have remained unchanged compared to the previous ...
A group of scientists including Hans Joachim Schellnhuber of 聽the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) are proposing a 鈥渃arbon law鈥� to halve anthropogenic CO鈧� emissions every decade, aimed at achieving zero net emissions by mid-century. In ...
The German discussion about the energy transition is 鈥渕arked by polarisation, polemic, and misleading reasoning鈥�, writes former energy industry manager Thomas Unnerstall in a guest commentary in Handelsblatt. One side criticises 鈥渆xploding costs鈥� and 鈥渁 ...
Germany鈥檚 political culture has ceased to vividly debate environmental challenges because 鈥� everybody has become green nowadays 鈥�, Bernhard P枚tter writes in an op-ed for Tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淏ut the price for this is high,鈥� he says, arguing that a ...
22 May 2019, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology French manufacturer Alstom plans to deliver 27 hydrogen fuel cell trains to subsidiary fahma of regional public transport provider RMV in the central German state of Hesse by 2022, ...
Germany鈥檚 carmakers have retrofitted the software of about 2.5 million out of a total of 5.3 million diesel cars eligible for a retrofitting to lower their emissions, Handelsblatt reports. The country鈥檚 largest carmaker, Volkswagen, has carried out over ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall said it will replace all its vehicles by electric cars over the next five years, reports Deutsche Welle. The company noted the measure was required to become "climate-neutral" by 2050. Starting in January 2017, ...
The TV debate between conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel and her social-democratic rival Martin Schulz three weeks before the parliamentary elections 鈥渨as billed by broadcasters as a duel but at times better resembled a duet,鈥� Griff Witte writes for ...
Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer (the Christian Social Union, or CSU) wants to counter falling diesel car sales by reducing vehicle taxes on 鈥渓ow-emission Euro-6-diesel鈥� cars, reports German weekly Der Spiegel. In a separate article, Spiegel Online ...
The electric car might not be the clean alternative to combustion engines many believe it to be, because of environmental damage from batteries and the extraction of raw materials such as cobalt or lithium, Henrik B枚hme argues in an opinion piece on ...
The envrionmental organisation Nabu has criticised the German government for sacrificing the protection of nature and wildlife to meet its energy transition and climate protection goals, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. In a statement on ...
The German government鈥檚 trademark Energiewende policy has failed, write Angela Hennersdorf, Niklas Hoyer, Andreas Macho and Dieter Schnaas in a feature article for business weekly WirtschaftsWoche. Despite ongoing high public support for the project, ...
It is surprising that the would-be government coalition partners of Angela Merkel鈥檚 CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) did not agree to push for a fundamental reform of Germany鈥檚 energy taxes and levies system in the coalition talks, because ...
The European Commission approved Germany鈥檚 70 million euro scheme to encourage public transport operators to replace conventional diesel buses with electric or plug-in hybrids running on renewable electricity under state aid rules, the Commission writes ...
Foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel wants to 鈥渄emonstratively foster multilateral cooperation鈥� with the G20 foreign minister meeting in Bonn- but concrete outcomes are unlikely, writes Stefan Braun in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淢ission saving the earth鈥檚 ...
麻豆无码版 and financial policy in Europe could be substantially affected by a government participation of the Green Party and the economic liberal FDP in the next German government under Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative alliance of CDU/CSU, Ambrose ...
German Social Democrat leader Martin Schulz has unveiled a ten-point plan for a better Germany in his quest to unseat Chancellor Angela Merkel in the 24 September elections. The party鈥檚 goals include massive investment in infrastructure, including in ...
Armin Laschet, state premier of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), has unsuccessfully called for the early shutdown of two nuclear reactors near the Belgian-German border in a meeting with Belgium鈥檚 Prime Minister Charles Michel, reports Moritz K眉pper for ...
Rather than big flagship projects, 鈥渟ubversive innovations鈥� could prove more successful in making a breakthrough in the decarbonisation of the world鈥檚 economies, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) told ...
One week ahead of the general election, the German political parties already debate possible scenarios for forming a coalition government, reports Lutz Haverkamp in Tagesspiegel. At a special party conference, the Greens鈥� top candidate, Katrin G枚ring ...
Germany鈥檚 next government will have to ramp up efforts to advance the country鈥檚 transition to renewable energy sources in order to replace nuclear power and enable gradual decarbonisation, the 麻豆无码版 Watch Group think tank says. The 鈥渇ormer global leader鈥� ...
The Moorburg ruling means the plant will have to stop using river water for cooling, and instead run with its cooling tower only- making it dirtier and less efficient, writes Sven-Michael Veit in a commentary for left-wing newspaper tageszeitung (taz). ...
In a series of stakeholder dialogues, environmental NGO Germanwatch and the Global Climate Forum have investigated where important Energiewende players see obstacles and opportunities. A close cooperation between core business areas such as institutional ...
Germany will likely miss the 2020 EU goal to increase the renewables share 聽of gross final energy consumption to 18 percent (currently 14.6 percent), according to projections by 聽the German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation (BEE). 鈥淲hile 23 EU member states ...
A study by the influential Pew Research Center has found that confidence by citizens around the world in the leadership skills of German Chancellor Angela Merkel decisively outweighs that in US President Donald Trump. While 42 percent of respondents in 37 ...
A German government formed of a so-called Jamaica coalition could be more than just an 鈥渆mergency solution鈥�, FDP chief negotiator Marco Buschmann said in an interview with Frankfurter Rundschau.聽 If the parties found a compromise on contested policy ...
The federal government plans to phase out the tax privileges for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) next year, according to a draft law seen by news agency Reuters. 鈥淥riginally, the privileges for the comparably climate-friendly liquefied gas were supposed to ...
The planned law on energy efficiency in public buildings will be further delayed due to disagreements within the government coalition of conservatives (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD), writes Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. 鈥淏uildings are key for ...
Germany is likely to miss several key energy transition targets- including goals on the affordability of electricity, greenhouse gas emissions and primary energy and power consumption- while costs keep rising, according to consultancy McKinsey鈥檚 bi-annual ...
The future of coal-fired power generation is going to be one of the coalition talks鈥� most delicate matters, Michael Bauchm眉ller says in an article for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淎ll other energy policy issues pale in comparison to the coal question,鈥� he writes ...
The German Energiewende could fail due to policymakers鈥� unrealistic goal of an energy system relying almost entirely on electricity by 2050, former German 麻豆无码版 Agency head Stephan Kohler writes in an op-ed for the Handelsblatt. 鈥淭here has probably never ...
Germany鈥檚 reset of its search for a final nuclear repository, with a new law approved in March 2017, is inhibiting the development of geothermal energy projects and is thus 鈥渂locking the way for the heating transition and climate protection鈥�, writes Erwin ...
Should the next German government decide to seek a coal exit, it must also care for the workers' and mining regions鈥� future, said Michael Vassiliadis, head of Germany鈥檚 largest mining trade union IG BCE and one of Germany's most prominent ...
The government must push ahead with the roll-out of a reliable charging infrastructure for e-cars and increase support for e-mobility research and development, according to German utility association BDEW. In a 鈥渞oadmap to eco-mobility鈥�, the utilities ...
German policymakers could agree to a European carbon floor price of 20 euros per tonne, Patrick Pouyanne, CEO of French oil company Total, has said according to Reuters. Back in September, French President Emmanuel Macron suggested a minimum CO 2 price of ...
Gearing the financial system towards sustainable or 鈥檊reen鈥� investment is increasingly becoming part of Germany鈥檚 climate protection policies, but politicians should be wary not to repeat the mistakes made in the country鈥檚 energy transition legislation, ...
Large-scale expansion of public transportation, integrated mobility concepts and charging infrastructure could offset job losses associated with a shift towards e-cars in Germany, Beate Willms writes in a commentary for taz. 鈥淥f course these jobs are ...
17 Jun 2019, 12:48 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities 麻豆无码版 The level of air pollution, mostly due to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions from traffic, has ...
Scientists of the Technical University of Dresden are calling for a 鈥渞eadjustment鈥� of Germany鈥檚 energy policy as power prices are turning negative due to the expansion of renewable energy sources and persisting nuclear and fossil power generation capacity ...
German industry association BDI鈥檚 warning that the country lacks sufficient access to the raw materials needed for large-scale production of electric cars are exaggerated, think tank Agora Verkehrswende * says. Think tank head Christian Hochfeld told the ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Policy Oldenburger Onlinezeitung / Die Welt / RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland The suggestion by Saxony's state premier Michael Kretschmer that Germany should keep the door open for future uses of ...
The German development ministry (BMZ) has concluded so-called reform partnerships with three African countries that include expanding the use of renewable energy sources and improving energy efficiency, the BMZ said in a press release. Tunisia, Ivory ...
The German government could introduce a speedy coal exit without having to pay compensation to power plant operators, think tank Agora Energiewende* writes聽in a press release. Law firm BeckerB眉ttnerHeld (BBH) analysed last year鈥檚 nuclear phase-out ...
The expansion of Germany鈥檚 solar power capacity must be accelerated if the country does not want to miss out on one of the global energy transition鈥檚 most important trends, the German solar power industry warns in the Erneuerbare Energien magazine. ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel and economy minister Sigmar Gabriel act 鈥渃owardly and economically short-sighted鈥� when erasing any mention of a coal exit in Germany from environment minister Barbara Hendricks鈥� climate plan, writes Thorsten Knuf in an opinion ...
Germany鈥檚 federal elections in September will also be a decision 鈥渙n the direction of the country鈥檚 energy policy鈥� and a lot depends on which parties form a government coalition, Arne Jungjohann writes on website China Dialogue. With near-term [climate ...
Regional smart markets can help lower re-dispatch costs in the German power grid, according to a new study by think tank Agora Energiewende.* Depending on the local conditions, measures such as using more power-to-heat or actively controlling night ...
The German government must take precautions to secure citizens鈥� acceptance for future wind power expansion, as it is a central pillar of the country鈥檚 energy transition, writes the energy think tank Agora Energiewende* in a report. Municipalities located ...
German households that reduce their power consumption are being 鈥減unished鈥� by paying relatively more for every unit they use, energy think tank Agora Energiewende* says in a press release. "Poor or聽 thrifty power consumers are faring comparatively ...
The total cost of Germany鈥檚 energy transition cannot be calculated merely by adding up the costs of individual assets, as some costs would arise even without a shift towards a decarbonised energy system, the German Federal Government writes in an answer ...
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney urged Germany to use its G20 presidency in 2017 to make progress concerning green financing in emerging economies. "The upcoming German presidency of the G20 now has a historic chance to mainstream climate finance ...
The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party聽 wants to stop the German Energiewende, and at the same time promotes nature conservation, Susanne G枚tze writes for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. She says this contradiction is 鈥渁 systematic one that has tradition ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her conservative CDU/CSU bloc would begin exploratory talks on forming a so-called 鈥楯amaica鈥� coalition on 18 October, reports Reuters. That day, the CDU/CSU would hold separate talks with the Free Democrats (FDP) and ...
The German economic experts鈥� council (Wirtschaftsweise) has called for the introduction of a uniform price on carbon emissions that covers the transport and energy sector as well as individual households. In its annual report, the council of five economic ...
All German energy-related taxes and levies should be substituted by a national price on greenhouse gas emissions (CO鈧� levy), which would increase continuously over the coming years, according to a proposal by the newly-founded association for a national ...
The German government has the 鈥渁lmost unique opportunity鈥� to make German car manufacturers 鈥渇inally take decisions鈥� to find a solution for the diesel emissions scandal, writes Peter Fahrenholz in an opinion piece in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The auto industry ...
Europe鈥檚 reliance on natural gas imports- as a 鈥減artner for renewables鈥� 鈥� is growing, and the contentious Russian-German Nord Stream 2 pipeline project is needed to supply the continent with gas cheaper than the liquefied natural gas (LNG) imported from ...
E-cars are already expensive, and more efficient conventional engines will also become more costly regardless of whether they use petrol or diesel, writes Joachim Becker in a commentary in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淚ndividual mobility will therefore become ...
Germany is prepared as much as any other country to steer its own and the global community鈥檚 development onto a more sustainable path, but it has to increase its ambitions and efforts to tap into this potential, government advisors affiliated with the ...
The list of members of Germany鈥檚 coal commission is complete, Spiegel Online reports. Gerda Hasselfeldt, the former parliamentary group leader of the CSU, the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU, will reportedly join the ...
Germany鈥檚 largest industrial company Siemens has sent an unofficial working paper to members of the Green Party in which it calls for 鈥渁n accelerated end of coal-fired power production鈥� coupled with a European carbon floor price. In the four-page document ...
17 Aug 2015
17 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 dpa / S眉ddeutsche.de 鈥淩aid on Garzweiler鈥� Hundreds of activists entered the open cast lignite mine of Garzweiler, in North-Rhine Westphalia, on Saturday, the German press agency dpa reports. Some ...
The EU Commission missed its opportunity to introduce more ambitious climate targets with its proposal package for a low-carbon economy, writes Joachim Wille in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau. 鈥淭he EU Commission pretends [鈥 that 鈥楶aris鈥� never ...
Underground salt caverns in the northern German region of Frisia could become the 鈥渨orld鈥檚 largest battery鈥�, German energy company EWE AG told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. EWE plans to use the caverns as large redox flow batteries. Commonly, climate ...
The head of German carmaker Volkswagen told daily Rheinische Post that he can imagine a deal with the government in which the carmakers agree to a phase-out date for diesel engines in return for more support with e-mobility. 鈥淚f you act with appropriate ...
The United Kingdom has reduced its carbon emissions from coal-fired power production by 50 percent within five years- 鈥渁 reduction that Germany can only dream of,鈥� Niels Boeing writes for the Zeit Online. 鈥淲hat has happened here?,鈥� he asks. Germany鈥檚 ...
The EUREF-Campus in the German capital Berlin has become a showcase for efficient energy use, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The campus combines existing technologies with a software that analyses weather data and regulates the use of ...
27 Mar 2019, 12:27 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport S枚ren Amelang Transport Cars 麻豆无码版 German Transport Minister Andreas ...
Western Germany鈥檚 coal mining regions have long profited from mining companies鈥� cash flow into local communities but in exchange have tacitly agreed not to talk about immediate effects on the environment, disappearing villages, and emissions, Burkhard ...
Germany鈥檚 next government will have to find a way to change the current system of energy surcharges, regulations and economic incentives, which 鈥渓eads into a cul-de-sac鈥�, Andreas Kuhlmann, head of the German 麻豆无码版 Agency (dena) says in an interview with ...
The Federal Association for Brown Coal (DEBRIV) says a legal opinion stating that a coal exit would be constitutional is superficial and draws the wrong conclusions. Law firm BeckerB眉ttnerHeld (BBH) and think tank Agora Energiewende* said on Monday that ...
Climate protection protests in Germany鈥檚 western region Rhineland have become the new beacon of non-parliamentary leftist political activity in the country, Martin Kaul writes in a commentary for leftist newspaper Tageszeitung (taz). The planned blockade ...
For a long time, Germany's insistence on the energy transition聽raised eyebrows, Nils-Viktor Sorge writes in an opinion piece for manager magazine Online. Six years on from the Fukushima disaster, it's聽 the USA 聽that increasingly looks like the ...
Scholars from the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (I脰W) and several universities have published a handbook for local governments and other players on how to better engage citizens in the transition of Germany鈥檚 energy system. The handbook, ...
The shift to electric mobility has become unstoppable even if e-car sales are still low, writes Michael Gerster in an analysis for the car industry publication Automobilwoche. He argues that major car companies are now so committed to the technology that ...
The eastern German coal mining region of Lusatia should receive 100 million euros in public funds per year from 2019 on to facilitate the 鈥渟tructural development鈥� of the local economy that is currently centred on lignite production, think tank Agora ...
Setting a regional carbon floor price for power generation within the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) would make Germany鈥檚 efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions more consistent and contribute to phasing out coal, Felix Matthes of the Institute for ...
An extensive underground thermal heat storage system proposed in Hamburg could supply roughly a quarter of the city鈥檚 heating needs with waste heat from industrial and power plants, Jeffrey Michel reports for energypost.eu. 鈥淚f successful, it would make ...
Germany is still likely to miss key Energiewende goals, including its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target, even as household power prices continue to rise, according to McKinsey鈥檚 bi-annual Energiewende-Index report. At 30.8 cents per kilowatt hour (ct ...
Representatives of industry, civil society and science call for an internationally coordinated price system for CO鈧� emissions in a guest commentary in Die Zeit. The Federation of German Industries (BDI), environmental NGO Germanwatch and the Mercator ...
German car supplier Bosch has developed a technology to save cars鈥� petrol consumption by injecting water into combustion engines, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The 鈥渨ater boost鈥� technology reduces fuel consumption by at least four percent, and ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected the suggestion that German carmaker VW鈥檚 emissions cheating was a 鈥渇ailure of government鈥�. The failure was with VW, not the German state, she said in a hearing before an inquiry committee of the federal parliament. ...
The protest against lignite mining in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia turns increasingly violent, writes Reiner Burger in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In the area of the open pit lignite mine Hambach, 鈥渁 small group of self ...
Fuel cell electric vehicles could make a significant contribution to reducing CO 2 emissions in the transport sector, according to a study by oil company Shell and the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and 麻豆无码版. 鈥淚n 2050, 113 million fuel ...
麻豆无码版 prices for German consumers dropped by 0.9 percent in August, following a decrease of 1.2 percent in July. While prices for petrol and heating oil went down, electricity prices remained stable, according to the European Climate Foundation鈥檚 (ECF) ...
The strong showing by the Christian (CDU) and Free Democrats (FDP) in the state election in North Rhine-Westphalia shows that voters have put more emphasis on economic policy and wealth, writes Heike G枚bel in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
The targets of the Paris Climate Agreement can only be reached with the help of the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. The 1.5掳 target was 鈥渁mbitious to such an extent that it cannot be attained without huge ...
A sharp emissions reduction by 2050 will likely benefit Germany鈥檚 economy, according to a study summary draft by the Federation of German Industries (BDI) seen by 麻豆无码版. An 鈥�80 percent climate path is possible with a neutral to positive effect ...
After the G20 summit in Hamburg, the governments of France and Germany should use the joint Ministerial Council meeting in Paris to establish the two countries as the 鈥� energy transition motor of the European Union 鈥�, writes Andreas Kuhlmann, chief ...
23 Apr 2015, 00:00 Bids for solar panel auctions were well-received, Germany is not exiting coal, and the country should consider its European electricity trading partners when designing the new power market, a key member of the economics ministry said at ...
German utility innogy aims to bolster its position in photovoltaics and energy storage with the acquisition of the German solar and battery specialist BELECTRIC Solar & Battery GmbH. The transaction, announced in August 2016, has been completed, ...
02 Oct 2015, 00:00 (Update with new calendar page in PDF) 鈥淎 Reporter鈥檚 Guide to the Energiewende鈥� offers journalists covering energy and climate policy an overview of key stories, experts/decision-makers and facts on Germany鈥檚 landmark energy transition. ...
The visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Berlin had special significance as it came just days after a difficult G7 summit had exposed deep rifts between Germany鈥檚 government and the current US administration, particularly over climate change, ...
03 Nov 2014, 00:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Online "Power in ...
Exiting coal-fired power generation in Germany is a matter of when, not if, according to a meta study by 聽the Wuppertal Institute, commissioned by the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU). The study analyses position papers and scientific ...
08 Jun 2015
08 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Der Spiegel 鈥淪igmar Gabriel prepared to sacrifice climate levy鈥� Economy and energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel is about to let go of his proposed climate levy for old coal-fired power stations, Der ...
19 Nov 2014
19 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 German Institute for Economic Research 鈥淪hutting down old coal-fired power stations could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 23 million tones and stabilise the power market鈥� A new study by the German ...
01 Jul 2015
01 Jul 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淒irty deal鈥� At a high-level meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel tonight, the German government looks set to abandon plans for an additional levy on old coal-fired plants and instead adopt ...
Inner-city driving bans for diesel cars threaten the economy, consumer interests and even the environment, writes the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) in a long, front-page article. Diesel cars emit up to 20 percent less CO鈧� than petrol cars ...
Thuringia, the state of Berlin, and Rhineland-Palatinate are the German pioneers regarding sustainable mobility, according to the Federal State Index Mobility and Environment 2016/17 by Allianz pro Schiene, Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) and the ...
Excitement over technological innovations and the digitalisation of the energy system are 鈥渙nly one side of the coin鈥� of Germany鈥檚 energy transition, Daniel Wetzel writes in weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag. 鈥淭he other side is that planners and architects ...
Drivers of cars powered by natural gas and operators of gas refilling stations should be careful after the recent explosion of a VW vehicle of this type, writes Christian Siedenbiedel in a commentary for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. It is too early to ...
The German car industry says that diesel technology is 鈥渁t least in the mid-term鈥� indispensable to reach climate targets, writes the German Bundestag in a press release. In a hearing before the parliament鈥檚 committee of inquiry for the diesel emissions ...
09 May 2016
09 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Agora Energiewende Preliminary data suggests renewable record in Germany Strong winds and sun all over Germany might have pushed renewable power production to a new record share on Sunday. Renewable ...
Environmental NGO WWF and green energy provider LichtBlick launched their 鈥淓nergiewende-Dashboard鈥� 鈥� a website that shows up-to-date information on the progress of the German energy transition. In the "style of a digital car or airplane dashboard ...
Electric cars will be needed both as a greener form of transport and as storage devices for a power grid that relies on intermittent renewable energy sources if Germany is to hit its Paris Climate Agreement targets, Michael Nei脽endorfer writes in the ...
Germany鈥檚 industry is among the most efficient in the world and can hardly improve its energy intensity record by simply abiding by new regulations, a study by the industry-sponsored research institute IW K枚ln says. Andreas Mihm writes in the Frankfurter ...
Retiring most of Europe鈥檚 dirtiest power plants is cheaper than most people think, report Mathew Carr, Tino Andresen, and Brian Parkin for Bloomberg. A price floor of 30 euros per tonne of CO 2- six times the current price- would cost each European ...
The federal government, regional states, and municipalities will have to invest in energy efficiency in new building projects, according to a draft law, reports Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. The economic and environmental ministries鈥� proposal for a law ...
24 Jan 2017, 00:00 Germany's economy and energy minister Sigmar Gabriel will not run for Chancellor in this year's federal election. Gabriel plans to step down from his current role to head the foreign office instead, various news outlets ...
It remains to be seen if the other member states will support Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 agenda for Germany鈥檚 G20 presidency starting on 1 December, write Jan Hildebrand and Martin Greive in Handelsblatt. 鈥淭he Chancellor aims to rope in the G20 to ...
Negotiators in the ongoing talks to renew Germany鈥檚 grand coalition of conservatives (CDU, CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) want to avoid inner city driving bans and consider hardware retrofitting for older diesel cars to bring down nitrogen oxide ...
The Green Party is slumping in national polls as security and migration overshadow the party鈥檚 core topics of the environment and climate, writes Silke Kersting in Handelsblatt. 鈥淵et, the conditions for the party to again play a bigger part on a national ...
Germany鈥檚 Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) could produce results that go against its intended purpose of cutting emissions by supporting low-carbon energy generation, EurActiv.de reports. The EEG, combined with the EU鈥檚 Emissions Trading System (ETS), caused an ...
The German shipping industry calls for greater financial support by the state to push its transition to more climate-friendly fuels, dpa news agency reports in an article carried by Die Welt. About 1,000 ships could run on liquefied natural gas (LNG) by ...
The Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) should be ditched and replaced by a carbon tax, writes Dieter D眉rand in an opinion piece in WirtschaftsWoche. 鈥淚t is time for a clear cut: get rid of the EEG. In its place could be a simple tax on CO 2,鈥� writes D眉rand. 鈥淭his ...
When it comes to climate protection, there is hardly any other sector where reality lags as far behind necessity as in the area of insulating buildings, according to the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW). In a collection of analyses, the ...
It is high time for a finance transition- in addition to the energy, transport and agricultural transformations- to protect the climate, write Green Members of the German Bundestag Annalena Baerbock and Gerhard Schick in a guest commentary in Frankfurter ...
For 2018, the German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation (BEE) projects a slight decrease in the country鈥檚 levy to finance renewables expansion, the organisation says in a press release. The Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) surcharge will drop to about 6.71 euro cents ...
24 Feb 2015, 00:00 A vote in the European Parliament on the reform of the EU's emissions trading system has prompted applause by some and disappointment from others. The 麻豆无码版 has compiled some of the reactions out of Germany to the ...
In a guest commentary published by the business daily Handelsblatt, Franz Untersteller, environment minister of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, and Green member of the federal parliament Oliver Krischer call for a CO鈧� price to be set for energy sources ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the upcoming G20 meeting in Hamburg will focus not only on the economic growth, but also on sustainable growth, Reuters writes, quoting a podcast of the Federal Press Office. "We've got to have a 'win ...
Germany鈥檚 biggest federal state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), must do its bit for climate protection without losing its status as leading industrial location, NRW鈥檚 state premier Hannelore Kraft said at Germany鈥檚 largest energy trade-fair E-World in ...
German energy think tank Agora Energiewende* has published the English version of a paper that examines the implications of regulation reforms such as the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) and the power market reform. These will bring 鈥渇undamental changes鈥� for ...
The incoming German government must not agree to phase out coal-fired power production in exchange for concessions to diesel cars, Michael Vassiliadis, head of Germany鈥檚 largest mining trade union,聽 IG BCE, said in an interview with the General-Anzeiger ...
Climate change is affecting temperatures in Germany more than the global average, writes Marlene Wei脽 in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The average temperature in Germany is now 1.4 degrees Celsius higher than in 1881, while the world鈥檚 average only saw a 1.1 ...
Germany鈥檚 federal government plans to present a joint list of demands to German carmakers at the national diesel summit on 2 August, a spokesperson for the environment ministry (BMUB) told journalists in Berlin on Monday. The inviting transport and ...
A German coal exit is unlikely to be introduced in the foreseeable future if a coalition of Christian Democrats (CDU), Christian Socialists (CSU) and Free Democrats (FDP) take over the federal government after the September elections, writes klimaretter ...
A new online platform by German utility association BDEW and business consultancy PwC aims to share experiences with alternative mobility and integrated city concepts, BDEW said in a press release. The website eco-mobility.org introduces the latest ...
Germany needs an upper limit for state-set levies and taxes that comprise large parts of the consumer electricity price, in order to relieve power consumers of rising costs, the state economy minister of North Rhine-Westphalia told Handelsblatt. 鈥淲e have ...
Industry and energy production emissions reduction in Germany has been below the EU-average for the tenth year in a row, according to figures released by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). With 453 million tonnes of CO 2 equivalent, combined emissions ...
Synthetic fuels will be competitive with conventional liquid fuels by 2050 and replace oil as the primary ingredient for transport and heating fuels by mid-century, a new study by consultancy Prognos, research institute Fraunhofer UMSICHT and the German ...
29 Jul 2016, 00:00 The surcharge that German consumers pay through their power bills to fund renewable power looks set to rise again in 2017, think tank Agora Energiewende* has predicted. If power suppliers calculate bills fairly, this won鈥檛 necessarily ...
Thanks to renewables, we don鈥檛 need nuclear energy to protect the climate, nor coal power to enable the nuclear exit, argues R眉diger Haude, spokesperson of a solar support association, in politics weekly der Freitag. But several reforms of the Renewable ...
Germany鈥檚 levy to support renewables expansion, the EEG surcharge, will decrease to around 6.74 euro cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) in 2018, from this year鈥檚 6.88 ct/kWh, according to calculations by think tank Agora Energiewende.* A predicted rise in ...
The energy policy plans of the new government of Germany鈥檚 most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) bear the risk that the state 鈥渋n the medium and long run is left behind as an energy region 鈥�, Peter Berger writes in K枚lner Stadtanzeiger. In ...
The EU鈥檚 proposed emissions trading system (ETS) reform spells 20 lost years for climate protection, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in an opinion piece for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. According to the proposal, certificates would be put in a 鈥渞eserve鈥� from 2019 and ...
Chancellor Angel Merkel appears to have signalled the end of brown coal in Germany, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. In her traditional summer interview with broadcaster ARD, Merkel stated that working with affected regions to develop ...
The German federal government has said that the country鈥檚 security standby of lignite power plants with a total capacity of 2.7 gigawatts has not yet been used, but operators are paid a total of 234 million euros in 2017 and 2018 to keep them at the ready ...
In 2014, 17.3 percent of German start-ups contributed to an environment and climate-protective economy with their products and services, according to the Green Economy Start-up Monitor 2015 by Borderstep Institute, writes WirtschaftsWoche. 86 percent of ...
Germany is the European champion when it comes to electricity exports, but this was mainly based on overcapacities of coal-fired power stations, according to Green politician B盲rbel H枚hn, writes Petra Pinzler in Die Zeit. 鈥淭he success of solar and wind ...
After years of rising hard coal import volumes due to the closing of domestic mines, Germany seems to decrease its reliance on the fossil fuel, Andreas Macho writes in business weekly WirtschaftsWoche. While Germany continues to be Europe's biggest ...
Several citizens鈥� and environmental groups in Germany have reiterated their call for a standstill agreement on lignite mine expansion until the speed and scope of the country鈥檚 coal phase-out has been determined, Ralph Jansen writes in the K枚lner Stadt ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on the German car industry to do all that is necessary to regain the credibility and trust lost during the emissions scandal. In her opening speech at the Frankfurt car show (IAA), Merkel said carmakers had ...
Environment minister Barbara Hendricks鈥� proposal to aid the breakthrough of e-mobility with a mandatory quota for e-cars is misguided, argues Klaus Stratmann in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. He says EU emission limits are a suitable ...
Germany will likely phase out power production from coal within the next 30 years, according to state secretary Rainer Baake. 鈥淲hen I look at the stakeholders鈥� positions, it seems to suggest that the last [coal] power station will likely go offline ...
Citizens of Munich have voted to shut down the city鈥檚 single largest source of CO 2 emissions ahead of schedule, klimaretter.info reports. Around 60 percent voted in favour of close the Munich Nord heating plant by 2022, instead of 2035 as planned by the ...
The benefits of the planned Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 outweigh the drawbacks, writes Josef Auer in a commentary for Deutsche Bank Research. It would increase supply security, as fewer countries are involved in transporting gas than before, ...
14 Jun 2016
14 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Bloomberg 鈥淭he world nears peak fossil fuels for electricity鈥� The era of ever expanding global demand for fossil fuels to generate power comes to an end in less than ...
The governments of France and Germany intend to reinforce European carbon trading in the electricity sector and aim to initiate a reform of the EU鈥檚 emissions trading system (ETS) before the UN鈥檚 COP 23 in November, news agency Reuters reports. Brune ...
Peruvian farmer Sa煤l Lliuya is suing German utility RWE in the District Court of Essen, saying the company鈥檚 carbon emissions drive climate change and threaten his home town Huaraz, writes Gero Rueter for Deutsche Welle. Lliuya says global warming is ...
The Renewable Energies Agency has published the 2016/17 status report on the energy transition in the individual German federal states. 鈥淭he federal states have an important 鈥榟inge function鈥� and can significantly advance the Energiewende through setting ...
Eastern German coal-fired power plants proved to be flexible in unstable weather conditions over the holidays, writes Simone Wendler in Lausitzer Rundschau. The plants had to quickly be powered down or restarted at times of volatile wind power feed-in ...
German economic liberal party FDP is increasingly wooing adversaries of the energy transition and climate policy sceptics in its bid to reenter parliament, write Anna-Sophia Lang and Gerald Traufetter in Der Spiegel. The FDP fell short of the required ...
In an interview with Gitta D眉perthal, Manfred Maresch, head of the district German mining union in the lignite coal town of Alsdorf, says the union is not against the Energiewende. Instead, he says, it is concerned about the social implications of ...
25 Feb 2015
25 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Handelsblatt 鈥淏rave new world鈥� The single market for European energy that EU citizens have been waiting for for years, is now called the 麻豆无码版 Union, Thomas Ludwig writes in an opinion piece for ...
22 Aug 2016
In a long article in Welt am Sonntag, Daniel Wetzel writes about the dangers of wind turbines for birds and the resulting clash between nature and climate protection advocates. A wind power project in the south of Germany could set a legal precedence: ...
The Paris Climate Agreement is unlikely to be the right way to reach the goal of limiting global warming, according to the federal economy ministry鈥檚 independent academic advisory board, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). In a ...
07 Apr 2015
07 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 聽 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Unions 鈥� CO2 levy could erase 100,000 jobs The additional CO2 levy on old power plants, proposed by the German government to achieve climate targets, puts up to 100,000 jobs ...
Communities in the German state of Hesse will soon be able to benefit financially from wind power even if they don鈥檛 directly operate wind farms, according to a report in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Hesse鈥檚 Official Gazette has published rules on ...
The phase-out of coal-fired power production in Germany must become a model case for other countries that want to reconcile economic prosperity with an effective reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) has ...
With cities, municipalities, foundations and companies divesting from fossil fuels and more 鈥済reen investment鈥� possibilities, the financial sector is rethinking its approach to environmental protection and sustainability on the one hand, and to financial ...
European Union Commission Vice-President Maro拧 艩ef膷ovi膷 hopes to be able to present the planned package with proposals to change the EU鈥檚 energy and climate regulations before the end of the year. The comprehensive energy union package would include ...
Hans B眉nting, COO Renewables of RWE International SE (Innogy), sees no reason for the German utility to hold back on renewables investments in the UK following the Brexit vote. 鈥淥n the basis of the currently available information, the UK is and will ...
Germany鈥檚 largest labour union, IG Metall, has called for 鈥渟trict but achievable鈥� emission limits which take concerns of the car industry into account, writes Holger Appel in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Constantly tightened limit values would ...
The grid reform proposal threatens to undermine the economics of decentralised power stations, according to utility association BDEW. 鈥淭he government risks that controllable and flexible decentralised power generators are pushed out of the market,鈥� said ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:21 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Solar Wind Federal Network Agency ...
The German gas sector initiative 鈥� Future Natural Gas 鈥� has started a PR campaign criticising the high-emissions coal industry, petrol and diesel cars, and positioning natural gas as the cleaner alternative, reports Nils-Viktor Sorge for manager magazin. ...
After campaigners鈥� hopes were dashed that the Swedish government would veto the sale of state-owned utility Vattenfall鈥檚 German lignite coal assets to Czech investor EPH, a number of NGOs have called on German and international banks to stop funding the ...
Germany's Monopolies Commission, which advises the government on competition policies, is calling for a shift from renewables support to a price on CO2 emissions to finance the country's energy transition. In a new report on the electricity and ...
The fact that power prices in Germany occasionally turn negative and lead power producers to pay their customers for absorbing excess electricity should be no cause for concern but rather for celebration, energy think tank Agora Energiewende鈥檚* head, ...
Germany will need to reform its renewables support system by 2019, said Stefan Kapferer, head of the German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries (BDEW). 鈥淚 am convinced that, although we may not have a major Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) reform already ...
A new book by physicist and German energy industry manager Thomas Unnerstall outlines key pro and con positions on the German energy transition, writes Klaus Stratmann in a book review in the Handelsblatt. While Unnerstall says many companies have not ...
11 Dec 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Hydrogen WirtschaftsWoche " Utilities could buy their way out of nuclear responsibilities for 49 billion euros鈥� WirtschaftsWoche reports on a study from the German Nuclear Power Commission proposing two ...
22 Oct 2014
22 Oct 2014, 00:00 Stuttgarter Zeitung "EnBW offers stakes in wind parks" German utility Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg (EnBW) is asking citizens to participate in the financing of 聽wind parks after offering stakes in wind farms to local communities ...
Climate activists鈥� guerrilla-style protest against lignite mining in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has divided the region, reports Stefan Schultz in a long article in Spiegel Online. The dispute dates back to 2012, but is now ...
Germany鈥檚 Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) 鈥渟ugarcoated鈥� reports on the emissions scandal investigation, bowing to pressure from the auto industry, writes Hanno Kautz in an article for Bild. In the original version of the report from 2016, KBA ...
Costs connected to the German Energiewende and high industry power prices could hurt the country as a location for business investments, Willem Huisman, president of the chemicals company Dow Germany, told the German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI) ...
Germany鈥檚 grid fees on average will increase in 2017, but regional disparities and those based on the consumption volume will grow, according to a short analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende.* Consumers in rural areas with strong renewables ...
Due to the introduction of auctions for renewables support, Germany鈥檚 renewables levy (EEG-surcharge) will not increase from 2020, and will then decrease from 2022, according to a forecast by think tank Agora Energiewende,* reports Christian Schlesiger in ...
Germany鈥檚 consumption of natural gas continued to rise in the first half of 2017, the German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries (BDEW) says in a press release. Since January, Germans burned the equivalent of 516 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of ...
Germany can take coal plants with a combined capacity of seven gigawatts off grid- and might even improve the security of the power supply by doing so, according to an unofficial document by Germany鈥檚 economy & energy ministry (BMWi) and the Federal ...
Only solar bids have been successful in Germany鈥檚 first joint solar and onshore wind auction for renewables support, said the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in a press release. 鈥淚n competition, it simply is the technology that offers the lowest costs ...
An association of large companies including Deutsche Bahn, Telekom and Aida Cruises is calling for a timely start to the 鈥渄ialogue about a coal consensus鈥�, writes Silke Kersting in Handelsblatt. In a declaration by the Foundation 2掳 鈥� seen by Handelsblatt ...
09 Sep 2015, 00:00 The government is sticking to a controversial plan to pay power operators for keeping old coal plants in reserve in case wind and solar power are not available to meet demand, details of a draft electricity market law show. Clean 麻豆无码版 ...
Wind power operators might have manipulated the output of their installations for many years in order to receive a higher guaranteed remuneration via the renewables surcharge paid by power customers, Jakob Schlandt writes in Hamburger Abendblatt. Germany ...
A new OECD study comparing tax regimes and emissions trading systems in different countries reveals that CO 2 emissions are particularly expensive in Germany, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Almost half of emissions in Germany cost 30 euros or ...
Natural gas as a partner for renewable energies is the 鈥渒ey to a low-carbon energy system鈥�, said Eirik W忙rness, senior vice president and chief economist at Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil, in an interview with WirtschaftsWoche. W忙rness criticised ...
Michael Liebreich,聽founder of renewable energy research organisation Bloomberg New 麻豆无码版 Finance (BNEF), has called the zero-support bid in German offshore wind power auctions 鈥� a risky and brave move.鈥� Successful bidders EnBW and Dong 麻豆无码版 were ...
While generous subsidies have made Germany a clean power leader, helping to increase the country鈥檚 share of power generation from renewable sources from 3.6 percent in 1990 to 30 percent last year, the country continues to face challenges in implementing ...
A reform of Germany鈥檚 system to finance the country鈥檚 Energiewende is needed to distribute costs more fairly and push renewable electricity use in heating and transport, writes a cross-sector alliance of associations in a joint statement. In comparison to ...
Germany and Sweden will build a 300 kilometre-long, 700 megawatt direct current power line connecting storage-rich Scandinavia with wind- and solar-powered continental Europe. 鈥淭he cable improves the integration of renewable energies in the transmission ...
In line with a global divestment movement, the city of Berlin has decided to divest its money from 鈥渃ompanies whose business model contradicts the goal of climate neutrality,鈥� according to the text of a parliamentary proposal approved by the plenary. The ...
Nearly seven years after Germany鈥檚 first offshore wind farm 鈥渁lpha ventus鈥� began operating in 2010, the industry is thriving, Stephanie Wehkamp writes in maritime trade journal Schiff und Hafen. There are now 15 fully operational windfarms in the North ...
German households鈥� energy consumption for heating has remained almost unchanged 聽in recent years, Ralph Diermann writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. According to data by gas meter reader Techem on gas, oil and district heating demand from 1.5 million ...
The energy costs for energy intensive industries in Germany in December 2016 have reached the lowest level in seven years, the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) said in a press release. The energy cost index in late 2016, which measures energy ...
Germany鈥檚 environment minister Barbara Hendricks says the country is lagging behind in developing electric mobility. 鈥淚t鈥檚 no secret that Germany is no frontrunner when it comes to electric vehicles,鈥� Hendricks said in a speech at the international ...
It is embarrassing that the former eco-champion Germany has taken a break in the global competition for the fastest and best energy transition, writes Joachim Wille in a commentary for klimaretter.info. 鈥淭he German government, which fought so ardently and ...
01 Apr 2015
01 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Environment Ministry (BMUB) 鈥淐abinet decides on extensive restrictions on fracking鈥� The German government has published a law proposal regulating the use of fracking for gas and oil exploitation. ...
The 鈥楾rump effect鈥� of right-wing populism and climate change scepticism could become an obstacle for the world's most advanced energy revolution in Germany, writes Aaron Wiener in the US magazine Mother Jones. Germany鈥檚 broad consensus on the shift ...
US president elect Donald Trump鈥檚 negative comments on wind power in a recent interview with the New York Times present a concern for both the domestic and international wind sector, writes Franz Hubik in Handelsblatt. 鈥淭rump made clear that climate ...
The agreement that economy minister Sigmar Gabriel reached with the EU Commission on state-aid related aspects of the country鈥檚 new power market law and other energy policies 鈥渕akes regulations permanent that will keep Germany from reaching its 2020 ...
The 鈥渨ell-meant experiment鈥� to protect the climate by using biofuels in Germany and other EU countries has failed, writes Silvia Liebrich in an opinion piece in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淭here is no reason to continue to cling to blending quotas, as long ...
German chancellor Angela Merkel will seek a fourth term in office in next year鈥檚 federal parliamentary elections. She faces a tough campaign unlike any other she has fought in an 鈥渋ncreasingly polarised鈥� country, Merkel announced in Berlin. 鈥淭he decision ...
The outgoing grand coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD made the mistake of not putting a general cap on coal-fired power production when it mothballed several old an inefficient lignite plants in 2016 in order to save CO鈧� emissions, Jochen Flasbarth, Social ...
Germany still has a long way to go before 鈥渢he aim of a post-fossil society鈥� is reached, Klaus Stratmann writes in Handelsblatt. 鈥淭he share of renewables in primary energy consumptions so far stands at only 14 percent,鈥� he explains. The 30 percent share ...
04 Mar 2016, 00:00 Hydrogen Die Welt 鈥淣orth Rhine-Westphalia cities agree to forego RWE dividend鈥� Despite their own financial difficulties, cities in North Rhine-Westphalia that own stakes in utility RWE have accepted that there will be no dividend this ...
30 Jun 2015
30 Jun 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation (BEE) 鈥淲ind strengthens power sector, renewable heat and transport stagnate鈥� The share of renewables in total German power consumption has risen to a record 32.5 percent in the ...
There is to date no sensible reason to buy an electric car, writes Markus Fasse in a commentary for Handelsblatt. 鈥淓ven Daimler鈥檚 CEO, Dieter Zetsche, admits that,鈥� Fasse writes, explaining that e-cars are too expensive, have a limited cruising range, ...
23 Oct 2014
23 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥溌槎刮蘼氚� policy: backwards roll鈥� It is not just Germany undertaking an energy transition, writes Cerstin Gammelin in an opinion piece for the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung, other European ...
The NGO Green Budget Germany (F脰S) claims recent studies commissioned by the German steel industry on the impact of the planned reform of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) were based on unrealistic assumptions which portrayed misleading 鈥渉orror ...
Germany lacks an overarching general concept that includes all sectors for contributing to emissions reduction, energy economist Marc Bettz眉ge writes in a guest commentary for Handelsblatt. 鈥� There is no integrated incentive and refinancing mechanism 鈥� to ...
German lignite plants make up seven out of 10 of Europe鈥檚 biggest polluters, according to an analysis of European ETS data by climate NGO Sandbag. 鈥淭hat is because lignite power plants, especially in Germany, continue to run nearly 24 hours a day x 7 days ...
Daimler, BMW, and Toyota are leading a group of 13 companies pledging to invest more than 10 billion dollars in the next five years to push hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles with infrastructure-building and technology advancements, writes Danny King on autoblog ...
Germany鈥檚 Federal Court of Auditors has shown shortsightedness and a lack of understanding in implying that the energy transition is 鈥� too expensive 鈥� and therefore needs 鈥渓imitation鈥�, Malte Kreutzfeldt writes in a commentary for Tageszeitung (taz). The ...
The federal government will demand at the diesel summit on Wednesday that German carmakers pay for software updates for Euro-5 and Euro-6 diesel cars, according to the draft for the final summit statement, reports Daniel Delhaes in Handelsblatt. It will ...
The Free Democrats鈥� (FDP) leader, Christian Lindner, has said his party will strive for 鈥渁 reasonable energy policy鈥� if it is going to be part of Germany鈥檚 next government. The economic liberal FDP could become part of a coalition with Chancellor Angela ...
As China has begun to refocus the G20 energy agenda on sustainability, Germany should use its upcoming presidency to further boost the importance of energy within the intergovernmental institution, writes Andreas Kraemer in a policy brief for Canada-based ...
Germany鈥檚 next government should increase the railway鈥檚 market share in transportation in order to meet the country鈥檚 climate goals, the transport alliance Allianz pro Schiene writes in a press release. The alliance of 23 non-profit organisations and over ...
Germany can still reach its 2020 emissions reduction targets if it shuts down or throttles coal plants with a capacity of at least 5 gigawatt (GW), the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) says in a press release. The UBA says that 鈥渋n the short run鈥�, coal ...
Experts and green groups are urging Germany to set a target year for the G20 nations to phase out hundreds of billions of dollars in state subsidies to polluting fossil fuels, writes Megan Rowling for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. As host of next year鈥檚 ...
Additional charges on electricity levied by the state are one of the greatest concerns of Germany鈥檚 industrial companies, Daniel Wetzel writes in Die Welt. According to a survey conducted by the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry ...
Diesel cars, and older models in particular, are responsible for high levels of nitrogen dioxide pollution in German city centres, according to Federal Environment Agency (UBA). 57 percent of measuring stations close to traffic showed pollution exceeding ...
Greater energy efficiency, sector coupling and digitalisation are going to be core areas in energy policy that Germany鈥檚 next government will likely have to focus on, according to federal economy ministry state secretary Rainer Baake. During a speech at a ...
19 May 2017, 00:00 The dominance of citizens鈥� energy projects among the successful bids in Germany鈥檚 first onshore wind power auctions comes as a big surprise for industry observers. Not only did citizen cooperatives account for the bulk of accepted ...
The regional government鈥檚 decision to ban older diesel cars from Stuttgart city centre on days with bad air from next year is 鈥渋ll-advised鈥�, 鈥渄isastrous鈥� economic policy, and its environmental benefits 鈥渜uestionable,鈥� according to Franz Fehrenbach, ...
Sigmar Gabriel has assured industry bosses the energy transition鈥檚 impacts on industry and the country鈥檚 competitiveness would be minimised and market forces would play a greater role in the sector. Germany鈥檚 Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act is likely to see further ...
A study by environmental groups adding up premature deaths caused by coal power stations in neighbouring countries is a horrifying calculation reminiscent of war times, writes Marlene Weiss in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淗as the European 麻豆无码版 Union really ...
The energy demand to heat German apartment buildings fell six percent last year because of energy-efficient insulation and modernisation, according to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) cited in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The study is ...
Essen district court has rejected a lawsuit brought by Peruvian farmer Sa煤l Lliuya鈥檚 against German utility RWE, for contributing to environmental damage in his hometown of Huarez, news agency Reuters reports. Lliuya聽 demanded 17,000 euros in compensation ...
German postal service Deutsche Post has found the first major customer for its in-house produced electric vehicle Street Scooter, Florian Zerfass writes in weekly Bild am Sonntag (BamS). Fish wholesaler Deutsche See is buying 80 scooters for distributing ...
The German Energiewende has a 鈥渕ixed, but very troubling鈥� record, Christine Sturm says in a long article on the Energiewende for Issues in Science and Technology, an online magazine from The University of Texas at Dallas. 鈥淥n the plus side is continued ...
By conceding to both government and nuclear plant operators' positions, Germany鈥檚 constitutional court has made a pragmatic judgement in one of the country鈥檚 most ideological disputes of the past decades, writes J眉rgen Flauger for Handelsblatt. But ...
While the city state of Berlin is to become climate neutral by 2050, Reinickendorf, one of the city鈥檚 boroughs, is well on its way to meeting that target, Gerd Nowakowski reports for Der Tagesspiegel. In the past eight years 13,500 apartments in the area ...
Germany will inevitably scrap coal-fired power production even though the move has not yet been officially announced, Klaus Stratmann writes in Handelsblatt. Coal-fired generating units with an installed capacity of 4,772 megawatts 鈥� the equivalent of ...
Three studies highlight the additional need for skilled labour to implement the energy transition in the German buildings sector. The Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) has published a policy paper highlighting the need for an additional 100,000 ...
Five people are employed around the clock in the control room of the first German lignite plant switched off to protect the climate, according to a feature by Steffen H枚hne in Frankfurter Rundschau. They are there to keep the station fit for service but ...
Germany鈥檚 transition to an auction-based system to stabilise renewable development is the right way forward, writes David Wortmann, head of renewable consultancy DWR eco, in an op-ed in Wirtschaftswoche. But the government gets in the way of the planning ...
The shipping industry is 鈥渁pproaching an energy transition鈥�, writes Uwe Lauber for Handelsblatt Global, although there is still no 鈥淕reen Deal鈥� for market participants and no policy in place following the Paris climate summit. The sector 鈥渋s preparing for ...
Angela Merkel鈥檚 decision to run for a fourth term as chancellor is a reason for delight for Germany鈥檚 right-wing party Alternative f眉r Deutschland (AfD), writes Jens Schneider in a commentary for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung, Merkel embodies everything the AfD ...
Germany is a reluctant global leader but persistently works on providing assistance to developing countries, not least in the energy sector, Catherine Cheney writes on international development website聽 devex.com. Effective development assistance must be ...
Medium-sized businesses in Germany will have to further improve their energy efficiency in order to stay internationally competitive, according to a study by the government-owned banking institution KfW. KfW compared the competitiveness of over 2,200 ...
Emission reduction from new cars in Germany is slowing down despite ambitious climate targets and 鈥渁lleged efforts鈥� of the car industry, writes Nikolaus Doll in Die Welt. A study by the Center of Automotive Management (CAM) showed that low petrol prices ...
Installing PV arrays on private homes and consuming the generated electricity is financially attractive, but will not have a large effect on Germany鈥檚 power system as a whole, according to a study by consultancy Prognos commissioned by energy think-tank ...
