08 May 2019, 13:31 German industry heavyweights including chemical maker BASF, HeidelbergCement, gas supplier Linde and steelmaker Salzgitter say they are prepared for profound emissions cuts, but still lack the necessary market signal from policymakers. ...
10 Dec 2014
10 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/dpa ¡°Economy minister Gabriel has still hopes for gas pipeline South Stream¡± ¡°It would be better for Europe if the project still had a chance,¡± Germany¡¯s Minister for ...
23 Nov 2016, 00:00 Germany¡¯s industry should work with the government to reach the goals in the country¡¯s newly adopted Climate Action Plan 2050 rather than criticise the plan or individual measures, energy state secretary Rainer Baake told a conference ...
04 Jul 2017, 00:00 At the Hamburg summit, the G20 leaders must go beyond mere lip services and present concrete proposals on how they will implement the Paris Climate Agreement, Christoph Bals, policy director of environmental NGO Germanwatch, tells Clean ...
01 Nov 2019, 15:35 Green and sustainable finance in Germany is not thinkable without the country's state-owned development bank KfW. The bank installed after the Second World War to finance reconstruction in Germany has become a major funder of ...
30 Jun 2017, 00:00 One week ahead of the Hamburg G20 summit, the ambitious climate and energy action plan the German presidency was pushing hangs in the balance. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she is determined to make the meeting a success on ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:26 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world¡¯s fourth largest economy, we' ...
25 Sep 2016, 00:00 In a move to fast-track the full ratification of the 2015 UN climate treaty (Paris Agreement), the German parliament has unanimously approved the terms of the treaty, helping to pave the way for it to enter into force before the end of ...
04 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country¡¯s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
27 Mar 2019, 15:42 The German commission charged with proposing emissions cuts for the nation's transport sector has failed to agree on enough steps to reach the country¡¯s climate targets. During what was billed as the decisive meeting, members could ...
22 Sep 2021, 15:08 The conservative CDU has been heading Germany's government since 2005- and used its time in power to lay the groundwork for making the country the first climate-neutral industrialised nation before the middle of the century, says ...
07 Oct 2019, 16:41 The German government has presented a draft of Germany¡¯s first-ever major Climate Action Law, which assigns flexible annual greenhouse gas budgets to economic sectors for the years 2020-2030, but does not make long-term climate targets ...
29 Jun 2017, 00:00 European Union leaders have underscored their commitment to work towards a joint solution on climate issues at the G20 summit in Hamburg. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it would not be easy regarding questions such as climate ...
24 Sep 2015, 00:00 UPDATE 24 Sept | The European grid regulator has recommended that the Austrian-German electricity trading zone should be partially disconnected. Countries including Poland and the Czech Republic have called for the split, to prevent ...
14 Aug 2015
14 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federal Network Agency / German Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation (BEE) 33 successful bids in second PV auction round Germany¡¯s second-ever photovoltaic tendering round has resulted in 33 successful bids ...
31 Jul 2015
31 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (BMWi) Government launches suggestions for new auction design for renewables The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (BMWi) has launched the ...
10 Oct 2017, 00:00 One week before the start of exploratory talks on forming a government coalition, aspiring German government alliance partners CDU and the Green Party agree that the country will have to phase out coal-fired power production. Yet, two ...
06 Jun 2015
06 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Oxfam / E3G ¡°Let them eat coal¡± Five of the G7 countries are burning more coal now than before the Copenhagen climate change conference in 2009, while the G7 coal plants together emit ...
24 Sep 2017, 00:00 Despite heavy losses in Germany's parliamentary elections, Angela Merkel is poised to stay chancellor for another four years. The voters¡¯ decision sets her conservative CDU/CSU party alliance on course for coalition talks with the ...
07 May 2021, 13:45 Electric cars have long been touted as key to a more sustainable future, but their contribution is clouded by the climate impact of making and disposing of them. As part of an industry-wide bid to roll out entirely CO2-neutral vehicles, ...
03 May 2016
03 May 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ BDEW ¡°Energiewende continues to be major topic for population¡± 93 percent of Germans believe the Energiewende is important or very important, according to a survey by ...
12 May 2015
12 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Die Welt ¡°Energiewende show on the high seas¡± Germany¡¯s energy minister Sigmar Gabriel invited his G7 counterparts to visit a new offshore wind converter platform in the North ...
30 Jul 2019, 10:30 Markus S?der, Bavaria¡¯s conservative state premier, has called for climate action to be enshrined in Germany¡¯s Basic Law, according to German daily S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. S?der has thus embraced a long-standing demand by the Green Party, ...
30 Apr 2021, 14:04 Germany's highest court has ruled in a landmark decision that the government's climate policies are insufficient because they lack detailed emission reduction targets beyond 2030. The court said the country's Climate ...
20 Apr 2015
20 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Metal vs coal¡± Unions are deeply split on the issue of the proposed coal levy, according to an article by Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. Germany's? IG ...
08 Dec 2021, 15:00 The September 2021 election result has left Germany with several options for a new government coalition. Agreeing it will involve lengthy negotiations to overcome major discrepancies between party programmes, and agreeing on a ...
27 Nov 2018, 12:01 Germany risks showing up empty-handed at the UN climate change conference COP24 in Poland in December as the country¡¯s coal exit commission has decided to extend its work beyond the original end-of-2018 deadline. The task force has set ...
07 Dec 2016, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel and her party left energy and climate policy on the sidelines at the Christian Democratic Union¡¯s (CDU) conference in Essen. The centre-right party laid the groundwork on Tuesday for its 2017 federal election ...
09 Feb 2021, 14:40 The energy transition marks the single largest effort in history to reduce industrial waste by pursuing the goal of burning zero fossil resources and replacing them with renewables- but it does not come without waste on its own. Germany ...
14 Nov 2016, 00:00 Banning combustion engines in new cars by 2030 and exiting coal-fired power production as early as 2025 are likely to be two key Green Party demands in the general elections in autumn 2017, the party decided at its convention. But ...
14 Mar 2018, 00:00 The 2017 September election results have led to unprecedented difficulties in forming a new government in Germany. After the longest government building process in modern Germany, Angela Merkel was re-elected as chancellor of a renewed ...
07 Apr 2021, 08:47 Germany¡¯s ruling conservatives and the Greens are about to kick off the 2021 national election race in earnest by naming their respective leading candidates to take over the helm of Europe¡¯s biggest economy in autumn. While the country ...
12 Jan 2018, 00:00 The parties currently in talks to form Germany¡¯s 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 ...
09 Nov 2016, 00:00 Disagreements over the future of coal in Germany have blocked adoption of a long-awaited government roadmap for making the country almost greenhouse gas neutral by 2050. In a surprise move capping several days of uncertainty about the ...
13 Jan 2015
13 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Die Welt/S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°¡¯Elon¡¯ und ¡®Felix¡¯ cost consumers millions¡±/ ¡°Stormy times on the power market¡± Heavy winds from two low pressure systems created an enormous oversupply of wind power ...
17 Dec 2014
17 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Nuclear power companies should pay 17 billion euros into fund¡± The German government plans to establish a fund for the costs of dismantling and disposal of nuclear power ...
02 Dec 2015
02 Dec 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Late, perhaps too late¡± RWE¡¯s plans are radical and effectively split Germany¡¯s second largest utility in two, writes Caspar Busse in a commentary for S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°The decision is ...
16 Mar 2021, 12:00 Germany¡¯s greenhouse gas emissions dropped nearly nine percent in 2020- the largest annual fall since 1990- as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic pushed down the use of fossil fuels and added to the effects of the shift to renewable ...
13 Nov 2015
13 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ EnBW ¡°Stable development and progress with restructuring¡± Germany¡¯s third largest utility EnBW has achieved revenue of around 15.3 billion euros and an operating result (adjusted EBITDA) of around ...
12 Mar 2021, 14:30 Youth climate activists agree on one thing: Germany needs to adopt radical climate policies in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. How best to push this agenda is a different question entirely. In this German ¡°super election ...
09 Mar 2021, 09:00 A regional vote in the south-western German state of Baden-W¨¹rttemberg on 14 March kicks off a busy election year in Germany that will conclude with the general elections in September and the selection of a new chancellor. While the ...
14 Oct 2015
14 Oct 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Spiegel Online/dpa-AFX ¡°Renewable energy surcharge rises to record level of 6.35 cents¡± The renewables surcharge German consumers pay with their power bills will rise to a record 6.35 cents per KWh next year, ...
12 Oct 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she does not give up the government¡¯s goal to reduce CO? emissions by 40 percent by 2020, which would ¡°play a big role¡± in the upcoming talks to form a new government coalition. Germany¡¯s broad ...
11 Sep 2017, 00:00 Wind power lobby groups say new funding rules are resulting in unrealistically low compensation, squeezing wind farm operators and turbine manufacturers, while measures to help citizen-owned projects compete in the sector are being ...
27 May 2016
27 May 2016, 00:00 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Panorama (ARD) ¡°Absurd Energiewende: climate law rewards electricity waste¡± To be exempted from Germany's? Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG)? surcharge, ?some companies just on ?the threshold of ...
25 May 2016
25 May 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Reuters Campaigners urge Germany to stop financing coal projects abroad Environmental groups urged G7 nations led by Japan and Germany to stop financing coal projects abroad, reports ...
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 2016 is set to be another eventful year in German energy policy. The Paris climate summit underlined the need to reduce emissions even further, which will ultimately involve painful decisions about the future of coal. A series of ...
22 Jan 2020, 11:28 The German coal exit commission 's compromise reached in early 2019 was hailed as a breakthrough for cooperation between industry representatives, policymakers and environmental groups, as it outlined how to phase-out the fossil ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:30 In a bid to improve Germany's poor emission reduction record and to identify economic perspectives for people employed in the waning coal industry, the grand coalition government in 2018 set up a commission tasked with managing the ...
27 Jul 2017, 00:00 Germany's most important carmakers have met in "secret workshops" since the 1990s in order to reach agreements on technological standards and prices, according to a report by news magazine Der Spiegel. The companies ...
23 Sep 2019, 09:41 The German government coalition has reached an agreement on the country's climate action strategy, including a pricing system for carbon emissions in all major sectors. The Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ presents reactions to the deal. S?ren ...
16 Apr 2015
16 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ 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 ...
31 Mar 2015
31 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ? Federal Environment Agency (UBA) ¡°Trend reversal: Emissions decrease to lowest level since 2010¡± German greenhouse gas emissions have decreased in 2014 for the first time in three years, ...
16 Feb 2016
16 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ E-World Essen State economy minister warns against decreed coal exit Garrelt Duin,?economy minister for Germany¡¯s largest federal state- North-Rhine-Westphalia- warned against a ...
04 Feb 2015
04 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Tageszeitung "Wind turbines that can float" The Dresden-based Gicon group is producing a prototype for a floating wind turbine (see picture above), Bernward Janzig from the taz reports. ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:30 The UK government is embracing carbon removal technologies as a part of its net-zero ambition and wants to use carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to revive the industrial heartlands in the North of the country and create tens ...
01 Dec 2015
01 Dec 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ RWE / Handelsblatt Utility RWE follows E.ON example, to split in two One of Germany¡¯s largest utilities RWE will split in two, the company announced on Tuesday. Renewables, grids and retail activities in Germany ...
16 Dec 2014
16 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Study: Federal Environmental Agency (UBA) ¡°Environmentally harmful subsidies amount to over 52 billion euros¡± Even as Germany? focuses much effort and funding on climate protection measures, it ...
17 Nov 2015
17 Nov 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ WirtschaftsWoche ¡°Can E.ON survive alone?¡± Writing for WitschaftsWoche, Christof Sch¨¹rmann says there are doubts over whether the new E.ON, which will split from its fossil-fuel business in a few weeks, will be ...
16 Mar 2020, 14:19 Germany¡¯s carbon emissions have fallen sharply in 2019 for the third year in a row, bringing the country closer to climate targets it had already written off. But progress in emissions reduction is heavily tilted towards the energy and ...
31 Mar 2017, 00:00 LEAG, the owner of one of Germany¡¯s largest lignite-mining operations, has scrapped plans by former owner Vattenfall to expand one of its lignite mines. The company is also downsizing or putting on hold development of two other mines. ...
06 Jun 2019, 17:11 Germany continues to be off track regarding many of its energy and climate targets according to the economy ministry¡¯s? latest progress report on the energy transition. In an accompanying opinion, government advisors lament that the ...
09 Dec 2016, 00:00 Germans will elect a new federal government in autumn 2017. Security, economic stability and refugees are likely to dominate election campaigns, but keeping the Energiewende on a steady course and fulfilling Germany¡¯s international ...
23 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany may have to resort to an unusual measure to comply with the EU's 2020 climate targets in sectors not covered by the union's emissions trading scheme (ETS). Achieving the non-ETS goal looks increasingly unfeasible, a ...
29 Mar 2018, 00:00 A new government with fresh faces for environment, energy, and transport policy is supposed to bring Germany's dented reputation as a climate policy pioneer back on track. Critics point out that apart from ambitious announcements, ...
03 Jul 2015
03 Jul 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Ruby Russell Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ State secretary Baake: power market 2.0 guarantees supply security Germany¡¯s economy and energy ministry is proposing a reform of the power market based on an energy ...
21 Apr 2016
21 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ WWF Germany ¡°Germans want more climate action¡± German citizens would like to see more engagement in the fight against climate change, environment organisation WWF Germany says, ...
07 Dec 2018, 09:13 With her decision not to seek re-election as party chair and chancellor, Angela Merkel has kicked off what is a novelty for her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU): an organised internal election campaign for the party¡¯s ...
22 Sep 2020, 10:30 As the coronavirus crisis drives many governments across the globe to introduce emergency plans to cushion the immediate economic effects, there are growing calls to align any mid and long-term stimulus efforts with climate targets. ...
23 Aug 2018, 11:30 The German coal exit commission has set out on a tight schedule to devise a plan for phasing out the fossil power source ¨C but shortly before its third official meeting federal states and opposition politicians have complained about a ...
19 May 2015
19 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Bloomberg / Handelsblatt ¡°Germany, France Seek Curb on Fossil Fuel Pollution This Century¡° To control the risks of climate change, Germany and France want to almost completely forego the use of ...
02 Mar 2016
02 Mar 2016, 00:00 tageszeitung ¡°Short-sighted cap fans¡± Despite fighting climate change being a national objective and renewables now the cheapest source of energy, leading conservative politicians want to use reform of the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG) to ...
11 Feb 2016
11 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Der Tagesspiegel ¡°Government sees no future for two thirds of ski regions¡± The government predicts that with a 2 degree Celsius warming, 61 percent of Germany¡¯s ski regions would not be suitable ...
07 Nov 2017, 00:00 As Germany¡¯s Jamaica coalition talks are approaching a critical point, the Green Party appears to soften core climate policy demands in an attempt to achieve similar concessions from its negotiating partners. Party leaders say that ...
17 Feb 2016
17 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Handelsblatt / Ministry for Environment ¡°Everything for the climate¡± The Ministry for Environment (BMUB) is about to enter the second phase of consultation for its Climate Action Plan 2050, and has ...
13 Apr 2015
13 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ neue energie ¡°230,000 new jobs ¨C if the Energiewende succeeds¡± A new and as yet unpublished study by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ concludes that renewables are a boon for ...
09 Feb 2015
09 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Brainpool / Fraunhofer IWES "This is what the power market of the future could look like" In order to incorporate fluctuating power from millions of small, decentralised producers, the ...
28 Jan 2019, 17:56 The German government is ready to quickly supply financial means for the country¡¯s exit from coal, said economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier. It will now examine the details of the proposal agreed by the country¡¯s coal exit ...
16 Jan 2015
16 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Business Green "Germany breezes past 1GW offshore wind milestone" Germany's renewables industry is celebrating another milestone this week, as an industry-backed report confirmed ...
30 Oct 2015
30 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ UN Climate Change Secretariat ¡°Global response to climate change keeps door open to 2 degree C temperature limit¡± A report assessing the 140 climate action plans submitted to the United Nations ...
17 Dec 2020, 10:40 Battery-electric trucks will hit Europe's roads in large numbers soon, but catenary systems could also play an important role in the decarbonisation of heavy-duty freight transport if governments now push the technology by building ...
06 Aug 2021, 14:00 Germany¡¯s upcoming national election is the first in which climate and energy policy have truly taken centre stage. In the agriculture sector, droughts and new policies aimed at bringing out the sector¡¯s potential for eco-system ...
18 Apr 2016
18 Apr 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ? Der Tagesspiegel ¡°Czech investor wants to take over brown coal operations¡± A year and a half after Sweden's Vattenfall said it would sell its German lignite ...
06 Apr 2016
06 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Ministry for the Environment and Nuclear Safety Using nuclear energy is an ¡®aberration¡¯ The nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl almost 30 years ago showed that using nuclear energy ...
27 Feb 2018, 00:00 German cities may ban diesel cars from polluted areas following a landmark court ruling. In a major blow to German carmakers still heavily relying on diesel car sales, and a victory for environmentalists, one of Germany¡¯s top courts ...
11 Jun 2015
11 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ DPA / Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau ¡°Coal levy threatened¡± The levy on emissions from old coal-fired power stations is on the brink of failure, insiders have told German press agency DPA. ...
03 Jul 2020, 12:48 In a vote that has been hailed as "historic", Germany's parliament has adopted a law that will ensure the phase-out of coal power by no later than 2038. The decision follows two years of intense debate about the country& ...
26 May 2015
26 May 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Berliner Morgenpost ¡°Climate debate splits government¡± The discussion about how Germany can achieve its climate goals has raised tensions within the government, reports the Berliner Morgenpost. Armin Laschet, ...
15 Dec 2016, 00:00 An expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German energy transition warned the country will probably miss its 2020 emission targets and other crucial Energiewende goals, threatening the entire project¡¯s credibility. ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:33 Chancellor Angela Merkel's government coalition is racing to put together a major climate action package by 20 September, just in time for UN Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres' climate summit in New York on 23 September. Mere ...
13 Jan 2016
13 Jan 2016, 00:00 [Updates German industry association on energy policy] Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation of German Industries (BDI) German industry association warns against German ¡°solo¡± in climate, energy policy The ...
12 Feb 2015
12 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Windmesse/Handelsblatt ¡°GE and Deutsche Telekom join forces for energy transition¡± US industrial conglomerate General Electric and Deutsche Telekom will cooperate to offer new solutions for smart ...
18 Feb 2019, 13:24 A dispute over what is supposed to be its most important climate policy is adding to the woes of Germany¡¯s governing coalition. Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and their centre-left coalition partner SPD are ...
29 Oct 2015
29 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federal Environment Agency (UBA) ¡°Energiewende: Industrial consumers can use power more flexibly¡± German industry could make their power demand more flexible and thus reduce load by up to 6 ...
18 Dec 2014, 00:00 A leaked document outlines plans to transfer some provisions German utilities have put aside for nuclear decommissioning and waste disposal to a state-managed fund. The Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ spoke to two policy analysts about the ...
08 Oct 2015
08 Oct 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) ¡°Average duration of power supply cuts per consumer and year less than 12 minutes for first time¡± The average power consumer in Germany ...
01 Oct 2015
01 Oct 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries (BDEW)/Centre for Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) ¡°Wind power generation 2015 already exceeds last year¡¯s level¡± Thanks to strong winds and the addition ...
16 Sep 2015
16 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ /sites/default/files/files/article/media-utility-shares-slump-criticism-coal-plant-export-financing/clew-reporters-guide-2015.pdf S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Why shares of E ...
14 Nov 2014, 00:00 Even as critics claim wind turbines are ruining the view at Germany's tourist spots, some destinations are making green energy infrastructure a focal point for visitors. Expert German Tourism Association Deutscher Tourismusverband ...
17 Aug 2015
17 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ dpa / S¨¹ddeutsche.de ¡°Raid on Garzweiler¡± Hundreds of activists entered the open cast lignite mine of Garzweiler, in North-Rhine Westphalia, on Saturday, the German press agency dpa reports. Some ...
23 Sep 2019, 14:12 The future of Germany's much criticised climate strategy hangs in the balance as the Green Party vowed to amend the package, and experts warned legal hurdles threatened the government's concept for a CO2 price. Yet, Chancellor ...
17 May 2021, 09:59 Germany¡¯s target of achieving greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045 has a very important sub-goal: The expansion of renewable energy capacity to provide green power for transport, heating and making hydrogen. But running such an integrated ...
18 May 2015
18 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Tagesspiegel / Petersberg Climate Dialogue VI Merkel wants carbon trading scheme for the whole world Environment ministers from around the world meet in Berlin today and tomorrow to discuss and ...
02 Apr 2019, 09:50 The German government is examining the possibility of CO? pricing across economic sectors, according to media reports. Several newspapers report the chancellery has asked leading German research institutes to explore socially acceptable ...
30 Mar 2015
30 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Der Spiegel ¡°Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ transition causes controversy between chancellor and state premiers¡± An alliance of three state premiers have informed Chancellor Angela Merkel about their concerns ...
22 Oct 2014, 00:00 Germany is to push for a triad of targets for 2030 at the EU climate summit on 23-24 October with broad backing from the public, and some concerns on the part of industry. Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der ...
20 Feb 2015
20 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ World Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Council ¡°German energy transition is currently not an export hit¡± Many international energy experts doubt that Germany's energy transition works as a blueprint for other countries ...
02 Feb 2015
02 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°From nuclear proponent to power line opponent¡± In 2008 Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer said that extending the run-time of Germany¡¯s nuclear power stations was " ...
16 Jun 2016
16 Jun 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Volkswagen Group VW aims to sell 2-3 million e-cars by 2025 Car giant VW plans a "major electrification initiative" with more than 30 new?purely battery ...
30 Jan 2015
30 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Zeit Online "Germany warns against overly strict thresholds for cars" Under EU regulations, by 2021 CO2 emissions from new cars must not exceed an average of 95 grams per kilometre. By ...
22 Feb 2019, 18:00 German environment minister Svenja Schulze is calling for an ambitious greenhouse gas reduction goal of ¡°at least 95 percent¡± by the year 2050 compared to 1990, in a draft of the highly anticipated Climate Action Law, seen by Clean ...
28 Apr 2017, 00:00 No other party has been part of a German federal government longer than the Free Democrats (FDP). They also governed together with Angela Merkel's CDU at the time of the Fukushima disaster and supported the second nuclear phase-out ...
14 Apr 2016
14 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau ¡°Christian Democrats put the breaks on renewable development¡± Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party wants to make changes to the ...
11 Apr 2016
11 Apr 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online/AFP/S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Utilities increase nuclear provisions¡± The utilities have increased their provisions for the nuclear exit in the last year, according to a report by press agency AFP ...
01 Apr 2016
01 Apr 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Bild ¡°People¡¯s e-car¡± The premiere of Tesla¡¯s new e-car ¡°Model 3¡± might not only decide the future of the company, but the future of e-mobility, according to mass-daily Bild. ¡°With ...
15 Mar 2016
15 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Was the nuclear phase-out unconstitutional?¡± Germany¡¯s Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe will on Tuesday and Wednesday hear parties in the case of the country¡¯s nuclear phase ...
27 Jun 2018, 16:59 Germany will likely fail on many of its self-imposed energy transition targets, says the government-appointed expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German Energiewende in its opinion on the federal economy ...
04 Sep 2020, 15:15 The era of Chancellor Angela Merkel will come to an end when Germans head to the polls next autumn after what looks set to become an unusually dramatic run-up to the federal elections. With no clear front-runner for her succession in ...
27 Jul 2020, 09:50 Europe's economy is well placed to benefit from the fledgling global hydrogen economy and should decisively follow through with its hydrogen strategies, says Veronika Grimm, a member of Germany's council of economic experts, ...
07 Mar 2018
07 Mar 2018, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has chosen her close ally and former head of the Chancellery Peter Altmaier as the next economy and energy minister. This puts the political heavy-hitter in charge of shaping Germany¡¯s Energiewende at a ...
29 Apr 2015
29 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Residual Risk¡± There are worrying parallels between the current E.ON split into two separate companies and the finance industry¡¯s spinning off of risky assets into bad banks in ...
21 Mar 2016
21 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Reuters / EnBW ¡°Germany's EnBW cuts dividend, sees lower profits in 2016¡± Germany¡¯s third largest utility EnBW posted a 125-million-euro net profit in 2015, but the adjusted operating result ...
03 Dec 2014, 00:00 The government approved what it claims to be the largest climate action package in the country¡¯s history. Most observers applauded the commitment to emissions reduction goals by 2020. But environmentalists criticised the lack of a ...
05 Jun 2019, 16:00 The European elections delivered major gains for Green parties in several countries, as voters signalled a strong desire for more aggressive action on climate change. In Germany, the Green surge was especially strong. The party doubled ...
12 Mar 2018, 00:00 Car industry hub Germany is under increasing pressure to accelerate the shift to sustainable mobility in order to reach its climate targets and improve the quality of air in inner city areas. Against the backdrop of a looming ban on ...
14 Nov 2016, 00:00 After a public consultation process of over a year and months of political wrangling, the German government agreed on a climate action plan 2050. While this roadmap to a nearly carbon-emission free economy contains detailed targets for ...
09 Apr 2019, 17:18 Innovation to make the use of energy cleaner, more flexible and efficient is the central quest of the global energy transition. At the Berlin Start-up Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transition Tech Festival, the German Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency (dena) promotes start-ups ...
09 Feb 2018, 00:00 The coalition agreement by Germany's would-be coalition parties CDU/CSU and SPD is a step towards "realistic" Energiewende policy, says CDU energy policy spokesperson Joachim Pfeiffer. He argues a coal exit date for ...
20 Mar 2019, 11:49 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ is stepping up its coverage of how business is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world¡¯s fourth largest economy, we are launching a series on start-ups that ...
09 Sep 2019, 12:00 Citizens have been a crucial driver of Germany's energy transition and many regard sustainability and especially environmental action a crucial feature of sound investments. Yet, the vast majority of savings in the country are not ...
19 Jun 2015
19 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) ¡°The environment encyclical is a historic event¡± The Pope¡¯s environment encyclical ¡° Laudato si ¡± could have a big climate impact on climate politics in Poland, ...
05 Jun 2015
05 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Carbon Tracker Initiative "Coal: caught in the EU utility death spiral" New coal-fired power plants fail to generate positive cash-flows even under the most optimistic ...
04 Jun 2015
04 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ BDI / IG BCE Industry Association joins forces with mining union to combat coal levy Leading German industry association BDI has thrown its weight behind mining union IG BCE ¡¯s efforts to thwart ...
08 Aug 2017, 00:00 Since Germany¡¯s Energiewende shifted into gear in the early 2000s, the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors have created over a million jobs, many of them in technical branches, such as renewable energy production, power ...
01 Jun 2017, 00:00 A large share of the emissions from towns and cities comes from traffic. If Germany is to reach its Energiewende goals, each will have to do their bit to reduce the number of vehicles on their roads, and steer citizens towards greener ...
17 Oct 2018, 14:44 The global energy transition is both accelerating and unstoppable, and will continue to disrupt many industries from carmaking to construction, according to green energy pioneer Amory Lovins. But the cofounder and Chief Scientist of the ...
16 Aug 2019, 10:00 Voters in the eastern German states of Saxony and Brandenburg head to the polls on 1 September for crucial state elections. The results could have an outsized impact on German climate policy for three reasons. First, these states are ...
15 Jan 2015, 00:00 German trade unions are vocal stakeholders in the Energiewende, wary of job losses in the conventional energy sector and campaigning for labour rights in the growing renewables sector. Their importance is amplified by their traditional ...
21 Nov 2014, 00:00 Ten days before the plan to fix Germany¡¯s "climate gap" is set for cabinet approval, it is still unclear how much the power sector will contribute toward the carbon emissions target of a 40 percent cut by 2020. Expert BMWi- ...
11 May 2015, 00:00 Large utilities are being forced to take radical steps to reshape their business models to fit the new energy landscape. But experts say it remains to be seen if they can innovate their way out of the crisis. Expert BDEW-German ...
27 May 2016, 00:00 Update 27 May 2016 [European Commission approves state aid for closure of lignite power plants] | The government has approved wide reaching power market reform, including a phase-out plan for some lignite plants. A "coal reserve ...
29 Apr 2021, 12:30 With its Climate Action Law and the Climate Action Programme 2030, Germany's government coalition has presented a far-reaching climate strategy that is aimed at putting the country on track towards reaching its climate targets. The ...
