24 Apr 2019, 13:24 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background After exceptionally dry weather in 2018, the soil in many ...
31 Mar 2022, 13:47 Kerstine Appunn Heating In a聽 12-point plan 聽for a heat transition in Germany, utility Vattenfall has proposed to expand city heating networks and convert them to climate-neutral fuels. To achieve this, Vattenfall is calling for a rapid ...
06 Jun 2023, 12:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling dpa / Der Stern The lack of mineral resources could become a challenge for the planned ramp-up of hydrogen industry in Germany, Europe and worldwide, news agency dpa writes in an聽 ...
21 Apr 2023, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang Agriculture Renewables Solar Policy Handelsblatt Germany鈥檚 green-led ministries of economics, agriculture and environment are bickering over using agricultural land for solar power,聽 reports 聽business daily Handelsblatt. ...
Year-on-year hard coal power production in Germany decreased by 53 percent in January 2018, Handelsblatt鈥檚 Klaus Stratmann writes. The figures are based on unpublished data from the German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries (BDEW). Electricity ...
21 Apr 2015
21 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淎 grand coalition against CO2 targets鈥� German carmakers VW, BMW and Mercedes, as well as metalworkers union IG Metall, are lobbying against the EU Commission鈥檚 plan ...
The German federal office for statistics (Destatis) has released figures on industrial energy consumption in 2016, revealing that industry consumed 1.4 percent more energy than in the previous year. 鈥淧urely energetic use (for example, for electricity and ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:09 Edgar Meza International 麻豆无码版 / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany expects cooperation with Indonesia to expand and intensify in the coming years, particularly in the areas of renewable energy and raw materials, the ...
Germany will have generated as much solar power in the first three quarters of 2018 as in all of 2017, writes the German Solar Association (BSW) in a press release. 鈥�2018 will be a record year for solar power,鈥� writes the association. BSW managing ...
01 Feb 2022, 13:25 Kerstine Appunn Grid 麻豆无码版 Grid operator TenneT has started using 17 wind farms in the North Sea to prevent grid bottlenecks, the company that runs a large section of the German transmission grid ranging from the coast to ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:30 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG Business Expert VKU- German Association of Local ...
31 May 2023, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Policy dpa / n-tv The German government coalition has agreed on a draft law for reforming municipal heating regulation as part of a wider package to decarbonise the country鈥檚 heating sector, news agency dpa ...
30 May 2023, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Heating Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 / ARD / Spiegel Ahead of talks with MPs from Germany鈥檚 ruling coalition today (30 May), economy minister Robert Habeck said that a draft heating law which would impose ...
16 Mar 2021, 13:23 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The steel industry needs a clear and reliable framework for its decarbonisation, said Heinz J枚rg Fuhrmann, CEO of the Salzgitter Group, at the presentation of the company鈥檚 ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:04 Kerstine Appunn Electricity market 麻豆无码版 The German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has imposed fines of 200,000 euros on Energi Danmark and 175,000 euros on Optimax 麻豆无码版 for market manipulation in the wholesale ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:20 The European Union aims to take on a leadership role when the global community meets in Egypt for the annual UN climate change conference. But a unified European voice is difficult to maintain as member states are hampered by ...
24 Nov 2024, 15:30 Politicians and civil society from Germany have said that the agreement on future climate finance at the UN climate change conference COP29 shows that international cooperation has prevailed even in a challenging geopolitical context. ...
09 Nov 2021, 18:30 After a week of political announcements, ministers this week join their negotiators to hash out the nitty-gritty of the Paris Agreement rulebook and eyes are on a possible solution for carbon markets under Article 6. 麻豆无码版 tracks the ...
07 Jun 2021, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives won a surprisingly clear victory in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, in a boost for the bloc's ...
15 Jul 2015
15 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淎 fight for survival鈥� Due to recent government decisions to mothball some lignite plants, utility RWE will cut 900 to 1000 jobs in the western German lignite industry, which ...
The Carbon brief published an interactive map on power generating capacity in Germany as well as a series of charts that show how the coal problem reveals the challenge of decarbonising heat, transport and industry in the country. The map and an ...
11 Apr 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Policy 麻豆无码版 / WDR Key short-term energy saving rules are set to run out this week, as Germany has come out of a comparably mild winter and managed to avoid a severe gas shortage. A key regulation with ...
25 Aug 2022, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Policy 麻豆无码版 The German government has approved a range of energy saving measures for businesses and households in a bid to prepare the country for expected energy supply bottlenecks. The regulation ...
21 Feb 2023, 13:22 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency 麻豆无码版 In its efforts to alleviate Germany's housing shortage, the government should focus on building renovations to maximise avoided emissions and prevent an unnecessarily high consumption ...
14 Feb 2023, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Die Tageszeitung The planned modernisation of Germany鈥檚 military announced in chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 鈥淶eitenwende鈥� (turning of the times) speech following Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine could face substantial ...
Just 1,231 new electric vehicles were registered in November, down 10 percent on the same period last year, Die Welt reports. Part of the reason may be that a subsidy introduced in June boosted sales slightly in the following weeks and resulted in long ...
06 Apr 2023, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Wind Business & Jobs dpa / 麻豆无码版 Germany needs to increase its workforce in the windpower industry for the planned doubling of installed wind power capacity by 2030, industry association BWE聽 told news ...
12 Mar 2018, 00:00 In a deal that could drastically re-shape Germany's power sector, RWE and E.ON have agreed to split RWE subsidiary innogy and focus each on different parts of the business. E.ON will largely be in charge of distribution grids while ...
Consumer grid fees rose by nine percent last year, and are unlikely to decrease much next year, according to a market report drafted by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), which is due to be published soon and was leaked to the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
23 Aug 2022, 13:29 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Solar 麻豆无码版 Investors have shown only limited interest in Germany鈥檚 most recent call for solar installations on buildings and noise protection walls, further dampening hopes of speeding up the roll ...
26 May 2021, 13:27 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility 麻豆无码版 The aviation sector requires a very high fleet-wide blending rate sustainable fuels in order to reverse the trend of rising CO2 emissions as the sector continues to grow, says the German ...
27 Jul 2021, 16:55 After several years of expansion doldrums, onshore wind power development in Germany has slowly picked up in the first half of 2021, but remains insufficient for renewables expansion and climate targets, the country's wind power ...
The invsolvency of Germany鈥檚 last solar cell maker, SolarWorld, is a failure of the country鈥檚 support for renewables, Patrick Bernau writes in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He argues that the scheme distorted the market. 鈥淭he solar ...
The world鈥檚 largest wind turbine manufacturer, Siemens-Gamesa, has downgraded its business prospects without specifying the reasons for the adjusted prognosis, the Frankfurter Allgmeine Zeitung reports. The German-Spanish company that merged about half a ...
04 Apr 2023, 14:03 Edgar Meza Renewables Politics Tagesspiegel Background / epd The state of Lower Saxony is aiming to become a pioneer in geothermal energy, Tagesspiegel Background reports, citing an article by the epd news agency. "Geothermal ...
RWE AG鈥檚 second-quarter loss narrowed by 22 percent after an improved performance in the German utility鈥檚 power plant business and cost cuts, reports Tino Andresen for Bloomberg. The Essen-based company reduced its adjusted net loss to 259 million euros ...
15 Apr 2015
15 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 The Guardian 鈥淕erman backlash grows against coal power clampdown鈥� The proposed levy on old coal-fired power stations is fast becoming a test of the German government鈥檚 commitment to decarbonise its ...
19 Oct 2021, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Focus Online / B枚rsen-Zeitung Plans by Germany鈥檚 future government coalition to bring forward the coal exit to 2030 have elicited criticism from state politicians in the country鈥檚 coal mining regions, Focus Online ...
10 Apr 2015
10 Apr 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Die Welt 鈥淕abriel risks losing the coal war鈥� A heavy storm is brewing above Sigmar Gabriel, Germany鈥檚 minister for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版, as unions, employees, industry heads and parts of his own party rebel ...
Reducing traffic volumes and significantly lowering emissions in Germany's transportation system is going to be an 鈥� intergenerational project,鈥� think tank Agora Verkehrswende鈥檚 director Christian Hochfeld says in an interview with Frankfurter ...
17 Aug 2022, 14:53 Hannah Naylor Efficiency Resources & Recycling S眉ddeutsche Zeitung As solar panels, thermal insulation and heat pumps are increasingly becoming a standard in the tens of thousands of new houses that are built each year in the ...
08 Sep 2023, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables G20 & G7 麻豆无码版 Germany is advocating for an agreement on "a clear and concrete target" for the global expansion of renewables among the Group of Twenty (G20), said ...
German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex has received its largest order to date in the second quarter, FOCUS Online reports. The company has been contracted to build a wind park in northern Brazil with a total capacity of 595 megawatts. Analysts believe ...
02 Nov 2020, 14:09 S枚ren Amelang Transport Cities Zeit Online / Deutsche Welle The much-delayed opening of Berlin's new airport BER last weekend has been accompanied by climate activists' protests. According to a聽 Zeit Online report, various ...
13 Mar 2015
13 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淒eserted鈥� 100 works councils of the four big German utilities held a crisis summit in Berlin on Thursday, Markus Balser writes in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Because the big ...
10 Dec 2018, 09:03 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
08 Jul 2016
Preliminary figures published by the 麻豆无码版 Charts tool of research institute Fraunhofer ISE show that renewables had a share of over 36 percent in net electricity generation in Germany in the first six months of 2016. ...
Radio and podcast moderator Holger Klein interviews Holger Hanselka, president of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), about the current state of Germany鈥檚 generational Energiewende (energy transition) project in a German online podcast for ...
17 Feb 2015
17 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淲orries about solar eclipse鈥� On March 20, a solar eclipse will cover up to 80 percent of the sun in Germany and grid operators are concerned that massively ...
The neighbours of a lignite power plant in the city of Bergheim in Germany鈥檚 western region of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) are suing the energy company RWE over its plans to replace four older generating units at its Niederau脽em plant with a modern coal ...
25 Nov 2019, 12:33 Julian Wettengel Solar Wind 麻豆无码版 Solar power projects聽 again 聽secured the entire volume of capacity available in the fourth joint auction for new solar and onshore wind, as no onshore bids were submitted, the German Federal ...
Low water levels following a prolonged drought in Germany and very modest wind conditions have put a strain on the business of energy company EnBW, which pursues a rigorous strategy of replacing nuclear and fossil power generation capacity with renewables ...
18 May 2022, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Renewables 麻豆无码版 Southern German state Bavaria aims to double power production from renewable sources to reach a share of 80 percent by 2030 as part of its government鈥檚 new energy strategy. 鈥淭he main drivers ...
19 Sep 2022, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Cars Handelsblatt The boom of battery electric cars could face a significant hurdle next year as rising power prices and the end to state support could eat up cost advantages compared to combustion engine vehicles, ...
28 Jun 2022, 17:00 Climate is planned to figure high on the agenda as leaders of the G7 democratic economies come together in a remote castle with picturesque views of alpine peaks in southern German state Bavaria. The German presidency has promised to ...
10 Feb 2015
10 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Reuters 鈥淪tudy 鈥� Germany spends billions on export of coal technology鈥� Germany and France are the EU鈥檚 biggest sponsors of the export of coal technology, according to a confidential OECD study ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:17 Nuclear phase-out International Tageszeitung (taz) Thousands of tons of nuclear waste will be transported from Germany to Russia through the Netherlands next year after getting approval from Dutch nuclear safety authorities, the daily ...
Germany will reach a deal by the end of the year on a deadline and way to exit coal-fired power generation, according to mining union IG BCE, reports Nathan Witkop for Montel. Union head Michael Vassiliadis told an industry association conference he was ...
10 Feb 2022, 14:06 Jessica Bateman Wind Die Zeit The northernmost German state of Schleswig-Holstein has announced it wants to help push forward the energy transition by building artificial power islands in the North Sea, newspaper Die Zeit reported. ...
20 Aug 2021, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Cities 麻豆无码版 The city of Berlin has significantly stepped up its climate ambitions. The city state's parliament聽 agreed 聽to reduce CO2聽emissions by at least 70 ...
04 Feb 2022, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Utilities WirtschaftsWoche The plans by large and small utilities to decarbonise their businesses are not enough for Germany to reach its climate targets, writes WirtschaftsWoche about a report published by consultancy ...
02 Feb 2022, 13:42 Kerstine Appunn Heating 麻豆无码版 Deep geothermal energy can make a major contribution to the decarbonisation of Germany鈥檚 heating sector, a paper published by researchers from the Fraunhofer and Helmholtz associations shows. ...
26 Sep 2017, 00:00 Germans have handed Chancellor Angela Merkel a fourth term in the country鈥檚 federal election. Most likely, Merkel will have to start talks with the Free Democrats (FDP) and the Green Party to form a so-called "Jamaica coalition, ...
14 Oct 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background / 麻豆无码版 High prices and possibly also pleas by the government are driving down gas consumption in Germany, reports Jakob Schlandt in energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:53 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the ...
03 May 2022, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Germany and India have signed a declaration of intent on a "Partnership for Green and Sustainable Development" which will include German support for reforestation in India ...
14 Mar 2016
14 Mar 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Green Budget Germany / Frankfurter Rundschau 鈥淭en million tonnes more CO2鈥� Germany鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions increased again in 2015, compared to 2014, researchers from Green Budget Germany (F脰S) say. ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:44 Edgar Meza Grid 麻豆无码版 Germany experienced its first increase in power supply cuts since 2017 last year, largely due to a single accident at a transformer station and floods, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) reported. The ...
Trends such as the digitalisation of the energy transition and autonomous driving pushed German electrical and electronics companies鈥� sales up around 4 percent to a record 190 billion euros last year, according to the German Electrical and Electronic ...
14 Nov 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 麻豆无码版 Denmark tops the latest edition of the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) by NewClimate Institute, Climate Action Network and Germanwatch, which saw Germany fall ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:33 Europe's largest car fair IAA is set to become a showdown between climate activists and an automotive industry eager to prove its green credentials when it takes place next month. The show, which has been moved from Frankfurt to ...
Germany鈥檚 energy transition, or Energiewende, has transformed Germany into a global poster child for green energy, writes Emma Bryce in an article for online environmental magazine Ensia. Germany鈥檚 handling of the exit from coal-fired power generation ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Germany will support green hydrogen projects in other countries with up to 350 million euros by 2024 and has published a directive with the relevant guidelines, the economy ministry said in a ...
The vast scale at which 鈥榥egative emissions technologies鈥� that suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere would need to be implemented raises ethical concerns, writes a group of researchers from the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:36 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Wind Tagesspiegel Background / Der Spiegel German utility RWE has been awarded the contract by the Danish government to build a large-scale wind farm ...
29 Jan 2020, 14:32 The German government has officially approved the end of coal-fired power production in Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet adopted a law detailing plant shutdowns and compensation payments for coal companies, confirming a ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Elections & Politics S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / 麻豆无码版 The far-right Alternative f眉r Deutschland (AfD) party鈥檚 current high results in German polls can be attributed to mainstream political parties ...
18 Aug 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Government Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung An internal government coalition row over a new 鈥済rowth opportunities act鈥� is causing a stir among business leaders in Germany, newspaper Handelsblatt ...
26 Apr 2022, 12:40 Edgar Meza Coal Tagesspiegel Long-term plans to transform Germany鈥檚 brown coal (lignite) mining regions are taking shape, with investments being prepared for the establishment of two scientific research centres that could focus on ...
29 Jul 2021, 13:31 Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG Coal Fossil fuels Julian Wettengel Coal Solar dpa / 麻豆无码版 German lignite operator Leag seeks to take advantage of the country's coal phase-out and ...
30 Jan 2020, 13:21 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S枚ren Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen ...
12 Jan 2023, 13:51 Edgar Meza Efficiency 麻豆无码版 Some 5.4 million households in Germany 鈥� or 13 percent of all households in the country 鈥� have concrete plans for one or more energy-efficient refurbishment measures in the next five years, ...
21 Sep 2022, 13:22 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 SWR The state government of Baden-W眉rttemberg has passed a new version of its Climate Protection Act in an effort to further reduce greenhouse gases with ambitious new goals, but critics say the legislation ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 麻豆无码版 Germany announced an additional 84 million euros to support Pakistan as part of both countries鈥� climate partnership at an international conference, in the wake of ...
25 Aug 2022, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Bioenergy 麻豆无码版 Germany is betting on more biogas production in order to save natural gas with a view to possible shortages during the winter. The government will remove regulatory hurdles to an increase of ...
02 Mar 2023, 14:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices dpa / Handelsblatt The scooping up of windfall profits of energy companies in Germany should end by mid-2023, economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has said. The measure that ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:27 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Policy 麻豆无码版 Germany is spending billions on becoming climate neutral by 2045 but has no idea whether this money is well spent, according to the country鈥檚 Federal Court of Auditors ...
27 May 2022, 13:54 S枚ren Amelang International G20 & G7 麻豆无码版 Germany and the United States have launched an energy partnership focused on accelerating climate action, speeding up the energy transition with new technologies, and promoting ...
03 May 2021, 12:57 Edgar Meza Renewables 麻豆无码版 The European Commission聽 has approved 聽the prolongation and modification of Germany鈥檚聽 Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) designed to support the generation of electricity from renewable energy sources. ...
30 Mar 2022, 13:49 Germany has triggered the first stage of its national gas supply emergency plan over fears that Russia might soon cut supplies if it doesn't receive payments from foreign buyers in roubles. The government called on all consumers to ...
24 May 2024, 12:00 The far-right populist Alternative f眉r Deutschland (AfD) is Germany's only large party to unequivocally reject any action against climate change- but its impact on the country's efforts has been limited. The AfD has not yet ...
Coal-fired power generation 鈥渓ooks set to remain the backbone鈥� of Germany鈥檚 energy supply, writes Vera Eckert for Reuters. This contrasts with Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 international ambition as climate protection role model, she adds. Read the article ...
Feed-in tariffs for new photovoltaic (PV) installations will remain stable for facilities that begin operation between 1 October and 31 December 2016, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) said in a press release. This is the fifth time in a row that these ...
23 Feb 2023, 13:44 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling EU 麻豆无码版 Circular economy principles have not yet made an impact in the EU building sector due to the relatively recent concept still being applied in a fragmented and incomplete ...
09 Nov 2022, 13:55 Kiprotich Koros Renewables COP27 麻豆无码版 Kenya and Germany have signed a roadmap for a climate and development partnership that will see the East African country increase its share of renewables in the power system to 100 ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cities Der Tagesspiegel A report by the German parliament鈥檚 scientific service has backed Berlin鈥檚 city government in its rejection of a motorway project that cuts right through the eastern centre of the ...
25 May 2023, 14:01 S枚ren Amelang Grid Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 / dpa The German government has agreed rules to build an initial 鈥渃ore鈥� hydrogen network that is set to enter operation by 2032. "Our goal is the rapid ramp-up of the hydrogen market, ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The announcement by Spain, Portugal and France to pull the plug on the MidCat gas pipeline project across the Pyrenees comes as a 鈥渄isappointment鈥� for Germany鈥檚 government, which had hoped to ...
The star of Germany as a climate action leader has been descending for several years, not least due to its rigid stance on phasing out nuclear power and filling the energy generation gap with carbon-intensive coal power, Michael Shellenberger writes for ...
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 ...
German industrial giant Siemens will open a pilot project converting renewable power into ammonia in the UK next week, the Guardian reports. Normally used to increase crop yields, ammonia could be a tool to manage fluctuating renewable power generation. ...
06 Apr 2023, 13:42 S枚ren Amelang Company climate claims 麻豆无码版 Following growing criticism and a wave of court cases against product labels promising climate neutrality, German certifier ClimatePartner is withdrawing its 鈥榗arbon neutral鈥� label. ...
A projected substantial increase in the number of e-cars in Germany will pose major challenges for the country鈥檚 energy providers and power grids, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) says in a press release. The ZEW has carried out a survey ...
04 Nov 2020, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs EU Die Welt Concerns about climate and the environment have climbed significantly on the agenda of German companies over the last year, a survey conducted by consultancy EY and the聽 Wuppertal ...
The German 麻豆无码版 Agency (dena) has gathered a group of companies from the energy, automotive, aviation, chemicals and mineral oil, mechanical and plant engineering, insurance and finance sectors to launch a global alliance for power fuels. The list of ...
02 Aug 2022, 14:06 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Coal S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The decision by ...
06 Mar 2020, 13:57 Freja Eriksen Heating Die Welt The housing group Vonovia, which acts as Germany's largest landlord, has called on the state to support energy efficient renovations in rented homes, writes Die Welt. Although the group's rental ...
20 Jul 2021, 13:12 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Zeit Online Charging an electric vehicle at a public charging point can be significantly more expensive than doing it at home, Zeit Online writes. The price of electricity at a public charging station can be ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Coal Climate & CO2 Deutschlandfunk Exceptionally low power production from coal plants in the first half of 2019 shows that price signals are an effective way to protect the climate, Theo Geers writes in an opinion ...
02 Feb 2021, 14:22 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Finance 麻豆无码版 / Financial Times / Guardian The German government is advocating a fundamental reform of the World Bank with an increased focus on the climate crisis. 鈥淢y goal is a World Bank which is well ...
10 Feb 2023, 12:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Gas Politics 麻豆无码版 The transformation of Germany鈥檚 energy system away from fossil fuels must quickly be reinforced by sufficient 鈥渕olecule-based鈥� power plant capacity that can back up the ...
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 ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 More than half of municipalities in Germany have restricted services as a way to counter additional expenditure from skyrocketing energy prices, but their investments in long-term ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Finance International EU 麻豆无码版 The European Union should go further in its proposal to counter the U.S.鈥檚 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), more than 40 business organisations, companies, think tanks ...
16 Mar 2022, 14:35 Edgar Meza Industry Technology 麻豆无码版 Cement production is responsible for about seven percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, but a process known as CO2 mineralisation can cut the output of the greenhouse gas by up to a ...
Vattenfall鈥檚 business clients can use their roofs to produce solar energy without having to invest into the construction of the array, according to a company press release. The Swedish utility will pay for the construction and maintenance of the system ...
19 Dec 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security Die Welt Coal mining states in eastern Germany have warned that the energy crisis makes an early phase-out of the fossil fuel too risky for the country鈥檚 energy supply. 鈥淟ignite is needed now and for the ...
The huge gas turbines Siemens makes are models destined for phase-out, writes Markus Balser in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淓lectricity is no longer produced in a few large power plants, but in many places. An ever-increasing number of households are turning ...
06 Feb 2023, 13:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs International 麻豆无码版 The economy ministers from France and Germany will use their planned visit to the U.S. on Tuesday (7 February) to advocate for 鈥渏oint green lead markets鈥� for climate ...
14 Dec 2020, 11:13 Germany鈥檚 grid expansion is making headway 鈥� despite the Covid19 pandemic 鈥� but the power market is in need of a thorough overhaul if the country is to pursue its ambitious electrification targets while keeping up high levels of supply ...
28 Mar 2023, 13:52 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Digitalisation Heating Handelsblatt Germany鈥檚 shift away from Russian gas, coupled with government plans to phase out fossil fuel heating systems, has led to a massive heat pump boom that is forcing the ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:40 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling 麻豆无码版 The need for a raw material supply ...
27 Mar 2023, 14:01 Julian Wettengel Cars EU Handelsblatt / 麻豆无码版 The deal between Germany and the European Commission to allow new combustion engine cars after 2035 鈥� if they run exclusively on e-fuels 鈥� could upset politicians鈥� climate policy ...
03 Jun 2022, 13:40 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Industry 麻豆无码版 / manager magazin The Federation of German ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Resources & Recycling 麻豆无码版 To succeed in the energy transition, Germany will focus on warranting secure supply chains and reliable production capacities required for renewable ...
08 Dec 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 The German government has launched a 900-million-euro auction scheme for green hydrogen imports. The idea of the so-called H2 Global mechanism is to procure the fuel on the world market and ...
03 Feb 2023, 13:36 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 麻豆无码版 Solar PV expansion in Germany jumped ...
02 Jun 2022, 13:53 Edgar Meza Renewables Business & Jobs Der Tagesspiegel The planned structural transformation of the former East German states towards more sustainable industry 鈥� including renewable energy generation-- holds great potential but it ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) wants to 鈥渕ake every effort鈥� to complete three direct current high-voltage power lines connecting Germany鈥檚 windy north with the power-hungry south by 2025, the agency says in its 2016 fourth quarter grid development ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:36 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU M眉nchner Merkur Europe's largest car brand Volkswagen will end the sale of combustion engine cars in the region by the middle of the next decade, branch manager Klaus ...
21 Dec 2015, 00:00 Germany鈥檚 CO2 emissions have inched up in 2015 despite a rapidly increasing share of renewables in electricity production, according to first calculations by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen. The main cause for the year ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Cars 麻豆无码版 A quarter more electric cars were registered in Germany in the first half of 2022 than in the same period last year, according to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). That brought the ...
In a letter addressed to Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leading negotiators in the ongoing government coalition talks between the CDU/CSU and the SPD, several German NGOs, including BUND, WWF, and NABU, call for a clear commitment to the 2020 climate ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:01 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market ...
22 Sep 2021, 13:46 Jessica Bateman 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Society 麻豆无码版 Seventy percent of Germans would support a ban on short haul flights in order to better protect the climate, a survey has found. A聽 poll 聽carried out by YouGov on behalf ...
11 Feb 2020, 14:31 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Expert The German Gas and Hydrogen Industry Fossil fuels Gas Julian Wettengel Gas 麻豆无码版 As Germany plans to exit both nuclear and coal power generation over the next years, gas plants ...
German grid operator Amprion has started an early public consultation process on possible routes for a 300 km direct current underground power line to transport electricity 鈥渇rom the wind-rich north to the consumption centres in western and southern ...
Siemens AG is preparing for a surge in German demand for utility-scale storage, as rapid development of renewables forces utilities to invest in batteries to help manage to new patterns of power generation and consumption, writes Brian Parkin for ...
The government鈥檚 diesel deal will not tame the anger of diesel drivers because only one in 10 are likely to be offered incentives to trade in their old car against a more recent model, writes Holger Steltzner in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ...
The European 麻豆无码版 Exchange (EEX) will launch trading in wind power futures next month. From 4聽October 2016 onwards, trading participants on the EEX Derivatives Market will be able to hedge against volume risks in the generation of wind power within the ...
16 Dec 2020, 15:32 Charlotte Nijhuis Efficiency 麻豆无码版 In order to reduce emissions in the building sector, the German trade union IG BAU is calling on the federal, state and local governments to do more for the energy refurbishment of public ...
Munich-based start-up Sono Motors has crossed the threshold of 5,000 reservations for a small electric car that generates power with solar cells spread all over the vehicle. Sono presented the car, named Sion, less than a year ago and plans to start ...
30 Jul 2019, 13:43 Primary energy use in Germany decreased almost two percent in the first half of 2019 due to a large drop in coal consumption, according to first estimates. This is likely to result in a further substantial fall in the country鈥檚 CO2 ...
30 Apr 2019, 13:15 Transport Business & Jobs Reuters France and Germany have asked the European Commission to approve state subsidies for a cross-border battery cell consortium, including carmaker PSA with its German subsidiary Opel and French battery ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:24 Edgar Meza Coal Renewables 麻豆无码版 German energy group LEAG, the country鈥檚 second biggest electricity producer and a key lignite company, plans to build the country鈥檚 largest renewable energy site in the eastern Lusatia coal ...
Germany would close about half of its coal-fired power generation capacity by 2030 on economic grounds alone if the price of EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) allowances remained above its current level of 25 euros per tonne of CO鈧�, economist Andreas ...
Germany鈥檚 unique energy policy has been a spectacular success, whatever its detractors say, argues John Mathews of Australia鈥檚 Macquarie University in an article carried by the energy collective. The rise of renewables in power generation and the decline ...
An end to coal-fired power generation in Germany by 2030 is impossible, according to Armin Laschet, the state premier of coal mining state North Rhine-Westphalia, and a member of Angela Merkel鈥檚 Conservatives (CDU). Wind and solar power will not be able ...
16 Jan 2023, 14:01 S枚ren Amelang Politics 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 economic output stagnated at the end of 2022 but grew 1.9 percent over the whole year, fanning hopes it will avoid a winter recession. 鈥淓conomic development in Germany proved to be ...
10 Feb 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Government Handelsblatt The new German government鈥檚 promise to grant companies so-called 鈥渟uper write-offs鈥� for investments in climate-friendly projects could be obstructed by a lack of clear definitions and ...
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 ...
29 Oct 2021, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Renewables Policy 麻豆无码版 Long-term company contracts for the supply of renewable energy, known as green power purchase agreements (PPAs), should become a central part of Germany's ...
A German exit from coal-fired power generation 鈥渕ust really happen very, very fast 鈥� maybe by 2025, 2030鈥� if the country wants to be a pioneer in international climate protection, Niklas H枚hne of think tank NewClimate Institute said in an interview with ...
13 Jan 2023, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 For the comprehensive electrification of sectors like heating and road transport, Germany must massively expand renewables and update its energy infrastructure with investments of 900 ...
The global market for e-mobility is being pulled by China, where half a million e-vehicles and plug-in hybrids were sold last year, according to an analysis by the Center of Automotive Management (CAM). This is in contrast to Germany, where only around 25 ...
09 Oct 2017, 00:00 As Germany digests the result of this year鈥檚 federal election, the country prepares for yet another important vote, this time in the state of Lower Saxony. The early election in the country鈥檚 number one wind power state is seen as vital ...
15 Nov 2022, 13:22 Julian Wettengel International 麻豆无码版 / Reuters The G7, along with Norway and Denmark, have announced a 20 billion U.S. dollar partnership to support Indonesia in moving away from fossil fuels and speeding up its energy ...
Natural gas will become the most-used fossil fuel in Germany鈥檚 electricity supply within two decades, RWE boss Rolf Schmitz said at an energy industry conference held by business newspaper Handelsblatt in Berlin. Natural gas plants will be the only ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:05 Sven Egenter Freight 麻豆无码版 The companies that depend on the Rhine River 鈥� Germany鈥檚 most important shipping artery for heavy goods and raw materials 鈥� have developed an action plan with the transport ministry, following last ...
04 Feb 2022, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen EU Tagesspiegel Background Europe and Africa should intensify their cooperation on renewables like wind and solar as well as green hydrogen production, which would have benefits for both sides, ...
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 ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a 鈥渉uge mistake鈥� when she argues that the question of ending coal-fired power generation should only be dealt with after ensuring the economic future of the affected workers, Green Party co-head Annalena Baerbock told ...
This summer鈥檚 record-breaking temperatures and forest fires have demonstrated to the public the enormous threat climate change poses to humanity, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and co-author ...
A new drill developed by the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg in Saxony that crushes rocks with lightning flashes could lead to substantial cost cuts in geothermal energy generation, Focus Online reports. After ten years of testing, researchers ...
The European Commission has set a deadline for Germany and other countries to show how they intend to comply with the EU鈥檚 air quality standards or face court action, reports Florian Eder for Politico. In a letter seen by Politico, Commissioner for the ...
21 Sep 2022, 13:23 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Wholesale electricity prices in Germany will be significantly higher in the next few years than they were during the 2019-2020 period due to the country鈥檚 energy mix and their continued dependence on gas ...
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, ...
German utilities that are focusing on conventional power generation, i.e. RWE and Uniper, are exposed to 鈥� decarbonisation risks,鈥� rating agency Moody鈥檚 has said. The country is likely to accelerate coal plant closures and implement other low-carbon ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:37 Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables Technology Kerstine Appunn Renewables Society 麻豆无码版 Many Germans are starting the new year with 鈥渃limate resolutions鈥� 鈥� around 24 percent of them want to ...
The government should invest in Germany鈥檚 power infrastructure so as to achieve energy independence through renewables, Dave Keating writes in a commentary in Forbes. The share of renewables in power generation has risen substantially over the years, but ...
15 Feb 2019, 13:49 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 ...
24 Feb 2023, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Chemicals company BASF will cut up to 2,600 jobs worldwide due to cost pressure from the energy crisis, with the majority of positions axed in Germany. The company said it will cut ...
23 Dec 2022, 14:20 The German government coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz looks back at a turbulent first year in office, which has been dominated by the reality check of Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine and the European energy crisis. The turmoil in global ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:02 S枚ren Amelang Wind 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 federal government, several of its states and grid operators have agreed on how to implement the country鈥檚 more ambitious targets for the expansion of offshore wind turbines. With the ...
07 Jul 2022, 13:28 Edgar Meza Finance EU Spiegel / 麻豆无码版 The German government has joined environmentalists in condemning the European Parliament鈥檚 decision to support the inclusion of nuclear and gas power plants in the list of ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Gas 麻豆无码版 The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has approved the German gas transmission grid operators鈥� framework scenario to develop the grid over the next ten years, but called on them to identify natural ...
Resilience strategies for energy systems could help better compensate or prevent blackouts, German National Academy for Science and Engineering (acatech), Leopoldina and Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities said in a joint paper. The ...
06 Jul 2022, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security Tagesspiegel Background The reactivation of mothballed coal plants in Germany- in response to the energy crisis fuelled by Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine- could include old lignite-fired power stations which do ...
02 Nov 2022, 13:51 S枚ren Amelang Industry 麻豆无码版 Almost a fifth of German industrial companies plan to reduce production due to high energy costs, a survey by the association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) revealed. While 17 ...
22 Dec 2023, 08:48 Germany made dealing with the consequences of climate change more binding in 2023, and it must now use this momentum to step up implementation, says Christian Kind, adaptation head of programme at think tank adelphi. Spreading the costs ...
09 Sep 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany's plans for a tax on energy companies' windfall profits generated by the current supply crisis could slow the rollout of renewables because ...
16 Apr 2019, 14:41 The opening of a new offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea gives Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel an opportunity to show her climate policy credentials and welcome the German-Norwegian project as a milestone for the energy ...
A pilot project by energy provider EWE for solar panels on the balconies of tenant flats has shown that residents use the vast majority of the generated electricity for private use instead of selling it on the market, Michael Fuhs writes in pv magazine. ...
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09 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淕rid fees push up power price鈥� An internal analysis by the federal grid agency reveals that the systemic costs of the Energiewende will push up grid fees, reports ...
28 Oct 2022, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Wind 麻豆无码版 Long approval procedures and insufficient land designation mean the expansion of wind power capacity across Germany is too slow to meet climate targets, a聽 report 聽by the federal and state ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Industry Business & Jobs Augsburger Allgemeine The head of industry chamber IHK Schwaben has warned Germany鈥檚 southern economic powerhouse Bavaria could fall behind regions in the north and east of the country ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:30 Germany's environment ministry has warned that climate-neutral fuels made with renewables must not become an excuse for neglecting the domestic roll-out of renewables, increasing efficiency and other efforts to cut emissions. " ...
Exiting coal in Germany is a generational project that takes 30 years, says Helmar Rendez, chairman of Germany鈥檚 LEAG, the company responsible for lignite operations in eastern German region Lusatia. Rendez plans to decide by the summer if LEAG will ...
06 Sep 2023, 14:00 Europe鈥檚 carmakers have little to celebrate at this year鈥檚 IAA mobility show. Chinese firms鈥� widening lead in the global shift to electric vehicles is on open display at the biennial fair in Munich, while climate activists lambast ...
21 Dec 2018, 13:31 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Fossil fuels Handelsblatt The phase-out of hard coal mining in Germany by 21 December 2018 鈥� initiated in 2007 by broad consensus 鈥� is a prime example of a successful and peaceful structural ...
23 Sep 2020, 13:26 Expert PwC Electricity market Transport Cars Business & Jobs Efficiency Heating Julian Wettengel Utilities 麻豆无码版 The long-term stabilisation trend of German utilities' financial situation continues, writes ...
17 Jun 2019, 12:47 Sven Egenter Coal Elections & Politics S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany鈥檚 planned exit from coal-fired power generation by 2038 is 鈥渢oo late from a climate policy perspective鈥�, said Markus S枚der, the Bavarian state premier and leader of ...
30 Jun 2022, 14:07 On 1 July,聽Germany marks the end of its landmark renewables levy on consumer power prices. The surcharge helped to spur the growth of wind and solar power capacity for more than two decades but has also been criticised for contributing ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:40 Kerstine Appunn Storage Resources & Recycling Tageszeitung (taz) Tentative steps聽in Germany to initiate a domestic sourcing of lithium are not making much progress, leading to concerns over their profitability, Michael Bartsch ...
03 Jan 2022, 14:13 Edgar Meza G20 & G7 麻豆无码版 Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany would use its year-long presidency of the Group of Seven (G7), which began 1 January, 鈥渢o make this group of countries a trailblazer for a climate-neutral ...
10 May 2023, 12:23 S枚ren Amelang Resources & Recycling Security 麻豆无码版 Germany should make its landmark energy transition more crisis-resilient by increasing independence from raw materials that are needed for climate-friendly technologies ...
12 Oct 2020, 13:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Industry Frankfurter ...
15 Sep 2021, 12:33 Jessica Bateman Hydrogen The number of hydrogen partnerships around the world is increasing and is likely to grow even further, data from the World 麻豆无码版 Council suggests. In a press release, the organisation counts 41 import-export ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Policy 麻豆无码版 Carbon contracts for difference (CCfDs) alone will not be sufficient to enable a rapid decarbonisation of Germany's energy-intensive industry, the academic advisory board of the ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:53 Kerstine Appunn Heating 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background Germany should include hydrogen for heating houses in its energy transition to successfully decarbonise the heating sector, gas grid operator umbrella organisation FNB ...
12 Feb 2019, 18:04 Against the backdrop of escalating tensions over the Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, Germany and the US aim to boost industry cooperation on liquefied natural gas (LNG). German economy minister Peter Altmaier invited US ...
Power plants of the mining and manufacturing sectors produced 10.4 percent of Germany鈥檚 gross electricity in 2015, with 50 terawatt hours (TWh), reports Germany's statistics agency Destatis. Most power of the industrial plants is used for self ...
22 Aug 2022, 13:07 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen Rheinische Post / 麻豆无码版 Chancellor Olaf Scholz and economy minister Robert Habeck want to deepen Germany鈥檚 energy ties with Canada during a three-day state visit, with a particular focus on future ...
The first bicycle lane made out of solar panels in Germany has been opened on a 90-meter stretch near the western German city Cologne, Florian Gontek reports for Spiegel Online. The path consists of 150 solar power modules that are capable of feeding ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Tagesspiegel Background / Bloomberg The first gas flows into the German grid from the new floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven are expected on 22 December, newspaper ...
05 Jul 2021, 12:57 Kerstine Appunn Citizens' energy 麻豆无码版 Citizen energy cooperatives are planning fewer new projects than in previous years, a survey conducted by the German Cooperative and Raiffeisen Confederation (DGRV) showed. Thirty ...
22 Mar 2023, 13:28 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Adaptation 麻豆无码版 Following the increase in severe flooding events in Germany over the past years, the country鈥檚 weather service DWD has improved its ability to forecast such events. 鈥淭hanks to ...
19 Dec 2022, 13:52 Filling gas storages in 2023 might not be as easy as this past year in the absence of Russian pipeline gas, and Europe should focus on energy saving and finding ways to increase especially LNG supply to address the global shortage next ...
Blockchain will revolutionise Germany鈥檚 energy market, potentially rendering major utilities redundant, Kathrin Witsch and Christine Coester write in a commentary for Handelsblatt Global. The digital ledger technology, which allows users to exchange money ...
02 Sep 2021, 13:44 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 While the German energy transition made considerable progress in 2020, this could be short-lived as it was largely due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, consultancy ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 wind energy sector requires faster approval procedures and better working conditions to attract the skilled workers needed reach expansion targets, a report commissioned by ...
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 ...
31 Aug 2021, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Renewables Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 US technology company Google has announced it will invest 1 billion euros in digital infrastructure and clean energy in Germany from now until 2030. As part of this, ...
Two-thirds of employees in the German lignite sector are older than 45 years (2015 data), according to a report published by the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰koinstitut) for the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Therefore, 63 percent of the employees ...
German Green Party think tank the Heinrich Boell Foundation has published its European 麻豆无码版 Atlas 2018, detailing the state of Europe鈥檚 energy transition. Among the topics covered are the role renewables play in job creation, as well as the ...
31 Jan 2023, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 麻豆无码版 At his first meeting with the newly elected Brazilian president Luiz In谩cio Lula da Silva, German chancellor Olaf Scholz has focused on joint efforts to protect the ...
18 Sep 2020, 13:30 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Gas Bild / dpa / ZDF A large majority of Germans and the country's eastern states oppose an exit from the controversial Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 following the poisoning of ...
18 Aug 2020, 14:16 Policy Society 麻豆无码版 The Covid-19 pandemic can offer insights into how to cope with the climate change crisis in terms of risk management and policy reaction,聽 a Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) study says ...
An abrupt end to coal-fired power generation in Germany would damage the steel industry鈥檚 competitiveness by pushing up electricity prices, the head of the country鈥檚 steel association, Hans J眉rgen Kerkhoff, said at the National Steel Summit, Reuters ...
14 Sep 2020, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics WDR The conservative CDU has emerged as the strongest party in municipal elections in Germany's most populous federal state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), public broadcaster WDR聽 reports. ...
12 Jan 2023, 11:20 Netflix styles itself as a climate action leader, but the world鈥檚 most popular video streaming service is far from eliminating all of its emissions, despite a 2022 net zero target. The US company with more than 220 million subscribers ...
The large brown coal-fired power stations in Lusatia should not be shut down but used as flexible providers for an affordable power supply, Jan Selmons quoted Professor Hans Joachim Krautz, chair of power plant technology at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, as ...
Facilities generating electricity from sewage gas have produced 1,395 gigawatt-hours of power in Germany in 2015, the federal statistics聽office Destatis reports. This was 3.6 percent more than in 2014, and聽enough to supply a large city like Frankfurt am ...
Through a new online programme, house owners in the south German town of Freising can now determine if their roofs are suitable for solar panels, and how much it would cost to install them, according to an article in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. A ...
25 Jan 2023, 13:10 Julian Wettengel Renewables 麻豆无码版 Several environmental NGOs call on the German government to align the more rapid buildout of renewable energy with protecting and expanding 鈥� green infrastructure 鈥� such as natural wetlands ...
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11 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Ministry for Environment 鈥�5 years after Fukushima: Nuclear power has no future鈥� The nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima five years ago showed that atomic power was never 100 percent controllable, ...
07 Dec 2021, 12:54 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Jessica Bateman Coal Grid 麻豆无码版 The new German coalition government鈥檚 goal of a 2030 coal exit, eight years earlier than initially planned, will require a ...
13 May 2020, 13:32 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Wind Business & Jobs Business confidence within the German wind power industry has reversed its downward trend for the first time in two years. While still in negative territory, market sentiment in both the ...
23 Jan 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann International 麻豆无码版 Germany and France have reiterated their wish to work together on the energy transition, technological sovereignty, supporting industry in the transition to climate neutrality and ...
Heat generated from geothermal sources will become Germany鈥檚 primary source for district heating, geo scientist Ernst Huenges says in an interview with the Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten. 鈥淭here are almost no alternatives from other regenerative sources鈥�, ...
Sales of energy efficiency products rose 10 percent to 65.4 billion euros in 2014, according to the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis). 鈥淭he turnover generated from products for increasing energy efficiency and for saving energy is much higher than that ...
23 Jan 2023, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Transport 麻豆无码版 / tagesschau.de German transport minister Volker Wissing has renewed his rejection of a general speed limit on the country鈥檚 autobahns after a report found that the measure could save almost ...
20 Jul 2022, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Cities 麻豆无码版 In a bid to adapt cities and other urban areas to climate change effects such as extreme heat, Germany鈥檚 buildings and construction ministry (BMWSB) has launched a programme to fund measures ...
25 Jan 2019, 11:58 Germany鈥檚 coal exit commission has begun what could be its decisive meeting on Friday. In crucial last-minute talks, the commission must agree on a timetable to phase out the climate-damaging fossil fuel for electricity production ...
10 Mar 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Industry EU 麻豆无码版 / Financial Times / Reuters / NY Times German economy minister Robert Habeck has welcomed the European Commission鈥檚 decision to further relax state aid rules for clean technologies as part ...
02 Aug 2021, 12:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out International Die Welt Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power means that it must replace the energy source with climate-harmful coal and gas, the executive director of state-owned French ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:37 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars Cities Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The ruling by the European Court of Justice allowing cities to ban a new generation of 鈥渃leaner鈥� diesel cars is 鈥渢he next round in the witch hunt on drivers ...
25 May 2022, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang Wind Tagesspiegel Background Bidders offering to implement offshore wind power projects with the lowest CO2 footpring聽 could have an advantage in Germany鈥檚 future renewable power auctions that determine who gets to install ...
An average successful bid of less than half a cent per kilowatt hour for offshore wind in Germany鈥檚 first competitive auction for the technology showed that renewables support did not need to be as big as it has been in recent years, writes Timot Szent ...
22 Oct 2020, 13:47 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Grid 麻豆无码版 Interruptions in Germany鈥檚 electricity ...
After heavy losses for her conservative CDU/CSU alliance in regional elections in Bavaria and Hesse, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that she will not seek re-election as party chairwoman. She also said she would not run for chancellor again. ...
07 Apr 2020, 13:19 Expert Hans-Josef Fell Politician Renewables Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Energiewende Julian Wettengel Renewables 麻豆无码版 Operators of innovative renewables systems that guarantee continuous energy supply day and night, ...
The small town of Wolfhagen near Frankfurt in central Germany 鈥渉as taken a big step into the future over the past few years鈥� by becoming one of the country鈥檚 first municipalities to cover 100 percent of its power demand from renewable sources, Austin ...
As wind power generation starts to take off internationally, companies from the former global lead market Germany are set to close down parts of production at home and move jobs closer to growth markets, Brian Parkin and William Wilkes write for Bloomberg ...
19 Apr 2022, 13:37 Kerstine Appunn Gas Handelsblatt The German finance ministry has approved the spending of up to three billion euros from the budget to finance floating terminals for liquified natural gas (LNG) in German ports. With the signing of the ...
Flexible energy options, such as energy storage, smart charging electric vehicles, demand response, and interconnectors are needed to ensure that the energy transition proceeds on an optimal path, according to a Bloomberg NEF report focused on the UK and ...
The upcoming UN climate conference (COP23) in Bonn will be an important milestone on the way to creating a rulebook for the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, Germany鈥檚 chief UNFCCC negotiator Karsten Sach said at a briefing in Berlin. 鈥淚f ...
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 ...
The launch of the coal-exit commission has raised expectations that Germany鈥檚 鈥� and by extension, Europe鈥檚 鈥� commitment to a low-carbon future could shift from rhetoric to reality, Nick Butler writes in an opinion piece for the Financial Times. However, ...
Hamburg start-up Enyway has started to rent out pizza box-sized fractions of its first large solar-array for 39 euros each, report J眉rgen Flauger and Kathrin Witsch in Handelsblatt. 鈥淭he average Joe can now actively participate in the energy transition,鈥� ...
31 Jul 2020, 12:19 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
The governments of Germany and India aim to strengthen their energy partnership, particularly in the field of renewables. 鈥淭he Indian expansion target is an additional power generation capacity of 100 gigawatts (GW) of solar PV, 60 GW of wind and 15 GW of ...
25 Jun 2019, 13:36 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / 麻豆无码版 A heatwave with temperatures expected to rise to around 40掳 Celsius has fanned calls ...
In a 鈥� decisive year 鈥� 2018, the next German government must determine the course for the country鈥檚 exit from coal-fired power generation, and deal with the looming failure to reach its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in ...
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15 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Reuters "Merkel dashes loss-making power plants' aid hopes" Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was sceptical about capacity markets that would give extensive support to old coal fired ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:27 Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Energiewende Neue Z眉rcher Zeitung Germany鈥檚 approach to exiting coal-fired power generation via a phase-out plan suggested by a stakeholder commission will cost the country more than necessary, ...
11 Sep 2024, 13:00 German industry association BDI has said that the country鈥檚 industrial success in the future depends on businesses doing well on green technologies such as modern power grids, wind energy, green hydrogen production, electric mobility, ...
23 Feb 2023, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 麻豆无码版 Germany is unlikely to face gas shortages next winter, the Institute for Economic Research (DIW) has said in a report. Following a halt of Russian gas deliveries into Germany in September 2022, ...
Renewable energy technologies hold significant potential in decarbonising industrial heating and cooling processes, writes the German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation (BEE) in a press release, based on a short study compiled by the Hamburg Institute. 鈥淎s more ...
03 Nov 2021, 13:37 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Renewables 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版-related CO2 emissions in Germany are estimated to be ...
08 Nov 2022, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 Temperatures in both the North Sea and the Baltic Sea rose by more than one degree Celsius during summer 2022,聽 which is above the long-term average maintained since 1997, Germany鈥檚 ...
15 May 2023, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Six German state leaders have spoken out against splitting the country鈥檚 power price zone because of geographically uneven wind power capacities. Northern states had called for ...
A 15 million euro research platform in Germany鈥檚 North Sea is examining the effects and possible risks of energy generation in the ocean. The Fino3 platform, located 80 kilometres from the German island of Sylt and near the DanTysk offshore wind farm, ...
16 Mar 2020, 14:04 Rachel Waldholz Renewables Policy dpa / Energie & Management / Der Spiegel Environment minister Svenja Schulze 聽 is calling on German state and federal officials to act quickly to resolve disagreements over the expansion of ...
04 Apr 2023, 13:56 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Despite an extremely mild winter, households in Germany experienced the highest heating costs ever according to an analysis by price comparison website Verivox based on data from the German ...
Voters in the German federal state of Saarland have clearly rejected a coalition of Social Democrats (SPD) and Left Party (Linke) by giving the governing conservatives of the Christian Democrats (CDU) a clear mandate to continue their grand coalition with ...
On Thursday, E.ON decided on an anticipated capital increase, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. The company will issue 200 million new shares, which could generate about 1.3 billion euros available for debt reduction. The measure is mainly ...
07 Feb 2022, 13:42 Jessica Bateman Bioenergy Transport Die Zeit Germany鈥檚 national railway provider Deutsche Bahn has announced plans to run all trains on biofuels by 2040, newspaper Die Zeit reports. The group says it is phasing out diesel and wants to ...
Last year鈥檚 increase in CO 2聽 emissions makes it increasingly unlikely that Germany will reach its 2020 climate target, according to a short analysis by Arepo Consult for the Green Party. Emissions would have to drop by 40 million tonnes per year until ...
13 Jul 2021, 13:07 The German energy ministry has increased the country鈥檚 estimated power needs in 2030-- a figure that will be crucial after the general elections in September, when a new government has to set renewable energy expansion targets based on ...
12 Nov 2021, 18:24 With the goal to "keep 1.5掳 within reach", many see this year's COP26 in Glasgow as the most important UN climate change conference since the landmark 2015 Paris summit. The last official day has arrived and negotiations ...
Climate protection is the main economic pillar of the environmental industry in Germany, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) says in a press release. Companies producing climate-friendly materials and products, as well as offering climate protection ...
12 Oct 2020, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Society S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The outdoor heater industry in Germany is almost being overwhelmed by a surge in demand due to restaurant and bar owners scrambling to find ways of 聽continuing their business ...
The German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation (BEE) will present a proposal to put a tax on the use of fossil fuels in power generation, which would complement the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), writes Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. A study by consultancy ...
01 Nov 2022, 13:33 Edgar Meza Gas Tagesspiegel, 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 gas reserves have reached 98.52 percent of full capacity, with more than 240 terawatt hours鈥� worth of energy (preliminary data from 30 October) 鈥� the highest level ever achieved, ...
Germany鈥檚 rising consumption of oil, gas and lignite in the first half of 2017 indicates that the country of the Energiewende will see another increase in emissions in 2017 after a rise in 2016, said Agora Energiewende * head Patrick Graichen. 鈥淭he data ...
29 Aug 2022, 13:22 Hannah Naylor Cost & Prices S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) are preparing a formal list of additional measures to aid German citizens cope with the dramatic increase in energy prices, reports dpa news ...
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 ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Grid International Enerdata The European Commission has asked transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT to increase the electricity trading capacity between western Denmark and Germany and to ensure ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:18 Rachel Waldholz Cars Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 The number of electric cars on German roads increased significantly last year, while major markets like the U.S. and China recorded slower growth. That's according to聽 a survey by the ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:01 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Government International 麻豆无码版 Germany will attempt to move towards a "social-ecological" market economy model that puts great emphasis on diplomacy to advance the global fight ...
04 Jun 2020, 14:06 The German government coalition has decided to reboot Europe's largest economy with a 130 billion euros stimulus package that contains steps to further the country's landmark energy transition. Aside from comprehensive actions ...
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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 ...
13 Jun 2023, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 麻豆无码版 The German economy and buildings ministries aim to connect 100,000 buildings to district heating annually in a bid to bring the sector closer to its climate targets. 鈥淲e believe that district ...
04 May 2022, 13:57 S枚ren Amelang Cars 麻豆无码版 BMW and Mercedes-Benz have agreed to sell their joint car-sharing venture Share Now to Stellantis, a company formed last year through a merger of Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot maker PSA. The German ...
31 Jan 2022, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Government International Der Spiegel The German foreign ministry under Annalena Baerbock (Green Party) will create a new position of state secretary for international climate policy, reports Der Spiegel. The Bundestag ...
Wind generation is forecast to climb to a record on Sunday, creating more output than needed and driving electricity prices below zero, reports Jesper Starn for Bloomberg. It would be the first time this year that聽the average price for a whole day is ...
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 ...
30 Apr 2021, 14:41 Germany鈥檚 constitutional court verdict that the government's climate policies are insufficient because they endanger future generations' freedoms is the 鈥渕ost far-reaching ruling in the world to date鈥� on climate protection, ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:10 Rachel Waldholz Nuclear phase-out dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau / Neues Deutschland Environmentalists are raising concerns about the planned transport of reprocessed nuclear waste from England back to Germany, newswire dpa reports. Last ...
German carmakers and suppliers are reluctant to agree to battery cell production in Europe despite the recent EU Commission initiative to build an 鈥淎irbus for batteries鈥�, reports Joachim Becker in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Industry managers argue that even ...
The generation of one kilowatt-hour of electricity has produced an average of 489 g of CO 2 聽in 2017, which is 36 percent less than in 1990, the Federal Environment Agency has calculated in a new publication on CO 2 聽emissions trends in the power sector ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:28 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Society 麻豆无码版 Three in four houseowners in Germany wish ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Digitalisation Policy 麻豆无码版 The proposed energy efficiency laws in Germany might place a too heavy burden on data centres and could drive them out of the country, digital association Bitkom said in a press ...
German utility E.ON has entered into a partnership with greenXmoney to set up an online platform that allows making investments in German solar and wind power facilities 鈥渆asily, securely and independently of any particular bank鈥�, the company announced in ...
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 ...
The German Green Party wants to write climate protection into the country鈥檚 constitution, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. At a Green campaign event in the central German federal state of Hesse, where state elections will take place on 28 ...
14 Jun 2021, 13:07 Edgar Meza Electricity market Renewables WirtschaftsWoche German economic affairs and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said his ministry will submit new calculations for Germany鈥檚 expected energy demand in the coming years due to ...
22 Mar 2023, 13:26 Julian Wettengel International 麻豆无码版 Germany and the U.S. are jointly pushing for a fundamental reform of the World Bank with an increased focus on the climate crisis, and agreed that it should be finalised at the ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:58 Expert BWE- German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Wind Handelsblatt / RND The number of approved applications for ...
German coal mining state Brandenburg premier Dietmar Woidke has rejected calls for an end date for the country鈥檚 use of lignite for power generation. 鈥淎 discussion on whether we will switch off brown coal in 10, 20 or 40 years would only lead to a loss of ...
A climate survey published by the European Investment Bank (EIB) shows a north-south divide in EU citizens鈥� sentiment towards global warming. Southern Europeans are more concerned and see it as a more immediate threat compared to northern Europeans, who ...
22 Dec 2020, 13:36 [updates with comment from German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association BWE] Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind ...
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 ...
24 Aug 2022, 13:30 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices EU n-tv A seemingly perfect storm resulting not only from the war in Ukraine but also from the extreme drought in the entire Alpine region and low water levels in rivers France is shaking European ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables dpa / Die Zeit Amid the debate between France and Germany over the use of nuclear power in the EU鈥檚 emissions reduction plans, the Green Party in southwestern German state Baden-W眉rttemberg ...
26 Nov 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 German power consumers will save some 5.6 billion euros on their electricity bills once they stop paying the renewable surcharge as of 2023, the new government says in its coalition ...
Despite the outcome of last week鈥檚 G7 summit in Taormina, Italy, a consensual statement by all leaders 鈥渟hould be the aspiration鈥� for the G20 summit in Germany in July, said Lars-Hendrik R枚ller, Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 economic advisor and the ...
The use of batteries to level out intermittent solar and wind generation in the Tennet and Sonnen project shows that 鈥渢he Energiewende is making progress,鈥� writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淣ew offshore wind parks have been approved ...
Environment minister Svenja Schulze鈥檚 push for e-mobility will not allow Germany to meet its 2030 emissions reduction target, Dieter Seifried writes in a commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. That's because the electricity needed to power electric ...
30 Apr 2024, 14:44 The surge of populist parties that oppose ambitious climate policies has left its mark on Germany鈥檚 national debate as it did in many other European countries ahead of the upcoming EU elections. Fearful of the backlash against the costs ...
Next year鈥檚 power price increase is not the fault of wind and solar power generation operators, writes Olaf Ridder in a commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. The rise is the price consumers have to pay for the delay in grid extensions, one of many ...
29 Sep 2021, 13:27 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Agriculture 麻豆无码版 Organically produced milk derived from pasture-fed cows is more environmentally friendly than milk ...
The tenant electricity draft law introduced by Germany鈥檚 economy ministry (BMWi) is an 鈥渦tterly wrong鈥� policy approach that turns the principle of 鈥渃ompetition instead of allocation鈥� upside down, Andreas Mihm writes in an opinion piece for Frankfurter ...
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). ...
15 Jan 2019, 11:57 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Technology Handelsblatt Germany must take responsibility for fighting climate change by continuing research into nuclear fusion, Julian Olk writes in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. ...
11 Aug 2022, 14:08 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Utilities Tagesspiegel Background 麻豆无码版 company E.ON has said it is 鈥渙pen to discussions鈥� about a possible runtime extension of its ...
A coal phase-out is unnecessary and threatens energy security, the Coal Importer Association writes in a press release. Coal-fired power plants are needed to supply electricity to the grid during times when renewable energies cannot meet total power ...
16 Sep 2016, 00:00 To decarbonise Germany鈥檚 economy, small amounts of renewable electricity will have to replace large amounts of fossil fuel. The policies to make this Energiewende happen must be decided now, the economy ministry says in a new discussion ...
27 May 2022, 14:00 S枚ren Amelang Agriculture Die Zeit Following massive damages in Germany鈥檚 forests due to extreme weather, the country鈥檚 forestry industry has called for long-term support for making woodlands more climate-resilient. Between 2018 and ...
The lack of flexibility in running brown coal and nuclear power stations are the cause of Germany鈥檚 high power export surplus, says consultancy 麻豆无码版 Research Architecture in a study commissioned by the Green group in the German Bundestag. The more ...
14 Apr 2022, 12:14 Edgar Meza Cars Cost & Prices ARD / Funke Mediengruppe The German government is set to cut subsidies for plug-in hybrid vehicles earlier than originally planned, public broadcaster ARD reports. The economy and climate ministry (BMWK ...
Germany鈥檚 surcharge paid for the roll-out of renewable energy sources, the EEG-surcharge, will 鈥渘oticeably decrease鈥� in 2019, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. According to the article, the renewables levy will decrease to 6.4 cents ...
24 Sep 2021, 13:31 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Storage Cars Policy 麻豆无码版 The production of e-car battery cells in Europe is on track to become "the most successful industrial policy project since Airbus," German economy ...
08 Aug 2022, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Gas Grid Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 / Welt am Sonntag Thirty percent of German households are thinking about buying an electric heater due to worries over winter gas supplies, but many are underestimating the ...
08 Aug 2022, 12:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 麻豆无码版 The southern German state of Bavaria continues to lead the field in solar power expansion in the country, increasing its capacity by more than 1 gigawatt (GW) in the first half of 2022 alone. ...
The German industry heavyweight Siemens has signed contracts worth about 700 million euros with the government of Libya to build two gas-fired power plants in the war-torn north African country, news agency Reuters reports. The company, which recently ...
The use of 930 terawatt-hours of renewable gases could provide enough flexibility to sustain a greenhouse-gas neutral energy system in Germany by 2050, a study by energy advisors (enervis) for the German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association (BWE) and the association ...
Offshore wind farms produce electricity more reliably than previously thought, a study by research institute Fraunhofer IWES has shown. Wind turbines in the German North- and Baltic Sea produce power on 363 days a year, while older data from 2013 had seen ...
The German and Indian utilities Uniper and India Power Corporation Limited have agreed to set up a 50:50 service company joint venture, India Uniper Power Services, to offer services including the operation and maintenance of power stations. The venture ...
Only about 20 percent of organic household waste in Germany is used to produce biogas for heating and power generation, writes Ralph Diermann in an article for the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Investment needs and operating costs for the required facilities are ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:22 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 Austria鈥檚 new government coalition of designated conservative chancellor Sebastian Kurz and the Green Party could serve as a role model for Germany, say several commentaries in ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:45 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Expert IZES- Institute for Future 麻豆无码版 Systems Institut f眉r Zukunfts Energie Systeme Citizens' energy Electricity market Expert ...
20 Dec 2016, 00:00 German energy-related CO鈧� emissions rose almost 1 percent in 2016, despite a fall in coal use and the ongoing expansion of renewable energy sources, according to first estimates by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen. A rise ...
Contrary to many utilities in other European countries, Germany鈥檚 E.ON and RWE lack a proper strategy for dealing with the energy transition, Bloomberg analyst Elchin Mammadov says on Dow Jones Newswires. The split-up of RWE鈥檚 spin-off innogy between ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 麻豆无码版 The production of solar power modules in Europe can be made economically viable again if production sites are planned sufficiently large, a study by research institute Fraunhofer ISE and ...
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 ...
Leaked information ahead of the last day of exploratory talks between Germany鈥檚 prospective coalition parties suggest that Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) will spare the country鈥檚 mighty carmakers ...
The significant drop in the cost of generating offshore wind power means that even modern nuclear power plants are no longer able to compete economically with this renewable energy source, says German energy supplier innogy SE鈥檚 COO for Renewables Hans ...
10 Jul 2020, 12:52 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar 麻豆无码版 Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel Solar 麻豆无码版 Research institutions in Austria and Germany have launched a joint project aiming to develop a solar rooftop ...
07 Oct 2022, 14:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables dpa / Die Welt / 麻豆无码版 The state premier of Brandenburg, Germany's second largest coal mining region, has rejected calls to bring the end of coal use forward to 2030, becoming the ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:51 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices Reuters The state-run fund created to pay for the intermediate and final storage of 聽nuclear power station waste 聽in Germany has so far coped well throughout the ...
06 Oct 2022, 13:52 Expert NewClimate Institute Institute for Climate Policy and Global Sustainability Climate & CO2 Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 climate diplomacy initiative has made a promising start ...
17 May 2022, 12:49 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Society 麻豆无码版 Climate protests organised by the Fridays for Future movement directly helped the Green Party in German elections between 2019 and 2021 鈥� in part due to the influence of children on ...
12 Jan 2023, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Coal Society 麻豆无码版 / ZDF German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has said he has 鈥済reat respect鈥� for climate protesters but sees the village L眉tzerath 鈥� which is due to be demolished and replaced ...
08 Mar 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Gas Security NY Times / ZEIT, ARD, SWR / Dlf German defence minister Boris Pistorius has reacted cautiously to media reports that a pro-Ukrainian group could be behind the attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines ...
28 Jul 2022, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Gas dpa Germany鈥檚 gas storage levels could reach 90 percent by 1 November, even under the scenario where flows from Russia through the crucial Nord Stream pipeline remain curbed, the association of gas storage system ...
14 May 2021, 14:16 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Utilities Reuters German energy company Uniper has agreed to consider an earlier than planned shutdown of its controversial coal-fired power plant Datteln 4, Reuters reports. "Should future ...
In contrast to some recent analyses and arguments brought forward regularly in the energy policy debate, the need for storage is not an obstacle to the progress of the energy transition, according to a study published by the German Institute for Economic ...
An ambitious target to replace all combustion engine cars in Germany with electric vehicles by 2030 might increase CO 2 emissions instead of lowering them, writes Denes Csala, lecturer at Lancaster University, in an article for The Conversation. 鈥淯nless ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Climate & CO2 Nuclear phase-out Germany shutting down the last of its nuclear power plants by 2022 could force the country to use more coal power- temporarily pushing up emissions- even ...
Renewable energies place a greater burden on power grids than previously thought, according to an article by scientists from the Jacobs University Bremen published in the 鈥淪cientific Reports鈥� journal. Even the slightest fluctuations can be measured over ...
18 Jan 2023, 13:01 S枚ren Amelang Heating 麻豆无码版 The electrification of heating is gathering pace in Germany as sales of heat pumps increased by more than half last year. Sales rose 53 percent to 236,000 units, making heat pumps the technology ...
The leader of Germany鈥檚 junior government coalition partner SPD, Andrea Nahles, has attacked the Green Party, in parliamentary opposition, for pursuing a climate policy 鈥渢hat does not care about people in coal regions,鈥� Veit Medick writes on Spiegel ...
Landowners should receive 鈥渂etter compensation鈥� if power transmission lines are built on their premises, the German Farmers' Association (DBV) said in a press release. They聽should be eligible for recurring compensation payments instead of receiving a ...
Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND), WWF Germany and other environmental and development NGOs in the umbrella organisation DNR have presented a proposal for Germany to reach its 2020 goals. The emergency climate protection programme includes concrete ...
25 Jul 2022, 14:35 Hannah Naylor Gas inFranken.de / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Bavarian breweries concerned about possible gas shortages are developing contingency plans to avoid a complete halt of beer production, reports regional news website inFranken.de. ...
04 Feb 2021, 09:57 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars 麻豆无码版 German carmakers doubled their global production of battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles last year, according to car industry association VDA. "In 2020, more than ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 麻豆无码版 The German energy crisis has not ended yet, but has become 鈥渕anageable鈥� to a point where the government is confident it could be overcome for good by 2024, economy and climate minister ...
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22 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Spiegel Online 鈥淐oalition wants to push through fracking law on Friday鈥� The government has scheduled 聽the Bundestag聽vote on a law restricting fracking in Germany for ...
The Integrated Environment Programme 2030 environment minister Barbara Hendricks published yesterday reads in part like her political legacy and in part like a self-confident settling of accounts with some of her cabinet colleagues, writes Thorsten Knuf ...
Many of Germany鈥檚 28,000-odd onshore wind turbines will soon meet the end of their guaranteed 20-year feed-in tariff lifespan, meaning that the country can expect 鈥渁 decommissioning wave鈥� in the sector, Hinrich Neumann writes for Top Agrar. The Institute ...
Germany鈥檚 power labelling regulation allows electricity suppliers to declare a higher than real share of renewables in their customers鈥� power mix, which amounts to 鈥済reenwashing by law,鈥� writes J枚rg Staude for klimaretter.info, based on data from green ...
There will be no nationwide grid fee alignment in Germany according to a proposal by the economy ministry approved by the government cabinet, contrary to聽 earlier press reports. However, the proposal for a grid fee reform will gradually abolish payments ...
The construction of new offshore wind farms is revitalising German communities on the North Sea coast, Stefan Reccius reports for Handelsblatt Global. Wind turbine technicians are filling hotels that had been suffering from a decline in tourism and ...
20 Jul 2022, 15:19 Hannah Naylor Cars Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Germany's climate and economy ministry (BMWK) has released a strategy paper suggesting that a climate levy for new registrations of combustion engine cars could help e-cars become ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:13 Italy has just taken over the rotating presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) large democratic economies, but its positions on climate policy often remain ambiguous, says Luca Bergamaschi, co-founder of the think tank Ecco Climate. He ...
29 Jan 2019, 15:02 Following a sharp drop in new onshore wind power installations in Germany in 2018, the industry warns that mounting resistance against new turbines endangers a sufficient supply of renewable energy demanded by industry and national ...
19 Jul 2022, 14:21 Hannah Naylor Transport Cost & Prices dpa / ARD Due to the success of the current 9-euro public transport ticket, German transport minister Volker Wissing is willing to consider an ongoing alternative, though not before the end of ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The German government has said it will carry out a second assessment of the benefits of extending the runtime of the country鈥檚 remaining nuclear plants beyond their ...
03 May 2022, 13:54 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Efficiency 麻豆无码版 An increasing number of German municipalities are struggling with higher energy costs, a survey by state-run development bank KfW has found. Around 50 percent of the ...
23 Jul 2020, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars ARD The German transport minister, Andreas Scheuer, has proposed the introduction of a road toll for passenger cars in the whole European Union, public broadcaster ARD reports in its daily news programme ...
21 Nov 2022, 13:53 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Gas 麻豆无码版 / Welt am Sonntag The likelihood of power blackouts in Germany this coming winter is low, the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) has聽 said. 鈥淎 large ...
Renewable energy generation in Germany is being disadvantaged by the practice of leading utilities RWE, E.ON and Vattenfall of selling electricity well into the future, Germany鈥檚 Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR) reports. By ...
22 Sep 2022, 13:52 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Industry 麻豆无码版 The German industry plans to stick to existing ...
Gas-fired power plants could replace their coal-fired counterparts without endangering the power supply, according to a new study commissioned by RWTH Aachen University on behalf of the German natural gas industry, Die Welt reports. According to the study ...
17 May 2022, 11:49 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 / SZ / Tagesspiegel Background German energy industry association BDEW has called for a 鈥渉ydrogen ramp-up law鈥� to ensure that the country quickly takes the steps necessary to build up a market ...
06 May 2022, 14:04 The effects of the war in Ukraine will have a major impact on Germany鈥檚 most important state election this year, making next week鈥檚 vote in heavy industry heartland North-Rhine Westphalia another gauge of the public鈥檚 view of the ...
19 Sep 2022, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Grid 麻豆无码版 German power transmission grid operator Amprion has said that it does not expect blackouts this winter despite 鈥渁n extremely tense supply situation鈥� caused by the current energy crisis. Even the ...
Germany needs to rapidly and decisively reduce its coal-fired power generation capacity by roughly 50 percent to meet its 2020 emissions reduction target, writes the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) in a letter addressed to economy minister Peter ...
German Commerzbank has decided to stop financing new coal mining projects and coal power plants, writes Klimaretter.info. According to new internal regulations (fully enacted from 1 August 2016), Commerzbank also "expects German clients in the energy ...
The problem of finding a final repository for Germany鈥檚 nuclear waste does not have 鈥渁 solution in the true sense of the word, but only makeshift at best鈥�, Reinhard Breidenbach writes in an opinion piece for Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz. Advocates of nuclear ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said his government would pave the way for prolonging the runtime of all three of Germany鈥檚 remaining reactors until April 2023. The German leader thus intervened to settle a dispute about the delayed end of ...
PV magazine 鈥淥wn consumption after feed-in payments run out will stimulate storage market鈥� More than half of solar PV installation operators in Germany want to use their generated power themselves once their 20-year feed-in remuneration runs out, a study ...
Germany could work as an example to Mexico concerning the social challenges and consequences of a transition from fossil to renewable fuels, writes Juliana Fregoso for Forbes Mexico. Mexico could learn from German Energiewende experiences that energy ...
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 ...
The merger of German energy companies Wintershall and DEA creates Europe鈥檚 biggest private oil and gas company at a time when international climate researchers urge industrialised countries to tame their appetite for carbon-intensive energy generation, ...
Solar power generation can play an important role in securing Afghanistan鈥檚 future energy supply, the German Solar Industry Association (BSW) says in a press release. Together with the Afghanistan Renewable 麻豆无码版 Union (AREU), the BSW studied the war ...
Germany needs a 鈥渞easonable readjustment鈥� of its energy transition to get a grip on the 鈥渃osts that are out of control鈥�, Christoph M. Schmidt, head of the German Council of Economic Experts (Wirtschaftsweisen), says in an article on Focus Online. 鈥淲ith ...
06 Nov 2019, 13:32 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Clean ...
22 Apr 2022, 12:42 Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out 麻豆无码版 The European nuclear power sector is highly dependent on imports of Russian uranium, according to a report 聽by NGOs Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND), the Nuclear Free Future ...
07 Jul 2022, 13:21 S枚ren Amelang Coal Gas rbb Germany鈥檚 coal power station operators are struggling to implement the reactivation of mothballed plants, which the country鈥檚 parliament is set to approve on Thursday in order to save natural gas in the face ...
20 Apr 2022, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang Cars 麻豆无码版 Almost half of all new cars registered in Germany earlier this year were equipped with alternative fuel engines. The share of newly registered battery electric, hybrid, fuel cell, gas and hydrogen ...
Germany鈥檚 planned financial support for reserve power plants has been met with scepticism by the European Commission, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Handelsblatt. The Commission has doubts about the necessity of this 鈥渋mportant part of ...
06 May 2021, 12:12 The German government has presented its strategy to make the country a global leader in sustainable finance and help mobilise money for greening the economy. The Sustainable Finance Strategy proposes a 鈥渢raffic light鈥� system to identify ...
02 May 2019, 11:32 麻豆无码版 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鈥檚 fourth largest economy, we' ...
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 ...
Germany鈥檚 largest carmaker, VW, plans to release several new model heavy SUVs, bringing the share of the CO2-intense cars up to 40 percent of total sales, Nikolaus Doll reports for Die Welt. In light of stricter EU emissions limits from 2020, this ...
Germany鈥檚 electricity tax is no longer justified in its current form and should be lowered, Hubertus Heil, deputy chairman of the Social Democrats鈥� (SPD) parliamentary group, said in an interview with Der Tagesspiegel. The tax was introduced by the SPD ...
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 ...
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 ...
The future power market will be dominated by decentralised energy generation and storage technologies, and new business ideas to control those installations and run them profitably will become increasingly important, says a study compiled by management ...
14 Oct 2019, 13:28 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Gas Finance EurActiv / ...
02 Mar 2022, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 / Strom Report 麻豆无码版 costs for the average German household are 52 percent higher than a year ago, according to energy contract sales website Check24. In a press release, the company ...
German power customers demand more green power than domestic wind, solar and biogas installations can provide, prompting energy providers to buy Norwegian certificates that allow them to label their product as 鈥済reen鈥�, Jens Heitmann writes for ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:50 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar 麻豆无码版 Systems Renewables Solar Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 revamped climate neutrality target, which the Bundestag brought forward to 2045 earlier this ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:44 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:35 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Germany's should not jeopardise its national climate goals by committing to green hydrogen on a long-term technology path today, as it is still out in the open how innovations and ...
The bankruptcy of US investment bank Lehman Brothers in September 2008 demonstrated the fragility of the global financial system, and ten years later it is time to recognise that neglecting climate risks could trigger another financial crisis, the ...
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03 Mar 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang McKinsey 鈥淓nergiewende Index Germany 2020 鈥� Tour de Force nuclear exit鈥� According to consultancy McKinsey, the government risks missing most of its 2020 energy transition targets. 鈥淎 majority of indicators are pointing ...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a global organisation of 35 developed and emerging countries, has urged Germany to adopt further measures to reach its climate targets.聽鈥淎dditional policies are needed to meet even the ...
08 Nov 2022, 13:51 As the UN climate change conference (COP27) gets underway in Egypt, the German government has pledged additional funding to protect forests worldwide and support the most vulnerable countries in dealing with climate risks. Chancellor ...
Power generating units with a total capacity of about 13,658 megawatt (MW) are scheduled for closure in Germany, but only about 7,667 MW have already been shut down, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said in a press release. The remainder of nearly ...
To help protect the climate, members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) should vote in favour of a grand coalition government with Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance, writes Benjamin von Brackel in an opinion piece for klimaretter.info. 鈥淎 ...
06 Sep 2022, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 麻豆无码版 Germany no longer counts on receiving gas from Russia after deliveries through the pipeline Nord Stream 1 have been suspended indefinitely by Russian supplier Gazprom. 鈥淕as deliveries ...
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 ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:55 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Grid Renewables Finance Bavarian Economy and 麻豆无码版 Ministry Since according to a new report Germany has been overtaken by France as the G20鈥檚 most attractive target country for investment in ...
Major German power companies have protected themselves against the sharp increase in ETS carbon emission prices, report Vera Eckert and Nina Chestney for Reuters newswire. RWE has said that its CO 2 position is financially hedged until the end of 2022. ...
08 Feb 2022, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 麻豆无码版 The strict minimum distance rules for new onshore wind turbines in Bavaria need to be relaxed to ensure a faster expansion of the renewable power source, the state鈥檚 economy minister Hubert ...
The German economy ministry plans to reimburse tenants for using power generated by photovoltaic arrays and district heating plants installed in the buildings they live in, Gerald Traufetter writes on Spiegel Online. According to a draft by the ministry, ...
21 Sep 2021, 14:00 Jessica Bateman Efficiency Heating S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The climate debate in Germany has been too focused on wind and solar electricity, and is ignoring the high volume of emissions that come from housing, Lamia Messari-Becker, ...
27 Apr 2022, 11:38 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Die Welt German finance minister Christian Lindner, head of the business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP), has warned against accelerating the energy transition 鈥� a move driven by his Green Party ...
Empowering individuals by allowing and enabling citizens鈥� energy projects could help 鈥渇ill the gap left behind鈥� by utility giants reluctant to invest in domestic renewable energy facilities, write Craig Morris and Arne Jungjohann for the US edition of The ...
Hard coal power plant closures in Germany are poised to accelerate because of decreasing profitability, report Weixin Zha und Rachel Morison for Bloomberg. 鈥淎 quarter of hard coal-fired generation capacity in Europe鈥檚 largest economy may shut ahead of ...
16 Nov 2018, 16:19 The German coal exit commission has debated a first draft that outlines how the country could start the phase-out the fossil power source in the coming years. According to a leaked draft plant operators could receive compensation ...
The environmental cost of the emission of one tonne of CO 2 聽is about 180 euros, according to new calculations published by Germany鈥檚 Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Economic losses include crop losses, damages to buildings and infrastructure, and ...
20 Dec 2022, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU Die Zeit The vote by EU energy ministers to introduce a price cap on natural gas is a bad compromise for Germany, Anja Stehle wrote in an opinion piece for Die Zeit. The price ceiling, taking effect at 180 euros ...
24 Jun 2022, 13:25 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Kerstine Appunn Grid Renewables Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 The German ...
19 Jan 2016, 00:00 Germany鈥檚 energy minister Sigmar Gabriel wants to establish a round table on the future of coal in the country of the Energiewende this year. He said only factual discussions, rather than emotional debates, could provide the long-term ...
As global CO 2 emissions are predicted to reach a historic high in 2018, 鈥渢here is a growing and worrying disconnect between climate targets and what is happening in the real energy markets,鈥� said Fatih Birol, head of the International 麻豆无码版 Agency. ...
The city of Berlin has decided to exit coal power generation by 2030 to protect the climate. The state coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), the Left Party, and the Greens has passed a corresponding law, according to a news report by press agency dpa ...
German government support for domestic battery cell production is the right step and thankfully, carmaker VW looks set to establish its own gigafactory in cooperation with Korean specialist SK Innovation, writes Stefan Menzel in an editorial in business ...
There will be no need to extend Germany鈥檚 open pit lignite mines if the country sticks to its climate protection targets, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) writes in a press release. Lignite reserves in already-approved mines were ...
30 Aug 2022, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 The summer of 2022 in Germany was the sunniest, the sixth driest and among the four warmest on record, Germany's National Meteorological Service (DWD)聽 said. 鈥淚n these times of ...
29 Aug 2022, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Handelsblatt The economy and climate ministry is pondering a new power market design for Germany that decouples electricity prices from gas prices in response to the current turmoil on energy markets ...
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 end of feed-in tariffs for 20-year-old solar PV installations is likely to boost the own consumption of renewable power, according to a study published by management consultancy pwc. 鈥淏etween 2029 and 2032 鈥� 20 years after the solar boom of 2009-2012 ...
Big financial investors, such as banks, insurance companies, investment trusts or pension funds, have long ignored the climate crisis as a field of action. But by now they have become one of the biggest drivers of change in the approach of industrial ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:52 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland ...
28 Oct 2021, 14:34 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Grid 麻豆无码版 Germany's existing power grid could handle much more electricity ...
28 Oct 2021, 14:08 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 Germany's tourism regions urgently need to adapt as they are impacted by climate change in a multitude of ways that will damage many businesses, said a report ...
21 Nov 2023, 08:43 The debates over the fallout of last week鈥檚 shock constitutional court ruling on Germany鈥檚 state budget borrowing rules are in full swing, as the government faces difficult decisions on how to fill a 60-billion-euro gap in its special ...
16 Jun 2022, 13:20 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry EU 麻豆无码版 Despite high CO2 prices, emissions from coal-fired power stations in Germany have nearly reached pre-pandemic levels, according to a report published by the German Emissions ...
Radical changes in global energy supply require a 鈥渃hange of historical dimensions鈥� in Germany鈥檚 climate and energy policy, comparable to the social welfare policies of Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of the German Empire between 1871 and 1890, ...
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizi猫re has called for the revival of the 鈥渟pirit of the generation of 1989-90鈥� to tackle current challenges like the Energiewende or globalisation, Leipziger Volkszeitung reports. At an event celebrating the 25 th ...
Costs stemming from differences in regulation in individual countries have the potential to distort an otherwise competitive level playing field in cross-border renewable energy auctions in Northwestern Europe, writes energy think tank Agora Energiewende* ...
The diesel engine has been damaged by the emissions scandal and it will reach the end of its development capability in about a decade, but German automakers must nevertheless make diesel acceptable again, Henrik Mortsiefer writes in Der Tagesspiegel. New ...
15 Jun 2022, 12:20 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Germany should be able to import green hydrogen from Australia at competitive prices, a feasibility study has revealed. German industry association BDI and the National Academy of Science and ...
Hamburg-based energy provider HanseWerk operates one of the most modern electrolysis plants in the world, Olaf Preuss writes in Die Welt. The key technology can be used to store energy by converting electricity generated by wind and solar sources into ...
Germany鈥檚 car industry has increased its share of gross value added in the country between 2005 and 2015 to 4.5 percent, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) says in a press release. Contrary to most European countries, the industry鈥檚 importance has ...
In its 2017 first quarter results report, German renewables utility innogy warned that prospects in the British retail market had sharply deteriorated as a result of fierce competition, Reuters reports. Overall, the company posted an increase in earnings ...
13 May 2020, 13:21 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cost & Prices International 麻豆无码版 Germany's ranking in the World Economic Forum's聽 麻豆无码版 Transition Index 聽has slid to 20th聽this year from 17th聽last year. "It ...
02 Sep 2021, 13:38 Expert Forschungsgruppe Wahlen e.V. Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 麻豆无码版 Germany is currently the country most concerned about climate change out of the 28 surveyed for the August update ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Long-distance bus service provider FlixBus insists on being included in Germany鈥檚 planned monthly 49-euro ticket for nationwide public ...
Grid operator TenneT has paid 295 million euros in contingency payments to wind power operators in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein in 2015 because their electricity could not be transported through congested grids, Olaf Preu脽 writes in Die ...
A survey commissioned by price comparison website Verivox has found that almost one in five Germans says people should pay higher power prices in order to facilitate investments in the decarbonisation of the energy system. In the survey with over 2,000 ...
26 Feb 2024, 15:55 The German government has proposed plans to make carbon capture and storage (CCS) possible to help the country reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045. State support would focus on capturing and storing or using carbon from industrial ...
24 Feb 2023, 11:00 One year after Russia started its devastating war on Ukraine, the energy policy landscape of Germany and most of Europe has changed radically. European states to a large extent lowered or even completely cut their reliance on Russian ...
19 Aug 2022, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Tagesspiegel Background A second wholesale levy on natural gas on top of the existing gas consumption levy in Germany signals that the country鈥檚 gas trading platform Trading Hub Europe (THE) is preparing ...
Diesel cars will continue to be necessary to reach climate protection targets, said Matthias Wissmann, president of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) in an interview with Handelsblatt. 鈥淭hey use 25 percent less fuel than petrol ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:32 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture Deutschlandfunk / Die Welt As German forests continue to suffer from heat damage and bark-beetle infestation, the country鈥檚 鈥渕ost important ally for climate action鈥� is in danger, writes ...
German car part supplier Continental increasingly bets on electric engines as an emerging business, Stefan Menzel writes on Handelsblatt Online. 鈥淭he shift to the e-car will come, it can鈥檛 be stopped anymore,鈥� Menzel writes, saying Continental will expand ...
Germany is close to reaching its 2020 renewable energy target this year after generating 36.4 percent of electricity from renewables in the first half of 2016, Craig Morris reports on energytransition.de. Germany is aiming for a 35 percent renewables ...
18 Jan 2022, 12:39 Kerstine Appunn Jessica Bateman Grid 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background Germany鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has published the transmission grid operators鈥� draft scenario framework for network development for the years ...
