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 ...
17 Aug 2022, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Power prices on the European 麻豆无码版 Exchange (EEX), based in the eastern German city of Leipzig, have reached a new all-time record level in day-ahead auctions of 553 ...
Synthetic fuels generated with electricity are a viable option to improve the climate record of Germany鈥檚 transport sector but the government has so far failed to come up with a clear position on e-fuels, Klaus Stratmann writes in the Handelsblatt. ...
The German government鈥檚 criticism of job cuts in Siemens鈥� fossil power generation business, and its rejection of VW鈥檚 call to cut diesel subsidies, reveal that it still believes that an outdated status quo could be preserved in the face of the 鈥渘ext ...
A power grid stress test by network operator TenneT shows that the need for grid expansion could be significantly lower after 2030. According to the study, increased use of combined PV and storage in Germany鈥檚 south, together with less wind power ...
Unfavourable political conditions have stalled plans for the construction of the Franzosenkopf pumped-storage hydropower plant near the city of Mainz, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The plant is meant to store power from solar and wind power for ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International S眉ddeutsche Zeitung聽 A large green hydrogen production project currently planned in the southern African state of Namibia aimed at supplying Germany鈥檚 industry with the fuel has led the German ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:50 Charlotte Nijhuis Start-ups 麻豆无码版 The next German government should provide more financial support for the founding and scaling of climate tech start-ups, argues the German 麻豆无码版 Agency (dena) on the basis of a new report ...
01 Apr 2022, 12:57 S枚ren Amelang Transport Freight 麻豆无码版 Discount supermarket chain Lidl is switching the entire battery-electric vehicle fleet of a logistics hub to fuel cells powered by green hydrogen, making it the first of its kind in ...
German utility RWE saw a 13 percent earnings drop in the first nine months of the year, reflecting tough conditions in conventional power generation in Germany, reports Guy Chazan for the Financial Times. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and ...
19 Aug 2021, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 Stocks of Baltic cod, a popular white fish, have collapsed due to overfishing and climate change and are unlikely to recover, researchers have聽 said. Western ...
Germany鈥檚 government has fallen behind in the transformation of the energy industry triggered by the energy transition, and must now speed up its policy making processes to support the sector in reaching emissions reduction goals, the managing director of ...
31 Mar 2022, 14:00 S枚ren Amelang Coal Security 麻豆无码版 Utility RWE continues to implement the country's official coal exit timetable by switching off a unit of one of Europe's most polluting power stations, but will ensure the facility ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:27 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Solar 麻豆无码版 The roll-out of solar thermal installations in Germany slowed down in 2018 despite an ongoing construction boom. The number of new installations dropped to 71,000 from 78,000 ...
09 Aug 2022, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Gas 麻豆无码版 / ZDF Germany is facing severe gas supply shortages in the coming winter if it fails to introduce the right measures, according to scenarios mapped out by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). The ...
Nuclear plant operators in Germany revoked around 20 lawsuits against the state in return for government guarantees of a limited financial liability for the country鈥檚 nuclear phase-out, Stefan Schultz writes on Spiegel Online. The utilities E.ON, RWE, ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:03 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices EU 麻豆无码版 A European CO2 border adjustment payment can be a first step towards a fairer competition environment regarding emission costs but not accounting for indirect emissions means that a ...
The German gas sector initiative 鈥� Future Natural Gas 鈥� has started a PR campaign criticising the high-emissions coal industry, petrol and diesel cars, and positioning natural gas as the cleaner alternative, reports Nils-Viktor Sorge for manager magazin. ...
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08 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Rundschau Nuclear decommissioning: Environmental activists worried about security An alliance of 76 environmental groups is demanding stricter security standards and more public ...
Germany鈥檚 federal elections in September will also be a decision 鈥渙n the direction of the country鈥檚 energy policy鈥� and a lot depends on which parties form a government coalition, Arne Jungjohann writes on website China Dialogue. With near-term [climate ...
14 Jun 2021, 13:00 Edgar Meza Wind 麻豆无码版 The German economy ministry (BMWi) is providing 14 million euros of funding to help modernise conventional navigation facilities operated by German air navigation service provider DFS, a move that will ...
11 Aug 2021, 13:50 Kerstine Appunn Coal 麻豆无码版 Germany's federal government has released the structural aid to hard coal power plant regions, the energy聽 ministry announced. By signing an administrative agreement with the states concerned, ...
The hidden costs of electricity generated with coal, nuclear power, and gas mean consumers would have to pay a 鈥渃onventional energy surcharge鈥� of up to 10.8 cents per kilowatt-hour next year, according to a study by Green Budget Germany (F脰S) commissioned ...
04 Mar 2022, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Security Energate messenger / 麻豆无码版 The reduction of hard coal imports from Russia to Germany has pushed up prices significantly, the German coal import association VDKI told ...
01 Feb 2019, 14:08 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Germany's grand coalition government is almost certain to accept the coal exit commission 's recommendation and transpose it into law, but if the first phase-out deadline of 2022 is ...
Solar modules provided about one-third of Germany鈥檚 power in June but fell short of reaching record output volumes despite seemingly perfect weather conditions, Ralph Diermann writes on Spiegel Online. The country鈥檚 1.6 million PV modules produced 30.6 ...
15 Nov 2023, 13:53 A ruling by Germany鈥檚 highest court on the government鈥檚 budget planning has declared the current funding mechanism for tens of billions of euros in climate policies is unconstitutional. The judges ruled that chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 ...
Germany鈥檚 Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) could produce results that go against its intended purpose of cutting emissions by supporting low-carbon energy generation, EurActiv.de reports. The EEG, combined with the EU鈥檚 Emissions Trading System (ETS), caused an ...
An association of large companies including Deutsche Bahn, Telekom and Aida Cruises is calling for a timely start to the 鈥渄ialogue about a coal consensus鈥�, writes Silke Kersting in Handelsblatt. In a declaration by the Foundation 2掳 鈥� seen by Handelsblatt ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background The German government supports plans for a first domestic LNG import terminal, but the volatile global market is complicating existing endeavours, writes Christian Schaudwet in Tagesspiegel ...
01 Aug 2022, 13:28 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 麻豆无码版 / euronews / dpa Regional heat records in northern Germany, drought in many ...
11 Nov 2020, 13:18 Expert F脰S- Green Budget Germany Forum 脰kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 If Germany gradually reduced ten particularly climate ...
In the race for developing the best storage technology for electric vehicles, German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 strategy is 鈥渘ot trying to overtake the mighty Asian competitors鈥� in conventional lithium ion-battery technology 鈥渂ut forging ahead with a ...
Germany can take the most climate-damaging coal power stations off the grid by 2020 while also accelerating its nuclear exit without putting supply security at risk, according to an analysis by Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). In a detailed 鈥渟hutdown ...
A majority of German companies participating in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) do not expect the Paris Agreement to be effective in reducing global emissions, according to a survey by the German development bank KfW and Centre for European Economic ...
Carmakers鈥� claims about the pending transport revolution are overblown, writes Stefan Voswinkel in mass-tabloid Bild. Whereas the companies promise realistic e-car driving ranges of 500 kilometres, that distance shrinks dramatically under adverse ...
The EU鈥檚 plan to allow fuel from felled trees to qualify as renewable energy could accelerate climate change, writes Felix Creutzig of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in a guest commentary in the S眉ddeutsche ...
German utilities are a long way off using the full potential of digitalisation in the energy sector, especially in the areas of generation and distribution, according to management consultancy Oliver Wyman's Utility Digitalisation Index. On a scale ...
27 Jul 2022, 12:32 Julian Wettengel Cars 麻豆无码版 / ARD The German government has decided to reduce support for e-cars and increasingly limit it to fully electric cars, ending subsidies for plug-in hybrids, said the economy ministry. E-mobility ...
High electricity feed-in from renewables increases the chance of negative power prices, according to a new study by Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI Essen). 鈥淩eaching ambitious renewable energy targets increases the frequency of ...
The agreement that economy minister Sigmar Gabriel reached with the EU Commission on state-aid related aspects of the country鈥檚 new power market law and other energy policies 鈥渕akes regulations permanent that will keep Germany from reaching its 2020 ...
In an opinion piece for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung, Michael Bauchm眉ller asks if Chancellor Angela Merkel can be trusted, after the parties in exploratory talks to form a new grand coalition government dropped Germany鈥檚 2020 climate target.聽The outgoing coalition ...
25 Jul 2022, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 The German government will have to invest almost half a trillion euros to reach its 2045 climate neutral target, according to an analysis by consultancy Prognos for public development ...
The energy supply via district heating networks fell slightly last year in Germany. Operators supplied roughly 161 terawatt hours of heat, a decline of 0.6 percent, according to the statistics office Destatis. 鈥淭he main energy sources for district heating ...
Despite very different conditions for solar power in India and Germany, the former could learn from the European country鈥檚 experience that the government is not the primary actor in the market, but should act as a facilitator, writes Tobias Engelmeier for ...
03 Jan 2019, 11:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Electricity market Cost & Prices ...
The German government is 鈥渁gain leading the way in renewable energy policy鈥� with the switch from set feed-in tariffs to an auction-based system for renewable power, writes Johannes Urpelainen, Associate Professor at Columbia University. 鈥淎uctions are the ...
Troubled German energy company E.ON is listing its conventional power division Uniper but the move lacks a convincing plan, Angela Hennersdorf writes in WirtschaftsWoche. Uniper comprises commodity trading operations and more than 300 coal and gas power ...
German utility RWE may build a gas power plant to replace power generation currently provided by nuclear power station Gundremmingen in Bavaria, writes Michael Gassmann in Welt. One of the two remaining reactors at Gundremmingen is scheduled for shutdown ...
21 Jul 2022, 14:03 Kerstine Appunn Gas Security 麻豆无码版 Gas has started to flow through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Russia to Germany following a 10-day closure for annual maintenance work. The lower utilisation at around 40 percent of ...
10 May 2022, 13:30 Edgar Meza Cities Society 麻豆无码版 City leaders in Germany have for the first time named the climate as the most pressing issue they are currently facing, according to a survey by the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu). ...
The Energiewende enters a new phase with more emphasis on new technologies and e-mobility 鈥� driven by citizens 鈥� than on the nuclear exit and the switch to renewable energies, German utility EnBW鈥檚 CEO, Frank Mastiaux, tells Bernd Freytag and Susanne ...
15 Nov 2022, 14:04 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen NDR / 麻豆无码版 The first jetty for arrival of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been completed in northern German Wilhelmshaven, with the first delivery set to arrive in mid-January 2023, reports ...
Germany鈥檚 energy industry can reach its greenhouse gas reduction obligations for 2030 and 2050 purely by letting the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) do its work, Michael Vassiliadis, head of the mining and chemicals industry union IG BCE, said ...
16 Feb 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Policy 麻豆无码版 The German government is 鈥榮ystematically blocking鈥� important climate protection measures despite legally binding targets for emission reductions in all sectors, according to a group of ...
In Art & Coal, a major exhibition in Germany鈥檚 Ruhr region, artists explore the 900-year-old culture of coal mining as the country鈥檚 last two mines prepare to close, writes Sunaina Kumar in an article for the online art magazine and blog website ...
International agreements for climate protection and Germany鈥檚 Climate Action Plan 2050 spell a prosperous future for the country鈥檚 wind power industry, the German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association (BWE) said in a press release. Germany鈥檚 wind power industry 鈥渉as an ...
13 Sep 2021, 13:52 Jessica Bateman Agriculture Tagesspiegel Four German food brands have announced plans for a common labelling system explaining how environmentally damaging each of their products are. According to an article in Der Tagesspiegel by ...
Germany saw its greenhouse gas emissions dip slightly in 2017, as wind power continued to replace coal-fired electricity generation and hard coal power plants were shut down, new estimates released by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) show. The data ...
The drop in costs for renewable energy production will transform the global energy landscape and also alter the geopolitical clout of different countries, with Germany, the US, and China standing to benefit most from a worldwide transition from fossil ...
Exiting coal-fired power generation in Germany is a matter of when, not if, according to a meta study by 聽the Wuppertal Institute, commissioned by the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU). The study analyses position papers and scientific ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:35 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Fossil fuels Nuclear phase-out Politics ZDF The German economy and energy minister, Peter Altmaier, defended Germany鈥檚 continued reliance on coal, saying on public broadcaster ZDF it was the only ...
Interest in concluding green power contracts is waning in Germany, Ralf Gei脽ler writes on the website of public broadcaster MDR. Power contracts with a 鈥檊reen tariff鈥� that finances renewable power sources were most popular in the wake of the 2011 ...
09 Feb 2022, 13:01 S枚ren Amelang Efficiency Heating 麻豆无码版 Demand for low-emission heating systems is rising rapidly in Germany, but a large majority of buyers are still opting for installations powered by fossil fuels. Sales of heat pumps rose ...
05 Dec 2018, 14:48 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars Business & Jobs Institute for Employment Research (IAB) The shift to electric cars will lead to the loss of more than 100,000 jobs in Germany in the long run, according to a study by the ...
A study by environmental groups adding up premature deaths caused by coal power stations in neighbouring countries is a horrifying calculation reminiscent of war times, writes Marlene Weiss in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淗as the European 麻豆无码版 Union really ...
10 May 2022, 13:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security Rheinische Post Local politicians in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) say the region that heavily relies on coal power and mining can achieve its goal to end the fossil fuel鈥檚 use ...
A coal phase-out for Germany is implied in the federal government鈥檚 Climate Action Plan 2050, environment minister Barbara Hendricks told Susanne G枚tze and Susanne Schwarz in an interview for klimaretter.info. 鈥淚f you read the Climate Action Plan ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:40 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Edgar Meza Solar Elections & Politics Welt am Sonntag Armin Laschet, North Rhine-Westphalia鈥檚 state premier and chancellor ...
The federal government鈥檚 鈥淐limate Action Plan 2050" is 鈥渁 continuation and intensification of a purely national climate policy,鈥� says German economist Joachim Weimann in a guest commentary in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The emissions avoided in ...
Germany鈥檚 parliament decided on allowing tenants to benefit from solar power panels installed on their buildings a few weeks ago and now renters seizing this opportunity say they were able to reduce their power bill with it, news agency dpa reports in an ...
Paying extra 聽for 鈥済reen power鈥� might help consumers' conscience but does little to advance energy transition, J眉rgen Flauger writes on Handelsblatt Online. 鈥淭he Energiewende鈥檚 success is determined in energy generation,鈥� Flauger explains. Green ...
German power customers are at risk of paying more if nuclear plants in regions with a high share of renewable energy sources are allowed to produce more energy, the council of federal state governments in Germany (Bundesrat) has warned. Nuclear plant ...
Germany is ranked 29th in this year鈥檚 Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) by environmental organisation Germanwatch 鈥� a position blamed on lagging greenhouse gas emissions reduction and the lack of a clear roadmap for ending coal-fired power ...
Germany might have to discontinue a central instrument of the Energiewende in light of EU Commission plans to remove priority dispatch for renewable electricity, writes Stefan Schultz for Spiegel Online. In countries where renewables facilities produce a ...
Electric cars will one day dominate Germany鈥檚 roads, but in the meantime cars with fuel cells that generate power from hydrogen could contribute to the country鈥檚 transition in transportation, Lukas Weber writes for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's ...
Germany must start phasing out coal-fired power generation as the next step of its energy transition, and the matter was also on the agenda of the talks to form a new government coalition in Berlin, the state secretary in the economy and energy ministry, ...
03 Sep 2021, 12:11 The German environmental organisations DUH and Greenpeace have launched legal action against major carmakers VW, BMW and Mercedes Benz, as well as oil and gas company Wintershall Dea over their impact on climate change. The NGOs are ...
Germany needs to recover millions of euros in illegal aid from certain large electricity users exempted from grid charges in Germany in 2012-2013 after the European Commission declared past regulation was against EU State aid rules. 鈥淔ully exempting ...
Climate change is affecting temperatures in Germany more than the global average, writes Marlene Wei脽 in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The average temperature in Germany is now 1.4 degrees Celsius higher than in 1881, while the world鈥檚 average only saw a 1.1 ...
18 Dec 2018, 13:58 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Energiewende Business & Jobs rbb Former environment minister J眉rgen Trittin (Green Party) has heavily criticised energy minister Peter Altmaier for 鈥渟tifling Germany鈥檚 renewables industry鈥�. In ...
The federal economy ministry has proposed merging existing energy legislation in the heating and building sector into one 鈥淏uilding 麻豆无码版 Law鈥�, writes Reinhart B眉nger in Der Tagesspiegel. One of the main goals is to change the way energy efficiency in ...
22 Apr 2016
22 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 UBA Record high CO2 measurements in Germany Germany鈥檚 Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has measured the highest annual CO2 concentrations ever in 2015. In its research stations on ...
22 Jan 2020, 11:28 The German coal exit commission 's compromise reached in early 2019 was hailed as a breakthrough for cooperation between industry representatives, policymakers and environmental groups, as it outlined how to phase-out the fossil ...
Extreme weather events in Germany led to a slight increase in power outages in 2015, according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). The average outage per consumer rose to 12.7 minutes from 12.28 minutes in 2014. 鈥淭he slight increase in supply ...
21 Apr 2022, 13:49 S枚ren Amelang Transport Freight A combination of road and rail transport is the freight rail segment with greatest growth potential in Germany and the EU, according to a聽 report 聽by German industry association BDI. "This is why it ...
23 Sep 2020, 13:30 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Clean ...
The German energy transition does not serve as a role model, as the cost for 鈥渆arly renewables鈥� is a heavy burden for consumers while the country was unable to significantly lower emissions and did not cut back on using coal, British economist Dieter Helm ...
21 Apr 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Solar International 麻豆无码版 Germany has joined an international alliance of 75 countries to further the expansion of solar energy generation, the ministries for energy and development announced after a cabinet ...
The natural resources Germany can use sustainably in 2018 have been consumed entirely as of 2 May, public broadcaster ARD reports, citing calculations by climate action organisation Global Footprint. The fact that the date was reached about one week later ...
The future of coal-fired power generation is going to be one of the coalition talks鈥� most delicate matters, Michael Bauchm眉ller says in an article for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淎ll other energy policy issues pale in comparison to the coal question,鈥� he writes ...
The German Energiewende is "no project for the distant future", but has already been successfully put into action over the past years, writes the federal government in the new brochure 鈥淭he Energiewende: our success story鈥�. The 20-page booklet 鈥� ...
A complete switch to e-mobility in Germany would enable the installation of an additional 63 gigawatt of pv and wind power plants, Sandra Enkhardt writes in pv magazine. Shifting to e-cars by 2050 would reduce emissions stemming from private vehicles and ...
The German government could lose 3.9-5.8 billion euros in taxes by 2022, if the nuclear fuel rod tax is not extended beyond the end of this year, according to an analysis by NGO Green Budget Germany, commissioned by green power supplier NATURSTROM. ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:06 Edgar Meza Heating 麻豆无码版 German heating company Stiebel Eltron expects to produce a record 80,000 heat pumps by the end of the year, a 60 percent increase over 2021 amid booming demand for environmentally-friendly and ...
16 Apr 2019, 14:16 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Coal 麻豆无码版 The opposition Green Party has called on Germany鈥檚 government to rapidly implement the recommendations of the ...
Even the Uniper prospectus for its initial public offering (IPO) says that conventional power generation 鈥渇aces the risk of disappearing completely from the market鈥� in the long-term, writes Chris Bryant in a comment for Bloomberg. 鈥淚t's not every ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:09 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Germany aims to secure a full supply of green hydrogen in its drive to become climate neutral, but may use blue hydrogen made with natural gas and carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Norway for a ...
05 Apr 2019, 09:08 German e-car pioneer G眉nther Schuh, who runs the e-car startup聽 e.GO Mobile 聽and spearheaded the development of the聽 electric delivery van StreetScooter 聽now used by Deutsche Post DHL, has set his sights on conquering the air. Schuh, ...
13 Jan 2015
13 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Die Welt/S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥溾�橢lon鈥� und 鈥楩elix鈥� cost consumers millions鈥�/ 鈥淪tormy times on the power market鈥� Heavy winds from two low pressure systems created an enormous oversupply of wind power ...
The grid reform proposal threatens to undermine the economics of decentralised power stations, according to utility association BDEW. 鈥淭he government risks that controllable and flexible decentralised power generators are pushed out of the market,鈥� said ...
12 Oct 2018
Unless Germany quickly phases out coal-fired power generation, diesel cars will continue to be better for the climate than e-cars, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess told the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung in an interview. For this reason, Germany will need diesel cars ...
The German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Stuttgart University aim to store renewable power in the form of heat on a 鈥減ower plant scale,鈥� reports Sandra Enkhardt in pv magazine. The institutes agreed to build the ...
12 Apr 2021, 14:18 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Gas International Tagesspiegel The U.S. government is increasing pressure on the German government to halt the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline,聽 Hans Monath聽writes 聽in newspaper Tagesspiegel. President Joe ...
12 Apr 2021, 13:53 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Hydrogen Technology 麻豆无码版 German energy provider EWE has completed the first stage of a test project to see whether the safe storage of green hydrogen in underground caverns is possible. The ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for intensifying the country鈥檚 battery-cell research efforts, the Federal Government (Bundesregierung) says in a press release. In her weekly video-podcast, Merkel says 鈥渨e know that the car industry faces some ...
02 Nov 2020, 14:03 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 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Green ...
20 Apr 2016
20 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 BMUB / Deutsche Welle 鈥淕ermany asks Belgium to hit the switch on disputed Tihange and Doel nuclear reactors鈥� Environment minister Barbara Hendricks submitted an ...
With a share price increase of 36 percent, RWE鈥檚 shares come in second place of the top stocks in Germany鈥檚 benchmark DAX index this year. This is despite the utility鈥檚 struggle after Germany鈥檚 decision to phase-out nuclear power and the rise of ...
One of Germany鈥檚 largest wind farm operators, wpd AG, is buying up old wind farms that are about to reach the end of their 20-year guaranteed remuneration period to operate the turbines without renewables support, Daniel Wetzel writes on Welt Online. 鈥淲e ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have vowed to work together closely at the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg to further shared goals and overcome diplomatic difficulties with third countries. During a visit in Berlin, Xi said ...
15 Jun 2022, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 For a 鈥渇air and adequate鈥� German contribution to efforts to reach the international climate target of keeping the global temperature rise below 1.5掳C, the country may emit no more ...
13 Apr 2023, 11:38 Even 15 years after its first climate adaptation strategy, and despite deadly floods and droughts, Germany is still failing to integrate climate adaptation into everyday decision-making at all levels. Insurers have sounded the alarm ...
22 Feb 2024, 13:35 Two years after Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing energy crisis, Germany continues to struggle with its full economic recovery 鈥� even if energy prices are losing in relevance for the country鈥檚 growth prospects. Presenting the ...
Industry and energy production emissions reduction in Germany has been below the EU-average for the tenth year in a row, according to figures released by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). With 453 million tonnes of CO 2 equivalent, combined emissions ...
The spread of electronic cars would make Germany鈥檚 cities much more hospitable, writes Joachim K盲ppner in an opinion piece for the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Currently, many cities were unable 鈥渢o ensure compliance with regulations for clean air even with ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:25 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 Charlotte Nijhuis Grid Renewables ...
13 Jun 2022, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Deutschlandfunk / Spiegel German economy minister Robert Habeck has said that the government intends to tighten the country鈥檚 antitrust law amid concerns that oil companies do not pass on ...
17 Aug 2022, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Security Handelsblatt / Bild-Zeitung Russia鈥檚 government is actively trying to exploit Germany鈥檚 current energy supply crisis by sowing division and spreading disinformation, security agencies in Germany have ...
Germany鈥檚 biggest power producers continue to lose market share, says a new monitoring report published by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and the Federal Cartel Office (BKartA). "Market concentration among conventional electricity suppliers was ...
Two months after the surprise departure of CEO Peter Terium, renewable utility innogy is in crisis, and neither the management nor majority owner RWE have a plan to get out of the mess created by a profit drop, writes Angela Hennersdorf in the business ...
Wind power analysts believe prices for offshore power generation in Germany are going to drop significantly in the near future, J枚rg Staude writes in Frankfurter Rundschau. Swedish energy provider Vattenfall鈥檚 award of a contract to build the offshore ...
The German government exports the Energiewende and supports the development of renewable energies outside the country鈥檚 borders, like on the Greek island of Tilos, writes Handelsblatt. Economy minister Sigmar Gabriel is on a two day visit to Greece to ...
In the midst of its transition to low-carbon energy generation, Germany has re-entered the top 20 in the World Economic Forum鈥檚 (WEF) Global 麻豆无码版 Architecture Performance Index. The index examines the affordability, environmental sustainability, and ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Nuclear phase-out 麻豆无码版 Nearly half of the people in Germany say the plan to close nuclear plants before coal is right, a survey commissioned by price comparison website Verivox has found. In the ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:44 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 麻豆无码版 Germany's railway service Deutsche Bahn has聽 inked an order 聽worth one billion euros for new ICE high speed ...
The share of global electricity generated by solar PV could grow to as much as 13 percent by 2030, according to a new report by the International Renewable 麻豆无码版 Agency (IRENA). 鈥淭he solar industry鈥檚 expansion is driven primarily by cost reductions, with ...
08 Feb 2018, 00:00 Germany's would-be governing coalition partners have concluded a treaty that is likely to result in a final deadline for coal-fired power production in Germany. The agreement reached after weeks of intensive talks largely confirms ...
21 Sep 2021, 14:04 The German state secretary in the environment ministry, Jochen Flasbarth, has called on wealthy nations to do more on climate finance and come up with a plan to reach the target of mobilising 100 billion U.S. dollars per year for ...
11 Aug 2022, 14:03 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Hannah Naylor Business & Jobs Heating Handelsblatt Deliveries of heat pumps are up 25 percent in the first half of this year compared with the same period ...
There is a large gap between the standards in climate protection that German Chancellor Angela Merkel proclaims on an international stage and the actual results of her policies at home, according to a Greenpeace Germany paper. The NGO charts Merkel鈥檚 ...
G20 governments put four times more money into fossil energy generation than into renewables- despite their official commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement鈥檚 aims, NGOs including WWF, Urgewald and Friends of the Earth say in a press release. In a ...
Andreas Pinkwart, Free Democratic (FDP) state energy minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, welcomed several energy and climate provisions of the draft coalition treaty between the conservatives (CDU/CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD). Admitting that the ...
12 Mar 2021, 13:36 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 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen International ...
16 Jul 2021, 12:44 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars EU 麻豆无码版 To achieve its target of having 3.5 million e-car charging stations, the EU will have to increase the rate of expansion thirtyfold at the very least, the industry-sponsored ...
Lignite mining and power generation in eastern German region Lusatia could be profitable, Helmar Rendez, CEO of Germany鈥檚 newest lignite company Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG (LEAG) told German daily BILD in an interview. 鈥淲e assume that we can earn money ...
More than 40 percent of German consumers don鈥檛 know how many kilowatt-hours of electricity they consumed or how much they paid for it last year, price comparison website Verivox says in a press release. A third of respondents to a Verivox survey had a ...
In the face of one of the hottest and driest summers ever recorded in Germany, the Green Party is calling for an aid fund worth at least two billion euros to provide financial resources for climate change mitigation across the country, the party says in a ...
More electricity was generated in Europe from wind, sun and biomass in 2017 than from lignite and hard coal, think tanks Agora Energiewende* and Sandbag say in their annual evaluation of the European energy transition. However, renewable energy sources ...
It is in Germany鈥檚 immediate interest to embrace the European dimension of the Energiewende, argues Rebecca Bertram in a blog post for energytransition.org. 鈥淕ermany needs Europe to drive its own Energiewende forward,鈥� writes Bertram, citing German power ...
07 Oct 2022, 13:32 The state election in Lower Saxony on 9 October is the first major vote in the country since the energy crisis fueled by Russia's war has started to take a toll on the German economy. The ballot in the state that hosts most of ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:46 S枚ren Amelang Company climate claims Society 麻豆无码版 Food product labels such as 鈥渃limate neutral,鈥� 鈥淐O2-neutral鈥� or 鈥渃limate positive鈥� do not indicate that these are climate-friendly at all and should be banned, consumer NGO ...
Innogy, the green subsidiary of German energy provider RWE, could be the biggest stock market launch of any German company since the year 2000 鈥� but renewable energy likely only plays a minor role for its expected success, write Varinia Bernau and ...
German utility EnBW鈥檚 CEO,聽 Frank Mastiaux, said a coal exit decided by聽 Germany鈥檚 next government 聽would 鈥渘ot be an existential problem" for the company. In an interview with Greenpeace Magazin, Mastiaux said his company had 鈥渁lready included鈥澛� a ...
The world鈥檚 first four-seat passenger aircraft powered solely by a hydrogen fuel cell system took off on its first official flight from Stuttgart Airport, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) announced in a press release. The HY4 flies without generating any ...
The only way to enable 鈥淐hancellor [Angela] Merkel鈥檚 next government to reach the 2020 climate target is to exit from coal-fired power generation,鈥� writes Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International in a guest commentary in the ...
The federal government ignored many of the results of the environment ministry鈥檚 stakeholder consultation process for the Climate Action Plan 2050 because of strong pressure from economic interests, according to a report commissioned by Greenpeace. The ...
The Energiewende deeply affected not only fossil power plant operators like RWE and the old E.ON, but also companies involved in their construction, such as Siemens and US-rival General Electric, reports Martin Wocher in business daily Handelsblatt. The ...
Three in four Germans are interested in electricity contracts with a variable power price that depends on supply and demand, according to a representative survey by the Federal Association for Information Technology (Bitkom). 58 percent of respondents ...
14 Mar 2022, 13:47 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Policy dpa / Der Spiegel The German government plans a new relief package to help consumers cope with rising energy prices. The price increases overburden many people, Green economy and climate minister ...
German energy company innogy has teamed up with technology company Kiwigrid to develop a new platform for organising a decentralised power supply system, innogy said in a press release. 鈥淐entralised power plants are a thing of the past,鈥� innogy writes, ...
10 Mar 2022, 13:22 S枚ren Amelang International EU The European Parliament and the EU member states must insist on improvements to the European Commission's insufficient plans for emission reduction to rapidly make the bloc more independent from ...
Power producer STEAG鈥檚 threat to cut up to 1,000 jobs in fossil power generation shows Germany has entered election campaign mode, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in a commentary in Frankfurter Rundschau. The industry鈥檚 job-cut threats are at least partially ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:19 Julian Wettengel Cars 麻豆无码版 German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has announced the government will extend the current e-car buyer鈥檚 premium programme to the end of 2022, as promised in the coalition treaty. From ...
The 鈥渂ig four鈥� utilities in Germany- RWE, E.ON, Vattenfall Germany, and EnBW- have all disappeared from a list of the country鈥檚 100 largest companies compiled by the German Monopolies Commission, the competition watchdog says in its annual report. The ...
17 Jun 2020, 15:16 S枚ren Amelang Cars 麻豆无码版 German carmakers BMW, Mercedes, and Audi have recorded above-average sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles this year, according to a report by the Center of Automotive Management (CAM). While these ...
Germany and Sweden will build a 300 kilometre-long, 700 megawatt direct current power line connecting storage-rich Scandinavia with wind- and solar-powered continental Europe. 鈥淭he cable improves the integration of renewable energies in the transmission ...
23 Feb 2021, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Renewables Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 麻豆无码版 / Spiegel Renewables expansion in Germany and across the world is insufficient to help keep global temperature rise below 1.5掳C, a key goal of the Paris Climate ...
26 Sep 2022, 12:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background / 麻豆无码版 The planned gas levy designed to support Germany鈥檚 struggling gas importers could be undone before it even takes effect, energy policy newsletter ...
The International Renewable 麻豆无码版 Agency (IRENA) with the support of the German environment ministry (BMUB) is holding a workshop on integrating higher shares of renewable energy in the island nation of Cuba in the country鈥檚 capital Havana. According to ...
The energy ministers of Germany鈥檚 16 federal states have agreed to strengthen their focus on the separation of key energy policy decisions from party politics, and to improve coordination between the individual state ministries, the Environment and 麻豆无码版 ...
02 May 2019, 13:35 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut f眉r Technologie Renewables Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Technology Kerstine Appunn Technology Nature Communications A new system run together with existing air ...
Germany can save nearly 28 billion euros a year if it stops mining and using lignite, a study by Green Budget Germany (F脰S) commissioned by green power provider Greenpeace 麻豆无码版 has found. Apart from the costs of energy generation with lignite, which is ...
The energy transition in Germany does not achieve most of its goals, and its progress has slowed down over the last few years, a study conducted by the consultancy Prognos and commissioned by the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) has found. Improvements ...
04 Dec 2018, 15:34 Federal Association of Offshore Wind Farm Operators The association of Germany鈥檚 offshore wind farm operators (BWO) has welcomed a government proposal to increase the country鈥檚 offshore wind power capacity from 15 to 20 gigawatt (GW) by ...
11 Jun 2021, 14:09 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy ...
19 Dec 2018, 13:49 EU institutions have agreed on new rules for the internal electricity market, including capacity mechanisms, coal subsidies, cross-border power flows and access for more market actors who are free to set their own prices. The German ...
03 Dec 2021, 13:20 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Business Handelsblatt German industrial giant Siemens regards industrial companies' responsibility to become more environmentally friendly as a defining task of the future and ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Energiewende International Handelsblatt Despite EU Commissioner Maros Sefcovic announcing this month that the European energy union has become reality, unifying Europe鈥檚 big energy markets is more an ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 Unabated and strong climate change could make the whole of Germany 鈥渁 hotspot for climate change risks鈥� by the end of the century, said the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) based on ...
The demand by German households for power contracts offering electricity generated only from renewable sources has declined, according to a survey by Energie & Management, reports dpa. Customer numbers dropped from 5 million households in 2013 to 4.4 ...
In an effort to promote energy efficiency in the heating sector, the federal economy ministry (BMWi) today started two programmes to support highly efficient heating pumps and fuel-cell heaters, according to a press release. 鈥淲e are bringing energy ...
28 Feb 2022, 13:42 S枚ren Amelang Gas Security 麻豆无码版 Germany has agreed with its Western allies to oust Russian banks from the SWIFT global payments system in response to the war in Ukraine. The sanctions agreed by Germany, France, the European ...
07 Mar 2022, 14:19 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Expert ...
The reform of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) was postponed for the third week in a row on Wednesday. The changes proposed to Germany鈥檚 renewables law, which enabled the rapid growth of solar, wind and biogas generated power, are subject to disagreements ...
16 Sep 2022, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang Gas Security Handelsblatt Germany will only be able to find out at short notice whether it will face any form of gas shortage in winter, which will then be impossible to prevent, according to the country鈥檚 grid agency ...
24 Nov 2021, 12:15 Jessica Bateman Nuclear phase-out 麻豆无码版 The shutdown of Germany鈥檚 last remaining nuclear power plants will not cause supply shortages, according to calculations by the department of energy, transport and environment at the ...
Despite a surge in clean energy production, German utility RWE will continue to rely on coal and gas plants for the foreseeable future, Handelsblatt online reports. RWE CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz said conventional power plants were irreplaceable as long as ...
10 May 2022, 13:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 / Der Spiegel / Tagesspiegel German transport minister Volker Wissing has denied a media report that he plans to massively increase support payments for buyers of electric ...
14 Dec 2021, 13:07 Expert BEE- German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association Bundesverband ...
Germany鈥檚 parliament has approved legslation to authorise a search for a permanent nuclear waste storage site, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The search will be conducted across the country and is meant to find a solution by 2031, the ...
German energy start-up Conjoule is set to receive about 3.5 million euros from controversial Japanese nuclear plant operator Tepco, Jana Kugoth writes in Welt Online. The operator of the notorious Fukushima nuclear plant, which was severely damaged by an ...
22 Nov 2021, 13:13 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics Tageszeitung (taz) Leaders of the three parties currently negotiating the coalition treaty for the next German government are confident that they will reach an agreement early this week. For the ...
With more cooperation on energy infrastructure, European states could counter the risks associated with fluctuating supply of wind power, Ralph Diermann writes on Spiegel Online. According to a study in Nature Climate Change, variable weather conditions ...
08 Jul 2022, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Renewables Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 麻豆无码版 Both the federal parliament (Bundestag) and the council of state governments (Bundesrat) have passed this year鈥檚 first major batch of energy ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Cars Hundreds of radio masts in several German states will be equipped with fuel cell technology to serve as a聽 backup system for emergency services 聽in case of a power blackout, the industry association Clean ...
The new governing coalition of conservative CDU and economic liberal FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is set to undermine the country鈥檚 climate protection goals, environmental organisation WWF says in a press release. The CDU-FDP coalition agreement ...
01 Sep 2020, 12:46 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Coal Die Welt Germany鈥檚 first coal phase-out auction aimed at shutting down ...
18 Nov 2021, 13:18 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Cities Tagesspiegel The city of Berlin plans to speed up its coal exit, regional newspaper Tagesspiegel聽 reports. The prospective city government composed of the Social Democrats (SPD), the ...
16 Feb 2022, 12:05 Paul Gordon Cost & Prices Zeit / AFP The German government coalition has agreed on key points to create a tiered model for the distribution of CO鈧� costs for heating between tenants and landlords, reports Zeit. The price breakdown ...
Volkswagen reported an 18.6 percent drop in third-quarter adjusted operating profit to 3.51 billion euros due to weaker vehicle sales tied to the introduction of more stringent anti-pollution rules, report Edward Taylor and Jan Schwartz for Reuters. ...
09 Sep 2022, 14:06 Edgar Meza Transport Technology 麻豆无码版 Synthetic jet fuel, known as e-kerosene, made from green hydrogen and sustainable CO2 could make the aviation industry fossil-free by 2050, according to a report by the German 麻豆无码版 ...
22 Jan 2021, 14:13 S枚ren Amelang Coal Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Germany's most prominent hard coal power plant to be decommissioned as part of the country's coal exit is set to become a production site for renewable hydrogen. Oil major Shell, ...
30 Jan 2023, 15:52 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 麻豆无码版 / Table.Media / taz [CLARIFICATION: It is not just Agora Energiewende which says LNG expansion plans are oversized. The grid operators in their draft plan state that if all planned LNG capacity is ...
03 May 2022, 13:55 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background Germany鈥檚 government is planning to support up to four gigawatt (GW) electrolyser capacity and wants to get rid of the last inland flights for the postal ...
Germany hosts about 120 generating units capable of a 鈥渂lack start鈥�, meaning they will be available for repowering the grid from scratch in the event of a, so far unprecedented, major blackout, Anna Ringle writes in Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten. ...
23 Jun 2020, 14:00 Helping European Union member states find a compromise on a coronavirus recovery package in July will be a first test for the German EU Council presidency in the second half of 2020, says Sophie Pornschlegel, senior policy analyst at ...
Cheap German power exports hinder neighbouring countries鈥� energy transitions, Austrian environment minister Andr盲 Rupprechter told German weekly Der Spiegel. 鈥淕ermany produces too much cheap electricity that other countries like Austria have to accept. ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:40 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Nuclear phase-out S眉ddeutsche Zeitung A second runtime extension for Germany鈥檚 remaining nuclear power plants ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:54 Rachel Waldholz Solar Cities Tagesspiegel Berlin is in the midst of a school construction boom, but so far none of those new schools will have solar power systems, Christoph Stollowsky reports in Der Tagesspiegel. That鈥檚 despite the ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Society EU 麻豆无码版 A majority of European Union citizens (66%) say that the war against Ukraine and its impact on the price of oil and gas should lead the bloc to speed up the green transition by reducing the ...
Germany is due to close its last hard coal mine next year, and the affected regions prepare for the transition, for example by considering renewable energy projects or tourism, Valerie Hamilton reports in a feature for Public Radio International (PRI). ...
08 Nov 2021, 13:58 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland Green party leader Annalena Baerbock has said that a veto option must be created in government for laws that are in conflict with the goal of ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:49 Kerstine Appunn Coal Spiegel Online Germany鈥檚 Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has commissioned a sensitive study on water needs for the renaturation of lignite coal mines from a subsidiary of mining company LEAG, Susanne G枚tze reports ...
12 Apr 2019, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Coal Business & Jobs Reuters / 麻豆无码版 German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 aim to wean Europe鈥檚 biggest economy off fossil fuels is a key issue in regional elections in eastern German coal mining states in ...
Transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT will raise grid fees by 9 percent at the turn of the year, executive board member Urban Keussen told Klaus Stratmann for the Handelsblatt. The rise is due to costs from measures to stabilise the power grid, such as ...
26 Apr 2022, 12:34 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Efficiency Security Tagesspiegel More than 58,000 people in Germany have signed a petition submitted to the German Bundestag demanding a national speed limit, car-free Sundays and a ban on domestic flights to ...
14 May 2021, 14:08 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Finance Society 麻豆无码版 The youth climate activists from Fridays for Future are for the first time specifically targeting banks and other financial services companies for their involvement in ...
20 May 2021, 13:34 Germany鈥檚 first movers in hydrogen generation using electricity will be supported by lower power prices and a wide definition of 鈥済reen鈥� hydrogen, the government has decided. By creating 鈥渃lear and pragmatic鈥� requirements for green ...
Germany will initiate a domestic battery cell production in the framework of the federal government鈥檚 upcoming industrial strategy, said economy minister Peter Altmaier at a press conference after a meeting with Maros Sefcovic, the European Commission ...
14 May 2020, 14:17 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Transport Freight 麻豆无码版 The introduction of automated heavy trucks could further shift transport from rail to road, according to a report by Germany鈥檚 Aerospace Center (DLR) on the ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Coal 麻豆无码版 / Hamburger Abendblatt The city of Hamburg needs to immediately start reducing the use of coal in its two main heat and power stations to be in line with the city-state鈥檚 coal phase-out plan for ...
07 Aug 2020, 15:11 Hydrogen Industry 麻豆无码版 A pilot plant for producing green hydrogen energy for low-emission production of chemicals and fuel has opened in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Fraunhofer Centre for Chemical-Biotechnological ...
German utility EnBW denied allegations by Germany's Wind 麻豆无码版 Association (BWE) that its zero-support offshore wind bid was 鈥渞isk-oriented鈥� and only possible because EnBW was largely state-owned, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. The allegations ...
Protests continue against Germany鈥檚 planned SuedLink power transmission line, the news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. Guntram Ziepel of the national association of citizen initiatives against SuedLink says his organisation 鈥� ...
31 Aug 2021, 11:38 Ahead of Germany鈥檚 September federal election, almost all parties in parliament are calling for climate policies that quickly and lastingly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The country鈥檚 plans to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 ...
Over 60 companies have criticised government plans to substantially limit the possibilities for wind power expansion in Germany鈥檚 most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Hilmar Riemenschneider writes for K枚lner Stadtanzeiger. In a letter to ...
Geothermal energy is hailed by many聽as a great hope for the energy transition, but despite its seemingly endless potential for clean heat, the technology has barely got off the ground in Germany, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by ...
08 Feb 2022, 14:10 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Government EU 麻豆无码版 France and Germany, who have recently been at odds over the future role of nuclear and gas, will intensify their cooperation on climate action in Europe and work ...
20 Oct 2021, 10:40 From large car manufacturers to globally operating logistics companies 鈥� the number of businesses pursuing net-zero targets and wanting to reduce their carbon footprint is growing. As many of the companies cannot or do not want to ...
30 Jul 2020, 13:31 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert Ministry of the Environment, Climate ...
Diesel technology has long been hailed as a climate-friendly alternative to petrol but has聽 suddenly come under intense fire, amounting to 鈥� a broadside against Germany鈥檚 leading industry,鈥� Alfred Gaffal, president of Bavarian industry association vbw, ...
18 Aug 2021, 13:35 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 / Handelsblatt A large majority of German car industry suppliers have initiated the ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:36 S枚ren Amelang Renewables International 麻豆无码版 Germany trails China and the US in a global ranking of installed renewable power capacity. Excluding hydropower, capacity in Germany added up to 113 gigawatts (GW) in 2018, ...
German energy company Uniper鈥檚 Board of Management has proposed to increase the dividend more than planned to 74 cents per share for 2017 for a total of about 271 million euros, the company writes in an ad-hoc announcement. The total dividend amount would ...
30 Jul 2020, 13:30 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Coal Handelsblatt Hard coal power station operator Steag is suing to get better compensation for the shutdown of its plants under Germany鈥檚 coal exit plan, writes J眉rgen Flauger ...
German foreign minister Heiko Maas and his Japanese counterpart Taro Kono said they would aim to carry out the Paris Climate Agreement, from which the United States withdrew last year, promote free trade, and seek to address issues through multilateral ...
25 Aug 2022, 13:44 S枚ren Amelang Transport Heating Policy 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 plans to cut transport emission to get the sector on track for the country鈥檚 climate targets are 鈥渓acking in sufficient ambition even at the outset鈥�, government advisors ...
Car manufacturer VW has made an agreement with transmission grid operator Tennet to provide weather data automatically collected by VW vehicles in Germany, Daniel Wetzel writes on Welt Online. 鈥淯sing built-in rain, light, and sun sensors, the cars will ...
Representatives of the electricity and gas grid industry in Germany are looking for solutions to run their businesses in an 鈥渁ll-electric world鈥� where the sectors of power generation, transport and heating are linked, a gathering at the Treffpunkt Netze ...
30 Mar 2022, 15:54 Renewable energy sources are the answer to both the climate crisis and the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine, said ministers at the Berlin 麻豆无码版 Transition Dialogue. Experts, politicians, business leaders and ...
14 Apr 2022, 12:21 Edgar Meza Gas Elections & Politics Tageszeitung (taz) / Financial Times As the biggest importer of Russian oil and gas among all German states, Bavaria is struggling to find adequate replacements as proposed solutions from its ...
24 Jan 2019, 12:05 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Climate & CO2 Handelsblatt The leaked final report of Germany鈥檚 coal commission suggests it will not be ambitious enough when it comes to climate protection, argues J眉rgen Flauger in a ...
26 Apr 2021, 13:26 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel The vice chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group Andreas Jung is launching a new ...
Coal-fired power generation does not have a future in Germany鈥檚 energy transition, write the environmental NGO WWF Germany and the green power provider LichtBlick in a joint report, seen by the 麻豆无码版. In their report 鈥淒ead end coal 鈥� Why coal ...
21 Jun 2022, 12:49 S枚ren Amelang Transport Technology 麻豆无码版 The German government has launched a new push to make the country an international leader in sustainable aviation. 鈥淲ith a joint effort by industry, science, politics and society, ...
German energy company RWE has the right to clear the Hambach Forest and continue lignite mining in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), website klimaretter.info reports. Authorities issued a license for RWE, after mining and logging ...
Renewable gas used in existing gas infrastructure could help reduce Europe鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by mid-century, in accordance with the Paris Climate Agreement goals, according to a study conducted by the consultancy Ecofys and ...
A German coal exit is unlikely to be introduced in the foreseeable future if a coalition of Christian Democrats (CDU), Christian Socialists (CSU) and Free Democrats (FDP) take over the federal government after the September elections, writes klimaretter ...
18 Dec 2020, 14:11 Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Electricity Grid 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background The separate planning procedures ...
A referendum in Hamburg, Germany鈥檚 second largest city, seeks to ban the use of coal power for heating and electricity generation by 2030, Sven-Michael Veit writes for the Tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淲e in Hamburg have to take the coal exit in our own hands,鈥� ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out 麻豆无码版 / NDR / Bloomberg A nuclear power plant in northern Germany has come to the verge of being taken off the grid on Friday, a Lower Saxony state environment ministry spokesperson told ...
German solar PV manufacturer SolarWorld Industries GmbH has filed for insolvency, writes Sandra Enkhardt for pv magazine. The announcement comes less than a year after SolarWorld AG filed for insolvency in May 2017. SolarWorld blames the planned phasing ...
09 Nov 2021, 12:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 麻豆无码版 The possible next German government鈥檚 plans to dedicate two percent of the country鈥檚 land area to wind power generation will need to be backed by a wide range of additional activities to ensure ...
Wind power turbines are Germany鈥檚 most important renewable energy source and in 2017 produced more electricity than coal plants for the first time, Thorsten Preuschgas, CEO of Soventix, writes in a guest commentary in the pv magazine. 聽But it is 鈥渁 false ...
The project 鈥渆nera鈥� in the rural North-Western German region of Eastern Frisia could become the next step on the way to establishing smart energy grids across Germany, writes Angela Schmid in WirtschaftsWoche. 鈥渆nera鈥� is aimed at steering energy flows so ...
Social Democrat state premier of Brandenburg Dietmar Woidke warns that certain coal related provisions in a late draft of the environment ministry鈥檚 climate plan could endanger power supply security in Germany, reports Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. In a ...
Some communities in Bavaria are expressing their displeasure with the expansion of wind power in the region, and fewer wind turbines were erected in 2016, writes Horst Peter Wickel in the Welt am Sonntag. In Bavaria last year, 124 new wind turbines were ...
International efforts in the framework of the G20 to limit the effects of climate change will have to rely on wind power as a pillar of low-carbon energy generation, the German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association (BWE) says in a press release. 鈥淎uctions for wind and ...
German utility STEAG has announced the decommissioning of five coal-fired generating units due to a low wholesale electricity price, Handelsblatt Online reports. The shutdown will affect hundreds of jobs on the sites in the regions of North-Rhine ...
11 Oct 2021, 14:19 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 / Handelsblatt Several German economists and researchers have criticised the annual greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets laid down in the Climate Action ...
07 Oct 2022, 14:40 Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) ...
It could be cheaper to connect future German North Sea wind parks to the Dutch power grid rather than running the cables to, and through, Germany, Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT suggests in its half-year report published on Wednesday. ...
15 Nov 2019, 13:44 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Claudia Kemfert German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Electricity market Energiewende Business ...
The fraction of Germany鈥檚 budget generated by taxing economic activities harmful to the environment and the climate is declining, according to calculations by NGO Green Budget Germany (F脰S). Just 4.3 percent of the public budget- less than the EU-average ...
The last German hard coal mine will close in December 2018. Cristina Belda Font, writing for Equal Times, takes a closer look at the 50-year transformation that coal mining and energy industry has seen in the Ruhr region. Some mines are already used to ...
German business association CDU Economic Council, associated with Angela Merkel鈥檚 Christian Democratic Union (CDU), called on Germany and the EU to work towards a global regime to reduce CO鈧� emissions 鈥渓ike the ETS鈥� (European Union Emissions Trading ...
27 Jul 2021, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Industry WirtschaftsWoche The option to enter long-term power purchase agreements (PPA) is a location advantage for industry in Germany, said Klaus Sch盲fer, chief technology officer (CTO) at chemicals company Covestro, ...
24 May 2022, 07:59 Germany could support Senegal in efforts to exploit fossil gas resources off its coast, chancellor Olaf Scholz聽said during a visit to the western African country. As Germany seeks alternatives to Russian fossil fuel imports, Scholz said ...
Germany鈥檚 excess power spilling over into Poland and Czech Republic on days with high renewables generation creates political and economic tension, writes Zeke Turner for Wall Street Journal. 鈥淭he fallout has become acute for Polish and Czech coal power ...
Contracts for difference (CFD) for renewable energy funding are the best available method to pass on cost reductions in different renewable technologies to the average power customer, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) says in its weekly ...
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 UPDATE-- While millions of Europeans will look skyward for a glimpse of a rare solar eclipse on March 20, technicians at German power grid operator TenneT will be glued to their controls. When the moon covers parts of the sun, the ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:36 Kerstine Appunn Carbon market Electricity market Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 The German wholesale power price more than tripled in 2021 to an average of 97 euros per megawatt-hour (MWh) compared to the previous year, pushing it ...
25 Nov 2020, 13:46 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Technology 麻豆无码版 Two new large-scale research centres will be established in the German state of Saxony in order to help lead the coal mining regions deal with the transition away from the fossil fuel, ...
26 Oct 2015
26 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 鈥淕abriel: Brown coal agreement is important contribution to reaching climate targets鈥� Coal power plant operators will gradually transfer 2.7 ...
22 Jun 2020, 12:40 Edgar Meza Hydrogen dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany鈥檚 push for greater hydrogen use is gaining momentum. Some 50 representatives from business, science and government have come together to promote 25 projects in northern Germany that ...
09 Aug 2021, 12:08 Expert BGE- Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal Bundesgesellschaft f眉r Endlagerung Nuclear phase-out Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Kerstine Appunn ...
28 Aug 2019, 14:02 Edgar Meza Coal Government 麻豆无码版 Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 cabinet on Wednesday adopted a draft law submitted by Germany's economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier aimed at strengthening coal regions following the ...
26 Apr 2019, 13:03 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Kerstine Appunn Utilities WirtschaftsWoche Utility Steag, which operates one of Germany鈥檚 largest coal plant fleets could find a new partial owner in waste company Remondis, ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Bild am Sonntag Germany's new agriculture minister Cem 脰zdemir from the Green Party wants people to 鈥渧alue their food as much as their cars鈥�, he told Bild am Sonntag in an interview at the end of last ...
Back in December 2015, the Paris Climate Agreement was hailed as a 鈥渉istoric鈥� achievement- 17 months later it rather looks like international diplomacy has incurred an on-the-job accident of historic proportions, Andreas Mihm writes in Frankfurter ...
Germany is far from phasing out coal use for its energy supply 鈥� despite its political commitment to a low-carbon economy, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) writes in a report on 鈥淭he role of coal in Europe鈥檚 power mix鈥�. The country鈥檚 dependence on ...
31 Mar 2021, 13:40 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 麻豆无码版 The German parliament has let a deadline for implementing higher renewable energy capacity targets pass, causing both energy industry stakeholders and climate ...
21 Aug 2019, 11:59 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities S枚ren Amelang Cars Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German utility EnBW plans to order up to 14,000 electric cars for its employees, ...
The Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW) proposes replacing Germany鈥檚 renewables levy (EEG-surcharge), paid by power consumers with their electricity bill, with a surcharge on income and corporate taxes. IW today published a paper that ...
17 Nov 2020, 15:35 Edgar Meza Cars Tagesspiegel Background Renault Germany CEO Uwe Hochgeschurtz has appealed to the German government to maintain the purchase premium for e-cars ahead of Wednesday鈥檚 auto summit with Chancellor Angela Merkel. In an ...
Germany鈥檚 federal grid agency (BNetzA) has launched the second round of PV auctions, under new rules agreed last year. A volume of 200 megawatts will be auctioned off, and bids must not exceed 8.91 cents/kWh. Find the press release in German聽 here. For ...
Environment minister Barbara Hendricks wants to have her Climate Action Plan 2050 approved before the climate conference in Morocco in November, 鈥渢o send a signal to the global community鈥�, she writes in a guest commentary in the Handelsblatt. 鈥淲hat ...
31 May 2022, 14:21 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K枚ln Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Renewables Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 A record number of vacancies in the engineering and IT sectors is threatening ...
11 Jun 2021, 12:54 Green delegates are pushing for more ambitious climate policies in the party's election manifesto to be finalised at a party congress over the weekend, as the party seeks to stem a recent slide in the polls. Against the backdrop of ...
25 Mar 2021, 13:52 Expert Borderstep Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability Start-ups Business & Jobs Expert German Startups Association Bundesverband Deutsche Startups Start-ups Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Start-ups Clean ...
The Green parliamentary group in the federal parliament (Bundestag) approved a resolution on a timetable for a coal-exit in Germany at its new year鈥檚 meeting in Weimar. 鈥淲ith the step-by-step, economically and socially compatible coal exit, we as the ...
A global Energiewende is already underway, but world leaders should give it a further push at the upcoming G20 meeting in China, according to a WWF report. 鈥淎s the current level of coal in the mix remains a problem to be solved for Germany, the country ...
Michael Liebreich,聽founder of renewable energy research organisation Bloomberg New 麻豆无码版 Finance (BNEF), has called the zero-support bid in German offshore wind power auctions 鈥� a risky and brave move.鈥� Successful bidders EnBW and Dong 麻豆无码版 were ...
23 Sep 2021, 13:45 Charlotte Nijhuis 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Society Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 Activists from student climate movement Fridays for Future plan to take to the streets worldwide and in over 350 German cities for a global ...
14 Jun 2019, 09:07 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' ...
02 Aug 2022, 13:05 German consumers are swarming to shops to buy electric heaters as fears of a true gas shortage caused by Russia's war on Ukraine rise, but experts warn this could pose problems for power supply security. The majority of heating and ...
Power generation from coal, oil and gas, and transport produce the largest share of emissions in the vast majority of G20 countries and none of these economies鈥� climate pledges are on a 1.5藲C-compatible pathway, according to the Brown to Green Report 2018 ...
The decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw his country鈥檚 support from the Paris Climate Agreement in June 2017 had outraged many commentators around the world, but the reality in many nations one year later is that they too do not seem ...
Solar power plants Germany produced more electricity than ever before in May, which brought 275 hours of sunshine instead of the average 196, the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Industry Initiative (IWR) reports. According to preliminary data by grid operators, solar ...
16 Mar 2022, 13:31 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Solar Utilities 麻豆无码版 Germany must urgently and massively step up the rollout of solar power in order to become more independent from Russian energy imports and reach its climate targets, the country ...
02 Apr 2019, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind Handelsblatt The regions singled out by the government to slow wind power expansion because of lacking grid capacities do not match the areas where a curtailment is needed most, according to grid operators, ...
Power storage devices need a clearer legal definition in German law to create a better investment environment for the industry, BSW Solar says in a press release. 鈥淢any disputes and uncertainties stem from the fact that storages sometimes count as ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:40 Sven Egenter Finance Security 麻豆无码版 Russia鈥檚 cuts to natural gas supplies and the wider economic fallout from the war against Ukraine will push the German economy into recession, analysts at Deutsche Bank forecast. 鈥淎 likely ...
The energy industry hovers between shock and sensation since it has become clear that several companies are ready to build offshore wind power plants without any support payments, Frank-Thomas Wenzel writes in Frankfurter Rundschau. The German Engineering ...
21 Mar 2016
21 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Reuters / EnBW 鈥淕ermany's EnBW cuts dividend, sees lower profits in 2016鈥� Germany鈥檚 third largest utility EnBW posted a 125-million-euro net profit in 2015, but the adjusted operating result ...
25 May 2020, 12:38 Expert Aurora 麻豆无码版 Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Julian Wettengel Solar Wind 麻豆无码版 Solar and wind power in Germany could supply ...
15 Oct 2021, 14:29 Three weeks after Germany鈥檚 election, the country is moving one step closer towards its first three-party government coalition. Following several days of intensive preliminary talks, the Social Democrats, the Green Party and the Free ...
The federal economy ministry (BMWi) has made available an English version of last year鈥檚 Fifth Energiewende Monitoring Report, together with the accompanying expert statement. Find the report in English here, the expert statement in English here and an ...
The coal mining industry in Germany鈥檚 eastern region Lusatia refuses to accept that it faces a similar destiny as the country鈥檚 nuclear industry, Daniel Wetzel writes on Welt Online. Those employed in the industry feel that 鈥渂rown coal, which has formed ...
28 Feb 2020, 13:52 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 STEAG Electricity generator ...
08 Nov 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices International Tagesspiegel / Handelsblatt Germany鈥檚 finance minister Christian Lindner has warned against a 鈥渢rade conflict鈥� between the EU and the U.S. as a result of the American government鈥檚 ...
23 May 2022, 13:19 S枚ren Amelang Gas International Tagesspiegel Background The EU鈥檚 and, in particular, Germany鈥檚 urgent drive to replace Russian gas imports has revived controversial liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Canada, to the dismay of ...
Germany鈥檚 efforts to protect the climate by reducing its CO 2 emissions have largely been in vain because the country falls short of implementing a much needed coal phase-out, Petra Pinzler writes in weekly newspaper Die Zeit. 鈥淭he country of the ...
Many operators of nuclear, gas or coal-fired power plants in Germany do not throttle feed-in at times of 鈥� negative power prices,鈥� the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) has said in a press release. Although operators of conventional plants have to pay for ...
10 Mar 2022, 13:28 Edgar Meza Utilities 麻豆无码版 The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to have major repercussions for Germany鈥檚 energy sector, leading to growing concerns about increasing prices and limited liquidity. The German Association ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:06 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 ...
22 Apr 2020, 15:12 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 German households' energy costs have fallen by six percent compared to last year, according to price comparison website Verivox. While using heating oil was 29 percent cheaper in ...
Renewable energy financing by the Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank, a bank that provides refinancing for agriculture and rural areas, plummeted in the first half of 2018 compared to the same period last year, the bank said in a press release. 鈥淐hanges in ...
10 Sep 2021, 15:01 Kerstine Appunn Coal Cities 麻豆无码版 The City of Hanover has finalised plans to shut down the combined heat-and-power hard coal station in St枚cken by 2026, operator enercity said in a press release.The agreement between the ...
16 Jul 2021, 12:39 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Heating Tagesspiegel Background Germany's interior ministry has finalised an emergency programme to get emissions in the building sector in line with climate targets but will not say whether it ...
12 May 2022, 13:38 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation ...
Germany鈥檚 third largest utility EnBW hopes investments in wind power and digital services will help it shed the image of a climate-damaging coal and nuclear company, reports Richard Fuchs for broadcaster Deutschlandradio. EnBW is using new management ...
02 Oct 2024, 13:00 Germany鈥檚 three-party coalition government is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in several elections, casting a shadow over the progress of the country鈥檚 energy transition. 麻豆无码版 industry and ...
12 Mar 2021, 13:39 Charlotte Nijhuis Transport 麻豆无码版 The sales of bicycles and e-bikes in Germany increased by 16.9 percent in 2020 compared to the year before, amounting to 6.44 billion euros, the German bicycle industry association (ZIV) ...
The largely state-owned German energy company EnBW says it has achieved 鈥渁 financial turnaround鈥� in 2017, posting a profit of 2.1 billion euros in the fiscal year. At EnBW鈥檚 general meeting, CEO Frank Mastiaux said the turnaround was 鈥渁 key milestone in ...
18 Jul 2022, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Cities rbb / 麻豆无码版 The city of Berlin will launch a 鈥渉eat aid鈥� programme for homeless people that is aimed at assisting those in need of cooling and hydration during increasingly hot ...
09 Sep 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Major natural gas importer VNG will seek financial support from the German government to cushion the considerable losses it is making due to high gas market prices. 鈥淒ue to ...
21 Sep 2021, 13:23 Expert Greenpeace 麻豆无码版 (now Green Planet 麻豆无码版) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal 麻豆无码版 Eastern German lignite power plants that are scheduled to ...
The support of German citizens for the country鈥檚 Energiewende [energy transition] is unwavering, a poll commissioned by the country鈥檚 Renewable 麻豆无码版 Agency (AEE) and conducted by pollster Kantar Emnid has shown. According to the AEE, 93 percent of ...
Centuries-old villages across Germany are being bulldozed to make way for brown coal mines, Esme Nicholson reports for American broadcaster National Public Radio. Despite the country鈥檚 substantial investment in renewable energy deployment, coal still ...
Germany鈥檚 industry is among the most efficient in the world and can hardly improve its energy intensity record by simply abiding by new regulations, a study by the industry-sponsored research institute IW K枚ln says. Andreas Mihm writes in the Frankfurter ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cost & Prices Greater emphasis on large-scale solar power plants built on open land could cut the costs of Germany鈥檚 energy transition by up to 3.5 billion euros by 2030, according to a study commissioned by ...
Greater energy efficiency, sector coupling and digitalisation are going to be core areas in energy policy that Germany鈥檚 next government will likely have to focus on, according to federal economy ministry state secretary Rainer Baake. During a speech at a ...
Tenants in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) will be able to benefit from solar PV panels installed on the rooftop of the buildings they live in. The state government has introduced a support programme for self-consumption power ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:00 The eviction of coal protesters in the Hambach Forest in 2018 was illegal, a court ruling in German state North Rhine-Westphalia found. The forest threatened by a nearby lignite mine had become a symbolic battleground in the context of ...
28 Feb 2022, 13:46 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Policy International Security The German government will push the construction of what would be the country鈥檚 first two liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals as part of ...
The operation of thousands of wind turbines could become economically unviable once the first support period for renewable energy in Germany runs out in 2020, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. If the operators鈥� sales revenue in open ...
The approval processes for coal plants and mine expansions will not be halted while the upcoming multi-stakeholder commission on Germany鈥檚 coal exit 鈥� the so-called coal commission 鈥� discusses the country鈥檚 phase-out-path, indicates the economy ministry ...
12 Jul 2022, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas Tagesspiegel Background / 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 government is expected to adopt a regulation on 13 July that would allow operators of certain hard coal plants to temporarily reactivate their units to help ...
09 May 2022, 14:02 Expert UFZ- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Helmholtz-Zentrum f眉r Umweltforschung- UFZ Climate & CO2 Renewables Society Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Agriculture Die Welt Eastern Germany is grappling with the ...
03 Dec 2021, 13:21 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Gas EU Energate messenger, 麻豆无码版 The 27 EU energy ministers have failed to ...
19 Jan 2015
19 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Handelsblatt 鈥淯topian targets鈥� The development of renewable energies is fast-paced in Germany but that is no reason for euphoria, writes J眉rgen Flauger in the Handelsblatt. Germany will miss its ...
The federal cabinet approved聽 reform drafts for the energy and electricity tax laws 聽to adapt regulation on聽 national tax exemptions 聽to EU state aid law, the finance ministry writes in a press release. The draft would extend tax exemptions for聽 natural ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:45 Freja Eriksen Coal Society 麻豆无码版 Forty-one mayors from Germany, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Greece, Romania, Montenegro and Slovakia have signed a declaration calling on the European Union for more ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:44 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs ...
21 Feb 2022, 13:52 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Almost one quarter of German small and medium-sized industrial companies say the high energy prices endanger their survival, according to a survey by the Federation of German ...
Investments in the research and development of modern technologies are key to successfully achieving Germany鈥檚 transition to a low-carbon energy supply, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 says in a press release. For that reason, the ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:20 Julian Wettengel International 麻豆无码版 Governments across the world have to make the 2020s the 鈥渄ecade of sustainability鈥�, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 20th annual conference of the German Council for ...
08 Oct 2019, 13:59 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 Society Clean 麻豆无码版 ...
Germany鈥檚 approval of Vattenfalls Moorburg coal-fired power plant was in breach of EU environmental rules because its cooling system endangers protected fish species, according to a ruling by the European Court of Justice, reports Montel. Find the Montel ...
13 Jun 2019, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 Germany lags behind many other countries in the global trend to finance renewable power installations via power purchase agreements (PPAs), according to a paper by ...
22 May 2019, 13:45 Voters across the EU will head to the polls between 23 and 26 May to elect a new European Parliament. It鈥檚 one of three major European institutions 鈥� along with the European Commission and Council 鈥� due for elections or leadership ...
02 Jun 2021, 13:21 Voters in the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt will head to the ballot box on 6 June to elect a new state government. Home to one of Germany鈥檚 three main coal mining regions, the state is dealing with the transition away from lignite ...
19 Feb 2021, 13:55 Charlotte Nijhuis 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Transport Following the pandemic, one third of business trips in Germany could be replaced by video conferences, a survey 聽conducted by the Borderstep Institute on behalf of the Ecological ...
The growth of wind energy last year clearly surpassed government targets, while solar additions lagged behind, writes Craig Morris on energytransition.org. But if the government sticks to its target of 40 to 45 percent renewable power by 2025, renewables ...
Shares in E.ON fossil power spin-off Uniper started trading at just over 10 euros at its market debut, toward the upper end of a range between 5.50 and 13.00 euros given by analysts, reports Reuters. 鈥淭he closely watched listing, under which E.ON is ...
16 Apr 2015
16 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 IG BCE / Friends of the Earth Germany Supporters and opponents of coal gear up for mass protests The heated debate over the future of coal in Germany will be taken to the streets next weekend, as ...
04 Jul 2022, 14:02 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K枚ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 麻豆无码版 The escalating energy crisis in Europe threatens to push German middle class ...
25 Sep 2019, 14:02 Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Digitalisation 麻豆无码版 While three quarters of German energy companies expect artificial ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:12 Expert BEE- German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Nuclear phase-out pv magazine / Clean ...
Grid operators such as utilities are protesting plans by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) to lower grid fees by decreasing the return on equity operators invest in Germany鈥檚 grid infrastructure, write J眉rgen Flauger and Klaus Stratmann in the ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:30 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Fossil fuels Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Prices for heating oil have increased by 37 percent over one year in Germany while gas prices only climbed by one percent, price comparison ...
11 Aug 2021, 13:49 Kerstine Appunn Finance 麻豆无码版 One of the main objectives of this year鈥檚 UN Climate summit in Glasgow (COP26) should be reworking the details of international climate finance and include more links to reciprocal efforts in ...
16 Jan 2019, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 麻豆无码版 German-Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Siemens-Gamesa has unveiled its most powerful offshore turbine to date, increasing annual power production by almost a third compared to its previous ...
12 Aug 2021, 13:27 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Gas Security dpa / 麻豆无码版 German energy group Uniper, which is involved in the financing of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, is seeing risks for the project even after ...
08 Sep 2020, 14:31 Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG Cost & Prices dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The state premier of Lower Saxony, Stephan Weil, has expressed support for scrapping the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) surcharge, dpa reports in an article carried by ...
26 Apr 2022, 13:07 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Security 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 federal government has sharpened the tools to fight the escalating crisis on the energy markets by updating the 1975 麻豆无码版 Security Act. The amended law will allow the ...
10 Jan 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 麻豆无码版 / Die Welt At Germany鈥檚 first mobility summit under Olaf Scholz on 10 January, the German chancellor aims to renew efforts to tackle the country鈥檚 lagging emissions reduction in the ...
German solar companies and research organisations are calling for an effective industrial policy strategy to strengthen the domestic solar business and avoid an exodus of companies to Asia. In an open letter to the federal government, more than 30 ...
The European Commission has approved under EU state aid rules Germany鈥檚 strategic capacity reserve, which is meant to ensure the security of power supply in case of emergencies, the Commission said in a press release. 鈥淐apacity mechanisms can help to ...
When CO 2 prices rise to over 50 euros per allowance under the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), even lignite plants will struggle to remain profitable, writes Daniel Wetzel in an article for Die Welt. However, these plants, which are always ...
19 Apr 2022, 12:24 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Handelsblatt As green hydrogen was more than twice as expensive as hydrogen produced with fossil fuels, its widespread use wasn鈥檛 expected for another decade, but the skyrocketing cost of natural gas has changed that ...
Private cars remain the favoured means of transportation for most Germans, but they are only used for 45 minutes per day on average, a study commissioned by Germany鈥檚 transport ministry (BMVI) has found. About 43 percent of all trips are made with either ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:44 German ministers, high-level policymakers, as well as representatives from industry, science and civil society gather at the Berlin 麻豆无码版 Transition Dialogue on 9-10 April 2019 to discuss the progress of a global energy transition. ...
Federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel does not support setting an end date for coal-fired power generation in Germany, he said in the plenary of the German Bundestag, reaffirming his position that had held up the government鈥檚 Climate Action Plan 2050. ...
Germany will significantly miss its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels unless the government quickly implements additional measures beyond its Climate Action Programme from 2014, according to a study by ...
25 Feb 2019, 14:17 The first draft of Germany鈥檚 Climate Action Law, presented last week, has laid bare conflicting views within the German coalition聽government over how the country should meet its climate targets. The proposal has drawn criticism from ...
21 May 2021, 10:32 Germany has increased the emissions reduction targets in its transport sector. Following changes introduced by parliament,聽 the sector has to reach a share of 32 percent renewables by 2030. The use of biofuels made from palm oil will be ...
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Germany鈥檚 North-Eastern region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania said the government鈥檚 stance on climate protection was 鈥渨ay too hesitant鈥�, Dow Jones Newswire reports. 鈥淚f we as a party want to be taken seriously as far ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:25 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Gas Storage Hydrogen Technology pv magazine Two power-to-gas projects in Germany promise to boost the technology, Sandra Enkhardt reports for pv magazine. Utilities Edis and Gasag want to transform ...
Switzerland should be careful not to repeat the same mistakes as Germany when preparing for a nuclear phase-out, Christoph Eisenring writes in Neue Z眉rcher Zeitung. Swiss people voting on 27 November on whether to limit the operating time of the country鈥檚 ...
Newly created SolarWorld Industries GmbH has officially taken over the production sites of insolvent German manufacturer SolarWorld AG, writes Sandra Enkhardt for pv magazine. 鈥淭he new company intends to restart activities with 700 MW of annual production ...
13 Jun 2018, 00:00 Germany鈥檚 policymakers have not kept pace with the energy industry鈥檚 rapid transformation caused by the Energiewende, and must catch up urgently, according to the utility association BDEW. The utilities also say that Germany needs a ...
21 Aug 2019, 11:57 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Citizens' energy Tagesschau The expansion of renewable electricity ...
The Association of Local Utilities (VKU) said the support for combined heat and power plants in the grid fee agreement was a 鈥渟trong signal for the value of decentral generation鈥� and created planning security. 鈥淢unicipal utilities can now work intensively ...
12 Apr 2022, 11:53 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Soaring energy prices in March have led to a year-on-year inflation rate hike in Germany to 7.3 percent 鈥� ...
13 Aug 2019, 13:40 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Coal Handelsblatt Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has come out against ...
10 Feb 2020, 14:42 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 German chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 anointed successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has announced she will step down as conservative party (CDU) head at the end of 2020 and not run ...
09 Aug 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Der Spiegel Nuclear plant operators in Germany are unenthusiastic about the prospect of having to revise their long-prepared decommissioning plans despite growing calls for the extension of runtimes, ...
14 Aug 2020, 14:27 Utilities Tagesspiegel Background Major German energy companies are making 鈥渞apid progress鈥� with their green energy transition thanks to renewables becoming clear profit-makers that are attractive to investors,聽 Jakob Schlandt writes in ...
Germany might need new gas power plants to balance out the fluctuating feed-in by renewables, Uniper CEO Klaus Sch盲fer tells Rheinische Post in an interview. 鈥淭he question of supply security is going to resurface, at the latest when the last nuclear ...
Germany鈥檚 primary energy consumption rose by 0.8 percent in 2017 compared to the previous year, according to preliminary calculations by energy market group AG Energiebilanzen. This was due to a strong economy, the group wrote in a press release. Germany ...
More than 60 civil society groups under the umbrella organisation Climate Alliance are calling for an ambitious phase-out of coal-fired power generation, a higher goal for renewables expansion, and a CO鈧� floor price in the power sector. The alliance has ...
The surprising and sudden departure of Peter Terium as innogy CEO was in all likelihood not on amicable terms despite the company鈥檚 assurances, writes J眉rgen Flauger in the business daily Handelsblatt. The supervisory board had probably rejected Terium鈥檚 ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:46 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 麻豆无码版 A scheme to boost solar power production in ...
02 May 2018, 00:00 Josef Kallo, director of the Institute for 麻豆无码版 Conversion and Storage at Ulm University and coordinator of the Research Group 麻豆无码版 Systems Integration at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), says electric flight is not just a distant ...
09 Jul 2021, 12:40 Kerstine Appunn Mobility 麻豆无码版 The government 鈥渋nnovation premium鈥� for e-car buyers will be extended until 2025, the German energy and economy ministry (BMWi) has announced. In a press release, the BMWi said that the support ...
The price of emitting one tonne of CO 2 in Europe should be at least 25 to 30 euros 鈥渇or a start鈥�, Johannes Teyssen, head of German utility E.ON, says in an interview with Spiegel Online. Teyssen鈥檚 proposed price would be up to four times higher than the ...
22 Dec 2020, 12:27 Edgar Meza Utilities pv magazine The German government is making a 450-megahertz (MHz) radio network available to the energy sector that could be used to control PV systems and other feed-in and load management systems, Ralph Diermann ...
14 Mar 2017, 00:00 The Chief of the Federal Chancellery, Peter Altmaier, threw his weight behind Germany's self-imposed plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, after calling national climate targets the "wrong path" last week. Germany will ...
20 Apr 2021, 13:04 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars 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 ...
13 Jan 2022, 14:18 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Heating Handelsblatt German households are increasingly switching to electric heat pumps when upgrading their heating systems and analysts predict demand will continue to grow, Handelsblatt reports. Heat ...
06 Nov 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The fulfilment of US President Donald Trump's election promise to pull the country out of the Paris Climate Agreement might impress his own voters but ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage 麻豆无码版 The capacity of pumped storage hydro power stations available to the German energy system is expected to grow by about 1.4 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, with roughly one third of the capacity being ...
30 Mar 2022, 12:05 Edgar Meza Heating 麻豆无码版 The electrification of the heating sector could be a key component in making Europe become less dependent on Russian gas, according to an internal report by S&P Global Commodity Insights. The ...
17 Jul 2019, 12:50 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar 麻豆无码版 Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen H2 Mobility Deutschland / Fraunhofer ISE For cars with ranges higher than 250 kilometres, hydrogen fuel cell drives are ...
25 Oct 2021, 13:37 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal dpa / Stern Germany's mining labour union and the premier of a lignite mining state have warned against speeding up the country's coal exit under a new government. In their current ...
More thant 30,000 new solar power storage devices have been installed in Germany last year, meaning the market volume has grown threefold over the past three years to a total of 80,000 devices, lobby association BSW Solar says in a press release. 鈥淲e ...
The German government spent 876 million euros on energy research last year, a slight increase over 2015, reports Dagmar Dehmer in Tagesspiegel. Two thirds of the money went into renewables and efficiency research, followed by nuclear fusion and nuclear ...
German utility EnBW has received official permission to decommission and dismantle the Philippsburg-1 nuclear power plant, according to research and consulting firm Enerdata. However, the Philippsburg-2 unit will continue operations until late 2019. The ...
15 Dec 2020, 14:17 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 Charlotte Nijhuis Wind Hydrogen Clean ...
06 Feb 2020, 12:45 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Rundschau It will be much tougher for the European Union to reach climate targets without climate 鈥減oster child鈥� UK after Brexit, ...
20 Sep 2022, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security dpa / Zeit Online / 麻豆无码版 One of the two nuclear plants in Germany slated to go into an emergency reserve until April 2023 has to undergo urgent maintenance work due to a valve ...
Scientists of the Technical University of Dresden are calling for a 鈥渞eadjustment鈥� of Germany鈥檚 energy policy as power prices are turning negative due to the expansion of renewable energy sources and persisting nuclear and fossil power generation capacity ...
For a long time, Germany had been confident it was on the right track when it comes to climate action, but scepticism and resistance towards low-emission technologies are on the rise in the country today, Niklas Zaboji writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
07 Oct 2021, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 / Dlf Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock has called for speedy coalition talks with election winner SPD and the pro-business FDP to make the next German government a ...
12 Nov 2018, 14:15 Germany's environment minister Svenja Schulze continued her push for a price on CO2 emissions, announcing plans to team up with fellow Social Democrat Olaf Scholz's finance ministry in order to prepare a concept in line with ...
22 Dec 2014
22 Dec 2014, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Die Welt 鈥淐limate Change; The smarter way to produce energy鈥� It is time to find a smarter way for preventing climate change, and not a model that defies countries鈥� economic interests, writes the head of the ...
06 Oct 2021, 13:58 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 / Spiegel German election winner the Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and the pro-business FDP have decided to enter joint talks to sound out a common base to form the ...
08 Dec 2020, 13:30 Edgar Meza Storage Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 German technology company Bosch is ramping up stationary fuel cell efforts, announcing this week plans to begin full-scale production of distributed power stations based on solid oxide fuel ...
29 Apr 2021, 12:00 Kerstine Appunn Grid Tagesspiegel Background Germany鈥檚 power transmission grid operators聽(TSO)聽have said that the construction of key electricity lines will likely be delayed by several years,聽 reports Jakob Schlandt in Tagesspiegel ...
07 Dec 2020, 13:55 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Wind S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The German Greens and one of the country's largest environmental organisations have reached a compromise on reconciling wind power expansion with bird protection,聽 ...
Environmental NGOs sandbag and Greenpeace have dubbed German utility RWE Europe's worst air polluter. 鈥淔our of the ten most toxic companies have their main coal plants in Germany:聽RWE, EPH, Uniper, and STEAG.聽This is no coincidence: Germany burns ...
10 Aug 2015
10 Aug 2015, 00:00 Germany's second-largest utility announces it is consolidating its operations under one roof and shaking up its management structure. Spinning off the conventional power business was kept as an option but not planned, CEO Peter ...
28 Jun 2019, 12:34 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Electricity market 麻豆无码版 Due to the 2018 heat wave in northern Europe, some German power plants had to ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:01 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas energate messenger / taz The energy group Uniper no longer believes in the construction of an LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminal in northern German Wilhelmshaven, reports ...
German energy company Uniper, together with three other co-owners of gas-fired power stations Irsching 4 and 5, has announced plans to decommission the 鈥渦ltra-efficient and modern鈥� plants for the second time in two years. In a joint press release, plant ...
On average, passenger cars in the EU consume 42 percent more fuel than advertised, meaning their emissions are also considerably higher than carmakers say, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). Over the last 15 years, the ...
13 Jul 2020, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 / Energate Messenger Germany's green energy fund has slipped into the red for the first time since 2013,聽 data 聽compiled by the country's transmission grid ...
A renewable, controllable power supply would be less expensive than producing electricity in new nuclear power plants in eastern Europe, a study conducted by 麻豆无码版 Brainpool and commissioned by power supplier Greenpeace 麻豆无码版 finds. Poland, Hungary, ...
21 Jan 2020, 13:21 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Germany's four ...
Coalition talks between CDU, CSU, FDP and Green Party will be about the parties鈥� ability 鈥渢o make something constructive of the differences鈥�, said chancellery chief and Christian Democrat Peter Altmaier in an interview with German public broadcaster ARD ...
14 Jul 2021, 13:05 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal 麻豆无码版 Germany's ...
18 Jun 2021, 11:17 Julian Wettengel Industry Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 The German Green Party鈥檚 chancellor candidate, Annalena Baerbock, has refined her party鈥檚 proposal to introduce so-called Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfD) to ...
07 Mar 2018
07 Mar 2018, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has chosen her close ally and former head of the Chancellery Peter Altmaier as the next economy and energy minister. This puts the political heavy-hitter in charge of shaping Germany鈥檚 Energiewende at a ...
29 Sep 2021, 13:29 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 Edgar Meza Heating 麻豆无码版 There ...
29 Mar 2021, 13:52 Kerstine Appunn Electricity 麻豆无码版 German households can expect an overall increase in their energy costs despite reductions in the renewables levy on power prices, comparison website Verivox says. Due to the new CO2 charges ...
Imports of natural gas to Germany rose by 19.5 percent between January and August 2017 compared to the same period last year, the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (Bafa) says in a press release. The country imported 3,060,298 ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Wind rbb Municipalities in the north-eastern German state of Brandenburg are to receive a share of the profits generated by wind farms, reports public broadcaster rbb. The state government adopted a law which obliges ...
Germany's Monopolies Commission, which advises the government on competition policies, is calling for a shift from renewables support to a price on CO2 emissions to finance the country's energy transition. In a new report on the electricity and ...
27 Sep 2018, 13:57 Germany needs to have a rational and open public discussion about carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) and storage (CCS) as ways to avoid releasing climate-harmful emissions from industry into the environment. A position paper by the ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) published an interactive map on Germany鈥檚 public e-car charging station infrastructure on its website. The map currently shows the location, type of plug and charging capacity of 3,335 charging points across the country ...
Greenpeace energy has called on the German government to follow Austria鈥檚 lead and take the EU to court over its approval of billions of euros in subsidies for the planned Hungarian nuclear reactor Paks II.聽Greenpeace says the Russian-designed nuclear ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:30 Industrialised countries are taking pains to convince developing nations at the 13th Petersberg Climate Dialogue that they will live up to their emission reduction and climate finance commitments despite the fallout from the Russian war ...
26 Mar 2020, 14:07 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Society RTL / n-tv A new poll finds support for Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative coalition has risen sharply as the coronavirus pandemic has hit Germany, while concern over the urgency of climate action has ...
A court in Lower Saxony ruled against objections by environmental organisations and decided that chemical company Dow may build a coal-fired power plant in the northern German state, reports Gernot Kn枚dler in the tageszeitung (taz). The plaintiffs had ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:08 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Transport Freight 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 shipbuilding and offshore supply industry is an " ...
Germany鈥檚 energy transition is expensive and ineffective, writes economist Joachim Weimann of the University of Magdeburg in a guest commentary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Despite high financial support for green energies and high electricity ...
07 Mar 2022, 14:05 S枚ren Amelang Cars Business & Jobs Reuters / 麻豆无码版 Tesla received a conditional permit for its first European "gigafactory" near Berlin, while rival Volkswagen approved construction of a brand new e-car plant ...
13 Jul 2022, 12:03 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Heating Government 麻豆无码版 German government ministries have launched a set of immediate action programmes that are to ensure emission reductions in the laggard buildings and transport sectors ...
14 Dec 2021, 12:12 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Gas 麻豆无码版 A new report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions conducted by the International Institute for Sustainability Analysis and Strategy (IINAS) on behalf of renewable energy consultancy DWR ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Government EU Reuters / Die Welt / 麻豆无码版 / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The postponement of Franco-German government consultations has been labelled as a 鈥� diplomatic earthquake 鈥� in ...
Germany鈥檚 largest oil and gas company Wintershall has resisted the oil sector鈥檚 crisis and reported earnings before interest, taxes and special items of 517 million euros for 2016, writes Franz Hubik for Handelsblatt. Wintershall last year sold its 50 ...
Germany may boast an image as a frontrunner for decarbonising economic activity but the country鈥檚 love of big car engines has foiled aspirations to steadily lower greenhouse gas emissions, David Charter writes for The Times. 鈥淲hile only 11,000 Germans ...
The German Environment Agency (UBA) says greenhouse gas emissions from the industries (excluding aviation) that take part in the European emissions trading system (ETS) fell by 3.4 percent last year 鈥� a steeper decline than Germany achieved in its overall ...
The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (BMWi) has published an extensive study on 鈥渢enant power鈥�. The study aims to provide a definition of the term, as well as legal background, and an overview of possible forms of organisation, the ...
06 Nov 2020, 14:24 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 Renewables Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG ...
The spectacular boom and bust of Germany鈥檚 solar industry provides a cautionary tale for state intervention in the name of clean energy, according to an article in Handelsblatt Global Magazine. While ordinary German consumers have been forced to pay ...
03 Jan 2019, 11:57 Expert Stefan Bratzel Director Cars Transport Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars Handelsblatt / 麻豆无码版 German carmakers are expected to catch up in the international e-mobility ...
20 Dec 2021, 10:55 The start of Germany's new government makes 2022 a crucial year for the country's landmark energy transition. All eyes are on the three-way coalition's first steps towards implementing its ambitious climate plans, which ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:04 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 Renewables Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG ...
08 Dec 2021, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Society 麻豆无码版 A slight majority of respondents from Germany in a survey on the future of nuclear power in climate policy conducted by pollster YouGov in several European countries, have ...
06 May 2019, 13:33 Kerstine Appunn Citizens' energy ZDF Germany needs a nationwide masterplan for climate action that is applicable to all towns and municipalities, according to Gerd Landsberg, the head of the confederation of German towns and ...
10 Dec 2019, 13:24 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Rose-Anne Clermont Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 In time for the UN climate conference COP25 being held in Madrid, the German Federal Statistical ...
High wind power production during a storm led to a total of 35 hours of negative wholesale power prices over the holidays in Germany, writes Daniel Wetzel for Welt Online. 鈥淏ecause of the holidays, industry did not need the power,鈥� and grid operators at ...
22 Feb 2022, 13:12 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Kerstine Appunn Agriculture 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 new government has handed in the 鈥渟trategic plan鈥� on how it would distribute the 30 billion euros in ...
02 May 2022, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Grid Security Germany has raised its power plant backup reserve to ensure a stable winter electricity supply due to grid extensions not keeping pace with the country's renewables rollout. "The delays in grid ...
04 Aug 2015
04 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淲ith greetings to Paris鈥� The German environment ministry and several NGOs welcomed President Obama鈥檚 clean power deal as increasing the chances of achieving an effective ...
The cap of solar PV and wind power development established with the聽 reform of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) 聽passed in parliament last week could endanger Germany鈥檚 climate targets, said Maria Krautzberger, president of the Federal Environment Agency ...
Germany imported 10.2 percent more oil products between January and September 2017 than in the same period last year, the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (Bafa) says in a press release. Oil product imports stood at 32.3 million ...
19 May 2021, 13:34 Edgar Meza International dpa John Kerry, the U.S. presidential envoy for climate, called for greater global efforts in the fight against climate change during his visit to Berlin on Tuesday, German news agency dpa reports. Global ...
15 Nov 2021, 12:10 The UN climate summit COP26 in Glasgow has heralded in the end of the fossil fuel era, said German environment minister Svenja Schulze shortly after the conference. However, not everyone saw the two-week meeting聽in a similarly positive ...
18 May 2021, 13:35 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Cars 麻豆无码版 The number of electric cars is growing dynamically, mainly driven by members of younger, high-income ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:48 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & ...
01 Sep 2021, 13:21 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
23 Nov 2022, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Policy 麻豆无码版 / Reuters The gas and electricity 鈥減rice brakes鈥� that Germany鈥檚 government plans to finance with scooping up windfall profits made by power producers during the energy crisis ...
18 Feb 2022, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices EU 麻豆无码版 The German government should intensify its efforts for introducing a new EU carbon emissions trading system for the transport and buildings sectors, a group of climate science ...
Germany鈥檚 solar market is back on a growth track, with new solar PV installations accounting for a total capacity of 900 megawatts in the first half of 2017, writes the German Solar Industry Association (BSW) in a press release. This was an increase of 75 ...
