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  • 16 May 2017 |

    Battered utilities take on start-ups in innovation race

    Utilities and the energy transition 16 May 2017, 00:00 As more and more countries around the globe embark on the transition to a low-carbon economy, a lot of lessons can be learned from the fate of ұԲ’s embattled power companies. Shaken to the core ...
  • Political uncertainty weighs heavily on energy policy crunch time year for Germany

    鶹 Preview 2019 11 Jan 2019, 10:30 Germany will finally have to make up its mind in this year which exact path to take towards a climate-friendly economy. Pending long-term decisions on a coal exit, sustainable mobility and heating as well as a Climate ...
  • 30 Mar 2015 |

    Jobs won, jobs lost – how the Energiewende is transforming the labour market

    The energy transition's effect on jobs and business 30 Mar 2015, 00:00 From solar-panel cleaners to housing-insulation specialists and wind-turbine climbers, Germany's move to a low-carbon economy powered by renewable energy sources is shaping ...
  • 14 Apr 2023 |

    The challenges of ұԲ’s nuclear phase-out

    Managing the nuclear legacy – a project into the next century 14 Apr 2023, 11:00 With the shutdown of the three last reactors in April 2023, the era of nuclear power generation comes to an end in Germany. The decommissioning marks a key milestone of the ...
  • 11 May 2021 |

    Energiewende hinges on unblocking the power grid

    The energy transition and ұԲ’s power grid 11 May 2021, 00:00 Germany's shift from fossil fuel and nuclear power will only succeed if the infrastructure exists to support a very different kind of energy system. To date, the country's ...
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  • 23 Jan 2019 |

    RWE submits E.ON-innogy renewables deal for EU clearance

    23 Jan 2019, 13:23 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Utilities 鶹 German energy company RWE has ...
  • E.ON and RWE set to complete landmark energy deal in 2019

    The landmark deal between German utilities E.ON and RWE remains on track for completion next year according to RWE, reports Tobias Buck in the Financial Times. Both groups reported quarterly results that were broadly in line with market expectations and ...
  • 04 Feb 2019 |

    鶹 lawyers warn against dominance of E.ON and RWE after deal

    04 Feb 2019, 14:10 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Business & Jobs Utilities Der Spiegel If the asset swap of energy companies and utilities RWE and E.ON goes ahead as planned, the resulting company would have “unprecedented market power”, Ines ...
  • 02 Feb 2021 |

    Local utilities file fresh market distortion lawsuit against E.ON-RWE deal

    02 Feb 2021, 13:40 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities A group of local utilities in Germany will double ...
  • 11 Mar 2019 |

    EU regulators scrutinise German utility deal, citing anti-trust concerns

    11 Mar 2019, 14:20 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Rachel Waldholz Business & Jobs Utilities Reuters EU regulators will take a hard look at part ...
  • 29 Oct 2020 |

    New German energy company hopes to break dominance of E.ON and RWE

    29 Oct 2020, 13:46 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Handelsblatt New regional energy company in the ...
  • Deal between utilities E.ON and RWE set to reshuffle German energy market

    German energy companies RWE and E.ON have agreed to a deal in which E.ON will buy RWE's green power subsidiary innogy and the two utilities will exchange large parts of their assets to focus their activities. The deal would drastically reshape ...
  • 27 Apr 2018 |

    E.ON files offer for innogy stake

    German energy company E.ON published its 5.2-billion-euro takeover offer for a minority stake in innogy, part of a plan to break up the RWE renewables carve-out, reports news agency Reuters. E.ON said its offer for the 23.2 percent in innogy not owned by ...
  • 22 Feb 2019 |

    RWE to win EU okay to buy E.ON, Innogy renewables businesses- report

    22 Feb 2019, 13:27 Sören Amelang Utilities Reuters German utility RWE will win unconditional EU antitrust approval to buy the renewables businesses of E.ON and Innogy in a deal that will reshape the German energy market, according to an unsourced Reuters ...
  • 31 Jul 2018 |

    E.ON completes voluntary public takeover offer to innogy minority shareholders

    German utility E.ON has successfully completed the voluntary public takeover offer to innogy minority shareholders, E.ON has announced in a press release. Including RWE’s 76.8 percent stake in innogy, E.ON will hold 86.2 percent of the company’s shares ...
  • 06 Nov 2020 |

    Smaller energy companies vow resistance against E.ON-RWE deal at EU level

    06 Nov 2020, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities EU 鶹 An alliance of smaller energy companies in Germany is organising opposition to the asset-swap deal of industry heavyweights RWE and E.ON, arguing it would turn "competitors into ...
  • 01 Mar 2019 |

    E.ON CEO seeks to dispel concerns over market dominance after RWE merger deal

    01 Mar 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The merger of German energy company E.ON with parts of utility RWE will not make it too dominant on the country’s energy market, E.ON CEO Johannes Teyssen ...
  • 24 Apr 2018 |

    E.ON-RWE deal may see innogy bonds stripped of their green credentials

    The proposed major asset swap deal between German power companies E.ON and RWE could lead to the reevaluation of innogy’s bonds, leaving their green credentials “up in the air,” writes Tasos Vossos for Bloomberg. Find the article in English here. For ...
  • 13 Mar 2018 |

    RWE & E.ON CEOs say deal will help energy transition

    A deal to split German renewables company innogy and exchange large parts of their assets will help both E.ON and RWE better contribute to the success of energy transition, the companies said at a joint press conference. “With this realignment, we are ...
  • 27 Feb 2019 |

    Landmark deal between German utilities clears major hurdles in EU and at home

    27 Feb 2019, 13:33 Rachel Waldholz Utilities Reuters / Handelsblatt The European Commission announced Tuesday that it will not raise antitrust objections to a major part of the deal between German utilities RWE and E.ON, Reuters reports. The approval ...
  • EU approves E.ON takeover of innogy assets, subject to conditions

    17 Sep 2019, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Electricity market Utilities 鶹 The European Commission has approved ...
  • 08 Aug 2018 |

    New wind farms send E.ON’s renewables profits higher

    Despite unfavourable wind conditions, the commissioning of new offshore and onshore wind farms increased sales and earnings from renewables at German utility E.ON in the first half of 2018, reports Bernd Radowitz in Recharge. Sales in the renewables ...
  • 12 Mar 2018 |

    RWE and E.ON overhaul power sector- German reactions to innogy deal

    12 Mar 2018, 00:00 In a deal that could drastically re-shape Germany's power sector, RWE and E.ON have agreed to split RWE subsidiary innogy and focus each on different parts of the business. E.ON will largely be in charge of distribution grids while ...
  • 03 Jan 2017 |

    “How to cope with the Energiewende”

    Peter Terium and Johannes Teyssen, former CEOs of ұԲ’s traditional utilities RWE and E.ON respectively, face each other in a new green energy rivalry after both companies split in two last year, writes Helmut Bünder in a portrait of both men in ...
  • 08 Aug 2019 |

    E.ON on course for innogy transaction while 2019 renewables earnings rise

    08 Aug 2019, 14:00 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Freja Eriksen Renewables Utilities 鶹 German utility E.ON has reaffirmed largely stable operating earnings of around 3 billion euros for 2019, thanks in ...
  • 13 Mar 2018 |

    E.ON and RWE just killed the utility as we know it - opinion

    The deal to split innogy between E.ON and RWE so each can focus on a different area of the electricity market value chain could herald the end of the traditional model in which utilities offer everything from power production to supply, Chris Bryant ...
  • 11 May 2018 |

    Innogy stalls on E.ON deal with RWE over fairness doubts

    Innogy is holding off supporting a 4.9-billion-euro bid by German rival E.ON, arguing it was not clear if the far-reaching asset swap with its parent RWE was fair for workers or minority shareholders. “Irrespective of the offer price, we are extremely ...
  • 19 Jul 2018 |

    Shake-up of German energy industry proceeds after agreements are reached

    An asset swap deal between German utilities E.ON and RWE took a step forward after energy corporation innogy reached agreements with the two companies "for a fair integration process," Reuters reports. innogy will no longer be an independently ...
  • 25 Mar 2019 |

    Goldman Sachs still bullish on German utilities

    25 Mar 2019, 13:50 Rachel Waldholz Finance Utilities dpa / Focus Online US investment bank Goldman Sachs says German utilities RWE and E.ON remain good investments, despite the coal exit, newswire dpa reports in an article carried by Focus Online. In an ...
  • 28 Feb 2019 |

    EU approval of E.ON & RWE merger raises fears of new “dominator” on German energy market

    28 Feb 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Welt Online EU competition watchdogs' green light for the deal to merge parts of German utility E.ON’s business with that of fellow utility RWE has led to energy industry fears of a ...
  • 13 Mar 2019 |

    E.ON targets steady profits in 2019 ahead of innogy deal

    13 Mar 2019, 14:01 Sören Amelang 鶹 鶹 Business & Jobs Utilities Reuters German utility E.ON forecast largely stable operating earnings of around three billion euros for 2019 thanks to rising renewables and network profits,  reports ...
  • 09 Aug 2019 |

    Pricier emission permits eat into Uniper profits; Innogy earnings also decrease

    09 Aug 2019, 13:59 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Freja Eriksen Utilities German fossil utility Uniper cited rising costs for carbon allowances as a main reason for declining ...
  • 14 Feb 2019 |

    Landmark deal between German utilities could meet resistance from antitrust regulators

    14 Feb 2019, 13:52 Rachel Waldholz Utilities Handelsblatt A deal by German power companies RWE and E.ON to reshape German energy markets could face resistance from regulators, Jürgen Flauger, Till Hoppe and Jeremy Gray report for business daily ...
  • 17 Mar 2025 |

    ұԲ’s biggest energy companies call for energy transition “restart” and fewer rules

    17 Mar 2025, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables 鶹 The German energy transition requires a “restart” as the country is on the verge of establishing a climate neutral energy system and renewables already account for about ...
  • 15 Nov 2016 |

    “After the company split”

    The fate of utilities RWE and E.ON is still unclear after each split their business, writes Helmut Bünder in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. How they will fare in the future depends in part on German energy policy decisions and market ...
  • 28 Sep 2016 |

    Stock market debut of RWE spin-off innogy set to become success

    Investor demand for innogy, RWE’s renewable spin-off, exceeds the number of shares on offer in the stock market debut scheduled for next week, reports Handelsblatt. “The initial public offering of RWE subsidiary innogy seems to turn into a success story ...
  • 23 Mar 2018 |

    E.ON CEO Teyssen says German utilities have fallen far behind their international competitors

    German utilities “have fallen far behind their competitors in Europe and the US,” according to Johannes Teyssen, CEO of German utility E.ON. The companies’ meagre performance over the last decade has meant investments in research and development are lower ...
  • 25 Sep 2020 |

    German government aims to support E.ON and RWE’s cause in European court

    25 Sep 2020, 13:37 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Utilities Handelsblatt The German government has requested permission to support ...
  • 25 Apr 2018 |

    Uwe Tigges appointed CEO of innogy

    German renewable energy company innogy’s supervisory board has appointed Uwe Tigges as the new CEO, the company says in a press release. Uwe Tigges had initially been appointed as interim CEO of innogy following Peter Terium’s resignation from the ...
  • 12 Mar 2018 |

    And the loser is: innogy – opinion

    While it could be years before the possible “surprising reorganisation” of ұԲ’s energy market can be fully assessed, innogy is “clearly” the deal’s loser, Jürgen Flauger writes in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt. “The company will be broken up, ...
  • 09 Sep 2016 |

    “German power companies: Breaking bad”

    When RWE and E.ON both split their their fossil fuel-based and their new energy technology businesses into separate companties, it was evidence that the German Energiewende “has dealt a huge jolt to the business model of what were once two of Europe’s ...
  • 16 Mar 2018 |

    E.ON’s innogy takeover bid to compete with telecom heavyweights – analysis

    The unexpected deal between ұԲ’s two largest utilities E.ON and RWE to divide RWE’s spin-off innogy between them and focus on two different fields of the energy industry in the future is more than a mere reshuffling of ұԲ’s power market, Angela ...
  • 14 Aug 2019 |

    ұԲ’s RWE sees first-half profits surge on energy trading boost

    14 Aug 2019, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Utilities Reuters / 鶹 RWE, ұԲ’s largest power producer, reported a 20 percent increase in core profits in the first half of 2019, boosted by a stronger than expected performance at its energy ...
  • 16 Apr 2019 |

    鶹 company RWE's share price up amid coal exit debate and climate protests

    16 Apr 2019, 14:27 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Utilities Süddeutsche Zeitung German coal plant and lignite mine operator RWE has seen its share price increase by almost 40 percent since ...
  • 18 Apr 2019 |

    RWE maps out planned expansion in renewables, US in focus – report

    18 Apr 2019, 12:20 Sören Amelang Utilities Reuters German utility RWE expects to spend heavily in the US green energy market as it maps out its future in global renewables after its pending asset swap with peer E.ON, Tom Käckenhoff, David French, and Vera ...
  • Utility innogy grapples with crumbling client base ahead of breakup

    German utility innogy has lost about a quarter million customers over the last year, and its earnings slightly declined to about 1.2 billion euros in the first quarter of 2018 as the asset swap deal between utilities E.ON and RWE looms, the news agency ...
  • 10 Aug 2015

    RWE unveils turnaround plan

    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 ...
  • 14 Mar 2019 |

    Weak coal and nuclear performance weighs on RWE’s balance sheet

    14 Mar 2019, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business Utilities 鶹 A lower power production from coal and nuclear plants, as well as lower wholesale power prices, have dented the profits of German RWE, the energy company’s annual balance sheet ...
  • 26 Aug 2020 |

    Coronavirus crisis accelerates investments in sustainability – RWE CEO

    26 Aug 2020, 12:24 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities Handelsblatt The coronavirus crisis is accelerating investments in sustainability rather than pushing aside climate change as a ...
  • 12 Mar 2018 |

    A new order in the German energy industry

    If the extensive deal between E.ON and RWE goes through, “old rivals" will "become partners under the pressure of the energy transition” and create “a new order in the German energy industry” by organising a clear “division of labour”, Helmut ...
  • 12 Nov 2018 |

    鶹 company E.ON says integration of former rival innogy makes “good progress”

    Germany energy company E.ON has said it has reached the first “major decisions” in the planned integration of former rival company innogy into its own company structures. In a press release, the company said it would continue to run by the name E.ON in ...
  • 11 May 2015 |

    Can ұԲ’s energy giants change their DNA?

    11 May 2015, 00:00 Large utilities are being forced to take radical steps to reshape their business models to fit the new energy landscape. But experts say it remains to be seen if they can innovate their way out of the crisis. Expert BDEW-German ...
  • 06 Dec 2016 |

    Utilities’ spin-offs enter ұԲ’s second most important stock-index

    Uniper and innogy, the subsidiaries of German utilities E.ON and RWE respectively, will be included in the MDAX, ұԲ’s second most important stock index, the two companies said in separate press releases. The utilities’ spin-offs will enter the index ...
  • Germany's energy giants in dire straits

    11 Mar 2015, 00:00 E.ON posts record loss for 2014 and RWE’s outlook is bleak, fuelling debate over their future. 鶹 鶹 Utilities Electricity market Germany's largest utility, E.ON, posted a loss of 3.16 billion euros for 2014- ...
  • 14 Mar 2017 |

    “Strategists in competition”

    At first glance, the split of German utility RWE was done in a smarter way than that of E.ON, as RWE spin-off innogy just posted a net profit and plans to pay shareholders a dividend, writes Jürgen Flauger in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt. “Yet it ...
  • 14 Nov 2016 |

    RWE profits drop 13 percent as renewable shift takes toll”

    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 ...
  • E.ON posts profit jump after unveiling RWE deal to redraw ұԲ’s energy market

    German energy company E.ON posted an unexpectedly strong jump in quarterly operating profit, boosted by its retail unit that will form one of the energy group’s main pillars after a recently unveiled overhaul that involves breaking up rival innogy, ...
  • 15 Mar 2019 |

    ұԲ’s utilities are dwarfs, not champions – op-ed

    15 Mar 2019, 13:49 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 鶹 鶹 Utilities Handelsblatt ұԲ’s economy and energy ...
  • 29 Mar 2017 |

    RWE continues to bet on coal and gas plants”

    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 ...
  • 18 Apr 2018 |

    Cartel Office might assess RWE’s influence ahead of innogy deal

    The planned deal between German utility heavyweights RWE and E.ON to split up RWE’s spin-off innogy between them has attracted the attention of ұԲ’s cartel office, the Bundeskartellamt, Handelsblatt reports based on information provided by news ...
  • 25 Oct 2018 |

    RWE responds to criticism from pension fund

    In an open letter published in the WirtschaftsWoche, Gunhild Grieve, head of investor relations at German utility RWE, refutes the advice that investors should get rid of “toxic coal stocks”. The suggestion had been made by Jan Erik Saugestad, CEO of ...
  • E.ON and RWE lack proper strategy amid innogy split-up - analyst

    Contrary to many utilities in other European countries, ұԲ’s E.ON and RWE lack a proper strategy for dealing with the energy transition, Bloomberg analyst Elchin Mammadov says on Dow Jones Newswires. The split-up of RWE’s spin-off innogy between ...
  • 08 Jun 2017 |

    鶹 companies expect billions in nuclear fuel tax refunds

    German energy companies E.ON, RWE and EnBW are expecting billions of euros in tax refunds after the German Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that a nuclear fuel tax law was unconstitutional. Read the E.ON press release in English here. Read ...
  • 29 Jul 2015

    In the media: Expensive ruins and a steel exodus

    29 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Die Welt “Steel before a great exodus” The EU’s plans for a reform of the emissions trading system might lead to a mass exodus of steel companies from Europe, reports Carsten Dierig in Die Welt. ...
  • Ailing German energy giant RWE spins off renewables

    01 Dec 2015, 00:00 Stricken energy giant RWE revealed on Tuesday it plans to spin off a company focused on renewables and grids to raise capital, while retaining fossil and nuclear energy generation. Germany's leading energy company E.ON had ...
  • 18 Feb 2022 |

    RWE has dominant position in Germany's power market – competition authority

    18 Feb 2022, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Utilities 鶹 German energy company RWE has a dominant position among the country’s electricity suppliers, the country's competition authority said in its report on last year’s power market. An ...
  • 14 Mar 2017 |

    “鶹 giants under pressure”

    German utilities E.ON, Uniper, RWE and innogy are affected by the competition in the renewable power market and the costs of the country’s nuclear phase-out, but hope for better conditions after the general elections in autumn, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel ...
  • 16 Jan 2015

    In the media: Offshore wind milestone, charging e-mobility, Vattenfall's coal plans

    16 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Business Green "Germany breezes past 1GW offshore wind milestone" Germany's renewables industry is celebrating another milestone this week, as an industry-backed report confirmed ...
  • 26 Sep 2016 |

    “鶹 for the stock market”

    innogy’s stock market debut on 7 October could turn into ұԲ’s largest initial public offering (IPO) since 2000, writes Jürgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. innogy- RWE’s renewable spin-off- wants to attract investors interested in a stable and reliable ...
  • 14 Dec 2017 |

    Innogy shares drop 13 percent after profit warning

    Shares in RWE renewable spin-off Innogy fell more than 13 percent after a profit warning blaming continued problems at its UK household business Npower, report Nathalie Thomas and Tobias Buck in the Financial Times. Other German utilites were also ...
  • Nuclear fuel tax refunds come “at right moment”

    German utilities RWE, E.ON, and EnBW should use the nuclear fuel tax refunds to prepare their companies for the future, writes Jürgen Flauger in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt. “The one-off effect comes at exactly the right moment and could help ...
  • 21 Nov 2016 |

    “The battle will be decided by the customer“

    E.ON is positioned to overcome its current crisis and record loss following the company’s split from its conventional energy business into the subsidiary Uniper, the German utility’s CEO Johannes Teyssen told Handelsblatt Online in an interview. ...
  • 04 Jan 2016

    Utilities 'a little greener' / E-Mobility 'in slow lane'

    04 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 E.ON Separation of E.ON and Uniper operations completed Effective 1 January 2016 E.ON has completed separation of operations from its planned spin-off Uniper. E.ON will focus on renewables, energy ...
  • 01 Oct 2019 |

    Lignite company RWE pledges to become carbon neutral by 2040

    01 Oct 2019, 10:00 Europe's largest CO2 emitter RWE has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2040. The announcement underlines the deep transformation underway at the German operator of lignite mines and power plants, which is now betting on ...
  • 21 Jul 2017 |

    “Comeback of the utilities”

    The tough times ұԲ’s utilities have gone through as a result of the energy transition are coming to an end, with investor confidence in takeovers and rising power prices pushing stocks up, Susanne Schier writes for Handelsblatt. “The Fukushima ...
  • 18 Jan 2019 |

    RWE sets aside 1.5 billion euros per year for renewables investments

    18 Jan 2019, 13:37 Sören Amelang Utilities 鶹 German utility RWE wants to invest about 1.5 billion euros net per year in renewables after a complex transaction that will combine the green energy activities of E.ON and Innogy under the roof ...
  • 09 Mar 2016

    Government approves Paris climate deal / E.ON's record loss

    09 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Government approves Paris climate deal The German cabinet of government ministers has approved the Paris Agreement on climate change, which 195 countries successfully negotiated in ...
  • 24 Apr 2018 |

    Municipalities entitled to terminate contracts early under planned E.ON-RWE deal - report

    E.ON’s interest in competitor RWE’s renewables spin-off innogy is also triggered by innogy’s 4,000-odd existing contracts with municipalities, which grant the latter company the right to operate local grids, or give it a stake in local utilities, writes ...
  • 13 Mar 2020 |

    Utility RWE doubles profits, plans 4 GW of wind and solar by 2022

    13 Mar 2020, 14:12 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Sören Amelang Renewables Utilities 鶹 / dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany's largest coal power and renewables operator RWE plans to step up its ...
  • 06 Mar 2018 |

    ұԲ’s battered utilities face further challenges

    Two of ұԲ’s largest energy companies, RWE and E.ON, will publish their balance of accounts this month – a move that is likely to highlight the difficulties the industry is still grappling with amid the country’s energy transition, news agency dpa ...
  • 02 Jan 2017 |

    E.ON wants to cut jobs in Essen”

    One year after its split, renewables utility E.ON needs to lower costs and is eyeing cuts in administrative jobs at its headquarters in Essen, CEO Johannes Teyssen told  the Rheinische Post in an article by Antje Höning. The extent of the job cuts remains ...
  • 02 Dec 2014

    In the media: E.ON and the age of dinosaurs, climate action ready for government approval

    02 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung “The end of dinosaurs“ In the end, the large dinosaurs who had ruled the world disappeared – ұԲ’s big energy companies face a similar fate, writes Markus Balser in the ...
  • 03 May 2019 |

    Climate protests accompany RWE’s shareholder meeting

    03 May 2019, 13:23 Sören Amelang Coal Utilities 鶹 Climate activists called for a swift end to coal-fired power generation at power plant operator RWE’s annual general meeting. Members of the Fridays for Future student protest movement ...
  • 19 Feb 2020 |

    RWE shares reach highest price in seven years

    19 Feb 2020, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities dpa / Focus Online The share price of German energy company RWE has reached the highest level in seven years, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by website Focus Online. RWE's share price ...
  • 17 Nov 2015

    Utilities want shared nuclear responsibility / No political will for Paris?

    17 Nov 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 WirtschaftsWoche “Can E.ON survive alone?” Writing for WitschaftsWoche, Christof Schürmann says there are doubts over whether the new E.ON, which will split from its fossil-fuel business in a few weeks, will be ...
  • 19 Mar 2018 |

    Opinion: EON and RWE exercise the exit from the exit

    The deal between energy companies E.ON and RWE is an attempt to stem their decline by each focusing on a part of the old conventional energy world that may come costly to consumers and ultimately to the whole economy, energy economist Claudia Kemfert from ...
  • 02 Aug 2017 |

    “Revolution in the energy industry – attack from the digital world”

    Established energy companies like E.ON and RWE could face a severe loss of power because of the digitalisation of ұԲ’s energy transition, while new contenders profit, write Jürgen Flauger and Franz Hubik in Handelsblatt. In a long article, Flauger ...
  • 15 Aug 2016 |

    Utilities put renewable energy at disadvantage with future contracts

    Renewable energy generation in Germany is being disadvantaged by the practice of leading utilities RWE, E.ON and Vattenfall of selling electricity well into the future, ұԲ’s Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR) reports. By ...
  • 11 Aug 2015

    In the media: Plan B for RWE; unpopular energy reform

    11 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung “Exhausted” RWE boss Peter Terium has announced the complete overhaul of his company, says Markus Balser in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He is cutting out an immense bureaucracy of ...
  • 01 Jul 2016 |

    “Climate Action Plan boosts the share prices of E.ON and RWE

    The energy and coal industry is happy about the new, weakened language in the draft version of the Climate Action Plan 2050, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes. Share prices of energy companies E.ON and RWE have increased in the past days – against ...
  • 07 May 2015

    In the media: Czechs ready to invest in German coal

    07 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 The New York Times “Germany, the Green Superpower” With a generous feed-in tariff “that made it a no-brainer for Germans to install solar power (or wind) at home,” Germany has made a “world-saving ...
  • 08 Feb 2019 |

    Analysts see share price rise for German energy companies after coal exit proposal

    08 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann 鶹 鶹 Coal Finance Handelsblatt The end of coal-fired power production comes with profound implications for German energy companies who have banked on the fossil fuel so far, but analysts say buying ...
  • E.ON lambasts study questioning its climate credentials

    08 Feb 2022, 14:44 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Focus Online E.ON objects to a study arguing the German utility and many other large companies fall short of their net-zero carbon promises, news website Focus Online reported. The ...
  • 12 Aug 2015

    In the media: Loss in profits at E.ON; biogas farmers revolt

    12 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 E.ON Conventional power business causes E.ON loss in profits / debt reduced Half way into its “transformative year,” ұԲ’s largest utility E.ON has reported a reduced operating profit and ...
  • 23 Nov 2016 |

    “Surprise winner”

    Uniper is the “surprise winner of the German energy market” with a nearly 20 percent rise in its share price since the company’s stock market debut, writes Helmut Bünder in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “With this, the utility – ...
  • 14 Oct 2016 |

    “Transport transition now”

    The Dieselgate scandal at VW seems to have triggered a rethinking among German carmakers to place low-emission vehicles higher on their agenda, writes Thorsten Knuf in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Rundschau. The government instead appears to be ...
  • 20 Sep 2017 |

    EnBW plans to ditch conventional power plants by 2025

    ұԲ’s fourth largest utility EnBW plans to pull out of fossil power generation by 2025, according to an internal strategy paper, reports Jürgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. Conventional power generation does not feature in the company’s medium-term plan ...
  • 07 Feb 2019 |

    German coal exit may slow Fortum plan for Uniper takeover – analysts

    07 Feb 2019, 13:37 Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Utilities Bloomberg The push to scrap the use of coal as a power generation fuel by Germany and other European countries could make Finnish energy company Fortum think twice before launching a bid ...
  • 02 Nov 2016 |

    “A second chance for E.ON and RWE

    Major German utilities E.ON and RWE, both highly indebted and struggling to adapt to the new energy environment, could see a positive turnaround, according to an article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Future growth could be spurred by rising ...
  • 27 Jan 2017 |

    “German utilities weigh M&A as Goldman sees game-changers”

    German utility E.ON has discussed a potential collaboration with renewable energy company innogy – the subsidiary of RWE AG, reports Bloomberg, citing “two people familiar with the matter”. At the same time, European utilities outside Germany are showing ...
  • “New thrust for utilities“

    ұԲ’s two biggest utilities E.ON and RWE, together with smaller energy providers EnBW and Vattenfall, paid over 24 billion euros in June to “finally rid themselves of the consequences of the government-induced nuclear exit”, Thomas Klemm writes in ...
  • 23 Dec 2015

    'Two giants turn into four gnomes' / A forgotten revolution

    23 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 'Frohe Weihnachten' from the 鶹 newsroom Our best wishes for a joyous holiday season. We will publish our next News Digest on 28 December and take another short break from ...
  • E.ON bows to political pressure and keeps nuclear plants

    10 Sep 2015, 00:00 Major utility E.ON has abandoned plans to spin off its nuclear power plants when it splits in two next year. The operation and decommissioning of the company’s German nuclear activities will not be transferred to the new spin-off Uniper ...
  • 27 Jan 2020 |

    鶹 heavyweight RWE calls for roundtable on solving Germany's wind power impasse

    27 Jan 2020, 14:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Utilities dpa / Tagesspiegel / Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung German energy industry heavyweight RWE has called for a roundtable of stakeholders to make progress on ending the current slump of onshore wind power ...
  • 12 Nov 2021 |

    German nuclear power operators reject calls to keep running plants longer

    12 Nov 2021, 13:37 Edgar Meza 鶹 鶹 Nuclear phase-out Handelsblatt The operators of ұԲ’s six remaining nuclear power stations, utilities E.ON, RWE and EnBW, have rejected calls to keep the plants in operation beyond their scheduled ...
  • 04 Feb 2015

    In the media: Floating wind turbines, RWE restructuring plans

    04 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Tageszeitung "Wind turbines that can float" The Dresden-based Gicon group is producing a prototype for a floating wind turbine (see picture above), Bernward Janzig from the taz reports. ...
  • 09 Jun 2016

    Gabriel rejects commission with coal exit focus / E.ON split approval

    09 Jun 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Federal government Gabriel rejects commission with exclusive focus on coal exit Germany's economy minister Sigmar Gabriel said he will not convene a commission ...
  • 04 May 2017 |

    “Cuddling up with the coal lobby”

    Large utilities mainly operating fossil power plants have had much more top-level contacts with government than the renewable industry, reports left-wing newspaper tageszeitung (taz). Since October 2014, RWE has held 40 talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel ...
  • No dominant actor on German electricity market but RWE merits close look – antitrust authorities

    27 Nov 2019, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Cost & Prices 鶹 No single energy company can currently claim any dominance over Germany's electricity market, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and the federal antitrust ...
  • 19 Oct 2017 |

    German utilities race to find promising energy start-ups

    RWE spinoff Innogy is scouring Silicon Valley and startup hotspots in Tel Aviv, London and Berlin for new ideas on the digitalisation of the energy sector, reports Jürgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. "Digital change will radically transform the energy ...
  • 12 Feb 2015

    In the media: GE, Telekom in smart grid pact; Wind turbines harm bats

    12 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Windmesse/Handelsblatt “GE and Deutsche Telekom join forces for energy transition” US industrial conglomerate General Electric and Deutsche Telekom will cooperate to offer new solutions for smart ...
  • 01 Dec 2015

    RWE to split in two, following in E.ON's footsteps

    01 Dec 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 RWE / Handelsblatt Utility RWE follows E.ON example, to split in two One of ұԲ’s largest utilities RWE will split in two, the company announced on Tuesday. Renewables, grids and retail activities in Germany ...
  • 18 Dec 2014 |

    Proposal for nuclear fund seen by some as no-confidence vote in utilities

    18 Dec 2014, 00:00 A leaked document outlines plans to transfer some provisions German utilities have put aside for nuclear decommissioning and waste disposal to a state-managed fund. The 鶹 spoke to two policy analysts about the ...
  • 16 Feb 2017 |

    “Tesla for the people? Opel’s secret plan”

    Opel CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann intends to turn the German car manufacturer into a pure e-car brand by 2030, Michael Freitag reports on Manager Magazin’s website. Neumann has been working on the transformation since before deliberations by Opel’s US-owner GM ...
  • 01 Oct 2019 |

    Nuclear power plant operators call for 276 million euros in compensation

    01 Oct 2019, 13:53 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities ...
  • 17 Feb 2016

    Climate Action Plan 2050 worries industry / Further RWE impairments

    17 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Handelsblatt / Ministry for Environment “Everything for the climate” The Ministry for Environment (BMUB) is about to enter the second phase of consultation for its Climate Action Plan 2050, and has ...
  • 24 Apr 2015

    In the media: Siemens boss swipes at Energiewende on US visit

    24 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Siemens boss jokes about the Energiewende At a conference of oil industry executives in Texas, Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser said that anyone making energy policy for a ...
  • 05 Dec 2016 |

    "Stalled"

    The Federal Constitutional Court is to rule on utilities’ rights in their case against the government over the shut-down of nuclear power plants, Corinna Budras writes for FAZ. Nuclear power plant operators RWE, E.ON and Vattenfall are suing the German ...
  • 07 Jul 2016 |

    “EnBW aims to become a ‘green giant’”

    ұԲ’s 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 ...
  • 14 Sep 2015

    In the media: EU rules may thwart coal reserve plan

    14 Sep 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “EU casts doubt over lignite compromise” The European Commission has doubts about whether the German government’s plan to put some old lignite power plants in a so-called capacity reserve is ...
  • 26 Apr 2016

    鶹 policy after Chernobyl / One billion euros for e-cars

    26 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “鶹 policy after Chernobyl” The impact of Chernobyl was the largest where its fallout was the smallest – in Germany, where the ...
  • 10 Sep 2015

    In the media: Ex-minister "wants to save RWE"

    10 Sep 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 鶹 鶹 FAZ/Handelsblatt "Werner Müller wants to save RWE" RWE’s municipal shareholders plan to put former German economy minister  Werner Müller  in charge of the stricken utility’s supervisory ...
  • 12 Jan 2015

    In the media: (update) E.ON sells Italy coal, gas ops; law to boost carsharing; young people support energy transition

    12 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 E.ON Press Release E.ON sells Italian coal and gas operations  E.ON said Monday it would sell its coal and gas-fueled electricity operations to the Czech energy company Energetický a Průmyslový ...
  • "Electricity managers wary of centre-right government"

    Managers in the utilities sector seem wary of a centre-right coalition of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the business-oriented Free Democrats (FDP) after September’s federal election, although the pairing has traditionally been seen ...
  • 06 Jun 2019 |

    Germany's env min and plant operators dismiss call for nuclear lifetime extensions

    06 Jun 2019, 13:54 Germany certainly does not need to return to nuclear energy and should push through with its energy transition instead, according to environment minister Svenja Schulze. Following isolated calls to extend the lifetime of the country’s ...
  • 18 Apr 2019 |

    “That’s our turf”- German utilities worried about Shell acquisitions, expansion plans

    18 Apr 2019, 12:21 Sören Amelang Start-ups Utilities Wirtschaftswoche Shell’s acquisition of home battery start-up Sonnen and its plans to become the world’s largest power company worry German utilities, Konrad Fischer and Angela Hennersdorf report for ...
  • 12 Nov 2015

    RWE reports profit drop / Which target date for 100% renewables?

    12 Nov 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 Reuters/RWE RWE says it will ‘only just’ meet 2015 earnings forecast German utility RWE on Thursday said it would just manage to meet its 1.1-1.3 billion-euro adjusted net income forecast for 2015, after a 29 ...
  • 28 Apr 2015

    In the media: E.ON moves HQ, spin-off to be called Uniper

    28 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 E.ON E.ON to move headquarters, founds "Uniper" ұԲ’s top utility E.ON announced details of its planned split into two companies, one focused on renewables, power grids and energy ...
  • 24 Oct 2019 |

    Nuclear waste from Germany exported for disposal in Russia

    24 Oct 2019, 12:22 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Tageszeitung (taz) A company in Germany that enriches uranium ...
  • 26 Jan 2017 |

    “Climate change forces investors to act“

    In spite of the Trump administration’s  apparently benevolent stance towards fossil fuel companies, the persisting “carbon bubble” continues to pose a risk to capital markets, Markus Frühauf writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). According to a ...
  • 17 Apr 2015

    In the media: Final battle over nuclear power in Germany

    17 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung "Powered out" The German nuclear power sector's final battle is currently being fought on paper, writes Markus Balser in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The likes of E ...
  • 20 Mar 2018 |

    Investors question previous split after division of innogy between RWE and E.ON

    After the announced split-up of German utility innogy between its parent company RWE and competitor E.ON, investors question whether the previous split of innogy from RWE was necessary, news agency Reuters reports. Old mantras about the future of the ...
  • 18 Sep 2015

    In the media: Greenpeace says lignite reserve illegal; staggering utility giants

    18 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Osnabrücker Zeitung / Dow Jones Newswires E.ON CEO compares cheap renewable power to “unpaid slaves” Current power market structures are not geared to taking up large amounts of renewable energy, E ...
  • 20 Feb 2015

    In the media: "Sun King" and hydro power potential

    20 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 World 鶹 Council “German energy transition is currently not an export hit” Many international energy experts doubt that Germany's energy transition works as a blueprint for other countries ...
  • Germany agrees to pay energy companies over 2 billion euros in nuclear exit compensation

    05 Mar 2021, 13:12 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market ...
  • 04 Feb 2022 |

    Utilities’ decarbonisation plans not enough to reach German climate targets – report

    04 Feb 2022, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Utilities WirtschaftsWoche The plans by large and small utilities to decarbonise their businesses are not enough for Germany to reach its climate targets, writes WirtschaftsWoche about a report published by consultancy ...
  • 06 Dec 2016 |

    Germany's constitutional court backs speedy nuclear exit

    06 Dec 2016, 00:00 According to ұԲ’s constitutional court, the government’s 2011 decision to speed up the nuclear power phase-out was in line with constitutional requirements. Nuclear power plant operators argued the move amounted to expropriation ...
  • 11 Mar 2020 |

    German utilities much more optimistic on energy transition – consultancy

    11 Mar 2020, 14:13 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Utilities 鶹 The number of German energy companies that consider the energy transition good for business has risen considerably, according to a survey by business consultancy Horvath & ...
  • 11 Jun 2018 |

    German utility EnBW enters US offshore wind market with California project

    German utility EnBW is expanding into the North American market for offshore wind, forming a joint venture with Trident Winds to develop a project off the coast of Central California, the German company said on Monday. EnBW North America and Seattle-based ...
  • 07 Jul 2015

    In the media: Environmentalists oppose environmentalists on wind power

    07 Jul 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung “Headwind” The rapid increase in the number of wind turbines is leading to rising resistance in many rural areas in ұԲ’s north, reports Süddeutsche Zeitung in a full-page report on the ...
  • 22 Mar 2017 |

    RWE, E.ON and Co: No miraculous fresh start”

    The first annual presentation of balance sheet figures by German utilities RWE and E.ON, as well as by their spin-offs innogy and Uniper, has dealt a heavy blow to aspirations that the split would allow the battered companies a fresh start, Ralf Köpke ...
  • 05 Nov 2021 |

    NGOs call on German corporations to invest more in climate protection

    05 Nov 2021, 12:21 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs COP26 鶹 Instead of distributing increasing amounts of their profits to shareholders, publicly-listed German corporations should invest more in climate protection, development and aid NGO ...
  • 24 Mar 2016

    Finance minister sceptical about e-car support / Utilities as 'capital destroyers'

    24 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Spiegel Online “E-car subsidies – Schäuble dampens hopes of a buyer’s premium“ There is increasing scepticism within the federal government concerning subsidies for e-cars. Vice ...
  • 20 Jan 2016

    Coal exit ‘requires masterplan’ / Cheap oil has ‘high costs’

    20 Jan 2016, 00:00 鶹 鶹 Frankfurter Rundschau “Gabriel needs a masterplan” The Paris Agreement has shown that coal will need to be phased out faster than currently planned, writes Joachim Wille in a commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. ...
  • 23 Jan 2019 |

    Industry leaders say can cope with coal exit in debate ahead of commission report

    23 Jan 2019, 10:55 Power prices are less of a concern for some industry sectors and coal-heavyweight RWE has long been about “much more than coal” – industry representatives offered an unusual take on the German coal exit debate in a panel discussion ...
  • 03 Mar 2022 |

    Renewables stocks surge as govt renews vow to speed up expansion amid Ukraine war

    03 Mar 2022, 13:50 Kerstine Appunn Renewables International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German renewables stocks have surged amid prospects of an accelerated energy transition after the government emphasised plans to speed up renewables expansion as a ...
  • 17 Mar 2015

    In the media: Solar eclipse as taster of 2030

    17 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹   Fraunhofer IWES/Agora Energiewende "The Eclipse 2015: Preview of the Power System in 2030" Friday’s solar eclipse will provide a taste of ұԲ’s power system in 2030, according to a ...
  • 30 Nov 2020 |

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

    30 Nov 2020, 15:24 Charlotte Nijhuis Utilities Digitalisation Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung New electricity providers that focus on green electricity and make extensive use of digitalisation are entering the German market despite the already stiff ...
  • Green party boosts influence in German energy sector

    06 Aug 2019, 13:57 Expert BDEW-German Association of 鶹 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Sören Amelang Utilities Elections & Politics Recharge ...
  • 13 Aug 2015

    In the media: RWE result down; new plan for nuclear waste

    13 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 RWE RWE operating result down by 11 percent / increased earnings from renewables ұԲ’s second biggest energy utility RWE reported a reduced operating result and EBITDA for the first six months ...
  • 28 May 2025 |

    German court dismisses climate lawsuit against RWE, but says large emitters can be held liable

    28 May 2025, 13:16 A higher court in Germany has set an important precedent, arguing that large global emitters can be held responsible for climate damages under the country’s civil law, legal experts representing environmental NGOs said. The court, ...
  • 02 Feb 2015

    In the media: Cheap fossil fuels threaten energy transition in heating sector

    02 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung “From nuclear proponent to power line opponent” In 2008 Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer said that extending the run-time of ұԲ’s nuclear power stations was " ...
  • Peruvian farmer's climate lawsuit against RWE faces crucial step

    18 Mar 2025, 13:57 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 International 鶹 / ZDF A landmark court hearing initiated by a Peruvian farmer and ...
  • 01 Apr 2016

    Tesla's new 'electric invader' / RWE's 'most daring project'

    01 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Bild “People’s e-car” The premiere of Tesla’s new e-car “Model 3” might not only decide the future of the company, but the future of e-mobility, according to mass-daily Bild. “With ...
  • 30 Nov 2020 |

    State's involvement in utility EnBW appears to be success ten years later but criticism lives on

    30 Nov 2020, 14:25 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities dpa / Die Welt The involvement of German state Baden-Wurttemberg in the utility EnBW appears ...
  • 06 Jul 2015

    In the media: RWE CEO to shift gears on restructuring

    06 Jul 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 Handelsblatt Global Edition “Power provider’s new playbook” German utility RWE is planning a major reorganisation  in response to the rising tide of renewable energies in the German power market, much like  rival ...
  • German utilities buy out of nuclear waste liability for 23.6 bln euros

    19 Oct 2016, 00:00 The German government decided on a pact to free nuclear power plant operators of responsibility for storing radioactive waste, and transfer it into the hands of the state. Utilities welcomed the decision made on Wednesday, while critics ...
  • 05 Dec 2014

    In the media: Nuclear waste fund, Vattenfall, E.ON's split

    05 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 鶹 鶹 Frankfurter Rundschau "We need a fund" Jörg Sommer, chairman of the German Environment Foundation, says more money is needed to treat nuclear waste in Germany. In an ...
  • 17 Aug 2015

    In the media: RWE fighting reality; solar power strains the grid

    17 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 dpa / Süddeutsche.de “Raid on Garzweiler” Hundreds of activists entered the open cast lignite mine of Garzweiler, in North-Rhine Westphalia, on Saturday, the German press agency dpa reports. Some ...
  • 30 Aug 2024 |

    Municipality in western Germany buys back village on coal mine to avoid demolition

    30 Aug 2024, 12:47 Joey Grostern Coal Society Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger / 鶹 Bürgewald, an empty village on the edge of the Hambach open-cast coal mine in the western German state of North Rhine Westphalia, has been bought back by the local ...
  • 13 Mar 2025

    In brief | 13 March '25

    13 Mar 2025, 12:02 鶹 Team Reuters: German parliament debates borrowing bonanza as clock ticks down Germany's outgoing lower house of parliament began a special session on Thursday (13 March) to debate a 500 billion euro fund for infrastructure and ...
  • Major German companies among world's most active anti-climate action lobbyists- study

    11 Oct 2019, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 鶹 German car manufacturers Daimler and BMW, utility RWE and building materials company HeidelbergCement are among the world's most influential lobbyists against ...
  • 09 Jul 2015

    In the media: German minister- Coal exit by 2040 "realistic"

    09 Jul 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 Die Zeit “We have to exit within 25 or 30 years” German environment minister Barbara Hendricks expects coal to be phased out in Germany by 2045 at the very latest. “We have to exit the burning of coal step by step ...
  • 04 Nov 2015

    Government passes power market reform / More renewables in energy use

    04 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Ministry for Economic Affairs and 鶹 (BMWi) “Gabriel: The basis for the power market of the future is established” The German government has approved wide-reaching reforms of the power market ...
  • 11 Nov 2015

    E.ON sticks to split after record loss / Poker over brown coal

    11 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Reuters “E.ON sticks to spin-off plans after record net loss” E.ON says it is sticking to its plans to spin off its conventional power operations, after posting a record net loss in the first nine months of 2015 on the ...
  • 12 Nov 2014

    In the media: Reactions to energy minister's coal comments

    12 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter   Reactions to energy minister's warning against quick exit from coal power Frankfurter Rundschau “Too much coal” Everything points to a show-down between energy minister Sigmar Gabriel and environment ...
  • 06 Nov 2015

    87% of Germans support climate treaty / 鶹 transition costs

    06 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Fraunhofer ISE “What does the Energiewende cost?” The costs of a climate-friendly transformation of the German energy system from now until 2050- when the country wants to emit 80 percent less ...
  • 26 Nov 2024 |

    鶹 company RWE remains dominant in German electricity market – competition authority

    26 Nov 2024, 13:21 Jack McGovan Electricity market 鶹 鶹 company RWE has been found for the fifth time in a row to be in a dominant position in the German electricity market, according to a report by the Federal Cartel Office. Although ...
  • 12 Dec 2023 |

    Eastern German states call for clarity on EU state aid position on coal exit compensation

    12 Dec 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs Der Tagesspiegel Coal mining states in eastern Germany have called for clarity regarding the release of 1.75 billion euros in support funds from the federal government for the transition away ...
  • 11 Aug 2022 |

    RWE boosts spending on renewables amid energy crisis

    11 Aug 2022, 14:07 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities 鶹 German energy company RWE will spend about 5 billion euros – 30 percent more than originally planned ­– on ...
  • Judge “cannot yet” see sound claims in landmark climate case by Peruvian farmer against RWE

    20 Mar 2025, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Tagesspiegel / 鶹 In the landmark climate litigation case brought by a Peruvian farmer against German energy company RWE, the judge responsible for the case at a German ...
  • 10 Aug 2023 |

    RWE has dominant position on ұԲ’s electricity market, watchdog warns

    10 Aug 2023, 13:05 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices Utilities 鶹 ұԲ’s competition watchdog has warned power company RWE not to abuse its dominant position in the country’s electricity market. "RWE is indispensable for meeting the ...
  • AI growth in EU could lead to higher emissions abroad- German environment agency

    19 Jun 2025, 12:36 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Digitalisation 鶹 Artificial intelligence (AI) calculations could be increasingly performed in regions with cheap, non-renewable energy to meet growing demand, which could lead to higher ...
  • 20 Jan 2015

    In the media: 鶹 minister rules out capacity markets; renewable growth falling short

    20 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Handelsblatt “Attack on coal” // Interview with 鶹 Minister Sigmar Gabriel ұԲ’s Minister for Economic Affairs and 鶹 has "ended the debate over capacity payments to fossil-fuelled ...
  • German energy company RWE calls for prioritisation of AI amid global competition

    27 May 2025, 12:17 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Technology WirtschaftsWoche In view of the massive energy capacity needed for artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, German energy company RWE is calling for government support to ensure the German ...
  • 09 Dec 2014

    In the media: Mediocre score for German climate measures, grid fees rise, solar auction capacity seen curbed

    09 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 EurActiv “Global comparison reveals Germany's 'Energiewende dilemma'” Germany scored average results (place 22 of 61) in the global climate protection index, compiled by the NGO ...
  • 17 Sep 2015

    In the media: Havoc for utilities; a push for robot cars

    17 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Bloomberg “Why ұԲ’s nuclear power exit is causing havoc for utilities” Financing the nuclear phase-out is the biggest challenge yet for ұԲ’s large utilities, which explains this week’s ...
  • 12 Mar 2025 |

    German energy companies say 2030 wind power targets cannot be achieved without Chinese hardware

    12 Mar 2025, 13:14 Edgar Meza Wind Security WirtschaftsWoche Despite warnings of potential security risks posed by Chinese components in wind turbines, major energy companies oppose a ban in Germany, arguing that the country's planned expansion path ...
  • 08 Dec 2014

    In the media: Fast-track law on power market design, a nuclear fund, wind parks and birds

    08 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Der Spiegel “Power monster eats the Chancellor” Frank Dohmen und Gerald Trautfetter in Der Spiegel say the government is under pressure to draft and pass a law on the power market design by summer ...
  • 25 Mar 2025

    In brief | 25 March '25

    25 Mar 2025, 11:25 鶹 Team The Guardian: German parliament sits for first time with AfD as main opposition ұԲ’s new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday with the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) the strongest opposition faction, ...
  • 14 Nov 2023 |

    EnBW, RWE rake in high profits in 2023 so far, highlight energy transition investments

    14 Nov 2023, 13:53 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Jack McGovan Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Clean ...
  • 13 Aug 2024 |

    Revenues from German offshore wind tenders slump – media

    13 Aug 2024, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Wind Tagesspiegel Background / 鶹 The results of Germany's latest offshore wind power auction indicate that revenues are on a sharp decline, reported energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
  • 16 Sep 2015

    In the media: Utility shares slump; criticism of coal plant export financing

    16 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 /sites/default/files/files/article/media-utility-shares-slump-criticism-coal-plant-export-financing/clew-reporters-guide-2015.pdf Süddeutsche Zeitung “Why shares of E ...
  • 07 Mar 2025

    In brief | 7 March '25

    07 Mar 2025, 11:28 鶹 Team Politico: ұԲ’s Merz has 2 weeks to deliver historic spending revolution Losing faith in Washington as a military ally, Berlin wants to rip up the old fiscal orthodoxy. But it’s now a race against the clock. DW: Peruvian ...
  • 05 Jun 2015

    In the media: G7 seen setting climate agenda; Coal-fired plants lose money

    05 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 鶹 鶹 Carbon Tracker Initiative "Coal: caught in the EU utility death spiral" New coal-fired power plants fail to generate positive cash-flows even under the most optimistic ...
  • 19 Apr 2022 |

    RWE nearing showdown with activist investor over future of brown coal division

    19 Apr 2022, 12:23 Edgar Meza Coal Utilities WirtschaftsWoche Enkraft, a major shareholder of German energy company RWE, is calling for the utility to quickly spin off its brown coal activities, financial weekly WirtschaftsWoche reports. Fellow ...
  • 16 May 2017 |

    RWE jumps to 10-month high as utility says targets on track“

    German utility RWE’s stock price rose to a 10-month high as the company announced its first quarter results and confirmed the 2017 outlook, reports Tino Andresen for Bloomberg. “We got off to a good start this year and confirm our optimistic outlook as ...
  • 09 Sep 2021 |

    Activist investor pushes RWE to dump coal and boost energy company’s value

    09 Sep 2021, 14:22 Edgar Meza Coal Finance Reuters / Der Spiegel After acquiring a stake in RWE, ұԲ’s largest energy company, activist fund Enkraft is pushing for the company to divest its brown coal division, Reuters reports. In a letter to the ...
  • 30 May 2022 |

    Peruvian farmer’s climate lawsuit against German energy company RWE enters decisive stage

    30 May 2022, 14:04 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Coal 鶹 A landmark climate lawsuit by a Peruvian farmer and mountain guide against ...
  • 11 Aug 2016 |

    "RWE’s quarterly loss narrows on generation, cost cuts"

    RWE AG’s second-quarter loss narrowed by 22 percent after an improved performance in the German utility’s power plant business and cost cuts, reports Tino Andresen for Bloomberg. The Essen-based company reduced its adjusted net loss to 259 million euros ...
  • 29 Jun 2015

    In the media: Calls on Merkel to save climate levy

    29 Jun 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung “Unemployment benefit for coal” The apparent death of the levy on old coal-fired power plants is bad news because the alternative presented by major utilities and mining ...
  • 24 Oct 2019 |

    NGOs call on coal mining state to protect villages and forest near mine

    24 Oct 2019, 12:06 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal 鶹 Leading environmental NGOs have called on the government of western German mining region North Rhine-Westphalia to protect ...
  • German chancellor decides runtime extension for all remaining nuclear plants, ending coalition row

    19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said his government would pave the way for prolonging the runtime of all three of ұԲ’s remaining reactors until April 2023. The German leader thus intervened to settle a dispute about the delayed end of ...
  • 06 Aug 2015

    In the media: Energiewende “top or flop”; PV auctions trial oversubscribed

    06 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 dpa “Green state ministers criticise Gabriel’s Renewable 鶹 Act (EEG) reform plans” Environment and energy ministers from nine German states have warned Federal Minister for 鶹 and Economic ...
  • 24 Nov 2015

    Allianz exits coal / Peruvian farmer sues RWE

    24 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Carl Morris 鶹 鶹 ZDF / Süddeutsche Zeitung / Allianz “Allianz quits coal financing” German insurance company Allianz will no longer invest in companies that get more than 30 percent of their revenue ...
  • 16 Aug 2024

    In brief | 16 August '24

    16 Aug 2024, 10:08 Julian Wettengel Eurostat: EU economy greenhouse gas emissions:-4.0% in Q1 2024 In the first quarter of 2024, the EU economy greenhouse gas emissions were estimated at 894 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 4.0 percent ...
  • 06 Nov 2023 |

    Earlier 2030 coal phase-out achievable for Germany if “future-proof gas plants” are built – RWE CEO

    06 Nov 2023, 13:51 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Bloomberg The CEO of ұԲ’s largest power company RWE insists the country can still achieve an earlier ...
  • 30 Aug 2021 |

    RWE CEO renews call to remove barriers to renewables expansion

    30 Aug 2021, 13:30 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Edgar Meza Industry Welt am Sonntag German energy giant RWE is accelerating the expansion of renewable energy sources, Guido M. Hartmann writes in Welt am Sonntag. ...
  • 04 Oct 2022 |

    German town next to coal mine that has become symbol for resistance will be demolished

    04 Oct 2022, 12:14 Edgar Meza Coal Society 鶹 The town of Lützerath that has become a symbolic battle ground for climate activsits in Germany will be demolished to make room for a nearby coal mine, the state government of North-Rhine ...
  • 23 Oct 2014

    ұԲ’s energy transition in the media on 23 Oct 2014

    23 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung “鶹 policy: backwards roll” It is not just Germany undertaking an energy transition, writes Cerstin Gammelin in an opinion piece for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, other European ...
  • 05 Oct 2015

    In the media: Gabriel takes conciliatory tone over troubled utilities

    05 Oct 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/WAZ “Minister Gabriel does not want to ‘shave’ utilities” German energy minister Sigmar Gabriel surprised stockmarkets with conciliatory remarks about the country’s troubled ...
  • 29 Dec 2015 |

    2016 Outlook – Key topics for ұԲ’s energy transition

    29 Dec 2015, 00:00 2016 is set to be another eventful year in German energy policy. The Paris climate summit underlined the need to reduce emissions even further, which will ultimately involve painful decisions about the future of coal. A series of ...
  • 12 Nov 2014 |

    Many German households to get cheaper power for first time in years

    12 Nov 2014, 00:00 After more than a decade of rising electricity prices, German utilities are passing on some of their savings from lower wholesale prices and a cut in the renewable energy surcharge. But with a number of government decisions on the next ...
  • 10 May 2021 |

    German utility RWE aims for market leadership in green energy

    10 May 2021, 14:32 Edgar Meza 鶹 鶹 Renewables Utilities Die Welt Germany's largest electricity producer RWE has set its sights on becoming the leading provider of renewable energy in numerous industrialised countries. In an ...
  • RWE head Schmitz vows to “fight on” for clearing of Hambach Forest

    In two separate interviews, the CEO of energy company RWE, Rolf Martin Schmitz, has vowed to continue contending for the clearing of the embattled Hambach Forest, which a court ordered to halt on 5 October. In an interview with the Rheinische Post, ...
  • 12 May 2016

    Offensive for energy efficiency / Germany rejects carbon floor price

    12 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Ministry for 鶹 and Economic Affairs (BMWi) Germany aims to give energy efficiency new push The German government has launched a new offensive to increase energy efficiency. ...
  • 16 Mar 2021 |

    Utility RWE has long way to go to climate-neutrality – Greenpeace report

    16 Mar 2021, 13:29 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Climate & CO2 鶹 / Tagesspiegel Background German energy utility RWE is struggling to make the transition to climate-neutrality, according to a report published by 鶹Comment and commissioned ...
  • 17 Sep 2021 |

    鶹 company RWE says prepared to phase out coal-fired power generation earlier

    17 Sep 2021, 12:36 Kerstine Appunn Coal 鶹 / Spiegel Online German energy company RWE is ready to close down its coal-fired power stations earlier than prescribed by the country’s coal exit law, CEO Markus Krebber told  Spiegel Online. RWE ...
  • 23 Mar 2016 |

    Pressure on utilities to pay more for nuclear storage

    23 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Hydrogen Reuters Nuclear commission wants utilities to supplement clean-up provisions The commission on payments for the nuclear clean-up insists that nuclear power station ...
  • 22 Sep 2015

    In the media: VW's blatant deception; "error in the IEA energy bible"

    22 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) “The VW scandal” It is a mystery why VW decided to take the risk of manipulating emission results with rather limited benefits, writes Holger Appel in FAZ. Why ...
  • 17 Jan 2020 |

    RWE head says company shoulders 'biggest burden' of German coal exit

    17 Jan 2020, 12:52 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy Bonner General-Anzeiger The head of energy company RWE, Rolf Martin Schmitz, has said his company is "shouldering the biggest burden ...
  • German utility RWE raises earnings forecast for 2019 amid lignite compensation talks

    31 Jul 2019, 13:52 Freja Eriksen Coal Electricity market Utilities 鶹 / Reuters RWE AG, one of ұԲ’s largest utilities, has raised its earnings expectations for 2019 due to a stronger than anticipated performance in its energy trading ...
  • 02 Sep 2016 |

    RWE, E.ON et al. Alarmed; Attack on returns of grid operators“

    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 ұԲ’s grid infrastructure, write Jürgen Flauger and Klaus Stratmann in the ...
  • 13 Aug 2020 |

    RWE lignite electricity production drops sharply – report

    13 Aug 2020, 12:33 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Utilities 鶹/Focus Online/Rheinische Post Utility RWE’s production from lignite coal fell sharply over the first half of 2020, even before the effects ...
  • 31 Mar 2022 |

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

    31 Mar 2022, 14:00 Sören Amelang Coal Security 鶹 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 ...
  • 12 Mar 2025

    In brief | 12 March '25

    12 Mar 2025, 10:57 鶹 Team Reuters: RWE, TotalEnergies agree long-term green hydrogen supply deal  Germany's top utility agrees to supply French oil major with around 30,000 t of green hydrogen a year from 2030, in one of the sector's biggest ...
  • 10 Dec 2024

    In brief | 10 December '24

    10 Dec 2024, 12:00 鶹 Team RWE: Head of German energy company "not concerned" about Trump's effect on renewables "It’s not all down to politics," says CEO Krebber, expects U.S. green power business to flourish. dpa: Ford's ...
  • 13 Jan 2020 |

    German RWE plans renewables investments largely abroad

    13 Jan 2020, 14:20 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities 鶹 German energy company RWE aims to become carbon neutral by 2040 and plans the requisite renewables investments ...
  • 05 Feb 2021 |

    RWE sues Netherlands for two billion euros compensation over the state's 2030 coal exit

    05 Feb 2021, 13:33 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal International 鶹 / Handelsblatt German energy company RWE is suing the Netherlands for compensation payments in relation to the ...
  • 02 Oct 2015

    In the media: Nuclear clean-up support; diesel's future

    02 Oct 2015, 00:00 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Support for nuclear plant operators” The home region of battered utilities RWE and E.ON has suggested the companies should receive state aid if their provisions for nuclear decommissioning prove too small ...
  • 27 Apr 2018 |

    RWE insists on property rights in coal exit debate

    German utility RWE’s CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz said that the company’s property rights need to be ensured in the debate about possible early shutdowns of its coal-fired power plants, writes Focus Online. At an RWE shareholder meeting, Schmitz also warned of ...
  • 13 Nov 2024

    In brief | 13 November '24

    13 Nov 2024, 12:00 鶹 Team Wall Street Journal: RWE warns of U.S. election's impact on offshore wind German energy company outlines 1.6 bln dollar buyback, says project off U.S. east coast could be delayed. CNBC: Rivian-Volkswagen joint venture ...
  • 10 Dec 2015 |

    Pulling the plug on nuclear

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

    Dismantling prototype nuclear plant closed 35 years ago could cost German state €1 bln

    06 Sep 2024, 13:20 Jennifer Collins Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Handelsblatt / 鶹 Germany's federal government may have to pick up a one billion euro tab to dismantle a nuclear power plant that shut down in 1989 as the operating ...
  • 05 Jan 2021 |

    German energy stocks rise as investors bet on renewables

    05 Jan 2021, 12:53 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Utilities manager magazin / Handelsblatt Stocks of German wind and solar park operators had a successful start to 2021 as ...
  • 14 Mar 2017 |

    RWE forecasts improved earnings for 2017”

    German utility RWE forecasts adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation of between 5.4 billion and 5.7 billion euros in 2017 “on the back of an improved performance at its trading arm and its green energy subsidiary innogy”, ...
  • 21 Mar 2025

    In brief | 21 March '25

    21 Mar 2025, 12:00 鶹 Team Reuters: German energy transition could be 300 billion euros cheaper with more efficiency, finds report BCG & BDI industry association say investments currently planned in renewables, power grids and hydrogen far exceed ...
  • 19 Apr 2017 |

    RWE’s appetite for deals hones in on UK energy market”

    RWE’s CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz has fuelled expectations that the company will target the UK energy market for future acquisitions with comments in a  recent German newspaper interview, writes Jillian Ambrose in The Telegraph. With its capacity market, the ...
  • 19 May 2015

    In the media: Coal and climate- Can Merkel lead by example?

    19 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Bloomberg / Handelsblatt “Germany, France Seek Curb on Fossil Fuel Pollution This Century“ To control the risks of climate change, Germany and France want to almost completely forego the use of ...
  • 12 Nov 2020 |

    Court forces Germany to revisit phase-out compensation for nuclear operators

    12 Nov 2020, 14:18 ұԲ’s highest court has ruled that the compensation clauses in the country’s nuclear exit law are unconstitutional. The decision forces the government to make changes to the law yet again, after the original legislation had to be ...
  • German court stops controversial clearing of forest for lignite mine

    05 Oct 2018, 17:00 Clearing operations at the embattled Hambach Forest to make way for a coal mine have to be halted to decide whether the forest is protected by EU environmental rules, a German court has decided. The judges said energy company RWE did ...
  • 23 Oct 2017 |

    “Utility takeover: Eyes on Uniper”

    German energy utility RWE might be considering a partial takeover of its rival Uniper, Jürgen Flauger reports for the Handelsblatt. RWE refused to comment but Flauger points out it has previously been interested in buying gas and coal-fired power plants. ...
  • 鶹 minister locks horns with utilities over capacity markets

    20 Jan 2015, 00:00 Sigmar Gabriel has made strong statements against capacity markets, with the utilities once again insisting they are needed to ensure investment in the power sector. The state secretary for energy said that with current overcapacity, ...
  • 21 Mar 2019 |

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

    21 Mar 2019, 12:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / n-tv online Halting coal mining at the embattled Hambach Forest would cost operator RWE  more than a billion euros, the company said in an article by news agency dpa carried by website n-tv online. ...
  • 20 Apr 2021 |

    鶹 companies get ready to sue over RWE’s lignite exit compensation

    20 Apr 2021, 13:00 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 鶹 (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG ...
  • Companies pay almost €800m for right to build offshore wind farms in German tender

    11 Aug 2023, 13:16 Sören Amelang Wind Business & Jobs Utilities 鶹 Investors have agreed to pay 784 million euros for the right to build wind farms in four locations in the North Sea in ұԲ’s latest offshore wind tender. The wind ...
  • 08 Feb 2016

    Mercury limits 'could end coal' / A fund for nuclear waste?

    08 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Der Tagesspiegel “Government could use mercury limits to take coal plants offline” The government “has a plan B up its sleeve" in case there is no political agreement on a coal exit, reports ...
  • 08 Jun 2023 |

    High energy prices bring about “first signs of deindustrialisation” in Germany – RWE head

    08 Jun 2023, 13:51 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung The head of ұԲ’s largest energy company, RWE, has warned that high prices for energy due to limited ...
  • 08 Feb 2017 |

    RWE expects ‘generous’ dividend”

    innogy's CEO Peter Terium expects the renewables spin-off to pay a “generous dividend” to its parent company RWE this year, news agency Reuters reports. "Generous means dividend multiplied by the number of shares. RWE has a lot of shares so what ...
  • 03 Jan 2022 |

    Germany enters last year of nuclear, takes reactors and lignite plants offline

    03 Jan 2022, 13:18 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal Nuclear phase-out 鶹 ұԲ’s nuclear and coal phase-out both took a step towards their completion on the last day of 2021, when ...
  • 14 Jul 2016 |

    “Federal government postpones cabinet decision on nuclear law”

    The cabinet decision on a new law to regulate the financing of nuclear decommissioning and waste storage will be postponed until the end of August, writes WirtschaftsWoche. According to the unsourced report, utility RWE said it would not be able to ...
  • 31 Jan 2019 |

    Municipal shareholders tell RWE to take hard line in coal compensation talks

    31 Jan 2019, 13:22 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Coal Utilities Reuters Municipal shareholders in RWE have called on ұԲ’s biggest power producer to drive a hard bargain in ...
  • 14 Jul 2015

    In the media: RWE fights for lignite and frightens local utilities

    14 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 RWE “Poll – Lignite is essential stabiliser for energy supply” Two thirds of Germans believe electricity prices have a large influence on the competitiveness of German industry, according to a ...
  • 04 Jun 2015

    In the media: Industry joins mining union's fight against coal levy

    04 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 BDI / IG BCE Industry Association joins forces with mining union to combat coal levy Leading German industry association BDI has thrown its weight behind mining union IG BCE ’s efforts to thwart ...
  • 04 Oct 2022 |

    German coal region brings phase-out forward to 2030 but refires lignite short-term

    04 Oct 2022, 15:05 Germany's western coal mining and heavy industry state North Rhine-Westphalia aims to complete the phase-out of coal-fired power production no later than 2030, eight years earlier than agreed in German coal exit law. However, two ...
  • 29 Apr 2019 |

    German utility RWE cancels plans for lignite power station, says no more new coal plants

    29 Apr 2019, 13:46 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Rachel Waldholz Coal Utilities 鶹 / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German utility RWE announced this week that it was cancelling plans to build a new ...
  • 04 Mar 2021 |

    German RWE and EnBW eye offshore wind projects in Asia and the U.S.

    04 Mar 2021, 12:29 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Wind Handelsblatt / 鶹 German energy ...
  • 10 May 2017 |

    RWE to place subsidiaries under separate leadership”

    RWE’s CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz plans to reorganise the company’s senior management, writes Jürgen Flauger in Handelsblatt, citing company sources. Subsidiaries RWE Power – responsible for lignite and nuclear power – and RWE Generation, which deals with gas ...
  • 26 Feb 2025 |

    ұԲ’s former reactor operators lukewarm on Merz’s nuclear “dismantling moratorium” idea

    26 Feb 2025, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Policy Süddeutsche Zeitung A proposal from ұԲ’s likely next chancellor for a “moratorium on dismantling” the remaining decommissioned nuclear reactors in the country has been met with reluctance ...
  • 21 Jun 2022 |

    RWE halts early retirements as Germany ramps up coal use to replace Russian gas

    21 Jun 2022, 12:22 Edgar Meza Coal Utilities ARD, Rheinische Post RWE, ұԲ’s largest energy company, has halted early retirement of employees in reaction to the government’s decision to increase the use of coal-fired power while gas supplies are low, ...
  • 11 Nov 2016 |

    innogy: 9-mo core profit down on high grid maintenance costs

    German utility RWE’s green subsidiary innogy reported a 7 percent fall in EBITDA  in the first nine months of 2016 compared to the same period last year. The decline in profits comes one month after the company’s stock market debut in October. “The ...
  • 01 Aug 2016 |

    RWE makes profit forecast for Innogy”

    German utility RWE has forecast EBITDA profits of between 4.1 and 4.4 billion euros in 2016 for its new renewable subsidiary innogy (currently ‘RWE International SE’). The figure is lower than the 4.5 billion euro figure it recorded in 2015, according to ...
  • 04 Jul 2016 |

    “The final days of RWE

    ұԲ’s largest power producer RWE teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, writes Sebastian Balzter in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. The utility urgently needs cash to pay for the nuclear exit.  If the sale of the renewable subsidiary “Innogy” on ...
  • Hambach Forest: RWE head and environmental NGOs meet

    German energy company RWE and environmental organisations have met to discuss the situation in the embattled Hambach Forest that energy company RWE wants to cut down to make room for a nearby coal mine, reports Spiegel Online. RWE head Rolf Martin Schmitz ...
  • 05 May 2022 |

    Germany goes full steam ahead on LNG import infrastructure

    05 May 2022, 13:32 Germany is rapidly pushing several infrastructure projects for the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in order to wean itself off Russian natural gas. Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck visited the kick-off ceremony for the ...
  • 23 Feb 2017 |

    “O辱ԾDz: RWE is an energy bad bank”

    German utility RWE would be “merely a sort of ‘bad bank’ of the energy business” without the 75 percent share in its renewable spin-off innogy, and RWE's problems are self-inflicted, writes Andreas Becker in an opinion piece for Deutsche Welle. “The ...
  • Geman police move into Hambach Forest climate activist camp to “remove barricades”

    Police forces in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have moved into the embattled Hambach Forest that energy company RWE wants to cut down to make room for a nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. On Twitter, police said they ...
  • 29 Sep 2015

    In the media: "Carmakers must not end up like RWE and E.ON"

    29 Sep 2015, 00:00 Carl Morris 鶹 鶹 Handelsblatt “Carmakers must not end up like RWE and E.ON” In an interview with business daily Handelsblatt, transport expert Anton Hofreiter- one of the Green party’s parliamentary leaders- argues ...
  • 22 Nov 2017 |

    RWE and state of North Rhine-Westphalia reject court settlement on lignite mining

    German utility RWE and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia have rejected a court settlement offer that would have allowed the company to continue producing lignite in its largest open pit mine on the proviso that it refrained from carrying out clearing ...
  • 04 Jan 2021 |

    German coal exit on its way with first plants off the grid

    04 Jan 2021, 12:49 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian ...
  • 27 Aug 2015

    In the media: Subsidies for heating systems; wind turbines and tourism

    27 Aug 2015, 00:00 Clarifies that the whole article in the Frankfurter Rundschau is written by Jörg Staude. Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Ministry of Finance / FÖS Government subsidies seen rising Subsidies and tax concessions will increase to 22 ...
  • 15 Apr 2015

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

    15 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 The Guardian “German backlash grows against coal power clampdown“ The proposed levy on old coal-fired power stations is fast becoming a test of the German government’s commitment to decarbonise its ...
  • 28 Jun 2016 |

    “Green power: got to be in it, to win it”

    Deutsche Welle has published a video report showing how utility RWE continues to mine and use lignite for electricity production in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. “鶹 giant RWE has been relying on coal for too long now, and its ...
  • 08 Nov 2016 |

    RWE prepares for attack again”

    German utility RWE has regained a great deal of its former assertiveness since the successful stock market launch of its green subsidiary innogy in early October, writes Jürgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. “RWE already is a healthy company,” RWE’s new CEO ...
  • 15 Jan 2019 |

    Making the Hambach Forest symbol of climate action could backfire

    15 Jan 2019, 11:55 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Fossil fuels Society Die Welt Activists’ elevation of the Hambach Forest, which energy company RWE wants to cut down to expand ...
  • 10 Jan 2020 |

    Germany's RWE could receive two billion euros in compensation for coal exit – media reports

    10 Jan 2020, 11:50 Expert EPH- Energetický a průmyslový holding Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Rheinische Post / Reuters German energy company RWE could receive up to two billion euros ...
  • 29 Sep 2016 |

    “Some municipal shareholders in Germany's RWE won't take part in innogy listing”

    Several municipal shareholders of utility RWE – among them Dortmund and Essen – will not invest in the company’s renewable subsidiary innogy at the time of its initial public offering (IPO), according to news agency Reuters. “As a provider of jobs in the ...
  • 04 Feb 2016

    E-car support without subsidies / Nuclear energy as an option

    04 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung Decision on e-car support postponed The German government has postponed the decision about how to boost e-cars until March after a high-level meeting with ...
  • 14 Aug 2017 |

    “ұԲ’s RWE to pay special dividend after major tax refund”

    German utility RWE confirmed its 2017 forecast after posting a seven percent increase in earnings in the second half of 2017, and announced it would pay a special dividend of 1 euro a share after having received the nuclear fuel tax refund, writes Guy ...
  • 19 Feb 2019 |

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

    19 Feb 2019, 13:33 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG ...
  • 30 Aug 2016 |

    RWE seeks the sun with acquisition”

    RWE subsidiary innogy SE is bolstering its position in energy storage and photovoltaics by signing a contract to take over German solar and battery specialist BELECTRIC Solar & Battery Holding GmbH. The takeover “instantly makes innogy an ...
  • 30 Jan 2015

    In the media: Car emissions, grid connections and power storage

    30 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Zeit Online "Germany warns against overly strict thresholds for cars" Under EU regulations, by 2021 CO2 emissions from new cars must not exceed an average of 95 grams per kilometre. By ...
  • 20 Sep 2019 |

    Hambach Forest and coal phaseout must be secured – NRW state premier

    20 Sep 2019, 13:03 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy ...
  • 08 Jun 2016

    Renewables reform / Merkel: Energiewende must not destroy utilities

    08 Jun 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Federal government Renewables law reform gets government approval Angela Merkel’s cabinet has decided on the reform of the Renewable 鶹 Act (EEG) that is to take ...
  • 13 Mar 2019 |

    Court rejects lawsuit aiming to protect Hambach Forest, woodland’s future still uncertain

    13 Mar 2019, 11:10 The Hambach Forest in western Germany has become a symbol for climate activists, who are seeking to prevent energy company RWE from razing it to expand a nearby coal mine. A lawsuit by the environmental NGO BUND last year temporarily ...
  • 15 Dec 2015 |

    Paris deal fuels German coal exit debate, stirs industry concerns

    15 Dec 2015, 00:00 The widely celebrated Paris Agreement has intensified the debate about how Germany can achieve its endangered climate targets. Most commentators and climate activists argued the results of the climate summit vindicated demands that ...
  • 14 Mar 2017 |

    “Engie eyes bid for 18.6 billion euros utility firm innogy”

    French utility Engie is considering buying German utility RWE’s renewables spin-off innogy, writes Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. The deliberations were preliminary and may not lead to an offer, writes Bloomberg. Read the Bloomberg ...
  • 28 Jun 2021 |

    New RWE head calls for "urgent" removal of hurdles for rapid renewables expansion

    28 Jun 2021, 13:49 Edgar Meza Renewables Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The new CEO of Germany's largest energy company RWE, Markus Krebber, expressed hope that ұԲ’s next government will quickly clear hurdles currently ...
  • 15 Mar 2019 |

    RWE substantiates claims for billion-euro coal plant compensation

    15 Mar 2019, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鶹 company RWE has substantiated its claims for a high compensation for the decommissioning of its coal power capacity, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ...
  • 12 Mar 2018 |

    RWE eyes EnBW’s coal and natural gas plants – report

    On the sidelines of its surprising and far-reaching deal with competitor E.ON, German utility RWE is mulling another major transaction- the purchase of utility EnBW's coal and gas plants, Jürgen Flauger writes for Handelsblatt. RWE CEO Rolf Martin ...
  • 19 Jun 2019 |

    RWE and innogy eye 100 MW power-to-hydrogen plant in Netherlands

    19 Jun 2019, 12:00 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Utilities 鶹 German energy companies RWE and innogy are jointly looking into large-scale production of green hydrogen and ...
  • 14 Aug 2020 |

    German utilities' renewables transformation is gathering pace

    14 Aug 2020, 14:27 Utilities Tagesspiegel Background Major German energy companies are making “rapid progress” with their green energy transition thanks to renewables becoming clear profit-makers that are attractive to investors,  Jakob Schlandt writes in ...
  • 06 Dec 2022 |

    Regulation stalling competitive hydrogen infrastructure buildout in EU – RWE 𲹻

    06 Dec 2022, 13:46 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU Handelsblatt Excessive EU regulation is stalling the development of competitive hydrogen infrastructure in Europe, the head of ұԲ’s ...
  • 29 Mar 2022 |

    RWE wins legal battle to continue coal mine expansion

    29 Mar 2022, 12:06 Edgar Meza Coal Der Spiegel A state court in North Rhine-Westphalia has ruled in favour of German utility RWE in a land dispute linked to the expansion of its Garzweiler lignite opencast mine located in the western German hamlet of ...
  • 14 Feb 2019 |

    Saving Hambach Forest would make it “ұԲ’s most expensive woodland”- RWE CEO

    14 Feb 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann 鶹 鶹 Coal Utilities 鶹 Hambach Forest in western Germany could be saved following the German coal exit commission’s agreement, but only at great cost, RWE head Rolf Martin Schmitz said ...
  • 08 Jan 2018 |

    Coal mining company tears down protected church despite protests

    Protestors temporarily interrupted German energy company RWE’s demolition of a protected church in the town of Immerath in western German state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Manfred Kriener writes on  klimaretter.info. Greenpeace activists occupied the ...
  • 11 Mar 2015

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

    11 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Reuters “E.ON paves way for spin-off following record loss” ұԲ’s biggest utility, E.ON, booked its largest ever annual loss, as a result of its ailing power plants, Reuters reports. The ...
  • 13 Mar 2017 |

    “Innogy earnings fall as low wind levels hit energy generation”

    Partly due to weak winds last year, earnings at RWE renewables spin-off innogy fell 7 percent to 4.2 billion euros in 2016, the company's first fiscal year as an independent company, reports Guy Chazan for the Financial Times. Revenues dropped four ...
  • 12 Mar 2018 |

    Innogy deal: Electricity companies seek refuge in reordering

    The deal on innogy between utilities Eon and RWE is another sign of how weak the two former energy giants have become, after they failed to act in time on the shift towards a low-carbon energy supply, Jakob Schlandt writes in a commentary for daily ...
  • 15 Aug 2019 |

    Opencast coal mining dries out Germany's embattled Hambach Forest – study

    15 Aug 2019, 12:34 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal Climate & CO2 鶹 German energy company RWE's opencast ...
  • 06 Oct 2016 |

    “Innogy to become most valuable utility”

    The stock market launch of innogy could make RWE’s green subsidiary ұԲ’s most valuable utility, writes Antje Höning in Rheinische Post. If the stock price of 36 euros- determined by auction- remains unchanged, innogy will be worth around 20 billion ...
  • 22 Jul 2016 |

    “Power cut”

    One quarter of ailing energy utility RWE is in the hands of towns and councils which are dependent on its dividend, an article in Capital says. The shares of RWE have lost 80 percent of their value since 2010 and the dividend has been cut, making these ...
  • RWE investor mulls selling company shares as “big plant operators’ time is over”

    The regional municipality association Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) mulls selling its shares in German energy company RWE as “grave changes on the energy market” mean that “the time of big plant operators is over,” Welt Online reports. LWL ...
  • Four of ten most air polluting companies in Europe operate coal plants in Germany - NGOs

    Environmental NGOs sandbag and Greenpeace have dubbed German utility RWE Europe's worst air polluter. “Four of the ten most toxic companies have their main coal plants in Germany: RWE, EPH, Uniper, and STEAG. This is no coincidence: Germany burns ...
  • 25 Oct 2019 |

    RWE rejects analysis flagging 1 billion euro coal plant losses in 2019

    25 Oct 2019, 14:06 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal Reuters / 鶹 German energy company RWE rejected an analysis by financial think tank Carbon Tracker saying the German power firm would ...
  • 11 Dec 2014

    In the media: Global perceptions of the Energiewende, CO2 from cars and report on fossil fuel dependency

    11 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Study: Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) “How the world sees the Energiewende” ұԲ’s Energiewende – the shift from conventional and nuclear energy to a renewable power supply – is the focus of ...
  • 22 May 2020 |

    Soaring renewables output could save villages threatened by German coal mine expansion

    22 May 2020, 14:07 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace Germany ...
  • 27 Aug 2018 |

    German environment minister against mine expansion during coal commission’s mandate

    ұԲ’s environment minister, Svenja Schulze, has weighed in on the dispute between environmental groups and energy company RWE over the expansion of a lignite mine and the clearing of a nearby forest, tagesschau.de reports. “If we want to achieve a ...
  • 16 Jan 2023 |

    Q&A: Why are police and climate activists clashing in German village near coal mine?

    16 Jan 2023, 13:30 The small western German village of Lützerath has become the latest battle ground for climate activists, as it is being demolished to expand a neighbouring lignite mine. Given ұԲ’s aims to quit coal ‘ideally’ by 2030 and to reach ...
  • 23 Feb 2017 |

    “City of Essen considers withdrawing from RWE

    Municipal shareholders of German utility RWE are under pressure after the energy company announced it wouldn’t pay a dividend for a second consecutive year, writes Jürgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. The city of Essen, seat of RWE’s company headquarters and ...
  • 07 Jan 2021 |

    European energy companies to invest up to one trillion euros in renewables by 2030

    07 Jan 2021, 13:57 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Business & Jobs Utilities Handelsblatt European ...
  • Court's halt to forest clearing fans talk of easier German coal exit

    08 Oct 2018, 16:58 Anti-coal activists in Germany and beyond experienced a sudden change in fortune on 5 October, when a court ruling boosted their cause and provisionally stopped plans of energy company RWE to cut down the embattled Hambach Forest in ...
  • 30 Sep 2019 |

    Two lignite units complete Germany's security standby

    30 Sep 2019, 13:41 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal dpa The last two of a group of eight lignite power plant units are entering ұԲ’s security standby, reports news agency dpa. RWE’s unit C at ...
  • Coal commission keeps out of lignite mine expansion dispute

    23 Aug 2018, 18:15 ұԲ’s coal commission will not give any recommendation regarding mining-owner RWE’s plans to continue clearing forest for the planned extension of the Hambach lignite mine in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The country's ...
  • RWE Power warns of structural breaks”

    German utility RWE warns of structural breaks in the Rhenish lignite mining area in western Germany if the government decides on an early coal-exit date, writes Carsten Sommerfeld in Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung. “We need time for structural adaptation. ...
  • 03 Jan 2017 |

    “Instant healing”

    ұԲ’s major utility RWE intends to pay its 6.8 billion euro-contribution to a state-administered fund for financing the storage of nuclear waste without delay, raising questions about its actual financial status, Michael Bauchmüller writes in ...
  • RWE head denies danger of insolvency”

    Despite looming debt and the heavy financial burden from the nuclear clean-up, the CEO of electricity utility RWE, Peter Terium, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that the company is on solid financial ground. “We have many billions of euros ...
  • 02 Nov 2017 |

    Speedy coal exit would affect RWE most

    Should the next German government decide on a speedy exit from coal-fired power generation, no company would be affected as much as German utility RWE, Europe’s largest CO₂ emitter, writes Jürgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. RWE is in a better financial ...
  • 22 Dec 2021 |

    German govt needs clear framework for energy transition by end of 2022 – RWE CEO

    22 Dec 2021, 12:42 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Energiewende Handelsblatt The new German government must quickly fill its ambitious energy transition plans with action, according to Markus Krebber, ...
  • 24 Mar 2021 |

    German govt decides amended nuclear law, settles disputes with plant operators

    24 Mar 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out 鶹 ұԲ’s government cabinet today approved an amendment to the Nuclear 鶹 Act which provides for financial compensation to nuclear power plant operators due to the country’s phase ...
  • 27 Feb 2019 |

    RWE has no claim to compensation over coal exit – parliament lawyers

    27 Feb 2019, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Coal RP Online The German state is not liable to compensate coal plant operators over the coal phase out, Birgit Marschall says in an article for RP Online. The federal parliament’s research service concludes that while ...
  • 08 Mar 2016

    RWE posts net loss / Nuclear in focus ahead of Fukushima anniversary

    08 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 RWE/Bloomberg RWE posts second net loss in two years ұԲ’s biggest power producer RWE posted its second net loss in three years, reports Tino Andresen for Bloomberg. The group’s net loss ...
  • 19 Dec 2019 |

    German govt squashes speculation on extension for nuclear plants

    19 Dec 2019, 13:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of 鶹 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Sven Egenter Nuclear phase-out 鶹 / Der ...
  • 30 Sep 2022 |

    ұԲ’s RWE brings lignite power plants back online to strengthen supply security

    30 Sep 2022, 12:35 Julian Wettengel Coal 鶹 German energy company RWE is set to bring three lignite power plant units in the western part of the country back online in the coming days to help secure power supply during the coming winter, ...
  • 06 Apr 2021 |

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

    06 Apr 2021, 12:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Wind 鶹 State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn and utility RWE extend their renewable energy contract with an additional 190 gigawatt hours (GWh) of offshore wind power annually, the railway ...
  • 20 Aug 2015

    In the media: "Audi's Tesla-fighter" / Job cuts at RWE

    20 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung "Incapable of acting" The market value of RWE, ұԲ’s largest power producer, is shrinking so fast it is reminiscent of a company on the way to bankruptcy, writes ...
  • RWE to dig ditch around Hambach Forest to keep protesters out

    鶹 company RWE plans to dig a ditch around the embattled Hambach Forest to prevent anti-coal protesters from entering the area, the Süddeutsche Zeitung writes. An RWE spokesperson said work on the ditch had already begun but added that it was not ...
  • Citizens’ groups repeat call for standstill agreement on coal mine expansion in Germany

    Several citizens’ and environmental groups in Germany have reiterated their call for a standstill agreement on lignite mine expansion until the speed and scope of the country’s coal phase-out has been determined, Ralph Jansen writes in the Kölner Stadt ...
  • 11 Jul 2019 |

    Industrial powerhouse states plan to step it up on renewables, climate

    11 Jul 2019, 14:02 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Grid Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Süddeutsche Zeitung / 鶹 The government of the western German coal state and industrial ...
  • 10 Oct 2016 |

    “Germany's innogy flounders in Frankfurt market debut”

    German utility RWE’s green subsidiary innogy had a cautious stock market debut with shares “hovering around the issue price,” writes news agency Reuters. On the first day, shares dropped below the issue price of 36 euros at times, but reached that level ...
  • Legal opinion commissioned by Greenpeace says clearing of Hambach Forest illegal

    German energy company RWE will breach the law if it continues to press ahead with the clearing of the Hambach Forest in western Germany to expand its nearby lignite mine, environmental NGO Greenpeace says in a press release. According to a legal opinion ...
  • RWE head insists “nuclear energy economically dead,” expects tenders for gas plants

    24 Oct 2019, 12:19 Expert Economic Council- CDU Wirtschaftsrat Economic Council of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) of Germany Business & Jobs Society Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Sören Amelang Gas Nuclear ...
  • 12 Jan 2023 |

    Lützerath is not the right symbol for climate protests in Germany – econ min

    12 Jan 2023, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Coal Society 鶹 / ZDF German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has said he has “great respect” for climate protesters but sees the village Lützerath — which is due to be demolished and replaced ...
  • 07 Oct 2016 |

    “History argues against innogy”

    The much-lauded stock market launch of RWE’s green subsidiary innogy could still become a disappointment for investors despite the strong book-building that values the company at 20 billion euros, Frank Stocker and Daniel Wetzel write in Die Welt. With an ...
  • 19 Jan 2023 |

    Clashes over village destruction for coal mine damage ұԲ’s climate image abroad – researcher

    19 Jan 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Society Table.Media The protests against the razing of the village of Lützerath in order to expand the brown coal mining operations of energy giant RWE are damaging ұԲ’s image and standing in international climate ...
  • 24 May 2022 |

    EU plans to sell more permits could “destroy” vital CO2 trade, RWE and green think tank warn

    24 May 2022, 13:43 Sören Amelang Carbon market EU Handelsblatt The European Commission’s plans to use the sale of CO2 permits as a source of additional income is a risk to the EU’s entire climate architecture and emission reduction targets, utility RWE ...
  • 07 Mar 2022 |

    German operators prepare for extending runtime of decommissioned coal plants

    07 Mar 2022, 14:19 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Expert ...
  • 02 Mar 2015

    In the media: Vattenfall's new coal plant goes online

    02 Mar 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 Spiegel Online “Vattenfall connects coal-fired power plant Moorburg to the grid” After trial runs lasting over a year, the controversial coal-fired Moorburg power plant in Hamburg has begun commercial operation, ...
  • 12 Jan 2016

    Former Merkel advisor joins RWE / Mongols want German lignite

    12 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Die Welt “Head lobbyist of the energy sector goes to RWE” Hildegard Müller, who was chairwoman at the German Association of 鶹 and Water Industries (BDEW) for seven years, will become member of ...
  • 21 Aug 2018 |

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

    German energy company RWE has rejected calls for a moratorium on forest clearing as part of lignite mining during its negotiations with the country’s coal exit commission, and said it would continue mining operations at the controversial Hambach mine, the ...
  • 22 Feb 2022 |

    ұԲ’s monopolies commission warns against market abuse amid energy crisis

    22 Feb 2022, 13:06 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Utilities 鶹 The current price hikes on electricity and gas markets creates a real danger of market manipulation, the German Monopolies Commission – a permanent expert committee advising ...
  • 01 Mar 2019 |

    Coal plant operators should be compensated, but reasonably – opinion

    01 Mar 2019, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Finance Handelsblatt The operators of ұԲ’s coal plants should receive some compensation for closing facilities in line with the exit plan proposed by the country’s coal commission, but demands must be ...
  • 01 Jul 2016 |

    RWE subsidiary Innogy lures investors with high dividend”

    鶹 company RWE’s new green subsidiary Innogy will in the future pay between 70 and 80 percent of its adjusted net income to shareholders, Spiegel Online reports. The dividend will be paid in full in 2016, the company said at an investor meeting in ...
  • 07 Jul 2022 |

    German coal power firms search personnel as parliament set to greenlight reactivation

    07 Jul 2022, 13:21 Sören Amelang Coal Gas rbb ұԲ’s coal power station operators are struggling to implement the reactivation of mothballed plants, which the country’s parliament is set to approve on Thursday in order to save natural gas in the face ...
  • 17 Apr 2023 |

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

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

    German operator “very optimistic” to run eastern lignite mines past 2030 phase-out aim

    11 Dec 2023, 13:24 Sören Amelang Coal dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung East German coal mine operator LEAG has said it expects to extract lignite from its opencast pits past 2030, even though the government hopes to exit coal by that date. “We are very ...
  • 25 Sep 2018 |

    “Germany will depend on coal for decades to come” – NRW economy minister

    Germany is bound to remain dependent on coal for years to come, up until 2040, although this dependence will gradually decrease, Andreas Pinkwart (FDP), economy minister of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), where one of the remaining lignite mines is located ...
  • 15 Sep 2015

    UPDATE: Econ minister refutes reports about nuclear stress test

    15 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 鶹 鶹 Economy Ministry/Reuters German economy min: No nuclear stress test results yet Germany's energy minister Sigmar Gabriel rejected media reports about provisioning shortfalls for ...
  • “Coal plants continue to play an important role”

    Conventional power plants that run on coal, gas, and nuclear energy are a fundamental part of ұԲ’s energy transition, Lars Kulik, board member at utility RWE’s lignite branch, writes in a guest article for financial market newspaper Börsen-Zeitung. ...
  • RWE, Engie studying tie-up to create Franco-German energy giant”

    German utility RWE and French counterpart Engie are studying a possible share swap that could create a Franco-German giant in power grids, renewables and energy services with a market value of about 50 billion euros, report Arno Schuetze, Geert De Clercq ...
  • 27 Sep 2017 |

    Environmental impact of lignite mining may persist for 300 years

    The effects of lignite mining on the water supply of the Rhenish area in western Germany will be felt for another 300 years, according to an expert report by German utility RWE, writes public broadcaster WDR. RWE has allocated 165 million euros to repair ...
  • Logging row continues to weigh on work of ұԲ’s coal commission

    28 Aug 2018, 13:59 The expansion of a lignite mine that threatens a nearby forest has become a first touchstone of the German coal exit commission’s robustness. But despite fears that the row over the embattled Hambach Forest could gravely impede the ...
  • 30 Mar 2022 |

    Climate activists vow to resist demolition of town for German lignite mine expansion

    30 Mar 2022, 14:07 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Die Welt Climate activists from student protest movement Fridays for Future (FfF) have said they will resist the planned ...
  • 18 Feb 2016

    'Europe needs more industry' / RWE dividend cut hits German towns

    18 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 鶹 (BMWi) "Gabriel: Europe needs more industry” Europe’s aim to increase the share of manufacturing in gross domestic product (GDP) to 20 percent ...
  • 24 Mar 2021 |

    Resettlement of villages to expand German lignite mine postponed until 2026

    24 Mar 2021, 13:08 Expert RAG German Coal RAG Deutsche Steinkohle AG Coal Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal 鶹 The controversial resettlement of five ...
  • 01 Aug 2019 |

    German lignite plants deep in the red, should get little compensation to close – report

    01 Aug 2019, 09:00 ұԲ’s fleet of lignite power stations has likely lost more than 600 million euros in the first half of 2019, as profits “collapsed” and fixed costs could not be covered, according to modelling by Sandbag. The climate change think ...
  • 12 Mar 2019 |

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

    12 Mar 2019, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Aachener Nachrichten A court in the western German city of Cologne has started to hear a case by NGO Friends of the Earth (BUND) against the clearing of the embattled Hambach Forest, news agency dpa ...
  • 26 Sep 2018 |

    ұԲ’s auto and power industries are all talk and little action on sustainability – opinion

    A sober look at German carmakers and utilities reveals that their constant talk about sustainability is not backed up by actions, writes Bert Fröndhoff in a commentary for the business website Handelsblatt Global. The car industry provided the best ...
  • 12 Feb 2018 |

    Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher’s childhood racecourse to shut down due to coal mining

    The go-kart track where former German Formula 1 race driver and motorsports icon Michael Schumacher learned his trade is to fall prey to the expansion of the lignite mine Hambach of energy company RWE, public broadcaster WDR reports on his website. The ...
  • 18 Jun 2019 |

    Germany faces new protests against coal and for climate action

    18 Jun 2019, 13:52 Sören Amelang Coal Society 鶹 Anti-coal activists and the student protest movement Fridays for Future are planning a series of demonstrations in Western Germany in the coming days. On Friday 21 June, Fridays For Future ...
  • 20 Mar 2015 |

    New power market design without capacity mechanism in ministry plans

    20 Mar 2015, 00:00 The German energy ministry has opted for a reformed energy only market (EOM), in which back-up power stations are financed through sharp peaks in power prices. Utilities insisted that a decision on the market's design- either an ...
  • 07 Sep 2018 |

    Investors put pressure on coal companies

    Many investors increasingly doubt that further investments in fossil power plants make sense and ask for ever more detailed justifications, for example regarding the modernisation of old facilities, writes WirtschaftsWoche in a long article. This could ...
  • 26 Jul 2019 |

    Nuclear power plant in Germany on verge of getting switched off due to heat wave

    26 Jul 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out 鶹 / 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 ...
  • 16 Jan 2023 |

    Coal protest in Germany deepens rift between Green Party and climate movement

    16 Jan 2023, 14:08 The Green Party's leadership has faced broad criticism from the climate movement for agreeing to the demolition of the village of Lützerath to expand a neighbouring mine as part of a larger deal to exit coal in western Germany by ...
  • 03 Jan 2018 |

    innogy gauges potential savings after CEO departure

    After the sudden departure of CEO Peter Terium, German utility innogy is “reviewing discretionary spending across all segments”, the company says in a press release. The spin-off of energy company RWE says it “reiterates its financial discipline targets”, ...
  • RWE accuses anti-coal activists in Hambach Forest of “blackmail”

    The head of German energy company RWE’s workers’ council, Harald Louis, says activists in the embattled Hambach Forest who are trying to prevent the expansion of a nearby coal mine are “blackmailing” the company by using the country’s coal exit commission ...
  • 31 May 2017 |

    “Greens see ‘striking failure’ at Gundremmingen nuclear power station”

    The Green Party in the Bavarian state parliament says that ұԲ’s largest nuclear power plant Gundremmingen, operated in part by RWE, has exceeded power output limits several times over the past year and a half by up to 20 percent, writes Süddeutsche ...
  • 13 Oct 2022 |
    Gas

    Germany still in the dark about LNG supplies to its new terminals

    13 Oct 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background While Germany is building up an infrastructure to receive liquefied natural gas (LNG) at its North and Baltic Sea coasts in record time, there continues to be uncertainty about where the ...
  • Conflict in Hambach Forest threatens coal exit commission’s stability

    The conflict over coal-mining expansion in the Hambach Forest, where police have started evicting anti-coal activists, is becoming an issue that could threaten the stability of ұԲ’s coal exit commission, news website Spiegel Online writes. Commission ...
  • 29 Nov 2016 |

    RWE CEO Schmitz considers new coal plants economically unviable

    Investments in new coal plants “won’t pay off” at today’s price levels, RWE’s new CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz said in an interview with Berliner Morgenpost. Asked whether the major German utility would continue to build conventional power plants after ...
  • German industry needs policy trigger for deep emission cuts

    24 Jan 2020, 12:12 Pressure is rising fast on industry to join the great decarbonisation race. Many energy-intensive German companies, like chemical giant BASF or steelmaker thyssenkrupp, already have detailed plans for drastic emission cuts, but lack ...
  • 04 Mar 2016 |

    RWE holders forego dividend / Oil for heat back in vogue as prices fall

    04 Mar 2016, 00:00 Hydrogen Die Welt “North Rhine-Westphalia cities agree to forego RWE dividend” Despite their own financial difficulties, cities in North Rhine-Westphalia that own stakes in utility RWE have accepted that there will be no dividend this ...
  • 15 Jan 2016

    Renewables a 'massive opportunity' / More investment into efficiency

    15 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Frankfurter Rundschau “Full wind speed ahead” The reason why payments for renewables have increased to 24.1 billion euros in 2015 is to be found in their success, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in a Q ...
  • 12 Aug 2022 |

    High RWE profits reignite debate about windfall profit tax for energy companies

    12 Aug 2022, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Utilities Rheinische Post The high earning posted by many energy companies in the current supply crisis, including ұԲ’s RWE, have rekindled the debate on a windfall profit tax, according to an ...
  • “Utilities – talks about nuclear waste deal continue”

    Talks between the federal government and the big four utilities E.ON, RWE EnBW and Vattenfall on nuclear waste storage are not as close to conclusion as a report by Börsen-Zeitung suggested, writes Reuters. The stock market newspaper had reported that the ...
  • 06 Jul 2022 |

    Old lignite plants and hard coal import hurdles complicate ұԲ’s emergency coal revival

    06 Jul 2022, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security Tagesspiegel Background The reactivation of mothballed coal plants in Germany- in response to the energy crisis fuelled by Russia’s war on Ukraine- could include old lignite-fired power stations which do ...
  • 25 Feb 2016

    Record power export earnings / Lignite mine turns into wind farm

    25 Feb 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Fraunhofer ISE “ұԲ’s electricity export surplus brings record revenue of over two billion euros” Net electricity exports earned Germany a record 2.07 billion euros last year, according to think tank Fraunhofer ISE. ...
  • “Big four” German utilities drop out of top 100 company list

    The “big four” utilities in Germany- RWE, E.ON, Vattenfall Germany, and EnBW- have all disappeared from a list of the country’s 100 largest companies compiled by the German Monopolies Commission, the competition watchdog says in its annual report. The ...
  • 17 Jun 2016

    GHG-neutral transport by 2050 / EU Commission approves e-car subsidy

    17 Jun 2016, 00:00 Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Federal Environment Agency “Climate protection contributions of the transport sector by 2050” Germany's transport sector will need to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by about 98 percent to ...
  • 12 May 2017 |

    A case study in combating bias

    German utility RWE has overhauled its decision-making process, after the group underestimated the transition to green energy and lost much of the 10 billion euros it invested in conventional power generation in the second half of the last decade, the ...
  • Government works on advancing LNG infrastructure in Germany – Merkel

    Germany is already connected to liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals in neighbouring countries, but the government “is working on advancing the [LNG] infrastructure in Germany itself,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a German-Qatari ...
  • Critical reception for government plans to cut power sector emissions

    26 Nov 2014, 00:00 The German government looks set to approve plans to force the power sector to reduce carbon emissions by an additional 22 million tons by 2020. Environmentalists worry the plans don't go far enough and are calling for more coal ...
  • CEOs of big German companies RWE and VW clash over lignite mining

    Two executives of major German companies, VW CEO Herbert Diess and RWE CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz have traded blows over lignite mining, reports business daily Handelsblatt. Diess triggered the dispute by declaring in an interview the Süddeutsche Zeitung ...
  • RWE would be wise to abandon logging plans for coal mine expansion - opinion

    Forest protection has played an important role in the history of ұԲ’s Energiewende, or energy transition, and the current developments at the Hambach Forest, which is under threat by the expansion of a lignite mine, could end up as another example in ...
  • 18 Aug 2022 |

    Germany reduces VAT on gas to relieve consumers

    18 Aug 2022, 14:53 Sören Amelang Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices The German government will temporarily reduce the value added tax (VAT) on natural gas from 19 to 7 percent in a bid to relieve gas customers struggling with rapidly rising prices ...
  • 15 May 2015

    In the media: Worries at RWE; solar trade violations

    15 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt “RWE fights for brown coal” Power company RWE is toughening its stance on energy minister Sigmar Gabriel’s proposal for a climate levy on old coal ...
  • Emission cap faces legal challenge, utility resistance

    24 Mar 2015, 00:00 German utilities say plans to cut 22 millions tonnes of CO2 emissions from the energy sector by demanding additional emissions trading allowances from older power plants amount to an exit plan for the brown coal industry. But despite ...
  • 02 Mar 2018 |

    No end in sight to innogy crisis

    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 ...
  • 28 Sep 2018 |

    Police prepare removal of last Hambach Forest tree-house as activists mount threats

    German police prepare the clearing of the last known tree-house holdout in the embattled Hambach Forest near Cologne to enable energy company RWE to continue expanding its nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. One activist was injured during a ...
  • 20 Feb 2019 |

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

    20 Feb 2019, 13:21 German utility and lignite mine operator RWE has agreed to refrain from clearing the embattled Hambach Forest in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) until autumn 2020, said state premier Armin Laschet in a parliamentary ...
  • 27 Jun 2017

    Ministry signs contract on nuclear fund with utilities

    Germany's economy ministry (BMWi) has signed a contract with the country's nuclear plant operators that regulates the funding of nuclear waste disposal, the BMWi has said in a press release. The BMWi and the four utilities E.ON, EnBW, RWE and ...
  • 26 Jul 2021 |

    Damage to German rail company after flood disaster totals over €1 billion

    26 Jul 2021, 12:25 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Transport 鶹 / WirtschaftsWoche / ...
  • 03 Aug 2020 |

    Villagers plan constitutional complaint to save homes from German coal industry

    03 Aug 2020, 13:23 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Rheinische Post / 鶹 A group of villagers living in towns threatened by coal mine expansion in western Germany plan ...
  • 02 Dec 2015

    RWE split “perhaps too late” / Refugees affect German CO2 emissions

    02 Dec 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung “Late, perhaps too late” RWE’s plans are radical and effectively split ұԲ’s second largest utility in two, writes Caspar Busse in a commentary for Süddeutsche Zeitung. “The decision is ...
  • 30 Mar 2016

    Foreign demand powers SMA Solar profit / A shipping Energiewende?

    30 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Reuters/SMA Solar “SMA Solar returns to profit on foreign demand” SMA Solar, ұԲ’s largest solar group, posted its first operating profit in three years thanks to strong foreign ...
  • NRW state premier Laschet will not mediate Hambach coal mine talks

    Armin Laschet, premier of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), ұԲ’s largest federal state, is not willing to act as a mediator in the negotiations between environmental activists and the energy company RWE over the clearing of a forest near the Hambach ...
  • 28 Jan 2019 |

    German government stands ready to move on coal exit proposal

    28 Jan 2019, 17:56 The German government is ready to quickly supply financial means for the country’s exit from coal, said economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier. It will now examine the details of the proposal agreed by the country’s coal exit ...
  • 10 Aug 2015

    In the media: Fossil fuel divestment and eco-labels for more efficient boilers

    10 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Der Spiegel / Spiegel Online State premier criticises coal compromise Torsten Albig (Social Democrat), state premier of Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany, has criticised the capacity reserve ...
  • 15 Feb 2016

    'Doping tests' for cars / An expensive nuclear clean-up

    15 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Bild “Dobrindt plans doping tests for cars” In response to the VW emissions scandal, ұԲ’s transport minister Alexander Dobrindt plans to introduce spot checks for car emissions. “There will be ...
  • 04 Oct 2024 |
    Gas

    German LNG terminal more expensive than expected – media

    04 Oct 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Gas NDR / 鶹 The cost of a planned permanent onshore import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in northern Germany is likely to be more than expected and require additional state support, reports ...
  • 21 Dec 2015

    German CO2 emissions up in 2015 / Call for e-car subsidies

    21 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 AG Energiebilanzen German CO2 emissions rise in 2015 ұԲ’s CO2 emissions have increased slightly in 2015, according to preliminary calculations by energy market research group AG ...
  • 22 Apr 2021 |

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

    22 Apr 2021, 13:30 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 鶹 Corporate decision makers in Germany have voted hydrogen technologies as the most important field of action for energy ...
  • 23 Feb 2023 |

    East German mining state leader says ready for talks on pulling forward coal exit

    23 Feb 2023, 13:43 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Zeit Online / 鶹 The premier of eastern German lignite mining state Brandenburg has said he is open to talks about an earlier coal phase-out under certain conditions. 鶹 supply must be reliable ...
  • 09 Aug 2022 |

    ұԲ’s nuclear plant operators show little appetite for runtime extension

    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, ...
  • 22 Dec 2023 |

    German grid agency sees need for back-up coal power plants until March 2031

    22 Dec 2023, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Coal Grid Die Welt ұԲ’s energy regulator BNetzA has said that several coal power plants should remain as a reserve until the end of March 2031 to ensure grid stability in times of need, reports Die Welt. The plants ...
  • 09 Oct 2018 |

    RWE considers reducing coal extraction at Hambach mine by one third

    The ruling by a German court to stop the clearing of the embattled Hambach Forest has prompted energy company RWE to consider reducing coal extraction at its nearby lignite mine by up to one third, Claus Hecking and Stefan Schultz write on Spiegel Online. ...
  • 15 Oct 2015

    In the media: Commentators say nuclear liability law isn't enough

    15 Oct 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 Bloomberg “Germany considers emissions levy as CO2 reduction target wobbles” Germany may have to introduce a tax on emissions in order to meet its target of cutting CO2 emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by ...
  • 03 May 2023 |
    Gas

    Government postpones decision on disputed LNG terminal off ұԲ’s Baltic coast

    03 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas Table.Media / Spiegel ұԲ’s government has postponed a decision to include a planned new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal off the coast of the Baltic Sea island of Rügen in the country’s LNG ...
  • 03 Mar 2021 |

    EU state aid probe into German coal company compensations means “tough negotiations” – researcher

    03 Mar 2021, 12:17 The European Commission has expressed doubts that Germany's planned compensation payments to operators of lignite-fired power plants in the context of the country's coal phase-out are in line with EU state aid rules, and ...
  • 14 Jan 2016

    Renewable payments 2015 / Two billion euros for e-cars

    14 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Greenpeace “Expenses for green power reach new record high” Payments for renewable power have reached a record high in 2015, Andreas Mihm reports for the ...
  • 03 Jul 2019 |

    Shutdown of hard coal plants in Germany initially via tenders – economy minister

    03 Jul 2019, 14:09 Julian Wettengel Coal Policy Tagesspiegel Background German economy minister Peter Altmaier said the government plans to agree on a “Hard Coal Exit Law” in autumn, and the decision on which plants are shut down first will be taken via ...
  • Saving Hambach Forest would cost billions of euros – RWE head

    Not cutting down the embattled Hambach Forest would cost four to five billion euros, Rolf Martin Schmitz, head of energy company RWE, which wants to clear the forest to expand a nearby lignite mine, said  in the political talk show Maybrit Illner on ...
  • NRW’s state government pushes forward on coal mining in Hambach Forest

    The government of ұԲ’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), has affirmed its intention to continue felling the Hambach Forest to make way for a highly controversial lignite mine in the west German region, Christian Wernicke reports for ...
  • 05 Jul 2021 |

    German government backs floating photovoltaics research project

    05 Jul 2021, 13:06 Expert BTU- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg Renewables Hydrogen Technology Efficiency Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar 鶹 Systems Renewables Solar Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches ...
  • 30 Dec 2014 |

    2015 outlook: Key topics for the Energiewende

    30 Dec 2014, 00:00 After an eventful 2014 – marked by the reform of the Renewable 鶹 Act (EEG), a new climate action package and the first fall in CO2 emissions for two years – German energy policy is primed for action in 2015. Expert AGEB- AG ...
  • 08 Oct 2020 |

    German lignite state to greenlight resettlement of villages to expand mine- media report

    08 Oct 2020, 14:21 Sören Amelang Coal Policy dpa / Zeit Online The controversial resettlement of five villages in the Rhenish lignite mining area in Western Germany to expand an opencast mine is set to continue, reports news agency dpa in an  article ...
  • 18 Mar 2015

    In the media: Fresh money for Chernobyl, how to deal with nuclear waste

    18 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹   taz / dpa “The concept has definitely failed” ұԲ’s Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks considers negotiations between the federal government and state governments over which states will ...
  • 17 Mar 2020 |

    and industry companies team up to launch Germany's first hydrogen network

    17 Mar 2020, 14:28 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Industry 鶹 Germany's largest energy company RWE, together with oil company BP, chemicals producer Evonik and gas ...
  • 28 Jan 2021 |

    More renewables curbed to stabilise German power grid – report

    28 Jan 2021, 13:59 Expert BDEW-German Association of 鶹 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, ...
  • 07 Oct 2022 |

    Second east German state government leader rejects faster 2030 coal phase-out

    07 Oct 2022, 14:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables dpa / Die Welt / 鶹 The state premier of Brandenburg, Germany's second largest coal mining region, has rejected calls to bring the end of coal use forward to 2030, becoming the ...
  • 17 Mar 2015 |

    Moorburg power plant – Last of a dying breed, or the future of coal in Germany?

    17 Mar 2015, 00:00 The first block of a large coal-fired power station has just gone online in Hamburg, even as two thirds of German fossil-fuelled facilities fail to turn a profit and their operators are applying for many to be mothballed. So is the ...
  • 30 Jan 2023 |

    Renewable energy leaders show mixed views on whether Germany can meet renewable targets – media

    30 Jan 2023, 12:54 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine The heads of many renewable energy companies showed mixed opinions in whether Germany can meet its targets for green electricity generation, according to an article in newspaper ...
  • 15 Jan 2015

    In the media: Merkel sceptical of capacity markets; study on real cost of electricity

    15 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Reuters "Merkel dashes loss-making power plants' aid hopes" Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was sceptical about capacity markets that would give extensive support to old coal fired ...
  • Police start clearing anti-coal activist camp in Hambach Forest

    Police in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have started clearing the anti-coal activist camp in the embattled Hambach Forest, the Rheinische Post reports in a live blog. Police set up a perimeter around the forest and started ...
  • 04 Oct 2018 |

    A power grid fit for a clean energy future

    04 Oct 2018, 14:48 ұԲ’s shift from fossil fuelled and nuclear power will only succeed if the infrastructure is there to support a very different kind of energy system. But the country’s grid is just not up to the job of making proper use of all the ...
  • German energy minister wants round table on future of coal

    19 Jan 2016, 00:00 ұԲ’s energy minister Sigmar Gabriel wants to establish a round table on the future of coal in the country of the Energiewende this year. He said only factual discussions, rather than emotional debates, could provide the long-term ...
  • 13 Jan 2015

    In the media: Wind power record stresses the grid; utilities invest in renewables

    13 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Die Welt/Süddeutsche Zeitung “’Elon’ und ‘Felix’ cost consumers millions”/ “Stormy times on the power market” Heavy winds from two low pressure systems created an enormous oversupply of wind power ...
  • 31 Aug 2020 |

    Coal mine protests in Germany and Poland highlight phase-out challenges

    31 Aug 2020, 13:50 Coal Die Zeit / Süddeutsche Zeitung More than one thousand climate protesters, including activists from the Fridays for Future movement, Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion, occupied the site of a planned opencast coal mine in western ...
  • 15 Sep 2021 |

    German utilities are against narrow focus on green hydrogen

    15 Sep 2021, 13:05 Expert BDEW-German Association of 鶹 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Sören Amelang Hydrogen German utilities have said that the ...
  • 09 Sep 2021 |

    Court rules 2018 coal protester eviction in Hambach Forest was illegal

    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 ...
  • 19 Nov 2020 |

    German rail company cuts back on coal power with major renewable deals

    19 Nov 2020, 13:53 Charlotte Nijhuis 鶹 鶹 Mobility Der Spiegel State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn will sharply cut back its use of coal power by increasing the share of renewable electricity,  reports  Gerald Traufetter in ...
  • 03 Dec 2015

    Wind powers to new record / The utilities' "green power meltdown"

    03 Dec 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 鶹 Transition/Fraunhofer ISE “Wind power #1 electricity source in November” Stormy weather pushed ұԲ’s wind power production to a new record in November, covering a full quarter of domestic demand. It ...
  • 09 Sep 2022 |

    Renewables industry warns German windfall tax on profits could scare off investors

    09 Sep 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany's plans for a tax on energy companies' windfall profits generated by the current supply crisis could slow the rollout of renewables because ...
  • 02 Mar 2016

    Moves to cap renewables / West German buyer for east German lignite?

    02 Mar 2016, 00:00 tageszeitung “Short-sighted cap fans” Despite fighting climate change being a national objective and renewables now the cheapest source of energy, leading conservative politicians want to use reform of the Renewable 鶹 Act (EEG) to ...
  • 05 Feb 2019 |

    RWE signals Hambach Forest could be saved as NRW government chides protesters

    05 Feb 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Süddeutsche Zeitung / Welt Online The embattled Hambach Forest, which has become a symbolic place for anti-coal protesters in Germany, might not be cut down to make room for a nearby lignite mine, Rolf Martin ...
  • 13 May 2015

    In the media: "Missed chance" at energy G7; No money left for nuclear clean-up?

    13 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 ARD tagesschau.de “The German energy transformation is impressive” Ernest Moniz, the United States Secretary of 鶹, has praised ұԲ’s development of renewables but said the US were not ...
  • Contested forest and loud criticism cloud 3rd coal commission session

    23 Aug 2018, 11:30 The German coal exit commission has set out on a tight schedule to devise a plan for phasing out the fossil power source – but shortly before its third official meeting federal states and opposition politicians have complained about a ...
  • 19 Mar 2015

    In the media: No more free coal for miners

    19 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Bloomberg “RWE said to consider 10 percent stake sale to Abu Dhabi investors” ұԲ’s second largest utility RWE, grappling with rising debt, is considering selling a ten percent stake to ...
  • Commission watch – Managing ұԲ’s coal phase-out

    31 Jan 2019, 13:30 In a bid to improve Germany's poor emission reduction record and to identify economic perspectives for people employed in the waning coal industry, the grand coalition government in 2018 set up a commission tasked with managing the ...
  • 17 May 2021 |

    NGOs obtain govt calculations for coal exit compensations, say sums are too high

    17 May 2021, 13:29 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 鶹 (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Ember Climate & energy think ...
  • 07 Sep 2016 |

    “Big Fall IPOs to Revive a Quiet Year”

    Major German share placements this week include Uniper, E.ON’s conventional power spin-off, and Innogy, RWE’s green subsidiary. Each is worth billions, the report says. Analysts estimate Uniper's market value at 5 billion euros, Handelsblatt Global ...
  • 21 Apr 2016

    'Germans want more climate action' / Belgians keep nuclear plants running

    21 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 WWF Germany “Germans want more climate action” German citizens would like to see more engagement in the fight against climate change, environment organisation WWF Germany says, ...
  • 13 Apr 2016 |

    Phasing out conventional cars / A 'close call for RWE'

    13 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Hydrogen Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 鶹 (BMWi) State secretary Baake says Germany must stop registering fossil fuel vehicles by 2030 At a panel discussion Tuesday, ...
  • 03 Apr 2019 |

    German government does not take coal exit compensation for plant operators as a given

    03 Apr 2019, 12:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cost & Prices 鶹 The German government says the jury is still out on the question whether the operators of coal plants are eligible for compensation payments once their facilities are taken off ...
  • ұԲ’s coal commission insists no decision yet on exit date

    18 Sep 2018, 18:50 The country’s coal exit commission said there were no predetermined decisions regarding a date for the end to coal-fired power generation. Following irritation about reports of a supposed compromise on a 2038 end date, economy minister ...
  • 10 Jul 2015

    In the media: Experts disappointed by coal deal

    10 Jul 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 鶹 鶹 Handelsblatt Experts disappointed by government deal on coal, grid extension Most members of the Handelsblatt’s 鶹 Academy – a group made up of around 230 energy experts – are disappointed with ...
  • 14 Mar 2016

    Ten million tonnes more CO2 / Energiewende 'no election campaign hit'

    14 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Green Budget Germany / Frankfurter Rundschau “Ten million tonnes more CO2” ұԲ’s greenhouse gas emissions increased again in 2015, compared to 2014, researchers from Green Budget Germany (FÖS) say. ...
  • 10 Apr 2024 |

    Methane emissions from German lignite mining grossly underestimated – report

    10 Apr 2024, 13:39 Expert DEBRIV- Federal German Association for Brown Coal Bundesverband Braunkohle Fossil fuels Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Coal Clean 鶹 ...
  • German decarbonisation targets will challenge conventional power suppliers

    German utilities that are focusing on conventional power generation, i.e. RWE and Uniper, are exposed to “ decarbonisation risks,” rating agency Moody’s has said. The country is likely to accelerate coal plant closures and implement other low-carbon ...
  • 19 Apr 2016

    Vattenfall sale a lose-lose-lose? / 'EU ETS needs minimum price'

    19 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 sandbag.org A “lose-lose-lose” situation The Vattenfall lignite sale to EPH is a lose for the climate, a lose for the Swedish government and a lose for German workers ...
  • 26 Jun 2023 |

    Germany, Benelux must cooperate better to play key role in hydrogen economy – report

    26 Jun 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 鶹 Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are well positioned to play a key role in a future global hydrogen economy- but must strengthen cooperation on infrastructure projects, said ...
  • 08 Dec 2016 |

    “Misunderstandings at the stock exchange”

    The German constitutional court's intricate judgement on the country’s accelerated nuclear exit has caused confusion at the stock exchange, writes Malte Kreutzfeldt for taz. Although nuclear plant operators were granted “adequate” compensation by the ...
  • 12 Mar 2018 |

    No stone left unturned – opinion

    If and when the RWE-E.ON deal is approved by cartel authorities and the companies, the restructuring of ұԲ’s energy sector will be far from complete, writes Thorsten Knuf in an opinion piece for Berliner Zeitung. “It’s only a matter of time before ...
  • Lignite mine expansion dispute can only be solved through "negotiations and talks" - energy minister

    In the row over the expansion of a lignite mine and the clearing of a nearby forest, German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said that “solutions can only be found through negotiations and talks, and not in public debates,” news agency Reuters ...
  • 13 Oct 2015

    In the media: FAZ- "EU says goodbye to binding climate goals"

    13 Oct 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 (Modifies headline to clearify sourcing)   Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “The VW scandal calls Brussels into action” Even after the VW emissions cheating scandal, it appears the German government is trying to ...
  • 08 Jun 2017 |

    “A political and financial disaster”

    Deutschlandfunk’s Theo Geers blames the government, and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble in particular, for the Constitutional Court ruling over the nuclear fuel tax. “Clumsy errors mean champagne corks were flying in the executive boardrooms of E.ON, ...
  • 02 May 2024 |

    2035 coal exit deal by G7 “historic success”, no need to change German legal end date – govt

    02 May 2024, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Coal 鶹 / dpa German government representatives welcomed  the agreement  by the Group of Seven (G7) major economies to end coal power generation by 2035, and said EU emissions trading means that there is ...
  • 30 Jun 2016 |

    “The UK is and will remain one of our core markets”

    Hans Bünting, COO Renewables of RWE International SE (Innogy), sees no reason for the German utility to hold back on renewables investments in the UK following the Brexit vote. “On the basis of the currently available information, the UK is and will ...
  • 08 Sep 2020 |

    Legal opinions over legitimacy of Germany's lignite compensation vary widely

    08 Sep 2020, 13:49 Expert Aurora 鶹 Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch ...
  • “Millions for a new energy mix”

    German energy start-up Fresh 鶹 from Berlin has obtained three million euros in initial funding from renewable utility innogy, itself a carve-out of energy provider RWE, entrepreneurial news site WirtschaftsWoche Gründer reports. Fresh 鶹 aims to ...
  • 27 Jan 2020 |

    German lignite operator rejects media report on excessive compensation

    27 Jan 2020, 14:20 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Coal dpa / Spiegel / 鶹 Eastern German lignite mine and power plant operator LEAG has rejected ...
  • 20 Oct 2015

    In the media: Expensive export power; EnBW bets on gas

    20 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Fraunhofer ISE “Exported power more expensive than imported power” Germany makes billions of euros from exporting power every year, researchers at the Fraunhofer ISE found. The country made 1.7 ...
  • US government’s op-ed “a shameless diplomatic sales pitch“ – opinion

    In an opinion piece, David Reay reacts to the op-ed on liquefied natural gas (LNG) by US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell and US deputy secretary of energy Dan Brouillette in the Handelsblatt on 13 September. “The pair offers up a shameless ...
  • Utilities should use nuclear tax refunds to lower power prices - consumer organisation

    The refunds that nuclear utilities E.ON, RWE and EnBW can expect after ұԲ’s constitutional court ruled the nuclear fuel tax law unconstitutional should be used to lower electricity prices, according to the Consumer Organisation Baden-Wuerttemberg, ...
  • Environmental budget discussion in parliament focussed on coal exit

    The plenary debate in the German Parliament about ұԲ’s 2019 budget for environmental policy on 12 September centred on the country’s coal exit. Referring to the current situation in the embattled Hambach Forest, which energy company RWE wants to cut ...
  • 29 May 2015

    In the media: Coal use drops in Q1 despite higher energy consumption

    29 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 AG Energiebilanzen “Demand for energy in heating increased- less coal and more power from renewables” The use of hard coal and lignite fell in the first quarter of 2015 compared to last year, ...
  • 07 Dec 2023 |

    Delayed gas plant planning threatens agreed 2030 coal phase-out in western Germany – state premier

    07 Dec 2023, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas dpa / Zeit Online The German government must quickly present a strategy for the building of new gas-fired power plants to avoid missing the 2030 end date for coal-fired power production in western state North ...
  • Lignite plants could be affected by rising CO2 prices – but not till the early 2020s

    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 ...
  • 13 Oct 2014

    Germany's energy transition in the media on 13 October

    13 Oct 2014, 00:00 鶹 鶹 Der Spiegel “鶹 transition: Gabriel to put more pressure on utilities” German Economy and 鶹 Minister Sigmar Gabriel plans to put more pressure on utilities by taking 10 gigawatts of coal-fired power ...
  • 21 Apr 2017 |

    “Wind power can be cheaper”

    Companies for whom offshore wind parks are a core business, but were not successful in ұԲ’s first competitive auction for the technology, will “have a problem”, as only one more auction was planned for offshore expansion until 2025, writes Andreas ...
  • 14 Aug 2018 |

    German lignite power plant operators’ suffer losses – analysis

    Low wholesale power prices and higher prices for CO 2 emission allowances are weighing on Germany's lignite plant operators’ balance sheets, according to an evaluation of the energy information service Tagesspiegel Background, Der Tagesspiegel ...
  • “Capacity market for Germany could cost two billion euros annually”

    A capacity market in Germany could cost two billion euros annually, RWE’s new CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz said in an interview with Rheinische Post. “Two billion euros is not a lot considering that the power consumer receives supply security for all those ...
  • 21 Nov 2023 |

    Earlier German coal phase-out requires new gas plant projects “within a few weeks” – energy industry

    21 Nov 2023, 12:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of 鶹 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Coal Gas Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung ұԲ’s ...
  • 16 Dec 2022 |

    French and German industry call for coordinated green hydrogen roll-out in Europe

    16 Dec 2022, 13:28 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 鶹 Industry federations from France and Germany are lobbying for ...
  • 16 Jul 2018 |

    Price of EU ETS emission allowances rises

    Allowances for emitting a tonne of CO 2 have tripled in price, reaching nearly 16 euros on the European 鶹 Exchange on Friday, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes. The rise follows trading being at around 5 euros a year ago. Rolf Schmitz, head ...
  • 28 Aug 2023 |

    Low turnout in Germany's final auction for early coal power plant shutdowns

    28 Aug 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Coal 鶹 Germany has completed its final auction to provide compensation for the early retirement of coal plants, with fewer operators participating in the tenders than initially hoped for, the Federal ...
  • 17 Jan 2017 |

    “Deutsche Telekom recruits innogy“

    German utility innogy will assist the country’s telecommunication heavyweight Telekom in expanding its broadband internet access, Ina Karabasz and Jürgen Flauger write in Handelsblatt Global Edition. Initially reluctant to rely on partners to develop high ...
  • 26 Oct 2015

    A brown coal standby reserve to cut CO2

    26 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 鶹 “Gabriel: Brown coal agreement is important contribution to reaching climate targets” Coal power plant operators will gradually transfer 2.7 ...
  • 23 Sep 2015

    In the media: Diesel cheating; more money for combined heat and power

    23 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Carl Morris 鶹 鶹 Die Welt “The German government knew the cheating technology” The German ministry for transport has known for a long time that car manufacturers are using technologies that interfere ...
  • 05 Oct 2022 |

    State premier says east German coal region won’t follow early phase-out agreed in west

    05 Oct 2022, 13:48 Carolina Kyllmann Coal dpa The premier of eastern German lignite mining state Saxony-Anhalt has said his state will not follow an  agreement  on an early coal phase-out made in the heavy industry state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in ...
  • 28 Nov 2016 |

    “Calculated chain reaction”

    RWE’s green split-off innogy is working on a system that could make payments between users of e-cars and private providers of charging stations simpler and more secure, writes Manuel Heckel in Handelsblatt. The mode of payment based on the technology ...
  • Thousands march in protest against clearing of Hambach Forest

    Several thousand people gathered over the weekend at the embattled Hambach Forest in western Germany to protest against the expansion of a nearby coal mine and the forest’s clearing, the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reports. According to the organisers ...
  • 14 Sep 2016 |

    “When there’s not enough money for the green transformation”

    ұԲ’s major utilities and hundreds of municipal utilities have missed the advance of renewables, writes Franz Hubik in Handelsblatt. Many firms now say they want to change course but do not have the necessary financial resources for a turnaround. ...
  • 20 Dec 2017 |

    innogy's CEO leaves group days after profit warning

    Peter Terium, CEO of German utility innogy, has left the RWE renewables spin-off days after the company said it will make less profit than anticipated this year and next, which had resulted in a considerable drop in share prices in the second week of ...
  • “World's largest carbon producers face landmark human rights case”

    German utility RWE, coal mining corporation RAG AG and HeidelbergCement are among 47 major global CO2-emitters the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) accuses of breaching people’s fundamental rights to “life, food, water, sanitation, ...
  • “The way for a nuclear state fund has been paved”

    The German government and the country’s nuclear plant operators will sign a long-awaited contract about the funding for the final storage of nuclear waste today, Andreas Mihm writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The contract formally ensures that ...
  • 24 Jun 2016 |

    “Berlin is the latest city to pull out of fossil fuels”

    In line with a global divestment movement, the city of Berlin has decided to divest its money from “companies whose business model contradicts the goal of climate neutrality,” according to the text of a parliamentary proposal approved by the plenary. The ...
  • 13 Jan 2023 |

    Germany might not have enough hydrogen for government plans- researchers

    13 Jan 2023, 13:38 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Handelsblatt Several researchers interviewed by business daily Handelsblatt are sceptical that Germany will be able to ramp up its hydrogen supply to the extent the government plans to. It is “highly uncertain ...
  • 02 Oct 2017 |

    “Tiny steps towards a coal exit”

    鶹 utility RWE has transferred two of its lignite-fired power station units in North-Rhine Westphalia into the so called emergency standby reserve. Four of eight coal station units have thus far been committed to the reserve, where they will remain ...
  • 24 Oct 2018 |

    “Coal stocks are toxic” – guest commentary

    Investors should get rid of coal company shares, such as those of German utility RWE, as these are risky at times of planned coal-exits around the world, writes Jan Erik Saugestad, CEO of Storebrand Asset Management, Norway's largest private asset ...
  • 02 Jan 2023 |

    Economy minister calls for earlier coal exit in eastern Germany, state premiers object

    02 Jan 2023, 13:07 Sören Amelang Coal dpa / Welt / Bild ұԲ’s economy minister Robert Habeck has called for pulling forward the country’s coal exit to 2030 from 2038 in the east of the country, following an agreement in the west. "The generation ...
  • Macron’s EU CO₂ pricing proposal draws mixed reactions in Germany

    French President Emmanuel Macron’s call for a European price of 25-30 euro per tonne of CO₂ has received mixed reactions in Germany, reports Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. German utilities argue that the proposed scheme would put the ...
  • Protest organisers expect 20,000 people for demonstration at Hambach Forest

    Environmental organisations that are trying to set up a large-scale protest against the clearing of the Hambach Forest say up to 20,000 people could find their way to the small forest near Cologne, the Rheinische Post reports. Protest organiser Uwe Hiksch ...
  • 27 Feb 2024 |

    ұԲ’s aim for 80 percent renewables in electricity by 2030 well within reach – minister

    27 Feb 2024, 13:42 The German government’s target of sourcing 80 percent of the country’s electricity from renewable sources by 2030 is very much achievable for Germany if current positive trends persist, economy minister Robert Habeck has said at a ...
  • Green Party adheres to holding party convention at Hambach Forest

    The Green Party in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is adamant about holding its party convention at the embattled Hambach Forest. “We as Greens want to send a message and support the peaceful resistance” against energy company RWE ...
  • Coal exit: elephant in the room at vote in German industry heartland

    12 May 2017, 00:00 In what is often dubbed “the small-scale federal election”, voters in ұԲ’s industrial powerhouse and most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia decide on a new government on 14 May. The exit from coal-fired power generation – a ...
  • 24 Mar 2022 |

    Germany must trigger gas emergency plans after Putin's rouble demands- energy industry

    24 Mar 2022, 14:07 Vladimir Putin’s announcement to only accept payment in roubles for gas deliveries to Europe has rattled ұԲ’s energy industry and sent natural gas prices soaring. Economy minister Robert Habeck called Russia’s move a “breach of ...
  • 14 Mar 2018 |

    ұԲ’s largest utilities at a glance

    14 Mar 2018, 00:00 Germany's energy transition has shaken the country’s dominant power companies to the core, because it undermines their traditional business model of centralised power generation. In a bid to survive the turmoil, the utilities ...
  • German utilities and the Energiewende

    12 Jan 2015, 00:00 The large German utilities have seen their earnings from producing and supplying fossil and nuclear power decline- this factsheet outlines the challenges the energy transition poses to their traditional business model and how they are ...
  • 09 Jun 2016 |

    E.ON shareholders ratify energy giant's split

    09 Jun 2016, 00:00 [UPDATE with shareholder vote and media comments]- E.ON was the first of Germany's major utilities to announce a split into two companies to adjust to the sweeping changes triggered in the sector by the country’s Energiewende. The ...
  • 05 Jul 2016 |

    RWE’s plans for new renewable subsidiary

    05 Jul 2016, 00:00 Similar to domestic rival E.ON, German energy giant RWE hopes the separation of its renewable business from ailing fossil fuel generation will help it to adjust to the sweeping changes triggered in the sector by the country’s ...
  • 09 Sep 2015 |

    Legal disputes over the nuclear phase-out

    09 Sep 2015, 00:00 The utilities reacted to German government’s 2011 decision to accelerate the nuclear phase-out, with billions of euros worth of lawsuits. The power plants operators say the state must compensate them for lost earnings and investments ...
  • Securing utility payments for the nuclear clean-up

    26 Jun 2017, 00:00 Utilities are liable to pay for much of the costs of ridding Germany of its nuclear heritage. But given their economic troubles, will they be able to do so? To ensure the general public does not end up with footing the bill, the ...
  • 15 May 2020 |

    A (very) brief timeline of Germany's Energiewende

    15 May 2020, 00:00 In 2014, the Green Party's Julia Verlinden asked the federal government for its definition of a starting date for the "Energiewende". In his reply, parliamentary state secretary in the economy ministry Uwe Beckmeyer ...
  • Q&A: The “stress test”- what kind of nuclear runtime extension is Germany debating?

    06 Sep 2022, 12:19 Germany's long-planned nuclear power phase-out has been plunged into unprecedented turmoil in its final year due to Russia's attack of Ukraine. The ensuing European energy crisis has led to calls from both within the country ...
  • Climate litigation advances to key tool for enforcing emission cuts

    05 Nov 2021, 15:24 Climate litigation has become a powerful tool to speed up the fight against climate change with a slew of historic court decisions compelling governments to step up their emission-cutting efforts. The verdicts have shown that courts ...
  • COP23- See the energy transition in Germany's industrial centre

    30 Oct 2017, 00:00 ұԲ’s coal mining state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) hosts the United Nations’ COP23 climate summit in Bonn. The epicentre of ұԲ’s industrialisation, this region is responsible for almost one percent of global CO2 emissions, ...
  • E.ON

    E.ON is a German holding company and energy group based in Essen, with a total of almost 79,000 employees. Following a complicated deal with former rival RWE, E.ON now focuses on energy grids and retail. Among many others, it is majority owner of German ...
  • RWE AG

    RWE AG is one of Germany's largest utilities and has approximately 20,000 employees. It still operates many coal-fired power plants and lignite mines in the country. But a comprehensive asset swap with former rival E.ON has turned RWE into one of the ...
  • EWI- Institute of 鶹 Economics at the University of Cologne

    The EWI produces scientific studies on energy economics for public (federal and state government) and private clients (e.g. energy suppliers, municipal utilities). It currently focuses on topics such as the European energy mix and the European electricity ...
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