28 Aug 2019, 13:48 Corrects headline:Daimler will enlist several wind farms, not thousands of wind turbines, as previously stated. Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cars S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung German carmaker Daimler is signing agreements with wind farm operators ...
15 Nov 2024, 15:00 Large parts of northern Italy were devastated by the country¡¯s fourth floods within a year, triggered by intense rainfall on 19 and 20 October. Parts of Sicily, in the south, were also severely impacted. The floods came as Italy¡¯s ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:09 S?ren Amelang Industry Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s economy minister and vice chancellor Robert Habeck has questioned the country¡¯s commitment to a largely balanced budget, given the massive financial requirements for ...
The security of electricity supply in Germany continues to be at a high level, also thanks to the integration of the country¡¯s power grid with neighbouring countries, writes the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (BMWi) in a press release. A ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Fossil fuels Security Zeit Online New tensions between Russia and the Ukraine have reinvigorated critics of the natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, linking Russia and Germany via the Baltic Sea, ...
30 Apr 2020, 12:37 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Gas International Security Handelsblatt The looming escalation of an armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia has reinvigorated critics of the planned Russian-German natural gas pipeline project ...
27 Jan 2022, 12:22 Jessica Bateman Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Gas Cost & Prices Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Reuters Germany¡¯s new government is mulling the introduction of minimum gas storage levels, a strategic gas reserve, and other options ...
11 Nov 2021, 13:18 Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Policy Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ More than 700 companiess are demanding an end to fossil fuel subsidies in Germany in an effort to boost fairer competition and secure the country status ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:21 Jack McGovan Efficiency Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A legal framework for energy efficiency has been passed into law by the German parliament for the first time. The Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Efficiency Act aims for a reduction in annual energy consumption ...
18 Jul 2019, 13:36 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Policy German Institute for International and Security ...
Germany is quickly reducing its conventional power capacities, risking a lack of secure capacity by 2023 at the latest, says the energy industry association BDEW in an analysis of the country¡¯s power plants. Germany currently has power overcapacities. The ...
21 Jun 2023, 13:22 S?ren Amelang Technology Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Cologne energy supplier RheinEnergie is planning Europe¡¯s largest heat pump that will use energy contained in Rhine river water to heat homes in the city centre. ¡°RheinEnergie has ...
24 Feb 2023, 11:00 One year after Russia started its devastating war on Ukraine, the energy policy landscape of Germany and most of Europe has changed radically. European states to a large extent lowered or even completely cut their reliance on Russian ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:57 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables Cost & Prices Die Welt / dpa / ARD The head of Europe¡¯s largest energy network operator E.ON has suggested that Germany could ...
31 Jul 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Dlf / Spiegel / dpa The Paris Climate Agreement¡¯s aim to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius is ¡°politically basically no longer manageable,¡± Stefan Rahmstorf, climate ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has set out on a tour of South and Central America that retraces the steps of the famous 19th?century ...
07 Jun 2023, 13:02 S?ren Amelang Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government spent around 1.5 billion euros on energy transition research in 2022, an increase of 13 percent compared to the previous year, said the economy ministry. ¡°This shows how ...
20 Dec 2023, 12:49 Julian Wettengel Transport Policy Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Table.Media The German government aims to raise the levy on passenger flights as part of a comprehensive budget package for 2024 and the following years to fill the ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ consumption in Germany in the first three months of 2023 was almost seven percent below that of the same period last year due to high prices and a shrunk gross domestic ...
26 May 2023, 13:35 S?ren Amelang Electricity market Gas Grid Utilities Handelsblatt German energy companies have called for the introduction of a new incentive mechanism to trigger the construction of new gas power plants, which the country plans to use ...
07 May 2021, 12:03 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Gas Elections & Politics Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The co-leader of the German Greens, Annalena Baerbock, emphasised possibilities ...
15 Sep 2021, 13:05 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S?ren Amelang Hydrogen German utilities have said that the ...
12 May 2015, 00:00 G7 energy ministers agree on increasing efficiency as a no-regret measure to achieve energy security and greenhouse gas reductions. Joint action planned on cybersecurity for the electricity sector and a transparent gas market. Expert ...
15 May 2020, 14:17 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Several German parliamentarians have criticised government plans to set up a domestic ...
11 Jul 2023, 13:38 James Jackson Transport Policy Die Zeit The German government plans to cut funds for bike paths, while leaving spending for roads unchanged,? reports ?weekly Die Zeit. According to the draft budget for 2024, funds allocated to the ...
06 Nov 2023, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices dpa / Zeit Online More than a third of people currently using Germany¡¯s nationwide public transport ticket would end their subscription if costs went up much further than the current 49 ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:12 Expert Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Sector, State of Baden-W¨¹rttemberg Ministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Klima und Energiewirtschaft, Baden-W¨¹rttemberg Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel ...
07 Sep 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out n-tv The German Green Party has rejected criticism from the conservative CDU/CSU opposition alliance over economy and climate minister Robert Habeck¡¯s decision to put two of the country¡¯s remaining ...
30 May 2022, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU Der Tagesspiegel / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German foreign ministry¡¯s special envoy for international climate action, former Greenpeace head Jennifer Morgan, has said she supports the idea of higher import ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cars Policy dpa / Reuters / BR Only one day after opening a state support programme for installing solar panels for charging electric vehicles (EVs), Germany¡¯s national development bank KfW closed the application ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Freight Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Trains could play a key role in ensuring a comprehensive transport network for distributing imported green hydrogen across Germany, a report by research institute Fraunhofer ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:50 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Utilities Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Undecided political issues are by far the greatest ...
13 Jan 2022, 14:11 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S?ren Amelang Industry G20 & G7 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany should use its G7 presidency to push for more ...
06 Jan 2025, 12:12 Germany is of central importance when it comes to the EU defining its priorities in energy and industrial policies, says Simone Tagliapietra, senior fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. He argues that the country¡¯s next ...
10 Aug 2023, 13:11 S?ren Amelang Wind Elections & Politics dpa A fifth of all mayors in Bavaria have called on the regional government to speed up the construction of wind turbines in the state,?newswire dpa reported. In a cross-party appeal, 432 ...
03 Apr 2023, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany is exploring ways to expand cooperation with Australia on hydrogen and raw materials in a bid to diversify its import partners and reduce dependencies. Together with a ...
09 Mar 2021, 13:26 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's grid agency (BNetzA) ...
08 Nov 2022, 13:51 As the UN climate change conference (COP27) gets underway in Egypt, the German government has pledged additional funding to protect forests worldwide and support the most vulnerable countries in dealing with climate risks. Chancellor ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Industry Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The states of eastern Germany are benefitting from the transition towards a climate neutral economy and are well-positioned to emerge as a strong industrial hub thanks to their ...
20 Jun 2023, 12:27 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Jessica Bateman Cars Business & Jobs dpa / Die Welt Around half of all e-cars made in Germany are being produced in the eastern states, despite the region only ...
26 Apr 2023, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Asset managers active in the area of sustainability see investments in liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Germany as risky, said a report by the Science Platform for Climate Protection (WPKS). Germany ...
15 Mar 2023, 09:45 Germany¡¯s renewable industry association BEE has criticised key elements of the EU proposal to reform the design of the bloc¡¯s electricity market. The lobby group said strict rules about the shape of future subsidies for new low-carbon ...
The German Industry Initiative for Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Efficiency (DENEFF) has praised the strengthening of efficiency rules by the industry and energy committee of the European Parliament. ¡°Investment in energy efficiency needs planning security,¡± said DENEFF ...
15 Oct 2024, 14:30 Fifteen companies in Germany have been awarded support guarantees in the first round of the so-called ¡®climate contracts¡¯ scheme that is meant to put the country¡¯s industry sector on track towards climate neutrality. Economy minister ...
12 Jun 2023, 13:53 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany is likely to reach its gas storage target levels early, but a shortage risk for the coming winter remains if average temperatures drop significantly, gas storage operator INES said in a ...
20 Apr 2023, 12:33 S?ren Amelang Wind Hydrogen International Handelsblatt Nine European gas transmission grid operators have agreed to construct a pipeline network in the North Sea to transport hydrogen made in offshore wind farms, business daily ...
13 Oct 2023, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Tageszeitung (taz) A meeting of Germany¡¯s state ministers for transport has not produced an agreement on securing future funding of the country¡¯s new nationwide public transport ticket, ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Chancellor Olaf Scholz has proposed a "Pact for Germany" in which all levels of government and the opposition pull together to guarantee the country's success in the future. ...
09 Jun 2023, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The French city of Strasbourg and the German town of Kehl, which are located on opposite sides of the river Rhine, are planning to connect their heating systems in a cross-border ...
Security concerns are delaying the introduction of smart meters in Germany, writes the news agency dpa in an article carried by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has yet to approve the meters¡¯ external ...
10 Jun 2024, 14:54 Voters in Germany abandoned the parties of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition government in their droves at the European elections, handing the conservative CDU/CSU alliance of European Commission leader Ursula von der Leyen a ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:56 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German agriculture is going through a transformation to make the sector more sustainable ...
19 Jan 2021, 13:14 Expert RAG German Coal RAG Deutsche Steinkohle AG Coal Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Kerstine Appunn Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German hard coal companies RAG Sales and RAG Mining Solutions have announced the end of their business ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Wind EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The governments of Denmark and Germany have signed a legally binding cooperation agreement for a joint offshore wind power project on the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm, the economy ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:51 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices Reuters The state-run fund created to pay for the intermediate and final storage of ?nuclear power station waste ?in Germany has so far coped well throughout the ...
Germany will have to consider installing small new gas power plants in the 2020s to ensure power supply security as the country¡¯s coal exit progresses, Patrick Graichen, head of the think tank Agora Energiewende*, told Georg Ehring in an interview with ...
31 May 2023, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Transport Business & Jobs Die Welt Chemicals producer BASF is deploying a new freight vessel adapted for low water levels in the Rhine river, newspaper Die Welt? reported. Shallower water in Germany¡¯s ...
16 Mar 2021, 17:30 Germany¡¯s foreign minister Heiko Maas and economy minister Peter Altmaier have called for closer global cooperation in key energy transition areas, such as green hydrogen, to help the world reach ambitious climate targets. As renewable ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Business & Jobs Bloomberg The German government is considering merging the country's four transmission system operators (TSOs) into a single ¡°German Grid Corporation,¡± news agency Bloomberg? reported. The ...
29 Sep 2023, 13:53 S?ren Amelang International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Public climate financing from Germany for poorer countries reached a new record level last year, already surpassing the 6-billion euro target set for 2025, the government has said. A total ...
22 Aug 2023, 13:44 Jack McGovan Industry Cost & Prices Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s energy price caps, implemented to help consumers with rising costs during the energy crisis, often did not compensate businesses for price increases to the ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Rachel Waldholz Coal Electricity market ...
The European Commission had approved, in a February state aid ruling, Germany¡¯s security standby of lignite plants scheme, and said that future rules on the design of the EU electricity market would not influence this ruling. The Commission now says this ...
As of 1 October, three more lignite power station blocks in Niederau?em and J?nschwalde will be mothballed and moved into the so-called security standby reserve, dpa news agency reports. After four years in the reserve, the units will be retired for good. ...
26 May 2020, 12:43 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ An active removal of several hundred ...
26 Oct 2023, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The EU still lacks an ambitious industrial strategy to accompany the Green Deal to strengthen the bloc's industry and ensure it is able to keep up in the global race for the green ...
21 Sep 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is conducting test runs today (21 September) for a possible?gas supply crisis, aiming to practice what would happen should the agency need to order ...
02 Dec 2020, 13:42 Kerstine Appunn Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Up to two thirds of the gross value added by investments in local energy infrastructure and production remain in the German state where the investment takes place, an? analysis ?by ...
14 Dec 2020, 11:13 Germany¡¯s grid expansion is making headway ¨C despite the Covid19 pandemic ¨C but the power market is in need of a thorough overhaul if the country is to pursue its ambitious electrification targets while keeping up high levels of supply ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:25 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Grid Renewables ...
10 Mar 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Reuters Germany¡¯s special envoy for international climate action Jennifer Morgan welcomed the climate and energy diplomacy priorities adopted by the EU Council ...
17 Oct 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Cities Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Relevant stakeholders at a parliamentary hearing on 16 October called for more financial resources and less bureaucracy for the decarbonisation of?Germany's heating grids. The ...
12 Apr 2021, 14:18 Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Gas International Tagesspiegel The U.S. government is increasing pressure on the German government to halt the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline,? Hans Monath?writes ?in newspaper Tagesspiegel. President Joe ...
02 May 2023, 13:34 Expert Aurora Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Jessica Bateman Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background An analysis of solar power ...
20 Jun 2023, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government ARD German chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that the federal government is to reduce its spending and return to ¡°fiscal policy normality¡± after state support for citizens and businesses ...
15 Nov 2023, 16:26 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 COP28 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Geopolitical conflicts like those in Ukraine or the Middle East may force the climate crisis off newspapers¡¯ front pages, but the upcoming UN COP28 talks are still crucial, ...
23 Aug 2024, 15:00 The summer holiday peak has arrived across Europe and most parliaments on the continent have gone into recess. But while federal politics won¡¯t fully resume in Germany before 8 September, politicians and their observers have already ...
Foreign minister Heiko Maas said that Germany would be dedicated to dealing with climate change-related conflict risks should the country be elected as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for 2019/2020, reports the AFP news ...
The planned Russian-German natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, currently under construction in the Baltic Sea, can contribute to German power supply security during the country¡¯s coal exit, said coal commission co-head Ronald Pofalla during a speech at ...
02 Mar 2023, 14:21 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Storage Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The number of household solar power ...
20 Feb 2024, 13:46 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sales of new heating systems reached record level in Germany in 2023, with ...
09 Oct 2023, 14:24 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Reuters Germany should phase out its subsidy scheme to cap electricity and gas prices, introduced during the energy crisis, by the end of 2023,? said ?the ...
12 Jun 2023, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Background The collecting of German energy companies¡¯ windfall profits will end on 30 June. "In view of the secure electricity supply, falling ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:43 The new chapter of the 6th report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) focuses on mitigating climate change effects. Commentators from Germany regard the report as ¡°a clear call to society and policymakers for ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:54 Expert DBV- German Farmers¡® Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Edgar Meza Agriculture Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German Farmers¡¯ Association (DBV) is demanding a surcharge on domestic agricultural products to be ...
07 Dec 2023, 13:07 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities ...
14 Jul 2022, 13:15 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Transport Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The government action programmes for bringing the high-emitting transport and buildings sectors back on their emission reduction trajectories, has been criticised for ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Italy and Germany are pushing for the construction of a new natural gas and hydrogen pipeline via Austria to strengthen inter-European energy trade- the ¡° SoutH2 Corridor ¡° project. ¡°The ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany will be able to fully fill its gas storage facilities over the summer even if only a moderate volume of the fuel is available in the EU internal market, but there is still a risk of a ...
29 Aug 2023, 13:33 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A new report commissioned by Germany¡¯s Bertelsmann Stiftung and carried out by the Forum ?kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft (F?S) economic think tank, criticises the ...
19 Nov 2020, 13:53 Charlotte Nijhuis Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ 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 ...
Germany and Poland are crucial for filling the EU energy union with substance, but controversies over differing interests have stalled progress in energy policy cooperation, according to a paper from the German Institute for International and Security ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany will likely need several lignite power units that had been brought back online from reserve during the energy crisis last year also for the coming winter, economy minister Robert Habeck ...
Germany¡¯s state-owned nuclear repository operator EWN delays overhauling the security standards of its nuclear repository in northern Germany which are required to protect it from terrorist attacks, Silke Kersting writes on Handelsblatt Online. The ...
06 Sep 2022, 13:50 Germany should keep two of its three remaining nuclear power plants on standby beyond the planned phase-out date at the end of the year to help secure power system stability in the coming winter if necessary, economy and climate ...
13 Jan 2022, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Industry dpa/ Die Welt / Handelsblatt / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Industry companies are calling for an end to the southern German state of Bavaria¡¯s particularly strict minimum distance wind power rules. Bavarian ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Focus Online The premier of the eastern German state of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, has criticised the federal government's climate action package, arguing that it "discriminates ...
30 May 2023, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Gas Table.Media / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Ministers from the German coastal state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania have drafted a catalogue of measures worth one billion euros, which they claim will help ensure that the island ...
21 Aug 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German state scooped up approximately 417 million euros of electricity companies' windfall profits during the energy crisis in the first four months the relevant ...
03 Apr 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann International ARD / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck is visiting Kyiv in a bid to strengthen cooperation in the energy sector and discuss Ukraine¡¯s reconstruction following Russia ...
The natural gas network plan for 2018 to 2028 will include plans for Germany¡¯s first national liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) said in a press release. BNetzA said supply security was a ¡°priority¡± in the agency¡¯s ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government ARD / Stern Leading members of Germany¡¯s government coalition parties have questioned the sensibleness of the country¡¯s limit on new government borrowing, the so-called ¡®debt brake¡¯, after ...
The state government of Saxony in eastern Germany, where parts of the Lusatian lignite mining district are located, has published a master plan for future energy research, including the areas of nuclear security, battery production, and photovoltaics, ...
29 May 2024, 15:19 One year later than originally planned, French president Emmanuel Macron paid a three-day state visit to Germany that allowed him to reinforce calls for closer European cooperation in the week before the EU elections. Both Macron and ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German chemical industry says the European Commission¡¯s proposals to fight the energy price crisis in Europe may be sufficient to fight energy poverty but are not likely to help ...
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28 Jun 2024, 12:00 Carolina Kyllmann Julian Wettengel Associated Press: Von der Leyen, Costa and Kallas endorsed for the EU¡¯s top jobs European Union leaders have agreed on the officials who will lead the EU¡¯s powerful executive branch. News agency AP ...
30 Sep 2019, 13:41 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal dpa The last two of a group of eight lignite power plant units are entering Germany¡¯s security standby, reports news agency dpa. RWE¡¯s unit C at ...
14 May 2019, 13:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Technology Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Heavyweight carmaker Volkswagen has announced the launch of a battery cell production facility that will be operated in partnership with another company. In the framework of the ...
08 Jan 2025, 12:06 The application of sustainable finance principles across the EU will take a major step forward in 2025 as reporting duties for environmental data are expanded to cover a much wider range of companies, says Matthias H¨¹bner, head of the ...
23 Jul 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Politics International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit Green party co-leader and chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock has criticised the Nord Stream 2 agreement with the U.S. government. On 21 July, Berlin ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Gas Handelsblatt The European Commission (EC) has concerns over Germany¡¯s economy ministry plans to create incentives for the construction of new?gas-fired power plants with a combined capacity of about 25 gigawatt (GW) ...
04 Jan 2024, 12:51 Germany¡¯s greenhouse gas emissions fell around ten percent last year to the lowest level since around 1950, as a weak economy and high prices caused energy-intensive industry to lower production and electricity generation from coal ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Fossil fuels Gas Security Federal Network Agency / Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs & Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German authorities want to test the country¡¯s resilience to a severe natural gas shortage ...
The German government cabinet has decided a collection of energy law amendments, which include the introduction of additional renewables auctions in 2019-2021, the economy ministry (BMWi) said in a press release. The press release ¨C while not giving many ...
07 Dec 2023, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices WirtschaftsWoche German finance minister Christian Lindner has questioned the need for generous state support to attract investments in future industries, such as battery, hydrogen or ...
04 Mar 2022, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Security Energate messenger / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The reduction of hard coal imports from Russia to Germany has pushed up prices significantly, the German coal import association VDKI told ...
03 Sep 2020, 13:37 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The coronavirus pandemic has created new problems for Germany¡¯s energy transition, according to management consultancy McKinsey. The pandemic had particularly slowed the ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Aniket Narawad Electricity Nuclear phase-out Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / dpa Germany's net exports of electricity in the first half of this year were significantly lower than in the same period in 2022. The ...
05 Dec 2023, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Brazil and Germany have agreed to intensify cooperation on a wide range of environmental and economic issues. The two countries vowed to work more closely on topics ...
The costs for power grid stabilising measures rose to a record 1.4 billion euros in 2017 (880 million euros in 2016), says the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in its report on grid and system security measures. This was due to lagging grid expansion, a ...
The Federal Offices for the Protection of the Constitution and for Information Security have warned energy companies of a wave of attacks launched by Russian hackers on electricity networks,? tagesschau.de ?reports. According to German authorities, ...
14 Dec 2018, 11:00 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail to meet its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:44 Expert dena- German Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency¡¯s (IEA) latest report on renewable ...
20 Apr 2021, 13:04 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business ...
07 Sep 2021, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Resources & Recycling WirtschaftsWoche The current supply shortages of semiconductors due to the pandemic for the European car industry could be a glimpse of future difficulties the industry will face ...
18 Mar 2021, 14:02 S?ren Amelang Elections & Politics Handelsblatt The German Greens propose a large public investment programme to support the transition to a climate-friendly economy and a phase-out of combustion engine car sales by 2030 in their ...
Warnings from representatives of Germany¡¯s conventional power industry that the country¡¯s power supply security was in danger during dark and windless periods like in January as more and more conventional plants are becoming uneconomical and are set to ...
27 Apr 2023, 13:00 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Policy dpa Cities and municipalities in the state of Bavaria have demanded more money from the state government for climate protection measures, according to a dpa report in Die Zeit. The state government ...
12 Feb 2019, 18:04 Against the backdrop of escalating tensions over the Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, Germany and the US aim to boost industry cooperation on liquefied natural gas (LNG). German economy minister Peter Altmaier invited US ...
15 Jul 2021, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt The rapid increase in e-car purchases in Germany and other countries could thwart existing calculations for the industry supply of lithium, a key raw material for the ...
The EU should block the Russian-German gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 not only for reasons of energy security, ?but also on climate grounds, writes Marcin Stoczkiewicz, head of Central & Eastern Europe at ClientEarth in a guest commentary on ...
Germany¡¯s energy supply security must not depend on the support of other countries, Thomas Bareiss, state secretary in the economy and energy ministry (BMWi), said at a conference on energy and climate policy organised by newspaper Die Zeit in Berlin. ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:15 The German government is playing down US threats against companies involved in the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project connecting Germany to Russia. Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ minister Peter Altmaier said the government was ¡°not impressed¡± by ...
06 Jun 2023, 12:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling dpa / Der Stern The lack of mineral resources could become a challenge for the planned ramp-up of hydrogen industry in Germany, Europe and worldwide, news agency dpa writes in an? ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A monitoring system for the expansion of renewable energy sources and better planning tools for companies are needed to ensure a reliable transformation of Germany¡¯s economy, ...
06 Apr 2022, 09:49 Europe must act as a true green electricity and hydrogen union to stand its ground in a competitive world that moves to climate neutrality, says energy analyst Kirsten Westphal. The continent should establish hydrogen corridors to ...
Solar power generation can play an important role in securing Afghanistan¡¯s future energy supply, the German Solar Industry Association (BSW) says in a press release. Together with the Afghanistan Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Union (AREU), the BSW studied the war ...
20 May 2021, 12:29 Expert Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Brainpool Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ consultancy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Edgar Meza Coal Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s recently revamped Climate Action Law calls for the energy sector to reduce CO2 emissions from ...
17 Dec 2020, 14:08 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Clarification: The analysis is by BCG, the comments on the study by Stiebel Eltron. The German government's "unpredictable" climate policy leads to ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:14 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Forest experts have called for immediate improvements in Germany¡¯s forest fire protection as incidents cost the country over 600 million euros in 2022 in damages to health ...
03 May 2024, 15:35 With the sudden arrival of summer weather, Germans stream back into street cafes and beer gardens with a collective sigh of relief. On the way, they are greeted by EU election campaign posters, which have sprung up across the country ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Plans to sell the western German coal plant operator STEAG could present a significant hurdle to government plans to pull the country¡¯s coal exit forward to 2030, unless the company puts in place ...
23 Dec 2022, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ After two years of negotiations, landowners in four German states have reached agreements with electricity grid operators over compensation for land affected by the construction of underground ...
Germany¡¯s big four utilities want greater security and clarity on costs they will incur from the nuclear phase-out, and are proposing detailed contracts with the government, writes Angela Hennersdorf in Wirtschaftswoche. The contracts would establish how ...
The German government tried to bring climate and sustainable development into the mainstream of international politics at the G20 foreign affairs minister meeting in light of leadership changes in several member states, writes Irene Quaile for Deutsche ...
11 Apr 2023, 13:34 Julian Wettengel International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Bloomberg The G7 countries cause a large part of the world's resource consumption and the associated damage to the climate and environment and thus have to ¡°accept their ...
13 Oct 2021, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The announcement by French President Emmanuel Macron to ramp up the country¡¯s hydrogen production capacity and invest in the development of small modular nuclear ...
EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is concerned about energy-related measures in the sanction proposals by the US against Russia, reports Ryan Heath for Politico. Juncker believes they could be used unfairly against European energy companies, ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ In preparation for a possible ¨C if unlikely ¨C severe shortage of natural gas supply during winter, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has decided it will take into account ...
11 Oct 2024, 16:39 In Italian, the expression ¡°hot autumn¡° describes what happens when, after the long summer lull, political and social conflict cyclically rises again. For the energy transition, this is going to be a hot autumn indeed. Three of Italy¡¯s ...
Germany¡¯s grid operators fear that from 2020 the country may have to import electricity in extreme cases of adverse weather, as more and more conventional power plants are taken offline, Daniel Wetzel writes for Die Welt. The four transmission grid ...
22 Apr 2021, 12:58 Germany's utilities say the delay to the EU decision on whether natural gas projects count as a sustainable investment imperils the country's supply security and climate targets. They argue that the exclusion of gas from the ...
14 Apr 2021, 14:56 Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Gas International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH)?has? filed a lawsuit ?against the continued construction of the Baltic Sea gas pipeline Nord Stream 2.?The non-profit ...
The sanction proposals directed at Russia, which the US House of Representatives will vote on on Tuesday, endanger the German-Russian gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2, writes Winand von Petersdorff in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:15 The two most influential members of the EU, Germany and France, agree on the urgent need to jointly decarbonise Europe¡¯s energy system and put supply security on a safer footing after the tumultuous energy crisis year 2022. Russia¡¯s war ...
Germany¡¯s foreign minister and former SPD head Sigmar Gabriel says his party should focus less on environmental and climate protection and instead emphasise topics that concern its traditional voting bloc, such as industrial job security and upholding ...
20 Dec 2024, 08:44 Germany¡¯s next government will inherit a major policy predicament: How can it finally initiate serious transport emission cuts against a backdrop of tight finances, a struggling car industry, and a crumbling transport infrastructure? ...
Norbert R?ttgen (Christian Democratic Union), chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the German Bundestag, demands that the federal government stop plans to construct the contentious gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 between Germany and Russia, according ...
11 Feb 2020, 14:31 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Expert The German Gas and Hydrogen Industry Fossil fuels Gas Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ As Germany plans to exit both nuclear and coal power generation over the next years, gas plants ...
23 Jun 2023, 13:11 Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background / Handelsblatt / pv magazine Germany¡¯s economy minister Robert Habeck announced there will be new government funding to rebuild the country¡¯s solar industry, ...
10 May 2023, 12:24 Julian Wettengel Gas NDR / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The federal government has decided on a location for the disputed import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) on the popular holiday destination island of R¨¹gen, reported public ...
22 Dec 2020, 12:27 Edgar Meza Utilities pv magazine The German government is making a 450-megahertz (MHz) radio network available to the energy sector that could be used to control PV systems and other feed-in and load management systems, Ralph Diermann ...
23 Jan 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Bioenergy Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Table.Media A draft bill that would seal a deal to phase out biofuels derived from food or feed crops should be voted on by ministers ¡°as soon as possible¡±, German environment ...
05 May 2023, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Fossil gas use by private households, industry and power stations in Germany fell 23 percent in the second half of 2022, compared to the same period in the previous year, according to a report by ...
09 Apr 2024, 14:00 German environmental NGOs have welcomed a landmark climate victory by an association of women in Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights as a breakthrough for climate action. The court found that the European Convention on ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said his government would pave the way for prolonging the runtime of all three of Germany¡¯s remaining reactors until April 2023. The German leader thus intervened to settle a dispute about the delayed end of ...
14 Nov 2022, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Finance Efficiency Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s largest real estate company, Vonovia, has secured a loan worth 600 million euros for investments in energy efficiency renovations for its housing stock from the European ...
German energy company Uniper is the first utility to put forward ideas for an eventual phase-out of coal-fired power generation following the launch of the coal-exit commission last month, Klaus Stratmann reports in Handelsblatt. Uniper CEO Klaus Sch?fer ...
Renewable energy offers the potential of energy independence and security in times of rising geopolitical tensions like the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine, according to a story by Anmar Frangoul for CNBC. ?"The idea is for the Germans to say ...
Germany is seeking to limit China¡¯s investment in sensitive firms, following revelations that state-owned China Southern Power Grid purchased a substantial share of a 1,650-kilometre natural gas distribution network and a 420-kilometre high- and medium ...
05 May 2023, 13:29 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ-intensive companies in Germany should receive billions of euros in state subsidies to lower their electricity costs if they promise to decarbonise and to stay within the country, economy and climate minister Robert Habeck said. ...
19 Jul 2022, 14:23 Hannah Naylor Gas Hydrogen General Anzeiger Egypt¡¯s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pledged to assist Germany¡¯s move towards independence from Russia by supplying natural gas and agreed on a green hydrogen partnership during a meeting ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:55 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Cities Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Public support for climate protection measures such as the introduction of speed limits or the building of wind turbines, is split markedly between rural and urban ...
25 Sep 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Propelled by a rapid transformation in the heating sector, Germany¡¯s demand for natural gas looks set to plummet by one third by 2030 and by another third in the following decade, consultancy ...
24 Aug 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Policy EU FAZ The European Union should focus on strengthening existing policy instruments when charting the course for climate action in the years after 2030, write researchers Brigitte Knopf and Oliver Geden in an op ...
07 Mar 2023, 12:26 Carolina Kyllmann Utilities Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Municipal utilities are at the forefront of implementing the energy transition and should ¡°invest in the green future of their business,¡± Germany¡¯s chancellor Olaf Scholz said at the annual ...
Policymakers and companies must urgently pay attention to the commodities required by a large-scale roll-out of electric mobility to avoid bottlenecks and secure a sustainable supply, according to mobility think tank Agora Verkehrswende*. ¡°Securing the ...
10 Nov 2020, 14:09 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Edgar Meza Electricity market Grid Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German and Belgian transmission system operators Amprion and Elia Group have completed the first direct current ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:50 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, ...
18 Aug 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Government Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung An internal government coalition row over a new ¡°growth opportunities act¡± is causing a stir among business leaders in Germany, newspaper Handelsblatt ...
28 Jun 2019, 12:34 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Electricity market Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Due to the 2018 heat wave in northern Europe, some German power plants had to ...
23 Jun 2023, 10:00 As the two largest economies in the European Union, France and Germany, for at least a decade have acted as the bloc¡¯s key drivers of more ambitious climate action. A glaring gap in the two countries¡¯ energy policy has been exposed in ...
27 Feb 2023, 14:08 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Carolina Kyllmann Solar Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Targeted immigration of ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:19 Jessica Bateman Nuclear phase-out Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The Emsland nucelar power plant in northern Germany can only make a minimal contribution to gas savings and energy price reduction, a report by analysis company Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Brainpool ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:53 S?ren 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 ...
10 Aug 2022, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background There are still no liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply contracts between German and Qatari companies almost five months after economy minister Robert Habeck visited the gulf state in March to ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:16 Two new projects for the climate-friendly production of steel and cement illustrate the ambition of Germany¡¯s industry to meet sustainability targets without ceding market share to foreign competitors. Economy minister, Robert Habeck, ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Precious raw materials contained in wind turbines or e-cars ?should be recycled and reused to supply crucial resources for Germany¡¯s energy transition, according to the ...
T ravelling in the renewable- energy stronghold state of Lower Saxony, German energy minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) faced urgent calls to provide a secure framework for future wind power growth. Lower Saxony¡¯s environment minister, Olaf Lies (SPD), said ...
10 Feb 2020, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt The German steel industry accounts for about one third of the country's total industry emissions, meaning that becoming carbon-neutral by 2050 comes with particular challenges to the ...
26 May 2023, 13:40 S?ren Amelang Society dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The UN has highlighted the importance of climate activists and their right to hold demonstrations following a crackdown on a street-blocking group in Germany. "Climate ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:34 Expert DBV- German Farmers¡® Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Carbon removal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Carbon farming is an essential tool for reaching Germany¡¯s net zero targets and should therefore ...
In the midst of its transition to low-carbon energy generation, Germany has re-entered the top 20 in the World Economic Forum¡¯s (WEF) Global Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Architecture Performance Index. The index examines the affordability, environmental sustainability, and ...
22 May 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel International G20 & G7 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Researchers, NGOs, and media commentators have criticised the German and Japanese governments for what they say is a weak outcome on climate policy at the Group of Seven (G7) ...
23 Dec 2022, 14:20 The German government coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz looks back at a turbulent first year in office, which has been dominated by the reality check of Russia¡¯s war on Ukraine and the European energy crisis. The turmoil in global ...
09 Feb 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The ¡®intensive use¡¯ of German coal power plants lead to additional emissions of 15.8 million tonnes of CO2 in 2022, according to a report by consultancy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Brainpool commissioned by Green ...
11 Feb 2021, 13:29 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ In ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Finance International EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The European Union should go further in its proposal to counter the U.S.¡¯s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), more than 40 business organisations, companies, think tanks ...
While ambitious climate policy is an opportunity for growth and prosperity, the economic costs of inaction ¡°can hardly be quantified, but they are enormous¡±, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 9 th Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin. ¡°Climate ...
09 Dec 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany will get through winter with its gas supply and the likelihood of a severe shortage has decreased further due to savings efforts, said the country¡¯s gas storage operator association INES. ...
08 Dec 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government has launched a 900-million-euro auction scheme for green hydrogen imports. The idea of the so-called H2 Global mechanism is to procure the fuel on the world market and ...
01 Sep 2022, 13:42 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ policy links between the UK and the European Union have remained strong since the UK officially left the bloc in January 2020, in contrast to complications in many other policy areas. A new renewable power interconnector project ...
Katherina Reiche, managing director of the municipal utility association VKU wants the government to establish better conditions for local utilities and keep an eye on the cost efficiency of the energy transition and security of supply in Germany, she ...
03 Feb 2023, 13:36 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Solar PV expansion in Germany jumped ...
24 Mar 2023, 13:47 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A German strategy on carbon capture and use (CCU) or storage (CCS) ¨C the carbon management strategy which is currently being developed by the government with stakeholder input ¨C ...
Germany¡¯s next government must ramp up expansion targets for wind power to meet the country¡¯s climate targets and secure stable conditions for the industry, trade union IG Metall K¨¹ste says in a press release. IG Metall called on state premiers, ...
10 Mar 2021, 13:25 Expert BASE- Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management Bundesamt f¨¹r die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung Nuclear phase-out Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 ...
02 Jul 2019, 17:48 Germany¡¯s power grid was strained at several moments in June because too little electricity was fed into the system, according to the four power transmission grid operators (TSO). Power market experts said the reason for the ¡°very tense ...
05 Mar 2021, 13:49 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices S?ren Amelang Coal Grid Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Three German hard coal power plants ...
03 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas Table.Media / Spiegel Germany¡¯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 R¨¹gen in the country¡¯s LNG ...
27 Nov 2020, 13:53 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Green stimulus Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The economic impact of the coronavirus crisis is pouring cold water on ...
22 Nov 2022, 13:57 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ It is possible to achieve Germany¡¯s target of covering half of heat production with renewable energies by 2030, the German Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation (BEE) said at the presentation of its ...
16 Jan 2025, 12:00 Europe's ageing buildings are particularly vulnerable to the damaging effects of climate change, with homes increasingly threatened by floods or at risk of becoming unbearably hot to live in. The job of adapting the spaces where ...
13 Mar 2023, 13:44 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Adaptation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / dpa, Die Zeit / Table.Media The German government¡¯s upcoming ¡®Water Strategy¡¯ aims to improve ...
18 Jan 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Cities Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A broad alliance of German trade unions and environmental associations has launched a joint call to the federal government for a legal reform to guarantee more financial support to implement ...
18 Jan 2023, 12:59 Carolina Kyllmann Government Handelsblatt The conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group opposition is calling on the German government to accelerate planning and approval procedures and greater investment in the expansion of ...
20 Jan 2022, 12:01 Germany's onshore wind power capacity is recovering from years of depressed expansion, but is still not close to levels necessary for the country¡¯s renewables targets for 2030, the country's wind power industry?said in its ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:24 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Gas International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s gas industry has said additional natural gas import infrastructure such as the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is essential for keeping competition in Europe ...
09 Feb 2021, 13:31 Expert Left Party Die Linke Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics ZEIT online The German Left Party (Die Linke) puts climate protection at the heart of its federal election campaign, Katharina ...
11 Jan 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Technology Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government cabinet has adopted draft legislation to accelerate the sluggish introduction of smart meters in the country. Economy minister Robert Habeck called it an important step ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:32 As?Germany strives for a renewable-driven power sector, regulators should enable a more flexible electricity demand, says Nicolas Leicht, energy market expert at Aurora Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Research. Incentives such as locational price signals, as ...
Social Democrat state premier of Brandenburg Dietmar Woidke warns that certain coal related provisions in a late draft of the environment ministry¡¯s climate plan could endanger power supply security in Germany, reports Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. In a ...
07 Nov 2022, 13:35 S?ren Amelang Renewables Industry Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Excessive red tape hinders Germany¡¯s shift to a low-emission economy, according to a report by industry association BDI. Planning and approval procedures are not only becoming ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:34 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert BWE- German Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
26 Aug 2022, 12:56 Hannah Naylor Coal Transport Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal and oil were the most important commodities shipped on German waterways, with almost 12 million tonnes each between January and May of this year, said statistical office Destatis. Coal ...
14 Dec 2017, 00:00 The energy transition has profound implications for Germany's preparations for an "unlikely but possible" large-scale power blackout, civil protection experts say. While renewable energy sources could replace fuel depots ...
03 Jun 2024, 13:33 Germany is still set to miss its emissions reduction targets until 2030 and lacks a real strategy for the years that follow, said the country's key government advisors on climate policy. Recent official projections ¨C which had seen ...
23 Aug 2019, 13:23 S?ren Amelang Electricity Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Droughts caused by climate change pose a growing risk to the power supply in Germany and around the globe, according to a report by WWF Germany. 90 percent of global ...
24 Oct 2022, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society dpa / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Several thousand people took to the streets across Germany on 22 October to demand solidarity and redistribution in the energy crisis, news agency dpa reported. With the ...
22 Dec 2022, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Edgar Meza Agriculture Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Welt Reducing the environmental impact of food is one of the key priorities of the German government's upcoming nutritional strategy, presented by the ...
15 Feb 2023, 12:57 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany and Belgium agreed to link their hydrogen networks, double gas flow into Germany and explore the possibility of a second high-voltage electricity interconnector for cross-border ...
A recent decision by the Danish parliament allowing a ban on construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Germany and Russia on Danish maritime territory in the Baltic Sea highlights divisions between Berlin and other European states over the ...
A group of more than 40 companies has called for 2030-targets for all sectors in a Climate Action Plan 2050 that ¡°clearly signals¡± the implementation of the commitments made in the Paris Agreement. ¡°This is the only way that new business models and ...
Germany can reach its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target with a delay of three years by taking 9 gigawatts (GW) of lignite-fired power plant capacity offline by 2023 without endangering power supply security, according to a study by Aurora Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
27 Mar 2023, 14:06 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ An additional investment of over 128 billion euros compared to earlier plans is needed to make Germany¡¯s electricity grid fit for a climate neutral future, according to a first ...
07 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Germany cannot count on French to help it block an amendment to an EU regulation which would give the a Union greater say in the construction of the contentious Russian-German ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Carbon contracts for difference (CCfDs) alone will not be sufficient to enable a rapid decarbonisation of Germany's energy-intensive industry, the academic advisory board of the ...
22 Dec 2023, 15:00 The German government has to fund a wide range of its ambitious climate and energy transition projects for 2024 with considerably less money than initially planned. A ruling by the country's highest court on the constitutionally ...
21 Jun 2022, 12:22 Edgar Meza Coal Utilities ARD, Rheinische Post RWE, Germany¡¯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, ...
31 Jan 2023, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ At his first meeting with the newly elected Brazilian president Luiz In¨¢cio Lula da Silva, German chancellor Olaf Scholz has focused on joint efforts to protect the ...
23 Nov 2020, 13:41 Expert German Steel Federation Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt The German government wants to help the steel and chemical industry become ...
02 Aug 2021, 12:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out International Die Welt Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power means that it must replace the energy source with climate-harmful coal and gas, the executive director of state-owned French ...
The fact that E.ON sticks to the majority Uniper sale in September despite the fossil spin-off¡¯s lousy results is a bet on the future of the Energiewende, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. Renewable power¡¯s share will remain stuck in low single digits and ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:30 The small western German village of L¨¹tzerath has become the latest battle ground for climate activists, as it is being demolished to expand a neighbouring lignite mine. Given Germany¡¯s aims to quit coal ¡®ideally¡¯ by 2030 and to reach ...
05 Oct 2022, 13:51 Carolina Kyllmann Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The cost hikes and uncertainties triggered by the energy crisis have not shaken German citizens¡¯ belief that the energy transition must have a high priority, according to a survey. Sixty-nine ...
The German federal government has said that the country¡¯s security standby of lignite power plants with a total capacity of 2.7 gigawatts has not yet been used, but operators are paid a total of 234 million euros in 2017 and 2018 to keep them at the ready ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:55 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S?ren Amelang Digitalisation Clean ...
05 Jan 2024, 10:00 The German government must stop relying too much on giving out subsidies for climate action from 2024, and instead tackle the country¡¯s system of fossil fuel taxes, says energy analyst Andreas Schr?der from commodity intelligence ...
25 Jan 2023, 13:22 S?ren Amelang Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government no longer believes that the energy crisis will plunge Europe¡¯s largest economy into recession this year. The government¡¯s latest economic forecast said the ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A ¡°radical simplification¡± in the registration, installation and commissioning of plug-in solar units is needed in Germany to involve more homeowners and tenants to ...
23 Jan 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany and France have reiterated their wish to work together on the energy transition, technological sovereignty, supporting industry in the transition to climate neutrality and ...
28 Nov 2022, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Handelsblatt A shortage of more than 200,000 skilled workers threatens to slow down Germany¡¯s energy transition, according to a report by the Institute of the German Economy (IW) ...
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08 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Der Spiegel ¡°Sigmar Gabriel prepared to sacrifice climate levy¡± Economy and energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel is about to let go of his proposed climate levy for old coal-fired power stations, Der ...
24 May 2019, 13:24 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Technology Policy Spiegel Online The goal of becoming a ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:49 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology S?ren Amelang Grid Tagesspiegel Background German operators of key energy infrastructure including power stations, gas and electricity grids have stepped up ...
04 Dec 2019, 13:41 S?ren Amelang Renewables Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Danish offshore wind company Orsted and German chemical maker Covestro have signed the world's biggest purchase agreement for an offshore wind farm planned without support payments. ...
Germany can take coal plants with a combined capacity of seven gigawatts off grid- and might even improve the security of the power supply by doing so, according to an unofficial document by Germany¡¯s economy & energy ministry (BMWi) and the Federal ...
13 Sep 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Activists from the Fridays for Future student group have called on the German government to set up a special fund for ¡°massive¡± investments in climate action. ¡°We ...
16 Nov 2022, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Business Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate protection played an important role for just under 60 percent of German start-ups founded last year, state-owned development bank KfW found. Ten percent of start-ups mainly offered ...
18 May 2022, 12:25 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Development ministers of the seven leading western industrialised states (G7) are meeting in Berlin on 18-19 May to discuss the German G7 presidency¡¯s plans for so-called Just Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
22 Dec 2021, 12:42 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Energiewende Handelsblatt The new German government must quickly fill its ambitious energy transition plans with action, according to Markus Krebber, ...
08 Oct 2020, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's government together with researchers, water industry representatives and local authorities is working on a national water strategy aimed at coping with recurring ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:35 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy ...
14 Jun 2024, 16:07 Poor results in the EU elections mean that governing is set to be anything but smooth sailing for Germany's ruling coalition. Pressure is mounting on all three partners ¨C chancellor Olaf Scholz's SPD, the Green Party and the ...
21 Dec 2022, 10:51 The uptake of net zero targets among India¡¯s industrial giants is unlikely to translate into rapid emissions reductions given a lack of adequate policies, funding and regulatory oversight. On the contrary, the country's steelmakers ...
12 Apr 2023, 13:55 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German companies increasingly ...
German transmission grid operators (TSO) have already had to use large amounts of this year¡¯s "winter reserve", a pool of conventional backup power plants to prevent shortfalls in power supply, according to a joint press release from grid ...
06 May 2022, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Wind Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that laws requiring wind park operators to give neighbouring residents or communities the opportunity to share in the profits are ...
19 Dec 2023, 13:31 The German government must be on guard in 2024 to ensure it can meet its increasingly distant target of having 15 million electric cars on the road by 2030, says Wiebke Zimmer, deputy executive director of clean mobility think tank ...
20 Dec 2023, 09:05 Europe has no time to lose in formulating its renewed emissions reduction ambitions after the results of next June¡¯s European Parliament elections become known, says Simone Peter from the German Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation. A ¡°Fit-for ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:41 Expert German Steel Federation Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Industry Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A new " steel strategy " for establishing low-carbon ...
04 Apr 2023, 13:56 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Despite an extremely mild winter, households in Germany experienced the highest heating costs ever according to an analysis by price comparison website Verivox based on data from the German ...
12 Mar 2019, 14:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Grid International Tagesspiegel In order to achieve the best possible climate action in ...
21 Jun 2023, 09:00 The governments of China and Germany have agreed to introduce a ¡°Climate and Transformation Dialogue¡± to speed up their transition towards a more climate friendly economy. Fighting climate change remained a main concern for the two ...
10 Jun 2022, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Renewables International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German chancellor Olaf Scholz should focus on climate change mitigation during his visit to Kosovo, Serbia, North Macedonia and Bulgaria this week, NGO Germanwatch has said. ...
21 Dec 2022, 12:59 Expert Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) Bundesanstalt f¨¹r Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Climate & CO2 Resources & Recycling Policy Edgar Meza Resources & Recycling Die Zeit / dpa The Federal ...
03 Jun 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance International WirtschaftsWoche A plan by the U.S. securities markets control authority SEC to tighten the rules for labelling financial products as sustainable could bring further trouble to German asset ...
22 Mar 2023, 13:26 Julian Wettengel International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany and the U.S. are jointly pushing for a fundamental reform of the World Bank with an increased focus on the climate crisis, and agreed that it should be finalised at the ...
10 Aug 2022, 12:13 Hannah Naylor Cars Resources & Recycling Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / electrive.net The local utilities Stadtwerke Speyer and Stadtwerke Schifferstadt are planning to investigate how to source lithium from below the Rhine River in western ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Construction of Germany¡¯s and also Europe¡¯s first network of hydrogen pipelines are set to start this week in the country¡¯s east, the federal economy ministry and its counterpart in the ...
17 Oct 2022, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Resources & Recycling Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung In order to secure stable access to critical raw materials, Germany could financially support companies competing on global markets for ...
11 Aug 2022, 14:08 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Utilities Tagesspiegel Background Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ company E.ON has said it is ¡°open to discussions¡± about a possible runtime extension of its ...
19 Apr 2024, 15:00 A series of politically turbulent months for Croatia culminated with early parliamentary elections on 17 April. The short campaign didn¡¯t leave much space for discussions on energy policy, but when asked, all the biggest parties claimed ...
20 May 2020, 13:44 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert EWI- Institute of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit?t zu K?ln Electricity market Business ...
12 Mar 2024, 14:07 With a novel subsidy system that supports energy-intensive industries in Germany switch to more climate-friendly production processes, the country counts as a pioneer in Europe by linking climate action with increased competitiveness, ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:30 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:23 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Rheinische Post / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A group of villagers living in towns threatened by coal mine expansion in western Germany plan ...
08 Dec 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The planned infrastructure for direct imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at Germany¡¯s coastlines are ¡°massively oversized¡± and state involvement means that taxpayer money is used for what could ...
31 Jan 2023, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The implementation into national law agreed by Germany¡¯s government of an EU emergency regulation on the accelerated buildout of renewable energy sources will greatly boost the country¡¯s ...
20 May 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ For the first time, offshore wind energy in Germany is being used to stabilise the country's electricity system in case of grid fluctuations. The offshore wind farm Riffgrund 1, ...
10 Feb 2021, 13:05 The material demands of a transition towards a low-carbon energy system are immense, meaning countries like Germany that expand renewable power generation will have to greatly expand imports of many different raw materials over the next ...
06 Oct 2022, 13:52 Expert NewClimate Institute Institute for Climate Policy and Global Sustainability Climate & CO2 Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s climate diplomacy initiative has made a promising start ...
23 Mar 2020, 13:57 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Expert VZBV- ...
29 Jul 2022, 12:22 Hannah Naylor Coal Electricity market Freight WirtschaftsWoche In an attempt to maintain electricity production whilst gas deliveries continue to tighten, transport capacities in Germany, particularly rail, are struggling to keep up ...
13 May 2022, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ An alliance of environmental NGOs has called on parliamentarians to make significant changes to Germany¡¯s planned acceleration of liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects to ensure that the current ...
05 Oct 2022, 14:00 Edgar Meza Nuclear phase-out Neue Osnabr¨¹cker Zeitung Keeping all three German nuclear power plants in operation through March 2023 would save approximately 1.3 million tonnes of CO2, Germany¡¯s economy ministry said in a statement ...
10 Mar 2023, 12:18 Julian Wettengel Heating Table.Media / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Spiegel The German government coalition is edging closer to a compromise in the dispute about a de facto ban on new fossil fuel heating systems from next year, Table.Media ...
25 Jul 2022, 13:29 S?ren Amelang Gas Bild / Tagesspiegel Background / Rheinische Post The German government is considering financial aid to protect households that can¡¯t afford rising gas bills, reports tabloid Bild. Coalition sources told the paper that ...
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 ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Policy Society The majority (79%) of homeowners in Germany are in favour of replacing fossil heating systems with climate-friendly alternatives, but uncertainty reigns as to how this heating transition will be ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Renewables Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Handelsblatt The demand for zero-support renewable electricity is booming and the latest sign is a large-scale power purchase agreement (PPA) energy company EnBW concluded with ...
21 Mar 2022, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Die Welt The lack of skilled workers to install wind turbines, build train tracks or install heat pumps is a major hurdle to German government plans to transform the country¡¯s economy in line with ...
12 Jan 2021, 14:28 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A disturbance in the synchronised European high-voltage power grid on Friday, 8 January 2021, which resulted in a separation of ...
03 Mar 2020, 14:13 S?ren Amelang Energiewende Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt German ministries continue to be divided over plans for a hydrogen economy, delaying publication of the country's highly anticipated strategy to lower emissions in high ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Frankfurter Allgemeine The first ship designed to convert liquefied natural gas (LNG) back ?to gaseous state has? arrived ?in Germany, Deutsche ReGas, ?the company developing the country's ...
21 Nov 2022, 13:53 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Welt am Sonntag The likelihood of power blackouts in Germany this coming winter is low, the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) has? said. ¡°A large ...
12 Apr 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government ARD / ntv / Funke Mediengruppe Only days before nuclear power production is set to end in Germany on 15 April, the government coalition party Free Democrats (FDP) has suggested to mothball ...
19 Sep 2022, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government has to urgently step up its energy transition efforts in response to the ¡°Zeitenwende¡± (turn of an era) brought on by Russia¡¯s war against Ukraine, an ...
19 Sep 2022, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Grid Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German power transmission grid operator Amprion has said that it does not expect blackouts this winter despite ¡°an extremely tense supply situation¡± caused by the current energy crisis. Even the ...
07 Jul 2022, 13:21 S?ren Amelang Coal Gas rbb Germany¡¯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 ...
Large-scale installations used for storing renewable power as gas (power-to-gas) would be an interesting prospect for the east German lignite mining region of Lusatia, according to environment minister Svenja Schulze. Speaking at an event organised by the ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:42 Expert BASE- Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management Bundesamt f¨¹r die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung Nuclear phase-out Expert BGE- Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal Bundesgesellschaft f¨¹r Endlagerung ...
21 May 2024, 14:17 The EU¡¯s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, has boosted hopes in Germany¡¯s eastern coal mining region Lusatia that a prosperous future lies ahead in the transition towards climate-neutral industry in the area. At a visit to ...
26 Mar 2019, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt [Update adds details on launch of environment ministry¡¯s investment support programme.] Germany¡¯s industrial sector fears the investment in energy efficiency it will ...
05 Jul 2022, 12:40 Possible state support for energy company Uniper ¨C Europe¡¯s largest buyer of Russian fossil gas ¨C is justified because an insolvency would trigger a domino effect and shake up the entire German gas industry, says energy analyst Andreas ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:41 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Kerstine Appunn Utilities Reuters / dpa German energy company Uniper has secured credit facilities worth up to 10 billion euros, including up to 2 billion euros with German state-owned KfW bank, in a ...
17 Feb 2023, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A government-sponsored "renaissance of Europe's solar industry" is needed to ensure secure access to resources and hardware components that are ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:13 Italy has just taken over the rotating presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) large democratic economies, but its positions on climate policy often remain ambiguous, says Luca Bergamaschi, co-founder of the think tank Ecco Climate. He ...
23 Feb 2022, 14:35 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The EU Commission's proposals for adapting the gas market to climate targets are not enough to ensure a rapid scale-up of the hydrogen economy, according to Germany's hydrogen ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society WirtschaftsWoche The renewed push for renewable energy expansion in Germany leaves no more room for the NIMBY (not in my backyard) mentality that has long stalled the buildout of wind turbines, solar ...
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 ...
24 Jun 2022, 13:25 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Kerstine Appunn Grid Renewables Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German ...
17 Feb 2022, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s government should soon introduce a so-called climate premium (¡°Klimageld¡±) to return the revenues from the national carbon price on transport and heating fuels to citizens, ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:08 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The southern German states of Baden-W¨¹rttemberg and Bavaria have joined forces to push hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, and to ensure their industrial centres will receive sufficient supplies. ...
13 Jun 2018, 00:00 Germany¡¯s policymakers have not kept pace with the energy industry¡¯s rapid transformation caused by the Energiewende, and must catch up urgently, according to the utility association BDEW. The utilities also say that Germany needs a ...
17 Jun 2022, 14:15 S?ren Amelang Renewables Business & Jobs Handelsblatt / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germans strive for energy independence in droves, but a lack of skilled workers and long delivery times for heat pumps, solar panels and batteries put a break ...
15 Jun 2022, 12:20 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany should be able to import green hydrogen from Australia at competitive prices, a feasibility study has revealed. German industry association BDI and the National Academy of Science and ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s coal exit should follow the Coal Exit Commission's final report as closely as possible, according to the commission¡¯s co-chair ...
23 Mar 2022, 12:38 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 G20 & G7 S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Germany has a key role to play when it comes to getting governments across the world on board for the transition away from fossil fuels, said the country¡¯s new state ...
04 Jan 2019, 11:00 German climate and energy policy must urgently become more proactive in 2019 to increase companies¡¯ planning and investment security, says Mario Ohoven, president of the German Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses (BVMW). ...
13 Mar 2023, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A binding retrofitting quota and clear minimum standards for energy efficiency in buildings are needed in the EU to get the bloc on track towards reaching its emissions reduction targets in ...
10 Aug 2022, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Gas EU Tagesspiegel Background EU member states are behind schedule with bilateral agreements on how to help each other out in case of severe gas disruptions in the bloc, reports Steven Hanke for Tagesspiegel Background ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Renewables Handelsblatt Renewables supplied a record share to Germany¡¯s power mix in 2018, but their contribution to a secure supply continues to be insufficient until cheap storage can be built ...
10 Oct 2022, 14:09 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Frankfurter Rundschau The Social Democratic Party (SPD) has won the regional parliamentary election in Lower Saxony, Germany¡¯s biggest wind power producer, with 34 percent ...
05 Aug 2022, 13:53 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt Industry lobby groups in Germany have called on environment ...
22 Nov 2021, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Transport Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ There is a rush for electric buses as many German municipalities and cities are decarbonising their public transport systems, the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) said in a ...
06 Oct 2022, 14:31 Carolina Kyllmann Bioenergy Policy In a new strategy for biomass use, Germany plans to focus on recycling, efficient decarbonisation solutions, and using it as a material rather than a fuel for energy. The strategy, which will be ...
27 May 2022, 13:31 The Group of Seven western industrialised states (G7) has committed to making their electricity systems ¡°predominantly¡± carbon-free by 2035, but stopped short of setting a concrete date for exiting coal. Following their meeting in ...
A new draft US Senate bill that is meant to tighten economic sanctions on Russia could threaten Europe¡¯s energy supply security, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel and Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern have said in a joint press release. ¡°The threat ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:01 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Grid Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German power grid ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Heating dpa / BR / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The draft legislation to introduce a de-facto ban on new gas and oil heating systems in Germany starting in 2024 has sparked a dispute within the government coalition ...
26 Jul 2022, 11:23 S?ren Amelang Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s plans for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to replace Russian supplies exceed requirements and put the country¡¯s and European climate targets at risk, argues a report commissioned by ...
23 Nov 2022, 14:07 S?ren Amelang Business & Jobs Policy Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ An alliance of environmental NGOs and an industry union have called on the German government to launch an investment initiative to the tune of 100 billion euros per year ...
15 Feb 2022, 13:24 Expert Federal Foreign Office Ausw?rtiges Amt International Security Paul Gordon Transport Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / RTL German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Green Party) wants to use regular scheduled flights more frequently ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Augsburger Allgemeine The end of nuclear power production in Germany in 2022 will not compromise the electricity supply of southern economic powerhouse state Bavaria, the state's ...
14 Apr 2023, 10:18 Nuclear power production in Germany comes to an end on 15 April 2023, marking a milestone in the long and controversial process of the technology's phase-out in the country. Europe¡¯s energy crisis, fuelled by the fallout of Russia ...
18 Apr 2018, 00:00 German ministers and European Commissioners will be among those explaining why an energy transition is a good idea for the world, at the fourth Berlin Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transition Dialogue on 17-18 April 2018. The Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ will give a ...
08 Feb 2022, 14:48 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 International Die Zeit The EU¡¯s Africa summit in mid-February is an ideal opportunity for Germany to look at how it can better support the continent in adapting to climate change, Olumide Abimbola, ...
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 ...
15 Nov 2022, 14:04 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen NDR / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The first jetty for arrival of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been completed in northern German Wilhelmshaven, with the first delivery set to arrive in mid-January 2023, reports ...
31 Aug 2021, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Coal EU Tagesspiegel Background The planned revision of EU climate, energy and environmental state aid guidelines could lead to the German government re-opening its coal phase-out decisions, writes Tagesspiegel ...
28 Jun 2018, 16:17 The German government¡¯s Energiewende advisors say the country must put much greater emphasis on the project¡¯s European dimension to achieve the shift to renewables and the necessary emissions reduction during the next decade. The group ...
17 Dec 2021, 12:23 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Digitalisation Handelsblatt If German industry is to remain competitive and become more sustainable, the process of digitalisation needs to be much faster, writes Thomas Saueressig, executive board member of ...
16 Sep 2022, 13:56 S?ren Amelang Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German beverage industry has warned that the rapid rise in energy and raw material costs could push hundreds of companies with thousands of employees into ...
20 Apr 2015, 00:00 German chancellor wants to push for commitment for ambitious climate targets from G7 as climate activists call for strong leadership. Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ International Security Climate & CO2 Ambitious climate ...
27 Mar 2019, 12:19 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
23 Oct 2019, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Tagesspiegel Background The German Federal Agency for ...
07 Nov 2022, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Resources & Recycling BR The great reliance on hardware supply from China is causing concern among Germany¡¯s solar power industry, public broadcaster BR reports. About 95 percent of the solar cells installed ...
09 Aug 2019, 13:54 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Grid Renewables Wind Costs for maintaining a ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:09 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany aims to secure a full supply of green hydrogen in its drive to become climate neutral, but may use blue hydrogen made with natural gas and carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Norway for a ...
02 Sep 2022, 12:46 Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government has chartered a fifth floating import terminal (FSRU) for liquefied natural gas (LNG) to help the country wean itself off Russian pipeline gas and ensure supply security,? the ...
01 Sep 2022, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany has to speed up the development of its infrastructure for hydrogen use, as the country faces several energy-related crises at once, ?gas transmission grid operators said during the ...
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) wants to develop a national climate protection law and introduce a CO? floor price, the party says in a first draft for the federal election campaign programme. "We will continue to develop European emissions trading ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:06 Edgar Meza Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German heating company Stiebel Eltron expects to produce a record 80,000 heat pumps by the end of the year, a 60 percent increase over 2021 amid booming demand for environmentally-friendly and ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:56 The nomination of Ursula von der Leyen as president of the European Commission has come as a surprise for many political observers in Germany and across Europe. Little is known about the incumbent German defence minister's climate ...
01 Oct 2021, 12:53 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
30 Aug 2022, 13:32 Edgar Meza Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices Deutschlandfunk / Handelsblatt German economy minister Robert Habeck has laid out additional criteria for gas importing companies that seek support under the country's new gas levy ...
14 Feb 2019, 13:58 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Gas International Internationale Politik A u-turn on the controversial Russian-German natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 ¨C currently under construction in the Baltic Sea ¨C is unlikely, Christian ...
20 Sep 2019, 13:03 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy ...
05 Feb 2019, 13:40 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
16 Apr 2024, 13:27 After months of delay, lawmakers from Germany's coalition government have agreed to a reform of the country's climate action law, which would weaken the responsibility of ministries to ensure targets in their sectors are met. ...
01 Mar 2022, 13:29 The world is already facing ¡°unequivocal" consequences of climate change and damages will increase rapidly with rising temperatures, the United Nation¡¯s climate science body IPCC is warning in its new landmark report. The paper on ...
The German government will acquire a temporary 20 percent stake in power transmission grid operator (TSO) 50Hertz from Belgian Elia ¡°on national security grounds¡±, the economy ministry (BMWi) said in a press release. The ministry said the decision was ...
08 Jun 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Reuters / ARD Minimum distances for wind power turbines from residential areas could be suspended by Germany's federal government in a bid to accelerate the technology¡¯s sluggish expansion, public broadcaster ...
09 Dec 2016, 00:00 Germans will elect a new federal government in autumn 2017. Security, economic stability and refugees are likely to dominate election campaigns, but keeping the Energiewende on a steady course and fulfilling Germany¡¯s international ...
01 Dec 2022, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A planned reform of Germany¡¯s immigration law is aimed at recruiting skilled workers from abroad to fill tens of thousands of vacant positions in energy transition-related ...
15 Mar 2022, 13:54 Edgar Meza Coal Nuclear phase-out Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ In the face of soaring energy prices, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, people in Germany are increasingly in favour of nuclear power if it can reduce costs, according to a survey ...
03 Jun 2022, 13:40 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Industry Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / manager magazin The Federation of German ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ With a rather low offshore wind power capacity expansion of 342 megawatts (MW) in 2022, Germany must quickly gear up to bring the buildout in line with its ambitious renewable power targets, wind ...
28 Nov 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Society Der Spiegel / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate activists occupying the western German town of L¨¹tzerath to prevent it from being destroyed to make way for a nearby coal mine are to be evicted from January next ...
21 Dec 2021, 14:21 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ consumption in Germany has increased in 2021, as the economy recovered from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the country weathered a cold winter. At the same time, a year of depressed wind power production let the ...
People around the globe identify ISIS and climate change as the leading threats to national security, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. In Germany, 77 percent of respondents identified ISIS a major threat, 66 percent cyber attacks from other ...
10 Feb 2021, 12:52 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ CO2 emissions from the German power mix range between 87 and 664 grammes per kilowatt-hour depending on the time of year and day, researchers from consultancy EUPD Research ...
08 Dec 2021, 14:36 Jessica Bateman Elections & Politics Government S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Germany¡¯s new foreign minister, Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock, will head up international climate policy for the first time in the ministry¡¯s history, ...
07 Oct 2022, 13:32 The state election in Lower Saxony on 9 October is the first major vote in the country since the energy crisis fueled by Russia's war has started to take a toll on the German economy. The ballot in the state that hosts most of ...
09 Aug 2024, 13:30 A number of key issues relating to France¡¯s ecological transition have been put on hold after the rise of the far-right Rassemblement National party in June¡¯s European elections caused president Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National ...
11 Oct 2021, 13:26 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche St?dte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung The Association of German Towns and Municipalities (DStGB) ...
21 Nov 2022, 13:57 S?ren Amelang International COP27 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The UN climate conference COP27 in Egypt did not deliver what is needed to mitigate the rise in global temperatures, the German government has said. ¡°The steps adopted to reduce ...
The energy ministers of Turkey and Germany have agreed to cooperate more closely on the issues of renewable energies, energy efficiency, infrastructure, integrated energy (sector coupling) and regulation, their letter of intent signed at the second German ...
03 Dec 2021, 13:18 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K?ln Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / dpa Germany's CO2 reduction by 2030 could more than double as a ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s five biggest power ...
31 May 2024, 15:00 As the European elections approach and the political parties in Italy engage in divisive campaigns over European policies and the management of various international contexts, the country is preparing to host the summit of G7 countries ...
08 Oct 2021, 11:59 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Capturing, using and storing CO2 emissions on a large scale will be necessary for Germany to reach its target of climate neutrality by 2045 and the next national government should ...
24 Nov 2021, 12:15 Jessica Bateman Nuclear phase-out Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The shutdown of Germany¡¯s last remaining nuclear power plants will not cause supply shortages, according to calculations by the department of energy, transport and environment at the ...
28 Jun 2022, 17:16 G7 leaders have finished their three-day meeting in the Bavarian Alps with a commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, even as they agreed that public funding could be necessary for some fossil gas projects to reduce dependence on ...
Several German NGOs have filed a lawsuit against a possible prohibition of a large anti-coal protest at the Hambach Forest over the weekend, public broadcaster WDR reports. ¡°This is about thwarting a peaceful and non-violent protest,¡± said Greenpeace ...
19 Jul 2024, 15:00 Every year in August, Italy and its political scene grind to an almost complete halt for the summer holidays. The debate around the country¡¯s energy transition has almost entirely narrowed down to a single topic: whether to return to ...
21 Sep 2022, 13:23 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Wholesale electricity prices in Germany will be significantly higher in the next few years than they were during the 2019-2020 period due to the country¡¯s energy mix and their continued dependence on gas ...
22 Nov 2021, 13:13 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics Tageszeitung (taz) Leaders of the three parties currently negotiating the coalition treaty for the next German government are confident that they will reach an agreement early this week. For the ...
21 Feb 2022, 13:49 S?ren Amelang Cost & Prices Policy Handelsblatt / dpa The German government wants to ensure by law that the planned elimination of the country's renewables levy exclusively benefits consumers and not power providers, saying it ...
03 Apr 2019, 12:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ 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 ...
03 May 2022, 12:28 Edgar Meza Bioenergy Frankfurter Rundschau Germany¡¯s environment minister is planning further reductions in biofuel production in view of growing food shortages due to the war in Ukraine, Frankfurter Rundschau reports. The war is ¡°a ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:14 Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Finance Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's next federal government can finance the necessary climate protection measures despite?a?return to the?so-called ¡°debt brake¡±,- the ...
25 Apr 2022, 12:44 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Efficiency Capital Economist and government advisor Andreas Loechel has said the German government¡¯s plan to provide guarantees and sureties for companies hit by high energy prices offers the wrong ...
30 Jan 2023, 15:52 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Table.Media / taz [CLARIFICATION: It is not just Agora Energiewende which says LNG expansion plans are oversized. The grid operators in their draft plan state that if all planned LNG capacity is ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs EU Handelsblatt / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The looming trade conflict between Europe and the U.S. about government subsidies for green investments could be significantly defused after the American ...
29 Oct 2021, 13:39 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Renewables Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Long-term company contracts for the supply of renewable energy, known as green power purchase agreements (PPAs), should become a central part of Germany's ...
German power grid operator Amprion and its Belgian counterpart Elia have started building the first power grid connection between the two countries, according to an article by German newswire dpa carried by business weekly Wirtschaftswoche. Amprion said ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:40 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Nuclear phase-out S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung A second runtime extension for Germany¡¯s remaining nuclear power plants ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Society EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A majority of European Union citizens (66%) say that the war against Ukraine and its impact on the price of oil and gas should lead the bloc to speed up the green transition by reducing the ...
04 Feb 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal Policy Welt am Sonntag The parliamentary group leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative party CDU, Ralph Brinkhaus, told newspaper Welt am Sonntag in an interview that the German ...
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) has toned down its ambition regarding the introduction of a carbon floor price in its proposal for a party programme, to be decided at a federal party conference on?25 June. The party, which currently governs together ...
27 Jan 2022, 12:59 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Background Key raw materials needed for most types of clean hydrogen production could become scarce and much more expensive, Germany's Federal Institute ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:09 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International ...
14 Apr 2022, 12:21 Edgar Meza Gas Elections & Politics Tageszeitung (taz) / Financial Times As the biggest importer of Russian oil and gas among all German states, Bavaria is struggling to find adequate replacements as proposed solutions from its ...
26 Aug 2022, 14:08 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices Die Welt The German government will revisit the recently adopted regulation to introduce a levy to help gas importers affected by supply cuts from Russia, amid growing criticism about well-off ...
14 Jan 2019, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate & CO2 Handelsblatt Germany¡¯s planned climate action law must not only prescribe CO? emissions reduction, but secure social acceptance, technical feasibility and Germany¡¯s ...
11 Apr 2022, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The number of construction permits issued for new onshore wind turbines in the first three months of 2022 fell 14 percent compared to the same period last year, wind energy industry association ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Governments across the globe must use the 2020s to establish methods to remove CO2 from the atmosphere (carbon dioxide removals ¨C CDR) to ensure that Paris Climate Agreement targets can ...
08 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country¡¯s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
15 Apr 2021, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Wind Seven European transmission grid operators (TSO) have launched an initiative for interconnecting offshore wind platforms across Europe. The aim of ¡°Eurobar¡± is to securely and efficiently ...
02 Dec 2022, 13:51 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German government officials have welcomed the EU proposal to certify carbon removals, but called for better clarification of the details. ¡°In order to reach the 1.5-degree target, CO2 ...
04 Apr 2022, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Die Zeit Slow climate action has increasingly risked missing the world¡¯s climate targets and also keeps Europe and Germany dependent on energy imports from Russia, UN climate panel IPCC ...
11 Jan 2022, 13:38 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Businesses and municipalities in Germany will soon be able to access a wide array of support ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:40 Kerstine Appunn Storage Resources & Recycling Tageszeitung (taz) Tentative steps?in Germany to initiate a domestic sourcing of lithium are not making much progress, leading to concerns over their profitability, Michael Bartsch ...
05 Mar 2019, 15:32 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Cars Start-ups Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Berlin e-car charging startup ubitricity has raised 20 million euros from new partner Honda and existing shareholders including French utility EdF ...
The decentralised blockchain technology could solve many of the IT security problems associated with the roll-out of smart meters, the German Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency (dena) says in a press release. In an analysis published jointly with management school ESMT Berlin ...
08 Jan 2019, 11:00 A key premise?for Germany to meet?its climate goals is a strong CO2 price signal, says Manuel Frondel, head of the department "Environment and Resources" at the RWI-Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. Preferably, such a ...
07 Jan 2022, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany has veered off its path towards reaching its 2030 climate target, as the country¡¯s greenhouse gas emissions increased by 33 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents (t CO2 eq) in ...
03 Jan 2022, 14:13 Edgar Meza G20 & G7 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany would use its year-long presidency of the Group of Seven (G7), which began 1 January, ¡°to make this group of countries a trailblazer for a climate-neutral ...
28 Sep 2021, 13:40 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess is calling for a faster increase in the CO2 price, an earlier coal phaseout and a greater expansion of renewables. The day after the September 26 ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Bild am Sonntag Germany's new agriculture minister Cem ?zdemir from the Green Party wants people to ¡°value their food as much as their cars¡±, he told Bild am Sonntag in an interview at the end of last ...
The financial contribution German carmakers BMW, Daimler and VW will make to the ¡°clean air emergency programme¡± has been secured, acting transport minister Christian Schmidt has said in a press release. ¡°The German manufacturers will pay the share of 250 ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:37 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Germany¡¯s local utilities ...
08 Jun 2018, 00:00 The German environment ministry has called for much more ambitious EU targets to lower car emissions than those proposed by the European Commission. In a position paper seen by the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ, the ministry says car emissions must ...
Unconventional fracking, the gas drilling by means of chemicals, is a chance not only for supply security, but also for the climate, Michael Theurer, deputy leader of the Free Democrats (FDP) parliamentary group, told Der Spiegel. Using more natural gas ...
23 Apr 2015, 00:00 Bids for solar panel auctions were well-received, Germany is not exiting coal, and the country should consider its European electricity trading partners when designing the new power market, a key member of the economics ministry said at ...
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¡± ¨C industry representatives offered an unusual take on the German coal exit debate in a panel discussion ...
Nuclear incidents or serious accidents could happen ¡°at any moment¡± in Germany, and the country¡¯s emergency management plans are insufficient, writes the environmental NGO Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) based on a study written by Oda Becker from the ...
The traditional car industry is being hit by the adoption of electric vehicles, big data, tighter emissions limits and diesel bans, and German carmakers are faring the worst in many cases, writes Patrick McGee in Financial Times. It might not yet be clear ...
Germany needs to demonstrate that ¡°climate protection and economic success are not mutually exclusive,¡± social democratic Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel told weekly newspaper Bild am Sonntag. According to a Spiegel Online article citing the interview, ...
