15 Sep 2021, 13:06 Kerstine Appunn Resources & Recycling The German environment ministry (BMU) has set up a stakeholder process to assess the status quo of standardisation and describe the requirements for future standards, in a bid to enable a more ...
10 Sep 2021, 15:01 Kerstine Appunn Coal Cities 麻豆无码版 The City of Hanover has finalised plans to shut down the combined heat-and-power hard coal station in St枚cken by 2026, operator enercity said in a press release.The agreement between the ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:05 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cars dpa / Focus Online Carmaker VW says an earlier German coal exit is necessary for the company to ensure its electric car fleet receives the clean power it needs to ...
13 Sep 2021, 13:50 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Jessica Bateman Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel The head of the Federation of German Consumer ...
Coal mining companies鈥� financial guarantees to remediate long-term damage from extracting the fossil fuel must be better secured, Green Party head Annalena Baerbock told news agency dpa. 鈥淯ntil now, the level of provisions has been based on calculations ...
04 Mar 2015, 00:00 The consultation period for the government's green paper on power market reform is over and submissions reveal stakeholders' different ideas and priorities for a redesign. Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Electricity ...
24 May 2024, 15:00 The curtain is coming down on five years of EU energy and environment legislative drama. Since the 2019 鈥済reen wave鈥� that helped put the spotlight on sustainable policy, dozens of laws have passed through the complex process of EU ...
23 May 2022, 13:19 S枚ren Amelang Gas International Tagesspiegel Background The EU鈥檚 and, in particular, Germany鈥檚 urgent drive to replace Russian gas imports has revived controversial liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Canada, to the dismay of ...
Germany鈥檚 coal exit is 鈥渁lready happening, step-by-step鈥�, but the country still needs coal power plants, Helmar Rendez, head of Lusatian energy company Leag, told M盲rkische Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview. 鈥淎nyone calling for the immediate shutdown of ...
25 Mar 2019, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Energiewende International World Economic Forum The global energy transition has stalled, partly because of the continued use of coal power worldwide and slower-than-necessary improvements in energy intensity, according ...
The Bavarian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (BIHK) and the Austrian Economic Chambers (WK脰) issued a joint statement against a possible split of the German-Austrian power price zone, reports news agency dpa. 鈥淭hese plans endanger supply security in ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:27 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 The ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics International 麻豆无码版 In the context of the formation of Germany鈥檚 new government, former environment minister Svenja Schulze moves on to lead the country鈥檚 development ministry (BMZ) ...
31 Aug 2021, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Renewables Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 US technology company Google has announced it will invest 1 billion euros in digital infrastructure and clean energy in Germany from now until 2030. As part of this, ...
03 Mar 2022, 13:50 Kerstine Appunn Renewables International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German renewables stocks have surged amid prospects of an accelerated energy transition after the government emphasised plans to speed up renewables expansion as a ...
The German environment ministry has called for much more ambitious EU targets to lower car emissions than those proposed by the EU Commission. In a position paper seen by the 麻豆无码版, the ministry says car emissions must be halved between 2021 ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:25 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Storage Cars 麻豆无码版 The German company ACISA has signed an agreement with state-owned Bolivian YLB group to cooperate on the exploitation of lithium reserves in the world鈥檚 largest ...
A group of seven countries 鈥� comprising France, Poland, Italy, Hungary, Greece, Ireland and the UK 鈥� have issued a common position on the reform of Europe鈥檚 electricity market, saying 鈥渟trategic reserves鈥� for electricity should not receive favourable ...
12 May 2022, 14:00 Expert BWE- German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Edgar Meza Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 16 federal states have sufficient space ...
A new research project by Fraunhofer institute IWM in Freiburg is going to investigate the secure use of hydrogen in natural gas pipelines. The project will run for 4 years and cost 9.4 million euros, 1 million of which will be contributed by the federal ...
The dual phase-out of nuclear and coal power in Germany means the country has to increasingly rely on natural gas to complement its power production from renewable sources but unlike other major European countries, the world鈥檚 second largest gas importer ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:42 The German government鈥檚 target of sourcing 80 percent of the country鈥檚 electricity from renewable sources by 2030 is very much achievable for Germany if current positive trends persist, economy minister Robert Habeck has said at a ...
The embattled Hambach Forest has to be cut down to ensure a secure power supply for Germany, energy state secretary Thomas Barei脽 said at an event organised by Bloomberg New 麻豆无码版 Finance (BNEF) in London, Adam Vaughan writes in The Guardian. Barei脽 said ...
04 Jul 2022, 14:02 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K枚ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 麻豆无码版 The escalating energy crisis in Europe threatens to push German middle class ...
Germany might need new gas power plants to balance out the fluctuating feed-in by renewables, Uniper CEO Klaus Sch盲fer tells Rheinische Post in an interview. 鈥淭he question of supply security is going to resurface, at the latest when the last nuclear ...
06 Jul 2022, 12:03 Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine pushes governments across Europe to overhaul their plans for gas infrastructure such as pipelines or import terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG). Substituting only half of Russian gas imports forces ...
German energy company RWE has secured a 鈥渟ubstantial annual capacity鈥� of a planned German terminal to import liquefied natural gas (LNG), reports news agency Reuters. RWE reached an agreement with LNG Terminal GmbH, the joint venture that aims to build ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:12 Expert BEE- German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Nuclear phase-out pv magazine / Clean ...
26 Jul 2021, 12:26 Jessica Bateman Wind 麻豆无码版 The total share of German wind power produced by North Sea plants rose to 16.63 percent so far in 2021 despite an overall generation decrease compared to the first half 2020 due to calm weather, ...
The prevailing mood at the Wind麻豆无码版 Hamburg international trade fair shows how the industry is reinventing itself: the era of subsidies is coming to an end, Kathrin Witsch writes in the Handelsblatt. 鈥淲e expect that power purchase agreements (PPAs) will ...
12 Jan 2023, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Coal Society 麻豆无码版 / ZDF German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has said he has 鈥済reat respect鈥� for climate protesters but sees the village L眉tzerath 鈥� which is due to be demolished and replaced ...
18 Mar 2022, 14:48 The new German three-party coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz had started its term at the end of last year with optimism to launch a vigorous climate action programme after two difficult years in a pandemic. But the 鈥渢raffic light ...
31 Jan 2022, 13:39 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 three-party government coalition is pressing ahead with plans to quickly end the support to renewable energy operators directly via consumers鈥� power ...
03 Nov 2021, 14:30 Kerstine Appunn Coal 麻豆无码版 / dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany鈥檚 most populated state and home to some of the largest still operating lignite mines and coal power stations could phase-out the fossil fuel as early as 2030, ...
22 Oct 2020, 13:47 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Grid 麻豆无码版 Interruptions in Germany鈥檚 electricity ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:01 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Government International 麻豆无码版 Germany will attempt to move towards a "social-ecological" market economy model that puts great emphasis on diplomacy to advance the global fight ...
The car industry may have managed to weaken new EU car emissions regulations, but at least the new rules provide urgently needed planning security, argues a commentary in Tagesspiegel. 鈥淭hat is necessary, because a lot of money will need to be invested. A ...
13 Apr 2022, 13:56 Germany is facing a 2-percent drop in its GDP in 2023 in case of an immediate halt to imports of Russian oil, gas and coal, leading economic institutes said in their joint forecast. This is in line with other recent forecasts, but ...
Germany can decommission half of its coal power plants by 2030 without endangering supply security, according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). 鈥淏ut this hinges on the precondition that the necessary grid extensions are finished by then, and that ...
18 Jan 2022, 12:40 Julian Wettengel Industry 麻豆无码版 The German government will use whatever state funds necessary to support the transition of the country鈥檚 industry to climate neutrality through so-called carbon contracts for difference (CCfD) ...
RWE鈥檚 CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz has fuelled expectations that the company will target the UK energy market for future acquisitions with comments in a聽 recent German newspaper interview, writes Jillian Ambrose in The Telegraph. With its capacity market, the ...
07 Apr 2020, 13:19 Expert Hans-Josef Fell Politician Renewables Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Energiewende Julian Wettengel Renewables 麻豆无码版 Operators of innovative renewables systems that guarantee continuous energy supply day and night, ...
Exiting coal in Germany is a generational project that takes 30 years, says Helmar Rendez, chairman of Germany鈥檚 LEAG, the company responsible for lignite operations in eastern German region Lusatia. Rendez plans to decide by the summer if LEAG will ...
09 Aug 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Der Spiegel Nuclear plant operators in Germany are unenthusiastic about the prospect of having to revise their long-prepared decommissioning plans despite growing calls for the extension of runtimes, ...
14 Jun 2022, 08:55 Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine will throw the agenda of the upcoming聽G7 summit off course, but it will not derail the climate focus host country Germany has set, political analyst Ella Kokotsis told 麻豆无码版. As a leading ...
02 Jul 2021, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Der Spiegel The German conservative CDU/CSU alliance has stabilised its position as the country's most popular party again, relegating the Green Party firmly to the second place, according ...
31 Mar 2022, 13:53 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Transnational cooperation in the development of a common hydrogen market and the construction of hydrogen infrastructure can strengthen the Netherlands and Germany in the decarbonisation of their ...
05 Aug 2022, 14:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 / dpa / n-tv Amid an unprecedented rise in natural gas prices in Germany, the government has agreed on an additional levy on natural gas to help avoid importers going bankrupt ...
The Economic Council of the CDU (CDU Wirtschaftsrat), a professional association of business actors associated with the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has come out against an official end date for coal-fired power generation in Germany, ...
02 Aug 2022, 13:28 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 麻豆无码版 Governments around the world should factor into their planning more catastrophic trajectories ...
29 Apr 2021, 12:00 Kerstine Appunn Grid Tagesspiegel Background Germany鈥檚 power transmission grid operators聽(TSO)聽have said that the construction of key electricity lines will likely be delayed by several years,聽 reports Jakob Schlandt in Tagesspiegel ...
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Germany鈥檚 power supply security has improved despite the nuclear phase-out, according to a study by think tank 麻豆无码版 Brainpool on behalf of green energy provider Greenpeace 麻豆无码版. The number of power outages has decreased significantly since the ...
A majority of Germans want the federal government to do more for climate protection, according to a representative survey by public broadcaster ARD, conducted by Infratest dimap. 74 percent of respondents said the government should do more, 22 percent ...
02 Jun 2022, 13:27 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables 麻豆无码版 Warm weather and energy saving measures in the context of rising prices ...
In a joint declaration, the German and French federal governments have committed to accelerate the implementation of the European energy transition. Among other pledges, the two countries will push at the European level for ambitious CO 2 emission ...
Germany鈥檚 new environment minister, Svenja Schulze, wants to introduce a state support programme for climate projects in industry, she told the Rheinische Post. 鈥淭ogether with my cabinet colleagues from the economy [BMWi] and research [BMBF] ministries, I ...
04 Oct 2021, 12:21 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices EU Handelsblatt Some of Germany鈥檚 biggest CO2 emitters have taken advantage of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) to ensure their own emissions remain low-priced, according to a Handelsblatt report by ...
09 Nov 2022, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann International dpa / Handelsblatt / 麻豆无码版 Politicians and business representatives from France and Germany have stressed the need for a sound and extensive cooperation of the two key EU members to maintain ...
German solar battery maker Sonnen has secured 60 million euros in funds from Shell Ventures, a unit of the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell, and existing shareholders to expand at home and abroad, reports Vera Eckert for Reuters newswire. Sonnen chief ...
18 Jun 2021, 11:17 Julian Wettengel Industry Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 The German Green Party鈥檚 chancellor candidate, Annalena Baerbock, has refined her party鈥檚 proposal to introduce so-called Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfD) to ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Gas 麻豆无码版 / Bizz 麻豆无码版 A group of environmental NGOs in Germany has intensified its resistance to the construction of the country鈥檚 first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, ...
17 Dec 2018, 13:40 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Digitalisation Technology 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 company E.ON has installed Germany鈥檚 first smart meter in a household, the ...
The planned Russian-German natural gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 鈥渋s a raw example of how Berlin captures the EU machinery,鈥� writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in an article for The Telegraph. 鈥淏russels set aside EU law on Nord Stream, yet enforced it on ...
26 Jul 2022, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Gas EU 麻豆无码版 An agreement by EU countries to curb gas use during the coming winter is a signal of unity and solidarity in the face of the current energy crisis, said German economy minister Robert Habeck. ...
The European Commission has approved under EU state aid rules the transfer of radioactive waste liabilities to a new public fund in return for the payment of about 24.1 billion euros by nuclear power plant operators in Germany, the Commission said in a ...
Wind turbine manufacturer Senvion has secured a large construction project in India with a capacity of 300 megawatt (MW), the company says in a press release. The German company will deliver over 130 turbines with a capacity of 2.3 MW that can power ...
11 Jun 2021, 14:09 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 Temperatures in Germany could be 0.5 to 1.0 degrees higher in the ...
Germany鈥檚 largest oil and gas producer Wintershall is sticking to plans to build the Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 despite possible US sanctions, reports Bernd Freytag in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淓ven in times that are not easy, ...
Germany can take the most climate-damaging coal power stations off the grid by 2020 while also accelerating its nuclear exit without putting supply security at risk, according to an analysis by Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). In a detailed 鈥渟hutdown ...
Ecologic criticism of the German agriculture industry plays no role in the campaign for the upcoming general elections, contrary to previous years, writes Jan Grossarth in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Priorities now lay with topics ...
23 Dec 2021, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Germany鈥檚 economy ministry has plans to establish a so-called digital 鈥渟olidarity platform鈥� on which gas can be made available to those who need it most at times of scarcity ...
18 Nov 2020, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Der Spiegel Germany's Constitutional Court has rejected a complaint by villagers fearing resettlement due to the expansion of an open-cast lignite mine in the West of the country,聽 reports ...
The federal government 鈥渟hows an alarming despondency鈥� when it comes to its policy on a coal phase-out, writes Thorsten Knuf in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Rundschau. 鈥淐lear decisions about a long-term exit would be in the interest of the relevant ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:49 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Heating 麻豆无码版 The ...
07 Mar 2022, 14:13 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen Cities 麻豆无码版 / Die Welt The city of Hamburg is aiming to play a key role in the German and European shift towards a hydrogen economy with a new import strategy for the climate-friendly fuel. The ...
15 Dec 2021, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Renewables Government 麻豆无码版 The new German government's plan to more than double power production from renewable sources by 2030 presents a 鈥済igantic task鈥� for the country, said Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...
28 Jul 2023, 14:30 The European Union鈥檚 two largest economic and industrial leaders, Germany and France, have spearheaded efforts to put the EU ahead in the global scramble for green industry leadership and decarbonisation technologies. Despite ...
03 Mar 2022, 13:52 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for 麻豆无码版 Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency S枚ren Amelang Heating 麻豆无码版 Germany must launch an " ...
13 Jul 2022, 12:03 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Heating Government 麻豆无码版 German government ministries have launched a set of immediate action programmes that are to ensure emission reductions in the laggard buildings and transport sectors ...
Car buyers around the world are 鈥渋n love with SUVs,鈥� J眉rgen Stackmann, member of the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand, told the news agency dpa. By 2025, every second car sold by VW would be an SUV. According to Stackmann, the ...
01 Sep 2021, 13:34 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Grid Renewables 麻豆无码版 Citing the ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:24 S枚ren Amelang Transport Freight Technology 麻豆无码版 The association of German engineers (VDI) and technology organisation VDE insist on the large-scale deployment of hydrogen trucks for long-range road transport to reach the EU ...
Germany鈥檚 eastern European neighbours and Russia are not following the phase-out of nuclear energy that is part of Germany鈥檚 energy transition, writes historian Anna Veronika Wendland in a guest article for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Eastern ...
German utility E.ON has entered into a partnership with greenXmoney to set up an online platform that allows making investments in German solar and wind power facilities 鈥渆asily, securely and independently of any particular bank鈥�, the company announced in ...
Finnish power utility Fortum will launch an 8 billion takeover offer for German energy company E.ON鈥檚 fossil spin-off Uniper after Fortum has secured the agreement of its biggest shareholder and former parent company, writes Richard Milne in an article ...
07 Jul 2022, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government 麻豆无码版 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ruled out an extension of the runtime of the country鈥檚 three remaining nuclear plants as a way to stabilise the energy system amid an ...
02 Sep 2021, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Grid EU 麻豆无码版 / Reuters The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has said that Germany's network regulator, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), must act more independently when applying the ...
30 Aug 2022, 13:11 Edgar Meza Transport Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 The popularity of Germany鈥檚 temporary 9-euro public transport ticket has not only shown that people are willing to embrace public transport and stop using their cars if such ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:04 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG ...
Increased investments in Asia helped German manufacturers of components, machines and equipment for the photovoltaic industry boost turnover by 51 percent in the second quarter of 2017, compared to the first quarter, writes the German Engineering ...
It doesn鈥檛 make economic sense for German carmakers to produce e-car battery cells, according to Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche. 鈥淲e know today that we can buy them for a fraction of our costs on the international market [鈥 and no-one knows which technology ...
22 Jan 2019, 12:46 The top brass from energy companies, regulators, ministries and political parties gather in Berlin to discuss the challenges of the energy transition at the Handelsblatt energy conference, the traditional annual kick-off for the sector. ...
The natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 from Russia to Germany bolster's the role of Russian supplier Gazprom, thereby harming competition and supply security in the region, according to the European Commission. Tom Weing盲rtner writes in Energie & ...
27 Apr 2022, 11:38 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Die Welt German finance minister Christian Lindner, head of the business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP), has warned against accelerating the energy transition 鈥� a move driven by his Green Party ...
10 Oct 2023, 13:10 German chancellor Olaf Scholz and French president Emmanuel Macron held an informal meeting aimed to nurse the crucial Franco-German axis for Europe鈥檚 industrial transformation on the way to climate neutrality. In Hamburg, northern ...
24 Nov 2021, 11:32 S枚ren Amelang Elections & Politics Germany's prospective new government has agreed on a coalition treaty. The Social Democrats (SPD),聽 Green Party, and pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) said they will present the agreement at a ...
The environment and the energy transition is not among the most important topics for Germans in the upcoming general elections, according to a survey by YouGov. 53 percent of respondents called it extremely or very important for their decision who to vote ...
A capacity market in Germany could cost two billion euros annually, RWE鈥檚 new CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz said in an interview with Rheinische Post. 鈥淭wo billion euros is not a lot considering that the power consumer receives supply security for all those ...
German industry rates energy costs among the worst of all business location factors, but the results have improved since 2014, according to a survey conducted by the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK). The improvement was due ...
The government鈥檚 goal of increasing the share of renewables in Germany鈥檚 power mix from 50 percent to 65 percent by 2030 could substantially delay the point at which solar and wind power installations can become fully competitive, the consultancy Aurora ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:30 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Corporate decision makers in Germany have voted hydrogen technologies as the most important field of action for energy ...
The German government must take precautions to secure citizens鈥� acceptance for future wind power expansion, as it is a central pillar of the country鈥檚 energy transition, writes the energy think tank Agora Energiewende* in a report. Municipalities located ...
The German federal parliament has adopted a new power market law. The reform includes the continuation of an energy-only-market with additional capacity reserves. The new rules will also include retiring 13 percent of lignite power station capacity into a ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:18 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Electricity market Climate Home News The end of coal-fired power production in Germany can be achieved much more quickly than proposed by the country鈥檚 coal exit commission if the government ...
20 Jun 2022, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels G20 & G7 麻豆无码版 The question of how to replace natural gas supply from Russia will play an 鈥渆normous role鈥� at upcoming leaders鈥� summits of the European Union, the G7 and NATO, said a German ...
On Thursday, E.ON decided on an anticipated capital increase, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. The company will issue 200 million new shares, which could generate about 1.3 billion euros available for debt reduction. The measure is mainly ...
German wind turbine maker Nordex has booked a fall in revenue and earnings, but its order books swelled in the first half of the year, reports Craig Richard in Windpower Monthly. Sales dropped 36 percent to 957 million euros, while adjusted earnings ...
Germany is likely to miss several key energy transition targets- including goals on the affordability of electricity, greenhouse gas emissions and primary energy and power consumption- while costs keep rising, according to consultancy McKinsey鈥檚 bi-annual ...
28 Jan 2022, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt A sharp reversal halting the drop in prices for solar panels, wind turbines and batteries caused by supply chain problems and rising raw material costs could ...
28 Jan 2022, 13:43 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 The planning for offshore wind power projects in German waters is ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:11 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Renewables Resources & Recycling Rising metal prices could slow the shift towards a low-emission energy system, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) said in a聽 report. "If we ...
25 Jan 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 麻豆无码版 Climate action policies and the ability of the economy to cope with them will become a defining factor for the financial system鈥檚 stability, the German central bank Bundesbank has said in a聽 ...
France and Germany aim to renew their seminal 脡lys茅e Treaty of 1963, which formally ended centuries of rivalry between the two European powers, and will intensify their cooperation in fields ranging from cultural exchanges through security to climate ...
10 Nov 2022, 13:27 Expert BEE- German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices Handelsblatt ...
An 鈥渋deological war鈥� in Germany鈥檚 energy policy puts thousands of jobs and the country鈥檚 energy supply security at stake, the mining union IG BCE says in a press release. Speaking at a rally held near the Niederau脽em coal-fired power plant in the western ...
Thanks to renewables, we don鈥檛 need nuclear energy to protect the climate, nor coal power to enable the nuclear exit, argues R眉diger Haude, spokesperson of a solar support association, in politics weekly der Freitag. But several reforms of the Renewable ...
Grid operator Amprion鈥檚 statement that Germany鈥檚 power grid was at its limits last winter shows that the energy transition is not on track, because supply security was endangered, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
04 Aug 2022, 13:43 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar 麻豆无码版 Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices Die Zeit France鈥檚 huge nuclear power plant fleet currently only delivers a fraction of its energy ...
A coal phase-out is unnecessary and threatens energy security, the Coal Importer Association writes in a press release. Coal-fired power plants are needed to supply electricity to the grid during times when renewable energies cannot meet total power ...
16 Sep 2019, 17:01 Gaseous energy sources will play a "crucial role" in Germany's long-term energy supply and industrial production, with CO鈧�-neutral or carbon-free gases, such as green hydrogen, being a key element, according to a draft ...
03 Aug 2022, 13:59 Hannah Naylor Climate & CO2 Electricity Fossil fuels Renewables 麻豆无码版 Lower economic growth and favourable weather have reduced Germany鈥檚 energy consumption by 3.5 percent in the first six months of the year, compared to ...
The Green Party has criticised the Bavarian environment ministry for giving the go-ahead to tear down a nuclear power plant. The Isar I plant is to be demolished despite around 300 tonnes of radioactive material which cannot be removed for storage until ...
Until now, there has not been a 鈥渞easonable concept for the Energiewende鈥�, which is needed to secure Germany鈥檚 economic strength and make it more climate-friendly, Rudolf Staudigl, president and CEO of German chemical company Wacker Chemie AG, told ...
18 Jan 2022, 12:36 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture 麻豆无码版 The German ministries of environment and agriculture, which have so far often pulled in different directions, are now planning to jointly reform the country鈥檚 farming policies to ensure the ...
Germany鈥檚 soaring grid costs and negative power prices will likely be tackled during the talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) on renewing their grand coalition, reports Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. 鈥淲e ...
25 Oct 2021, 13:53 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany could play a decisive role in the global transition to renewable energy,聽Fatih Birol, executive director of the聽International 麻豆无码版 Agency (IEA ...
03 Feb 2021, 13:12 Germany must rapidly step up its national climate and energy targets to bring efforts in line with new EU-wide goals, said the independent expert commission in charge of monitoring the country鈥檚 energy transition. While details still ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 麻豆无码版 The new head of the German central bank (Bundesbank), Joachim Nagel, has said combating climate change is a key task for the bank. 鈥淐limate change requires a restructuring of our economy,鈥� ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:22 Edgar Meza Heating 麻豆无码版 The Association of German Engineers (VDI) calls for legal, regulatory and economic framework conditions to accelerate the expansion of renewable energy sources in the heating sector. These could ...
It will still take some years before the investors in the world鈥檚 largest chemical company, Germany鈥檚 BASF, can expect profits from a deal concluded with Russian Gazprom in 2015, writes Bernd Freytag in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In an asset swap, ...
20 Jan 2016, 00:00 Germany needs a pathway for exiting coal by 2050 at the very latest, according to Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks. She welcomed 麻豆无码版 Minister Sigmar Gabriel's announcement of a round table on the thorny issue, and said a ...
The energy transition in Germany, the Energiewende, has so far primarily focused on the decarbonisation of the power sector, but a greater emphasis on other sectors and synergies between sectors is necessary for the successful continuation of this ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:20 The European Union aims to take on a leadership role when the global community meets in Egypt for the annual UN climate change conference. But a unified European voice is difficult to maintain as member states are hampered by ...
31 Oct 2022, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels COP27 麻豆无码版 Several German NGOs have called on the government to rule out public support for fossil fuel extraction projects in other countries and thus make good on its pledge signed at last ...
01 Jul 2019, 13:51 Sven Egenter Grid Digitalisation Tagesspiegel Germany鈥檚 grid operators are working on their defenses against hacker attacks on their critical infrastructure, Christian Schaudwet writes for energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
Municipal shareholders have stressed the importance of utility RWE 鈥檚 dividend payouts to the communal coffers at the company鈥檚 annual general meeting, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. CEO Martin Schmitz鈥檚 speech was repeatedly interrupted by ...
Japan and Germany, as two of the world鈥檚 most technologically advanced countries, need to overcome the trauma brought about by the Fukushima nuclear disaster and focus on a vigorous decarbonisation of their economies, Peter Hennicke, of the German ...
Even if US sanctions lead to a cancellation of the Russian-German Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and the Baltic LNG liquefied natural gas terminal projects, Europe鈥檚 import capacities are sufficient to meet demand, writes Aurora 麻豆无码版 Research in a brief. ...
The complex risks arising from climate change, fragility and conflict could contribute to the emergence and growth of non-state armed groups, according to a report by consultancy Adelphi, commissioned by the German Federal Foreign Office. The report found ...
20 Dec 2021, 10:55 The start of Germany's new government makes 2022 a crucial year for the country's landmark energy transition. All eyes are on the three-way coalition's first steps towards implementing its ambitious climate plans, which ...
A last-minute fix to the rules for onshore wind tenders is designed to ensure commercial projects posing as citizens鈥� initiatives don鈥檛 dominate the next rounds of auctions. The government fast-tracked the most pressing change to the system, to be passed ...
04 Jan 2021, 12:49 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian ...
17 Jun 2022, 08:50 The German government鈥檚 G7 agenda has been thrown off course by Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine, but chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is determined to keep climate policy as a top priority for the summit of the seven large economies in ...
Conventional power plants that run on coal, gas, and nuclear energy are a fundamental part of Germany鈥檚 energy transition, Lars Kulik, board member at utility RWE鈥檚 lignite branch, writes in a guest article for financial market newspaper B枚rsen-Zeitung. ...
Representatives of consumer protection and energy-intensive industry should be part of the upcoming so-called 鈥榗oal exit commission鈥� to ensure that cost arguments are taken into account, writes German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI) director-general ...
A broad alliance of trade unions, consumer, renewable, and industry associations has called on the future German government to use the federal budget to finance 鈥渁t least parts of the Energiewende costs鈥�. 鈥淲e need a new financing system for the cost ...
German oil and gas exploration company Wintershall continues its involvement with the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline 聽from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea, despite resistance from eastern European states, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. ...
German utility RWE could turn out as 鈥� one of the winners of the expected grand coalition鈥� between the conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD), Maximilian V枚lkl writes in the business magazine Der Aktion盲r. Researchers like Manuel ...
Power generating units with a total capacity of about 13,658 megawatt (MW) are scheduled for closure in Germany, but only about 7,667 MW have already been shut down, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said in a press release. The remainder of nearly ...
German utility EnBW acquired a 37.5 percent stake in each of three offshore wind projects in Taiwan with a potential total volume of approximately 2,000 megawatt, marking the first such investment outside Europe in the group鈥檚 renewables expansion, ...
Decentralised renewable energy sources increase the importance of local distribution grids for making Germany鈥檚 energy transition work, a new study on municipal utilities by consulting agency Ernst & Young (EY) says. Distribution grid operators become ...
Munich start-up Lilium has secured financing worth 90 million dollars from prominent funders to pursue its project of building an electric five-seat autonomous air taxi that takes off vertically. 鈥淭his investment is a tremendously important step for ...
30 Sep 2021, 13:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Handelsblatt The steel industry needs financial support of 13 to 35 billion euros to make the shift to climate-friendly steel production, according to an analysis conducted by think tank Agora Energiewende and ...
03 Mar 2016
03 Mar 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang McKinsey 鈥淓nergiewende Index Germany 2020 鈥� Tour de Force nuclear exit鈥� According to consultancy McKinsey, the government risks missing most of its 2020 energy transition targets. 鈥淎 majority of indicators are pointing ...
Russia continues to use energy 鈥� and specifically natural gas company Gazprom 鈥� as a tool to undermine the relationship between Ukraine and the European Union, writes Ukrainian foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin in a guest commentary in Handelsblatt. 鈥淢ore ...
17 Oct 2022, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government Bild / Der Spiegel The dispute over delaying the completion of Germany鈥檚 nuclear phase-out drags on within the country鈥檚 coalition government. A meeting between chancellor Olaf Scholz from ...
17 Jun 2021, 13:02 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 The possible impact of the next German government's climate policy is dividing the corporate sector into two equally strong camps, according to a survey of ...
19 Feb 2021, 14:08 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 ...
In the debate about the controversial planned direct Russian-German pipeline Nord Stream 2 and its effects on Ukraine, the German federal government wants to help ensure that the requisite modernisation of Ukraine鈥檚 gas infrastructure takes place. Germany ...
24 Feb 2015, 00:00 The energy ministry does not want to pay utilities to keep conventional power plants on reserve for times of scarcity in a pending redesign of the power market in Germany. 鈥淲e will propose not to intervene," said Rainer Baake, ...
The first smart meter in Germany has received a license from the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) two years after the government decided on a large-scale roll-out, Jakob Schlandt writes in energy policy newsletter Tagesspiegel Background. The ...
Dark and calm winter days have led some commentators to suggest that renewables are unsuitable for providing a secure energy supply, reports Tamsin Walker for Deutsche Welle. Utility association BDEW argues this weather pattern proves flexible gas and ...
German representatives used the first meeting by the German-Belgian nuclear commission 鈥渢o convey the worries of the German population [about Belgian nuclear power stations Tihange 2 and Doel 3] and remind them of the request by environment minister ...
16 Dec 2021, 12:26 Julian Wettengel EU 麻豆无码版 German politicians, NGOs and industry representatives have generally welcomed the second part of the European Commission鈥檚 鈥淔it for 55鈥� package of energy and climate legislation, but criticised ...
04 Jan 2023, 13:25 The central role of financial markets in advancing the global transformation towards more sustainable economies has been overshadowed during the turbulent year 2022 on European energy markets, sustainable finance researcher Franziska ...
17 Dec 2018, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Energiewende Finance 麻豆无码版 The German government does not plan to introduce quantitative controlling standards for the energy transition. In an answer to a parliamentary inquiry by ...
German municipal utilities that have invested in fossil fuels over the past years 鈥� for example by modernising old coal-fired power plants 鈥� now find themselves under financial pressure in part due to the Energiewende, writes Bastian Brandau for ...
Negotiations between the four nuclear operators and the German government are at full speed, reports Antje H枚ning in Rheinische Post. Insiders told the author the government wanted a cabinet decision in August so the financing of the nuclear exit is put ...
The state government of Brandenburg was involved in sales talks concerning Vattenfall鈥檚 former German lignite operations much sooner and more intensively than previously thought, according to Greenpeace Germany. And it failed to use its legal options to ...
The German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation (BEE) says the country鈥檚 coal exit plan should be accompanied by a plan to achieve 100 percent renewable energy supply. 鈥淥nly planning security for industry can lay the foundations for investments鈥� and prevent ...
A report by Polish think tank O艣rodek Studi贸w Wschodnich (Centre for Eastern Studies) examines the challenges Germany faces regarding the country鈥檚 dependence on natural gas. 鈥淣atural gas plays a key role in the German economy, [鈥 is the most important ...
22 Aug 2022, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out dpa / Zeit Online Extending the runtime of Germany鈥檚 three remaining nuclear power plants will do very little to help the country weather the looming gas supply crisis, economy and climate minister ...
Germany is likely to lower its Energiewende ambitions after the upcoming general elections, according to an analysis by French government think tank France Strategie. Germany will likely miss its 2020 climate targets, while the long-term insecurity of the ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democratic challenger Martin Schulz failed to address climate and energy policies in Sunday鈥檚 TV debate ahead of the 24 September federal election. The debate focused mostly on questions related to refugee ...
Grid operator 50Hertz registered a record wind power feed-in of more than 14,000 megawatt in its control area during a storm on 4 January, the company announced in a press release. 鈥淲e have been successful in securely managing our transmission grid even ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:37 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG Elections & ...
Most people in Germany say politicians are principally responsible for managing the shift towards sustainable consumption, according to a survey by the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv). The vzbv says responsibility for sustainable ...
Renewable energy generation in Germany is being disadvantaged by the practice of leading utilities RWE, E.ON and Vattenfall of selling electricity well into the future, Germany鈥檚 Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR) reports. By ...
The government should run a stress test of Germany鈥檚 power supply security before switching off up to seven gigawatts worth of power station capacity, as has been suggested during the coalition talks of Angela Merkel鈥檚 CDU with the Greens and the pro ...
26 Jan 2021, 12:04 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Wind Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 麻豆无码版 Deutsche Bahn (DB) will help to continue the operation of two wind farms marketed ...
27 May 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Handelsblatt German industry leaders expressed concerns that Germany will lose out when it comes to building a hydrogen economy, Handelsblatt reports. "It is five to twelve," Martin Bruderm眉ller, CEO ...
Over the past three years, the federal government succeeded in bringing order and legal security to Germany鈥檚 energy transition, the seminal project known as Energiewende, federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel said presenting his ministry鈥檚 economic ...
01 Dec 2021, 14:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics Der Spiegel Conservative (CDU) state premier Michael Kretschmer from Saxony, an Eastern German coal mining state, has encouraged labour unions to protest against plans by the prospective ...
A proposal by environmental NGOs working in Germany鈥檚 coal exit commission to retire 16 gigawatt (GW) of coal capacity by 2022 has led to 鈥渉arsh disputes鈥� in the body tasked with devising a plan for the fossil fuel鈥檚 total phase-out, Malte Kreutzfeldt ...
German economy minister Brigitte Zypries 鈥渟trongly trusts鈥� that US President Donald Trump will prevent sanctions against German companies that are invested in the construction or operation of pipelines from Russia, the minister wrote in a guest commentary ...
08 Sep 2017, 00:00 As the current legislative period draws to a close, The 麻豆无码版 asked key stakeholders to review the last four years of German energy and climate policy 鈥� and tell us what they would like to see from the next government. ...
08 Jul 2015
08 Jul 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 聽 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淭ricky Exit鈥� Getting rid of a nuclear power station after decommissioning it is as complex as building it in the first place, writes Thomas Hahn in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. A public hearing ...
The cabinet decision on a new law to regulate the financing of nuclear decommissioning and waste storage will be postponed until the end of August, writes WirtschaftsWoche. According to the unsourced report, utility RWE said it would not be able to ...
21 Jun 2024, 14:14 On the night of the European elections, French president Emmanuel Macron did not wait until the official results were called to announce the dissolution of the country鈥檚 parliament and, consequently, to call new elections already by the ...
In an interview with German public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, Michael Vassiliadis, head of IG BCE, the German trade union for mining, chemicals and energy industries, says the Green Party鈥檚 insistence on a coal exit in the ongoing coalition talks is ...
04 Sep 2020, 16:24 Swedish utility Vattenfall wants to shut down its youngest and most efficient coal-fired power plant in Germany because it is unprofitable. After participating in the first hard coal phase-out tender, CEO Magnus Hall said that if his ...
Germany will have to build new power plants in the south of the country to preserve supply security after its nuclear exit in 2022, according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). Rapid response plants with a total capacity of 1.2 gigawatts will be ...
After 15 years of construction, the new power transmission line from eastern Germany to Bavaria in the south 鈥渃loses one of the most severe bottlenecks in the European power grid,鈥� Daniel Wetzel writes in Die Welt. The 200-kilometre-long line connecting ...
Against resistance from the German government, the EU Commission continues to seek participation in negotiations over Nord Stream 2, the gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, Daniel Br枚ssler and Alexander M眉hlauer report for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The EU ...
23 Sep 2022, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics WirtschaftsWoche The energy crisis forces Germany to rapidly rearrange its energy policy plans and will make a faster coal phase-out by 2030 impossible, Stephan Weil, state premier of ...
05 Jan 2021, 12:58 Julian Wettengel EU Tagesspiegel Background Future energy relations between the European Union and the UK remain somewhat uncertain after the post-Brexit trade agreement reached over the holidays delegated many decisions to expert ...
The German government and the country鈥檚 nuclear plant operators will sign a long-awaited contract about the funding for the final storage of nuclear waste today, Andreas Mihm writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The contract formally ensures that ...
02 Feb 2022, 13:43 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Heating Society 麻豆无码版 The German government has agreed to review applications by home builders under a controversial funding programme set up by the previous administration. Its aim is to pacify ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:59 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 / Spiegel Online Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has reelected Manuela Schwesig as premier of the northeastern coastal state, which is aiming for climate neutrality by 2040. A member ...
18 Aug 2021, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal dpa / rbb / Spiegel Online Social Democrat (SPD) chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz has said Germany should stick to its existing timetable for exiting coal no later than 2038. "We have made ...
Germany鈥檚 grand coalition government is considering ways to enable municipalities located near wind farms to share in the profits of the turbines, reports Daniel Wetzel in Welt am Sonntag. The economy ministry has invited experts to discuss several ...
17 Aug 2021, 13:33 Expert German Trade Union Association Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Bundesvorstand Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Society Elections & Politics dpa / Zeit Online Climate change and the energy transition should ...
04 May 2021, 12:09 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs ...
28 Apr 2021, 13:20 Charlotte Nijhuis Gas 麻豆无码版 Domestic production of natural gas in Germany fell by almost 16 percent in 2020 year-on-year, show data presented by the federal association of natural gas, petroleum and geo-energy (BVEG). ...
08 Apr 2022, 14:13 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & ...
Robert Habeck, one of the Green Party鈥檚 primary candidates for the upcoming federal elections, has demanded a halt to construction of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project in light of Russian airstrikes in Syria, reports Spiegel Online. ...
04 May 2020, 13:49 Freja Eriksen Grid 麻豆无码版 Germany made important progress in expanding the power grid in 2019, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) says in its聽 annual report. Of 7,700 kilometres of planned grid expansion, 1,300 km have been ...
21 Dec 2020, 12:52 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Utilities Tagesspiegel / Die Welt German energy company RWE has shut down its first lignite unit as part of the country's coal phase-out, ...
The need for reform in German energy policy is 鈥減iling up鈥� under the current grand coalition government, said Oliver Krischer, deputy leader of the Greens parliamentary group in a plenary debate on the economy and energy budget for 2019. Economy minister ...
02 Jun 2022, 08:34 Julian Wettengel Gas 麻豆无码版 Countries like Germany should endeavour to find new, additional sources of natural gas as they are trying to wean themselves off Russian supply, instead of crowding out weaker competition on the ...
Completing the energy transition and reaching Germany鈥檚 climate targets is possible only with a corresponding transport transition (Verkehrswende), according to a policy paper by new think tank Agora Verkehrswende.* The organisation presents 鈥淭welve ...
The US administration has increased efforts to persuade Germany and other EU countries to drop support for the planned Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to connect Russia with Germany, Andreas Mihm reports for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). The US state ...
13 Dec 2023, 14:15 Germany and other EU governments have welcomed the outcome of the climate conference COP28 in the United Arab Emirates, saying it heralds the end of the fossil fuel era. EU lawmakers said the deal reached in Dubai will form the ...
25 Feb 2015
25 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Handelsblatt 鈥淏rave new world鈥� The single market for European energy that EU citizens have been waiting for for years, is now called the 麻豆无码版 Union, Thomas Ludwig writes in an opinion piece for ...
It is surprising how long it takes for the subject of 鈥渘egative emission鈥� to make its way from scientific models into climate policy mainstream, write Oliver Geden from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) and Stefan Sch盲fer ...
German carmakers rank first in worldwide research and development, accounting for about a third of the automobile industry鈥檚 total global R&D investment, according to the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA). The country鈥檚 manufacturers ...
26 Oct 2021, 13:23 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 A new survey published by the World 麻豆无码版 Council Germany has found that a majority of international energy experts regard the country's energy transition, the Energiewende, as a ...
Germany is not the 鈥減oster child鈥� it likes to portray itself as, writes Ursula Weidenfeld in an opinion piece in Tagesspiegel. She points to the German government鈥檚 Nord Stream 2 policy, years of electricity loop flows through neighbouring countries, and ...
06 Apr 2021, 12:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Wind 麻豆无码版 State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn and utility RWE extend their renewable energy contract with an additional 190 gigawatt hours (GWh) of offshore wind power annually, the railway ...
22 Jul 2021, 13:52 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Politics Die Welt In light of the catastrophic floods that hit Germany, including Bavaria, last week, Bavarian state premier Markus S枚der (CSU) has said more effort is needed to combat climate change. 鈥淲e can and ...
28 Jan 2019, 11:36 The agreement by Germany's coal exit commission to end the fossil power source's use by 2038 the latest is welcomed by the country's climate activists and energy industry representatives alike. They praise the final ...
The decision by Czech mining company EPH, the new owner of eastern German lignite-mine operator LEAG, to cut back its extension plans for the Lusatia region might provide local actors with 鈥渟ome planning security鈥� but is 鈥渨ithout a doubt a step towards ...
The German 麻豆无码版 agency (dena) says it regrets that the government failed to reach a compromise on the GEG, a bill that would have modernised energy efficiency standards for German buildings. In a press release, dena head Andreas Kuhlmann called the ...
EU energy ministers are attending an informal meeting in Bratislava this week聽to discuss steering and monitoring mechanisms for the European聽 麻豆无码版 Union, sustainable financing structures for low-carbon technologies, energy prices and energy supply ...
22 Mar 2022, 14:29 The Saarland state election on 27 March is the first major public vote since Germany鈥檚 new federal government assumed power at the end of last year. The election in the small state is therefore partly seen as an indicator on how voters ...
Political restrictions on wind power expansion rather than cost pressure in the sector are responsible for the current troubles of many wind power companies in Germany, Hermann Albers, head of the German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association (BWE), says in a press ...
Should the next German government decide on a speedy exit from coal-fired power generation, no company would be affected as much as German utility RWE, Europe鈥檚 largest CO鈧� emitter, writes J眉rgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. RWE is in a better financial ...
27 Nov 2020, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 麻豆无码版 / NDR The German parliament's budget committee has set aside 135 million euros for supporting the development of a liquid natural gas (LNG) tank vessel infrastructure. "This is how we ...
16 Jul 2021, 13:04 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 International 麻豆无码版 Germany and the U.S. have entered a partnership aimed at strengthening climate ambition and deepening the countries鈥� collaboration on policies and sustainable ...
16 May 2022, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Rheinische Post / ARD / 麻豆无码版 The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) have won the elections in Germany鈥檚 most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia by a wide margin, meaning ...
To secure the transport of large quantities of renewable power to the main consumption centres in Europe, an extension of the current electricity grid is needed, according to the ten-year network development plan (TYNDP) published by European Network of ...
07 Dec 2016, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel and her party left energy and climate policy on the sidelines at the Christian Democratic Union鈥檚 (CDU) conference in Essen. The centre-right party laid the groundwork on Tuesday for its 2017 federal election ...
The federal state of Saxony intends to forge a coalition of coal-producing German states against a possible nation-wide coal exit, the Leipziger Volkszeitung reports. Saxony鈥檚 Christian-democrat state premier Stanislaw Tillich called the aim to tackle ...
31 Aug 2023, 10:00 Climate change is putting Europe鈥檚 water resources under immense pressure. Scientists expect heavy rain and dry periods to happen more often, be more severe, and last longer, leading to floods and droughts. Without swift mitigation and ...
The federal government and Germany鈥檚 four nuclear power station operators have agreed on contract details for last year鈥檚 agreement on financing the nuclear clean-up, report Helmut B眉nder and Manfred Sch盲fers for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The ...
Supporters of solar power are seeking to head off a proposed legal constraint on small modules that can be easily plugged into wall sockets, writes Bernward Janzing in taz. The German section of the International Solar 麻豆无码版 Society (DGS) wants to see a ...
27 Jun 2017
Germany's economy ministry (BMWi) has signed a contract with the country's nuclear plant operators that regulates the funding of nuclear waste disposal, the BMWi has said in a press release. The BMWi and the four utilities E.ON, EnBW, RWE and ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:35 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Fossil fuels Nuclear phase-out Politics ZDF The German economy and energy minister, Peter Altmaier, defended Germany鈥檚 continued reliance on coal, saying on public broadcaster ZDF it was the only ...
Germany鈥檚 indignation over the US Senate鈥檚 planned expansion of economic sanctions on Russia illustrates 鈥渢he whole extent of irritation in the current transatlantic relationship鈥�, Richard Herzinger writes in Die Welt. Leading German officials find ...
The EU emissions trading system (ETS) is not sufficient for ensuring that Germany meets either its CO 2 emissions reduction goals or the other targets of its energy transition, the German government says in an answer to a parliamentary inquiry by the Left ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:08 Expert BEE- German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Handelsblatt / ...
The Green Party is slumping in national polls as security and migration overshadow the party鈥檚 core topics of the environment and climate, writes Silke Kersting in Handelsblatt. 鈥淵et, the conditions for the party to again play a bigger part on a national ...
The planned construction of a second Baltic Sea natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, known as Nord Stream 2, is not necessary to secure natural gas supplies for Germany and Europe, according to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research ...
The influential Federation of German Industries (BDI) has called on the government to come up with a strategy to secure the supply of scarce raw materials for 鈥渇uture technologies鈥� needed for e-mobility, digitalisation, and the energy transition. 鈥淭he ...
Germany鈥檚 energy industry can reach its greenhouse gas reduction obligations for 2030 and 2050 purely by letting the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) do its work, Michael Vassiliadis, head of the mining and chemicals industry union IG BCE, said ...
The drop in costs for renewable energy production will transform the global energy landscape and also alter the geopolitical clout of different countries, with Germany, the US, and China standing to benefit most from a worldwide transition from fossil ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:26 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 International G20 & G7 麻豆无码版 The German government wants to build on last year鈥檚 G20 final declaration regarding climate provisions, but the outcome of ...
The parliamentary group of German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU party has welcomed the first session of the commission tasked with planning the country鈥檚 coal exit, but stressed that 鈥渢horoughness must come before speed鈥� in the group鈥檚 ...
09 Mar 2015
09 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 German Insurance Association (GDV) Insurers keen to increase investments in renewable energy German insurers want to pour more money into renewables to profit from the reliable income streams they ...
The premiers of the German coal mining states of Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have said they still plan coal mining activities to continue well into the 2040s. In a guest article published in the Handelsblatt on the day of the first meeting of ...
An association of large companies including Deutsche Bahn, Telekom and Aida Cruises is calling for a timely start to the 鈥渄ialogue about a coal consensus鈥�, writes Silke Kersting in Handelsblatt. In a declaration by the Foundation 2掳 鈥� seen by Handelsblatt ...
The commission tasked with Germany鈥檚 coal phase-out should avoid coming up with 鈥渜uick and symbolic鈥� scenarios to end the use of the fossil power source in the country, Dieter Kempf, president of the influential industry association BDI said in a guest ...
13 Nov 2020, 15:15 The election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States is raising hopes that the US can be a partner again in international efforts to combat climate change. The US backed away from many climate commitments during the ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall will not sell its financially struggling Moorburg coal plant in Hamburg despite revamping its business model towards more renewable energy sources and digitalisation of the energy system, Bj枚rn Hartmann writes in Hambuger ...
18 Aug 2020, 14:15 Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development Climate & CO2 Policy Renewables 麻豆无码版 / pv magazine A decentralised model for European renewable power generation would ...
The members of the German government disagree over the country鈥檚 position on future EU car emission limits, according to media reports. The ministries of economic affairs and transport both reject the environment ministry鈥檚 call for more ambitious targets ...
25 Feb 2015, 00:00 Germany鈥檚 biggest concerns regarding the European Commission鈥檚 energy policy proposals are potential impact on its own transition to renewables power, as well as power market reform. Kerstine Appunn International Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | ...
The construction of the聽 natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 聽from Russia to Germany 鈥� scheduled to start this year 鈥� could be put back by months or years. The delay could be caused by plans by the EU Commission to negotiate a separate regulatory framework ...
More than 40 percent of work council representatives in the German wind power sector expect market conditions to deteriorate, trade union IG Metall Coast says in a press release. In a survey of wind power companies, around a quarter of respondents said ...
Germany passed on the presidency of the Group of Twenty major economies to Argentina on 1 December, the federal government said in a press release. Government spokesperson Steffen Seibert said the G20 had delivered important results in 2017, demonstrating ...
Blockchain data processing technology is constantly seeping into the business practices of 鈥渧irtually every publicly-listed company鈥� in Germany as it makes transactions more efficient and secure, Stefan Hajek writes in Handelsblatt Global Edition. The ...
The growing importance of wind and solar power generation in Germany leads to the shutdown of another coal plant, J眉rgen Flauger writes in Handelsblatt. 麻豆无码版 provider STEAG will close the hard coal-fired power plant at its founding location in L眉nen in ...
Despite very different conditions for solar power in India and Germany, the former could learn from the European country鈥檚 experience that the government is not the primary actor in the market, but should act as a facilitator, writes Tobias Engelmeier for ...
18 Jun 2021, 13:05 Edgar Meza Wind Tagesspiegel Background The German government is examining how it can support the domestic offshore wind sector, which is suffering from a slowdown in activity, Steven Hanke writes in Tagesspiegel Background, citing a ...
12 May 2020, 13:09 Edgar Meza Coal Solar Plans by聽Swiss technology company and solar panel manufacturer聽Meyer Burger to supply panels for a 10 gigawatt (GW) floating solar plant on a lake to be left behind by the future closure of the Hambach coal mine is ...
29 Apr 2021, 14:43 In an unexpected decision widely hailed as historic, Germany's highest court has ruled that the government's climate legislation is insufficient, lacking detail on emission reduction targets beyond 2030. The decision ...
The G20 foreign ministers will have to talk about global warming at their meeting in Bonn, as climate change increasingly is a threat to world peace, writes Christoph Bals of environmental NGO Germanwatch in a guest article for Zeit Online. 鈥淭he intensity ...
A quick phase-out of coal-fired power production would pose a threat to Germany鈥檚 economy, the head of the pro-business party FDP, Christian Lindner, has said in an interview with national broadcaster ZDF, Montel News writes in an article. Closing coal ...
29 Jul 2020, 13:31 Expert Nordex Renewables Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs NDR / Recharge News Wind turbine manufacturer Nordex might be seeking help from the German government to cover losses in earnings due to ...
A rapid decommissioning of fossil and nuclear power plants in Germany 鈥減oses the risk of knowingly causing an undersupply of guaranteed capacity by 2023 the latest鈥�, says the Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries (BDEW) in a response to an analysis ...
RWE鈥檚 green split-off innogy is working on a system that could make payments between users of e-cars and private providers of charging stations simpler and more secure, writes Manuel Heckel in Handelsblatt. The mode of payment based on the technology ...
04 Feb 2020, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Germany鈥檚 power supply is secure at the moment, but continued grid expansion delays would pose a great challenge, the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) said in a press release accompanying its 8th ...
10 Sep 2021, 14:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 The latest round of offshore wind power auctions in Germany has led to three bids claiming zero support for their operations wining the tender, the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) ...
Job security should be valued higher than environmental protection, according to a motion for the federal party conference of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) in December, writes Thomas Vitzthum in Die Welt. The motion calls for an impact assessment ...
22 Jul 2020, 13:32 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Cars International manager magazin / Reuters Car-makers Volkswagen and Ford say that a legal battle between two South Korean battery manufacturers in the United States could hamper the production of ...
16 Nov 2017, 00:00 Germany ratifies Doha without joint EU move / 鈥淚f the talks continue this way, we will reach our negotiation targets鈥� 鈥� German negotiator / UK and Canada march ahead on coal exit, NGOs criticise Germany / 鈥淢ove away from fossils if you ...
The German federal and state governments should start soon to secure the financing of long-term effects of lignite operations in order to be prepared for the possible scenario that Czech EPH evades having to fund liabilities and provisions in connection ...
Opposition to the planned Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 is growing as Denmark drafts a new law that would allow the government to prevent the construction on the country鈥檚 continental shelf, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
Germany鈥檚 Energiewende is on track in areas such as extending renewables, employment, and securing power supply. But other goals- such as reducing power consumption and carbon emissions, and the limit on costs- seem increasingly out of reach, consultancy ...
Local energy suppliers say that alliances in the industry and with new outside players are needed to secure their economic success in the future, according to a study conducted by the consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and commissioned by the German ...
Germany鈥檚 energy transition not only misses 2020 climate targets but fails on many other accounts too, according to the head of an expert commission tasked with monitoring the Energiewende鈥檚 progress. 鈥淓fficiency is a particular problem,鈥� economist ...
It is increasingly clear that carmakers have become serious about electric mobility as the German car industry reinvents itself, writes Nils-Viktor Sorge in manager magazin.聽 Suppliers and employees focusing on combustion-engine technology face an ...
11 Feb 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Solar Business & Jobs dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Investors appear uninterested in the main factory of Germany鈥檚 formerly biggest solar panel manufacturer Solarworld, which filed for ...
Germany鈥檚 transmission grid operators are calling for the construction of new conventional power plants in southern Germany to bridge the gap between the country鈥檚 nuclear phase-out and the completion of major new high-voltage power lines聽 supplying ...
The speedy start of the coal exit is more important than finding a final end date, writes the Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU), an expert advisory panel to the government focussing on environmental protection, in a statement. 鈥淔or the climate, ...
A report about a proposal by one of Germany鈥檚 聽 coal commission 聽 co-heads for a 聽 coal exit 聽 by 2038 has caused irritation. Co-chair Ronald 聽 Pofalla also proposed taking 5-7 gigawatts of coal capacity off-line and into a security reserve by 2020, and ...
26 Jan 2021, 12:06 Edgar Meza Industry Handelsblatt Industrialist Sanjeev Gupta, the only bidder for German conglomerate Thyssen-Krupp's loss-making steel business, plans to convert the mills to produce green steel if he鈥檚 successful, reports German ...
18 Nov 2021, 13:25 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Germany will not be able to import enough renewable hydrogen to reach the targets laid out in its national hydrogen strategy, according to an analysis conducted by the ...
It is in the interests of both Europe and the Russian people to halt the German-Russian natural gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2, writes Gerhard Gnauck in an opinion piece on Welt Online. It would increase the EU鈥檚 dependence on Russia as a major energy ...
17 May 2021, 13:31 Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) is putting a market ...
Developers of smart meters are complaining that the German state鈥檚 licensing of the technology is taking much too long due to security concerns and increasing the risk that the country will fall behind its European neighbours, many of which are much more ...
16 Sep 2021, 13:52 Germany's pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) plans to argue the case for using emissions trading as the main tool for fighting climate change if they become part of the next federal government. The party wants to extend the ...
Germany鈥檚 goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 to 95 percent by 2050 means the remaining 5-20 percent are being 鈥渓eft undiscussed鈥�,聽 Oliver Geden, head of the EU division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), ...
Resistance against wind energy is growing in Germany because the country already has 26,600 turbines- many of which need to be switched off when it is windy because of grid overload, writes Franz Hubik in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. The ...
It is unclear whether the Russian-German gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 will retain political backing following the German federal election, Anna Sauerbrey writes for聽Tagesspiegel. The Social Democrats supported the project and it would "likely ...
G20 countries should develop and share renewable energy innovation in water use, food and agriculture to ensure food security, according to policy recommendations by the G20 think tank network T20 Task Force Towards Ending Hunger and Sustainable ...
28 Mar 2022, 18:45 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables 麻豆无码版 The international community must not lose sight of major issues such as climate change despite the new situation Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine has brought, said German ...
The chemical industry has had 鈥渁 good year without limitations鈥� in 2017 but says that further increases in energy prices continue to pose a risk for Germany鈥檚 third largest industry branch, the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI) says in a press ...
E.ON CEO Johannes Teyssen鈥檚 reversal of tone on the Energiewende could be seen as simple pragmatism, or shirking responsibility, writes Christoph Eisenring in an opinion piece in Neue Z眉rcher Zeitung. Teyssen used to criticise Germany鈥檚 transition away ...
The Philippsburg nuclear power plant鈥檚 second generating unit near the German city of Karlsruhe will stay offline longer than planned, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. According to a spokesperson of Baden-W眉rttemberg鈥檚 federal state ...
18 Aug 2021, 13:35 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 / Handelsblatt A large majority of German car industry suppliers have initiated the ...
Germany has built about 850 kilometres of a total of 7,700 kilometres of 鈥渉igh priority鈥� transmission lines, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) says in a press release accompanying its annual report. 鈥� Until these transmission lines are implemented, we ...
Two months after the surprise departure of CEO Peter Terium, renewable utility innogy is in crisis, and neither the management nor majority owner RWE have a plan to get out of the mess created by a profit drop, writes Angela Hennersdorf in the business ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:10 With its third energy cost relief package since the start of Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine, the German government hopes to alleviate concerns over skyrocketing prices for heating and electricity in the coming winter. The large package worth ...
28 Aug 2020, 13:22 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 ...
01 Sep 2020, 12:46 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Coal Die Welt Germany鈥檚 first coal phase-out auction aimed at shutting down ...
21 Jul 2015
21 Jul 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Vattenfall Impairment losses and higher provisions for German operations Impairment losses and higher provisions for its German activities, as well as low electricity prices, widened losses at Swedish utility ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:24 Germany is starting a novel subsidy programme worth billions of euros in a bid to make its prized heavy industry climate neutral. Following a preparatory phase beginning in early June, the country plans to introduce so-called Carbon ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:38 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 International 麻豆无码版 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is under particular pressure to underline Germany's climate policy credibility when ministers from 40 countries meet at the 13th ...
12 Oct 2022, 14:48 The European energy crisis is set to push Germany into a recession in 2023, as rising energy prices put a damper on industrial production and inflation means citizens will buy less, said the economy ministry in its autumn projection for ...
A German government formed of a so-called Jamaica coalition could be more than just an 鈥渆mergency solution鈥�, FDP chief negotiator Marco Buschmann said in an interview with Frankfurter Rundschau.聽 If the parties found a compromise on contested policy ...
The German parliament鈥檚 vote to free nuclear plant operators of their liabilities for managing nuclear waste disposal has not ensured that all troubles have been dispelled, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淣ew frictions are guaranteed, ...
The regional state of North Rhine-Westphalia plays a key role in Germany鈥檚 energy transition and needs to heavily expand its power grid infrastructure despite local opposition, writes Guido M. Hartmann for Welt am Sonntag. The industry-heavy state ...
Differing views on Germany鈥檚 future energy system are emerging as a major source of contention between the parties attempting to establish a new German federal government, Andreas Mihm writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The Greens want Germany ...
23 Dec 2022, 10:24 After the shock of the energy crisis in 2022, the German government must tackle a range of issues that have been relegated to the back burner due to Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine, says Brigitte Knopf, secretary general at the Mercator ...
06 Aug 2021, 13:20 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 A new funding model should link payments for climate protection performance for forest owners with ambitious biodiversity standards, the federal environment ministry (BMU) has proposed ...
05 Dec 2019, 13:42 Freja Eriksen Transport Cars SWR Europe's largest coach service, FlixBus, has said it will discontinue its only electric long-distance line in Germany due to several breakdowns and a lack of local technical support,聽 reports public ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Cars Hundreds of radio masts in several German states will be equipped with fuel cell technology to serve as a聽 backup system for emergency services 聽in case of a power blackout, the industry association Clean ...
The German government should come to realise that the planned gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea 鈥渨ill not be implemented鈥� and 鈥渟ave Europe further disputes on this matter鈥�, Green politician Reinhard B眉tikofer writes in a ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Energiewende International Handelsblatt Despite EU Commissioner Maros Sefcovic announcing this month that the European energy union has become reality, unifying Europe鈥檚 big energy markets is more an ...
10 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022, 13:30 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K枚ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 / RND Quickly rising prices for raw materials needed to build a fossil-free energy infrastructure could ...
Germany and Australia have signed a letter of intent to intensify cooperation in the areas of energy and resources, the German economy ministry said in a press release. Rainer Baake, German state secretary in the economy ministry, and his Australian ...
27 May 2020, 13:38 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Utilities Clean 麻豆无码版 ...
18 Apr 2019, 12:21 S枚ren Amelang Start-ups Utilities Wirtschaftswoche Shell鈥檚 acquisition of home battery start-up Sonnen and its plans to become the world鈥檚 largest power company worry German utilities, Konrad Fischer and Angela Hennersdorf report for ...
25 Nov 2019, 12:33 Julian Wettengel Solar Wind 麻豆无码版 Solar power projects聽 again 聽secured the entire volume of capacity available in the fourth joint auction for new solar and onshore wind, as no onshore bids were submitted, the German Federal ...
27 Jul 2021, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Industry WirtschaftsWoche The option to enter long-term power purchase agreements (PPA) is a location advantage for industry in Germany, said Klaus Sch盲fer, chief technology officer (CTO) at chemicals company Covestro, ...
27 Jul 2021, 13:36 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Handelsblatt Germany needs gas-fired ...
Germany鈥檚 state secretary in the economy ministry (BMWi), Rainer Baake, finds the EU Commission鈥檚 proposals on support for renewable energy sources 鈥渋nadequate,鈥� the ministry says in a press release. In the run-up to a meeting by the Council of Ministers ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:30 Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt Despite the much-anticipated release of its National Hydrogen Strategy this summer, uncertainty still surrounds Germany鈥檚 green hydrogen plans, making the path forward unclear despite the government鈥檚 ...
Germany will not be able to phase out coal-fired power production by 2030, said Rolf Martin Schmitz, head of RWE, the country鈥檚 biggest power producer and Europe鈥檚 biggest private emitter of CO 2. In an interview with the Rheinische Post on the eve of the ...
It is in Germany鈥檚 immediate interest to embrace the European dimension of the Energiewende, argues Rebecca Bertram in a blog post for energytransition.org. 鈥淕ermany needs Europe to drive its own Energiewende forward,鈥� writes Bertram, citing German power ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:48 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Society Germany hit its highest temperature ever on July 24, when the town of Geilenkirchen in the state North Rhine-Westphalia recorded 40.5 degrees Celsius, yet the record may stand of only one day as ...
The German Federal Constitutional Court's聽 decision to declare the country鈥檚 nuclear fuel tax law invalid has outraged many Green politicians, but could turn out to be beneficial for some of their fellow party members, Daniel Wetzel writes in the ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:33 Edgar Meza Freight Hydrogen Technology 麻豆无码版 In a new report examining the status of the German and European hydrogen fuel cell markets, the German government-backed National Platform Future of Mobility (NPM) says there is ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:31 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Edgar Meza Grid EU 麻豆无码版 NordLink, the world's longest subsea electrical interconnector linking Norway and Germany, has begun operation exchanging wind ...
11 May 2020, 13:46 Freja Eriksen Electricity market Grid Tagesspiegel Background Germany's single power price zone could come under threat as the coronavirus has practically slowed power grid expansion to a standstill, reports Steven Hanke in the ...
The number of people in Germany who think that affordable power is a "very important" feature of the country鈥檚 energy system is considerably larger than that of those who consider sustainable power production a priority, a survey conducted by ...
Innogy, the green subsidiary of German energy provider RWE, could be the biggest stock market launch of any German company since the year 2000 鈥� but renewable energy likely only plays a minor role for its expected success, write Varinia Bernau and ...
28 Aug 2018, 13:59 The expansion of a lignite mine that threatens a nearby forest has become a first touchstone of the German coal exit commission鈥檚 robustness. But despite fears that the row over the embattled Hambach Forest could gravely impede the ...
06 May 2022, 14:04 The effects of the war in Ukraine will have a major impact on Germany鈥檚 most important state election this year, making next week鈥檚 vote in heavy industry heartland North-Rhine Westphalia another gauge of the public鈥檚 view of the ...
16 Mar 2015
16 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 聽Bild am Sonntag 鈥淕etting the green light?鈥� Germany鈥檚 transition to a low-carbon economy is not very environmentally friendly and doesn鈥檛 make economic sense, argues Olaf Wilke in a seven-sentence ...
Power producer STEAG鈥檚 threat to cut up to 1,000 jobs in fossil power generation shows Germany has entered election campaign mode, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in a commentary in Frankfurter Rundschau. The industry鈥檚 job-cut threats are at least partially ...
02 May 2022, 14:14 Voters in the northern wind power state of Schleswig-Holstein head to the polls this Sunday (8 May) to elect a new parliament in one of the regions most crucial to Germany鈥檚 efforts to phase out Russian fossil fuel imports and massively ...
Talks between the federal government and the big four utilities E.ON, RWE EnBW and Vattenfall on nuclear waste storage are not as close to conclusion as a report by B枚rsen-Zeitung suggested, writes Reuters. The stock market newspaper had reported that the ...
19 Jun 2018, 18:10 In her speech at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for more ambitious global climate action and multilateral cooperation. At international level, it will be important to develop a rulebook for the ...
27 Apr 2020, 13:53 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Transport Clean 麻豆无码版 ...
09 Jul 2021, 12:46 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 Despite all the changes that are necessary to protect the ...
Germany needs to clearly spell out the steps it will take to phase out coal, and ensure binding commitments by all relevant levels of government, NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) and the Heinrich-B枚ll-Foundation say in a press release. Following ...
Germany must not enter a coal exit at the expense of power supply security and industrial competitiveness, according to Andreas Pinkwart, economy minister for the west German coal mining state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), and member of the pro ...
06 Feb 2020, 14:10 Thomas Kemmerich of the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) has been elected state premier by the Thuringia state parliament with support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), in what many politicians see as breaking a taboo. ...
In a further erosion of Germany's political mainstream, the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) has lost its absolute majority in Bavaria鈥檚 state elections, while the Greens have become the second largest political force there, writes Deutsche ...
The federal government has prolonged a legal statute that regulates support for 鈥渋nterruptible loads鈥�, i.e. power consumers who can reduce their electricity consumption in times of scarcity in order to stabilise the grid. Read the government press release ...
25 Mar 2021, 13:57 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Germany should use hydrogen ...
Germany鈥檚 membership in the European Atomic 麻豆无码版 Community (Euratom) is a paradox since the country鈥檚 decision to phase out nuclear power in 2000, writes Joachim Wille in Frankfurter Rundschau. Provisions of the membership contract still called on ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:50 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 ...
29 Jun 2021, 14:38 Expert BASE- Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management Bundesamt f眉r die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung Nuclear phase-out Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 decision to phase out nuclear ...
21 Feb 2022, 13:46 S枚ren Amelang Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany needs an "energy plan" to ensure energy prices remain affordable for households and businesses while protecting the climate, two conservative state premiers write in ...
The German Green Party is calling for a cross-party commission to prepare the shift to emissions-free transportation akin to the commission that brokered Germany鈥檚 nuclear exit and the transition to renewable energy sources, Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten ...
02 Jul 2021, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 麻豆无码版 The European Green Deal should be expanded to also include African states as partners in the bid to achieve a climate-friendly economic recovery after the downturn caused by the ...
28 Sep 2021, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 The Green Party and the Free Democrats (FDP) were the two most popular parties among young voters in the German elections, an analysis conducted by research institute ...
16 Mar 2021, 13:23 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The steel industry needs a clear and reliable framework for its decarbonisation, said Heinz J枚rg Fuhrmann, CEO of the Salzgitter Group, at the presentation of the company鈥檚 ...
The G20 summits will continue to play an important role for climate protection, because 鈥渨ithout the pressure on the political level, implementing and monitoring climate targets would hardly be possible in some countries鈥�, write Susanne Dr枚ge and Felix ...
Germany鈥檚 economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said that current amendment plans for the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) do not yet include 鈥渟pecial auctions鈥� for onshore wind and solar PV, which were agreed in the grand coalition treaty, reports ...
21 Sep 2021, 13:23 Expert Greenpeace 麻豆无码版 (now Green Planet 麻豆无码版) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal 麻豆无码版 Eastern German lignite power plants that are scheduled to ...
The switch to renewable energies will make oil and gas 鈥渋ncreasingly less important trump cards鈥� in geopolitical conflicts and lessen energy鈥檚 significance 鈥渁s one of the strategic causes of geopolitical conflicts,鈥� writes German utility E.ON鈥檚 CEO ...
The cost for the clean-up and storage of Germany鈥檚 nuclear waste and other radioactive material is hard to predict, controversial and will be much higher than current official calculations suggets, writes Joel Stonington in an article for Yale Environment ...
Germany and other EU member states should strengthen聽 cooperation on climate protection, in light of the upcoming US administration's likely reversal of climate legislation, writes Susanne Dr枚ge in an commentary for the German Institute for ...
15 Mar 2021, 13:35 Charlotte Nijhuis Gas Finance 麻豆无码版 Insurance companies must end their support for liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure and companies in Europe, German environmental and human rights organisation Urgewald says in a ...
16 Jan 2019, 13:16 The German government has pledged long-term payments to lignite mining regions, removing a major hurdle to reaching a compromise over the country鈥檚 coal exit. After a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Olaf ...
10 Aug 2023, 14:20 Nearly halfway through its four-year term, Germany鈥檚 government faces increasing public discontent over its switch from two years of energy crisis management to controversial climate policies. The coalition government of the Social ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:15 10 years after the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima that prompted Germany to confirm its prior nuclear phase-out decision, the environment ministry has published further steps necessary to reduce nuclear risk, including the use of nuclear ...
Germany鈥檚 coal exit will be a major energy and climate policy topic in the coalition talks and the next government should work towards a coal consensus 鈥� similar to the one found on the exit from nuclear power, J眉rgen Flauger writes in an opinion piece in ...
07 Sep 2022, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 麻豆无码版 High energy prices are beginning to bite into companies鈥� investment plans and curtail production in Germany, raising the spectre of de-industrialisation in the country ...
28 Sep 2018, 12:24 Germany still lacks an overview of the total cost of the Energiewende and the government must improve cost transparency, efficiency and coordination of the energy transition in order to keep citizens鈥� trust, the Federal Court of ...
German utility E.ON鈥� chief operating officer for grids and renewable energies, Leonhard Birnbaum, demands a change to the country鈥檚 onshore wind power auctions to ensure that professional wind power project developers cannot benefit from advantages given ...
The row between Germany, Austria and the US Senate over a planned expansion of US sanctions on Russia has renewed the energy transition鈥檚 importance as a means to achieve greater energy supply security, Petra Pinzler writes in a column for Zeit Online. ...
The devastating fire in London鈥檚 Grenfell Tower has sparked a debate over the risks of insulating materials in buildings- a key component of Germany鈥檚 energy transition in the construction sector- Silke Kersting writes on Handelsblatt Online. 鈥淭here are ...
08 Sep 2015
08 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Rundschau Nuclear decommissioning: Environmental activists worried about security An alliance of 76 environmental groups is demanding stricter security standards and more public ...
Dieselgate and looming driving bans due to pollution in cities have triggered a discussion about the future of the combustion engine in Germany, but much more is required to decarbonise transport, writes researcher Weert Canzler in an opinion piece in Die ...
Germany鈥檚 transition to an auction-based system to stabilise renewable development is the right way forward, writes David Wortmann, head of renewable consultancy DWR eco, in an op-ed in Wirtschaftswoche. But the government gets in the way of the planning ...
11 Jun 2021, 14:06 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Gas International Handelsblatt / 麻豆无码版 [UPDATE adds date for Merkel visit] German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Washington, D.C. to settle the transatlantic dispute between the U.S ...
Strong heating demand caused by low temperatures halved the filling level of German gas holders to 36 percent within eight weeks, reports Andreas Mihm for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Uniper, the fossil spin-off from utility E.ON, warns a long winter ...
New German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said the energy transition is one of his ministry鈥檚 major projects, speaking as he took over the helm of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (BMWi) Friday. 鈥淭he project Energiewende ...
A particularly dark and windless January has led to natural gas and coal plants becoming Germany鈥檚 sole warrantor of a secure power supply, J眉rgen Flauger writes in Handelsblatt. But 鈥渃oal and gas plants are increasingly being pushed out of the market,鈥� ...
Coal-fired power generation does not have a future in Germany鈥檚 energy transition, write the environmental NGO WWF Germany and the green power provider LichtBlick in a joint report, seen by the 麻豆无码版. In their report 鈥淒ead end coal 鈥� Why coal ...
23 Jan 2019, 18:16 Germany鈥檚 detailed coal exit path and the end-date to coal-fired power generation remain unknown only days before a highly anticipated phase-out proposal is due to be published. A leaked draft of the final report of the country鈥檚 coal ...
27 May 2020, 13:32 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid 麻豆无码版 Costs of stabilising the German power ...
10 Oct 2022, 13:41 The German state should support households and businesses with about 90 billion euros by early 2024 to lower gas bills, said an expert commission charged by the government with drawing up a plan to relieve gas consumers affected by ...
Many climate scientists are worried that incoming US President Donald Trump鈥檚 administration will confound international negotiations, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淭here鈥檚 either a scenario Bush or a scenario crazy in store for US ...
The German government will likely not join a lawsuit against the planned nuclear power plant Paks in Hungary, Thorsten Knuf writes for the Frankfurter Rundschau. Austria has filed a lawsuit that challenges the plant鈥檚 licensing by the European Commission, ...
23 Aug 2018, 18:15 Germany鈥檚 coal commission will not give any recommendation regarding mining-owner RWE鈥檚 plans to continue clearing forest for the planned extension of the Hambach lignite mine in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The country's ...
Armin Laschet, state premier of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), has unsuccessfully called for the early shutdown of two nuclear reactors near the Belgian-German border in a meeting with Belgium鈥檚 Prime Minister Charles Michel, reports Moritz K眉pper for ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:44 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:05 Expert BASF Business & Jobs Fossil fuels Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Kerstine Appunn Transport Handelsblatt The declaration on battery cell production ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:04 Kerstine Appunn Cars Bild Zeitung Stricter EU CO2 limits for cars 鈥渢hreaten the German car industry with a total loss that nobody can repair鈥�, Tom Drechsler writes in Germany鈥檚 largest tabloid Bild Zeitung. The article blames Austria, ...
30 Nov 2016, 00:00 鈥淧utting energy efficiency first, achieving global leadership in renewable energies and providing a fair deal for consumers鈥� are the objectives of the EU Commission鈥檚 energy package. The paper presented on Wednesday, also dubbed 鈥渨inter ...
27 Jun 2018, 16:59 Germany will likely fail on many of its self-imposed energy transition targets, says the government-appointed expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German Energiewende in its opinion on the federal economy ...
12 Feb 2021, 13:58 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Hydrogen Handelsblatt Renewables energy company Siemens Gamesa is to start production of green hydrogen in addition to wind power, CEO Andreas Nauen said in an interview ...
11 Feb 2021, 13:32 Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG Coal Fossil fuels Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Tagesspiegel / dpa The German federal government and ...
28 Feb 2024, 13:14 The German government is aiming to introduce a 2060 target for net-negative greenhouse gas emissions, as well as intermediate targets for technical carbon sinks, as key elements of its contribution to the Paris climate targets. By the ...
08 Oct 2020, 14:21 S枚ren Amelang Coal Policy dpa / Zeit Online The controversial resettlement of five villages in the Rhenish lignite mining area in Western Germany to expand an opencast mine is set to continue, reports news agency dpa in an聽 article ...
German business association CDU Economic Council, associated with Angela Merkel鈥檚 Christian Democratic Union (CDU), called on Germany and the EU to work towards a global regime to reduce CO鈧� emissions 鈥渓ike the ETS鈥� (European Union Emissions Trading ...
02 Oct 2020, 14:16 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out 麻豆无码版 Costs are mounting for the German government鈥檚 legal defence in a six-billion-euro lawsuit initiated by ...
19 Nov 2019, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Finance S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Central banks should not actively engage in climate policy as they lack both the expertise and the mandate to decide which investments make sense from a climate protection point of view, ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen International Die Welt The importance of Russian gas for Germany is set to grow further amid the latter country's energy transition, economy minister Peter Altmaier said at a German-Russian industry ...
12 May 2020, 13:19 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar 麻豆无码版 Systems Renewables Solar Freja Eriksen Coal Tagesspiegel Background / 麻豆无码版 Coal's share in Germany's net public power production fell to around 16 ...
At first, the government of the German state of Baden-W眉rttemberg bristled at French energy company EDF 鈥檚 decision to postpone the decommissioning of the Fessenheim nuclear plant until at least 2019 鈥� but it has now emerged that there could be 鈥渁 ...
After a first procedural session in June, Germany鈥檚 coal exit commission meets today to 鈥渓ay the groundwork for joint understanding of the 24 experts and four heads鈥�, writes Andreas Mihm in an article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The commission 鈥� ...
Nuclear plant operators removed the last hurdle to an agreement with the government over who will pay for storage and clean-up of nuclear waste after power plants are shut down in 2020, writes Manfred Sch盲fers in FAZ.net. Operators agreed to revoke most ...
03 Jul 2015
03 Jul 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Ruby Russell Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 State secretary Baake: power market 2.0 guarantees supply security Germany鈥檚 economy and energy ministry is proposing a reform of the power market based on an energy ...
A pilot project from New York could become a threat to traditional energy suppliers, writes Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The so-called blockchain technology which is used to encrypt and secure data that is transmitted between users ...
16 Aug 2021, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Handelsblatt Germany鈥檚 revised climate targets mean the country's coal power phase-out will need to be completed by 2030, eight years earlier than currently planned, newspaper ...
05 Feb 2020, 13:20 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Industry Clean ...
21 May 2021, 10:32 Germany has increased the emissions reduction targets in its transport sector. Following changes introduced by parliament,聽 the sector has to reach a share of 32 percent renewables by 2030. The use of biofuels made from palm oil will be ...
20 Nov 2023, 16:30 Germany will invest 4 billion euros in sustainable energy projects in Africa until 2030 to help improve the continet鈥檚 role in renewable power, green hydrogen and critical raw material extraction, chancellor Olaf Scholz announced at the ...
Germany does not have a power supply security issue, but its grid stability may be at risk in the long run, Jochen Homann, president of the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) told Deutschlandfunk in an interview. The country currently has sufficient power ...
Major German utility EnBW confirmed its forecast for the year 2016 of an operating profit (adjusted EBITDA) five to ten percent below last year鈥檚 result [2.1 billion euros], the company said in a press release. After the first nine months of the year, the ...
08 Apr 2016
08 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Berliner Zeitung 鈥淭he federal government is shifting into reverse gear concerning Energiewende鈥� The federal government鈥檚 plans to reform the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) will lead to ...
28 Jun 2022, 15:11 Civil society groups and others have largely reacted with criticism of the German presidency's role in furthering climate action within the G7 group of influential economies. With the energy crisis caused by Russia's invasion ...
Last year鈥檚 agreement on financing the nuclear clean-up between the German state and nuclear power providers does not seem to have brought permanent peace as utilities refuse to drop the lawsuits against the nuclear fuel tax, write J眉rgen Flauger and ...
Bloomberg highlights some of the ways the individual big German utilities could find the money needed to free themselves of the responsibility for storing nuclear waste. It comes after last week鈥檚 federal cabinet decision that sees nuclear power plant ...
Opel CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann intends to turn the German car manufacturer into a pure e-car brand by 2030, Michael Freitag reports on Manager Magazin鈥檚 website. Neumann has been working on the transformation since before deliberations by Opel鈥檚 US-owner GM ...
11 Sep 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Frankfurter Rundschau A German entrepreneur is offering a supplement for cow fodder that could reduce the animals鈥� methane emissions by up to almost 40 percent. The Switzerland-based company Mootral, which ...
10 Sep 2020, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society 麻豆无码版 A group of villagers that reject a resettlement due to the expansion of the Garzweiler lignite mine in German federal state North Rhine-Westphalia have聽 said 聽they filed a constitutional ...
The Green Party is 鈥渟till ready for talks鈥� on becoming part of a possible government coalition in Germany, the party鈥檚 parliamentary group co-leader Katrin G枚ring-Eckardt has said in an interview with Welt Online. She said that her party would be ready ...
16 Jan 2020, 13:14 Freja Eriksen Energiewende 麻豆无码版 Only a mix of centralised and decentralised technologies can make German energy supply "climate-friendly, secure and affordable," say researchers from three of the country's ...
The negotiations between the federal government and Germany鈥檚 nuclear power plant operating utilities about the clean-up costs are coming to a close, writes Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The utilities 鈥渨ould only be responsible for ...
Gas deliveries from Russia to Germany via the Opal pipeline fell by around 30 percent after Poland successfully appealed before the European Court of Justice. The ruling suspended a deal that would give Gazprom greater access, removing a key hurdle to the ...
17 Feb 2016
17 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Handelsblatt / Ministry for Environment 鈥淓verything for the climate鈥� The Ministry for Environment (BMUB) is about to enter the second phase of consultation for its Climate Action Plan 2050, and has ...
Most people in Germany doubt that the country鈥檚 energy transition can be pursued according to plans and without greater difficulties, according to a representative survey that utility RWE presented at a debate meeting in Berlin. A majority of 69 percent ...
Bavaria's government wants to keep the nuclear plant Isar 2 running as long as possible, arguing that lagging grid development could leave the state short of power without it, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The maximum amount of ...
Think tank Agora Energiewende* will present proposals to take better account of industry needs in the German energy transition, Angela Hennersdorf and Christian Schlesiger write in WirtschaftsWoche. In its "Charter for Energiewende Industrial Policy ...
The Green parliamentary group in the federal parliament (Bundestag) approved a resolution on a timetable for a coal-exit in Germany at its new year鈥檚 meeting in Weimar. 鈥淲ith the step-by-step, economically and socially compatible coal exit, we as the ...
13 Jun 2019, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 Germany lags behind many other countries in the global trend to finance renewable power installations via power purchase agreements (PPAs), according to a paper by ...
Germany鈥檚 Green Party has rejected an offer tabled by its aspiring coalition partners to reduce the country鈥檚 coal power capacity by up to 5 gigawatt (GW), news agency Reuters reports. Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the pro ...
Each and every party involved in Germany鈥檚 鈥楯amaica coalition鈥� talks to form a new federal government should have an interest in securing 鈥渁 quick and orderly coal exit鈥�, as the alternatives 鈥渁re way too risky鈥�, Anna Pegels and Jonas Keil from the German ...
25 Sep 2019, 14:02 Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Digitalisation 麻豆无码版 While three quarters of German energy companies expect artificial ...
30 Nov 2021, 10:50 The three "traffic light coalition" parties have agreed to form Germany's next government and tabled a coalition treaty that they promise will put the country on a path compatible with Paris Climate Agreement 's ...
Renewable energy sources are booming in Germany as much as anywhere else but the country鈥檚 simultaneous rise in coal use and carbon emissions nevertheless make it 鈥渁 dangerous role model鈥� for countries setting out to emulate the German energy transition, ...
A quick end of coal-fired power production in Germany and a parallel expansion of wind and solar power capacities would reduce carbon emissions sufficiently to meet the 2020 and 2030 climate target in line with the Paris Agreement, a study by research ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:27 Freja Eriksen Grid 麻豆无码版 The first grid development plan (NEP) based on Germany's target of 65 percent renewables in gross power consumption and planned coal exit has been approved by the German Federal Network Agency ...
17 Apr 2024, 13:30 The election victory of the pro-EU coalition led by former European Council president Donald Tusk in late 2023 stirred high hopes for the start of serious climate policies in Poland after an eight-year lull during the rule of the right ...
Europe and Germany should 鈥渟hare in America鈥檚 abundance鈥� and cooperate with the US in energy policy by buying natural gas from America, the US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, writes together with US deputy secretary of energy Dan Brouillette in a ...
13 Mar 2020, 14:06 S枚ren Amelang Storage 麻豆无码版 Germany's energy storage sector recorded sales growth of 10 percent to 5.5 billion euros in 2019 and expects a "continuation of the positive market development", according to ...
German utility EnBW reports a 1.8 billion euros net loss after already fully incorporating in the 2016 financial statements an expected payment of 4.7 billion euros into the country鈥檚 nuclear clean-up fund. 鈥淒ue to the law of reorganising responsibility ...
Today, all a household needs to secure an autonomous power supply is a roof-top solar panel, internet access and a cupboard-sized battery in the basement, writes Inge Kloepfer in weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. By offering just that, ...
Europe鈥檚 nuclear power organisation Euratom needs to be drastically reformed and become more democratic and transparent, Sylvia Kotting-Uhl, nuclear energy expert of the German Green Party鈥檚 parliamentary group, writes in a guest commentary for ...
Green and left-wing politicians in the Bundestag and state governments want to extend the nuclear fuel rod tax, Bernward Janzing reports in taz. The tax is payable by nuclear power station operators whenever they use new fuel elements in their reactors ...
15 Dec 2023, 11:31 Industry and grid investments must be at the heart of the follow-up to the landmark European Green Deal policy package after the 2024 EU elections, says Bas Eickhout, member of the European Parliament. The results of the vote will shape ...
The first annual presentation of balance sheet figures by German utilities RWE and E.ON, as well as by their spin-offs innogy and Uniper, has dealt a heavy blow to aspirations that the split would allow the battered companies a fresh start, Ralf K枚pke ...
05 Feb 2015
05 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Vattenfall / Reuters Vattenfall Annual report: Focus on renewables in Germany Swedish utility Vattenfall, who operates power stations, mines and other energy businesses across Europe, highlights in ...
08 Jul 2021, 13:30 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Die Zeit The candidate for chancellor of Germany's conservative CDU/CSU alliance, ...
11 May 2015
11 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 聽 dpa 鈥淕abriel wants to convince G7 of Energiewende鈥� At today鈥檚 meeting of G7 energy ministers in Hamburg, the German government hopes to convince other industrialised nations that renewables can ...
The new federal government has to work out a comprehensive concept to secure the German industry鈥檚 competitiveness, write Christoph Schmidt and Steffen Elstner of the Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI Essen) in a guest commentary ...
11 Dec 2020, 13:05 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Agriculture 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 agriculture ministry has launched a 1-billion-euro 鈥滷armers for climate action鈥� package, including an investment programme worth 816 million euros to boost ...
Devising a plan for Germany鈥檚 coal exit through a commission is a tough job with many 聽pitfalls for policymakers, Cecile Boutelet reports for Le Monde. Coal region Lusatia in eastern Germany is one example of a place 鈥渨here the contradictory narratives of ...
13 Dec 2022, 11:30 European countries will continue to deal with the energy crisis throughout next year, and seek sufficient gas supply on world markets while boosting renewable energy and key technologies such as heat pumps. However, the biggest climate ...
04 Mar 2020, 11:02 The European Commission is unveiling its proposal for the EU's first ever climate law, which will form the basis of the EU's proposed Green Deal, and will provide a framework for reaching the bloc's target of becoming ...
On the sidelines of its surprising and far-reaching deal with competitor E.ON, German utility RWE is mulling another major transaction- the purchase of utility EnBW's coal and gas plants, J眉rgen Flauger writes for Handelsblatt. RWE CEO Rolf Martin ...
After Germany鈥檚 parliamentary elections in September, the new government should create a capacity market and push the integration of transport and heating into the power market, according to Innogy CEO Peter Terium. 鈥淲ith this capacity market, we keep ...
13 Aug 2019, 13:40 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Coal Handelsblatt Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has come out against ...
07 Dec 2017, 00:00 A coal exit is inevitable to reach Germany鈥檚 climate targets, but the shift must not come at the expense of workers, according to SPD head Martin Schulz. In an address to a party convention in which delegates voted for holding coalition ...
07 Jan 2019, 09:30 The impending phase-out plan for coal power in Germany will have a profound impact on the country's entire energy policy, says Antje von Broock of environmental organisation Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). The NGO is a member ...
Europe鈥檚 reliance on natural gas imports- as a 鈥減artner for renewables鈥� 鈥� is growing, and the contentious Russian-German Nord Stream 2 pipeline project is needed to supply the continent with gas cheaper than the liquefied natural gas (LNG) imported from ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sustainability aspects are gaining in importance at a very quick pace and are poised to bring about "fundamental change" to the way financial market actors operate, ...
The German government has used a 鈥渃unning trick鈥� by making the state-owned business development bank KfW acquire a stake in grid operator 50Hertz that had been eyed by Chinese power company SGCC, Andreas Mihm writes in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:55 Eastern German coal mining regions have welcomed draft legislation to support the states most affected by plans to phase out the fossil fuel by 2038 at the latest. The economy ministry presented an "investment law for coal regions ...
Germany is a reluctant global leader but persistently works on providing assistance to developing countries, not least in the energy sector, Catherine Cheney writes on international development website聽 devex.com. Effective development assistance must be ...
Wintershall, Germany鈥檚 largest crude oil and natural gas producer, is determined to take part in the Euro-Russian gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. BASF subsidiary Wintershall said that, like its partners- ...
23 Aug 2018, 11:30 The German coal exit commission has set out on a tight schedule to devise a plan for phasing out the fossil power source 鈥� but shortly before its third official meeting federal states and opposition politicians have complained about a ...
10 Dec 2018, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Westf盲lische Nachrichten The end of coal-fired power production in Germany will pose great challenges for the country鈥檚 most populous state, North Rhine ...
Utilities and the German government continue to argue about the storage of nuclear waste, five months after a government-appointed commission proposed that the country鈥檚 four nuclear power station operators should pay more than 20 billion euros into a ...
07 Feb 2020, 12:58 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Energiewende WirtschaftsWoche Germany needs to revamp its energy policy to avoid issues with supply security and ...
09 Jun 2021, 13:23 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Gas Heating 麻豆无码版 Germany should immediately increase its national carbon price and better support renewables to initiate the phase-out of fossil gas in buildings heating, said think ...
11 Nov 2020, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Freight Bayerischer Rundfunk / AFP / 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 transport minister Andreas Scheuer continues to pursue a 鈥榗ash for clunkers鈥� scheme for old lorries. Since large lorries with alternative drive systems, ...
Germany and Belgium have signed an agreement on improving the exchange of information on nuclear security, the federal environment ministry announced in a press release. The neighbouring countries also instituted a nuclear commission that will meet at ...
Contrary to expert opinion, Germany鈥檚 economy minister Sigmar Gabriel wants to retrieve nuclear waste from the former salt mine Asse II, located in the minister鈥檚 constituency of Wolfenb眉ttel, Daniel Wetzel writes in Die Welt. An expert commission found ...
Germany will likely miss several of its key energy transition goals, according to leading experts commissioned by the German economy ministry (BMWi) to monitor the progress of the country鈥榮 energy transition. Among the three elements of the government& ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices Welt Online Industrial giant Siemens wants to get rid of its nuclear energy legacy and shift responsibility for about 10,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste onto the German state, ...
06 Nov 2020, 14:19 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Green stimulus Handelsblatt Leading figures of Germany's conservative CDU/CSU alliance have called ...
04 Nov 2020, 13:57 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 麻豆无码版 The reform of Germany& ...
24 Feb 2021, 12:37 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen Heating 麻豆无码版 German energy companies Uniper and Siemens 麻豆无码版 have proposed a project to set up a renewable power-based energy plant at the site of ...
23 Feb 2021, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / Dlf Several chip and semiconductor manufacturers have criticised high taxes and levies on electricity as a disadvantage for Germany as an industry location in ...
The Association of Local Utilities (VKU) said the support for combined heat and power plants in the grid fee agreement was a 鈥渟trong signal for the value of decentral generation鈥� and created planning security. 鈥淢unicipal utilities can now work intensively ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed her foreign minister鈥檚 criticism of US Senate plans to further tighten economic sanctions on Russia, Thorsten Knuf writes in the Frankfurter Rundschau. 鈥淭his is, to put it mildly, irregular behaviour by the US ...
