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  • 05 Dec 2018 |

    Stricken solar sector sets out to regain leading Energiewende role

    Solar power in Germany 05 Dec 2018, 10:39 One of the sunniest summers on record in Germany and much of Central Europe in 2018 has refocused the spotlight on solar power after its decline in the last decade. Once a global technology leader, Germany's ...
  • 25 Jun 2015 |

    Germany's energy transition in the European context

    The solo draws to a close 25 Jun 2015, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition began as a lonely expedition. Expanding green energy rapidly and switching off its nuclear power stations antagonised some neighbours and the European Commission. Germany has now ...
  • Vote25: 2030 climate and energy targets hinge on next German government

    Collapse of Scholz's coalition leaves unfinished policy business 23 Feb 2025, 21:00 The collapse of chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition government led to snap elections in Germany in early 2025. Climate and energy policy played a major role in ...
  • 01 Jul 2015 |

    Technology to transform the energy sector- made in Germany

    New technologies for the Energiewende 01 Jul 2015, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition anticipates a vastly more efficient and interconnected energy system in the future. It also poses huge technological challenges 鈥 and challenges for legislation and ...
  • Power production at sea re-emerges as Energiewende cornerstone

    Offshore wind power in Germany 04 May 2018, 00:00 Offshore wind power production for long has been a gleam of hope for Germany's energy transition as a renewable power resource with vast potential to make the shift away from fossil fuels affordable. ...
  • Germany's energy transition revamp stirs controversy over speed, participation

    The reform of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act 29 Jun 2016, 00:00 The German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) is the mechanism that has made possible the energy transition so far. It guaranteed renewable energy producers high returns on investment, which in turn helped ...
  • 08 Feb 2024 |

    麻豆无码版 Guide to Europe's transition to climate neutrality

    08 Feb 2024, 10:40 Europe has become a key driver of the global move to climate neutrality, with the EU's Green Deal as a crucial policy plan to get to net zero by 2050. Even beyond the EU, national energy systems are becoming increasingly ...
  • The Energiewende's booming flagship braces for stormy times

    Onshore wind power in Germany 14 Jun 2017, 00:00 Onshore wind power capacity in Germany has increased more than 1,000 times since 1990. A combination of idealistic impetus and entrepreneurial enthusiasm among citizens has brought the number of wind ...
  • Preview 2024: Germany enters EU election year with heavy climate policy baggage

    Budget crisis, high energy prices, economic slowdown, far-right threat 05 Jan 2024, 15:32 The German government enters the new year with a handicap in climate policy: a momentous court ruling on a ceiling for new debt stripped the country of tens of ...
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  • 11 Jan 2017 |

    鈥淕abriel outrages East-German states鈥

    German economy minister Sigmar Gabriel鈥檚 decision to scrap the harmonisation of grid fees across the country continues to outrage politicians in eastern Germany, Jens Tartler writes in Tagesspiegel. Heads of eastern states accuse the federal government of ...
  • 14 Apr 2023 |

    Nuclear controversy flares up as Germany shuts down last reactors

    14 Apr 2023, 13:42 The decade-long debate about the the role of nuclear power in Germany flared up for a last time before the remaining three reactors are shut down on Saturday 15 April. Politicians from government coalition party FDP and the opposition ...
  • 14 Sep 2021 |

    Hydrogen needed to cope with heating peaks, German gas grid operators say

    14 Sep 2021, 12:53 Kerstine Appunn Heating 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background Germany should include hydrogen for heating houses in its energy transition to successfully decarbonise the heating sector, gas grid operator umbrella organisation FNB ...
  • 21 Dec 2022 |

    Germany must implement fast-tracked energy transition in 2023 鈥 energy industry

    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 ...
  • 07 Jul 2016 |

    鈥淩egulator cuts grid 测颈别濒诲蝉鈥

    The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has suggested lowering the equity interest rate for operators of power grids and gas networks as of 2018/19, it said on Wednesday. The lower rates mirror current low interest rates on financial markets, BNetzA president ...
  • Conservative election victory set to narrow climate policy focus in Germany

    23 Feb 2025, 20:42 Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz鈥 conservatives have won 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 snap election, while the current government parties booked significant losses, indicating a reduced focus on climate policies in a future government. But it remained ...
  • 24 May 2022 |

    Repeated cyberattacks cause concern about German wind industry鈥檚 IT security

    24 May 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Security Tagesspiegel Background A string of apparently targeted cyberattacks on German wind farms has led to worries that the country鈥檚 main future power source is not聽 sufficiently protected, Simon Frost reports ...
  • Power and gas grid operators jointly push power-to-gas in Germany

    Power transmission grid operator Amprion and gas transmission grid operator Open Grid Europe (OGE) want to test power-to-gas (PtG) technologies on an industrial scale in Germany to better integrate electricity with the other sectors, the companies ...
  • 01 Jul 2016 |

    鈥溌槎刮蘼氚 transition Outlook 2035: Grid enhancement necessary in the future鈥

    Neither the addition of gas-fired power plants in southern Germany nor a sharp decrease in power production from lignite in eastern Germany would limit the need for new power grid infrastructure, a study by Prognos AG, RWTH Aachen, E-Bridge and FGH on ...
  • 10 Dec 2018 |

    Grid operator warns rapid coal exit could threaten 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 supply security

    10 Dec 2018, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Grid Security Handelsblatt Germany must be careful to 鈥渘ot overstep the mark鈥 on supply security when deciding on the process of phasing out coal-fired power production, Boris Schucht, CEO of ...
  • 31 Jan 2017 |

    "Public utilities predestined to implement Energiewende"

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 public utilities will be at the forefront of implementing the decentralised energy supply required by the Energiewende, Katherina Reiche, director of the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU), said in an interview with Welt kompakt. Reiche ...
  • 17 Mar 2015 |

    Solar eclipse to stress test German Energiewende

    17 Mar 2015, 00:00 UPDATE-- While millions of Europeans will look skyward for a glimpse of a rare solar eclipse on March 20, technicians at German power grid operator TenneT will be glued to their controls. When the moon covers parts of the sun, the ...
  • 01 Mar 2017 |

    Thuringia鈥檚 state government opposes grid expansion

    The government of central German federal state Thuringia strictly opposes the construction of major high-voltage transmission lines on its territory, Th眉ringer Allgemeine reports. The government led by the Left Party (Linke) argues the grid operators鈥 ...
  • 鈥淓urope鈥檚 common energy market is an open-ended experiment鈥

    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 ...
  • 05 Sep 2022 |

    Germany likely to burn coal and gas in power plants beyond 2030 鈥 consultancy

    05 Sep 2022, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Renewables 麻豆无码版 The buildout of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable power capacity is a 鈥渉erculean task鈥 that will likely take longer than planned and therefore make an early end to gas and coal-fired power ...
  • 26 Jul 2023 |

    Germany aims to accelerate hydrogen market ramp-up with strategy update

    26 Jul 2023, 13:36 The German government coalition has presented a long-expected update to its National Hydrogen Strategy with the aim of speeding up the development of a market for the fuel, which it sees as essential on the path to climate neutrality by ...
  • 10 Jul 2019 |

    German coal mine and power plant operator builds large-scale battery

    10 Jul 2019, 18:03 LEAG, eastern 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest energy and mining company, is building a 50 MW battery that could help stabilise the country鈥檚 electricity grid partly through renewable energy. Environment minister Svenja Schulze lauded the project in ...
  • 28 Sep 2016 |

    鈥淪capegoat Energiewende鈥

    Raising grid fees substantially- and the resulting rise in cost for electricity in Germany announced for the turn of the year 鈥 is not fully justified, Claudia Kemfert of the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin), told Frankfurter Rundschau. ...
  • 12 Jul 2022 |

    German govt takes next step to reactivate hard coal plants for supply security in gas crisis

    12 Jul 2022, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas Tagesspiegel Background / 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government is expected to adopt a regulation on 13 July that would allow operators of certain hard coal plants to temporarily reactivate their units to help ...
  • 鈥淐onventional power plants block energy transition鈥

    Only a small part of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 inflexible conventional power generation is required to guarantee grid stability, according to the German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation BEE. The lobby group said the Federal Grid Agency鈥檚 (BNetzA) finding that many plants do ...
  • 27 Nov 2024 |

    German industry reiterates call for rethink of country鈥檚 decarbonisation strategy

    27 Nov 2024, 13:15 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most powerful industry association has said the future government must reconsider the country鈥檚 strategy for becoming climate-neutral. Against the background of a sagging economy and news about mass layoffs, the head of the ...
  • 22 Jun 2017 |

    鈥淟ex North Rhine-Westphalia鈥

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 failure to聽resolve national alignment of power grid fees is down to politicians 聽stalling in order to appease voters in the country鈥檚 most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Former ...
  • 20 Oct 2020 |

    German transmission grid operator 50Hertz calls for more Baltic offshore wind power

    20 Oct 2020, 12:34 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Wind Handelsblatt German electricity transmission grid operator 50Hertz wants to see a more aggressive expansion of wind power in the Baltic Sea than currently ...
  • Higher prices in Austria than Germany in first auction after power price zone split

    The first day-ahead auction on the EPEX SPOT power exchange after the split of the common power price zone between Austria and Germany, which becomes effective today (1 October), saw higher prices for Austria than Germany, writes the Austrian 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 16 Nov 2023 |

    Capacity of electrolysis projects planned by 2030 in Germany rises to 8.7 GW 鈥 E.ON

    16 Nov 2023, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 The expansion of green hydrogen production efforts Germany is slowing down, says a聽 report 聽commissioned by utility E.ON. 鈥淭he hydrogen generation capacity planned by 2030 has risen from 8.1 ...
  • 25 Aug 2016 |

    Grid fees: relief for eastern federal states

    The federal government plans to ease the burden that high electricity grid fees present to eastern German federal states, said Brandenburg鈥檚 state secretary Dietmar Woidke, according to news agency dpa. The federal government aims to align the ...
  • One in eight German households already use air conditioning 鈥 survey

    10 Jul 2023, 12:10 James Jackson Adaptation Efficiency Heating Around one in eight German households already use air-condition units, according to a survey by price comparison website Verivox. 鈥淓ighty seven percent of respondents get by without an air ...
  • 18 Dec 2017 |

    Germany to retain uniform power price zone

    The German power market will not be split into two separate price zones, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 council of federal state governments, the Bundesrat, has said in a press release. The council greenlighted a legal ordinance by the acting federal government that prevents ...
  • 25 Aug 2023 |

    Chancellor Scholz pledges tenfold increase of geothermal energy in heating networks

    25 Aug 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Handelsblatt / 麻豆无码版 Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged to greatly expand the use of geothermal energy in Germany. The Social Democrat (SPD) said his goal was to tap into the renewable energy鈥檚 ...
  • 09 Jan 2018 |

    Fitting more power into the existing grid

    A range of comparatively simple measures could increase the capacity of the German power grid within the next two to four years, energy think tank Agora Energiewende * finds in a study. An ad-hoc investment programme could improve the transmission grid to ...
  • 25 Oct 2024 |

    Dispatch from Poland | October '24

    25 Oct 2024, 16:00 Poland鈥檚 new government has updated the country鈥檚 energy strategy, which it says is more ambitious, but implementation remains uncertain as it depends on how coal miner unions react. In its push to increase nuclear power generation, the ...
  • 26 Aug 2016 |

    鈥淲aiting for the long lines鈥

    Power lines to carry wind power from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 north to its industrial south have been delayed over and over, creating problems for the Energiewende, writes Klaus Stratmann in the Handelsblatt. The current power network is reaching its limits in dealing ...
  • 09 Aug 2022 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear plant operators show little appetite for runtime extension

    09 Aug 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Der Spiegel Nuclear plant operators in Germany are unenthusiastic about the prospect of having to revise their long-prepared decommissioning plans despite growing calls for the extension of runtimes, ...
  • 21 Mar 2017 |

    鈥淟ess power waste thanks to smart markets鈥

    Regional smart markets can help lower re-dispatch costs in the German power grid, according to a new study by think tank Agora Energiewende.* Depending on the local conditions, measures such as using more power-to-heat or actively controlling night ...
  • 14 Dec 2023 |

    German economy minister defends climate policy cuts as only option after debt brake ruling

    14 Dec 2023, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy ZDF German economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck defended the German government鈥檚 decision to cut government support payments for energy transition and climate action projects as well as energy cost ...
  • 18 Jan 2016

    A unique record for offshore wind / Expensive blackout defense

    18 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 WindGuard / VDMA 2015 record year for offshore wind power installation Offshore wind capacity of 2,282.4 megawatt (MW) was connected to the German grid in 2015, Deutsche WindGuard has calculated. ...
  • 10 Nov 2022 |

    Mild winter forecast sparks hope for avoiding gas shortage in Germany, economists remain wary

    10 Nov 2022, 13:39 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market ...
  • 28 Jun 2024 |

    Dispatch from France | June 2024

    28 Jun 2024, 16:00 French citizens are awaiting the upcoming snap election brought about by the dissolution of parliament following president Emmanuel Macron鈥檚 loss to the far-right in this June鈥檚 EU elections. The vote could have a profound impact on the ...
  • 15 Feb 2017 |

    Farmers demand better compensation for transmission line expansion

    Landowners should receive 鈥渂etter compensation鈥 if power transmission lines are built on their premises, the German Farmers' Association (DBV) said in a press release. They聽should be eligible for recurring compensation payments instead of receiving a ...
  • 22 Sep 2022 |

    German industry says decarbonisation targets remain unchagend despite crisis

    22 Sep 2022, 13:52 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Industry 麻豆无码版 The German industry plans to stick to existing ...
  • 19 Mar 2019 |

    Germany mulls turning old coal plants into thermal storage assets

    19 Mar 2019, 13:53 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Storage GreenTech Media Researchers in Germany are exploring possibilities to turn the country鈥檚 coal plants into ...
  • 02 Dec 2014 |

    Regulator says German power system stable, price rise slows

    02 Dec 2014, 00:00 An annual report from Germany's grid regulator highlights developments in the German power sector. The report shows a high degree of grid stability in 2013 and only a small increase of average prices paid by households as ...
  • 04 Aug 2016 |

    Grid congestions in Schleswig-Holstein in 2015

    Transmission grid operator TenneT and the Energiewende ministry of northern German state Schleswig-Holstein report that 3,000 gigawatt-hours of renewable electricity had to be curbed in 2015 because of imminent grid congestions. Congestion events should ...
  • 03 May 2016

    Vast majority of Germans say Energiewende is important / Carmakers' 'CO2 scam'

    03 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 BDEW 鈥淓nergiewende continues to be major topic for population鈥 93 percent of Germans believe the Energiewende is important or very important, according to a survey by ...
  • 31 Oct 2016 |

    鈥淟imits of power鈥

    Grid congestion at the Austrian border that led to last week鈥檚 decision by the German government to prepare the split of the common power price zone was a 鈥渉omemade problem鈥, writes Christian Geinitz in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ...
  • 26 Oct 2016 |

    鈥淲hat 鈥榩rosumer households鈥 need鈥

    The I脰W has published a study on the role small home power generating installations can play in the German energy system, with regulatory recommendations to encourage their use. A growing number of citizens and businesses are generating power and partly ...
  • 21 Sep 2023 |
    Gas

    German grid agency practices for possible gas supply crisis

    21 Sep 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 麻豆无码版 Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is conducting test runs today (21 September) for a possible聽gas supply crisis, aiming to practice what would happen should the agency need to order ...
  • 21 Jun 2017 |

    Merkel wants parliament to agree on grid fees before summer break

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the parliament (German Bundestag) to find an agreement on national power grid fee alignment before the summer break, said economy minister Brigitte Zypries at the German energy industry conference BDEW Congress in ...
  • 30 Mar 2020 |

    Distributed solar generation rising in Germany, with potential across Europe 鈥 study

    30 Mar 2020, 13:56 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Rachel Waldholz Solar 麻豆无码版 / pv magazine The number of sites that both operate ...
  • 03 Mar 2017 |

    鈥淢ultiple use of storages and other flexibility technologies lowers costs of energy transition鈥

    Using power storages and other technologies to relieve the electricity grid can significantly lower the cost of the energy transition and avoid grid expansion, writes German 麻豆无码版 Agency (dena) in a new study. 鈥淲e need a bridge between the market and the ...
  • 麻豆无码版 minister pledges focus on power grid extension

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has pledged to maximise focus on the extension of the country鈥檚 power grid as a priority of his work. 鈥淭he Energiewende will succeed if we get ahead with the grid extension,鈥 Altmaier told ...
  • 14 Oct 2016 |

    鈥淓.ON denies speculation over sale of grid 产耻蝉颈苍别蝉蝉鈥

    German utility E.ON has denied rumours it is considering selling parts of its grid business, the dpa news agency reports. E.ON instead aimed to 鈥渟uccessfully implement鈥 its strategy agreed on during the last annual shareholders鈥 meeting, dpa quoted an E ...
  • 03 Jan 2022 |

    German consumers experience biggest rise ever in gas and power prices in 2021

    03 Jan 2022, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 German consumers saw the greatest rise in prices ever recorded for electricity, gas and heating oil in 2021, comparison website Verivox has said. The price for gas climbed by almost ...
  • 01 Aug 2017 |

    鈥淭huringia鈥檚 tenants share the sun鈥

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parliament decided on allowing tenants to benefit from solar power panels installed on their buildings a few weeks ago and now renters seizing this opportunity say they were able to reduce their power bill with it, news agency dpa reports in an ...
  • 15 Jul 2021 |

    German solar tender twice oversubscribed, average price 5 ct/kWh

    15 Jul 2021, 14:04 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Solar 麻豆无码版 Germany registered strong demand in its ...
  • 21 Aug 2017 |

    鈥淧辞飞别谤 grid not ready for e-car boom鈥

    The power grid in southern German states Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg is not ready to cope with a large increase of electric vehicles, news agency dpa says in an article carried by website General-Anzeiger online. Industry experts estimate that the ...
  • 14 Sep 2023 |

    Germany faces high costs, technical hurdles for ship-based imports of hydrogen-based fuels 鈥 report

    14 Sep 2023, 14:03 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Technology 麻豆无码版 Germany plans to ...
  • 27 Aug 2019 |

    Intelligent charging would make fully electric car fleet in Germany economically feasible 鈥 study

    27 Aug 2019, 13:30 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
  • 05 Oct 2021 |
    Gas

    鈥淚t is becoming difficult for LNG in the German market鈥 鈥 Uniper

    05 Oct 2021, 12:01 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas energate messenger / taz The energy group Uniper no longer believes in the construction of an LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminal in northern German Wilhelmshaven, reports ...
  • Germany passes laws on grid, CHP to keep Energiewende going

    18 Dec 2015, 00:00 Second parliament chamber passes laws for combined heat and power support and new power cables / Progress in grid expansion and more money for efficient power stations will advance energy transition and national climate targets, says ...
  • 13 Sep 2016 |

    鈥淕reen power in trouble鈥

    Grid operators have to intervene ever more often to stabilise the grid due to the rapid expansion of wind power, writes Franz Hubik in business daily Handelsblatt. The blackout prevention cost 1 billion euros in 2015 and the grid agency warns that annual ...
  • 07 Apr 2017 |

    East German state premier criticises power price differences

    Welt Online / dpa East German state premier criticises power price differences Once again, an eastern German state premier has criticised regional discrepancies in the power price, dpa news agency reports in an article carried by Welt Online. Brandenburg ...
  • 10 Sep 2024

    Dispatch from the European Union | September '24

    10 Sep 2024, 13:44 With the summer break coming to an end, lawmakers in Brussels are back to school. After the newly elected European Parliament started its legislative term last July, all eyes are now on the formation of the next European Commission. ...
  • 31 May 2023 |

    Four million fossil fuel heating systems in Germany reach legal runtime limit in 2024

    31 May 2023, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung About four million fossil heating systems in Germany will reach their legal runtime limit of 30 years in 2024, newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung聽 reported 聽based on a ...
  • 05 Dec 2016 |

    鈥淗eat from electricity; stabilizers for the grid

    Industrial enterprises are increasingly using power-to-heat technology to save on energy bills, the Handelsblatt reports. A sugar factor in east Germany, for example, needs constant heat for its production processes, Jakob Struller writes. At times when ...
  • 13 Oct 2023 |

    Southern German city launches country鈥檚 largest river-based heat pump

    13 Oct 2023, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities Heating 麻豆无码版 The largest river-based heat pump in Germany has started operations in the southern city of Mannheim. It will use water from the Rhine River to heat some 3,500 households, the local ...
  • Germany to raise aviation levy as part of budget package

    20 Dec 2023, 12:49 Julian Wettengel Transport Policy Government 麻豆无码版 / Table.Media The German government aims to raise the levy on passenger flights as part of a comprehensive budget package for 2024 and the following years to fill the ...
  • 02 Aug 2016 |

    鈥淐ontingency payments for wind power on the rise鈥

    Grid operator TenneT has paid 295 million euros in contingency payments to wind power operators in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein in 2015 because their electricity could not be transported through congested grids, Olaf Preu脽 writes in Die ...
  • 14 Feb 2022 |
    Gas

    Plans for construction of first German LNG terminal plagued by delays and uncertainty

    14 Feb 2022, 13:55 Jessica Bateman Gas dpa / ntv The construction of Germany's first liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal remains uncertain as a key project continues to face delays, reports newswire dpa in an article carried by ntv. There is still ...
  • 19 Jul 2023 |

    Airplanes in Germany to be supplied with clean electricity during airport stops

    19 Jul 2023, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Airplanes in Germany will be made more environmentally friendly by supplying them with clean electricity during stops at the airport, the country鈥檚 transport minister, Volker Wissing, has said. Airplanes ...
  • Eastern German city of Leipzig to become 鈥渃entre of the Energiewende鈥檚 digitalisation鈥

    The eastern German city of Leipzig is slated to become the 鈥渃entre of the Energiewende鈥檚 digitalisation,鈥 Wolfgang Brinkschulte writes for the public broadcaster MDR. The federal government wants the 鈥淪mart Infrastructure Hub鈥 to become a pivot for ...
  • 17 Oct 2018 |

    New law to accelerate power grid expansion

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy ministry is drafting a law to accelerate the development of the country鈥檚 electricity network, Michael Bauchm眉ller reports in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The draft, seen by the paper, will include streamlining the planning procedure, ...
  • 28 Aug 2023 |

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

    28 Aug 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Coal 麻豆无码版 Germany has completed its final auction to provide compensation for the early retirement of coal plants, with fewer operators participating in the tenders than initially hoped for, the Federal ...
  • 29 Jan 2016 |

    Call for fair treatment of storage / Citizens important for energy transition success

    29 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 associations Call for fair competition conditions for power storage facilities 麻豆无码版 business associations BDEW, BEE, BNE, BVES, VDMA and VKU have called on the parliamentary ...
  • 15 Sep 2017 |

    鈥淓astern Germany now secures Bavaria鈥檚 power supply鈥

    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 ...
  • 06 Oct 2016 |

    Amprion starts public dialogue on power line

    German grid operator Amprion has started an early public consultation process on possible routes for a 300 km direct current underground power line to transport electricity 鈥渇rom the wind-rich north to the consumption centres in western and southern ...
  • 09 Aug 2019 |

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

    09 Aug 2019, 13:59 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Freja Eriksen Utilities German fossil utility Uniper cited rising costs for carbon allowances as a main reason for declining ...
  • 14 Sep 2016 |

    鈥淕reen energy at a crossroads鈥

    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 ...
  • 20 Jan 2017 |

    Power interconnector between Germany and Sweden

    Germany and Sweden will build a 300 kilometre-long, 700 megawatt direct current power line connecting storage-rich Scandinavia with wind- and solar-powered continental Europe. 鈥淭he cable improves the integration of renewable energies in the transmission ...
  • Craig Morris steps to leave 麻豆无码版 Transition blog

    Blogger and author Craig Morris is leaving the "麻豆无码版 Transition: The Global Energiewende" blog to work for the Renewables Grid Initiative *. Morris has been the 麻豆无码版 Transition blog鈥檚 main blogger and the lead author of its annually updated ...
  • 27 Sep 2023 |

    German solar EV charging support programme closes after a day due to 鈥渙verwhelming鈥 interest

    27 Sep 2023, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cars Policy dpa / Reuters / BR Only one day after opening a state support programme for installing solar panels for charging electric vehicles (EVs), 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national development bank KfW closed the application ...
  • 14 Jan 2022 |

    New German government must prepare offshore wind boom after expansion halt in 2021 鈥 industry

    14 Jan 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind industry is placing great hope on the new government鈥檚 ambitious renewables expansion plans, after no turbines were added to German waters throughout the whole ...
  • 23 Feb 2018 |

    Battery producer sonnen wants to connect e-cars for power storage

    German battery company sonnen wants to equip electric car users with a new charging box that not only allows them to draw electricity from solar panels on their homes, but also connects them to other users, making them part of a larger battery pool. The ...
  • German coalition still at odds over nuclear power as Green Party accepts limited extension

    17 Oct 2022, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government Bild / Der Spiegel The dispute over delaying the completion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear phase-out drags on within the country鈥檚 coalition government. A meeting between chancellor Olaf Scholz from ...
  • 29 Jun 2023 |
    Gas

    Economy ministry plans to extend German gas storage level requirements

    29 Jun 2023, 12:34 Julian Wettengel Gas 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy ministry has proposed to extend current regulation to the extent to which gas storage facilities have to be filled at certain times of the year, said the economy ministry in a ...
  • 09 Jun 2023 |

    鈥淯nique鈥 French-German district heating project to connect grids across Rhine River

    09 Jun 2023, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating International 麻豆无码版 The French city of Strasbourg and the German town of Kehl, which are located on opposite sides of the river Rhine, are planning to connect their heating systems in a cross-border ...
  • 08 Jun 2023 |

    麻豆无码版 crisis not over yet, gas storage must be full before winter- German grid agency

    08 Jun 2023, 13:54 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Hamburger Abendblatt The energy crisis in ...
  • 27 Apr 2018

    Germany's state governments calls for optimal use of power grid

    The German energy transition demands not only the expansion, but also the聽 optimal use of the power grid, says the council of Germany's federal state governments (Bundesrat). Possible measures include power line monitoring, or the use of high ...
  • 鈥淲e want to end the sustained subsidies system of the EEG鈥

    The German Free Democratic Party (FDP) wants to 鈥渆nd the sustained subsidies system of the [Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act] EEG鈥 with its priority grid access and feed-in tariffs for renewables, writes the party in its draft programme for the autumn federal ...
  • 鈥淧辞飞别谤 grids and storage technologies for the energy transition鈥

    There are no regions in Germany where power grid bottlenecks justify the government鈥檚 plan to slow down renewable development with the reform of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG), according to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) ...
  • 26 Jun 2017 |

    鈥淥perator Tennet warns of transmission-highway toll鈥

    Grid operator Tennet, one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 four major electricity network companies, has warned that a toll on power transmission from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 windy north to industrial centres in the south could create substantial obstacles for the country鈥檚 planned ...
  • 08 Nov 2016 |

    鈥泪苍诲耻蝉迟谤测 grid fee rebates: Siemens rejects Green party鈥檚 criticism鈥

    German engineering giant Siemens has rejected criticism from the Green party that it lets private households pay for its electricity bill as 鈥渕isleading鈥 and 鈥渙utrightly wrong鈥, Handelsblatt Online reports. Green MP B盲rbel H枚hn previously said it was ...
  • 22 Feb 2018 |

    Distribution grid could be overburdened by rise in number of e-cars in Germany

    A projected substantial increase in the number of e-cars in Germany will pose major challenges for the country鈥檚 energy providers and power grids, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) says in a press release. The ZEW has carried out a survey ...
  • 28 Jun 2017 |

    Grid fee reform gets divided reception by energy business associations

    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 ...
  • 23 May 2017 |

    "CDU wants to stop wind power expansion"

    The vice-chairman of the CDU's parliamentary group, Michael Fuchs, says wind power expansion in northern Germany "urgently"聺 needed to be stopped due to mounting costs linked with Germany's lagging grid expansion, Andreas Mihm writes ...
  • 20 Sep 2024 |

    Dispatch from Poland | September '24

    20 Sep 2024, 15:02 The worst floods in at least a decade hit southern Poland and neigbouring regions in mid-September due to extreme rainfall, which scientists said was likely more intense due to climate change. The situation has received wide political ...
  • 28 Apr 2023 |

    Renewables cover half of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity demand in first quarter of 2023

    28 Apr 2023, 13:21 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 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables 麻豆无码版 Renewable ...
  • 28 Apr 2023 |

    German railway operator waives higher fees for power cables under railways 鈥 media

    28 Apr 2023, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Transport Tagesspiegel Background / 麻豆无码版 German railway operator Deutsche Bahn has reportedly waved higher fees demanded from renewable project operators needing to install power cables under ...
  • 17 Jun 2015 |

    Grid authority considers split of Austrian-German electricity market

    17 Jun 2015, 00:00 The shared electricity market between Austria and Germany was seen as a major achievement in 2002 but now it is coming under pressure from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 increasing generation from renewables, showing the disintegrative side effects the ...
  • 19 Jun 2023 |

    Bidders in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest ever offshore wind auction forgo subsidies

    19 Jun 2023, 13:14 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 Investors are willing to build offshore wind farms in German waters in the Baltic and North Sea without state support, and will now even have to pay to be awarded a contract. In the ...
  • 25 Oct 2023 |

    German econ minister doubles down on power price subsidies with new industry strategy

    25 Oct 2023, 11:00 Germany's economy ministry wants to strengthen the country as an industrial location with a new industry strategy, a key aspect of it being a so-called bridge electricity price for energy-intensive companies. Robert Habeck wants to ...
  • 09 Feb 2017 |

    鈥淏lockchain is not a feared enemy (yet)鈥

    The digital transaction technology blockchain is regarded by some as the death knell for energy providers, while others believe it is far from being mature and applicable, Susanne Ehlerding writes in Der Tagesspiegel. 鈥淲e don鈥檛 panic,鈥 Maximilian Rinck, ...
  • 12 Feb 2019 |

    Merkel says enormous effort needed to make coal exit a success 鈥 report

    12 Feb 2019, 12:59 S枚ren Amelang Coal Bild 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Chancellor Angela Merkel has privately warned that the country鈥檚 coal exit will fail without 鈥渆normous effort,鈥 Ralf Schuler reports for tabloid Bild. 鈥淲e have to really want this,鈥 Merkel said at a ...
  • 06 Feb 2017 |

    鈥淭he great meter reader swap: Power customers have to convert鈥

    The compulsory switch to smart meter readers will lead to higher costs and threats to the privacy of power customers 鈥渨ithout holding any observable advantages up to now,鈥 Kathrin Emse writes on shz.de. 鈥淪mart grids help grid operators 鈥 by allowing them ...
  • Vote25: Germany must embrace transformation, seek European approach to industry crises 鈥 researcher

    06 Jan 2025, 12:12 Germany is of central importance when it comes to the EU defining its priorities in energy and industrial policies, says Simone Tagliapietra, senior fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. He argues that the country鈥檚 next ...
  • 17 Nov 2016 |

    鈥泪苍诲耻蝉迟谤测 plans digitalisation of energy transition鈥

    The project 鈥渆nera鈥 in the rural North-Western German region of Eastern Frisia could become the next step on the way to establishing smart energy grids across Germany, writes Angela Schmid in WirtschaftsWoche. 鈥渆nera鈥 is aimed at steering energy flows so ...
  • 12 Jun 2023 |
    Gas

    German gas storage levels can be fully filled before winter, shortage risk remains 鈥 operator

    12 Jun 2023, 13:53 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 麻豆无码版 Germany is likely to reach its gas storage target levels early, but a shortage risk for the coming winter remains if average temperatures drop significantly, gas storage operator INES said in a ...
  • 12 Feb 2019 |

    Companies plan 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first industrial-scale renewable hydrogen project

    12 Feb 2019, 14:14 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 German power grid operator Amprion and gas grid operator Open Grid Europe (OGE) are planning to build a 100 megawatt (MW) power-to-gas plant along with hydrogen infrastructure, a project they ...
  • 08 Mar 2017 |

    鈥淭he new plan for the power highways鈥

    German transmission grid operators published their provisional route proposals for SuedLink and SuedOstLink, the direct current high-voltage power lines to connect 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 windy north with the power-hungry south. The routes were 鈥渘ot set in stone,鈥 said ...
  • 27 Sep 2022 |

    Data shows German households start saving gas 鈥 grid agency head

    27 Sep 2022, 14:07 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 麻豆无码版 High energy prices and possibly also pleas by the German government to save gas appear to show an effect among households in the country: The head of the federal grid agency (BNetzA) Klaus ...
  • 22 Mar 2024 |

    New nuclear reactor types will not solve waste and safety issues 鈥 German agency

    22 Mar 2024, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out 麻豆无码版 / Reuters Novel nuclear power plant designs do not resolve the technology鈥檚 fundamental challenge of hazardous nuclear waste, a report commissioned by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Office for ...
  • 06 Sep 2023 |

    Germany plans to spend more than 鈧1 bln on nuclear fusion research by 2028

    06 Sep 2023, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Policy 麻豆无码版 More than one billion euros will be invested by the German government on fusion research over the next five years. "Fusion is a huge opportunity to solve all our energy ...
  • 06 Sep 2023 |

    Chancellor Scholz calls on all levels of govt to pull together for German modernisation

    06 Sep 2023, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Policy 麻豆无码版 Chancellor Olaf Scholz has proposed a "Pact for Germany" in which all levels of government and the opposition pull together to guarantee the country's success in the future. ...
  • 10 Jul 2018 |

    Digitalisation key to successful energy transition 鈥 distribution system operator

    Smart distribution grids are a pre-requisite for the success of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transition to a low-carbon energy system, according to a press release from Westnetz, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest distribution system operator. While 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition has been ...
  • 05 Feb 2018 |

    German grid could cope with one million e-cars - opinion

    Germany would have enough power for 1 million electric cars and the power grid would be able to cope with the charging pattern of these vehicles, Michael Brecht, author at eMobilitaetsblog.de writes in an opinion piece for Welt online. Brecht rejects the ...
  • 16 Jun 2016

    VW presents 2025 e-car strategy / Grid operator optimistic

    16 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Volkswagen Group VW aims to sell 2-3 million e-cars by 2025 Car giant VW plans a "major electrification initiative" with more than 30 new聽purely battery ...
  • 04 Sep 2015

    In the media: Consumers get first break on power prices since 2000

    04 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 BDEW / afp 鈥淭he power price turn-around鈥 Electricity has become cheaper for private consumers for the first time since 2000, the German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries (BDEW) reports. ...
  • 18 Oct 2024 |

    Dispatch from France | October '24

    18 Oct 2024, 10:56 The new government of prime minister Michel Barnier was announced on 21 September, with the 2025 budget following on 10 October. To reduce the public deficit to 5 percent of the country's economy by 2025, and to 3 percent by 2027, ...
  • 15 Oct 2024 |

    Germany awards first companies with pioneering 鈥榗limate contract鈥 scheme to slash industry emissions

    15 Oct 2024, 14:30 Fifteen companies in Germany have been awarded support guarantees in the first round of the so-called 鈥榗limate contracts鈥 scheme that is meant to put the country鈥檚 industry sector on track towards climate neutrality. Economy minister ...
  • 20 Jul 2023 |

    Siemens CEO expects electricity prices in Germany to increase in next years

    20 Jul 2023, 13:19 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung The head of German engineering company Siemens expects power prices in the country to increase for some years, as the country undergoes a ...
  • 02 Jun 2023 |

    Denmark, Germany sign agreement on joint offshore wind project "Bornholm 麻豆无码版 Island"

    02 Jun 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Wind EU 麻豆无码版 The governments of Denmark and Germany have signed a legally binding cooperation agreement for a joint offshore wind power project on the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm, the economy ...
  • Lingering nuclear dissent between Paris and Berlin obstacle for EU renewables push

    12 Jul 2023, 14:02 Differing views on the place of nuclear power in Europe have dominated public perceptions of energy policy cooperation between France and Germany for years. Given the urgent need to agree on European energy policy strategies in light of ...
  • 17 Jul 2023 |

    Heat pump installations tumble in Germany following subsidy cut

    17 Jul 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Der Spiegel Applications for heat pump subsidies in Germany dropped by roughly half in the first six months of 2023 following a subsidy cut, newspaper Der Spiegel reported. According to ...
  • 07 Jun 2017 |

    Grid fee alignment: 鈥淲e will try to find a solution鈥 鈥 Merkel

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that federal and state governments were 鈥渢rying to find a solution鈥 in the dispute about nationwide grid fee alignment. 鈥淎t the moment, a difficult battle is raging on how we best succeed in managing this surcharge ...
  • 13 Apr 2017 |

    Grid has to grow considerably because of electric cars鈥

    German power consumers might face a further rise of electricity costs caused by grid expansions required for e-mobility, according to a report by news agency dpa carried by the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Supplying e-car charging stations with electricity ...
  • 05 Oct 2018 |

    Extreme weather events push up power blackouts in 2017

    An increase in extreme weather events like storms, floods and snow pushed up the average electricity blackout time in Germany last year. The average interruption per power consumer rose to 15.14 minutes from 12.80 minutes in 2017, according to the Federal ...
  • Germany plans hydrogen use for heating and mobility in strategy update 鈥 media report

    14 Jul 2023, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang Transport Hydrogen Heating Policy Handelsblatt The German government wants to use hydrogen for decarbonising road transport and heating, in addition to industry, according to a highly anticipated revamp of the national ...
  • 22 Nov 2017 |

    Government cabinet decides regulation that bans German power trading zone split

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 acting government has adopted a draft regulation that bans transmission grid operators (TSOs) from unilaterally splitting the German power trading zone. 鈥淲hat distinguishes the German trading zone is its unity, which ensures equal conditions ...
  • 31 Mar 2023 |

    State energy ministers call for industry power price and lower electricity tax

    31 Mar 2023, 11:37 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 / MDR The energy ministers from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 sixteen states have called on the federal government to examine lowering the electricity tax to the European minimum, and supporting ...
  • 29 Dec 2015

    Minister concerned about power exports / Slow grid extension

    29 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Sven Egenter Spiegel Online 鈥淗endricks criticises massive rise in electricity exports鈥 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister Barbara Hendricks is concerned about the country鈥檚 CO2 emissions, writes Stefan Schultz at Spiegel Online ...
  • 30 Mar 2023 |

    Germany to further expand cooperation on climate and energy with Chile and Uruguay

    30 Mar 2023, 13:42 Carolina Kyllmann Industry International 麻豆无码版 Germany has signed agreements to intensify its cooperation on climate and energy with Chile and Uruguay, with strong focus on decarbonising emission-intensive industry. At the ...
  • 24 May 2023 |

    German econ ministry to simplify installation of plug-in solar 鈥榖alcony power plants鈥

    24 May 2023, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Policy AFP / Tagesspiegel Installing plug-in solar run 鈥榖alcony power plants鈥 in German households should be simplified through a reduction of regulatory hurdles, the country's economy ministry (BMWK) has ...
  • 28 Mar 2019 |

    German utility EnBW to invest 12 billion euros in grids, 鈥済rowth areas鈥 by 2025

    28 Mar 2019, 13:23 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Rachel Waldholz Utilities Reuters / 麻豆无码版 German utility EnBW will invest billions of euros in its power grids and other ...
  • 26 Jul 2018

    Wind industry calls for special auctions amid expansion slowdown

    26 Jul 2018, 16:22 Following last year鈥檚 strong growth, wind energy expansion in the first half of 2018 dropped substantially. Wind power groups are calling on the government to launch the special auctions for renewable energies that it agreed to hold in ...
  • 23 Dec 2022 |

    Preview 2023: Reality check set to drive resolve in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition

    23 Dec 2022, 14:20 The German government coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz looks back at a turbulent first year in office, which has been dominated by the reality check of Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine and the European energy crisis. The turmoil in global ...
  • 07 Aug 2018 |

    Electricity network operators push forward with grid expansion

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission system operators are moving ahead with plans to build electricity highways connecting the northern and southern parts of the country, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. Beginning in the middle of the next decade, four lines ...
  • 30 May 2018 |

    Germany has to hurry up with grid expansion 鈥 chancellor Merkel

    New power lines are needed urgently to incorporate an increasing amount of renewable electricity in the power grid, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the 20-year anniversary of the Federal Network Agency. 鈥淚t鈥檚 obviously also a question of the ...
  • 17 May 2023 |

    Climate-friendly heating transition must not lead to spike in rents 鈥 SPD head

    17 May 2023, 12:53 S枚ren Amelang Heating Policy Stuttgarter Nachrichten The leader of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Social Democrats (SPD) said it was the party's imperative to prevent sharp cost increases for tenants during the shift to climate-friendly heating systems ...
  • 16 May 2018 |

    Dozens of old e-car batteries form large power storage in port of Hamburg

    A project in Hamburg combines dozens of old e-car batteries to form a large power storage plant in the city鈥檚 industrial port, industry newspaper THB reports. Carmaker BMW, Bosch and energy company Vattenfall jointly operate the project, called Battery 2 ...
  • 08 Oct 2021 |

    Germany needs 20-30 GW of new gas plants to ensure supply security 鈥 RWE CEO

    08 Oct 2021, 12:00 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
  • SPD leader rejects revision of German nuclear exit as calls for limited extension of Bavarian plant grow

    04 Aug 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland / 麻豆无码版 / Welt / BR The German nuclear power phase-out 鈥渨ill not be revised鈥 as a result of the current gas supply crisis, the co-leader of the ...
  • 35 hours of negative wholesale power prices over the holidays

    High wind power production during a storm led to a total of 35 hours of negative wholesale power prices over the holidays in Germany, writes Daniel Wetzel for Welt Online. 鈥淏ecause of the holidays, industry did not need the power,鈥 and grid operators at ...
  • 24 Nov 2023 |

    German states fear debt brake鈥檚 climate impact as federal gov鈥檛 suspends rule again

    24 Nov 2023, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy Die Welt / Stern / NDR / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Governments in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal states are concerned that the recent ruling by the country鈥檚 highest court declaring parts of the federal government鈥檚 budget ...
  • Companies pay almost 鈧800m for right to build offshore wind farms in German tender

    11 Aug 2023, 13:16 S枚ren Amelang Wind Business & Jobs Utilities 麻豆无码版 Investors have agreed to pay 784 million euros for the right to build wind farms in four locations in the North Sea in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest offshore wind tender. The wind ...
  • 02 Aug 2017 |

    鈥淣ordLink: Launch of laying the 鈥榞reen link鈥欌

    Construction of the direct current connection NordLink for the exchange of renewable energy between Germany and Norway has started, writes transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT in a press release. 鈥淔or the first time, the interconnector will directly ...
  • Coalitions' renewables plans would overstrain German grid - agency head

    The would-be coalition partners鈥 plan to reach a 65 percent share of renewables in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power mix by 2030 is an 鈥渁mbitious target,鈥 said Jochen Homann, president of the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), at a meeting 聽held on the eve of the E-world ...
  • Financial support for renewables could end in a few years鈥 time

    The renewable energy sector will be competitive without financial support within the next four to five years, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Minister for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 Peter Altmaier said on the sidelines of the Berlin 麻豆无码版 Transition Dialogue. As an example, ...
  • 13 Apr 2018 |

    Bosch and EnBW open new battery storage facility

    German technology company Bosch and utility EnBW have opened a new large battery storage facility that helps stabilise the power grid, Bosch says in a press release. The battery consists of 768 lithium-ion modules that can provide energy quickly and help ...
  • Power-to-gas push no surprise 鈥 opinion

    The joint power-to-gas (PtG) project by power and gas transmission grid operators Amprion and Open Grid Europe (OGE) should not come as a surprise, as especially the gas industry worries about its future in a decarbonised Germany, writes Andreas Mihm in ...
  • 10 Oct 2019 |

    Germany to make it more attractive for ships to turn off engines in ports and use power grid instead

    10 Oct 2019, 13:43 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Clean ...
  • 20 Jun 2023 |

    Scholz announces reduced government spending, assures climate commitments unaffected

    20 Jun 2023, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government ARD German chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that the federal government is to reduce its spending and return to 鈥渇iscal policy normality鈥 after state support for citizens and businesses ...
  • 14 Dec 2023 |

    Conversion into ammonia will be a 鈥渄ominant transport technology鈥 for hydrogen 鈥 report

    14 Dec 2023, 13:24 S枚ren Amelang Industry Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Converting hydrogen to ammonia will be "the dominant transport technology" in order to ship the fuel to Germany, according to a report 聽commissioned by the World 麻豆无码版 Council ...
  • 13 Mar 2018 |

    Record renewable power use in 50Hertz control area

    Over half of the power consumed within transmission grid operator 50Hertz鈥檚 control area last year (53.4 percent) was generated from renewables, the company says in a press release presenting its 2017 balance sheet. 鈥淲e are proud that with this record ...
  • 09 Oct 2015

    In the media: Nuclear "a total fiasco", companies want grid extensions

    09 Oct 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Handelsblatt 鈥淣uclear 麻豆无码版? Never Again!鈥 The history of nuclear energy in Germany is a total fiasco, write J眉rgen Flauger and Klaus Stratmann in a 鈥渃losing balance sheet鈥 in business daily Handelsblatt. The ...
  • Expansion of low-carbon energy sources too slow in Germany 鈥 utility association

    01 Apr 2019, 13:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables Policy Clean ...
  • 14 Jul 2015

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

    14 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 RWE 鈥淧oll 鈥 Lignite is essential stabiliser for energy supply鈥 Two thirds of Germans believe electricity prices have a large influence on the competitiveness of German industry, according to a ...
  • Federal cyber crime agency warns of large-scale attacks on European power grid

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 cyber crime agency in the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) warns that attacks on energy providers in the country could lead to a Europe-wide blackout, news website Spiegel Online reports. According to an internal BKA document seen by Spiegel ...
  • German government attempts last-minute block of Chinese involvement in grid operator 50Hertz

    The Chinese state enterprise SGCC has already signed a contract to buy a 20-percent share of grid operator 50Hertz, but the German government is trying to reverse the deal 鈥 which it says concerns 鈥渃ritical infrastructure鈥 鈥 before it takes effect, Thomas ...
  • 鈥淲e need more speed in the energy transition鈥 鈥 Schleswig-Holstein energy minister

    If future power needs are around 600 terawatt-hours, Germany would need 97 gigawatt (GW) of onshore wind, 25-35 GW offshore wind and 102 GW solar PV capacity, Schleswig-Holstein鈥檚 energy transition minister and head of the federal Green Party Robert ...
  • 15 Jul 2020 |

    Particulate matter in atmosphere impacts on Europe's solar power generation 鈥 researchers

    15 Jul 2020, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 麻豆无码版 The output of Europe's solar power panels is influenced by particulate matter in the atmosphere that can partly block sunlight from reaching the earth's surface, researchers from the ...
  • 鈥淎ustria and Germany: agreement on common framework for congestion management鈥

    German and Austrian energy regulators have agreed to cap peaks in the exchange of power from October 2018 to reflect lagging grid development between the two countries, announced Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and E-Control in separate press releases. ...
  • 06 Feb 2015

    In the media: Local utilities warn against dangers to power supply

    06 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 DIW studies 鈥淓lectricity Grids and Climate Targets: New Approaches to Grid Planning鈥 The latest assumptions that will be used in the government's grid development plan take new climate ...
  • German wind power tender fails to attract enough bids, PV strong

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest tender for new onshore wind power installations failed to attract enough bids to award the full offered amount of 670 megawatts, the country鈥檚 grid regulator said. The average support rate for the accepted bids with a total amount of 363 ...
  • 09 Jun 2023 |

    New wind power-to-heat plant in northern Germany capable of supplying thousands of households

    09 Jun 2023, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Heating ARD A large new power-to-heat facility, running on wind energy has come into operation in the northern German city of Hamburg which is technically capable of providing about 27,000 households with low ...
  • 09 Jun 2023 |

    Leaders of Italy and Germany endorse natural gas and hydrogen pipeline project "SoutH2 Corridor"

    09 Jun 2023, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Italy and Germany are pushing for the construction of a new natural gas and hydrogen pipeline via Austria to strengthen inter-European energy trade- the 鈥 SoutH2 Corridor 鈥 project. 鈥淭he ...
  • 07 Dec 2023 |

    Heat pumps and district heating instead of hydrogen needed for Berlin鈥檚 heating transition 鈥 analysis

    07 Dec 2023, 13:07 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 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities ...
  • 03 Jan 2018 |

    Soaring grid costs likely topic during SPD/CDU coalition talks

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 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 ...
  • 27 Jul 2017 |

    鈥淒resden鈥檚 civil protection units train for blackouts鈥

    Civil protection units in the eastern German city of Dresden 鈥渋ntensively train for a large-scale blackout 鈥, Thomas Baum-Hartwig writes in Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten. Dresden鈥檚 mayor Detlef Sittel said the energy transition had made grids far more ...
  • 08 Dec 2016 |

    鈥淚nfrastructure data for all鈥

    Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TU M眉nchen) are working on an open source map to track聽 bottlenecks and overcapacities in power grids around the globe, the university said in a press release. The resulting 鈥渨orld map of power grids鈥 was ...
  • 13 Jan 2022 |

    Bavarian industry calls for end to state鈥檚 strict wind power distance rules

    13 Jan 2022, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Industry dpa/ Die Welt / Handelsblatt / 麻豆无码版 Industry companies are calling for an end to the southern German state of Bavaria鈥檚 particularly strict minimum distance wind power rules. Bavarian ...
  • 22 Sep 2022 |

    Prices for firewood and wood pellets almost double due to energy crisis

    22 Sep 2022, 14:02 Jessica Bateman Cost & Prices Heating 麻豆无码版 Prices for firewood and wood pellets are almost double what they were the same time last year, figures from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal statistics office (Destatis) have shown. In August ...
  • 27 Feb 2018 |

    Launching electric transport with the grid we already have

    Expanding electric transport could be used to exploit existing power grid capacity, if the right smart grid technologies are deployed and combined with the inherent flexibility in when electric vehicles (EVs) can be charged, writes the Regulatory ...
  • 12 Dec 2017 |

    Grid operator Tennet starts construction of important offshore-power transmission line

    A new project by grid operator Tennet will facilitate the power supply from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind parks to the densely populated regions in the country鈥檚 west, business magazine stadt+werk reports. Tennet recently started construction of the extra-high ...
  • 22 Sep 2022 |

    Germany pushes for EU alliance on energy transition technologies

    22 Sep 2022, 14:08 Jessica Bateman Technology EU Tagesspiegel Background The German government will propose a 鈥淓uropean Alliance for Transformation Technologies鈥 at an upcoming meeting of EU ministers responsible for industry policy and the internal ...
  • 13 Aug 2021 |

    Germany's energy ministry proposes criteria for offshore green hydrogen production

    13 Aug 2021, 13:26 Kerstine Appunn Wind Hydrogen Germany's energy ministry (BMWi) has proposed a set of rules to determine which concepts are eligible for areas for the construction of new renewable energy projects in the offshore sector in the North ...
  • 15 Sep 2017 |

    鈥淢ore companies want exemption from grid 蹿别别蝉鈥

    The number of companies in Germany that do not pay grid fees is set to rise further, Spiegel Online reports. According to an answer by the federal government to a parliamentary inquiry by the Green Party, there were about 3,670 fee exemptions in 2016 and ...
  • 30 Mar 2017 |

    鈥淭rend of falling power prices in Germany continues鈥

    Average German wholesale electricity prices fell almost nine percent to 28.96 euros per megawatt-hour last year, according to a power market review by grid operator TenneT. Redispatch volumes fell for the first time since 2013, due to a decrease in wind ...
  • 16 Aug 2016 |

    Weather forecasts aim to make renewable power predictable

    16 Aug 2016, 00:00 The rise of volatile wind and solar power in the share of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity generation means that keeping the grid stable becomes an ever more complex 鈥 and potentially costly 鈥 task. Predicting how many renewable megawatts will be ...
  • Future ambition of Germany's energy transition faces test in upcoming election in eastern states

    30 Aug 2024, 12:42 Three eastern German states will elect a new government in September 2024, marking a potentially pivotal moment in the post-reunification history of the country and for the future of its climate and energy transition policies. The ...
  • 26 Jan 2017 |

    鈥淎t the expense of the east 鈥 Gabriel uses grid fees for election campaigning鈥

    Outgoing economy minister Sigmar Gabriel runs an election campaign at the expense of eastern German power consumers, some of whom pay grid fees twice as high as consumers in the west, writes Norbert Block in a commentary in Th眉ringische Landeszeitung. He ...
  • 22 Jan 2015

    In the media: RWE power plants for sale

    22 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Wirtschaftswoche 鈥淩WE: shut down or sale?鈥 RWE 鈥檚 deputy chairman of the executive board Rolf Martin Schmitz said that power stations hit by falling electricity prices could no longer turn a profit ...
  • 28 Sep 2016 |

    鈥淓xpensive restart鈥

    The populism by the Christian Social Union in Bavaria has delayed the grid expansion by years and increased costs by billions of euros, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He says that the Bavarian government had ...
  • 22 Sep 2016 |

    鈥淎t the limit鈥

    The dispute between 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid operators highlights the 鈥減artly absurd distortions鈥 the expansion of renewable energies has brought about, writes J眉rgen Flauger in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. 鈥淭he primary goal to quickly increase ...
  • 20 Jan 2021 |

    German North Sea wind farms produce more electricity in 2020 than ever before

    20 Jan 2021, 13:37 Charlotte Nijhuis 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Wind 麻豆无码版 / Der Spiegel German wind farms in the North Sea produced more electricity last year than ever before. In 2020, the amount produced rose by 12.4 percent to 22.76 terawatt ...
  • Sharp fall of renewables levy good news for German power consumers in energy crunch

    15 Oct 2021, 12:32 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables levy will decrease to its lowest level in ten years as high wholesale power prices and support from the federal budget lower the need for payments from electricity consumers. This is good news for the economy and ...
  • 28 Nov 2018 |

    E-mobility could lead to lower household power prices in Germany

    28 Nov 2018, 16:16 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars Cost & Prices Fraunhofer ISI The growing number of electric cars in Germany could in the long run bring down household power prices, the research institute Fraunhofer ISI says in a press ...
  • 02 May 2017 |

    鈥淧辞飞别谤 grid 谤别惫辞濒耻迟颈辞苍鈥

    The use of batteries to level out intermittent solar and wind generation in the Tennet and Sonnen project shows that 鈥渢he Energiewende is making progress,鈥 writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淣ew offshore wind parks have been approved ...
  • 13 Dec 2016 |

    Concern over grid fees structure

    The Lower Rhine Chamber of Industry and Commerce has warned against planned legislation to standardise electricity grid fees across the country, the聽Rheinische Post reports. The organisation, which represents business interests in the region appealed to ...
  • 12 Jul 2017 |

    Study: 鈥淭he distribution grid operator of the future 鈥 enabler of the Energiewende鈥

    Decentralised renewable energy sources increase the importance of local distribution grids for making 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition work, a new study on municipal utilities by consulting agency Ernst & Young (EY) says. Distribution grid operators become ...
  • 06 Mar 2018 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 battered utilities face further challenges

    Two of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest energy companies, RWE and E.ON, will publish their balance of accounts this month 鈥 a move that is likely to highlight the difficulties the industry is still grappling with amid the country鈥檚 energy transition, news agency dpa ...
  • German energy industry association welcomes EU ministers鈥 agreement

    Stefan Kapferer, managing director of the German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries (BDEW), welcomed the agreement by the EU member states鈥 energy ministers on the Union鈥檚 future energy policy, because it meant that the existing power price zones ...
  • 28 Jun 2024

    In brief

    28 Jun 2024, 12:00 Carolina Kyllmann Julian Wettengel Associated Press: Von der Leyen, Costa and Kallas endorsed for the EU鈥檚 top jobs European Union leaders have agreed on the officials who will lead the EU鈥檚 powerful executive branch. News agency AP ...
  • 12 Aug 2019 |

    Low auction turnout means 鈥渞enewed wake-up call鈥 for German wind power

    12 Aug 2019, 12:25 Expert BWE- German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
  • 06 Jul 2018 |

    Reaching target of 65 percent renewables by 2030 is feasible - think tank

    Germany can reach its target of increasing the share of renewable energy to 65 percent of power consumption by 2030 from the current 36 percent at moderate costs,聽according to energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. Agora proposes a series of measures to ...
  • Nuclear exit without notable effect on German power price in first month 鈥 agency

    16 May 2023, 13:40 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices BR In the month after ...
  • 23 Jun 2017 |

    鈥淐entrepiece of the Energiewende鈥

    After two years of construction and trial phases, German utility EnBW鈥檚 subsidiary TransnetBW is beginning operation of its central control room, dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. The grid operator intends to manage the Baden-Wuerttemberg ...
  • 28 Feb 2023 |

    German alliance takes aim at EU Commission plan to separate gas grid ownership

    28 Feb 2023, 14:17 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband ...
  • 29 Jun 2023 |

    Gas industry welcomes 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 compromise on phasing out fossil fuel heating

    29 Jun 2023, 12:38 S枚ren Amelang Gas Heating Welt / 麻豆无码版 / Zeit / taz 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gas industry has welcomed the coalition government鈥檚 compromise on the transition to climate-friendly heating, while some media commentators and environmental ...
  • 03 Sep 2020 |

    Pandemic adds trouble for Germany's energy transition 鈥 McKinsey

    03 Sep 2020, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Policy 麻豆无码版 The coronavirus pandemic has created new problems for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, according to management consultancy McKinsey. The pandemic had particularly slowed the ...
  • 01 Sep 2020 |

    Operators bid for compensation in first German hard coal phaseout auction

    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 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first coal phase-out auction aimed at shutting down ...
  • 13 Aug 2018 |

    Some villages prefer overland power lines to underground cables

    Twenty municipalities along the planned route for HVDC (high-voltage direct current) transmission lines to carry wind power from northern Germany to industrial centres in the south, have requested they be constructed as overhead cables rather than buried ...
  • 31 Mar 2021 |

    Government auditors call for reform of Germany's energy taxes and levies

    31 Mar 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Court of Auditors (BRH) has criticised the government for its 鈥渋nadequate鈥 management of the energy transition. In a new report, the BRH argues that the economy ministry ...
  • 11 Dec 2023 |

    German operator 鈥渧ery optimistic鈥 to run eastern lignite mines past 2030 phase-out aim

    11 Dec 2023, 13:24 S枚ren Amelang Coal dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung East German coal mine operator LEAG has said it expects to extract lignite from its opencast pits past 2030, even though the government hopes to exit coal by that date. 鈥淲e are very ...
  • 01 Mar 2017 |

    Decentralisation requires regionally different power prices - think tank

    Germany needs regional power markets and a legislation overhaul to cope with its increasingly decentralised electricity system, and replace the current 鈥渃haos鈥 in grid fees, levies and taxes, according to think tank Agora Energiewende.* 鈥淲e need to all ...
  • 02 Jan 2018 |

    鈥淎rtificial monopoly鈥 connecting German offshore wind parks

    There is an 鈥渁rtificial monopoly鈥 connecting 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind parks with the mainland, said Martin Neubert, managing director of Orsted Wind Power Germany (formerly DONG 麻豆无码版), write Franz Hubik and Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. While ...
  • 03 Aug 2018 |

    Germany's power system weathers heat wave despite fossil plant curbs

    03 Aug 2018, 08:44 Conventional power stations, like hard coal, gas-fired or nuclear plants, are forced to curb generation because of the heat wave hitting Germany. While the stability of the power system as such is not in peril and most renewables are ...
  • 12 Oct 2023 |

    German government scales down expectations for economic growth, stresses need for climate investments

    12 Oct 2023, 11:38 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & ...
  • 15 Oct 2015 |

    German green power levy to rise in 2016 to new record

    15 Oct 2015, 00:00 The levy to finance green power investment, which is added to Germans' electricity bills, will rise slightly in 2016 after falling this year for the first time since its 2000 introduction, German power grid operators said Thursday. ...
  • 26 Feb 2018 |

    TenneT to invest 28 billion euros over next ten years in power grid to cope with renewables feed-in

    Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT will invest 28 billion euros in new power grid infrastructure over the next ten years because of energy transition targets in Germany and the Netherlands which will lead to an increase in renewable power, ...
  • Germany's electricity export surplus decreases significantly in first half of 2023

    07 Sep 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Aniket Narawad Electricity Nuclear phase-out Renewables 麻豆无码版 / dpa Germany's net exports of electricity in the first half of this year were significantly lower than in the same period in 2022. The ...
  • German wholesale power prices turn negative less often in 2018

    03 Jan 2019, 11:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Electricity market Cost & Prices ...
  • 11 Jan 2023 |

    Skills shortage becomes cyber security risk in energy industry 鈥 consultancy

    11 Jan 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Digitalisation Tagesspiegel Background A lack of IT specialists is becoming a cyber security risk for German energy industry companies, reports newsletter service Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity. 鈥淓lectricity grid ...
  • 10 Jan 2017 |

    Grid fees: Government鈥檚 policy U-turn met with criticism in Eastern Germany

    Politicians in the Eastern German state of Thuringia have called on the federal government to align power prices across the country, Th眉ringer Allgemeine reports. Federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel鈥檚 backtracking on plans to standardise electricity ...
  • 12 Feb 2020 |

    'Tomorrow's oil': Germany seeks hydrogen export deal with West African states

    12 Feb 2020, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen International Reuters / Handelsblatt Germany plans to set up a production and import chain for renewable hydrogen in a joint project with Western African countries, news agency Reuters聽 reports. " ...
  • 鈥830 wind turbines turn in Hesse鈥

    The economy minister of the state of Hesse Tarek Al-Wazir called the federal economy ministry鈥檚 plan to declare parts of the state as grid congestion zones 鈥渓udicrous鈥 and 鈥減reposterous,鈥 writes the Rhein-Main-Zeitung. This would 鈥渧aporise the ...
  • 21 Sep 2022 |

    Germany clinches solar power record already by mid-September

    21 Sep 2022, 12:59 Julian Wettengel Solar 麻豆无码版 2022 will become a record year for solar power generation in Germany, data by research institute Fraunhofer ISE鈥檚 麻豆无码版 Charts suggests. 鈥淏y mid-September, solar plants in Germany had already ...
  • 13 Sep 2016 |

    鈥淪torage, smart grids and data streams鈥

    In light of fluctuating supply and congestions in the power grid, the wind power sector has to increase its focus on surrounding infrastructure and technology, such as storage, smart grids and data streams, to cope with the challenges of the Energiewende, ...
  • 17 Mar 2015

    In the media: Solar eclipse as taster of 2030

    17 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 聽 Fraunhofer IWES/Agora Energiewende "The Eclipse 2015: Preview of the Power System in 2030" Friday鈥檚 solar eclipse will provide a taste of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power system in 2030, according to a ...
  • 16 Sep 2016 |

    鈥淐onstruction begins on power line NordLink鈥

    Germany and Norway have started construction on NordLink, the first direct power line between the two countries that will allow the exchange of renewable energy from 2019 on, reports dpa. The 620 kilometre long, mostly underwater transmission line showed ...
  • 09 Nov 2015

    Searching for blame in nuclear decision / Boiler efficiency

    09 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥Grid fees push up power price鈥 An internal analysis by the federal grid agency reveals that the systemic costs of the Energiewende will push up grid fees, reports ...
  • 28 Jan 2016

    Government 'wants to kill wind engine' / Grid fees drive costs

    28 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Die Welt 鈥淕overnment wants to kill the engine鈥 Onshore wind power is the backbone of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, but government reform plans for the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act risk slowing down its ...
  • Germany needs new gas power plants to secure electricity supply 鈥 McKinsey

    06 Mar 2023, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Energiewende Security 麻豆无码版 Germany will have to build new gas-fired power plants and introduce additional measures to avoid electricity supply shortages during peak demand periods as the ...
  • 05 Dec 2022 |

    Germany considers hydrogen grid company with state stake 鈥 media report

    05 Dec 2022, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Welt am Sonntag The German government is considering setting up a company with state participation to oversee the establishment of a national hydrogen network as part of the country鈥檚 move to climate neutrality ...
  • 24 Aug 2017 |

    鈥淔armers want to earn more with the Energiewende鈥

    The Bavarian state government is a powerful supporter of German farmers鈥 demand to receive recurring compensation payments if power transmission lines are built on their premises, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The governing ...
  • 29 May 2018 |

    European Commission says German grid fee exemptions for large users in 2012-2013 against state aid rules

    Germany needs to recover millions of euros in illegal aid from certain large electricity users exempted from grid charges in Germany in 2012-2013 after the European Commission declared past regulation was against EU State aid rules. 鈥淔ully exempting ...
  • 鈥淩WE, Engie studying tie-up to create Franco-German energy giant鈥

    German utility RWE and French counterpart Engie are studying a possible share swap that could create a Franco-German giant in power grids, renewables and energy services with a market value of about 50 billion euros, report Arno Schuetze, Geert De Clercq ...
  • EU deal on power market rules and capacity mechanisms criticised for coal subsidies

    19 Dec 2018, 13:49 EU institutions have agreed on new rules for the internal electricity market, including capacity mechanisms, coal subsidies, cross-border power flows and access for more market actors who are free to set their own prices. The German ...
  • 08 Jun 2023 |

    Norway and northern German state agree on blue hydrogen supplies to scale up industry

    08 Jun 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Norway has said it can supply industry customers in northern Germany with so-called blue hydrogen to push the ramp-up of hydrogen infrastructure in Germany, Norwegian government ...
  • 02 Aug 2024

    Dispatch from Poland | August '24

    02 Aug 2024, 14:20 Six months after the new ruling coalition in Poland came to power, there are still no significant changes to the country鈥檚 energy policy. The government of Donald Tusk, however, is finally getting back to work on key laws for the energy ...
  • 03 Nov 2016 |

    鈥淕ermany and France defend grid access support for renewables鈥

    Germany and France jointly defend priority grid access for electricity generated from renewable sources, reports Politico. The European Commission, meanwhile, is considering removing priority dispatch ahead of power coming from fossil fuels. In a so ...
  • 27 Feb 2023 |

    Cooperation on renewables can increase India鈥檚 energy sovereignty, Scholz says at state visit

    27 Feb 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International 麻豆无码版 Closer cooperation with Germany on renewable power and other energy transition technologies could help India increase its energy sovereignty, chancellor Olaf Scholz has聽 said ...
  • 05 Jul 2018 |

    Biggest German gas grid operator sees role in renewable energy future

    05 Jul 2018, 13:29 The climate advantage of natural gas can contribute to immediate CO鈧 reduction by replacing coal and oil in the power sector and in heating, says J眉rgen Fuhlrott, Head of Business Development at 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest gas transmission grid ...
  • 鈥淪upply security reasons鈥 prevent power plant closure

    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 ...
  • 20 Apr 2023 |

    Heat pump owners benefit from rising number of power price rebates in Germany

    20 Apr 2023, 12:37 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Heating Tagesspiegel Background Due to a rapid rise in the number of reduced power tariffs reserved for heat pumps, their operating costs in Germany are currently up to a third lower than gas heating, ...
  • 19 Apr 2023 |

    麻豆无码版 industry wants to scrap 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 target of one million car charging points

    19 Apr 2023, 13:30 S枚ren Amelang Cars Utilities 麻豆无码版 / Die Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy industry wants to give up on the government target of installing one million charging points for electric cars in the country by 2030, but faces headwind from ...
  • 26 Jun 2015

    In the media: Vattenfall shelves resettlement of coal communities

    26 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Berliner Morgenpost /dpa 鈥淰attenfall stops resettlement plans near lignite mine in Nochten鈥 麻豆无码版 utility Vattenfall has stopped plans to resettle around 1700 people near its open cast lignite ...
  • 12 Aug 2016 |

    鈥淏UND also opposes underground power lines鈥

    Even though new power transmission lines in Bavaria are going to be buried underground, environmental organisation Friends of the Earth (BUND) is still opposing the grid expansion in the southern state, dpa writes. There was no need for new large power ...
  • 19 Oct 2020 |

    German consumers to pay more for gas in 2021

    19 Oct 2020, 12:57 Kerstine Appunn Gas Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Higher costs for gas infrastructure and the new CO2 price in the heating sector are set to increase gas costs for German households in 2021, consumer comparison site Verivox has ...
  • 26 Sep 2016 |

    鈥淣ext power price shock to hit consumers鈥

    The massive increase in grid fees announced by TenneT and other operators signals a new chapter in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. 鈥淎 new phase begins whereby capacity growth no longer takes centre stage, but the system ...
  • 02 Aug 2016 |

    Expansion of power network delayed and expensive

    The 800 km 鈥淪眉dlink鈥 cable from the North Sea to Baden-W眉rttemberg and the 500 km south-east connection between Saxony-Anhalt and Bavaria will both not be finished before 2025, Ulrich Milde writes in the Leipziger Volkszeitung. The grid operators have to ...
  • 07 Aug 2015

    In the media: New offshore planning solutions

    07 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Carl Morris 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 WirtschaftsWoche 鈥淕ood solution for new energy鈥 The German state could become responsible for offshore scoping and measuring activities if future wind parks in the sea are paid via a ...
  • 31 May 2023 |

    Municipal heating law reform takes important step forward in German govt coalition negotiations

    31 May 2023, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Policy dpa / n-tv The German government coalition has agreed on a draft law for reforming municipal heating regulation as part of a wider package to decarbonise the country鈥檚 heating sector, news agency dpa ...
  • Oil majors pay 鈧13-bln entry fee in 鈥渜uantum leap鈥 for offshore wind energy

    13 Jul 2023, 13:40 Oil majors BP and TotalEnergies pledged to pay a combined 12.6 billion euros for the right to build wind farms in the North and Baltic seas in the world鈥檚 largest ever offshore wind auction. Environmentalists hailed the result as a ...
  • 17 Aug 2023 |

    麻豆无码版 crisis price cap for gas and electricity led to desired effect, German govt says

    17 Aug 2023, 13:30 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG Business Expert VKU- German Association of Local ...
  • 01 Feb 2017 |

    Expanding 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power transmission grid could cost about 50 billion euros until 2030

    The cost of expanding 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power transmission grid onshore and in the Baltic and North Seas to adapt to the future power system brought on by the Energiewende could be between 50-52 billion euros until 2030, the country鈥檚 four transmission system ...
  • 麻豆无码版 minister rejects idea of changing fees and taxes on energy

    05 Jun 2018, 00:00 Germany's energy minister Peter Altmaier said there won't be any changes to fees on power and heat during his term, refuting the idea of a price for CO2 emissions floated by coalition partner SPD and the environment ministry. ...
  • Consumer organisation association calls for fairer distribution of Energiewende costs

    The Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) has called on the new German government to "reboot" financing of the energy transition. The costs of building up renewable capacity and updating the grid must be more fairly distributed, the ...
  • Germany pledges 鈧112 million for Kenya鈥檚 renewable and green hydrogen expansion

    12 Dec 2022, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Hydrogen International 麻豆无码版 Germany has pledged at least 112 million euros to support Kenya in implementing 鈥渋ts ambitious goal of switching entirely to renewable energy sources by 2030,鈥 the ...
  • 26 Jul 2017 |

    鈥溌槎刮蘼氚 industry attacks 鈥渃ost driver鈥 CSU鈥

    German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries (BDEW) head Stefan Kapferer warns that calls from the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) for recurring compensation payments to farmers if power transmission lines are built on their premises would make ...
  • 09 Feb 2015

    In the media: Nuclear power sector's chamber orchestra shuts down

    09 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online / 麻豆无码版 Brainpool / Fraunhofer IWES "This is what the power market of the future could look like" In order to incorporate fluctuating power from millions of small, decentralised producers, the ...
  • 26 Jul 2016

    Suggestion for decentralised flexibility mechanisms

    With the energy transition the amount of decentralised produced power and the number of distributed consumers is increasing which is putting pressure on the distribution grid, says the BNE, an association of independent energy suppliers and service firms. ...
  • 21 Feb 2018 |

    Planning of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grid must be aligned with Paris climate targets

    Germany's current power grid development plans for 2030 are not aligned with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, write the NGOs Environmental Action Germany (DUH), Germanwatch, and WWF in a joint press release. "Until now, none of the ...
  • 06 Apr 2023 |

    Windpower industry needs tens of thousands of new workers in Germany

    06 Apr 2023, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Wind Business & Jobs dpa / 麻豆无码版 Germany needs to increase its workforce in the windpower industry for the planned doubling of installed wind power capacity by 2030, industry association BWE聽 told news ...
  • 17 Oct 2016 |

    鈥淢ore expensive 鈥 yet again鈥

    The renewables surcharge rise is long since decoupled from the expansion of wind and solar power, and is rather a consequence of low wholesale power prices, writes Georg Ehring in an opinion piece for Deutschlandfunk. 鈥淭he price at the electricity ...
  • 04 Jul 2023 |

    Europe needs hydrogen market debate to ensure technology leadership 鈥 energy industry

    04 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Europe must debate a framework to ramp-up a hydrogen economy on the continent as a key element of its move towards climate neutrality, said German energy industry association BDEW. 鈥淭here ...
  • 05 Dec 2022 |
    Gas

    Germany needs fossil gas for more than a decade alongside renewables expansion 鈥 McKinsey

    05 Dec 2022, 13:55 Julian Wettengel Gas 麻豆无码版 Fossil gas will be a crucial part of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power and energy supply for at least another ten years, because the expansion of renewables and the electricity grid are lagging behind, said ...
  • 07 Apr 2017 |

    鈥淲hy offshore wind power becomes substantially cheaper鈥

    German offshore wind power costs are set to fall significantly, due to industrialisation of the sector, more efficient turbine construction, the switch from feed-in tariffs to auctions, and better coordination with grid operators, Olaf Preu脽 writes for ...
  • 06 Jan 2017 |

    Battery storage firm Younicos reports 2016 jump in new contracts

    German-American energy storage company Younicos says it landed contracts during 2016 to build systems able to hold 75 megawatts (MW) of electricity, which if completed would mean a 60 percent increase in systems either installed or under construction. The ...
  • 23 Jun 2016 |

    鈥淪iemens presents cost out strategy for offshore wind by 2025鈥

    German wind turbine manufacturer Siemens has announced that it will provide offshore wind farms capable of generating power at levelled costs of below 8 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) as of 2025. These costs would include the grid connection to the shore, ...
  • 04 Jul 2019 |

    German electricity supply security to stay very high even with coal exit 鈥 economy ministry

    04 Jul 2019, 12:45 Electricity supply in Germany is secure even as the country is phasing out coal-fired power generation, according to a monitoring report which sets new standards for supply security from the economy ministry. The report also changes the ...
  • 20 Mar 2017 |

    鈥淒ong 麻豆无码版 criticises German offshore expansion鈥

    The German head of Danish North Sea windpark operator Dong 麻豆无码版, Martin Neubert, told German press agency dpa that a discussion over expanding wind power by 700-800 megawatts per year is 鈥渋n the distant future,鈥 because infrastructure isn鈥檛 expanding ...
  • 28 Feb 2017 |

    Mining union: German power grid at the brink of a blackout

    The German power grid was on the brink of a blackout on the 24 th of January because of an extended period of little wind and cloudy skies, the Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries (IG BCE) warned in the Rheinische Post. 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 11 Oct 2023 |

    Agreement on EU power market reform imminent, Scholz and Macron say, shrugging off nuclear dispute

    11 Oct 2023, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU 麻豆无码版 France and Germany could soon agree on a reform of the EU electricity market, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz have said after their meeting in ...
  • 23 Nov 2016 |

    Grid fees: increasing disparities鈥

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid fees on average will increase in 2017, but regional disparities and those based on the consumption volume will grow, according to a short analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende.* Consumers in rural areas with strong renewables ...
  • 30 Oct 2017 |

    鈥淕overnment plans speedy reform of the power market鈥

    The acting German government is planning a quick reform of the power market even before the new government coalition is formed, Andreas Mihm writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The reason is concerns that the EU might force German transmission ...
  • 19 Feb 2019 |

    Researchers use eggshells in energy storage device

    19 Feb 2019, 13:39 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Technology 麻豆无码版 Discarded chicken eggshells can be used in electro-chemical energy storage systems, an international group of researchers has found. Maximilian Fichtner from the ...
  • 06 Mar 2018 |

    Combination of renewable sources can stabilise weather-related power production

    The combined used of onshore and offshore wind power, solar power and a European power network can significantly can stabilise weather-related power production during periods of little wind and sunshine, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 National Meteorological Service (DWD) ...
  • 24 Aug 2021 |

    People in rural areas feel the CO2 price already, now we have to help them adapt- Saathoff (SPD)

    24 Aug 2021, 13:01 The Social Democrats- emerging from a legislative period with a 鈥済reat deal of dissent鈥 in energy policy with its conservative coalition partner- are hoping to find new partners and new ways to drive forward the expansion of renewable ...
  • German research ministry plans to boost nuclear fusion development

    23 Jun 2023, 13:13 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Technology 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 research ministry, which is led by the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), wants to accelerate research into nuclear fusion with a new funding programme. 鈥淭he energy ...
  • 19 Oct 2015

    In the media: Germany as a future power model?

    19 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 National Geographic 鈥淕ermany Could Be a Model for How We鈥檒l Get Power in the Future鈥 In a long feature for National Geographic, Robert Kunzig takes an in-depth look at the 鈥渆pochal transformation鈥 ...
  • 30 Mar 2020 |

    Average price in German solar tender falls slightly to 5.18 cents/kWh

    30 Mar 2020, 14:11 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
  • 29 Jun 2016 |

    鈥淧辞飞别谤 remains expensive for the consumer鈥

    The cost of electricity for final consumers remained high in the first half of 2016 as most suppliers raised their tariffs despite low wholesale power prices, writes dpa-AFX. One reason was the expensive grid expansion needed for the renewables ...
  • 20 Jan 2023 |

    Data centres in Frankfurt to provide excess heat to district network

    20 Jan 2023, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 麻豆无码版 Data centres could provide excess heat to Frankfurt鈥檚 district heating network, energy provider Mainova and data centre operator Interxion announced after signing a memorandum of understanding ...
  • 01 Feb 2018 |

    German electricity supply security remains very high 鈥 economy ministry

    The security of electricity supply in Germany continues to be at a high level, also thanks to the integration of the country鈥檚 power grid with neighbouring countries, writes the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (BMWi) in a press release. A ...
  • 27 Sep 2016 |

    鈥淧辞飞别谤 autobahn to be significantly more expensive鈥

    Planned power lines to link renewable production in windy north-eastern Germany to demand in the country鈥檚 industrial south are likely to cost three times the 4 billion euros originally projected, writes Christian Sebald in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Public ...
  • 24 Mar 2020 |

    German 2030 climate target only achievable with 'course correction' 鈥 consultancy

    24 Mar 2020, 14:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2030 emissions targets can only be achieved if the country "substantially" changes track and carries out "enormous efforts" to electrify its ...
  • 16 Mar 2017 |

    鈥淭ransmission highways above ground after all?鈥

    Parts of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity transmission highway dubbed Suedostlink, running from the windy north to industrial centres in the south, could be constructed above the ground- contrary to earlier planning, Marko Jeschor writes in Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. ...
  • 20 Mar 2020 |

    Researchers' hydrogen road map expects 50 to 80 GW capacity in Germany by 2050

    20 Mar 2020, 13:55 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar 麻豆无码版 Systems Renewables Solar Expert Fraunhofer ISI Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewables Freja Eriksen Gas ...
  • 01 Dec 2016 |

    鈥淢arket power of large utilities has decreased significantly鈥

    The market power of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 four large electricity suppliers has decreased significantly over the past years, according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and the Federal Cartel Office鈥檚 Monitoring Report 2016 on the developments in the German ...
  • 02 May 2023 |

    麻豆无码版 costs for German households drop nearly one third since peak of energy crisis

    02 May 2023, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 By April, household energy costs in Germany had dropped nearly one third in the six months since the peak of the energy crisis, an聽 analysis 聽by price comparison website Verivox has ...
  • 07 Jan 2019 |

    Performance of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy minister Altmaier disappoints industry

    07 Jan 2019, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Politics WirtschaftsWoche 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has disappointed many observers with 聽what they consider an 鈥渆rratic and sluggish鈥 administration of his department, ...
  • 06 Sep 2016 |

    鈥淥pposition at the electricity frontier鈥

    German grid operator 50Hertz is installing phase shifters to stop excess electricity from spilling over into neighbouring countries like Poland, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Electricity current normally takes the path of least ...
  • 24 Feb 2017 |

    鈥淪outhern Germany needs new gas plants鈥

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 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 ...
  • 25 Aug 2022 |

    Germany plans to increase biogas production to substitute Russian imports

    25 Aug 2022, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Bioenergy 麻豆无码版 Germany is betting on more biogas production in order to save natural gas with a view to possible shortages during the winter. The government will remove regulatory hurdles to an increase of ...
  • 22 Aug 2016 |

    鈥淲hen wind turbines are simply switched off鈥

    The lack of flexibility in conventional power plants is a 鈥渒ey problem of the Energiewende鈥, writes Jakob Schlandt in Hamburger Abendblatt. While conventional plants continue to run at times of grid congestion, 鈥渨hole wind parks are being switched off ...
  • 20 Feb 2017 |

    SuedLink: 鈥淢ake every effort鈥 to start operations in 2025

    The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) wants to 鈥渕ake every effort鈥 to complete three direct current high-voltage power lines connecting 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 windy north with the power-hungry south by 2025, the agency says in its 2016 fourth quarter grid development ...
  • Germany considers subsidising offshore wind electricity for industry users

    09 Jan 2023, 14:28 Julian Wettengel Wind Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German economy ministry is working on a proposal to subsidise offshore electricity for industry customers through an auction scheme in order to shield companies against ...
  • 30 Jan 2017 |

    鈥淟essons from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 aggressive path to integrate renewables on the grid

    The challenges that the US state of Ohio will face with its power grid will be similar to those that Germany is dealing with today, a situation that could provide some lessons learned, writes Kathiann Kowalski for US non-profit news site Midwest 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 14 Oct 2021 |

    Onshore wind energy continues slow recovery in Germany with more bids in latest tender

    14 Oct 2021, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Renewables 麻豆无码版 For the first time since December 2020, an onshore wind power auction was oversubscribed in Germany. Developers submitted 210 bids totalling 1,824megawatt (MW) for the tender volume of 1,492 ...
  • 24 Apr 2023 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 south faces hydrogen supply bottleneck as H2 economy takes shape 鈥 consultancy

    24 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 As 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 hydrogen (H2) economy takes shape, a double supply gap is emerging in the country鈥檚 south, a report by consultancy PWC found. While the north is well positioned, the country鈥檚 ...
  • Vote25: Keeping homes affordable while making them climate-friendly is next German govt's big challenge

    23 Jan 2025, 10:30 Making German homes less climate-damaging and keeping them affordable for residents at the same time will be a central task for the country's next government. The heated controversy over a phaseout law for oil and gas boilers is ...
  • 麻豆无码版 minister: 鈥渟pecial auctions鈥 not part of current reform draft

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 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 ...
  • Government must act now to ensure sufficient secure power capacity in 2020s 鈥 BDEW analysis

    Germany is quickly reducing its conventional power capacities, risking a lack of secure capacity by 2023 at the latest, says the energy industry association BDEW in an analysis of the country鈥檚 power plants. Germany currently has power overcapacities. The ...
  • 26 Sep 2017 |

    鈥淗ow to make a capital smart鈥

    The EUREF-Campus in the German capital Berlin has become a showcase for efficient energy use, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The campus combines existing technologies with a software that analyses weather data and regulates the use of ...
  • 18 Feb 2020 |

    Germany to promote EU maritime strategy including shore power

    18 Feb 2020, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry 麻豆无码版 Germany's government plans to use the country's EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020 to advocate a common European maritime economy strategy aimed at strengthening the ...
  • 10 Jan 2017 |

    German companies call for investments in transmission grids

    Germany should use its public budget surplus for preventative investments in transmission grids, transportation infrastructure and other areas, the Federation of German Industries (BDI) writes in a press release. Investments that could 鈥減repare for hard ...
  • 13 Jul 2016 |

    鈥湷冶鸢静共圆忖檚 renewable revolution awaits energy forecast鈥

    To be able to avoid high re-dispatch costs for grid stabilisation, German researchers are testing a new system to better predict power generation of wind and solar PV parks, writes the science journal nature. With the research project EWeLiNE, Fraunhofer ...
  • 12 Mar 2018 |

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

    12 Mar 2018, 00:00 In a deal that could drastically re-shape Germany's power sector, RWE and E.ON have agreed to split RWE subsidiary innogy and focus each on different parts of the business. E.ON will largely be in charge of distribution grids while ...
  • 07 Oct 2016 |

    鈥淧辞飞别谤 from your neighbour or from your e-mail provider?鈥

    Several German start-ups prepare to revolutionise the national energy market, writes Helmut B眉nder in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淲e鈥檒l get rid of established suppliers鈥 for instance is the slogan of Sonnen GmbH, a high-tech company from the German ...
  • 06 Aug 2018 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables surcharge to remain stable in 2019 鈥 think tank

    The surcharge German power customers pay with their power bill to finance the expansion of renewable energy is going to remain largely stable next year, according to calculations made by the energy policy think tank Agora Energiewende*. The renewables ...
  • 27 Oct 2022 |

    Continued use of third German nuclear plant 鈥渙f little benefit鈥 to energy crisis 鈥 consultancy

    27 Oct 2022, 13:19 Jessica Bateman Nuclear phase-out 麻豆无码版 The Emsland nucelar power plant in northern Germany can only make a minimal contribution to gas savings and energy price reduction, a report by analysis company 麻豆无码版 Brainpool ...
  • 22 Mar 2018 |

    Protests against 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned SuedLink power transmission line continue

    Protests continue against 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned SuedLink power transmission line, the news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. Guntram Ziepel of the national association of citizen initiatives against SuedLink says his organisation 鈥 ...
  • 17 May 2024 |

    Dispatch from France

    17 May 2024, 15:00 Just as France is marking the biggest drop in its greenhouse gas emissions in almost a decade, the debate about the country鈥檚 future energy policy continues in full swing. This applies to almost all sectors of the economy 鈥 and the ...
  • Coalition collapse: Tracking the path to Germany's snap elections

    23 Feb 2025, 20:20 Germany's coalition government collapsed聽in November 2024 due to internal disputes over budget and economic policy. The country now gears up for snap elections in early 2025, against the backdrop of a flagging economy, the war in ...
  • 17 Apr 2023 |

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

    17 Apr 2023, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Policy The age of nuclear power in Germany ended on Saturday (15 April) after more than 60 years with the decommissioning of the country鈥檚 three remaining reactors. Operators said the switch-off happened ...
  • 01 Aug 2017 |

    鈥淗ow difficult grid expansion is going to be鈥

    Placing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned power transmission lines below ground will require a massive material and political effort, Andreas Macho writes in WirtschaftsWoche. The exact location of the two transmission lines SuedLink and SuedOstLink, which are supposed ...
  • 29 Apr 2016

    Volkswagen's new clean image / 'Wind turbines are standing still'

    29 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 VW / Handelsblatt 鈥淲e plan to make electric cars one of Volkswagen鈥檚 new hallmarks鈥 German carmaker Volkswagen wants to be at the forefront of big changes in the auto industry, in ...
  • 30 Nov 2016 |

    "An energy package for Europe"

    The EU Commission鈥檚 new energy package is likely to meet resistance from some member states and energy industry players, writes Thorsten Knuf in Frankfurter Rundschau. EU energy commissioner Miguel Arias Canete called the聽package a 鈥渦nique opportunity to ...
  • 21 Oct 2022 |

    Spain鈥檚 turnaround on Pyrenees gas pipeline project upsets 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 supply plans

    21 Oct 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The announcement by Spain, Portugal and France to pull the plug on the MidCat gas pipeline project across the Pyrenees comes as a 鈥渄isappointment鈥 for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government, which had hoped to ...
  • 22 Feb 2023 |

    Germany eyes state aid to boost domestic production of solar and wind technologies

    22 Feb 2023, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Better financing, hedging tools and support for innovation are needed to strengthen the production of energy transition technologies in Germany and Europe, economy ...
  • Coalition treaty grasps challenges, lacks detail- Energiewende expert

    09 Feb 2018, 00:00 The provisions on climate, energy, and transport in the coalition treaty agreed by Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) recognise the big challenges of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition project, but ...
  • 05 May 2017 |

    鈥淗amster on the transmission highway鈥

    The first so-called 鈥渕otion conference鈥 for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned power transmission highways, dubbed SuedLink and SuedOstLink, has allowed a glimpse into the difficulties that lie ahead for the 2,000-kilometre long project鈥檚 implementation, Jens Tartler ...
  • Germany launches dialogue platform to prepare comprehensive electricity market reform

    20 Feb 2023, 16:47 On the path to a climate neutral electricity system that is largely covered by renewable sources, Germany is planning a reform to its electricity market. Inaugurating the 鈥楥limate Neutral Electricity System Platform鈥, the economy and ...
  • 21 Oct 2016 |

    鈥淔or European wind industry, offshore projects are booming鈥

    The European offshore wind industry is booming, but lagging grid expansion and a lack of major storage sites could hold back further rapid expansion of the sector, writes Christian Schw盲gerl for Yale Environment 360. The problem of too little progress in ...
  • 06 Feb 2024 |

    Germany to hold tenders for new gas power plants 鈥渟oon鈥, promises capacity mechanism

    06 Feb 2024, 09:42 Germany is set to hold auctions to support the construction of new gas-fired power plants in the short term, which would then be converted to run on hydrogen in the mid-to-late 2030s, the ruling coalition said. The plants are considered ...
  • 28 Oct 2016 |

    German regulator announces preparations to terminate common power zone with Austria

    Germany plans to split the common power price zone with its neighbour Austria in July 2018, according to a press release by the federal economy ministry (BMWi). This did not mean a split of the countries' power markets, said state secretary Rainer ...
  • 15 Dec 2016 |

    鈥淓astern federal states insist on standardising grid 蹿别别蝉鈥

    Eastern German state premiers are urging the federal government to agree quickly on planned legislation to standardise electricity grid fees across the country, writes Albert Funk in Der Tagesspiegel. In a letter to the Chief of the German Chancellery ...
  • 30 Aug 2024 |

    Dispatch from Italy | August '24

    30 Aug 2024, 14:17 As Europe鈥檚 most intense heatwave in recent years finally comes to an end, following at least 35 days of well-above average temperatures, life in Italy has slowed into the summer break. In mid-August, the entire country grinds to a halt ...
  • 29 Aug 2022 |

    Bavaria will build 1,000 new wind turbines- state premier

    29 Aug 2022, 13:20 Hannah Naylor Wind ZDF Bavarian state premier Markus S枚der has announced plans to build 鈥渙ver 1,000 new wind turbines鈥 in Germany's largest state, which has been accused of putting the brakes on the expansion of windpower. Bavaria ...
  • 12 Jan 2018 |

    Power-saving households 鈥減unished鈥 with higher costs

    German households that reduce their power consumption are being 鈥減unished鈥 by paying relatively more for every unit they use, energy think tank Agora Energiewende* says in a press release. "Poor or聽 thrifty power consumers are faring comparatively ...
  • 03 Feb 2015

    In the media: Bavaria balks at controversial grid decision

    03 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淏avaria does not need two grid extensions鈥 The southern German state of Bavaria, one of the country鈥檚 industrial powerhouses, has completed a three-month 鈥溌槎刮蘼氚 Dialogue鈥 ...
  • 12 Apr 2022 |

    Q&A: How can renewables enable Germany's energy independence push?

    12 Apr 2022, 09:53 Russia鈥檚 attack on Ukraine has added a new dimension to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ambitious aims for ramping up the share of renewables in its energy system. Marking a 鈥 historic turning point,鈥 the fast elimination of fossil fuel imports for Germany ...
  • 26 Jul 2024

    Dispatch from Germany | July 2024

    26 Jul 2024, 11:43 German ministers and lawmakers, just like most of their peers across the European Union, are heading into the parliaments鈥 summer 2024 recess and some time off. However, there are exceptions: three eastern German federal states will ...
  • 16 May 2023 |

    Hydrogen heating 鈥渟ham鈥 solution, NGOs, unions, trade groups warn

    16 May 2023, 13:47 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen Heating Zeit Online 鈥淗ydrogen-ready鈥 gas boilers are nothing but window dressing because they delay effective climate action, are unlikely to be ever powered by renewable gas, and could end up being very expensive ...
  • 24 Jun 2022 |

    Germany triggers second alert stage of three step-emergency gas plan

    24 Jun 2022, 14:08 The German government has launched the second of a total of three escalation stages of its national gas supply security plan, which was drawn up in reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After triggering the first "early ...
  • Wind development has to wait for grid expansion

    02 Jun 2016, 00:00 The latest reform of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable energy law is taking shape 鈥 on Tuesday the federal government and the heads of the 16 states reached an agreement on essential aspects of a reformed bill, such as the amount of onshore wind and ...
  • 28 Oct 2021 |
    Gas

    Scholz says Germany needs new gas plants as EU edges closer to taxonomy decision

    28 Oct 2021, 13:37 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Gas 麻豆无码版 / EurActiv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chancellor-in-waiting Olaf Scholz (SPD) has re-iterated that the country must build new gas-fired power plants to complement renewables and guarantee ...
  • 03 Feb 2023 |

    German solar power capacity in 2022 sees fast growth, still well below target

    03 Feb 2023, 13:36 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 麻豆无码版 Solar PV expansion in Germany jumped ...
  • 28 Sep 2022 |

    Local activists protest German LNG infrastructure plans over environmental concerns

    28 Sep 2022, 13:53 Jessica Bateman Gas Society S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Local activists in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein are protesting the government鈥檚 liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure construction plans, newspaper S眉ddeutsche ...
  • 10 May 2023 |
    Gas

    Policy push needed for resilient energy system with green gas 鈥 gas industry

    10 May 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Gas 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system will need 鈥榞reen鈥 gas to become climate neutral, but government must set the right framework conditions to ensure the ramp-up of the hydrogen economy, said several gas ...
  • 20 Jul 2016 |

    Offshore wind energy development in Germany 2016

    Deutsche WindGuard has published offshore wind statistics for the first six months of 2016. 聽Compared to the first half of 2015, less offshore wind turbines (OWT) were added to the grid. Forty-three OWT with a capacity of 258 megawatt (MW) first fed into ...
  • Call for clear legal definition of power storage devices to push expansion

    Power storage devices need a clearer legal definition in German law to create a better investment environment for the industry, BSW Solar says in a press release. 鈥淢any disputes and uncertainties stem from the fact that storages sometimes count as ...
  • 15 Jun 2022 |

    Gazprom announcement to reduce Nord Stream gas flows "political decision"- econ min

    15 Jun 2022, 13:00 Gas flows from Russia to Germany through the key Nord Stream 1 pipeline will be drastically reduced for an unspecified period, state-owned Russian gas provider Gazprom has announced. The company said that German engineering company ...
  • 02 Sep 2019 |

    Economy minister aims to lower German electricity prices as industry moans

    02 Sep 2019, 13:08 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices dpa Economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said he aims to lower German electricity prices in the country's climate cabinet, where聽 key decisions 聽on German climate action legislation ...
  • 04 Jul 2016 |

    鈥淪poiled by the wind鈥

    States like Lower Saxony are pushing for more wind power development even though the grid connections to transport the green power are lacking, Der Spiegel writes. There are no incentives for the state government to accelerate the construction of new ...
  • 15 Dec 2023 |

    Green Deal 2.0 must trigger investments in European industry and infrastructure 鈥 EU lawmaker

    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 ...
  • 04 Aug 2020 |

    Germany launches tenders to phase out hard coal plants

    04 Aug 2020, 14:50 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Coal 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) ...
  • 13 Mar 2017 |

    鈥淏order dispute lays bare 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 fragile electricity infrastructure鈥

    The dispute about the decision to split the German-Austrian common power price zone shows the difficulties of designing a common EU energy market in light of missing grid infrastructure, writes Paul Hodgson for EurActiv. Trans-border power trade, as well ...
  • 30 Dec 2015

    Municipal utilities under pressure / PV support stable

    30 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淕overnment puts pressure on municipal utilities鈥 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 municipal utilities have criticised the federal government鈥檚 plans for digitalising the Energiewende and its ...
  • 24 Mar 2020 |

    German wind power industry welcomes deadline extensions as corona impact sets in

    24 Mar 2020, 14:34 Expert BWE- German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
  • 10 Nov 2015

    Germany's renewables prospects / E.ON's "historic loss"

    10 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 International Renewable 麻豆无码版 Agency (IRENA) Renewable 麻豆无码版 Prospects: Germany A new IRENA report 鈥淩enewable 麻豆无码版 Prospects Germany鈥 examines the country鈥檚 energy transition in the last ...
  • 03 May 2023 |
    Gas

    Government postpones decision on disputed LNG terminal off 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Baltic coast

    03 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas Table.Media / Spiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has postponed a decision to include a planned new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal off the coast of the Baltic Sea island of R眉gen in the country鈥檚 LNG ...
  • France and Germany agree closer cooperation on strategic energy transition technologies

    23 Nov 2022, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang Storage Hydrogen International EU 麻豆无码版 France and Germany plan to intensify cooperation on strategically important energy transition technologies, including battery cell production and green hydrogen. ...
  • 17 Mar 2020 |

    麻豆无码版 and industry companies team up to launch Germany's first hydrogen network

    17 Mar 2020, 14:28 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Industry 麻豆无码版 Germany's largest energy company RWE, together with oil company BP, chemicals producer Evonik and gas ...
  • 02 May 2019 |

    Germany says Switzerland鈥檚 mountains could help stabilise EU power supply

    02 May 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Technology 麻豆无码版 Germany is interested in finding an agreement with neighbouring Switzerland on how the Alpine country could contribute to German and European power supply security, the German ...
  • 02 May 2017 |

    鈥淭ransmission highway SuedLink enters next stage鈥

    The preparation procedure for building 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 high-voltage transmission highway SuedLink has entered a crucial stage, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. Following submission of the sectoral planning application for SuedLink鈥檚 ...
  • 28 Apr 2023 |

    Estimates on hydrogen needs for decarbonising chemical industry vary widely 鈥 science academy

    28 Apr 2023, 13:17 S枚ren Amelang Industry 麻豆无码版 Existing estimates on how much green hydrogen 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chemical industry will need to decarbonise vary widely, according to a meta-analysis by the country鈥檚 science academy acatech and DECHEMA, ...
  • 07 Oct 2019 |

    Legal loophole allowed German companies to avoid paying billions in renewables support 鈥 media

    07 Oct 2019, 14:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Der Spiegel Hundreds of companies may have used a loophole in Germany's Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act to avoid paying their share of the country's renewables support- and passed on the energy ...
  • 06 May 2025 |

    Tracking the making of Germany's new government

    06 May 2025, 13:00 Germans cast their vote in the country's federal election on 23 February. Conservative CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz is set to become the next chancellor and will now lead the formal coalition negotiations with the Social Democrats ...
  • 17 Jul 2019 |

    German offshore wind industry demands increase of expansion targets

    17 Jul 2019, 12:47 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert WindGuard Deutsche WindGuard Renewables Julian Wettengel Wind Deutsche WindGuard / VDMA German offshore ...
  • 11 Apr 2017 |

    Influence of negative power prices on power plant operators often very limited

    Many operators of nuclear, gas or coal-fired power plants in Germany do not throttle feed-in at times of 鈥 negative power prices,鈥 the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) has said in a press release. Although operators of conventional plants have to pay for ...
  • 29 Jan 2015

    In the media: Germany's silicon valley of renewables, onshore wind power record

    29 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Rundschau Minister sees Bavaria as showcase for the Energiewende Bavarian economy minister Ilse Aigner says that far from blocking the energy transition, her state is a driver of the ...
  • 17 Aug 2023 |

    German government weakens renewables targets in municipal heating plans

    17 Aug 2023, 14:02 S枚ren Amelang Heating 麻豆无码版 / Table.Media 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government has agreed on a draft law requiring municipalities to submit plans for the transition to climate-neutral heating, but has softened interim targets for ...
  • 12 Jul 2016 |

    Green energy account with surplus of more than 3.5 billion euros in June

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 鈥榞reen energy account鈥 had a surplus of 3,688,937,633.01 euros in June 2016, according to new figures published by the four transmission grid operators (TSOs). This is about 500 million euros less than in June 2015. The TSOs provide a balance of ...
  • 13 Jan 2023 |

    Consultancy says Germany must invest 鈧900bn in 15 years for switch to renewables

    13 Jan 2023, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 For the comprehensive electrification of sectors like heating and road transport, Germany must massively expand renewables and update its energy infrastructure with investments of 900 ...
  • 11 Jan 2023 |

    Germany relaunches smart meter rollout

    11 Jan 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Technology 麻豆无码版 The German government cabinet has adopted draft legislation to accelerate the sluggish introduction of smart meters in the country. Economy minister Robert Habeck called it an important step ...
  • 03 Jul 2019 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 KfW Bank rules out financing of any coal operations

    03 Jul 2019, 14:20 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency S枚ren Amelang Coal Finance International 麻豆无码版 German government-owned business and development bank KfW stops financing all coal ...
  • 21 Aug 2017 |

    鈥淭he electric illusion鈥

    The diesel emissions fraud scandal has given impetus to calls for a swift transition to electric cars in Germany, but despite great technological progress, the technology continues to be too expensive and impractical to replace conventional cars, ...
  • 11 Oct 2016 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables surcharge to rise less than expected- report

    11 Oct 2016, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 consumer surcharge to fund renewable electricity will rise to a record high in 2017, but less than experts predicted, according to a report by German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Grid operators will officially ...
  • EU approves E.ON takeover of innogy assets, subject to conditions

    17 Sep 2019, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Electricity market Utilities 麻豆无码版 The European Commission has approved ...
  • 05 Jan 2018 |

    Fossil power plants more flexible than previously assumed

    Fossil power plants can react much more flexibly to large feed-ins of power from renewables than studies have indicated, writes Jakob Schlandt in an article in Tagesspiegel Background Energie & Klima. The newspaper's calculations showed that the ...
  • 06 Oct 2020 |

    Industry heavyweight Viessmann pushes for controversial hydrogen use in heating

    06 Oct 2020, 13:16 Expert BEE- German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Hydrogen Heating Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Clean ...
  • 06 Jan 2023 |

    Cruise ships in Europe switch to diesel from LNG due to high costs

    06 Jan 2023, 13:13 S枚ren Amelang Transport dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung An increasing number of cruise ships have switched their propellant from liquefied natural gas (LNG) to diesel fuel because of high LNG prices,聽 reports 聽newswire dpa in an article ...
  • 02 Mar 2023 |

    Lack of interest in German PV and wind tenders 'painful aftermath' of energy crisis- industry

    02 Mar 2023, 14:06 Expert BWE- German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
  • 23 Nov 2016 |

    鈥淲hy haven鈥檛 CEE policy makers embraced the Energiewende?鈥

    Many Central and Eastern European countries have reacted extremely sceptical to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, but they have been proven wrong, writes Jan Ondrich in a blog post on energytransition.de. 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid remains one of the most stable in Europe ...
  • Slowdown in wind power expansion could signal end to Germany's 鈥済reen fairy tale鈥 鈥 commentary

    02 Sep 2019, 13:13 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Renewables Wind S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany's "green fairy tale is in danger" as wind power expansion in the country has almost come to a "complete standstill,"聽 writes Michael ...
  • Germany lags other European countries in new PPA projects 鈥 report

    30 Jan 2020, 13:55 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Renewables 麻豆无码版 The volume of new renewable energy projects backed by a purchase power agreement (PPA) in Germany trails that of other European countries, according to a report by energy ...
  • 03 Jun 2020 |

    Pandemic fails to slow Germany's rollout of solar PV- report

    03 Jun 2020, 13:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Solar pv magazine The coronavirus crisis ...
  • 28 Aug 2019 |

    German energy company Sonnen partners on virtual power plant in US

    28 Aug 2019, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Storage Business Wire Bavarian energy storage group Sonnen is building a virtual power plant from private storage systems as part of a joint project with US energy supplier Rocky Mountain Power and the Wasatch ...
  • Batteries cut Energiewende costs, spell utility trouble- researcher

    27 Aug 2018, 14:30 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 current boom in residential solar batteries has profound effects on the Energiewende (energy transition), says Kai-Philipp Kairies, director of technical consulting at RWTH Aachen University, one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest technical ...
  • 24 Nov 2017 |

    EU urges Germany to make progress on key transmission lines

    The European Commission pressures Germany to make progress on expanding its power transmission grid and the important north-south SuedLink and SuedOstLink power lines, Michael Bauchm眉ller and Thomas Kirchner write in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The 700 ...
  • 18 Aug 2022 |

    Higher gas use in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power generation highlights obstacles to savings

    18 Aug 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Gas n-tv Power production with natural gas increased in Germany in May and July despite political pledges to minimise the fossil fuel鈥檚 use amid the supply crunch caused by Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine, news ...
  • 05 May 2017 |

    Wind power course at stake in election in "cradle of Energiewende"

    05 May 2017, 00:00 Nicknamed the 鈥渃radle of the Energiewende鈥 by its own government, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein, embodies some of the most pressing challenges and solutions to the country鈥檚 energy turnaround. With their decision in ...
  • 06 Nov 2017 |

    Munich votes for coal exit

    Citizens of Munich have voted to shut down the city鈥檚 single largest source of CO 2 emissions ahead of schedule, klimaretter.info reports. Around 60 percent voted in favour of close the Munich Nord heating plant by 2022, instead of 2035 as planned by the ...
  • 20 May 2016

    Wind to beat nuclear for the first time / States criticise Climate Action Plan

    20 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Institute for Renewable 麻豆无码版 (IWR) 鈥淲ind power overtakes nuclear energy for first time in Germany鈥 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 wind turbines will generate more electricity this year than nuclear ...
  • 25 Mar 2015

    In the media: Study- Germany must exit brown coal to achieve climate goals

    25 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Institute for Applied Ecology / Friends of the Earth Germany Exit from lignite possible by 2030 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national and regional climate goals imply that lignite mining will have to stop much ...
  • 07 Aug 2019 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 foray into home batteries pushes market to tipping point 鈥 report

    07 Aug 2019, 13:51 S枚ren Amelang Storage 麻豆无码版 The rapid spread of home batteries in Germany has brought the European residential storage market to an economic tipping point, according to a report by energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie. 鈥淕ermany ...
  • 22 Dec 2022 |

    German Greens' leader says climate activists' impatience "partly justified"

    22 Dec 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza Society Government S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German Green Party co-leader Ricarda Lang has welcomed criticism from climate activists about the government coalition's climate policies in its first year in office, saying their ...
  • 'Carrots and sticks' needed to heat homes cleanly 鈥 energy analyst

    21 Jul 2023, 11:27 Switching to climate-friendly heating to keep homes warm requires both subsidies for clean technologies and restrictions on dirty ones, says Duncan Gibb, senior advisor at climate think tank Regulatory Assistance Project and founder of ...
  • 26 Aug 2020 |

    AI can advance energy transition, but must be sustainable 鈥 energy agency

    26 Aug 2020, 12:26 Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency S枚ren Amelang Digitalisation 麻豆无码版 Artificial intelligence (AI) has started to arrive in some areas ...
  • 01 Jun 2016

    Agreement on renewables reform / Utilities' nuclear liability

    01 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Federal government 鈥淔ederal and state governments agree on key points of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act reform鈥 State premiers and the federal government have agreed on ...
  • 14 Oct 2022 |

    Germany continues coal exit auctions amid energy crisis

    14 Oct 2022, 13:56 Julian Wettengel Coal 麻豆无码版 The sixth tender for early shutdowns of hard coal plants in Germany was undersubscribed and only one plant was successful, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. As part of its plan to end ...
  • 15 Dec 2022 |

    Cold snap drains German gas storages one percent in a single day

    15 Dec 2022, 13:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security ZDF The cold snap that has gripped large parts ...
  • 12 Oct 2022 |

    One third of German companies have emergency plan for energy shortage 鈥 survey

    12 Oct 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Security 麻豆无码版 Only just under one-third of German companies have an emergency plan in place in the event of an energy shortage, but their responses vary widely depending on the business ...
  • 02 Jul 2019 |

    Solar PV single largest source of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 net power production in June

    02 Jul 2019, 14:09 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar 麻豆无码版 Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 麻豆无码版 For the first time, solar energy topped the list of sources for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 net public electricity ...
  • 06 Feb 2023 |

    Low investment volumes leave 600-billion-euro gap for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition 鈥 report

    06 Feb 2023, 13:26 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 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices Clean 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 12 Dec 2022 |

    Germany sets renewable power record in 2022, but is off-track for 2030 target

    12 Dec 2022, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Renewables 麻豆无码版 Germany is set to produce a record 256 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity from renewable sources this year, but the amount is still insufficient to put it on track to its 2030 targets, ...
  • 15 Oct 2018 |

    Renewables surcharge set to fall by six percent in 2019

    15 Oct 2018, 14:44 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable energy surcharge that is paid by consumers with their electricity bill and supports wind, solar, biomass and hydro power installations, is to fall by 5.7 percent in 2019, transmission grid operators have calculated. ...
  • 04 Feb 2016

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

    04 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Decision on e-car support postponed The German government has postponed the decision about how to boost e-cars until March after a high-level meeting with ...
  • 10 Sep 2019 |

    Rising basic costs disadvantage Germans who save power

    10 Sep 2019, 14:08 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Electricity prices have risen particularly high for Germans with a low level of consumption due to a rise in basic costs of 30 percent from 2014 to 2019, according to an analysis by ...
  • 01 Mar 2019 |

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

    01 Mar 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The merger of German energy company E.ON with parts of utility RWE will not make it too dominant on the country鈥檚 energy market, E.ON CEO Johannes Teyssen ...
  • 12 Dec 2017

    鈥淭oo much wind can be a problem too鈥

    The fact that offshore wind turbines produce more power than previously thought is good news in the long run but might currently rather lead to more problems, Jens Heitmann writes in an opinion piece for the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淚f the ...
  • 25 May 2016

    Germany urged to end coal financing / 'Save the Energiewende' protests

    25 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Reuters Campaigners urge Germany to stop financing coal projects abroad Environmental groups urged G7 nations led by Japan and Germany to stop financing coal projects abroad, reports ...
  • 30 Nov 2022 |

    NGO calls for making use of plug-in solar "balcony power plants" simpler for German households

    30 Nov 2022, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Solar 麻豆无码版 A 鈥渞adical simplification鈥 in the registration, installation and commissioning of plug-in solar units is needed in Germany to involve more homeowners and tenants to ...
  • 14 Dec 2022 |

    German grid regulator to take into account company saving efforts in case of gas rationing

    14 Dec 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 In preparation for a possible 鈥 if unlikely 鈥 severe shortage of natural gas supply during winter, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has decided it will take into account ...
  • 17 Mar 2023 |

    Transition state of play 鈥 Germany is emerging from the energy crisis

    17 Mar 2023, 14:25 A year after the launch of Russia's attack on Ukraine, Germany appears to be emerging from the energy crisis relatively unscathed. Russia鈥檚 war has dealt a heavy blow to Europe鈥檚 biggest economy, because it was particularly ...
  • 19 Apr 2022 |
    Gas

    Finance ministry approves 鈧3 billion for floating LNG terminals

    19 Apr 2022, 13:37 Kerstine Appunn Gas Handelsblatt The German finance ministry has approved the spending of up to three billion euros from the budget to finance floating terminals for liquified natural gas (LNG) in German ports. With the signing of the ...
  • 17 Aug 2015

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

    17 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 dpa / S眉ddeutsche.de 鈥淩aid on Garzweiler鈥 Hundreds of activists entered the open cast lignite mine of Garzweiler, in North-Rhine Westphalia, on Saturday, the German press agency dpa reports. Some ...
  • 11 Jul 2022 |

    Econ min Habeck stresses 鈥渟olidarity in the energy crisis鈥 ahead of visit to Czech Republic and Austria

    11 Jul 2022, 12:23 Kerstine Appunn Gas EU 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and climate minister Robert Habeck is visiting Prague and Vienna to hold talks on intensified bilateral and European cooperation in securing gas supplies. Habeck (Green Party) ...
  • 23 Jun 2015

    In the media: 鈥淓nergiewende requires new financing models鈥

    23 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 World 麻豆无码版 Council/Roland Berger 鈥淓nergiewende requires new financing models鈥 Traditional utilities can no longer shoulder the huge infrastructure investments necessary for the Energiewende, ...
  • Capacity markets will not be dominant in Europe- energy state secretary

    23 Feb 2016, 00:00 A reformed energy-only market and interconnections with electrical neighbours are Germany's visions for a future European power system, energy state secretary Baake says. Utility industry head Kempmann warns against splitting power ...
  • 20 Dec 2016 |

    Preview2017- "Turn Energiewende into an advantage for industry"

    20 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
  • 21 Nov 2019 |

    UK and Germany mull boosting cooperation on hydrogen production with offshore wind

    21 Nov 2019, 13:03 Hydrogen production with renewable power is seen by many countries as an essential tool to decarbonise the economy. The UK and Germany, the world鈥檚 two leading offshore wind power nations, have started to sound out how they could ...
  • 16 Sep 2022 |

    Germany receives first hydrogen test delivery from United Arab Emirates

    16 Sep 2022, 13:45 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 A first hydrogen test delivery from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has arrived in Germany. The shipment in the form of the hydrogen derivative ammonia reached the port of Hamburg, the economy ...
  • 22 Nov 2022 |

    Germany examines state guarantees for wind and solar power

    22 Nov 2022, 13:56 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables 麻豆无码版 / Reuters Germany is examining the introduction of state guarantees for investments in wind and solar power to improve the country鈥檚 industrial potential, economy minister Robert Habeck has ...
  • German power prices to stay high despite dip in renewables levy in 2019

    German household power prices will remain largely unchanged in 2019 as higher grid fees and wholesale prices outweigh a dip in the surcharge paid for the roll-out of renewable energy sources. The German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation (BEE) expects the ...
  • Green energy levy set for drop on excess payments for renewables

    15 Oct 2014, 00:00 Consumers can expect a reduction in the surcharge they pay on energy bills next year but analysts say it will rise again in 2016 as green power production continues to expand. 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Cost ...
  • 13 Dec 2023 |

    Scholz鈥檚 government cuts climate fund by 45 bln euros by 2027 in response to debt brake ruling

    13 Dec 2023, 14:38 Germany will earmark billions of euros less for climate and transformation projects every year until 2027 in order to make the government budget comply with constitutionally enshrined limits on borrowing. One month after a seminal ...
  • 14 Sep 2022 |

    German coal industry says more money needed for restarting plants to save gas

    14 Sep 2022, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang Coal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Readying retired German coal plants for use during the winter in case of gas shortfalls is not economically viable for the sector, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal industry has said. The lifetime ...
  • 22 Dec 2021 |

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

    22 Dec 2021, 12:42 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Energiewende Handelsblatt The new German government must quickly fill its ambitious energy transition plans with action, according to Markus Krebber, ...
  • 30 Jun 2022 |

    Germany's plan to install half a million new heat pumps annually "ambitious but feasible"- industry

    30 Jun 2022, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Heating 麻豆无码版 Germany wants to rapidly increase the expansion of heat pumps and install 500,000 new units annually from 2024 onwards, said the economy and climate ministry, after agreeing a joint declaration ...
  • 09 Dec 2014

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

    09 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 EurActiv 鈥淕lobal comparison reveals Germany's 'Energiewende dilemma'鈥 Germany scored average results (place 22 of 61) in the global climate protection index, compiled by the NGO ...
  • 15 Nov 2022 |

    Germany needs renewables push to reach targets and avoid prolonged cost crisis 鈥 BEE

    15 Nov 2022, 12:11 Edgar Meza Renewables 麻豆无码版 Germany still needs a bigger push to speed up renewables expansion to avoid a prolonged cost crisis and ensure that the country reaches its targets, said the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation (BEE). ...
  • 29 Mar 2019 |

    Wind produces over a third of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity in March, setting new record

    29 Mar 2019, 14:12 Expert BWE- German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Germany covered over one third of its entire net electricity ...
  • 18 Mar 2019 |

    Germany and Poland agree on forging battery production alliance

    18 Mar 2019, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage International 麻豆无码版 The governments of Poland and Germany have agreed on pooling their efforts to establish an independent battery production in Europe. At the bilateral German-Polish economy forum ...
  • 07 Sep 2022 |

    Finance and economy ministries launch concerted solar power booster for Germany

    07 Sep 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government plans to rapidly accelerate the expansion of solar power capacity in the country with several legal changes, energy policy newsletter Tagesspiegel Background reports. ...
  • Innovation takes center stage at Berlin Start-up 麻豆无码版 Transition Festival

    09 Apr 2019, 17:18 Innovation to make the use of energy cleaner, more flexible and efficient is the central quest of the global energy transition. At the Berlin Start-up 麻豆无码版 Transition Tech Festival, the German 麻豆无码版 Agency (dena) promotes start-ups ...
  • 19 Mar 2019 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal phase-out goal 鈥渟eems completely unrealistic鈥 鈥 JP Morgan

    19 Mar 2019, 14:11 Kerstine Appunn Coal Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 The growth in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable electricity output triggered by the country鈥檚 energy transition policy is 鈥渜uite an achievement,鈥 the JP Morgan 麻豆无码版 Outlook 2019 authored by ...
  • 23 May 2023 |

    Germany can double onshore wind power capacity buildout in 2023 鈥 economy minister

    23 May 2023, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 The buildout of onshore wind power in Germany can be doubled in 2023 with respect to the previous year and set the country on track towards its ambitious renewable power goals, economy ...
  • 06 Oct 2015

    In the media: German funding for Indian solar projects

    06 Oct 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Bloomberg/The Economic Times/Environment Ministry 鈥淢erkel pledges 1 billion euros to fund Indian solar projects鈥 During Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 state visit to India, Germany pledged investment of more than one ...
  • 27 Aug 2019 |

    Northern German states plan hydrogen initiative to optimise wind power use

    27 Aug 2019, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Wind Hydrogen NDR Germany's northern coastal states are set to expand their efforts to bring hydrogen production from wind power to an industrial scale and better use the turbines' energy potential, ...
  • 04 Jan 2023 |

    Transport minister launches fresh call to extend lifespan of German nuclear power plants

    04 Jan 2023, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German transport minister Volker Wissing has triggered a fresh debate over the government decision to switch off the country鈥檚 remaining nuclear plants ...
  • 01 Sep 2022 |

    New digitalisation strategy to help fight climate crisis 鈥 German govt

    01 Sep 2022, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Digitalisation 麻豆无码版 The German government has said its new digitalisation strategy will help in the fight against the climate crisis and in efforts to transform the economy. Environmental data and ...
  • 04 Mar 2019 |

    Nuclear 鈥渇inished鈥 in Germany, plant operators affirm

    04 Mar 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The use of nuclear power in Germany will come to an end by the end of 2022 as planned, operators of the country鈥檚 remaining nuclear plants have told the ...
  • Post feed-in tariff futures for pioneer renewable plants: Biogas

    01 Jun 2021, 10:25 After 20 years, many pioneer clean energy projects are losing their guaranteed feed-in tariff, with possible repercussions for citizen involvement in the energy transition. Without the support of the feed-in tariff, power production ...
  • 31 Aug 2020 |

    Germany needs power market overhaul to reach renewables targets- industry group

    31 Aug 2020, 13:42 Expert BEE- German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
  • First details of planned renewables reform leave German energy market innovators unfazed

    26 Aug 2020, 12:23 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert bne- Association of 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 20 Jul 2015

    In the media: Coal reserve will cost ten billion euros more

    20 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 WirtschaftsWoche 鈥淕abriel鈥檚 energy concept will cost Germany dearly鈥 麻豆无码版 minister Sigmar Gabriel has called his energy concept a 鈥渉istoric pact for new prosperity鈥 but what he didn鈥檛 say was ...
  • 27 Apr 2020 |

    German solar industry soars despite coronavirus but support cap awaits

    27 Apr 2020, 14:13 Expert bne- Association of 麻豆无码版 Market Innovators Bundesverband Neue Energiewirtschaft Electricity market Grid Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables ...
  • 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 aspiring coalition parties disagree over coal exit speed

    15 Nov 2017, 00:00 The German coalition talks on climate and energy policy stumble over a dispute over the reduction of coal fired power production. Just days before exploratory talks are scheduled to finish, the Green Party and its negotiating partners ...
  • 04 Jul 2019 |

    Local utilities call for mandatory share of renewable gases

    04 Jul 2019, 12:43 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 More than 60 local German utilities have called for the introduction of a mandatory share of renewables-based gases to be added to the country鈥檚 natural gas supply for sectors not covered ...
  • 24 Jun 2016 |

    Germany's new power market design

    24 Jun 2016, 00:00 The German parliament has approved wide-reaching reforms of the power market and agreements about the transferral of lignite power plants into an emergency reserve before permanent phase-out. This factsheet presents a summary of the ...
  • German offshore wind power- output, business and perspectives

    27 Jan 2023, 11:00 On the path to decarbonising Germany's energy systems, offshore wind power has become a cornerstone due to its reliability and rapid cost reductions in the industry in the past years. While the technology is still comparatively new ...
  • Sector coupling- Shaping an integrated renewable energy system

    25 Apr 2018, 00:00 Germany's energy transition (Energiewende) has a new buzz-word: Sector coupling. The idea of running energy-intensive heating, transport and industry on renewable power instead of fossil fuels will require the rollout of many new ...
  • 01 Aug 2025 |
    EU

    What鈥檚 next in Europe? 鈥 Agenda of European climate and energy policy

    01 Aug 2025, 08:00 Journalists! Mark your calendars 鈥 or rather let us do it for you. Europe is complicated and even journalists from EU member states sometimes struggle to understand how climate and energy policy is made, and when institutions take key ...
  • 麻豆无码版 Guide 鈥 Germany nears 2030 climate targets, transport and heating remain laggards

    04 Jul 2025, 10:05 Germany is nearly on track to achieve its 2030 emission reduction targets, with rapid progress in the expansion of renewables making up for the lagging transport and heating sectors. The new government is set to continue with the ...
  • 01 Jul 2015 |

    Technologies of Energiewende

    01 Jul 2015, 00:00 This factsheet provides an overview of some of the main areas for research and development (R&D) in providing technological solutions for the greening of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity supply. Hydrogen Technology Utility-scale storage The ...
  • Climate, energy and transport in Germany's coalition treaty

    07 Feb 2018, 00:00 Concluding weeks of intensive negotiations, Germany's would-be government partners have agreed on a coalition treaty. The 麻豆无码版 presents excerpts on climate, energy and transport from the agreement between Chancellor ...
  • 12 Jul 2016 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable generation peaks remain shrouded in data fog

    12 Jul 2016, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable power generation is on the rise and may soon exceed the country鈥檚 total power consumption for short time spans for the first time. But this milestone in the energy transition will be hard to pinpoint and verify ...
  • 20 years on: German renewables pioneers face end of guaranteed payment

    16 Sep 2019, 14:00 Guaranteed remuneration for operators of renewable power installations has been a key component of Germany's energy transition. Feed-in tariffs were introduced with the country's Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) in the year 2000. ...
  • What's new in Germany's Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act 2021

    23 Apr 2021, 12:59 Germany's landmark Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG)- credited with making solar and wind power two of the most important electricity sources in the country- is undergoing another reform. Renewables shall grow faster, become cheaper and ...
  • What business thinks of the energy transition

    20 Sep 2017, 00:00 Companies have broadly mixed attitudes towards the Energiewende, depending on their sector, the size of their business, or location. Polls and analyses help explain their views. [UPDATE- Adds DIHK Energiewende Barometer 2017] Business ...
  • 麻豆无码版 Guide 鈥 Poland's govt yet to deliver on energy transition promises

    18 Jul 2025, 09:30 Poland's energy supply still heavily depends on fossil fuels, with coal being the biggest and most visible contributor to its climate footprint. The eastern European political heavyweight plans to gradually phase it out, replacing ...
  • Defining features of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) 2014

    08 Oct 2014, 00:00 This factsheet explains some of the tools that have made the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) the most important measure for the promotion of renewable power sources in Germany in the past 24 years. Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Kerstine ...
  • 14 Mar 2018 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest utilities at a glance

    14 Mar 2018, 00:00 Germany's energy transition has shaken the country鈥檚 dominant power companies to the core, because it undermines their traditional business model of centralised power generation. In a bid to survive the turmoil, the utilities ...
  • 06 Sep 2022 |

    What happens if Russia's gas supplies to Germany are cut?

    06 Sep 2022, 10:40 Russia has reduced deliveries to Europe step by step in recent months, underlining that the fuel is arguably its most important energy asset in the geopolitical scramble following the invasion of Ukraine. While the EU and other western ...
  • 06 Dec 2023 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate foreign policy strategy

    06 Dec 2023, 12:29 Germany aims to combine the strength of all its government departments to foster a socially just and economically successful move to climate neutrality worldwide with the help of a new climate foreign policy strategy. The government ...
  • Capacity markets around the world

    19 Aug 2015, 00:00 UPDATE- Germany has opted against a large-scale capacity mechanism despite its increasing international popularity 鈥 from an idea to support power plants on the United States鈥 eastern coast to many European countries introducing ...
  • 05 Oct 2023 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate action programme 2023

    05 Oct 2023, 15:15 The German government in October adopted the final version of its long-due comprehensive climate action programme to put the country on track to reaching its 2030 climate targets. With a delay of several months due to fights within the ...
  • 麻豆无码版 Guide 鈥 How the European Union is trying to legislate a path to net-zero

    01 Aug 2025, 09:00 The European Union announced itself as a potential early climate champion in 2018 by pledging to reach climate-neutrality by 2050. Yet, rules and regulations are needed to bring emissions down sufficiently to make 鈥榗limate neutrality鈥 a ...
  • The causes and effects of negative power prices

    05 Jan 2018, 00:00 When power prices on the electricity exchange fall below zero, power suppliers have to pay their wholesale customers to buy electric energy. The phenomenon is on the rise in Germany with an increasing number of renewable sources feeding ...
  • 26 Jan 2017 |

    How can Germany keep the lights on in a renewable energy future?

    26 Jan 2017, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 shift to green energy continues apace. But how will a fully renewables-based electricity system power the world鈥檚 fourth-largest economy on days when there's no sun or wind? Energiewende opponents argue Germany will face ...
  • 30 Mar 2023 |

    Q&A: Making the EU鈥檚 electricity market fit for a climate-neutral future

    30 Mar 2023, 15:25 For years, the European Commission has hailed the electricity market design for enabling the large-scale integration of renewable energy, increasing security of supply and helping to lower wholesale prices. However, the system was ...
  • 23 Jan 2015 |

    Setting the power price: the merit order effect

    23 Jan 2015, 00:00 The growth of renewable power 鈥 which have lower production overheads 鈥 has forced down wholesale electricity prices. The 鈥渕erit order effect鈥 describes the mechanism by which the market price is set. Electricity market Kerstine Appunn ...
  • Geared-up Germany enters second winter without Russian gas

    02 Nov 2023, 13:44 Germany is entering its second winter without the Russian gas supplies it used to take for granted. But the country is much better prepared than it was in 2022: Stockpiles are full, capacities for alternative imports have been increased ...
  • Q&A: German capital Berlin votes whether to make city climate neutral by 2030

    27 Mar 2023, 11:37 A referendum called to force the city of Berlin to become climate neutral in 2030 failed to receive the necessary share of yes votes among all voters. This target implied that the German capital with almost four million inhabitants ...
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  • Martha鈥檚 assignment- Or what makes for a successful media research tour on the Energiewende

    29 Nov 2019, 15:55 Carel Mohn Grid Energiewende International Upon his return from 麻豆无码版's most recent the research tour: ' Get the grid working- how Europe's climate goals depend on a modern power network ', our head of media ...
  • 06 Jan 2021 |

    Italy welcomes Chinese investments, but competition fears linger

    06 Jan 2021, 10:03 International Italian experts no longer doubt China's determination to act on climate change. This confidence stems from China's recent pledge to reach carbon neutrality before 2060, and the reaffirmation of its commitment to ...
  • TERNA Group (Italy)

    Manages the national transmission grid with 74,669 kms of high-voltage power lines. The first independent network operator in Europe and one of the largest in the world. www.terna.it Ivan Domp茅 ivan.dompe@terna.it +39 0683139081 +39 0683139232 Business ...
  • FEN- Center for Flexible Electrical Networks

    The Center for Flexible Electrical Networks (FEN) is an association of institutes of RWTH Aachen University and industrial partners. Its objective is research on future electricity grids designed to integrate decentralised聽 sustainable energy sources. The ...
  • Romanian National Institute for 麻豆无码版 Development Studies (IRE)

    Reunites the major actors in Romania鈥檚 energy market: Complexul Energetic Oltenia, CEZ Romania, CS Romania, Delgaz Grid, E.on Romania, Electrocentrale Bucuresti, Enel Romania,聽 Electrica, Hidroelectrica, Nuclearelectrica and Transelectrica. Represents ...
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    Swedegas

    Operates the gas grid in southern and western Sweden, essentially the only part of the country where gas is used. www.swedegas.com Saila Horttanainen +46 706 227 606 Business Sweden @swedegasinfo ...
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    Gas Networks Ireland

    A business association that develops, operates and maintains the natural gas grid in Ireland by connecting residential, business and industrial customers to the network. www.gasnetworks.ie Marie Sheehan: +353 877548968 press@gasnetworks.ie Business ...
  • Research Centre for 麻豆无码版 Resources and Consumption (Spain)

    Technological research centre dedicated to renewable energy, smart grids, and 4.0 industry research and development. Can provide insight on innovative technologies, the current state of energy resources as well as future prospects. www.fcirce.es circe ...
  • Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC, Portugal)

    Private non-profit research institution dedicated to scientific research and technological development, technology transfer, advanced consulting and training, and pre-incubation of new technology-based companies. INESC TEC鈥檚 Power and 麻豆无码版 cluster is ...
  • 麻豆无码版 and Water Regulatory Commission Bulgaria

    Regulatory body for the energy and water supply sectors in Bulgaria. Regulates retail prices in the gas and electricity markets and issues licenses for electricity generation, electricity trading, transmission and distribution. Responsible for secondary ...
  • National Renewable 麻豆无码版 Centre of Spain

    Research centre focussed on renewable energy technology and capacity installation. The National Renewable 麻豆无码版 Centre of Spain (CENER) develops applied research in renewable energies, and provides technological support to companies and energy ...
  • Amprion

    Amprion is one of four transimission network operators in Germany (the others are TransnetBW, Tennet and 50Hertz). Amprion operates an extra-high voltage grid with a length of 11,000 km reaching from Lower Saxony in the north to the Alps in the south. Map ...
  • FENES- Research centre for power networks and energy storage

    FENES is a research center for power networks and energy storage, located at the college of technology in Regensburg (OTH- Ostbayerische technische Hochschule). It focuses its research on grid technology and energy storage systems (various technologies, ...
  • TenneT

    TenneT is one of four transmission network operators in Germany (the others are 50Hertz, TransnetBW and Amprion). It operates a large part of the extra-high voltage grid in northern, middle and southern Germany. Map of transimission grid operators in ...
  • TransnetBW

    TransnetBW is one of four transimission grid operators in Germany (the others are Tennet, Amprion and 50Hertz). The company is responsible for operating, maintaining, planning and expanding the transmission network in Baden W眉rttemberg. Here, over 3,300 ...
  • 50Hertz Transmission

    50 Hertz is one of four transmission network operators in Germany (the others are Tennet, TransnetBW and Amprion). The company is responsible for the operation, maintenance, planning, and expansion of the 380/220 kilowatt transmission grid throughout ...
  • Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA)

    The Federal Network Agency supervises operators of energy supply networks together with federal state regulatory bodies.聽 It ensures that all users can access and use the energy supply network on a non-discriminatory basis.聽 The aim of energy regulation ...
  • BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries

    The BDEW is the largest energy industry association in Germany. It has 1800 members, including local and municipal utilities as well as regional and inter-regional suppliers. The 鈥渂ig 4鈥 producers and supply companies (Eon, Vattenfall, EnBW and RWE) and ...
  • 麻豆无码版 Masterclass: How to report on the construction sector鈥檚 hidden climate impact

    25 Jul 2024 Berlin Applications are closedThe climate and environmental impacts of construction have remained an afterthought in discussions about making buildings greener. While homes and offices are becoming more energy efficient, and the electricity ...
  • Decentralised citizen power: Making the Energiewende work at the village level

    Wahlsdorf is a village with 300 inhabitants in the rural Fl盲ming area, located halfway between Berlin and the Lusatia region. The village is not connected to the gas grid and relies on聽 the Wahlsdorf energy cooperative, which feeds heat from an ...
  • Mobility innovations for bigger cities in a laboratory

    In a laboratory just outside of the city, the聽 EUREF Campus, a partner of Berlin鈥檚 Technical University, electric cars, buses, cargo loaders, scooters and pedelecs are networked through a high-tech micro smart grid. The EUREF Campus, which the UN ...
  • Appunn

    Denmark Climate & CO2 Agriculture Bioenergy Grid Nuclear phase-out Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG German Kerstine Appunn was a staff Correspondent for 麻豆无码版. She joined after working at the Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag newspaper ...
  • Mortelmans

    Belgium Electricity Coal Climate & CO2 Gas Grid Nuclear phase-out Belgian Koen is a freelance journalist covering energy topics for Doorbraak.be, Nieuwsblad Transport and Flux Energie. You can find more information about him and his work via his ...
  • Kairu

    Kenya Kenyan Pauline Kairu covers environmental topics, such as fossil fuels, the national grid and mining technology.聽 Her work has been published in The East African, Daily Nation, Business Daily, Nairobi News and Al Jazeera. ...
  • Samuel

    India Grid Renewables Wind Industry Technology Agriculture Indian Jency Samuel is a freelance journalist covering renewable energy, climate impact on fisheries, women and livelihoods, biodiversity etc. Her work has been mainly published by India Climate ...
  • Del Bello

    India Electricity Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Grid Business Green stimulus Italian Lou Del Bello is a freelance journalist covering climate and energy topics. She reports on climate finance, geopolitics, renewable energy and environmental regulations. ...
  • Tornbjerg

    Denmark Electricity Grid Renewables Efficiency Danish Jesper Tornbjerg works for www.danskenergi.dk. ...
  • Nilsen

    Norway Fossil fuels Grid Renewables Storage Transport International Security Norwegian Thomas is editor at The Barents Observer. ...
  • Staalesen

    Norway Fossil fuels Grid Renewables Storage Transport International Security Norwegian Atle is staff writer at The Barents Observer. ...
  • Sains

    Sweden Electricity market Grid Nuclear phase-out Utilities US American Ariane is a staff correspondent at S&P Global Platts. ...
  • Nagy

    Hungary Grid Solar Wind Hungarian Gergely works for Magyar Narancs. Within the energy transition, he also specialises on issues around nuclear power and nuclear waste. ...
  • Becker

    Germany Electricity Citizens' energy Grid Renewables Mobility German As a freelance journalist, Daniela publishes in RiffReporter.de, enorm-magazin.de, as well as Handelsblatt's Edison. You can also find Daniela's work online via her ...
  • Gulati

    India Electricity Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Gas Grid Renewables Politics COP24 Indian Vishal is a journalist at IANS news agency. He covers biodiversity, climate change and the links between environment & development. Find ...
  • Diermann

    Germany Electricity market Fossil fuels Grid Renewables Digitalisation Government German Ralph is a freelance journalist based in Munich. His work is published in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung, Spiegel Online, Neue Z眉rcher Zeitung, pv magazine. Find Ralph online ...
  • Fairley

    Canada Electricity Bioenergy Grid Nuclear phase-out Renewables Utilities Technology Canadian Peter is a freelance energy journalist. His work appears in IEEE Spectrum, MIT Technology Review, New Scientist, Nature, Discover, Scientific American and Ensia. ...
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