Members of the Christian Democratic and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) parliamentary group in the German Bundestag have called for closer cooperation on energy policy within the European Union at the group¡¯s 8 th Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Policy Dialogue on Monday in ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The national infrastructure for producing and using green hydrogen in Germany is beginning to take shape, as the government seeks to support market scale-up for the renewable fuel. ...
20 May 2021, 13:34 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ first movers in hydrogen generation using electricity will be supported by lower power prices and a wide definition of ¡°green¡± hydrogen, the government has decided. By creating ¡°clear and pragmatic¡± requirements for green ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ With its largest offshore wind power auction to date, Germany aims to make progress on its ambitious target to nearly quadruple capacity by the end of the decade ¨C and could ...
14 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen ? Ernst & Young ¡°Cautious upward trend: Approval of the Energiewende rises slightly¡± Business approval for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy is gradually rising, according to Ernst & Young¡¯s quarterly Energiewende Index ...
07 May 2020, 08:58 The performance of Germany's electricity system during the coronavirus pandemic offers important lessons for the future of the country's landmark energy transition, says Hanns Koenig from consultancy Aurora Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Research. ...
08 Dec 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The planned infrastructure for direct imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coastlines are ¡°massively oversized¡± and state involvement means that taxpayer money is used for what could ...
29 Dec 2014
29 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Hamburger Abendblatt ¡°Hamburg puts focus on development of green energies¡± The city-state of Hamburg is profiting from Germany's Energiewende in the form of investment and new jobs, the ...
13 May 2022, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ An alliance of environmental NGOs has called on parliamentarians to make significant changes to ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ planned acceleration of liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects to ensure that the current ...
02 Mar 2016
02 Mar 2016, 00:00 tageszeitung ¡°Short-sighted cap fans¡± Despite fighting climate change being a national objective and renewables now the cheapest source of energy, leading conservative politicians want to use reform of the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG) to ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:46 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ, Tagesschau, Focus Online The German cabinet has passed a climate emergency programme allocating an additional 8.1 billion euros for climate protection measures over the next five ...
06 Jun 2016
06 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Tagesspiegel ¡°80 percent renewables are not a problem¡± There is much more flexibility in the German power grid to cope with renewables development than currently needed, said Boris ...
15 Oct 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The surcharge on German power customers' bills to support the expansion of renewable energy sources will fall from currently 6.75 to 6.5 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) ...
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 2016 is set to be another eventful year in German energy policy. The Paris climate summit underlined the need to reduce emissions even further, which will ultimately involve painful decisions about the future of coal. A series of ...
First a Chinese battery factory in Thuringia (and renewed interest of the Chinese state grid in German network operator 50Hertz), then the Nord Stream 2 controversy ¨C ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy cooperation with the East is coming into focus, something our visiting ...
26 Jul 2022, 11:54 Hannah Naylor Efficiency Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Modernising the most energy-inefficient homes will not only help the climate, but also shield those most prone to energy poverty, according to a report by the Institute for Applied ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:06 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur f¨¹r Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Sven Egenter Solar Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ An overwhelming majority of people in Germany continue to support the expansion ...
Only solar bids have been successful in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ first joint solar and onshore wind auction for renewables support, said the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in a press release. ¡°In competition, it simply is the technology that offers the lowest costs ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:45 Rachel Waldholz Gas Grid Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Producing hydrogen from renewable energy is already cost-competitive in niche markets and likely to be competitive in industrial-scale applications within a decade, according to a ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:25 Expert German Offshore Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Foundation Stiftung Offshore-Windenergie Renewables Freja Eriksen Renewables Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / dpa / Focus Online Germany's northern states and federal government want to nearly triple the ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Tagesspiegel Background The European energy crisis, which has been dominated by skyrocketing prices for gas and oil so far, ?could soon spill over to the electricity market, energy policy newsletter ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German energy crisis has not ended yet, but has become ¡°manageable¡± to a point where the government is confident it could be overcome for good by 2024, economy and climate minister ...
18 Jul 2022, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Renewables have increased their power output in Germany to 49 percent in the first half of 2022, according to first estimates published by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). ...
Fossil power plants are disappearing from the market too quickly when they are still needed to supply the country with power on days with little sun or wind, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. ¡°At the moment, the bad economic framework conditions lead to ...
08 Feb 2016
08 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Der Tagesspiegel ¡°Government could use mercury limits to take coal plants offline¡± The government ¡°has a plan B up its sleeve" in case there is no political agreement on a coal exit, reports ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Frankfurter Allgemeine The first ship designed to convert liquefied natural gas (LNG) back ?to gaseous state has? arrived ?in Germany, Deutsche ReGas, ?the company developing the country's ...
02 May 2022, 14:14 Voters in the northern wind power state of Schleswig-Holstein head to the polls this Sunday (8 May) to elect a new parliament in one of the regions most crucial to ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ efforts to phase out Russian fossil fuel imports and massively ...
16 Sep 2022, 13:52 S?ren Amelang Gas Security Handelsblatt Germany will only be able to find out at short notice whether it will face any form of gas shortage in winter, which will then be impossible to prevent, according to the country¡¯s grid agency ...
28 May 2020, 17:30 A slowing economy and mild weather lowered Germany's energy demand significantly in the first quarter of 2020. Latest data also confirmed that renewable energy sources accounted for more than half of the electricity fed into ...
15 Jun 2016
15 Jun 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ¡°Buyer¡¯s premium for e-cars still cannot be applied for¡° Customers still cannot apply for a buyer¡¯s premium for new e-cars after the ...
03 Sep 2019, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy ...
12 Sep 2022, 13:37 S?ren Amelang Transport Freight Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ national railway operator Deutsche Bahn plans to transport large amounts of green hydrogen on trains, offering an alternative to transport through non-existent ...
04 Jul 2022, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German heating sector must be reformed from its core and made more efficient to weather the energy supply challenges ahead, the state-funded Federal Environmental Foundation ...
09 Sep 2022, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU dpa / n-tv A delivery of uranium is on its way from Russia to Germany six months after the beginning of the war on Ukraine and the ensuing energy trading sanctions imposed by the EU, news agency ...
23 Feb 2022, 14:35 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The EU Commission's proposals for adapting the gas market to climate targets are not enough to ensure a rapid scale-up of the hydrogen economy, according to Germany's hydrogen ...
08 Nov 2022, 14:08 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The southern German state of Bavaria is set to invest 500 million euros in renewable energy and hydrogen production projects, the state¡¯s economy minister, Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters), ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society WirtschaftsWoche The renewed push for renewable energy expansion in Germany leaves no more room for the NIMBY (not in my backyard) mentality that has long stalled the buildout of wind turbines, solar ...
12 Nov 2020, 14:26 Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ gas demand is set to increase significantly from 90 billion cubic metres (Bcm) today to 110 Bcm by 2034 as the country exits both nuclear and coal, said the energy research company and ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ? renewables surcharge ?is to rise from 6.35 cents per kilowatt-hour (ct/kWh) to 6.88 ct/kWh next year, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) learned from grid operator sources. The 8 percent increase would be less than? predicted by experts. This ...
29 Aug 2022, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Handelsblatt The economy and climate ministry is pondering a new power market design for Germany that decouples electricity prices from gas prices in response to the current turmoil on energy markets ...
24 Mar 2022, 12:07 Jessica Bateman Gas Der Spiegel The energy minister of Lower Saxony has called on the German federal government to provide partial funding for four liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals in his state, Der Spiegel reports. In a letter to ...
23 Dec 2022, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ In order to bolster the capacity for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG), Germany will support the construction of three so-called LNG bunker vessels. Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck ...
27 Jul 2018, 13:55 Germany's coal mines seen from space, the talk on electric cars and Chinese-German battery production cooperation- Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ's 2018 visiting cartoonist Mwelwa Musonko presents his view of the Energiewende and its many big and small ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:12 Jessica Bateman Gas Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ It is possible to ensure the efficient use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a transitional solution in Germany over the coming winter and beyond without losing sight of the climate ...
23 Aug 2022, 13:29 S?ren Amelang Renewables Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Investors have shown only limited interest in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ most recent call for solar installations on buildings and noise protection walls, further dampening hopes of speeding up the roll ...
18 Aug 2022, 14:03 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices t-online Companies in certain parts of ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:36 Expert dena- German Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency S?ren Amelang Transport Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The trend towards heavy and fuel-guzzling sports utility vehicles ...
24 Jan 2022, 13:31 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Renewables Policy dpa / Stern The German coalition government has promised to accelerate the country's landmark energy transition and other core legislation procedures, newswire dpa report s in ...
14 Dec 2017, 00:00 The energy transition has profound implications for Germany's preparations for an "unlikely but possible" large-scale power blackout, civil protection experts say. While renewable energy sources could replace fuel depots ...
17 Oct 2022, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Wind Handelsblatt Meteorological institutes forecast mild weather in their new winter prognostics for Europe, concluding that less heating gas could be used but also that wind power production might decline as a ...
31 May 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Hydrogen dw.com ¡°Lobby battle over Energiewende¡± There is a lot of pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers to hammer out a compromise at tonight¡¯s ...
11 Oct 2022, 14:16 Carolina Kyllmann Nuclear phase-out AFP The German coalition government hasn¡¯t been able to come to an agreement over the economy minister¡¯s proposed runtime extension scheme for two of the country¡¯s three remaining nuclear power plants ...
Car manufacturer Daimler has opened its third large battery storage facility in Elverlingsen, southern Westphalia, the company writes in an announcement. Together with Mercedes-Benz Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ, GETEC Energie, and The Mobility House, Daimler will store battery ...
01 Oct 2014
01 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Spiegel Online "Subsidies: Brussels' billion-euro gift to the nuclear lobby" German parliamentarians are ?appalled" after EU competition commissioner Joaqu¨ªn Almunia allowed the ...
07 Oct 2022, 14:55 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Gas Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ There ...
19 Mar 2015
19 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Bloomberg ¡°RWE said to consider 10 percent stake sale to Abu Dhabi investors¡± ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ second largest utility RWE, grappling with rising debt, is considering selling a ten percent stake to ...
01 Dec 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's electricity market design needs a fundamental overhaul more urgently than ever before to make the economic value of supply security visible, the country's energy ...
13 Apr 2023, 13:08 Edgar Meza Gas Security Zeit Online As the German government follows through with its plan to shut down its last remaining nuclear power plants for good, the country¡¯s energy sector is calling for the construction of new hydrogen-ready ...
17 May 2024
17 May 2024, 11:28 After months of negotiations, politicians in the Netherlands reached a deal to form a new government that will include populist parties: the nationalist Party for Freedom (PVV) and the agrarian-populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB). ...
02 Mar 2023, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security Die Zeit The possible earlier coal phase-out in eastern Germany continues to lead to clashes between the federal government and state governments in the east, with views differing on how a coal exit in ...
06 May 2022, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The head of energy industry association BDEW has called on the government to examine further measures that could relieve households amid rising energy prices. ¡°Since the beginning of ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:00 The European Parliament elections this week (6-9 June) are unlikely to cause a big rollback of existing EU Green Deal legislation, but a projected shift to right-wing ¨C and often climate action sceptic ¨C parties could lower ambition ...
15 Nov 2022, 14:04 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen NDR / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The first jetty for arrival of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been completed in northern German Wilhelmshaven, with the first delivery set to arrive in mid-January 2023, reports ...
23 Aug 2021, 13:36 Edgar Meza Electricity Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition and increasing share of decentralised generation capacity are having no negative effects on the quality of its power supply,? according to ?the Federal ...
Chemical companies BASF, Evonik, and Clariant seek to use excess renewable power in Germany to make synthetic fuels and other chemicals, reports Ludwig Burger for Reuters. According to ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ chemical industry lobby VCI, so-called power-to-X technology ...
12 Mar 2019, 13:48 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Thanks to strong winds, electricity production in Germany achieved a new record share of nearly 65 ...
15 Sep 2022, 13:44 S?ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Calculations by the ifo Institute for Economic Research suggest that postponing the decommissioning of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ three remaining nuclear power plants would not help the ...
25 Apr 2022, 12:52 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Resources & ...
19 Feb 2015
19 Feb 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Die Welt ¡°Berlin wants to close its coal-fired power plants by 2020¡± The German capital of Berlin will shut its four remaining coal-fired power plants by 2020, according to provisional results from a parliamentary ...
17 Apr 2020, 13:45 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
16 Nov 2015
16 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Spiegel Online ¡°Grid Agency: About 350,000 households had their power cut off¡± The number of power cut-offs in Germany rose by two percent to a new record in 2014, reports Spiegel Online. According ...
14 Feb 2023, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Background While heat pump sales increased more than 50 percent in 2022, oil and gas boilers continued to dominate the German heating market, according to the annual heating ...
06 Jul 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs WirtschaftsWoche The local availability of renewable power sources could increasingly become a boon for northern German states and could shift the country¡¯s industrial centre of gravity ...
09 Jul 2015
09 Jul 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Die Zeit ¡°We have to exit within 25 or 30 years¡± German environment minister Barbara Hendricks expects coal to be phased out in Germany by 2045 at the very latest. ¡°We have to exit the burning of coal step by step ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:09 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany aims to secure a full supply of green hydrogen in its drive to become climate neutral, but may use blue hydrogen made with natural gas and carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Norway for a ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:51 Edgar Meza Renewables Tageszeitung / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ hydropower sector is up in arms over the federal government¡¯s plan to stop the subsidisation of small hydroelectric power plants due to nature conservation concerns, ...
27 Feb 2019, 16:36 An expert panel advising the German government has called for a price on CO2 to spur the development of new technologies that are key for the energy transition. ¡°Innovations are driven into the ground without a CO2 price signal,¡± said ...
14 Oct 2019, 11:00 Starting in 2021 and throughout the 2020s, many of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ pioneer wind turbines, solar PV installations and biogas plants will stop receiving fixed feed-in tariffs, meaning many gigwatts in renewable capacity may be shut down if they ...
29 Jun 2022, 12:59 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ An undersubscribed auction for solar power ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German leaders see the country well-equipped to get through the coming winter in the ongoing energy crisis. The government had initiated the necessary preparations to secure ...
02 Sep 2022, 12:46 Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government has chartered a fifth floating import terminal (FSRU) for liquefied natural gas (LNG) to help the country wean itself off Russian pipeline gas and ensure supply security,? the ...
15 Oct 2015
15 Oct 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Bloomberg ¡°Germany considers emissions levy as CO2 reduction target wobbles¡± Germany may have to introduce a tax on emissions in order to meet its target of cutting CO2 emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by ...
30 Jul 2021, 11:36 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ High natural gas and hard coal prices and expensive allowances in the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) have significantly pushed up the power price over recent months, ...
The German Renewable Energies Agency has published its ¡°Atlas of the Energiewende¡± in English. The online digital book illustrates the potential of renewable energies, as well as current challenges such as grid expansion and storage, on more than 100 ...
19 Dec 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security Die Welt Coal mining states in eastern Germany have warned that the energy crisis makes an early phase-out of the fossil fuel too risky for the country¡¯s energy supply. ¡°Lignite is needed now and for the ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:18 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal Nuclear phase-out Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ nuclear and coal phase-out both took a step towards their completion on the last day of 2021, when ...
10 Feb 2015
10 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Reuters ¡°Study ¨C Germany spends billions on export of coal technology¡± Germany and France are the EU¡¯s biggest sponsors of the export of coal technology, according to a confidential OECD study ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Resources & Recycling Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ To succeed in the energy transition, Germany will focus on warranting secure supply chains and reliable production capacities required for renewable ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables Energiewende Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany will use auctions to ensure new gas power plants are built, which the government sees as necessary to secure supply at times when renewable energy does not deliver ...
Utility company RWE has unveiled the name of its new ¡°colourful, cheerful and innovative¡± subsidiary: ¡°Innogy¡±. The new company pools the German and international renewables, grid and infrastructure and retail business. ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:46 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU Handelsblatt Excessive EU regulation is stalling the development of competitive hydrogen infrastructure in Europe, the head of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ...
08 Jun 2020, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The? price drop on electricity markets ?due to the coronavirus pandemic has led to calls for extending Germany's renewable energy support for wind turbines that are poised to fall out ...
02 Aug 2024, 12:34 The upcoming elections in three Eastern German states in September have put the region at the centre of attention of the country¡¯s political landscape in 2024, especially due to the expected success of populist parties which could shake ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Renewables Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2016 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government coalition parties have locked horns over the envisaged 65 percent share of renewables in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ gross power ...
Offering municipalities financial incentives for building new power lines needed for the energy transition does not change the acceptance rate of the local population, according to a study by Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI Essen ...
22 May 2020, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland An alliance of hard coal plant operators plans to achieve an expansion of the runtime of Germany's seven most modern hard coal plants by ...
02 Jul 2018, 15:13 The production of renewable energy in Germany dashes to a new record output, providing more than 40 percent of the country's power supply in the first half of 2018. Yet, the good news for proponents of Germany's trademark ...
21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Greenpeace Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ¡°Flawed subsidies¡± Britain is planning a different kind of energy transition, writes Bj?rn Finke in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. While they want to shut down all ...
20 Nov 2020, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Renewables Wind International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The plans by the European Commission to significantly ramp up renewable energy generation at sea have been mostly welcomed by German policymakers ...
16 Jun 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Rheinische Post To save gas and money, German households should be incentivised to use less energy for heating, the president of the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), Klaus M¨¹ller, has told newspaper ...
The federal government has prolonged a legal statute that regulates support for ¡°interruptible loads¡±, i.e. power consumers who can reduce their electricity consumption in times of scarcity in order to stabilise the grid. Read the government press release ...
22 Dec 2015
22 Dec 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Handelsblatt ¡°Several companies dig for Vattenfall's brown coal¡± The timing of the sale of Vattenfall¡¯s lignite operations, only days after the end of the Paris Climate Summit, could hardly be worse, writes ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ five biggest power ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:24 Edgar Meza Coal Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German energy group LEAG, the country¡¯s second biggest electricity producer and a key lignite company, plans to build the country¡¯s largest renewable energy site in the eastern Lusatia coal ...
29 Nov 2021, 13:13 Expert BBH- Becker B¨¹ttner Held energy law firm Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Expert dena- German Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The majority of Germans (74%) are prepared to make changes to their lifestyle to prevent global warming, a survey among 1,000 consumers commissioned by heating technology company ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal grid agency (BNetzA) has launched the second round of PV auctions, under new rules agreed last year. A volume of 200 megawatts will be auctioned off, and bids must not exceed 8.91 cents/kWh. Find the press release in German? here. For ...
03 Apr 2019, 12:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government says the jury is still out on the question whether the operators of coal plants are eligible for compensation payments once their facilities are taken off ...
India has entered into a pact with Deutsche Gesellschaft f¨¹r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)- the German government's international development agency- to help integrate renewable energy into its grid,?The Economic Times reports. India¡¯s Union ...
11 Feb 2015
11 Feb 2015, 00:00 Agora Energiewende ¡°Without a decisive change of course the emissions trading system will fail permanently¡± Only the rapid introduction of a market stability reserve to increase the price of CO2 emissions can salvage the European system ...
05 Feb 2015
05 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Vattenfall / Reuters Vattenfall Annual report: Focus on renewables in Germany Swedish utility Vattenfall, who operates power stations, mines and other energy businesses across Europe, highlights in ...
08 Jun 2016
08 Jun 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federal government Renewables law reform gets government approval Angela Merkel¡¯s cabinet has decided on the reform of the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG) that is to take ...
22 Feb 2024, 13:35 Two years after Russia¡¯s invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing energy crisis, Germany continues to struggle with its full economic recovery ¨C even if energy prices are losing in relevance for the country¡¯s growth prospects. Presenting the ...
09 Aug 2024, 13:30 A number of key issues relating to France¡¯s ecological transition have been put on hold after the rise of the far-right Rassemblement National party in June¡¯s European elections caused president Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / NDR / Bloomberg A nuclear power plant in northern Germany has come to the verge of being taken off the grid on Friday, a Lower Saxony state environment ministry spokesperson told ...
07 Nov 2022, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen COP27 WirtschaftsWoche Plans by Egypt¡¯s government and other governments in the region to make northern Africa and the Middle East (MENA) a major exporter of green hydrogen raise hopes within the German ...
02 Dec 2019, 13:40 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Power production with renewable energy ...
09 Sep 2015
09 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Summer, sun and sorrows¡± There has never been more green energy in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ grid than in the first half of this year, state secretary Uwe Beckmeyer from the Ministry for ...
11 Jul 2022, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Dlf Russian natural gas supplier Gazprom halted flows almost entirely through Nord Stream on Monday morning (11 July) as about ten days of planned maintenance work began, with the German ...
05 May 2022, 13:32 Germany is rapidly pushing several infrastructure projects for the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in order to wean itself off Russian natural gas. Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck visited the kick-off ceremony for the ...
Renewable energy sources produced about 34 percent of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ net power generation for public electricity supply in 2016, according to first projections by solar energy research institute Fraunhofer ISE. ¡°The share of renewables therefore remained ...
19 Jul 2024, 15:00 Every year in August, Italy and its political scene grind to an almost complete halt for the summer holidays. The debate around the country¡¯s energy transition has almost entirely narrowed down to a single topic: whether to return to ...
02 Sep 2020, 12:55 A faster deployment of more renewable installations that run into less problems with citizens and are able to quickly survive in the market without government support are at the centre of a renewables law reform proposal by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Industry Business & Jobs Augsburger Allgemeine The head of industry chamber IHK Schwaben has warned ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ southern economic powerhouse Bavaria could fall behind regions in the north and east of the country ...
Germany has built about 850 kilometres of a total of 7,700 kilometres of ¡°high priority¡± transmission lines, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) says in a press release accompanying its annual report. ¡° Until these transmission lines are implemented, we ...
The state government of Thuringia in central Germany opposes the construction of new power lines connecting it with Bavaria because these would cut through a rich cultural and natural landscape, Welt Online reports. They also reject three alternative ...
17 Jun 2015
17 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ European Commission ¡°EU on track to meeting 20 percent renewable energy target¡± The EU expects member states are on track to meet their target of a 20 percent share of renewables in gross final ...
26 Aug 2021, 13:45 Charlotte Nijhuis Solar Cities Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German cities are failing to fully utilise solar PV installations on new building rooftops, according to the country¡¯s largest green power provider LichtBlick. The ratio of newly ...
24 Mar 2016
24 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Spiegel Online ¡°E-car subsidies ¨C Sch?uble dampens hopes of a buyer¡¯s premium¡° There is increasing scepticism within the federal government concerning subsidies for e-cars. Vice ...
The European Commission attests Germany ¡°serious deficits¡± in certain areas of the energy transition, writes Gerwin Klinger for energate messenger. In the 2018 country report on Germany, the Commission says that Germany is on track to meet its Europe2020 ...
31 May 2016, 00:00 [UPDATE with new details on 2025 renewable target in paragraph 3, ads News Digest items] German Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers will meet on Tuesday to work out a compromise on reforming the core piece of legislation behind ...
30 Jun 2022, 14:07 On 1 July,?Germany marks the end of its landmark renewables levy on consumer power prices. The surcharge helped to spur the growth of wind and solar power capacity for more than two decades but has also been criticised for contributing ...
07 Apr 2016
07 Apr 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Bundestag Federal government rejects national CO? price floor The federal government continues to have reservations over a national price floor for carbon allowances, according to ...
19 Apr 2017
19 Apr 2017, 00:00 Operators have offered to build offshore wind farms in the North Sea without relying on support payments, in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ first competitive auction for the technology. Instead, the operators only will rely on the market rate for ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ last lignite-fired power plant will go off-line by 2040, the Social Democratic energy politician Bernd Westphal said at an event of innogy, the renewables spin-off of utility RWE, which owns many of the country¡¯s lignite plants. But the move ...
11 Feb 2020, 14:31 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Expert The German Gas and Hydrogen Industry Fossil fuels Gas Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ As Germany plans to exit both nuclear and coal power generation over the next years, gas plants ...
06 May 2015
06 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (BMWi) New incentive programme for energy efficiency measures The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (BMWi) has announced a new support package to ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:49 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany is to accelerate the expansion of its electromobility charging network to facilitate the switch to electric vehicles, transport minister Volker Wissing (FDP) announced after ...
06 May 2015, 00:00 The growing share of renewables forced German wholesale electricity prices down to among the lowest in Europe last year, according to a study by grid operator TenneT. And government figures indicate that consumers are benefitting too, ...
20 Mar 2019, 11:49 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ is stepping up its coverage of how business is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world¡¯s fourth largest economy, we are launching a series on start-ups that ...
The German town of Wolfhagen reclaimed its grid when a lease with E.ON expired more than ten years ago, overcoming strong resistance from the utility, and setting off a wave of municipalities taking back control of privatised infrastructure, reports ...
The environmental NGOs participating in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal exit commission have proposed to take around 16 gigawatt (GW) of coal power capacity off grid by 2022, reports newswire dpa in an article carried by Die Welt. Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth Germany ...
The huge gas turbines Siemens makes are models destined for phase-out, writes Markus Balser in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°Electricity is no longer produced in a few large power plants, but in many places. An ever-increasing number of households are turning ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:33 Edgar Meza Digitalisation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Increased digitalisation in the energy sector can offer significant but limited opportunities to save greenhouse gases, according to a new report by the Institute for Ecological Economic ...
A coal-fired power plant in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, is to be replaced by a gas-fired plant with turbines delivered from Siemens, Handelsblatt Online reports. Upon its completion, expected in four years, it will be one of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest gas ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:43 The EU is struggling to decarbonise its buildings, most of which are heated by fossil fuels that spew planet-heating gasses. But it has the technologies to go green. The bigger problem, experts say, is overcoming the barriers to rolling ...
28 Sep 2021, 13:40 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess is calling for a faster increase in the CO2 price, an earlier coal phaseout and a greater expansion of renewables. The day after the September 26 ...
03 Jan 2022, 14:13 Edgar Meza G20 & G7 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany would use its year-long presidency of the Group of Seven (G7), which began 1 January, ¡°to make this group of countries a trailblazer for a climate-neutral ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:20 Leading German economists have urged more innovation and investments to put the country that is still grappling with the fallout of the energy crisis and inflation back on a growth track. The German Council of Economic Experts forecasts ...
22 Jan 2016
22 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ BDEW ¡°Taxes and fees reach a new record high¡± The power price remained steady at the beginning of 2016 compared to a year ago, the German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries (BDEW) reports. ...
German utility Steag is currently in the process of selling stakes in power grids, district heating, wind parks and bio energy in several countries to help the company through its current crisis, writes J¨¹rgen Flauger in an article for the Handelsblatt. ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) called for the removal of five gas grid development measures from current plans because the expansion of the German-Russian pipeline Nord Stream was ¡°still too uncertain¡±, the agency said in a press release. The ...
04 Jan 2019, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Handelsblatt Edison The combined electricity generation of wind turbines (111 terawatt-hours (TWh)) and hydro power (17 TWh) in 2018 equalled the electricity consumption of all German households (estimated at ...
German utility EnBW is reducing the price for natural gas from 1 October because of low wholesale prices- despite rising grid fees, according to a press release. The company also said that it would not raise the cost for the basic supply until April 2018. ...
Three of the remaining eight German nuclear power stations are currently offline, writes renewable energy industry institute IWR in an article on IWR Online. Gundremmingen C and Isar 2 were offline for about a month in the summer for routine inspections, ...
The government should invest in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ power infrastructure so as to achieve energy independence through renewables, Dave Keating writes in a commentary in Forbes. The share of renewables in power generation has risen substantially over the years, but ...
13 Jan 2021, 11:41 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country¡¯s 16 states and the federal parliamentary elections in autumn. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of ...
10 Mar 2015, 11:02 Since the energy transition took off in 2000, millions of Germans have become energy producers, investing in solar panels on their houses and buying shares in wind parks. Citizens' engagement is one reason that support for the ...
13 Sep 2021, 13:50 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Jessica Bateman Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel The head of the Federation of German Consumer ...
20 Dec 2018, 13:59 Expert dena- German Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Cars Alternative fuel passenger cars are benefitting from declining sales ...
Power and gas grid operators Tennet, Gasunie, and Thyssengas plan the construction of a plant to store renewable power in the form of gas on an industrial scale, according to a dpa newswire article carried by the Wirtschaftswoche. A Tennet spokesperson ...
09 Feb 2016
09 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Rheinische Post ¡°We can¡¯t cope with a premature lignite exit¡± The Paris Agreement has no consequences for Germany, because the country already has the most ambitious climate targets, according to ...
25 May 2022, 13:39 S?ren Amelang Wind Tagesspiegel Background Bidders offering to implement offshore wind power projects with the lowest CO2 footpring? could have an advantage in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ future renewable power auctions that determine who gets to install ...
26 Mar 2019, 13:10 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ company EnBW¡¯s CEO Frank Mastiaux said Germany will build a ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:05 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cars dpa / Focus Online Carmaker VW says an earlier German coal exit is necessary for the company to ensure its electric car fleet receives the clean power it needs to ...
23 May 2022, 13:19 S?ren Amelang Gas International Tagesspiegel Background The EU¡¯s and, in particular, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ urgent drive to replace Russian gas imports has revived controversial liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Canada, to the dismay of ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:26 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world¡¯s fourth largest economy, we' ...
German renewable power company sonnen has said it will offer e-car charging infrastructure free of charge with flat rate electricity contracts to customers switching to the provider, reports Henning Peitsmeier in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ¡°We ...
In a series of stakeholder dialogues, environmental NGO Germanwatch and the Global Climate Forum have investigated where important Energiewende players see obstacles and opportunities. A close cooperation between core business areas such as institutional ...
30 Jan 2015
30 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Zeit Online "Germany warns against overly strict thresholds for cars" Under EU regulations, by 2021 CO2 emissions from new cars must not exceed an average of 95 grams per kilometre. By ...
18 May 2022, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / FAZ There will be no fixed shutdown sequence with regard to individual consumers or sectors in case of a stop or stark reduction of gas supply from Russia, the Federal Network Agency ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a ¡°huge mistake¡° when she argues that the question of ending coal-fired power generation should only be dealt with after ensuring the economic future of the affected workers, Green Party co-head Annalena Baerbock told ...
22 Mar 2022, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Tagesspiegel Background The European gas infrastructure would have to be changed quickly and extensively to be able to maintain supply in the event of an embargo or export ban on supplies from Russia, but ...
Reducing emissions across all sectors in Germany and gearing the energy system towards renewables and greater efficiency will be a ¡°long-distance run that you can hardly practise for¡±, Anton Berger writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in a ...
28 Feb 2022, 13:46 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Policy International Security The German government will push the construction of what would be the country¡¯s first two liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals as part of ...
11 May 2022, 13:10 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:49 S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Europe¡¯s entire energy system from availability to consumption is potentially vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events, according to the European Environment ...
21 Feb 2022, 13:52 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Almost one quarter of German small and medium-sized industrial companies say the high energy prices endanger their survival, according to a survey by the Federation of German ...
The port of Hamburg, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest commercial harbour, is changing part of its container transport system to electric vehicles, port operator HHLA says in a press release. Battery-powered transporters will move the cargo containers between ships and ...
On 14 October, German grid operators will announce the renewables surcharge (EEG-Umlage) for 2017. For this occasion, the Institute for Applied Ecology (?ko-Institut) has put together a paper that discusses important legal changes to the EEG made over the ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) introduced a new website that aggregates power market data from different transmission grid operators almost in real time and provides them in a user-friendly way, the agency said in a press release. Data includes power ...
01 Apr 2020, 15:11 Germany produced more than half of its electricity with renewable power in the first three months of 2020, the first full quarter in which renewables covered the majority of the country¡¯s electricity needs. The numbers were driven by ...
17 Nov 2021, 13:03 Expert dena- German Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Electricity market Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Green power purchase ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Federal ...
31 Aug 2021, 11:38 Ahead of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ September federal election, almost all parties in parliament are calling for climate policies that quickly and lastingly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The country¡¯s plans to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 ...
09 Sep 2015, 00:00 The government is sticking to a controversial plan to pay power operators for keeping old coal plants in reserve in case wind and solar power are not available to meet demand, details of a draft electricity market law show. Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
21 Dec 2023, 10:12 Preparing a fast expansion of renewable power will be a key challenge for governments across Europe in 2024, says Sarah Jilibert-Schabram of the Franco-German Office for the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transition (DFBEW). France and Germany both have stated ...
German energy company E.ON will integrate the emergency power generators of airport operator Fraport at Frankfurt airport ¨C ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest airline hub ¨C in its virtual power plant, the company said. The diesel generators can feed up to 5 megawatt of ...
German economy minister Peter Altmaier pays lip service to the consequences of climate change for ¡°our children and grandchildren,¡± but his words are not matched by actions, writes Tagesspiegel Background Energie in its daily newsletter. Altmaier wants to ...
18 Oct 2022, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU Die Welt / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Plans by the Czech government to build a new nuclear plant close the border with German state Bavaria is causing a dilemma for the governing conservative CSU, which ...
Electricity in rural areas costs on average 2 percent more than in German cities, writes price comparison website verivox in a press release. Households consuming 4,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) per year on average paid 1,138 euros in rural areas, while the ...
26 Jul 2021, 12:26 Jessica Bateman Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The total share of German wind power produced by North Sea plants rose to 16.63 percent so far in 2021 despite an overall generation decrease compared to the first half 2020 due to calm weather, ...
German power transmission grid operator TenneT has started laying the first underwater kilometres of NordLink, a direct power connection between Norway and Germany, the company announced in a press release. Over the coming months, TenneT will lay 99 ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:36 Expert dena- German Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Efficiency Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Three quarters of German buildings are ...
Drones and digital technologies can be harnessed in order to increase the reliability of producing, transmitting and distributing energy, writes management consultancy PwC in its study ¡°Clarity from above¡±. The use of drones could bring down costs for ...
Increasing the deployment of ¡°volatile¡± renewable energies in Europe threatens power supply security across the continent, Klaus Stratmann writes in the Handelsblatt, citing an analysis from the German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries (BDEW), ...
The first bicycle lane made out of solar panels in Germany has been opened on a 90-meter stretch near the western German city Cologne, Florian Gontek reports for Spiegel Online. The path consists of 150 solar power modules that are capable of feeding ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ renewable support levy paid by consumers as part of their power bills will fall slightly below 6.8 cents from the current 6.88 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2018, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has learned from an industry source. Nevertheless, ...
13 Jun 2018, 00:00 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ policymakers have not kept pace with the energy industry¡¯s rapid transformation caused by the Energiewende, and must catch up urgently, according to the utility association BDEW. The utilities also say that Germany needs a ...
12 Feb 2019, 18:04 Against the backdrop of escalating tensions over the Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, Germany and the US aim to boost industry cooperation on liquefied natural gas (LNG). German economy minister Peter Altmaier invited US ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:28 Edgar Meza Solar Cost & Prices pv magazine Solar photovoltaics (PV) became the main source in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ net power production in the month of June while also achieving its highest price ever, Sandra Enkhardt writes in pv magazine, ...
The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), with the support of the federal economy ministry (BMWi), will invest about 18 million euros in a research project on possible effects on human health by power lines, BfS said in a press release. ¡°So far, ...
Andreas Mihm takes a closer look at NordLink, a direct power connection between Norway and Germany for the exchange of Norwegian hydropower and German wind energy, in a long article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The more the Energiewende was ...
23 Jan 2015
23 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Die Welt / sh:z ?The North focuses on wind power¡° ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ northern state of Schleswig-Holstein wants to increase its share of renewables in the power mix and for heating and wants to lower energy ...
18 Jan 2022, 12:40 Julian Wettengel Industry Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government will use whatever state funds necessary to support the transition of the country¡¯s industry to climate neutrality through so-called carbon contracts for difference (CCfD) ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ offshore wind power production in the North Sea in 2017 was 47 percent higher than in 2016, writes grid operator TenneT in a press release. With a record of 15.97 terawatt hours (TWh), North Sea wind made up a total of 15.9 percent of all German ...
05 Oct 2022, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt A new gas pipeline that would connect the Iberian peninsula with northern Europe through the Pyrenees is causing a stir in France, Spain and Germany amid the energy crisis, business daily ...
04 Dec 2015
04 Dec 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federal Network Agency / TenneT New law on underground cables in the transmission grid German parliament has passed a law detailing that new direct current transmission lines will be put underground ¨C this will be ...
Wholesale power prices in Germany were comparatively low in 2017, grid operator TenneT says in a press release. Especially during the winter months, average prices in Germany and the Netherlands were much lower than in France and Belgium, TenneT reports, ...
Disagreement between German environment minister Svenja Schulze and economy minister Peter Altmaier over important measures like a carbon tax or the expansion of the electricity grid is burdening the economy, write Klaus Stratmann and Silke Kersting in ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new minister for the economy and energy, Peter Altmaier, wants to lower power prices for small and middle-sized companies. In an interview with Handelsblatt, Altmaier says companies that do not benefit from rebates for energy-intensive ...
11 Jan 2017, 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 ...
The German Solar Industry Association BSW and the German Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association BWE say joint auctions for solar and wind power capacity won¡¯t achieve a well-balanced mix of renewables, Sandra Enkhardt reports for pv magazine. While prices are currently ...
Having received state support for twenty years through the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG), the German wind power industry ¡°still cannot stand on its own feet,¡± writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In the current ...
23 Sep 2022, 14:02 Expert EWI- Institute of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit?t zu K?ln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International S?ren Amelang Gas Security Clean ...
03 Aug 2022, 13:37 Russia is ready to use ¡°pretexts and invented reasons¡± to obstruct Europe¡¯s energy supply, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said as his government prepares for a possible full halt to natural gas trading with the country¡¯s most ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ grid agency (BNetzA) has launched the first 2018 onshore wind and solar tenders. In a change to previous auctions, all onshore wind projects now need to have a planning permission to place a bid, the agency said in a press release. Citizen ...
Flexible energy options, such as energy storage, smart charging electric vehicles, demand response, and interconnectors are needed to ensure that the energy transition proceeds on an optimal path, according to a Bloomberg NEF report focused on the UK and ...
Schleswig-Holstein¡¯s state Energiewende minister and Green politician Robert Habeck calls for abolishing the electricity tax, reforming grid fees and lowering the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG)-surcharge to relieve consumers of high power costs, report dpa ...
20 Sep 2022, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security dpa / Zeit Online / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ One of the two nuclear plants in Germany slated to go into an emergency reserve until April 2023 has to undergo urgent maintenance work due to a valve ...
Large-scale renewable power production and the development of storage technology, both with power-to-x systems and batteries, can provide viable economic prospects for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal mining regions as the fossil fuel is gradually phased out, a study ...
Germany can decommission half of its coal power plants by 2030 without endangering supply security, according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). ¡°But this hinges on the precondition that the necessary grid extensions are finished by then, and that ...
In 2016, the German power supply system was more reliable than ever before, according to the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE). The average German power consumer had to cope without electricity for 11.5 minutes, ...
Advantageous regulations, decreasing overall costs, a wider offer of different models and increased demand mean that e-mobility is on the verge of breakthrough in Germany, according to consultancy McKinsey. Similar to the developments in the solar PV ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:33 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG ...
02 Oct 2024, 13:00 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ three-party coalition government is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in several elections, casting a shadow over the progress of the country¡¯s energy transition. Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ industry and ...
20 Sep 2021, 13:18 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Cost & Prices The renewable surcharge Germans pay with their power bills to finance the roll-out of wind and solar energy will decrease substantially next year, economy minister Peter Altmaier ...
The ¡°spectacular growth¡± of the wind power sector over recent years looks unlikely to continue, because of new policy frameworks such as reduced state support for renewables, as well as public opposition and slow grid expansion, writes Franz Hubik in ...
15 Sep 2022, 13:46 S?ren Amelang Solar Policy dpa / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government is introducing tax breaks for the operation of small-scale photovoltaic systems and removing other bureaucratic hurdles to speed up the ...
The transition to a climate-friendly transport sector can deliver a net economic benefit for Germany in some scenarios, but only if the country invests heavily in charging and grid infrastructure as well as workforce adjustments, according to a study by ...
20 Dec 2021, 13:33 Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Policy Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Robert Habeck, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new minister for economic affairs and climate protection, will present an ¡°opening balance¡± at the ...
Vattenfall started operation of a battery storage with its pilot project ¡°Battery 2 nd Life¡± in Hamburg. The storage is made up of 2,600 used battery modules from more than 100 electric vehicles. It has a power capacity of 2 megawatts and a storage ...
15 Sep 2021, 13:05 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S?ren Amelang Hydrogen German utilities have said that the ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ eastern European neighbours and Russia are not following the phase-out of nuclear energy that is part of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition, writes historian Anna Veronika Wendland in a guest article for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Eastern ...
05 Sep 2016
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ power supply security has improved despite the nuclear phase-out, according to a study by think tank Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Brainpool on behalf of green energy provider Greenpeace Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ. The number of power outages has decreased significantly since the ...
15 Dec 2021, 13:44 Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Renewable energy made up approximately 42 percent of the electricity consumed in Germany in 2021, according to preliminary calculations by the Centre for Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Hydrogen ...
The energy transition remains the German government coalition¡¯s ¡°largest construction site,¡± due to its gigantic regulatory needs, writes Die Welt. ¡°The goal of cutting CO? emissions by 40 percent by 2020 will clearly be missed. [¡] Grid expansion was ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE) trade union, which covers workers in the mining, chemicals and energy sectors, has welcomed the move by likely coalition partners CDU/CSU and SPD to give up on 2020 climate protection targets, Detlef ...
German utility E.ON uses a smart grid with solar and wind energy, as well as a large battery, to supply a Swedish village exclusively with renewable electricity. ¡°In order to support the balancing of the local energy system, customers are engaged to ...
A coal exit in Cottbus, the largest city of one of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ most important coal producing regions, is inevitable, writes Nick Reimer in Zeit Online. The municipal utility¡¯s lignite power plant will be taken off the grid and replaced by a new gas-fired ...
Sweden¡¯s Vattenfall AB and Norway¡¯s Statkraft AS say they might close some pumped-hydro plants in Germany, while Alpiq Holding AG may sell some units in Switzerland because they are no longer as profitable as they once were, write Weixin Zha and Jesper ...
13 Jul 2022, 12:03 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Heating Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German government ministries have launched a set of immediate action programmes that are to ensure emission reductions in the laggard buildings and transport sectors ...
In a parliamentary debate, representatives of the centre-left SPD and Greens again called on Peter Altmaier, the federal minister for economic affairs and energy, to set a date for the promised special auctions for a combined 4 gigawatts of solar ...
For the time being, economy minister Peter Altmaier will not specify a date for the launch of additional auctions for wind and solar energies, according to an article in the Handelsblatt. In their coalition treaty, the parties that make up the current ...
The governments of Germany and India aim to strengthen their energy partnership, particularly in the field of renewables. ¡°The Indian expansion target is an additional power generation capacity of 100 gigawatts (GW) of solar PV, 60 GW of wind and 15 GW of ...
Wind energy fed from offshore North Sea facilities to the mainland by German grid operator TenneT more than doubled to 5.18 terawatt hours (TWh) in the first half of 2016 ¨C compared to 2.26 TWh in the same period last year, TenneT says in a press release. ...
26 Jan 2015
26 Jan 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Online ¡°Aigner under pressure¡± Writing for S¨¹ddeutsche Online, Frank M¨¹ller reports on tensions between Bavarian energy minister Ilse Aigner and state prime minister Horst Seehofer, as Aigner prepares ...
Social Democrat and federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel blocked a reform of power grid fees for political reasons, writes Heike G?bel in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Gabriel backtracked because a reform ¡°would be very ...
The average successful bid in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ first tender for offshore windparks was ¡°far below expectations¡± at 0.44 cents/kWh, according to the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA). ¡°Offshore wind energy emphatically demonstrates its competitiveness,¡± said the ...
The European Commission has approved the funding scheme for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ plan to grant public support to landlords planning to install solar panels on the roof of apartment buildings, the Federal Ministry for the Economy & Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (BMWi) says in a press ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition is not yet perceived as a model for other countries to follow, but a successful implementation could still make it a success story and an inspiration, according to the study ¡¯Energiewende, an interim review ¨C International ...
The European Commission is considering antitrust proceedings against ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest transmission grid operator, TenneT, over suspicions that the company is creating artificial power bottlenecks on the Danish-German border, the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
The German electronics industry has called on the next German government to speed up the country¡¯s energy transition, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by wallstreet-online.de ¡°The Energiewende must finally regain its momentum,¡± Michael ...
German wind power company Max B?gl Wind has built the world¡¯s tallest wind power turbine near the southern German city of Stuttgart. In a press release, the company says the turbine, with a hub height of 178 metres and a total height of over 246 metres, ...
E.ON¡¯s record loss is the result of massive management mistakes, according to Greenpeace. ¡°Anyone who ignores the energy transition for many years, and instead bets on fossil energies, shouldn¡¯t be surprised about huge losses,¡± said Greenpeace energy ...
Sweden¡¯s Vattenfall has signed a supply contract with German carmaker BMW for batteries ¨C normally used in BMW¡¯s i3 ¨C which the utility plans to use for storage projects in wind farms in Hamburg, near Amsterdam, and in Wales, Vattenfall said in a press ...
Household power prices in Germany were the EU's highest in the second half of 2017, according to eurostat. Germans paid an average of 30.5 cents per kilowatt hour, followed by Denmark with 30.1 cents per kilowatt hour. The prices reflected that the ...
France and Germany have agreed to hold joint auctions for renewable energies, the German ministry for the economy and energy (BMWi) said in a press release. The two countries also agreed to set up a cross-border experiment dubbed ¡°Smart Border Initiative¡± ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Finance Der Spiegel The planned end of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ renewables levy will not become a burden on the country¡¯s budget this year, news magazine Der Spiegel reports. The country¡¯s so-called EEG account, which ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:30 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Corporate decision makers in Germany have voted hydrogen technologies as the most important field of action for energy ...
The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has published demands for the coming legislative period in the form of a 10-point plan. It calls for new ways to finance renewables expansion, tax-based support for energy-efficient building renovation, grid fee ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:44 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
This summer's heatwave show that Germany must exit coal quickly, according to Greenpeace. The NGO said 10 of their activists ascended a glacier on ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ highest mountain, the Zugspitze, to unfold a banner saying ¡°Summer 2018: heat, drought, ...
German utility E.ON will go ahead with listing its spin-off company Uniper in September 2016, according to a press release. The vast majority- 99.7 percent- of shareholders had agreed to the split in June and no legal case had been made against the ...
A massive expansion of France¡¯s renewable power capacity could lead to a wave of cheap nuclear power flooding the energy markets of Germany and other European countries, Markus Becker writes on Spiegel Online. The French ¡°transition ¨¦nerg¨¦tique¡± could ...
Schleswig-Holstein¡¯s state energy minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) has said NordLink ¨C a direct power connection between Norway and Germany, currently under construction ¨C is an important step for the European energy transition, Olaf Preu? reports for ...
The new Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG) is disadvantaging operators of flexible power storage devices that can switch between supplying power to the grid and self-consumption, Photovoltaik magazine?reports. Operators of such batteries must pay the renewables ...
10 Jul 2015
10 Jul 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Handelsblatt Experts disappointed by government deal on coal, grid extension Most members of the Handelsblatt¡¯s Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Academy ¨C a group made up of around 230 energy experts ¨C are disappointed with ...
Siemens has launched a new offshore wind turbine with a capacity of 8 megawatts, promising a 10 per cent increase in annual energy production compared to its previous 7MW model, reports BusinessGreen. The German engineering giant, currently in the process ...
E.ON¡¯s interest in competitor RWE¡¯s renewables spin-off innogy is also triggered by innogy¡¯s 4,000-odd existing contracts with municipalities, which grant the latter company the right to operate local grids, or give it a stake in local utilities, writes ...
17 Apr 2019, 09:50 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world¡¯s fourth largest economy, we' ...
30 Jan 2017
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ grid regulator BNetzA starts its first call for tenders for offshore wind power plants, the Federal Network Agency said in a press release. After introducing tenders for new solar power plants, the BNetzA ¡°now begins the transition to a ...
A coal phase-out is unnecessary and threatens energy security, the Coal Importer Association writes in a press release. Coal-fired power plants are needed to supply electricity to the grid during times when renewable energies cannot meet total power ...
German municipalities see energy supply and mobility management as important topics in 2030, according to a survey by the Society of Automotive?and Traffic Systems Technologies of the Association of German Engineers (VDI). 68.3 percent of the surveyed ...
The planned deal between German utility heavyweights RWE and E.ON to split up RWE¡¯s spin-off innogy between them has attracted the attention of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ cartel office, the Bundeskartellamt, Handelsblatt reports based on information provided by news ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ fourth largest utility EnBW plans to pull out of fossil power generation by 2025, according to an internal strategy paper, reports J¨¹rgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. Conventional power generation does not feature in the company¡¯s medium-term plan ...
After the sudden departure of CEO Peter Terium, German utility innogy is ¡°reviewing discretionary spending across all segments¡±, the company says in a press release. The spin-off of energy company RWE says it ¡°reiterates its financial discipline targets¡±, ...
German utility innogy will assist the country¡¯s telecommunication heavyweight Telekom in expanding its broadband internet access, Ina Karabasz and J¨¹rgen Flauger write in Handelsblatt Global Edition. Initially reluctant to rely on partners to develop high ...
A trial by utility Stadtwerke Hannover and university researchers has shown that electric cars are suitable to serve as flexible power storage to balance the grid, reports Bernd Haase in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. During the trial with 40 e-cars, it ...
¡°Considerable legal concerns¡± could stand in the way of German farmers¡¯ demand for recurring compensation payments if power lines are built on their land, according to a law firm report commissioned by energy industry association the German Association of ...
20 May 2015
20 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) ¡°The godmother of climate receives visitors¡± The Petersberg Climate Dialogue is Angela Merkel¡¯s reaction to the failed climate summit of Copenhagen ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy and climate policy lacks decisiveness and a coherent approach, according to representatives of the country¡¯s industries. ¡°Germany must urgently take an integral approach to the climate-friendly modernisation of our economy, instead of ...
German household power prices rose by an average of 3 percent in 2017, price comparison website check24.de says in a press release. ¡°Power customers on average pay 1,426 euros for 5,000 kilowatt hours. At the beginning of the year, the price was 1,387 ...
27 Sep 2022, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Background / Deutsche Welle Authorities in Germany, Sweden and Denmark are investigating a sudden drop of pressure in the two offshore Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines ...
The German Free Democratic Party (FDP) approved its election campaign programme at a federal party conference. The FDP wants to ¡°end the sustained subsidies system of the EEG [Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act]¡± with its priority grid access and feed-in tariffs for ...
Robert Habeck, Schleswig-Holstein state minister for the Energiewende, calls for reducing ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ renewables surcharge, instead of increasing it as grid operators did today, writes the regional newspaper shz. Habeck proposes a government-administered ...
20 Dec 2021, 10:55 The start of Germany's new government makes 2022 a crucial year for the country's landmark energy transition. All eyes are on the three-way coalition's first steps towards implementing its ambitious climate plans, which ...
Germany needs a four-pronged strategy to get its Energiewende on track to meet emissions and renewables targets, writes Felix Matthes, head of the Institute for Applied Ecology (?ko-Institut), in an opinion piece for weekly newspaper Die Zeit. The country ...
Contrary to many utilities in other European countries, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ E.ON and RWE lack a proper strategy for dealing with the energy transition, Bloomberg analyst Elchin Mammadov says on Dow Jones Newswires. The split-up of RWE¡¯s spin-off innogy between ...
The tenant electricity draft law introduced by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ economy ministry (BMWi) is an ¡°utterly wrong¡± policy approach that turns the principle of ¡°competition instead of allocation¡± upside down, Andreas Mihm writes in an opinion piece for Frankfurter ...
16 Aug 2018, 16:59 While touring critical power grid projects in northern Germany, energy minister Peter Altmaier also faced a troubled wind industry that fears its golden years in the country are over. Under pressure from workers and local politicians, ...
Europe¡¯s solar industry should think about cooperating with China instead of placing import tariffs on Chinese PV products, writes Stephan Scheuer in an op-ed for Handelsblatt. The tariffs disadvantage consumers in Europe and slow down the solar expansion ...
28 Nov 2018, 16:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Wind Technology International Stiftung Offshore Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Together with international partners, the German economy and energy ministry (BMWi) has initiated a project to study the removal of ...
Next year¡¯s power price increase is not the fault of wind and solar power generation operators, writes Olaf Ridder in a commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. The rise is the price consumers have to pay for the delay in grid extensions, one of many ...
Nearly 50 percent of the almost 690,000 jobs in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy industry depend on renewable energy sources, Hinrich Neumann writes on website Top Agrar. According to a study by energy consultancy GWS Research, almost 340,000 people were employed in the ...
Europe¡¯s first ever cross-border solar tender sees five Danish solar developers snapping up 50 megawatts in a German tender for construction of five solar projects in Denmark, reports Ian Clover in pv magazine. Winning bids of EUR 5.38 cents/kWh were ...
The German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) and the Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) have called for an increased focus on energy transition in heating to enable Germany to reach its emissions reduction targets. ¡°Unlike in the power market, the share ...
The governments of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, two of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ northernmost federal states, have announced the goal to supply the region with 100 percent renewable power by 2035, reports Andreas Dey in Hamburger Abendblatt. Hamburg Mayor Peter ...
07 Jan 2021, 13:56 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur f¨¹r Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ An overwhelming but slightly shrinking majority of people ...
10 Jan 2022, 13:26 Edgar Meza Gas Security WirtschaftsWoche As energy prices in Germany continue to rise, the chairman of the German Bundestag¡¯s climate committee, Klaus Ernst, is pushing for the controversial Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline to begin ...
Despite their massive size, offshore wind farms only contribute 1.3 percent to ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ power supply because they are expensive and grid connections are problematic, writes J¨¹rgen D?schner in a commentary for public regional broadcaster Radio Bremen. ...
German utility EnBW acquired a 37.5 percent stake in each of three offshore wind projects in Taiwan with a potential total volume of approximately 2,000 megawatt, marking the first such investment outside Europe in the group¡¯s renewables expansion, ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Offshore wind power capacity in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ territorial waters grew steadily in 2018, but the wind power industry says it will have to speed up to meet energy transition ...
08 Mar 2017
Between 1.5 and 2.8 million birds die each year in Germany from colliding with high-voltage overhead power lines, according to a report published by Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU). ¡°In light of the transmission grid expansion needed for ...
Household electricity costs will reach a high in 2017, price comparison site Verivox has calculated. The average annual price per kilowatt-hour (kWh) will be 28.18 cents, 3 percent more than in 2016 and up from 17.81 cents in 2004. This means a family of ...
Last year, German households had their power cut off due to unpaid bills?around 330,000 times, according to the draft of the Federal Network Agency's (BNetzA) annual monitoring report, seen by news agency dpa. This represents a small year-on-year ...
The next federal government should help low-income households afford electricity, through measures such as special rates or free basic volumes that cannot be cut off, Timot Szent-Ivanyi says in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Rundschau. Szent-Ivanyi says ...
Wholesale power prices in Germany fell by four percent in 2017, price comparison website Verivox says in a press release. Prices at the electricity exchange EEX fell to 31.3 euros per megawatt hour (MWh), compared to 32.6 eur/MWh in the year before, ...
German transmission grid operators confirmed today that the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG)-surcharge will rise from the current 6.35 cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) to 6.88 ct/kWh in 2017. The EEG surcharge covers the difference between the wholesale market ...
24 Apr 2020, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Storage Cost & Prices S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Reinsurer Munich Re has said it will be the first to offer insurance of the long-term performance of large-scale storage facilities, writes S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. The possibility ...
23 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Hydrogen Reuters Nuclear commission wants utilities to supplement clean-up provisions The commission on payments for the nuclear clean-up insists that nuclear power station ...
20 Jan 2015
20 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Handelsblatt ¡°Attack on coal¡± // Interview with Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Minister Sigmar Gabriel ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Minister for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ has "ended the debate over capacity payments to fossil-fuelled ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ grid agency BNetzA has said it will lower the maximum support rate in the second round of auctions for offshore wind power. Support will be reduced to a maximum of 10 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), after average support in the first round ...
22 Feb 2021, 12:28 Expert dena- German Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A large majority of Germans opposes a general ban of combustion engine ...
11 Mar 2022, 13:45 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Security G20 & G7 Clean ...
The decision to lay ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ planned major high-voltage power transmission lines S¨¹dLink and S¨¹dOstLink predominantly below ground has done little to calm resistance to both projects, writes Laura Cwiertnia for Zeit Online. Farmers worry that their soil ...
In his final speech in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament in Kiel on Thursday, Robert Habeck, former state environment minister and current Green Party co-chair, praised the positive economic impact of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition. ¡°It is a ...
15 Jun 2021, 12:50 Edgar Meza Digitalisation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The digitalisation of the energy transition process again made noticeable progress last year, but long-awaited regulations are still pending, according to the latest study commissioned by the ...
07 Mar 2022, 13:56 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
07 Mar 2022, 13:52 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & ...
A joint venture of BMW, Bosch, Daimler, EnBW, RWE and Siemens wants to enable e-car drivers to charge their vehicles using only renewable power at more than half of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ e-car charging stations, reports business magazine Wirtschaftswoche. Their ...
By the end of 2017, renewables expansion in Germany exceeded targets by a considerable margin, but the country still lags behind on several other energy transition indicators, writes Hubertus Bardt for the industry-sponsored research institute IW K?ln in ...
18 Aug 2015
18 Aug 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°The Goliath in open-cast mining¡± The illegal protests against open-cast mining in Western Germany over the weekend are strongly reminiscent of the violent demonstrations in the country against ...
The German Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation (BEE) says the country¡¯s coal exit plan should be accompanied by a plan to achieve 100 percent renewable energy supply. ¡°Only planning security for industry can lay the foundations for investments¡± and prevent ...
Renewable energy generation in Germany is being disadvantaged by the practice of leading utilities RWE, E.ON and Vattenfall of selling electricity well into the future, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR) reports. By ...
02 Dec 2020, 13:42 Kerstine Appunn Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Up to two thirds of the gross value added by investments in local energy infrastructure and production remain in the German state where the investment takes place, an? analysis ?by ...
German farmers and land owners should be compensated when their property is used for? planned underground direct current power lines, the German Farmers¡¯ Association¡¯s (DBV) general secretary Bernhard Kr¨¹sken has said in a letter to the economy ministry, ...
29 May 2024, 15:19 One year later than originally planned, French president Emmanuel Macron paid a three-day state visit to Germany that allowed him to reinforce calls for closer European cooperation in the week before the EU elections. Both Macron and ...
Nigeria, Africa¡¯s most populous country and largest economy, can cover a big share of its growing energy demand with solar power, the German industry lobby group BSW Solar says in a press release. In an in-depth analysis of Nigeria¡¯s solar power potential ...
Germany could ramp up its biomethane production from the current 9 terawatt hours (tWh) per year to 100 tWh by 2050, the German Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency (dena) says in a press release. ¡°Biomethane can contribute significantly to the energy transition without any ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:20 Expert BVMW- German Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses Bundesverband mittelst?ndische Wirtschaft Cost & Prices S?ren Amelang Renewables Wind Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's sea ports are not ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ planned financial support for reserve power plants has been met with scepticism by the European Commission, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Handelsblatt. The Commission has doubts about the necessity of this ¡°important part of ...
Many electricity suppliers in Germany will not lower their prices in 2018, even though falling wholesale power prices and grid fees mean they have leeway to do so, Thomas ?chsner reports for the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ average 2017 power price was ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:17 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K?ln Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ At the Handelsblatt Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Summit earlier this month, German economy ...
04 Sep 2020, 14:00 Kerstine Appunn Cars Focus Online German transport minister Andreas Scheuer has called for a ¡°well-developed and cross-border network of [charging] stations in Europe which guarantees uncomplicated and fast recharging¡± for electric and ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:03 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Solar Storage Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The number of solar power storage devices ...
According to business consultancy PwC, there are around 100 "virtual power plants" in Germany, which usually pool different kinds of renewable energy projects, Steffen Ermisch reports in Handelsblatt. 37 of them participate in the market for ...
Oskar Lafontaine, a prominent German politician and Left Party leader in the small German state Saarland, frequently makes his opposition towards rapid expansion of wind power a campaign topic for this week¡¯s state elections, writes Christoph Schmidt ...
Cooperation and the bundling of resources can help local German utilities cope with? challenges brought on by the energy transition, writes J¨¹rgen Flauger in the Handelsblatt. Local utilities in Cologne, D¨¹sseldorf and Duisburg have initiated cooperation ...
20 May 2021, 12:31 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A new masterplan developed by three Fraunhofer research institutes outlines how a successful hydrogen industry can be developed in eastern Germany. The transition from fossil fuels to sustainably ...
01 Sep 2021, 13:29 Edgar Meza Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / pv magazine The German Solar Association (BSW Solar) is calling for a ¡°rapid dismantling of market barriers¡± in view of an ongoing slump in the commercial rooftop photovoltaic (PV) segment. Companies ...
08 Sep 2015
08 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Frankfurter Rundschau Nuclear decommissioning: Environmental activists worried about security An alliance of 76 environmental groups is demanding stricter security standards and more public ...
Peter Altmaier¡¯s track record as ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ economy and energy minister lacks actions, particularly in energy policy, Antje H?ning and Birgit Marschall write in the Rheinische Post. ¡°The energy transition resembles a construction site, and the planned coal ...
15 Aug 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Leading members of the German government have renewed calls for perseverance and willingness to make sacrifices to beat the energy crisis, with the upcoming heating season set to drive up ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:31 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Gas Wind Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Engineering conglomerate Siemens, oil giant Shell and German grid operator TenneT have called for stepping up the country¡¯s plans to roll out offshore wind, in ...
The cost of wind farm construction in the North Sea continues to decline as these farms become connected to the grid, according to the European electricity transmission system operator TenneT. In the tender for a new substation and its 90-kilometre cable ...
The German Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency (dena) and its French counterpart ADEME welcome the initiative to renew the seminal ?lys¨¦e Treaty between the two countries, and to intensify cooperation in many areas, including energy policy and climate protection, the dena says ...
Germany must ¡°expand the lessons it has learned to the European level¡± and integrate the German and European energy systems in order to make the energy transition a durable success, writes Thomas Cunningham in an in-depth paper for the Global Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
Germany spent a record 26.3 billion euros on supporting renewable energy development in 2017, reports Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, citing data released by the country¡¯s four power transmission grid operators (TSO) on Renewable ...
14 Aug 2015
14 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federal Network Agency / German Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation (BEE) 33 successful bids in second PV auction round ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ second-ever photovoltaic tendering round has resulted in 33 successful bids ...
08 Feb 2017
There was ¡°strong competition¡± in the first solar tender following this year¡¯s changes in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Law, according to the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA). Winning bids for arrays with a capacity of more than 750 kilowatts averaged 6.58 cents ...
21 Jun 2016
21 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) Climate Action Plan 2050 delayed The Climate Action Plan 2050 that is to describe a pathway and policy measures for Germany to cut its ...
17 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016, 00:00 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federal Environment Agency ¡°Climate protection contributions of the transport sector by 2050¡± Germany's transport sector will need to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by about 98 percent to ...
Exempting citizens¡¯ energy projects from subsidy auctions for green power fed into the grid ¨C laid out in the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act reform ¨C could ensure the continued presence of these small decentralised companies and thus the population¡¯s support for ...
04 May 2021, 12:12 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Security Handelsblatt / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German politicians have said that Ukraine could have ¡°a key role¡± in Europe¡¯s future supply with hydrogen,? reports business daily Handelsblatt. Germany and Europe had ...
Denmark is the only European country where customers pay more for power than in Germany, Michael H?fling writes in weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Danes pay about 31 euros for 100 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity ¨C one euro more than the Germans and ...
14 Feb 2019, 13:52 Rachel Waldholz Utilities Handelsblatt A deal by German power companies RWE and E.ON to reshape German energy markets could face resistance from regulators, J¨¹rgen Flauger, Till Hoppe and Jeremy Gray report for business daily ...
17 Jun 2021, 12:00 As the German election campaign kicks into its next gear, the chancellor candidates of the country¡¯s major parties met face to face on Wednesday to discuss climate and energy issues at an event organised by energy industry association ...
The need for reform in German energy policy is ¡°piling up¡± under the current grand coalition government, said Oliver Krischer, deputy leader of the Greens parliamentary group in a plenary debate on the economy and energy budget for 2019. Economy minister ...
In its 2017 first quarter results report, German renewables utility innogy warned that prospects in the British retail market had sharply deteriorated as a result of fierce competition, Reuters reports. Overall, the company posted an increase in earnings ...
08 Apr 2022, 14:13 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & ...
23 Feb 2015
23 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Tagesspiegel ¡°Distribute radioactive legacy throughout the country¡± Because only two German states have volunteered to store nuclear waste returning from processing plants abroad, the radioactive ...
German gas company Thyssengas is planning a new pipeline that would connect its grid with the proposed Russian project Nord Stream 2- even while the latter is strongly disputed, writes J¨¹rgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. The company argues that gas supplies ...
Financial support for pv installations in Germany has fallen slightly for plants starting operation in the second quarter of 2017, the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) said in a press release. Remuneration for small pv plants fell from 12.30 to 12.27 cents ...
29 Apr 2020, 13:15 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy ...
If the extensive deal between E.ON and RWE goes through, ¡°old rivals" will "become partners under the pressure of the energy transition¡± and create ¡°a new order in the German energy industry¡± by organising a clear ¡°division of labour¡±, Helmut ...
21 Dec 2020, 12:52 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Utilities Tagesspiegel / Die Welt German energy company RWE has shut down its first lignite unit as part of the country's coal phase-out, ...
A household near Berlin has commissioned ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ 100,000 th residential battery storage system. At an official ceremony, state secretary Thomas Bareiss called the threshold an ¡° important milestone ¡± for the country¡¯s energy transition. ¡°Storage systems ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:36 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Energiewende ...
The price for onshore wind power fell a further ten percent in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ third auction for the technology to an average of 3.8 cents per kilowatt-hour. The federal grid agency (BNetzA) said the winning bids came almost exclusively from projects proposed ...
Germany is not the ¡°poster child¡± it likes to portray itself as, writes Ursula Weidenfeld in an opinion piece in Tagesspiegel. She points to the German government¡¯s Nord Stream 2 policy, years of electricity loop flows through neighbouring countries, and ...
Unfavourable political conditions have stalled plans for the construction of the Franzosenkopf pumped-storage hydropower plant near the city of Mainz, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The plant is meant to store power from solar and wind power for ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall expects ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ capital Berlin to boast about 250,000 electric cars by the end of the next decade, compared to 1,700 currently registered in the city, Jens Tartler writes in the Tagesspiegel. Vattenfall¡¯s Thomas Sch?fer says ...
Dutch sustainable energy group Eneco has teamed up with Japanese industrial giant Mitsubishi to build Europe¡¯s largest battery in the north of Germany, which will supply sustainable reserve capacity to the grid. ¡°The battery system will be able to take ...
The German Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries (IG BCE) has called for a comprehensive investment programme in order to meet the country¡¯s climate targets for 2020, Jens Heitmann writes in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ). The ...
09 Apr 2021, 12:20 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Berlin has expanded its ...
The exceptionally sunny weather in Germany is lavishing owners of solar panels with a lot of money, according to an article published on Welt Online. However, the rate of remuneration varies widely: those who installed solar panels in the early 2000s ...
30 Dec 2014, 00:00 After an eventful 2014 ¨C marked by the reform of the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG), a new climate action package and the first fall in CO2 emissions for two years ¨C German energy policy is primed for action in 2015. Expert AGEB- AG ...
German utility RWE saw a 13 percent earnings drop in the first nine months of the year, reflecting tough conditions in conventional power generation in Germany, reports Guy Chazan for the Financial Times. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and ...
To secure the transport of large quantities of renewable power to the main consumption centres in Europe, an extension of the current electricity grid is needed, according to the ten-year network development plan (TYNDP) published by European Network of ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal elections in September will also be a decision ¡°on the direction of the country¡¯s energy policy¡± and a lot depends on which parties form a government coalition, Arne Jungjohann writes on website China Dialogue. With near-term [climate ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:12 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Electricity ...
Germany can take the most climate-damaging coal power stations off the grid by 2020 while also accelerating its nuclear exit without putting supply security at risk, according to an analysis by Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). In a detailed ¡°shutdown ...
Fairer distribution of the costs of the Germany's energy transition could save consumers and the retail sector up to 5.2 billion euros, according to a joint paper from the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) and the Association of ...
German utility RWE¡¯s green subsidiary innogy reported a 7 percent fall in EBITDA? in the first nine months of 2016 compared to the same period last year. The decline in profits comes one month after the company¡¯s stock market debut in October. ¡°The ...
12 Feb 2016
12 Feb 2016, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°ætransition.de ¡°Gas makes a (small) comeback in Germany¡± There are signs that gas turbines have become profitable again in Germany, even though they continue to produce very little power, Craig Morris reports ...
The German Solar Association (BSW) and the German Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association (BWE) ¡°regard the first joint auction [for onshore wind and solar power] as a failure,¡± and call for separate auctions to be held in the future, the two organisations write in a ...
The mining and manufacturing industry in Germany contributed 11.2 percent of the country¡¯s gross power production in 2016, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has said in a press release. With a total of 54 terawatt hours, the share was 0.8 ...
The former border between West and East Germany could become a problem for the country¡¯s much-needed power transmission highways SuedLink and SuedOstLink, Andreas Mihm writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The government of the eastern German ...
German consumers overwhelmingly support an open and competitive electricity market, while many blame the country¡¯s green energy levy and additional taxes for rising electricity costs, Kathrin Witsch writes in Handelsblatt, citing a survey conducted by ...
The planned construction of a second Baltic Sea natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, known as Nord Stream 2, is not necessary to secure natural gas supplies for Germany and Europe, according to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:19 S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Die Zeit Germany is lagging behind in climate action and the country is likely to miss its sectoral targets for emission reductions this year, the country's new climate and economy "super ...
A new online platform by German utility association BDEW and business consultancy PwC aims to share experiences with alternative mobility and integrated city concepts, BDEW said in a press release. The website eco-mobility.org introduces the latest ...
08 Jan 2016
08 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Handelsblatt ¡°Greens sharpen their eco-profile¡± ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Green Party has called for a coal exit by 2036, Barbara Gillmann reports in the Handelsblatt. By that time, petrol and diesel cars should ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Digitalisation Government Security Handelsblatt The Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Market Innovators (BNE), a lobby group of grid-independent energy suppliers in Germany, has criticised the German ...
An 18 percent drop in global expenditure on renewable energy last year does not mean the energy transition is losing support, Stefan Merx writes for Handelsblatt. Figures compiled by Bloomberg New Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Finance merely reflected that costs for installing ...
11 Mar 2022, 13:50 Expert BWE- German Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The second oversubscribed onshore wind ...
Mining Union IG BCE, which represents many workers at car industry suppliers and is a fierce opponent of a quick coal exit, has called for a ¡°future commission transport transition¡± shortly after the upcoming elections, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
The auto sector will remain one of the steel industry's biggest customers, because the switch to e-mobility demands large quantities of steel for component parts, charging stations, power grids and power stations, Helmut B¨¹nder writes for?Frankfurter ...
German utility RWE may build a gas power plant to replace power generation currently provided by nuclear power station Gundremmingen in Bavaria, writes Michael Gassmann in Welt. One of the two remaining reactors at Gundremmingen is scheduled for shutdown ...
German power customers are at risk of paying more if nuclear plants in regions with a high share of renewable energy sources are allowed to produce more energy, the council of federal state governments in Germany (Bundesrat) has warned. Nuclear plant ...
Eastern German coal-fired power plants proved to be flexible in unstable weather conditions over the holidays, writes Simone Wendler in Lausitzer Rundschau. The plants had to quickly be powered down or restarted at times of volatile wind power feed-in ...
Despite very different conditions for solar power in India and Germany, the former could learn from the European country¡¯s experience that the government is not the primary actor in the market, but should act as a facilitator, writes Tobias Engelmeier for ...
The German commercial and industrial, as well as utility-scale storage markets, are surprisingly weak compared to the booming residential storage market, writes Julian Spector for Greentech Media. The weakness comes ¡°in part because of its regionally ...
The Energiewende enters a new phase with more emphasis on new technologies and e-mobility ¨C driven by citizens ¨C than on the nuclear exit and the switch to renewable energies, German utility EnBW¡¯s CEO, Frank Mastiaux, tells Bernd Freytag and Susanne ...
The Economy Minister of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Andreas Pinkwart, has called for compensation payments from the federal budget if Germany accelerates its coal exit, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. ¡°The ...
28 Jun 2022, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Cars Efficiency EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ European energy ministers have agreed on reaching a share of 40 percent renewables in the EU¡¯s energy mix by 2030, thus increasing the previous 32-percent target and ...
14 Dec 2021, 13:07 Expert BEE- German Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association Bundesverband ...
18 Jun 2021, 13:05 Edgar Meza Wind Tagesspiegel Background The German government is examining how it can support the domestic offshore wind sector, which is suffering from a slowdown in activity, Steven Hanke writes in Tagesspiegel Background, citing a ...
A rapid decommissioning of fossil and nuclear power plants in Germany ¡°poses the risk of knowingly causing an undersupply of guaranteed capacity by 2023 the latest¡±, says the Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries (BDEW) in a response to an analysis ...
About a third of German utilities will raise their electricity prices by an average of 3.5 percent in 2017, according to price comparison website verivox. This means additional costs of 41 euros per year for an average four-person home. The suppliers ...
Germany might have to discontinue a central instrument of the Energiewende in light of EU Commission plans to remove priority dispatch for renewable electricity, writes Stefan Schultz for Spiegel Online. In countries where renewables facilities produce a ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:38 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Frankfurter Rundschau The three candidates in the race to succeed CDU party leader Armin ...
Rail industry associations and key companies have presented their joint vision of a climate friendly, cost-effective regional rail transport of the future, so that it can ¡°bid farewell to the diesel drive¡±, writes the transport alliance Allianz pro ...
Spinning off its fossil operations into Uniper is costing German utility E.ON dear, reports J¨¹rgen Flauger in business daily Handelsblatt. Because Uniper¡¯s market capitalisation is much lower than the figure on E.ON¡¯s books, the company had to post a net ...
04 Feb 2020, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Energiewende ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ power supply is secure at the moment, but continued grid expansion delays would pose a great challenge, the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) said in a press release accompanying its 8th ...
The EEG surcharge ¨C ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ levy to support renewables expansion that consumers pay with their power bill ¨C will fall to 6.792 cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) in 2018, from 6.88 ct/kWh in 2017. The country¡¯s four transmission grid operators (TSOs) ...
Electric cars are going to spread in Germany sooner or later, and the country¡¯s infrastructure must be made ready for this boom soon, Hans Riebsamen writes in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Especially the larger urban areas that ...
After several hours of negotiations on diesel emissions and immigration, the federal government coalition also agreed that it would decide to implement special renewables auctions ¡°to contribute to closing the gap in the 2020 climate target¡± in a cabinet ...
Germany invested 14.6 billion US dollars in clean energy in 2017, a decrease of 26 percent compared to the previous year, and the lowest since 2004, says Bloomberg New Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Finance (BNEF) in its 2017 report on global investment in renewable energies. ...
Heat pumps as an alternative to fossil fuels for heating could be a viable option for northern German regions but less so in the country¡¯s south, Harald Czycholl writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Northern German regions, like neighbouring Denmark, ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition not only misses 2020 climate targets but fails on many other accounts too, according to the head of an expert commission tasked with monitoring the Energiewende¡¯s progress. ¡°Efficiency is a particular problem,¡± economist ...
The surplus on ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ green energy account continues to exceed five billion euros, compared to 4.3 billion euros in May 2016, reports Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. But the surplus will shrink over the summer to pay for seasonally ...
Extreme weather events in Germany led to a slight increase in power outages in 2015, according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). The average outage per consumer rose to 12.7 minutes from 12.28 minutes in 2014. ¡°The slight increase in supply ...
Citizens, politicians, and the industry all agree that ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition must continue- but a clear plan on exactly how does not exist, writes Joachim Wille in Frankfurter Rundschau. ¡°How central or decentral should the Energiewende be designed? ...
10 Sep 2021, 14:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The latest round of offshore wind power auctions in Germany has led to three bids claiming zero support for their operations wining the tender, the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) ...
Germany enjoys one of the highest levels of power supply security in the world, Lausitzer Rundschau reports, citing information provided by the German government in response to an enquiry by the Green Party. The country¡¯s already high level of power ...
As global new investment in renewable energies grew in 2017, Germany spent less on new renewable installations because the costs of offshore wind power have dropped, and the shift to auctions for onshore wind has created uncertainty, according to a report ...
The continued renewables development in Germany could be realised with only half of the high-voltage direct current power lines currently planned, according to a study by Prognos AG, commissioned by German power supplier N-Ergie. ¡°The currently lagging ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal government lacks an overall strategy for the electrification of the country¡¯s railway network, according to the lobby group Pro-Rail Alliance. Citing the latest EU comparative figures, the Alliance said there were large differences in ...
Regulatory hurdles hamper flexible energy storage systems from contributing to their full potential to the success of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition, Stefan Kapferer, head of utilities lobby BDEW, said in a press release. ¡°It¡¯s time energy storages received ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:50 Expert Vattenfall Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ company Electricity market Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Cost & Prices Tagesschau / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The modern coal plant Moorbug owned by Swedish energy company Vattenfall had turned into a liability ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:54 Julian Wettengel Coal Bloomberg ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government has allocated less money for closing coal-fired power plants than the utilities that own them expected, reports Bloomberg. A government official told the news outlet that Chancellor ...
12 Nov 2014, 00:00 After more than a decade of rising electricity prices, German utilities are passing on some of their savings from lower wholesale prices and a cut in the renewable energy surcharge. But with a number of government decisions on the next ...
The grid reform proposal threatens to undermine the economics of decentralised power stations, according to utility association BDEW. ¡°The government risks that controllable and flexible decentralised power generators are pushed out of the market,¡± said ...
The deal between energy companies E.ON and RWE is an attempt to stem their decline by each focusing on a part of the old conventional energy world that may come costly to consumers and ultimately to the whole economy, energy economist Claudia Kemfert from ...
The ongoing transformation of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy system towards decentralised renewable power sources could reduce the country¡¯s dependence on fossil fuel reserves in the event of a major blackout, Peter Lauwe of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and ...
13 Aug 2015
13 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ RWE RWE operating result down by 11 percent / increased earnings from renewables ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ second biggest energy utility RWE reported a reduced operating result and EBITDA for the first six months ...
31 Oct 2014, 00:00 The German government plans a complete overhaul of energy sector legislation. But one key question is as yet unanswered: Do fossil power plants need subsidies if Germany is to avoid power shortages? A green paper on energy market reform ...
Innogy, the green subsidiary of German energy provider RWE, could be the biggest stock market launch of any German company since the year 2000 ¨C but renewable energy likely only plays a minor role for its expected success, write Varinia Bernau and ...
21 Jul 2015
21 Jul 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Vattenfall Impairment losses and higher provisions for German operations Impairment losses and higher provisions for its German activities, as well as low electricity prices, widened losses at Swedish utility ...
Two months after the surprise departure of CEO Peter Terium, renewable utility innogy is in crisis, and neither the management nor majority owner RWE have a plan to get out of the mess created by a profit drop, writes Angela Hennersdorf in the business ...
17 Jul 2015
17 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) "European Commission has missed the opportunity for innovation in CO2 intensive materials" The EU Commission¡¯s proposal for carbon leakage ...
01 Apr 2020, 15:12 S?ren Amelang Renewables Solar pv magazine The combined capacity of Germany's solar pv installations rose to almost 50 gigawatts (GW) in February, further approaching the controversial government cap of 52 gigawatts,? reports ...
Nowhere in Germany are the effects of the energy transition more visible than in the Northwest, the centre of the country¡¯s wind power industry, writes Volker K¨¹hn in Nordwest-Zeitung. ¡°With wind power¡¯s stormy expansion on and offshore, the region has ...
22 Jan 2021, 14:13 S?ren Amelang Coal Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's most prominent hard coal power plant to be decommissioned as part of the country's coal exit is set to become a production site for renewable hydrogen. Oil major Shell, ...
The chief energy policy negotiator of German Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU in the ongoing ¡®Jamaica coalition¡¯ talks, North Rhine-Westphalia¡¯s (NRW) State Premier Armin Laschet, said that Germany could give up coal-fired power production by ...
31 Mar 2020, 14:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ offshore wind industry calls on the next federal government to increase the expansion corridors for offshore wind to at least 20 gigawatt (GW) by 2030 (at the moment: 15 GW), and to 30 GW by 2035, according to a joint press release issued by ...
Costs such as the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG) surcharge and power grid fees make electricity artificially expensive and keep companies from ramping up production at times of low wholesale power prices, Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) president Eric ...
