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  • 27 Apr 2023 |
    EU

    鶹 transition in EU takes centre stage in quest for climate neutrality

    27 Apr 2023, 10:21 The transition to a climate-friendly economy is not a purely national challenge. This is nowhere more apparent than in the EU, where the European Commission has introduced the “Green Deal” growth strategy as the centrepiece of all ...
  • 02 Jun 2021 |

    Germany between citizens’ energy and Nimbyism

    The People's Energiewende 02 Jun 2021, 11:00 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 ...
  • 24 Feb 2023 |

    Putin’s war against Ukraine and its implications for the German and EU energy transition

    End of dependence on Russian fossil fuels 24 Feb 2023, 10:40 After one year of war in Ukraine, Europe's energy and security architecture has gone through momentous changes. Germany and other European nations have largely made themselves independent ...
  • Towns and cities central to heating and transport transition

    Cities, municipalities, and the Energiewende 26 May 2017, 00:00 Germany’s energy transition is a vast national project that is reshaping the entire country. But, of course, it is also taking place on a local level. With the shift to a decentralised energy ...
  • 16 May 2017 |

    Battered utilities take on start-ups in innovation race

    Utilities and the energy transition 16 May 2017, 00:00 As more and more countries around the globe embark on the transition to a low-carbon economy, a lot of lessons can be learned from the fate of Germany’s embattled power companies. Shaken to the core ...
  • The power market and the energy transition

    The country of the Energiewende strengthens competition and flexibility 26 Aug 2015, 00:00 The Energiewende involves tough choices for politicians: How will Germany organise the market around the ever-increasing share of renewable energy? What happens if ...
  • 05 Nov 2014 |

    The social impact of Germany's energy transition

    How the Energiewende is transforming Germany as we know it 05 Nov 2014, 00:00 Germany's energy revolution is having a far-reaching impact on everything from the landcsape to education, as farmers earn more from their "energy harvest" than ...
  • 09 Mar 2016 |

    Car giant Germany struggles to ignite Energiewende in transportation

    The energy transition and Germany’s transport sector 09 Mar 2016, 00:00 When it comes to the automobile, Germany flaunts unique gravitas. The German engineer Karl Benz invented the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine 130 years ago. ...
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  • 26 Aug 2020 |

    Coronavirus crisis accelerates investments in sustainability – RWE CEO

    26 Aug 2020, 12:24 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities Handelsblatt The coronavirus crisis is accelerating investments in sustainability rather than pushing aside climate change as a ...
  • 15 Jul 2022 |

    Gas supply crisis to push Germany into recession – Deutsche Bank analysts

    15 Jul 2022, 13:40 Sven Egenter Finance Security 鶹 Russia’s cuts to natural gas supplies and the wider economic fallout from the war against Ukraine will push the German economy into recession, analysts at Deutsche Bank forecast. “A likely ...
  • 08 Jul 2016 |

    “In the end the customer pays”

    Katherina Reiche, managing director of the municipal utility association VKU wants the government to establish better conditions for local utilities and keep an eye on the cost efficiency of the energy transition and security of supply in Germany, she ...
  • Third German energy relief package introduces power price brake, windfall taxes, and freezes CO2-price

    05 Sep 2022, 13:10 With its third energy cost relief package since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the German government hopes to alleviate concerns over skyrocketing prices for heating and electricity in the coming winter. The large package worth ...
  • 30 Jun 2016 |

    “Gabriel’s dream of a green island”

    The German government exports the Energiewende and supports the development of renewable energies outside the country’s borders, like on the Greek island of Tilos, writes Handelsblatt. Economy minister Sigmar Gabriel is on a two day visit to Greece to ...
  • 04 Nov 2016 |

    Security standby of lignite plants will cost 230 million euros

    The German government continues to assume that a planned security standby of lignite plants will result in costs of about 230 million euros over seven years, it said in an answer to a parliamentary inquiry by the Green party. The security standby is also ...
  • 20 May 2022 |

    State CDU says gas power plants needed for supply security, but NGOs decry reliance

    20 May 2022, 13:44 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg ...
  • “Why Germany needs a European Energiewende”

    It is in Germany’s immediate interest to embrace the European dimension of the Energiewende, argues Rebecca Bertram in a blog post for energytransition.org. “Germany needs Europe to drive its own Energiewende forward,” writes Bertram, citing German power ...
  • Share of renewables record high in net public power supply in 2017

    In 2017, renewables represented a record of around 38.5 percent of public net power generation (33.8 percent in 2016), writes Bruno Burger of Fraunhofer ISE in an end-of-year assessment. In total, renewables contributed 15 percent more to Germany’s public ...
  • 20 Feb 2017 |

    “Wind power has the potential to divide a federal state”

    The strength of the Greens in this autumn’s federal elections will depend on the party’s results in the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in May, says the state’s Energiewende minister and Green politician Robert Habeck in an interview with Welt am ...
  • German coal states' economy ministers warn against “hasty exit plans”

    The economy ministers of the German coal states Brandenburg, Saxony, and North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have warned the country’s coal exit commission against coming up with “hasty” scenarios for phasing out fossil power sources. In a press release issued ...
  • 25 Jun 2018 |

    RWE head Schmitz says German coal exit by 2030 is impossible

    Germany will not be able to phase out coal-fired power production by 2030, said Rolf Martin Schmitz, head of RWE, the country’s biggest power producer and Europe’s biggest private emitter of CO 2. In an interview with the Rheinische Post on the eve of the ...
  • 15 Feb 2017 |

    Utility EnBW’s CEO: Coal exit “not a problem for us”

    German utility EnBW’s CEO,  Frank Mastiaux, said a coal exit decided by  Germany’s next government  would “not be an existential problem" for the company. In an interview with Greenpeace Magazin, Mastiaux said his company had “already included”  a ...
  • 10 Jan 2022

    “Greenflation” for energy transition resources could derail Germany’s climate plans – analysis

    10 Jan 2022, 13:30 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 鶹 / RND Quickly rising prices for raw materials needed to build a fossil-free energy infrastructure could ...
  • Merkel says grid expansion “absolute priority” after elections

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called the expansion of the country’s power grid an “absolute priority” for the next legislative period. At a convention of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), Merkel said Germany was “lagging behind on all ...
  • 06 Oct 2016 |

    “Innogy to become most valuable utility”

    The stock market launch of innogy could make RWE’s green subsidiary Germany’s most valuable utility, writes Antje Höning in Rheinische Post. If the stock price of 36 euros- determined by auction- remains unchanged, innogy will be worth around 20 billion ...
  • Chancellor Merkel – Renewables reform is paradigm shift

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the country’s renewable reform is a profound paradigm shift. “We can’t feel it yet […] but it will change the landscape considerably,” Merkel said with reference to the transition from pre-fixed feed-in tariffs to ...
  • 12 Sep 2017 |

    “Group calls for German offshore expansion”

    A group of trade unionists, regional economics and energy ministers and industry leaders has called for Germany to increase its offshore capacity to at least 20 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, and at least 30 GW by 2035, Craig Richard reports for Windpower ...
  • 03 Feb 2017 |

    “New platform for the energy market of the future”

    German energy company innogy has teamed up with technology company Kiwigrid to develop a new platform for organising a decentralised power supply system, innogy said in a press release. “Centralised power plants are a thing of the past,” innogy writes, ...
  • 31 Jan 2017 |

    “Protests against transmission lines grow”

    Environmentalists and critics of current Energiewende policies are intensifying protests against major high-voltage transmission lines traversing Germany from north to south, news agency dpa reports. Environmental organisation Friends of the Earth Germany ...
  • 28 Sep 2016 |

    “Possible underground cabling corridors published”

    Grid operators TenneT and TransnetBW published a variety of updated route suggestions to lay direct current power lines from Germany’s windy north to the industrial south, after protests against overhead lines had forced the companies to revise original ...
  • 10 Nov 2023 |

    German govt coalition agrees power price package to relieve energy-intensive industries

    10 Nov 2023, 10:15 Germany’s ruling coalition has reached a deal on how to support industry struggling with high electricity prices in the coming five years. The package of measures, worth 12 billion euros in 2024 alone, includes lowering the electricity ...
  • Germany's major renewables reform triggers hopes, but also fears of delay

    12 May 2022, 13:38 Expert BDEW-German Association of 鶹 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable 鶹 Federation ...
  • “Putin’s oil-giant broadens its stance in Germany”

    Russian oil company Rosneft is set to increase its business activities in Germany, Daniel Wetzel writes in Welt Online. Russia’s largest oil producer is doubling its investments in the country to 600 million euros over the next five years, CEO Igor Sechin ...
  • 18 May 2017 |

    “Municipal utilities: winners or losers of the Energiewende?”

    The changes brought about in Germany’s energy supply structure by the Energiewende pose a great threat to the country’s municipal utilities, Thomas Brucker writes in a study for the SPD-associated Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES). Regional energy ...
  • Germany set to retire 20 GW of wind power by 2023 - Renewable 鶹 Federation head

    Due to the end of their 20-year life span of guaranteed support payments, about 20 gigawatt (GW) of wind power capacity in Germany will be retired by 2023 as their operation is no longer profitable, Simone Peter, head of Germany’s Renewable 鶹 ...
  • 12 Sep 2016 |

    “Blackout in the Ruhr region”

    Germany’s fifth largest power producer STEAG plans to shut down about half of its power production capacity sooner than originally planned, writes Jürgen Flauger in the Handelsblatt. The company that operates several hard-coal power plants in the Ruhr ...
  • 07 May 2020 |

    Germany's solar energy cap endangers investments worth one billion euros – report

    07 May 2020, 13:56 Sören Amelang 鶹 鶹 Solar pv magazine Germany's market for solar energy and home storage systems will collapse if the government doesn't deliver on its promise to remove the existing cap for support payments, ...
  • Preview 2023: Germany must avoid exodus of energy-intensive companies – trade union

    20 Dec 2022, 13:19 The new year is going to pose the great challenge for Germany’s government to ensure that companies hit by the ongoing energy price crisis do not choose to relocate their business, according to Frederik Moch, head of energy policy at ...
  • 05 Jan 2017 |

    “Power looking for connection”

    Planning company ILF has managed many difficult projects around the world – from pipelines in Nigeria to an airport in Kazakhstan – but building the electricity superhighway Südlink, which is meant to bring wind power to Germany's industrial south, ...
  • 09 Dec 2020 |

    Four out of five Germans in favour of raising EU climate target

    09 Dec 2020, 15:17 Sören Amelang 鶹 鶹 Society International 鶹 Around 77 percent of Germans say the EU should raise its 2030 climate target. In a  survey  commissioned by the country's utility association BDEW, only ...
  • “Natural gas suppliers not fully passing falling prices on to consumers”

    Even though international wholesale prices for natural gas prices fell in 2016, suppliers did not fully pass this decline on to consumers, according to a study by consultancy 鶹Comment, commissioned by the Green parliamentary group in the German ...
  • 01 Dec 2020 |

    Market share of alternative drives continues to grow in Germany – energy agency

    01 Dec 2020, 14:09 Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Cars 鶹 New registrations of cars with alternative drive systems ...
  • 07 Dec 2015

    COP21 success 'still up in the air' / 'Ex-Climate Chancellor' Merkel

    07 Dec 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 Handelsblatt “Still up in the air” There are still many hurdles to an agreement in Paris and there is a real danger of disappointment, writes Klaus Stratmann in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. ...
  • 08 Aug 2016 |

    “The east bears costs of energy transition”

    While 69 percent of residents in eastern Germany still support the country’s energy transition in principle, this figure is well below the 78 percent that expressed approval in 2015, Die Welt reports, citing a study by energy provider enviaM and Leipzig ...
  • 17 Mar 2016

    Time to move from negotiations to actions on climate- German minister

    17 Mar 2016, 00:00 (UPDATES with new quotes from the conference. Please note: this item will be updated throughout the conference)- The world has to move from negotiations to actions on climate change and the transition to a low carbon economy after the ...
  • 01 Dec 2015

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

    01 Dec 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 RWE / Handelsblatt Utility RWE follows E.ON example, to split in two One of Germany’s largest utilities RWE will split in two, the company announced on Tuesday. Renewables, grids and retail activities in Germany ...
  • 22 Feb 2019 |

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

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

    Siemens enters home battery storage market

    21 Feb 2019, 13:39 Rachel Waldholz Storage 鶹 German industrial conglomerate Siemens has launched its first battery storage system geared toward private homes. Homes that generate their own electricity from sources like solar panels will be ...
  • 19 Jul 2017 |

    “What Europe can do in times of North Sea doldrums”

    With more cooperation on energy infrastructure, European states could counter the risks associated with fluctuating supply of wind power, Ralph Diermann writes on Spiegel Online. According to a study in Nature Climate Change, variable weather conditions ...
  • 06 Jul 2021 |

    Demand for biomethane on the rise – German 鶹 Agency

    06 Jul 2021, 13:01 Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Edgar Meza Bioenergy 鶹 The use of renewable biomethane is on the rise, resulting in increasing ...
  • 25 Mar 2021 |

    Hydrogen produced with regular power mix needed for market ramp-up – industry union

    25 Mar 2021, 13:57 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen 鶹 Germany should use hydrogen ...
  • Germany’s Court of Auditors says it is still in the dark over Energiewende costs

    Germany’s Federal Court of Auditors (BRH) has renewed its criticism of the government’s lacking overview of energy transition costs, a court spokesperson told the 鶹. Website Spiegel Online originally reported that the court asked the ...
  • 12 Jul 2016 |

    “Bundesrat passes digitalisation law”

    The passing of a new law on the “Digitalisation of the Energiewende” in the second house of the German parliament, the Bundesrat, has been overshadowed by the vote on the reform  of the Renewable 鶹 Act (EEG), according to an article in pv magazine. ...
  • 04 Feb 2019 |

    Merkel’s parliamentary group leader says 2038 coal exit depends on secure supply

    04 Feb 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann 鶹 鶹 Coal Policy Welt am Sonntag The parliamentary group leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party CDU, Ralph Brinkhaus, told newspaper Welt am Sonntag in an interview that the German ...
  • 26 Jun 2020 |

    German lignite exit contract lacks transparency on compensation – think tank

    26 Jun 2020, 12:12 Expert FÖS- Green Budget Germany Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Coal Tagesspiegel Background Experts have criticised the lack of transparency in the contract between lignite ...
  • E.ON board member demands changes for onshore wind power auctions

    German utility E.ON’ chief operating officer for grids and renewable energies, Leonhard Birnbaum, demands a change to the country’s onshore wind power auctions to ensure that professional wind power project developers cannot benefit from advantages given ...
  • 03 Jun 2019 |

    Germany’s renewable power share jumps to 47 percent in first five months of year

    03 Jun 2019, 13:31 Sören Amelang Renewables Renew Economy Germany’s share of renewable energy in net public electricity generation rose to 47 percent in the first five months of 2019, reports Giles Parkinson in Renew Economy on the basis of data by ...
  • 15 Feb 2017 |

    Coal plant: “Engie scrutinises further investments”

    French multinational utility Engie reviews its investments in one of the world’s most modern coal-fired power plants in the northern German town of Wilhelmshaven, Gerd Abeldt writes in Nordwest-Zeitung. “Today,  nobody would build a coal plant anymore,” ...
  • 13 Oct 2014

    Germany's energy transition in the media on 13 October

    13 Oct 2014, 00:00 鶹 鶹 Der Spiegel “鶹 transition: Gabriel to put more pressure on utilities” German Economy and 鶹 Minister Sigmar Gabriel plans to put more pressure on utilities by taking 10 gigawatts of coal-fired power ...
  • 12 Oct 2016 |

    “Solar power from private roofs: Very attractive, but with limited potential”

    Installing PV arrays on private homes and consuming the generated electricity is financially attractive, but will not have a large effect on Germany’s power system as a whole, according to a study by consultancy Prognos commissioned by energy think-tank ...
  • 10 Feb 2017 |

    Sector coupling likely to push power demand from 2030 - study

    Power demand across Germany is likely to grow after 2030 as increased sector coupling facilitates the shift from other energy sources, research institute Fraunhofer ISI has found in an analysis commissioned by transmission grid operators. In all scenarios ...
  • 10 Oct 2016 |

    “Coalition of the cheap“

    Cheap German power exports hinder neighbouring countries’ energy transitions, Austrian environment minister Andrä Rupprechter told German weekly Der Spiegel. “Germany produces too much cheap electricity that other countries like Austria have to accept. ...
  • 06 Oct 2016 |

    German industry: Government must reign in Energiewende costs

    The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has called on the government to get the costs of the country’s energy transition under control. “The brake on costs promised by the economics ministry has turned out to be no more than wishful thinking,” said BDI ...
  • 30 Jan 2017 |

    “Target disarray”

    The German energy system would become more complex, unfair and expensive if the government were to introduce support models for tenant electricity, as costs avoided by tenants would have to be paid by other consumers, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion ...
  • Ramped up renewables expansion will aggravate existing Energiewende problems – opinion

    Germany’s new coalition agreement means a visible increase in ambition for expanding renewable energy sources, Hubertus Bardt and Benjamin Tischler write in a guest commentary for Handelsblatt. However, “goals like these are easily made but hard to ...
  • 28 Aug 2017 |

    “Importance of solar energy underestimated by a factor of three”

    The growth of solar energy has been grossly underestimated in the results of the models of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), writes Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in a press release. A new MCC ...
  • 08 Jun 2021 |

    2020s must be “decade of sustainability”, says German chancellor Merkel

    08 Jun 2021, 13:20 Julian Wettengel International 鶹 Governments across the world have to make the 2020s the “decade of sustainability”, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 20th annual conference of the German Council for ...
  • 04 Jul 2024 |

    Orbán’s opportunistic record belies Hungary’s new pro-climate rethoric

    04 Jul 2024, 14:00 Strong popular demand for climate action and a push towards more energy autonomy in the wake of the war in Ukraine have led Hungary’s populist leader Viktor Orbán to describe himself as an advocate of climate-friendly power generation. ...
  • North Rhine-Westphalia state premier’s call for early shutdown of Belgian nuclear reactor rejected

    Armin Laschet, state premier of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), has unsuccessfully called for the early shutdown of two nuclear reactors near the Belgian-German border in a meeting with Belgium’s Prime Minister Charles Michel, reports Moritz Küpper for ...
  • 30 Nov 2016 |

    German reactions to the EU energy package

    30 Nov 2016, 00:00 “Putting energy efficiency first, achieving global leadership in renewable energies and providing a fair deal for consumers” are the objectives of the EU Commission’s energy package. The paper presented on Wednesday, also dubbed “winter ...
  • 09 Feb 2018 |

    “Germany needs more than wind” – opinion

    Wind power turbines are Germany’s most important renewable energy source and in 2017 produced more electricity than coal plants for the first time, Thorsten Preuschgas, CEO of Soventix, writes in a guest commentary in the pv magazine.  But it is “a false ...
  • 18 May 2020 |

    Germany leads globally in energy security levels, thanks to renewables- study

    18 May 2020, 14:06 Edgar Meza Renewables Security Germany boasts the highest energy security level in the world, due in large part to the wide spread use of renewable energy sources in the country, according to a study by Abdelrahman Azzuni and Christian ...
  • 04 Nov 2015

    Government passes power market reform / More renewables in energy use

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

    German business association CDU Economic Council, associated with Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), called on Germany and the EU to work towards a global regime to reduce CO₂ emissions “like the ETS” (European Union Emissions Trading ...
  • 11 Feb 2021 |

    German government and coal power companies sign lignite phase-out agreement

    11 Feb 2021, 13:32 Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG Coal Fossil fuels Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Tagesspiegel / dpa The German federal government and ...
  • 27 Mar 2017 |

    “Price drop for green power”

    Changing renewables funding from guaranteed feed-in tariffs to auctions will drastically reduce revenues in the wind power industry, Daniel Wetzel writes in Die Welt. The renewables surcharge power customers pay with their electricity bill currently ...
  • 12 May 2020 |

    Share of coal in German public power supply down to 16 percent in April

    12 May 2020, 13:19 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar 鶹 Systems Renewables Solar Freja Eriksen Coal Tagesspiegel Background / 鶹 Coal's share in Germany's net public power production fell to around 16 ...
  • Renewables reach share of over 40 percent in Germany’s net power generation

    The net output of renewable energy sources in Germany’s power mix has reached a new record share in the first half of 2018, the website 鶹 Charts run by research institute Fraunhofer ISE says. With a net generation of 113 terawatt hours (TWh) between ...
  • 20 May 2021 |

    Coal phase-out after 2030 too late, new climate targets only achievable through early exit – analysis

    20 May 2021, 12:29 Expert 鶹 Brainpool 鶹 consultancy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Edgar Meza Coal Climate & CO2 鶹 Germany’s recently revamped Climate Action Law calls for the energy sector to reduce CO2 emissions from ...
  • 29 Jun 2017 |

    “Vote for tenant electricity”

    Germany’s parliament (Bundestag) has voted to allow tenants to directly source their electricity from solar panels on their roofs, the parliament has said in a press release. The so-called “tenant electricity” concept says that landlords receive a premium ...
  • 28 Jul 2016 |

    Grid and renewables to be new pillars of EnBW’s energy business

    With 967.5 million euro, German utility EnBW has achieved a 24.2 percent lower operating result in the first six months of 2016 than in the same period in 2015. The company expects results for the whole year to be five to 10 percent lower than last year. ...
  • “Germany’s planned economy”

    New guidelines for the industry in the German government’s Climate Action Plan 2050 bear traces of a planned economy, writes Christoph Eisenring in Neue Zürcher Zeitung. He cites measures such as expanding the area of arable land reserved for ecological ...
  • 12 Jun 2017 |

    “The Energiewende must not become a planned economy”

    Germany’s across-the-board taxes, levies and surcharges on power consumption limit flexibility and innovation in the energy sector, Fabian Reetz writes on Zeit Online. More than 80 percent of the German power price is made up of such fees imposed by the ...
  • 23 Mar 2022 |

    Germany warns sudden halt of Russian energy imports would plunge Europe into recession

    23 Mar 2022, 15:41 A sudden stop of energy imports from Russia would threaten "hundreds of thousands of jobs" and push Europe's economy into recession, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned. He said Germany will end its energy dependence as ...
  • 25 Aug 2015 |

    In the media: Power-to-gas as Energiewende solution?

    25 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Hydrogen Greenpeace 鶹 “Power-to-gas reduces costs for Energiewende by billions and enables 100-percent renewable power supply” By using technology to store excess wind and solar power as ...
  • 15 Sep 2020 |

    German wind industry hopeful amid expansion recovery but laments regional imbalance

    15 Sep 2020, 14:25 Expert BWE- German Wind 鶹 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Kerstine Appunn Wind 鶹 Over 2,000 megawatts (MW) of onshore wind installations ...
  • 04 Jun 2018 |

    New solar power output record in one of warmest May ever in Germany

    Solar power plants Germany produced more electricity than ever before in May, which brought 275 hours of sunshine instead of the average 196, the Renewable 鶹 Industry Initiative (IWR) reports. According to preliminary data by grid operators, solar ...
  • 09 Feb 2017 |

    Germany leads in new wind power installations in Europe

    German wind power expansion accounted for 44 percent of total capacity growth across Europe in 2016, Adam Vaughan reports for the Guardian. There was an “increasingly small number of countries connecting serious amounts of new wind power” in the EU. ...
  • 16 Jan 2020 |

    Mix of centralised and decentralised technologies key to successful Energiewende – researchers

    16 Jan 2020, 13:14 Freja Eriksen Energiewende 鶹 Only a mix of centralised and decentralised technologies can make German energy supply "climate-friendly, secure and affordable," say researchers from three of the country's ...
  • 01 Mar 2019 |

    Coal plant operators should be compensated, but reasonably – opinion

    01 Mar 2019, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Finance Handelsblatt The operators of Germany’s coal plants should receive some compensation for closing facilities in line with the exit plan proposed by the country’s coal commission, but demands must be ...
  • 20 Jan 2017 |

    “Transportation Electrification Policy in California and Germany”

    While the German and Californian transport transitions face common challenges, German lawmakers could derive valuable best practices from the US state’s “more advanced stage”, according to a report by the Ahead project, a joint initiative of the Potsdam ...
  • 07 Apr 2015

    In the media: Unions see 100,000 jobs at risk; wind sets new record

    07 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹   Süddeutsche Zeitung Unions – CO2 levy could erase 100,000 jobs The additional CO2 levy on old power plants, proposed by the German government to achieve climate targets, puts up to 100,000 jobs ...
  • 04 May 2016

    Coal exit 'well before' 2050 / Blocked grid annoys Germany's neighbours

    04 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Reuters “Germany to exit coal power 'well before' 2050- draft document” Germany’s use of coal-fired power should come to an end “well before” 2050, a draft document from the ...
  • 11 Jan 2017 |

    “Record support for green power”

    German green power support costs exceeded 25 billion euros in 2016 for the first time, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, citing figures released by the four German transmission grid operators (TSO). With 22.8 billion euros, ...
  • 31 Aug 2020 |

    German plan to make server farms climate-neutral sparks industry backlash

    31 Aug 2020, 13:48 鶹 鶹 Digitalisation Handelsblatt Germany’s government wants to make server farms climate neutral by 2030, sparking concern in the industry, Handelsblatt reports. Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze said she ...
  • Germans strongly support energy transition, call for more ambitious climate action

    The support of German citizens for the country’s Energiewende [energy transition] is unwavering, a poll commissioned by the country’s Renewable 鶹 Agency (AEE) and conducted by pollster Kantar Emnid has shown. According to the AEE, 93 percent of ...
  • 08 Sep 2016 |

    Energiewende on track with renewables, supply security, jobs; to miss cost, emissions goals

    Germany’s Energiewende is on track in areas such as extending renewables, employment, and securing power supply. But other goals- such as reducing power consumption and carbon emissions, and the limit on costs- seem increasingly out of reach, consultancy ...
  • 02 Apr 2020 |

    Tesvolt starts production in 'first European gigafactory' for battery storage

    02 Apr 2020, 13:44 Sören Amelang Storage 鶹 German storage company Tesvolt says it has started production in "Europe's first gigafactory for commercial battery storage systems." The new production line, in the Eastern German ...
  • Germany debates form of renewables support as levy rises

    17 Oct 2016, 00:00 Germany’s consumer surcharge to fund renewable electricity will rise less than expected in 2017. Still, discussions about the cost of the country’s Energiewende project and ways to reform the renewables support dominated the public ...
  • Dong Germany manager rejects claims subsidy-free offshore wind bid was strategic

    Danish offshore wind company Dong’s subsidy-free bid at Germany’s first auction for new offshore wind parks was based on sound economics, Martin Neubert, managing director of the company’s German operations, said at the Hanover Fair 2017, Germany’s ...
  • 11 Jan 2016

    How to exit coal / 鶹 policy "reminiscent of GDR"

    11 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Agora Energiewende “How the exit from coal power generation by 2040 can be managed” Germany can exit coal by 2040 without significant effects on power prices or supply security, and the government ...
  • Renewables and energy industry lobby groups criticise German energy policy

    Germany’s energy policy has not lived up to its climate and renewables expansion targets and has failed to adequately integrate citizens in planning procedures, Simone Peter of the German Renewable 鶹 Federation (BEE) and Stefan Kapferer of the German ...
  • 25 Sep 2019 |

    Industry sees high AI potential in energy transition but has yet to invest- report

    25 Sep 2019, 14:02 Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Digitalisation 鶹 While three quarters of German energy companies expect artificial ...
  • 16 Feb 2015

    In the media: UK exits coal; auction plans unsettle wind power industry

    16 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung “Goodbye coal” “Now the British also have their Energiewende,” Björn Finke comments on British plans to exit coal announced over the weekend. He argues London’s energy ...
  • 27 Apr 2018 |

    Support-free bids accepted again in Germany’s second offshore wind auction as average support surges

    More investors offered to build offshore wind farms without any financial support in Germany’s second offshore wind power auction, but the average support rate increased significantly compared to the previous auction, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) ...
  • German chancellor pledges €4 bn for Africa-EU Green 鶹 Initiative

    20 Nov 2023, 16:30 Germany will invest 4 billion euros in sustainable energy projects in Africa until 2030 to help improve the continet’s role in renewable power, green hydrogen and critical raw material extraction, chancellor Olaf Scholz announced at the ...
  • 08 Feb 2019 |

    Rebates save German industry eight billion euros in power costs in 2017

    08 Feb 2019, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann 鶹 鶹 Cost & Prices Spiegel Online Preferential treatment of energy-intensive industries in Germany  cost households and non-privileged companies up to eight billion euros in 2017, Stefan Schultz ...
  • 25 Mar 2020 |

    Devices in standby-mode cost German households nearly 450,000 euros per hour

    25 Mar 2020, 13:56 Expert RNE- German Council for Sustainable Development Rat für nachhaltige Entwicklung Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 鶹 Electronic devices turned into standby-mode cost German households about 448 ...
  • 04 Feb 2019 |

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

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

    Renewables generated nearly half of Germany's electricity in Q2

    20 Sep 2019, 12:54 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Renewables 鶹 Renewable energy sources in Germany generated a total of 56 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity that was ...
  • 1.8 billion euros net loss for EnBW in 2016 “due to nuclear energy compromise”

    German utility EnBW reports a 1.8 billion euros net loss after already fully incorporating in the 2016 financial statements an expected payment of 4.7 billion euros into the country’s nuclear clean-up fund. “Due to the law of reorganising responsibility ...
  • Reactions to climate and energy plans of Germany's next government

    30 Nov 2021, 10:50 The three "traffic light coalition" parties have agreed to form Germany's next government and tabled a coalition treaty that they promise will put the country on a path compatible with Paris Climate Agreement 's ...
  • 17 Mar 2020 |

    Nine-year completion time illustrates struggle of Germany's wind farms

    17 Mar 2020, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Aachener Zeitung The case of a new wind farm in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that took nine years to complete illustrates the difficulties project developers across the country face when trying to ...
  • 28 Nov 2016 |

    “Hackers are threatening the power supply”

    German energy providers have insufficient IT security against cyber attacks which could lead to large power blackouts, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. Many providers lacked “contingency plans” for attacks by hackers and did not have a ...
  • 03 Jun 2016

    Protests against renewables law / E.ON spin-off to receive loans

    03 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Recharge “Thousands protest in Berlin to save Energiewende” Several thousand protesters mobilised by the renewables sector demonstrated against current government plans to reform ...
  • Mining trade union head warns of sacrificing coal to save diesel engines

    The incoming German government must not agree to phase out coal-fired power production in exchange for concessions to diesel cars, Michael Vassiliadis, head of Germany’s largest mining trade union,  IG BCE, said in an interview with the General-Anzeiger ...
  • 15 Jul 2021 |

    Germany to build no new offshore wind turbines in 2021 for first time in ten years

    15 Jul 2021, 13:58 Expert BWE- German Wind 鶹 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 鶹 鶹 Renewables Wind 鶹 Germany will not add ...
  • 28 Aug 2018 |

    Disputes over wind power land use in northern Germany

    The expansion of wind power generation in northern Germany is meeting resistance from politicians and environmental organisations alike, Welt Online reports in two separate articles. In north-eastern state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, politician Eckhardt ...
  • 02 Mar 2017 |

    “Energiewende threatened by big dent by 2021”

    The use of coal-fired power production and other fossil energy sources has to be quickly reduced in Germany in order to keep aging wind turbines cost-efficient, environmental organisation Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH), green energy provider Naturstrom AG and ...
  • Germany presents patchy climate plan draft to European Commission- report

    08 Jan 2019, 13:15 Sören Amelang 鶹 鶹 Climate & CO2 International Tagesspiegel Background The German government has presented an incomplete National 鶹 and Climate Plan (NECP) draft to the European Commission at the last minute ...
  • 07 Aug 2020 |

    German North Sea outpost Heligoland hopes for green hydrogen boom

    07 Aug 2020, 14:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Business & Jobs dpa / RTL Online Germany's remote North Sea island Heligoland is hoping for a rapid increase in green hydrogen production with offshore wind power, news agency dpa reports in an ...
  • 28 Aug 2019 |

    Sun and wind displace Germany's coal during summer months

    28 Aug 2019, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables dpa / Focus Online Solar power systems and wind turbines in Germany fed 39.3 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity into the public grid from June to August, a 10 percent increase compared to the same ...
  • 01 Nov 2016 |

    Federal state supports “tenant electricity” models with solar PV

    Tenants in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) will be able to benefit from solar PV panels installed on the rooftop of the buildings they live in. The state government has introduced a support programme for self-consumption power ...
  • 09 May 2019 |

    Power-to-x is gaining traction in Germany’s renewable energy push

    09 May 2019, 14:06 Sören Amelang Gas Storage Technology Forbes Germany’s share of renewable energy continues to rise but the capacity of the national grid is constrained, putting a spotlight on power-to-x technologies to store the renewable energy, ...
  • 02 Jan 2023 |

    Preview 2023: 鶹-intensive companies need help to stay competitive- industry

    02 Jan 2023, 12:53 Germany's government needs to devise support for the country's energy-intensive industry in 2023 in order to keep it competitive, says Carsten Rolle, who heads the climate and energy division at industry association BDI. ...
  • Preview 2023: 'Investment offensive' must secure fossil fuel independence- energy industry

    22 Dec 2022, 12:40 Germany has taken important steps to secure its energy supply and help households and businesses cope with the energy crisis, but it is important to continue along this path consistently in the coming year, according to the country' ...
  • Innogy CEO - new government should create capacity market, electrify transport and heating

    After Germany’s parliamentary elections in September, the new government should create a capacity market and push the integration of transport and heating into the power market, according to Innogy CEO Peter Terium. “With this capacity market, we keep ...
  • “Germany and France seek agreement on EU carbon market reform”

    The governments of France and Germany intend to reinforce European carbon trading in the electricity sector and aim to initiate a reform of the EU’s emissions trading system (ETS) before the UN’s COP 23 in November, news agency Reuters reports. Brune ...
  • 30 Mar 2021 |

    New German company aims to achieve 5 GW of onshore wind by 2030

    30 Mar 2021, 13:43 Edgar Meza Wind 鶹 The Aloys Wobben Foundation (AWS), the sole shareholder of wind turbine company Enercon, and German utility EWE AG have launched the 50-50 joint venture Alterric to develop and operate onshore wind ...
  • Renewables overtake coal as Germany’s most important power source

    10 Jul 2018, 15:01 Wind and solar power, together with other renewable sources, have overtaken coal as Germany’s most important power source, figures released by the industry group BDEW show. But this milestone in the history of the country’s energy ...
  • “Big corporation benefits from citizens’ energy”

    Many German wind power projects that appear to be owned by citizens’ energy cooperatives can be associated with the major wind power planning company UKA, German national TV station MDR says in an article on its website. According to MDR, UKA is Germany’s ...
  • 25 Mar 2021 |

    Must lay groundwork for climate neutrality 2050 now – German 鶹 Agency

    25 Mar 2021, 13:58 Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 鶹 / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany must prepare different ...
  • 24 Jul 2020 |

    German government says pumped hydro power capacity to grow by 1.4 GW by 2030

    24 Jul 2020, 14:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage 鶹 The capacity of pumped storage hydro power stations available to the German energy system is expected to grow by about 1.4 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, with roughly one third of the capacity being ...
  • 08 Aug 2019 |

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

    08 Aug 2019, 14:00 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Freja Eriksen Renewables Utilities 鶹 German utility E.ON has reaffirmed largely stable operating earnings of around 3 billion euros for 2019, thanks in ...
  • 29 Jun 2021 |

    City tunnel beneath Frankfurt to become 'centrepiece' of German railway strategy – ministry

    29 Jun 2021, 14:19 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cities 鶹 / HR German railway operator Deutsche Bahn is planning one of the largest infrastrucuture projects of the ...
  • 28 Jun 2021 |

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

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

    German solar energy capacity expands slightly after downward trend

    01 Aug 2019, 12:33 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Renewables Solar 鶹 / pv magazine Germany's ...
  • 13 Sep 2016 |

    Electricity flat rate thanks to integrated solar PV and home storage units

    Bavarian storage manufacturer sonnen will offer a free power flat rate to consumers that install the company’s integrated solar PV and home storage systems, sonnen announced in a press release. The flat rates will be financed with revenues the company ...
  • 19 Jan 2015

    In the media: CO2 targets in doubt; gas as storage

    19 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Handelsblatt “Utopian targets” The development of renewable energies is fast-paced in Germany but that is no reason for euphoria, writes Jürgen Flauger in the Handelsblatt. Germany will miss its ...
  • Moderate power price increase for German households

    Power prices for an average German four-person-household will be about one percent higher in January 2017, compared to the same month last year, according to price comparison website verivox. That would lead to an annual total of 1,111 euros. “Following a ...
  • 13 Jul 2020 |

    Germany's green energy account slips into the red as power prices tumble

    13 Jul 2020, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices 鶹 / Energate Messenger Germany's green energy fund has slipped into the red for the first time since 2013,  data  compiled by the country's transmission grid ...
  • 24 Jul 2019 |

    Solar power could be “lifeline” for European coal regions – study

    24 Jul 2019, 14:19 Freja Eriksen Coal Solar 鶹 Solar power could “fully substitute” coal-fired power generation in European coal regions in transition, according to a study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. Researchers ...
  • 02 Jun 2016

    Commentators spar over renewables reform / Agreement on biomass

    02 Jun 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung “Failure desired” Germany, the homeland of the energy transition, treats renewables like a relative who annoys everyone with permanent demands, writes Michael ...
  • Renewables levy could be reduced to zero by 2021 – German 鶹 Agency (dena)

    07 Jul 2020, 13:22 Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Cost & Prices Green stimulus 鶹 German households ...
  • “German nuclear damage shows atomic and renewable power are unhappy bedfellows”

    Damages discovered at Germany’s Brokdorf nuclear power plant seem to support the theory that nuclear power is not suitable as a bridging technology which could rapidly adapt power generation to the fluctuating supply of renewable electricity, writes ...
  • 鶹 transition needs higher political priority – head of Energiewende expert commission

    Germany will likely miss several of its key energy transition goals, according to leading experts commissioned by the German economy ministry (BMWi) to monitor the progress of the country‘s energy transition. Among the three elements of the government& ...
  • 13 Mar 2019 |

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

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

    Start-up Sono Motors challenges industry giants with PV-clad electric car

    08 May 2019, 10:26 鶹 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' ...
  • Uniper, Siemens 鶹 plan green power, heat and hydrogen project at Hamburg coal plant site

    24 Feb 2021, 12:37 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen Heating 鶹 German energy companies Uniper and Siemens 鶹 have proposed a project to set up a renewable power-based energy plant at the site of ...
  • 08 Nov 2016 |

    “Hasty nuclear phase-out: Germany’s experience as a warning for Switzerland“

    Switzerland should be careful not to repeat the same mistakes as Germany when preparing for a nuclear phase-out, Christoph Eisenring writes in Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Swiss people voting on 27 November on whether to limit the operating time of the country’s ...
  • “Let there be light again”

    After three years of rapid shrinking and the loss of more than 100,000 jobs, Germany’s solar industry seems to have bottomed out, Franz Hubik writes on Handelsblatt Online. “Although the market has shrunk to a fifth of its original size, it now was at ...
  • Economy minister proposes retiring 5 GW of lignite power capacity – sources

    Economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has proposed quickly retiring five gigawatts of lignite power generation capacity with a view to the country’s ongoing talks about a coal phase-out, sources told the Rheinische Post. In addition, he suggested ...
  • 18 Dec 2015

    Winners and losers in green power / Concerns over costs

    18 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Federation of German Consumer Organisations “Consumers remain paymasters of the Energiewende in 2016” A new survey shows that two thirds of German consumers are sceptical that the government can ...
  • 18 Feb 2019 |

    German utility RWE issues first estimates of coal exit costs

    18 Feb 2019, 13:33 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Rachel Waldholz 鶹 鶹 Coal Business & Jobs dpa / Rheinische Post German utility RWE estimates costs of 1.2 billion euros for each gigawatt (GW) of ...
  • 10 May 2017 |

    Dutch renewable utility Eneco buys stake in virtual power plant operator Next Kraftwerke

    Virtual power plant specialist Next Kraftwerke, one of Germany’s best known energy start-ups, has sold a minority stake of 34 percent to Dutch renewable utility Eneco. The deal would boost its expansion in Europe, and “contribute to the joint ambition of ...
  • 09 May 2017 |

    “E.ON profit misses estimates in earnings debut as green utility”

    German utility E.ON’s first-quarter adjusted earnings before interest and taxes of just over 1 billion euros was around 34 percent below the previous-year figure, in line with the company’s expectations, the company has said in a press release. This was ...
  • 16 Oct 2020 |

    Natural gas provides half of German industry's power generation

    16 Oct 2020, 13:32 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Industry 鶹 Natural gas has become by far the most important energy source for power generation of Germany's ...
  • 13 Dec 2019 |

    Industry produced almost 13 percent of German electricity in 2018

    13 Dec 2019, 13:13 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Freja Eriksen Hydrogen Industry 鶹 Industry produced 55 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in Germany in 2018, meaning local units of ...
  • War in Ukraine: Tracking the impacts on German energy and climate policy

    24 Feb 2023, 11:00 One year after Russia started its devastating war on Ukraine, the energy policy landscape of Germany and most of Europe has changed radically. European states to a large extent lowered or even completely cut their reliance on Russian ...
  • 15 May 2020 |

    German railway service Deutsche Bahn hit hard by COVID-19 crisis

    15 May 2020, 14:21 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Transport Der Spiegel Largely due to the coronavirus crisis, German railway service Deutsche Bahn (DB) has an 11-billion-euro hole in its budget, ...
  • 28 Nov 2019 |

    Higher wholesale power prices offset planned renewables surcharge cut- industry

    28 Nov 2019, 13:28 Expert BDEW-German Association of 鶹 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Wholesale electricity ...
  • End of nuclear no threat to Bavaria's power supply security – state minister

    28 Nov 2019, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Augsburger Allgemeine The end of nuclear power production in Germany in 2022 will not compromise the electricity supply of southern economic powerhouse state Bavaria, the state's ...
  • 23 Jun 2023 |

    French-German energy policy rift puts EU’s climate lead at risk- expert

    23 Jun 2023, 10:00 As the two largest economies in the European Union, France and Germany, for at least a decade have acted as the bloc’s key drivers of more ambitious climate action. A glaring gap in the two countries’ energy policy has been exposed in ...
  • Uniper announces closure of modern gas plant Irsching once again

    German energy company Uniper, together with three other co-owners of gas-fired power stations Irsching 4 and 5, has announced plans to decommission the “ultra-efficient and modern” plants for the second time in two years. In a joint press release, plant ...
  • 27 Nov 2019 |

    NRW state premier urges quick adoption of coal exit law, defends new coal plant commissioning

    27 Nov 2019, 14:01 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Rheinische Post The German government must fast-track legislation for the country's coal power phase-out, Armin Laschet, state premier of Germany's most populous ...
  • 06 May 2019 |

    Energiewende: "Mess in Germany"- magazine

    06 May 2019, 13:27 Kerstine Appunn Energiewende Der Spiegel Germany’s energy transition is faced with many problems, including a lack in power grid capacity, energy storage and high costs, write Frank Dohmen et al. in the cover story of Der Spiegel ...
  • 21 Nov 2019 |

    Solar parks have positive effect on biodiversity – study

    21 Nov 2019, 13:13 Expert bne- Association of 鶹 Market Innovators Bundesverband Neue Energiewirtschaft Electricity market Grid Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 鶹 Solar parks can have a positive effect on plant and animal life ...
  • 12 Nov 2019 |

    鶹 use in German buildings stagnates at 2010 levels – report

    12 Nov 2019, 12:36 Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Efficiency 鶹 The final energy use for heating rooms and water in Germany's 22 ...
  • Germany to support CCS for industry, allow offshore carbon storage with upcoming strategy

    26 Feb 2024, 15:55 The German government has proposed plans to make carbon capture and storage (CCS) possible to help the country reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045. State support would focus on capturing and storing or using carbon from industrial ...
  • Government worried short-term coal plant closures will trigger compensation claims – report

    The German government is concerned that short-term coal plant closures might lead to expensive compensation claims by operators, reports Klaus Stratmann in business daily Handelsblatt in a double-page article. A utility source said “we will see each other ...
  • 14 Jan 2021 |

    Germany launches three flagship projects to fulfil green hydrogen ambitions

    14 Jan 2021, 13:31 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 鶹 In its quest for global green hydrogen leadership, Germany has launched three flagship zero-emission technology projects. Following a call for ideas, the country's research ministry said it ...
  • 08 Nov 2019 |

    Onshore wind permits in Germany fell by 70 percent since 2016- utility group

    08 Nov 2019, 14:09 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind 鶹 The number of permits issued for onshore wind turbines in Germany has dropped by more than 70 percent within three years, says German utility association BDEW. "Whereas three years ...
  • 27 Jul 2021 |

    Slow pick-up of German onshore wind expansion threatens renewables targets – industry

    27 Jul 2021, 16:55 After several years of expansion doldrums, onshore wind power development in Germany has slowly picked up in the first half of 2021, but remains insufficient for renewables expansion and climate targets, the country's wind power ...
  • 22 Jul 2019 |

    More than 2,000 new wind power turbines in Germany on hold due to licensing issues

    22 Jul 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Society 鶹 Construction of more than 2,000 onshore wind turbines in Germany-- with a combined capacity of nearly 10 gigawatts (GW)-- is on hold due to bureaucratic hurdles and delays in ...
  • 26 Jul 2019 |

    Germans choose fuel-guzzling cars, pushing up CO2 emissions

    26 Jul 2019, 13:43 Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars 鶹 The intensifying public debate over climate change in ...
  • 20 Jul 2021 |

    Public charging drives up price of electric mobility for consumers

    20 Jul 2021, 13:12 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Zeit Online Charging an electric vehicle at a public charging point can be significantly more expensive than doing it at home, Zeit Online writes. The price of electricity at a public charging station can be ...
  • 15 Apr 2020 |

    Lack of charging points could slow roll-out of e-mobility in Germany, study warns

    15 Apr 2020, 15:18 Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Prognos Consultancy Energiewende Sören Amelang Cars 鶹 A lack of charging points in German ...
  • 23 Jul 2019

    Lack of charging options in apartment buildings hurdle to Germany’s e-car roll-out – study

    23 Jul 2019, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann 鶹 Most residents of German apartment buildings are unable to charge an electric car at home, according to a study by influential drivers’ club ADAC. Only 4 percent of apartment buildings assessed had a ...
  • 01 Feb 2017 |

    “Exit from the surcharge list”

    The Energiewende’s costs cannot be entirely levied on power customers if Germany’s energy transition is going to succeed, Robert Busch, managing director of the Association of 鶹 Market Innovators (BNE), writes in a guest commentary for Handelsblatt. ...
  • 04 Sep 2020 |

    Increasing interest in power from old solar PV installations

    04 Sep 2020, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Solar pv magazine A growing number of regional utility companies are showing interest in buying electricity generated from solar PV installations that are more than 20 years old and will cease to receive feed-in payments ...
  • 28 Mar 2019 |

    Average CO₂ emissions from new cars increase despite alternative drives- dena

    28 Mar 2019, 13:28 Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport 鶹 Low-emission vehicles with electric and natural ...
  • 18 Oct 2019 |

    Farmers in Germany call for large protests against environmental policies

    18 Oct 2019, 14:14 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Freja Eriksen Agriculture 鶹 / Tageszeitung (taz) Up to 10,000 farmers and 700 tractors are expected to be present at protests against German ...
  • 01 Dec 2020 |

    First phase-out auction for German hard coal deemed success, modern plants go offline

    01 Dec 2020, 14:48 The first auction for the decommissioning of hard coal plants in Germany has been hailed as a success both by coal plant operators and climate activists, as it ensures that plants with a capacity of almost 5 gigawatts will be off the ...
  • 21 Oct 2019 |

    Germany's new offshore wind power expansion plans must consider environmental limits, NGO warns

    21 Oct 2019, 13:15 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Wind Tageszeitung (taz) The German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) has warned that new ...
  • Renewables produce more power than fossil fuels in Germany for first time

    04 Jan 2021, 12:52 Wind, solar PV and other renewable sources overtook fossil fuels in German power production last year, according to preliminary data by the federal network agency (BNetzA) and think tank Agora Energiewende. Together with record-low ...
  • 25 Mar 2019 |

    Goldman Sachs still bullish on German utilities

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

    E-fuels will be driving force towards zero-emission logistics – Deutsche Post DHL

    17 Oct 2019, 13:38 Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Deutsche Post Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Storage Transport Freight 鶹 Renewable ...
  • 15 Mar 2019 |

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

    15 Mar 2019, 13:49 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 鶹 鶹 Utilities Handelsblatt Germany’s economy and energy ...
  • 31 Mar 2020 |

    German bioenergy industry calls for crisis support to ensure energy supply

    31 Mar 2020, 13:25 Expert Bundesverband Bioenergie Federal Association for Bioenergy Bioenergy Renewables Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen ...
  • Northern German states want to integrate sectors to utilise more green electricity

    06 Mar 2019, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Electricity market Renewables 鶹 Germany’s northern states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein – both of which generate more renewable electricity than they can use within their ...
  • 11 Mar 2019 |

    Germany’s Siemens and Sonnen leading new wave in home battery storage

    11 Mar 2019, 14:15 Rachel Waldholz Storage Business & Jobs Financial Times Residential battery storage is poised to become a major industry, reports Patrick McGee in the Financial Times. That trend has been highlighted by major recent investments from ...
  • 11 Mar 2019 |

    Reinsurance company Munich Re introduces battery performance insurance

    11 Mar 2019, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Finance 鶹 German reinsurance heavyweight Munich Re has introduced an insurance for operators of battery storage installations that shields them against the risk of their products not performing ...
  • Germany’s renewables levy rises slightly in 2020

    15 Oct 2019, 12:27 Germany’s renewable energy surcharge (EEG surcharge) that is paid by consumers with their electricity bill and supports wind, solar, biomass and hydro power installations will rise by about 5 percent to 6.756 cents per kilowatt hour (ct ...
  • 02 Oct 2019 |

    Promoting “powerfuels” key to climate-friendly aviation – industry alliance

    02 Oct 2019, 13:51 Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Transport Technology 鶹 Civil airlines should be required to use at least two ...
  • 19 Jun 2019 |

    Third German solar PV auction in 2019 again oversubscribed

    19 Jun 2019, 12:07 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 鶹 Germany’s third solar PV ...
  • 15 May 2015

    In the media: Worries at RWE; solar trade violations

    15 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt “RWE fights for brown coal” Power company RWE is toughening its stance on energy minister Sigmar Gabriel’s proposal for a climate levy on old coal ...
  • 26 Sep 2019 |

    Germany's climate package will be “major legislative task” – energy agency

    26 Sep 2019, 13:56 Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 鶹 The German government's newly agreed climate action ...
  • 27 Feb 2019 |

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

    27 Feb 2019, 13:33 Rachel Waldholz Utilities Reuters / Handelsblatt The European Commission announced Tuesday that it will not raise antitrust objections to a major part of the deal between German utilities RWE and E.ON, Reuters reports. The approval ...
  • 28 Jun 2021 |

    Little wind and sunshine let German renewables share slide in first half of 2021

    28 Jun 2021, 13:30 Expert BDEW-German Association of 鶹 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables 鶹 The share of ...
  • Gov advisors say Energiewende will only thrive in European framework

    28 Jun 2018, 16:17 The German government’s Energiewende advisors say the country must put much greater emphasis on the project’s European dimension to achieve the shift to renewables and the necessary emissions reduction during the next decade. The group ...
  • 23 Sep 2019 |

    Germany joins 31 nations in coal phaseout alliance PPCA

    23 Sep 2019, 13:56 Freja Eriksen Coal 鶹 Germany has joined the international Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) but withheld fully endorsing the PPCA declaration, which would commit OECD countries to phase out unabated coal no later than ...
  • 07 Aug 2020 |

    Indigenous group in Norway fears impact of German investor's wind power project

    07 Aug 2020, 14:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind International Tageszeitung (taz) German energy traders are buying more electricity produced with renewable energy installations in Norway, aiming to fulfilling green energy requirements in Germany, a practice that ...
  • 24 May 2018 |

    German government proposes compensation scheme for nuclear power plants

    Angela Merkel’s cabinet has initiated an amendment to the German Nuclear Exit Act that ensures compensation payments to operators of nuclear power plants who had to shut down their reactors in 2011. The law must be amended because the German ...
  • Germany paves way for electrolyser ramp-up by scrapping renewables fee on hydrogen production

    03 Dec 2020, 13:48 Kerstine Appunn Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG Hydrogen 鶹 The German government has decided to free producers of green hydrogen from paying the renewables levy on the electricity they use in the process. Chancellor Angela ...
  • 10 Sep 2019 |

    Onshore wind power auction in Germany once again fails to attract enough bidders

    10 Sep 2019, 14:10 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 鶹 The lack of interest in Germany' ...
  • Exports to France push German record power trade surplus in January

    04 Feb 2019, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann 鶹 鶹 Electricity market Cost & Prices Tageszeitung Germany’s export surplus of electricity reached a new monthly record level in January, Bernward Janzing writes in the Tageszeitung (taz). ...
  • Maximum support rate for onshore wind raised to ensure continuous expansion

    The maximum support rate for onshore wind power installations in Germany’s renewables auctions scheme has been raised to 6.3 cents per kilowatt hour to ensure competition among bidders and a continuous expansion of the energy source, the Federal Grid ...
  • 04 Sep 2019 |

    Renewables expansion recklessly ignored in climate debate – opinion

    04 Sep 2019, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind Süddeutsche Zeitung The expansion of renewable electricity facilities, such as wind and solar PV parks, is the crucial challenge currently facing Germany's energy transition (Energiewende), ...
  • 05 Sep 2019 |

    Economy ministry plans no compensation for hard coal plant operators after 2030 – media

    05 Sep 2019, 12:29 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 鶹 (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Coal Cost & Prices ...
  • 09 Mar 2021 |

    Must step up renewables expansion, also in heating sector – Merkel

    09 Mar 2021, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Heating 鶹 Germany must step up renewables expansion and put a focus on the heating sector, where the majority of energy is still produced with fossil fuels, said Chancellor Angela Merkel at ...
  • 10 Oct 2016

    Lobby group estimates Energiewende costs at 520 billion euros

    The total cost of the German energy transition in the electricity sector until 2025 will amount to more than 520 billion euros, according to a study commissioned by industry lobby group Initiative New Social Market Economy (INSM). The largest part of the ...
  • 10 Nov 2017 |

    EnBW says earnings turnaround in 2017 in sight

    German utility EnBW has announced third quarter results, saying earnings were up and its balance sheet was “significantly stronger”. It says for the first time since 2010, it expects its operating result to rise again in 2017, crediting the consolidation ...
  • 13 Feb 2015

    In the media: Night storage heating for the Energiewende; German economy recovering

    13 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung Night storage heating has comeback thanks to the Energiewende Night storage heating, ovens that take up power at night when there used to be an over-supply of cheap power and ...
  • “Wrong example Germany“

    Germany’s Energiewende is not a model for Switzerland, Christoph Eisenring writes in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung as the country gears up for a referendum about the Swiss government’s energy strategy 2050, which includes a nuclear phase-out. German ...
  • “Tenant electricity support brings Energiewende to the inner cities”

    The federal cabinet’s approval of a bill for supporting tenant electricity models in Germany will “make tenants directly participate at energy transition”, economy minister Brigitte Zypries said in a press release by the Federal Ministry for Economic ...
  • 23 Jan 2019 |

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

    23 Jan 2019, 10:55 Power prices are less of a concern for some industry sectors and coal-heavyweight RWE has long been about “much more than coal” – industry representatives offered an unusual take on the German coal exit debate in a panel discussion ...
  • 02 Jan 2018 |

    Preview2018- Urgent need to reform renewables levy and grid fees-bne

    02 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
  • 13 Aug 2019 |

    Switching from oil to gas in home heating systems could save 14 million tonnes CO₂- study

    13 Aug 2019, 13:37 Expert BDEW-German Association of 鶹 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution ...
  • 2020 emissions reduction goal still reachable – study

    A Greenpeace-commissioned study conducted by the Fraunhofer Institute for 鶹 Economics and 鶹 System Technology posits that Germany can still meet its 2020 emissions reduction target, provided that several brown-coal-fired power plants are ...
  • 18 Feb 2021 |

    German coal industry looks to hydrogen as alternative

    18 Feb 2021, 14:21 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis 鶹 鶹 Coal Hydrogen Handelsblatt The German coal industry is looking to hydrogen production as an alternative in light of the ...
  • Preview2019- Expect the German coal debate to continue, says Aurora ER

    10 Jan 2019, 09:15 The German coal exit commission is set to deliver its final recommendations for the country’s coal exit in February 2019, but this report is likely to be only the beginning of a long and controversial policymaking process in the country ...
  • 22 Jun 2020 |

    Electricity watchdog challenges Germany's local e-car charging monopolies

    22 Jun 2020, 12:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Cars Der Spiegel Local electricity monopolies have so far prevented ...
  • 18 Sep 2017 |

    Additional charges on electricity among industry’s greatest concerns

    Additional charges on electricity levied by the state are one of the greatest concerns of Germany’s industrial companies, Daniel Wetzel writes in Die Welt. According to a survey conducted by the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry ...
  • 25 Jul 2019 |

    Germany’s onshore wind power expansion threatens to grind to a halt

    25 Jul 2019, 14:46 Onshore wind power is a key element of Germany's energy transition and a leading force of the country's renewables industry. But after years of rapid growth, the sector's expansion has almost come to a standstill in the ...
  • Greenpeace sees threat to Energiewende in EU Commission’s TTIP plans

    Current plans for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the USA could threaten central instruments of Germany’s the energy transition, Greenpeace says in a press release. According to a  leaked EU Commission draft, ...
  • “Number of wind turbines to rise to 30,220 in Germany”

    Onshore wind power in Germany will be expanded beyond the industry’s expectations and federal government plans in the coming years, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt, based on data provided by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). Investors who had ...
  • 16 Feb 2017 |

    Taxes and levies on electricity reach all-time high

    Household electricity prices reached an all-time high at an average of 29.16 cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) in February 2017, compared to 28.8 ct/kWh in 2016, writes utility association BDEW in its current power price analysis. This was down to record ...
  • 06 Jan 2020 |

    Germany takes next nuclear plant offline according to schedule

    06 Jan 2020, 14:12 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out ...
  • 02 Feb 2015

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

    02 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung “From nuclear proponent to power line opponent” In 2008 Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer said that extending the run-time of Germany’s nuclear power stations was " ...
  • 15 Mar 2019 |

    RWE substantiates claims for billion-euro coal plant compensation

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

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

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

    German Social Democrats say EU hydrogen production ideal case for coronavirus recovery project

    28 May 2020, 12:29 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 鶹 A coordinated European green hydrogen production infrastructure is a ...
  • “German energy policy – a blueprint for the world?”

    German energy policy will not serve as a global energy policy blueprint, but as inspiration, according to the World 鶹 Council (WEC) Germany. In a survey, 60 percent of energy experts from 42 countries said the Energiewende could not serve as a global ...
  • 21 Jun 2019 |

    Two thirds of PV solar owners in Germany could become self-sufficient with storage – E.ON

    21 Jun 2019, 13:30 Sören Amelang Solar Utilities ntv Two thirds of all people who own a PV array generate enough electricity to become self-sufficient if they have access to storage, according to German utility E.ON. “66 percent of our clients with a ...
  • 19 Jan 2017 |

    Offshore wind industry expects further cost cuts, urges government to maintain expansion

    Germany’s offshore wind energy industry expects a further drop in costs for new projects contracted by bidding processes, representatives of the industry said at a press conference of the German Wind 鶹 Association (BWE). “More practical experience ...
  • 20 Dec 2019 |

    “Positive signals” as last German wind power auction 2019 oversubscribed

    20 Dec 2019, 14:23 Expert BWE- German Wind 鶹 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
  • 18 Jan 2021 |

    German hard coal imports set to continue steep decline in 2021- industry group

    18 Jan 2021, 13:52 Expert Coal Importer Association Verein der Kohleimporteure Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Sören Amelang 鶹 鶹 Coal 鶹 Last year's sharp drop in Germany's hard coal imports is set to continue ...
  • 11 Jun 2018 |

    German utility EnBW enters US offshore wind market with California project

    German utility EnBW is expanding into the North American market for offshore wind, forming a joint venture with Trident Winds to develop a project off the coast of Central California, the German company said on Monday. EnBW North America and Seattle-based ...
  • 05 May 2020 |

    State energy ministers call for investments in renewables, grid and hydrogen as part of coronavirus recovery

    05 May 2020, 15:07 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 鶹 (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert VKU- German Association of Local ...
  • 10 Dec 2019 |

    Share of new cars with alternative engines reaches double digits for first time in Germany

    10 Dec 2019, 13:29 Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Rose-Anne Clermont Cars 鶹 The number of new registrations of electric, hybrid, liquid gas and ...
  • 11 Dec 2019 |

    Startup Lumenion presents pilot for power storage with steel plates

    11 Dec 2019, 13:04 Julian Wettengel Storage Start-ups 鶹 Berlin-based energy startup Lumenion has presented the pilot of its 2.4-megawatt-hour (MWh) steel storage system in a housing project in Germany’s capital. The technology would allow ...
  • 20 Apr 2021 |

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

    20 Apr 2021, 13:00 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 鶹 (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG ...
  • 11 Feb 2019 |

    Coal exit compromise brings uncertainty for Germany’s most modern coal plant

    11 Feb 2019, 14:05 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 鶹 鶹 Coal Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The German coal commission’s agreement to gradually phase out coal power has left investors and ...
  • 21 Sep 2015

    In the media: Lower efficiency standards amid refugee crisis?

    21 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung “Worried about the climate” The very hot and dry summer of 2015 was a sign of climate change, 46 percent of Germans believe. In contrast, 40 percent told ...
  • 17 May 2023 |

    Exit of German energy state secretary deals blow to Green Party’s climate plans

    17 May 2023, 14:09 Germany’s Green energy and climate action minister, Robert Habeck, has suffered a setback for his decarbonisation plans with the departure of his energy state secretary, Patrick Graichen. Habeck’s state secretary left his post following ...
  • 29 May 2019 |
    Gas

    Planned LNG import terminal in northern Germany faces opposition

    29 May 2019, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Gas Die Welt The German government has promised financial support for the construction of Germany’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, but one potential site has run into a hurdle, reports Die Welt. The ...
  • 24 May 2019 |

    Italy’s Enel enters fast-growing German e-car charging market

    24 May 2019, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Italian energy company Enel has announced it will enter the growing market for e-car charging stations in Germany, Kathrin Witsch reports for business newspaper Handelsblatt. “The ...
  • 21 May 2019 |

    EU household electricity prices increase in second half of 2018, slight decrease in Germany

    21 May 2019, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 鶹 Household electricity prices in the European Union (EU) on average have increased to 21.1 cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) in the second half of 2018, a 3.5 percent increase over the ...
  • No dominant actor on German electricity market but RWE merits close look – antitrust authorities

    27 Nov 2019, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Cost & Prices 鶹 No single energy company can currently claim any dominance over Germany's electricity market, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and the federal antitrust ...
  • 10 Sep 2020 |

    Future of German offshore wind auction design contested in parliamentary hearing

    10 Sep 2020, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cost & Prices 鶹 鶹 market experts have debated the future design of offshore wind power auctions in Germany in a  parliamentary hearing. Many have railed  against the government's idea ...
  • 07 May 2019 |

    Regulatory reform needed to reach 2030 renewables expansion goal – Renewable 鶹 Federation

    07 May 2019, 12:30 Expert BEE- German Renewable 鶹 Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Clean 鶹 ...
  • 30 Mar 2021 |

    Green hydrogen could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 25 million tonnes in German Ruhr region – report

    30 Mar 2021, 13:37 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen 鶹 Green hydrogen technology can help reduce emissions from industry, transport and heating in ...
  • 08 Nov 2019 |

    Storage company Sonnen enters e-mobility with flat-rate business model

    08 Nov 2019, 14:04 Sören Amelang Solar Cars 鶹 / Die Welt Bavarian energy storage company Sonnen, which was taken over by oil company Shell earlier this year, is entering the e-mobility market. The company  said  it will launch a ...
  • 23 Apr 2019 |

    Onshore wind projects miss out in joint renewables auction

    23 Apr 2019, 13:35 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind 鶹 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy ...
  • Extending nuclear plants’ runtime not advisable, German govt concludes

    08 Mar 2022, 13:35 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
  • Germany must transform power system 'at Tesla speed' but tread carefully regarding Russian imports- econ min

    09 Mar 2022, 13:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Security 鶹 The pivot away from Russian energy imports will require Germany to double down on its energy transition efforts and apply a speed similar to that of Tesla with its new ...
  • Germany to launch emergency programme for “huge, gigantic” 2030 emissions target task

    12 Jan 2022, 12:20 Faced with a “drastic backlog” of too-high emissions left by the previous government and with not enough measures in place to reach the 2030 climate targets, Germany’s new minister for the economy and climate, Robert Habeck, has ...
  • 15 Mar 2016

    An unconstitutional nuclear phase-out? / Vattenfall's 'coal chaos'

    15 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung “Was the nuclear phase-out unconstitutional?” Germany’s Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe will on Tuesday and Wednesday hear parties in the case of the country’s nuclear phase ...
  • German utilities support coronavirus rescue package but warn of growing impacts

    30 Mar 2020, 14:03 Expert BDEW-German Association of 鶹 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Electricity market Utilities Clean 鶹 ...
  • Reactions to Germany's coalition agreement

    08 Feb 2018, 00:00 After weeks of intensive negotiations, Germany's would-be government partners have agreed on a coalition draft treaty. The 鶹 presents first reactions to texts on transport, climate and energy. [UPDATE adds VDA, VDMA ...
  • 09 Apr 2019 |

    German finance minister lays out vision for climate policies including changes to taxes, levies

    09 Apr 2019, 12:40 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Ahead of tomorrow’s first meeting of the so-called climate cabinet, German finance minister Olaf Scholz has launched his vision for Germany’s energy transition. In his ...
  • Exchange of experiences necessary for successful global energy transition – report

    03 Apr 2019, 12:25 Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Energiewende International German 鶹 Agency (dena) An international exchange of experiences ...
  • Possible 'entrance fee' for offshore projects irks Germany's wind power industry

    10 Aug 2020, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Hydrogen Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German economy ministry is mulling a law amendment that could force offshore wind energy investors to pay a fee before building installations at sea, Klaus Stratmann ...
  • World’s "first large-scale industrial power-to-gas facility" planned in northern Germany

    04 Apr 2019, 13:34 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology 鶹 A new project in northern Germany aims at establishing "the world’s first" power ...
  • 23 Mar 2020 |

    Sector coupling projects threatened by regulatory strains – Bundesrat committee

    23 Mar 2020, 14:01 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, 鶹 and Mobility Institut für Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilität Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Freja Eriksen Renewables Policy 鶹 Up to 100 projects in the field ...
  • 25 Mar 2019 |

    Germany’s emissions remain high as sector coupling potential stays untapped

    25 Mar 2019, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Policy 鶹 Germany is failing to take advantage of the huge potential of the “rigorous electrification” of transport and heating to cut emissions, consultancy McKinsey says in its latest ...
  • 31 Jul 2020 |

    Germany's solar power industry marks steepest climb in business climate on record

    31 Jul 2020, 12:19 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
  • 18 Mar 2019 |

    Wind power leads Germany’s record renewables output in March

    18 Mar 2019, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 鶹 A string of windy weeks has led to a very high share of nearly two-thirds renewables in Germany’s power production mix since the beginning of March. Average net electricity production ...
  • 11 Dec 2023 |

    Climate to become cross-cutting priority during Italy’s G7 presidency – special envoy

    11 Dec 2023, 12:20 Italy aims to become an important player once again at the table of international climate negotiations, the country’s recently appointed special envoy for climate Francesco Corvaro said. The university professor and engineer said that ...
  • 19 Dec 2022 |

    Preview 2023: 鶹 saving and supply increase are key to address gas shortage next year – analyst

    19 Dec 2022, 13:52 Filling gas storages in 2023 might not be as easy as this past year in the absence of Russian pipeline gas, and Europe should focus on energy saving and finding ways to increase especially LNG supply to address the global shortage next ...
  • 11 Mar 2019 |

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

    11 Mar 2019, 14:20 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Rachel Waldholz Business & Jobs Utilities Reuters EU regulators will take a hard look at part ...
  • 04 Apr 2016

    Lignite plants still lead top polluters / Mercury poisons fish

    04 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel Sandbag “Top 10 European polluters still dominated by German lignite” “Four out of five of the biggest polluters in Europe are still German lignite plants,” reports UK-based sandbag. The not-for-profit ...
  • 05 Mar 2020 |

    Germany’s largest coal state rejects coal exit law

    05 Mar 2020, 14:35 Rachel Waldholz Coal Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt Germany’s largest coal state, North Rhine-Westphalia, says it cannot accept the federal government’s proposed coal exit law without major amendments, arguing that ...
  • 22 Feb 2021 |

    Germany still lacks business model for clean industry- think tank

    22 Feb 2021, 12:23 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Alliance for Climate and Economy Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft ...
  • 04 Mar 2019 |

    Offshore wind manager sees North Sea wind power island ready by 2030

    04 Mar 2019, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology Tagesspiegel The plan to build an artificial island in the North Sea that will serve as a hub for offshore wind turbines with a capacity of more than 100 gigawatts is making good progress, Pieter van ...
  • 09 Mar 2015

    In the media: German insurers keen to invest in renewables

    09 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 German Insurance Association (GDV) Insurers keen to increase investments in renewable energy German insurers want to pour more money into renewables to profit from the reliable income streams they ...
  • 25 Feb 2016

    Record power export earnings / Lignite mine turns into wind farm

    25 Feb 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Fraunhofer ISE “Germany’s electricity export surplus brings record revenue of over two billion euros” Net electricity exports earned Germany a record 2.07 billion euros last year, according to think tank Fraunhofer ISE. ...
  • 26 Jan 2018 |

    Wind power expansion could come to a halt in Bavaria

    The expansion of wind power in Germany’s southern state Bavaria could soon fall close to zero, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reports. According to the German Wind 鶹 Association (BWE), there have been just four applications for construction of new wind ...
  • 13 Oct 2022 |

    Greta Thunberg's pro-nuclear comment stirs up German runtime extension debate

    13 Oct 2022, 10:52 Climate activist Greta Thunberg has backed the continued use of nuclear power plants that are still in operation in Germany, fuelling a heated debate over runtime extensions as the government struggles to find a unified position on the ...
  • German industry keenly interested in green PPAs – dena study

    03 Sep 2019, 13:34 Expert Aurora 鶹 Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & ...
  • 05 Sep 2019 |

    Germany set to miss key energy transition targets – McKinsey

    05 Sep 2019, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Energiewende 鶹 Germany is set to miss several key energy transition targets for the year 2020, and the country's high power supply security is at risk unless new generation capacity and grid ...
  • Germany could burn more coal despite capacity reduction- economist

    11 Feb 2019, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann 鶹 鶹 Coal Climate & CO2 Nuclear phase-out Germany shutting down the last of its nuclear power plants by 2022 could force the country to use more coal power- temporarily pushing up emissions- even ...
  • “Coal exit by 2035”

    For Germany to meet the Paris Climate Agreement targets, a phase out of coal-fired power generation must be complete by 2035 and the oldest facilities shut down as soon as 2019, according to a study by the Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut) and ...
  • 08 Feb 2019 |

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

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

    Start-up Sunfire’s e-fuels can decarbonise industries most addicted to fossil fuels

    14 Jun 2019, 09:07 鶹 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' ...
  • 03 Feb 2021 |

    'Dark doldrums' highlight supply challenges for Germany's fossil power phase-out

    03 Feb 2021, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany's coal plants provided the bulk of the country’s power consumption amid a period of cloudy short days and little wind in early January, foreshadowing the ...
  • 22 Aug 2019 |

    Utility E.ON joins ranks of Germany's corporate green bond issuers

    22 Aug 2019, 13:50 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Clean ...
  • Right-wing populists challenge Europe’s climate efforts

    07 Jun 2024, 12:00 Right-wing populist parties opposed to climate action are gaining power and popularity across the European continent and are set to do well in the 2024 European Parliament elections. These parties strongly influence climate narratives ...
  • 07 Jun 2016

    Delay in power grid extension / 'E.ON about to restart'

    07 Jun 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung Crucial German power grid extension delayed The construction and completion of important power lines in Germany will be delayed by at least three ...
  • 14 Aug 2019 |

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

    14 Aug 2019, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Utilities Reuters / 鶹 RWE, Germany’s largest power producer, reported a 20 percent increase in core profits in the first half of 2019, boosted by a stronger than expected performance at its energy ...
  • 19 Aug 2015

    In the media: Germany and Brazil are energy pioneers

    19 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 taz – die Tageszeitung “Among energy pioneers” Chancellor Angela Merkel should use her visit to Brasilia this week as an opportunity to breath fresh wind into the political dialogue concerning ...
  • German wind power industry says second offshore auction confirms downward cost trend

    New zero-support bids and an average support level of 4.66 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) in Germany’s second offshore wind power auction confirm an ongoing trend in cost reduction in the sector, the German Wind 鶹 Association (BWE) said in a press ...
  • Raise of maximum support rate for onshore wind power auctions “a necessary correction”

    The decision by Germany’s Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) to increase the maximum support rate for onshore wind power installations in renewables auctions to 6.3 cents per kilowatt hour was “a first step to correct undesired developments” in the tender ...
  • 15 Jan 2020 |

    Transport ministry and Deutsche Bahn ink 86 billion euro investment contract

    15 Jan 2020, 14:02 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 鶹 The German rail service Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the country's transport ministry (BMVI) have sealed a contract ...
  • Coronavirus impact lays bare inflexibility of German power generation and demand

    07 May 2020, 09:31 Slumping power demand due to the coronavirus crisis combined with April’s strong wind and solar power production have revealed that Germany's fossil and renewable electricity generation, as well as electricity demand, need to ...
  • Ailing German energy giant RWE spins off renewables

    01 Dec 2015, 00:00 Stricken energy giant RWE revealed on Tuesday it plans to spin off a company focused on renewables and grids to raise capital, while retaining fossil and nuclear energy generation. Germany's leading energy company E.ON had ...
  • German 2030 power use forecast up due to heat pumps, e-cars and hydrogen

    13 Jul 2021, 13:07 The German energy ministry has increased the country’s estimated power needs in 2030-- a figure that will be crucial after the general elections in September, when a new government has to set renewable energy expansion targets based on ...
  • 03 Aug 2015

    In the media: French nuclear waste bothers Germany

    03 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Germany- a good climate country?” It is questionable whether Germany’s energy transition is a good example for other countries to follow, writes political science ...
  • 03 Nov 2015

    Renewables cover 33% of power consumption in 2015-utilities

    03 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 BDEW / ZSW “Renewables share will likely rise to 33 percent in 2015” Renewable energies are likely to cover around 33 percent of Germany’s gross power consumption in 2015, research institute ZSW ...
  • German party leaders agree energy policy blueprint for coalition talks

    12 Jan 2018, 00:00 The parties currently in talks to form Germany’s next government have agreed to speed up the roll-out of renewable energies and start the phase-out of coal-fired power generation. Contrary to a draft leaked earlier this week, the ...
  • 14 Oct 2015

    In the media: Renewables levy said to rise; "Oil's closing sale"

    14 Oct 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 Spiegel Online/dpa-AFX “Renewable energy surcharge rises to record level of 6.35 cents” The renewables surcharge German consumers pay with their power bills will rise to a record 6.35 cents per KWh next year, ...
  • Germany’s govt coalition wrangles over budget after “debt brake” court ruling

    21 Nov 2023, 08:43 The debates over the fallout of last week’s shock constitutional court ruling on Germany’s state budget borrowing rules are in full swing, as the government faces difficult decisions on how to fill a 60-billion-euro gap in its special ...
  • 23 Sep 2015

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

    23 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Carl Morris 鶹 鶹 Die Welt “The German government knew the cheating technology” The German ministry for transport has known for a long time that car manufacturers are using technologies that interfere ...
  • 21 Nov 2018 |

    鶹 industry and researchers urge German parliament to pave way for 65 percent renewables goal

    Achieving a 65 percent share of renewables in power consumption by 2030, as determined by Germany’s government coalition, will require a clear regulatory framework and parallel investments in infrastructure, work on which must start as soon as possible, ...
  • 08 Sep 2020 |

    Potential shutdown of modern coal plant sparks debate over Hamburg's electricity supply

    08 Sep 2020, 14:21 Coal Hamburger Abendblatt The possibility that energy company Vattenfall could close down its newest and largest coal-fired power station in Germany has sparked a debate about whether that would negatively affect local electricity ...
  • 13 Nov 2018 |

    Econ Min Altmaier announces ambitious target for European battery cell production

    Germany’s economy and energy minister, Peter Altmaier, has announced the target of covering 30 percent of global battery cell demand with production “ in Germany and Europe ” by 2030 to make the continent more independent from Asian imports. At a mobility ...
  • 04 Dec 2019 |

    Zero-support wind farm secures world's largest offshore power contract

    04 Dec 2019, 13:41 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind 鶹 Danish offshore wind company Orsted and German chemical maker Covestro have signed the world's biggest purchase agreement for an offshore wind farm planned without support payments. ...
  • 03 Jul 2020 |

    Bumpy conclusion of Germany's landmark coal act clears way to next energy transition chapters

    03 Jul 2020, 12:48 In a vote that has been hailed as "historic", Germany's parliament has adopted a law that will ensure the phase-out of coal power by no later than 2038. The decision follows two years of intense debate about the country& ...
  • 18 Oct 2018 |

    Industrial-scale power-to-gas “interesting prospect” for lignite mining region - env min

    Large-scale installations used for storing renewable power as gas (power-to-gas) would be an interesting prospect for the east German lignite mining region of Lusatia, according to environment minister Svenja Schulze. Speaking at an event organised by the ...
  • 30 Jun 2015

    In the media: Share of renewables surges to record high

    30 Jun 2015, 00:00 鶹 鶹 German Renewable 鶹 Federation (BEE) “Wind strengthens power sector, renewable heat and transport stagnate” The share of renewables in total German power consumption has risen to a record 32.5 percent in the ...
  • 07 Apr 2020 |

    Battery storage systems see major growth in Germany- study

    07 Apr 2020, 13:21 Expert Forschungszentrum Jülich Research institute for energy, climate and nuclear sciences Nuclear phase-out Technology Expert RWTH Aachen University Technology Rachel Waldholz Storage 鶹 Battery storage systems have ...
  • 06 Apr 2020 |

    Coronavirus slump will lead to more hours of negative power prices in Germany – study

    06 Apr 2020, 12:36 Rachel Waldholz Cost & Prices 鶹 / pv magazine The drop in electricity demand driven by the coronavirus pandemic will likely lead to more hours of negative wholesale electricity prices in Germany this year, according ...
  • Germany agrees to pay energy companies over 2 billion euros in nuclear exit compensation

    05 Mar 2021, 13:12 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market ...
  • 25 Oct 2019 |

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

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

    鶹 efficiency in Germany improved by 3.2 percent in 2018 – AGEB

    21 Oct 2019, 13:07 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen ...
  • 25 Nov 2020 |

    European Commission greenlights German hard coal exit tenders until 2026

    25 Nov 2020, 15:04 Germany's phase-out plan for hard coal plants can largely be carried out as planned by inviting operators to submit compensation claims in tender procedures, the European Commission has decided. The German government welcomed the ...
  • 17 Jan 2017 |

    Preview2017- Bring ideological coal debate "back to civilised level"

    17 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 ...
  • 05 Apr 2016

    Industry emissions almost unchanged / Wind-powered lamps

    05 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Federal Environment Agency “Emissions trading: industry’s emissions almost unchanged in 2015” The CO₂ emissions of German energy intensive industry remained virtually unchanged for the ...
  • 02 Jan 2017 |

    Preview2017- "Urgent matters won’t be tackled in election campaign"

    02 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 ...
  • 07 Feb 2024 |

    EU sets focus on climate-friendly industry in 2040 climate target proposal

    07 Feb 2024, 10:30 The European Commission has recommended that the bloc reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040, saying the EU's Green Deal now needs to become an "industrial decarbonisation deal." Politicians from member ...
  • 29 Feb 2016

    Union demands lignite fund / Agreement on e-car incentives?

    29 Feb 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Rheinische Post “Union demands lignite fund” Mining union IG BCE argues Germany will need lignite power production until 2047 and should create a fund to finance the technology after it stops earning money in about 15 ...
  • 07 Nov 2017 |

    Green Party ready to compromise on coal exit timing, cars

    The German Greens have signalled their readiness to make concessions on core policy demands in the field of climate protection for the sake of advancing the stagnant coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the pro ...
  • 28 Feb 2020 |

    Offshore wind farms lose yield when too close, North Sea coordination needed – study

    28 Feb 2020, 13:45 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate ...
  • 05 Apr 2019 |

    Head of Merkel's party criticises plans for Germany's Climate Action Law

    05 Apr 2019, 11:37 The head of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Conservatives has criticised a key proposal for reaching Germany's 2030 climate targets, signalling major negotiations are still needed before the highly anticipated Climate Action Law ...
  • 23 Sep 2019 |

    Planned coal exit auctions in Germany unlikely to achieve goals – analysis

    23 Sep 2019, 13:49 Expert Aurora 鶹 Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Edgar Meza Coal Utilities 鶹 Government auctions aimed at shutting down Germany ...
  • 08 May 2017 |

    “Difficult” and “tedious” coalition talks ahead after elections in wind power state

    Germany's big wind-power producing state Schleswig-Holstein faces "difficult" coalition talks after the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU)- the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel- garnered a surprisingly clear election win on Sunday, ...
  • 14 Mar 2019 |

    Coal phase-out in Germany will be economic net gain, study finds

    14 Mar 2019, 13:40 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Ecologic Institute ...
  • 12 Sep 2019 |

    Merkel: Cutting transport emissions will be “herculean task” for govt and industry

    12 Sep 2019, 14:08 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cars 鶹 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said reaching the country's climate targets in the transport sector will be a great challenge for the car industry and the government. Reducing ...
  • 04 Feb 2015

    In the media: Floating wind turbines, RWE restructuring plans

    04 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Tageszeitung "Wind turbines that can float" The Dresden-based Gicon group is producing a prototype for a floating wind turbine (see picture above), Bernward Janzig from the taz reports. ...
  • 11 Sep 2019 |

    Coal exit compels Germany to raise offshore wind power expansion plans – industry study

    11 Sep 2019, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Wind 鶹 The German coal exit can only be carried out safely if the country raises its current offshore wind power expansion plans, a meta-study commissioned by offshore industry association BWO has ...
  • 05 Mar 2019 |

    Capacity market debate resurfaces as Germany may need gas to replace coal

    05 Mar 2019, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Handelsblatt The planned exit from coal-fired power generation in Germany may require large-scale construction of gas-fired power plants, but the necessary investments in the technology still remain wanting, ...
  • 10 Feb 2020 |

    Waterbed effect could turn German coal exit into mere symbolism – opinion

    10 Feb 2020, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal International Tagesspiegel The gradual phase-out of coal power in Germany over the next two decades does not at all guarantee a parallel drop in European greenhouse gas emissions, as the so-called waterbed effect ...
  • 05 Jan 2016

    Renewables growth in 2015- 'normal' slowing or year of 'disillusionment'?

    05 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 dpa/Frankfurter Rundschau “Growth of wind power sluggish in 2015” 2015 will enter the history of German renewables as a year of disillusionment, according to a report by press agency dpa. ...
  • 04 Oct 2022 |

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

    04 Oct 2022, 15:05 Germany's western coal mining and heavy industry state North Rhine-Westphalia aims to complete the phase-out of coal-fired power production no later than 2030, eight years earlier than agreed in German coal exit law. However, two ...
  • 18 Jun 2015

    In the media: Insurer pours fresh millions into wind and solar

    18 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 REN21 "Renewables 2015: Global Status Report" Paris-based non-profit group REN21 has published its annual report on the global status of renewable energy around the world. The 250-page ...
  • 24 Jun 2020 |

    Germany takes next coal exit step with contract for company compensation

    24 Jun 2020, 17:30 Germany is one step closer to finalising legislation on the planned coal exit by 2038 at the latest, as the government approved a draft contract between the state and companies to flesh out the country’s farewell to lignite. Among other ...
  • 10 Jun 2020 |

    German hydrogen strategy aims for global leadership in energy transition

    10 Jun 2020, 16:10 Germany places a large bet on hydrogen produced using renewable energy in its highly anticipated national hydrogen strategy that serves to underpin the country's ambitions to become a global leader in the technology. The strategy ...
  • 06 Apr 2022 |

    Europe must come together as a green electricity and hydrogen union – analyst

    06 Apr 2022, 09:49 Europe must act as a true green electricity and hydrogen union to stand its ground in a competitive world that moves to climate neutrality, says energy analyst Kirsten Westphal. The continent should establish hydrogen corridors to ...
  • 20 Jan 2020 |

    Germany's gradual coal phase-out path causes avoidable emissions- critics

    20 Jan 2020, 13:23 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Freja Eriksen Coal Tagesspiegel Background Critics of Germany's roadmap for phasing out lignite-fired power plants have ...
  • 03 Jun 2020 |

    German coal exit 'overtaken by reality,' country must prepare for earlier phase-out – NGO

    03 Jun 2020, 13:25 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Sören Amelang 鶹 鶹 Coal 鶹 The sharp decline of coal use in Germany this ...
  • Net zero targets could force Taiwan's chipmakers abroad

    16 Dec 2022, 11:26 The adoption of net zero emissions targets by global technology giants like Apple, Google and Microsoft is turning into a serious problem for Taiwan’s massive chipmaking industry. Pressure to decarbonise the extremely power-hungry ...
  • 17 Jan 2018 |

    German offshore wind power expands “according to plan”, industry wants more ambitious goals

    The expansion of Germany’s offshore wind power capacity is progressing “according to plan,” but industry representatives still urge the government to do away with caps and significantly ramp up goals for capacity growth. According to the German Wind ...
  • 26 Aug 2022 |

    Germany introduces energy saving provisions as key relief runs out and higher prices loom

    26 Aug 2022, 14:20 The German government has introduced a package of energy saving provisions for businesses and state entities that will take effect in September, just as key relief measures run out and citizens are set to face higher prices for fuels ...
  • 23 Sep 2020 |

    German cabinet approves renewables reform, but parliamentarians eye changes

    23 Sep 2020, 15:30 Germany's government has agreed on an overhaul of the country's Renewable 鶹 Act, the core legislation for its landmark energy transition, to enable a share of 65 percent renewables in 2030 power consumption and a ...
  • 17 May 2018 |

    German unions call for 'just Energiewende,' fear carmaker job losses

    17 May 2018, 00:00 Germany must ensure a "just Energiewende" by making sure the project remains affordable for all and provides high quality jobs, according to the 6 million-member trade union group DGB. The unions back Germany’s climate targets ...
  • 02 Sep 2020 |

    Greenpeace 鶹 launches complaint against hard coal tenders

    02 Sep 2020, 13:03 Expert Greenpeace 鶹 (now Green Planet 鶹) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal Renewables 鶹 / Tagesspiegel Background Power supplier Greenpeace ...
  • 08 Nov 2022 |

    Germany to double forest protection support, promises loss & damage finance at COP27

    08 Nov 2022, 13:51 As the UN climate change conference (COP27) gets underway in Egypt, the German government has pledged additional funding to protect forests worldwide and support the most vulnerable countries in dealing with climate risks. Chancellor ...
  • 18 Feb 2015

    In the media: E-mobility becomes commercially viable

    18 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Öko-Institut Study: Up to 700,000 e-cars could be run profitably in commercial car fleets by 2020 Large numbers of e-cars could already be profitably operated in commercial car fleets, according to ...
  • 31 Aug 2021 |

    German election primer – 2038 end date for coal under fire as climate forecasts worsen

    31 Aug 2021, 08:44 Tighter emission targets and mounting signs of climate change have once again turned Germany's coal exit into a hotly debated election campaign issue. The country agreed last year to phase out coal by 2038 at the latest, but many ...
  • 07 Oct 2015

    In the media: Greenpeace enters race for Vattenfall's coal operations

    07 Oct 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 鶹 鶹 Bloomberg Business, Greenpeace, Süddeutsche Zeitung “Greenpeace says can find cash to buy Vattenfall coal assets” Bloomberg Business reports that Greenpeace has registered its interest in buying ...
  • 18 May 2016

    Cabinet approves e-car subsidies / EU nuclear paper causes storm

    18 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Federal government “Tax breaks and buyer’s premium agreed to” The government cabinet has agreed to an e-car buyer’s premium worth 4,000 euros and ten-year tax breaks for new electric ...
  • Deal between utilities E.ON and RWE set to reshuffle German energy market

    German energy companies RWE and E.ON have agreed to a deal in which E.ON will buy RWE's green power subsidiary innogy and the two utilities will exchange large parts of their assets to focus their activities. The deal would drastically reshape ...
  • 14 May 2019 |

    German wind industry and grid agency sound alarm after substantial drop in auction turnout

    14 May 2019, 13:27 Expert BWE- German Wind 鶹 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
  • 23 Oct 2014

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

    23 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung “鶹 policy: backwards roll” It is not just Germany undertaking an energy transition, writes Cerstin Gammelin in an opinion piece for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, other European ...
  • 31 Oct 2019

    Govt allows new coal plant to enter service despite phase-out- report

    31 Oct 2019, 13:32 Sören Amelang Reuters / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel UPDATE- Former member of coal commission tells Tagesspiegel announcement could be "bluff"  German utility Uniper has been given the green light to start ...
  • 鶹 researchers spell out four reasons for slow emissions reduction in Germany

    14 May 2019, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Energiewende The rapid expansion of renewable power sources in Germany has not been matched by a parallel drop in carbon emissions and energy research experts of  science academy ESYS say  that there ...
  • 28 Oct 2019 |

    EU state aid rules could frustrate German coal plant operators' compensation hopes – NGO

    28 Oct 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal 鶹 Compensating German coal plant operators for taking their facilities off the grid during the country's coal exit could violate EU state aid rules and therefore significantly reduce the ...
  • 13 Apr 2015

    In the media: Energiewende could bring 230,000 new jobs by 2050

    13 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 neue energie “230,000 new jobs – if the Energiewende succeeds” A new and as yet unpublished study by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 鶹 concludes that renewables are a boon for ...
  • German government must urgently tackle energy policy issues – industry association

    The energy transition offers plenty of opportunities for German businesses, but the current government coalition has done little to solve key issues for the industry, writes the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) in its 2018 ...
  • Vote2017- Bareiß: "We will have to talk about a gradual end to renewables support."

    09 Dec 2016, 00:00 Germans will elect a new federal government in autumn 2017. Security, economic stability and refugees are likely to dominate election campaigns, but keeping the Energiewende on a steady course and fulfilling Germany’s international ...
  • 04 Mar 2020 |

    Quick renewables boom required to cushion Germany's nuclear and coal exit – think tank

    04 Mar 2020, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende 鶹 Germany must move quickly to get its renewables expansion back on track if the country wants to avoid a "green power gap," forcing it to rely on power imports or fossil reserve ...
  • 10 Oct 2019 |

    Coal exit commission members say timely phase-out in danger

    10 Oct 2019, 13:46 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Coal 鶹 / Spiegel Online Five ...
  • 07 Oct 2019 |

    German economy ministry presents onshore wind power rescue plan

    07 Oct 2019, 14:34 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 鶹 (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Government Clean ...
  • 14 Oct 2020 |

    Fridays for Future study on net-zero 2035 lacks plausible pathways – energy agency

    14 Oct 2020, 15:14 Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and 鶹 Wuppertal ...
  • The Berlin 鶹 Transition Dialogue 2018

    18 Apr 2018, 00:00 German ministers and European Commissioners will be among those explaining why an energy transition is a good idea for the world, at the fourth Berlin 鶹 Transition Dialogue on 17-18 April 2018. The 鶹 will give a ...
  • Germany's solar industry slams renewables act reform, cites possible EU law violation

    13 Oct 2020, 13:54 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind 鶹 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy ...
  • 25 Jun 2020 |

    German auctions show investors keen on solar, but still shun wind power

    25 Jun 2020, 13:28 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Solar Wind 鶹 / pv magazine Germany's latest renewable auctions have ...
  • 25 Aug 2021 |

    Almost all German parties open for ending coal well before 2038

    25 Aug 2021, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics 鶹 Nearly all parties expecting to gain seats in Germany's parliament are open to completing the country's coal exit well before the official 2038 end date. At a ...
  • Climate package not enough for Germany's 2030 targets- govt agencies

    24 Sep 2019, 13:58 Expert dena- German 鶹 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann ...
  • 27 Mar 2019 |

    Affordable natural gas essential to give up nuclear and coal – European Commission

    27 Mar 2019, 12:22 Expert BDEW-German Association of 鶹 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Gas International 鶹 The EU ...
  • Germany’s Energiewende fails to meet targets – study

    The energy transition in Germany does not achieve most of its goals, and its progress has slowed down over the last few years, a study conducted by the consultancy Prognos and commissioned by the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) has found. Improvements ...
  • New government gets little credit in quest to regain climate lead

    29 Mar 2018, 00:00 A new government with fresh faces for environment, energy, and transport policy is supposed to bring Germany's dented reputation as a climate policy pioneer back on track. Critics point out that apart from ambitious announcements, ...
  • 28 Jan 2020 |

    Calls for roll-out compromise as data confirms Germany's wind power collapse

    28 Jan 2020, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 鶹 The expansion of onshore wind power in Germany has reached the lowest level in 20 years, figures by the German Wind Power Association (BWE) confirm. With only 243 turbines and a ...
  • 17 Mar 2021 |

    New EU climate target largely drives coal out of German power market by 2030 – analysis

    17 Mar 2021, 13:04 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Electricity market 鶹 / Tagesspiegel Background The planned tightening of the EU climate target for 2030 would significantly increase CO2 prices in European emissions trading and thereby largely ...
  • 15 Feb 2019 |

    German grid agency worries about low participation in wind tenders

    15 Feb 2019, 12:21 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Solar Wind Federal Network Agency ...
  • Number of German energy workers rises by more than 10,000 in a decade

    22 May 2020, 14:02 Expert BDEW-German Association of 鶹 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs Clean ...
  • Industry, researchers and energy agency urge government action on energy transition

    20 Feb 2019, 13:22 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 鶹 Germany must urgently address a whole range of difficult choices to get the country’s energy transition on track for 2050 targets by triggering rapid investments in low ...
  • 30 Oct 2015

    Climate pledges for 2.7°C warming / industry energy use up

    30 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 UN Climate Change Secretariat “Global response to climate change keeps door open to 2 degree C temperature limit” A report assessing the 140 climate action plans submitted to the United Nations ...
  • Post feed-in tariff futures for pioneer renewable plants: Onshore wind power

    31 May 2021, 11:05 Many of Germany’s early renewable energy pioneers were experimenters with onshore wind technology. Inspired by the example of neighbouring Denmark, which had already proven the effectiveness of wind technology in the early 1990s, a ...
  • 30 May 2016

    EU threat to split German power market-report/ VW strategy for e-cars

    30 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Die Welt “EU wants to split Germany into two power price zones” The European Commission “is threatening to split [Germany] into two power price zones,” which would make power more ...
  • 05 Feb 2019 |

    Altmaier wants to boost battery cells, autonomous driving as part of industry policy

    05 Feb 2019, 13:40 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 鶹 (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 ...
  • 13 May 2022 |

    Russia "weaponises" gas supply, Germany could cope with halt by winter – econ min

    13 May 2022, 13:00 Russia has started to use fossil fuel deliveries as “a weapon“ with the introduction of sanctions on Gazprom Germania, the former German unit of Gazprom, said economy and climate minister Robert Habeck. While the situation was ...
  • 23 Jan 2019 |

    Coal commission draft recommends shielding consumers from rising power prices – media

    23 Jan 2019, 11:04 Germany’s coal exit commission will propose to protect companies and private households from rising electricity prices resulting from a state-driven phase-out of the fossil fuel,  Reuters news agency says citing a draft report [shorter ...
  • 13 Jan 2016

    'Inflated' grid fees / Report on 'successful' PV pilot auctions

    13 Jan 2016, 00:00 [Updates German industry association on energy policy] Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 鶹 鶹 Federation of German Industries (BDI) German industry association warns against German “solo” in climate, energy policy The ...
  • "There will be no more excuses in 2030"-SPD energy politician Westphal

    07 Feb 2018, 00:00 Agreeing on climate and energy policy was one of the simpler tasks during Germany's coalition negotiations, says Social Democratic (SPD) energy spokesman Bernd Westphal. However, he concedes that the challenges awaiting the country ...
  • 02 Dec 2019 |

    Eastern German states call coal exit roadmap into question – media report

    02 Dec 2019, 13:38 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 鶹 (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Spiegel Online / ...
  • 25 Mar 2020 |

    Nuclear plant in Germany taken offline, corona crisis impacts on deconstruction plans

    25 Mar 2020, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Passauer Neue Presse / 鶹 The nuclear plant Gundremmingen in Bavaria will go offline until the end of March or early April due to a malfunctioning fuel element that needs replacing, the ...
  • 25 Jun 2021 |

    Germany passes new Climate Action Law, pulls forward climate neutrality target to 2045

    25 Jun 2021, 13:40 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 鶹, ZEIT Online In its last session before the summer recess, the German parliament passed a bill that amends the federal Climate Action Law. The new law brings forward the deadline for ...
  • 鶹 and climate observers don’t share German government’s positive mid-term review

    06 Nov 2019, 14:38 Industry experts, researchers and lobbyists give the German government mediocre mid-term marks for its climate and energy efforts- while Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition has presented a largely positive self-evaluation. In what ...
  • 18 Oct 2019 |

    Engineering association rings alarm as next German wind power auction undersubscribed

    18 Oct 2019, 14:27 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und ...
  • 09 Jan 2015

    In the media: Renewables superlatives, EU policy, heating and e-cars

    09 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) "A year full of superlatives for ecologic power" German consumers paid almost 23 billion euros for renewable electricity in 2014, the FAZ writes, ...
  • 30 Jan 2020 |

    German econ min calls for large-scale green hydrogen production in highly anticipated strategy- report

    30 Jan 2020, 13:21 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 鶹 (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen ...
  • 24 Nov 2014

    In the media: government plan to meet climate targets, household power cut-offs

    24 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung "Gabriel’s quiet reserve" Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel is set to present a plan targeting emissions from the power sector that could allow Germany to achieve its ...
  • 15 Dec 2014

    In the media: Public utilities, lignite, RWE, and Germany's performance in Lima

    15 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung “Electricity crime story” Wherever they can afford it, German towns and municipalities have been buying back power grids and gas supply networks and are beginning to generate ...
  • 21 Mar 2017 |

    “Investing in renewable energy, disempowering energy corporations”

    Germany’s Energiewende should be democratic, ecologic and social, said the Left Party’s energy and climate spokesperson Eva Bulling-Schröter, presenting the Left’s energy policy cornerstones at an event by Forum Future Energies in Berlin. In the draft of ...
  • 19 Nov 2014

    In the media: Study on shutting down coal, more flexible lignite and chemicals industry

    19 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 German Institute for Economic Research “Shutting down old coal-fired power stations could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 23 million tones and stabilise the power market” A new study by the German ...
  • 23 Jan 2020 |

    Offshore wind power expansion in Germany overtakes onshore for first time in 2019

    23 Jan 2020, 15:45 The expansion of offshore wind power capacity in Germany has exceeded that of onshore turbines for the first time ever last year. This is both due to a particularly bad year for onshore expansion and the increasing competitiveness of ...
  • 04 Jun 2015

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

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

    In the media: Obama's Energiewende

    04 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung “With greetings to Paris” The German environment ministry and several NGOs welcomed President Obama’s clean power deal as increasing the chances of achieving an effective ...
  • 12 Dec 2019 |

    Implementation of coal exit compromise endangered, associations tell Merkel

    12 Dec 2019, 13:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of 鶹 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband ...
  • 22 Dec 2016 |

    Preview2017- "The debate on energy transition costs will intensify"

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

    Massive renewables expansion needed, says energy industry

    19 Jun 2019, 12:01 Expert BDEW-German Association of 鶹 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables 鶹 / ...
  • 28 Jul 2023 |

    Franco-German push for EU green industrial revival needs close alignment to succeed

    28 Jul 2023, 14:30 The European Union’s two largest economic and industrial leaders, Germany and France, have spearheaded efforts to put the EU ahead in the global scramble for green industry leadership and decarbonisation technologies. Despite ...
  • 30 Mar 2015

    In the media: "Don't buckle!", WWF tells government on lignite

    30 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 鶹 鶹 Der Spiegel “鶹 transition causes controversy between chancellor and state premiers” An alliance of three state premiers have informed Chancellor Angela Merkel about their concerns ...
  • 17 Jan 2020 |

    Government, mining states, utilities fix path for Germany's coal phase-out

    17 Jan 2020, 12:39 The German government, its coal mining states and several major utilities have agreed on a roadmap for shutting down the country's lignite-fired power plants and on compensation payments for operators. Many analysts and ...
  • 10 Aug 2015

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

    10 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Der Spiegel / Spiegel Online State premier criticises coal compromise Torsten Albig (Social Democrat), state premier of Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany, has criticised the capacity reserve ...
  • 16 Apr 2018 |

    Germany runs risk of losing Energiewende plot, needs carbon price – E.ON CEO

    Johannes Teyssen, the chief executive of energy company E.ON, said Germany is running the risk of losing the overarching plot of its Energiewende. He warned that the current government is focusing again too much on side-aspects such as the exact date and ...
  • 29 Sep 2022 |

    Germany agrees 200-billion euro ‘defence shield’ against soaring energy prices

    29 Sep 2022, 17:37 The German government has agreed on a relief package worth up to 200 billion euros to fight soaring energy prices. “Prices must go down – that’s our conviction, and the government will do anything to achieve that,” said chancellor Olaf ...
  • 27 Jul 2020 |

    Europe must take ambitious lead in green hydrogen – German govt advisor

    27 Jul 2020, 09:50 Europe's economy is well placed to benefit from the fledgling global hydrogen economy and should decisively follow through with its hydrogen strategies, says Veronika Grimm, a member of Germany's council of economic experts, ...
  • 30 Mar 2022 |
    Gas

    鶹 industry calls for gas supply priority list of German companies

    30 Mar 2022, 14:45 Germany must decide which companies are considered crucial enough to receive gas in case of a shortage caused by Russian supply cuts, Kerstin Andreae, head of energy industry association BDEW told 鶹. Andreae welcomed ...
  • 28 Apr 2015

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

    28 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 E.ON E.ON to move headquarters, founds "Uniper" Germany’s top utility E.ON announced details of its planned split into two companies, one focused on renewables, power grids and energy ...
  • 24 Jan 2018 |

    Transport sector pushed up German emissions again in 2016

    An increase in transport sector emissions drove up Germany’s total greenhouse gas emissions for the second time in a row in 2016, according to the the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). At 909.4 million tonnes of CO 2 equivalent, emissions were 2.6 million ...
  • 02 Mar 2015

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

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

    In the media: No tax-payer money for nuclear power- German minister

    06 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Reuters “Germany says using tax money for nuclear power ‘out of question’” Germany’s Minister for Economic Affairs and 鶹, Sigmar Gabriel, said that he would not agree “by any means that ...
  • 17 Feb 2015

    In the media: Worries about solar eclipse; Europe headed for renewables record

    17 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Worries about solar eclipse” On March 20, a solar eclipse will cover up to 80 percent of the sun in Germany and grid operators are concerned that massively ...
  • Germany can achieve net zero emissions by 2045 at net zero costs – consultancy

    10 Sep 2021, 14:56 Germany could transform its economy to net zero emissions by 2045 at net zero costs, because switching to green technologies opens up new markets and opportunities for growth, consultancy McKinsey has found. In its report „Net-Zero ...
  • 27 Mar 2020 |

    German carmakers among thousands of companies halting production, employing 'short-time' work

    27 Mar 2020, 13:49 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs 鶹 / Erneuerbare Energien Germany's largest carmaker, VW, has extended the suspension of ...
  • German grid agency cuts onshore wind subsidies by 2.4 percent again

    The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has decided to cut feed-in tariffs again for onshore wind parks not awarded in auctions by 2.4 percent from 1 July 2018, the agency announced in a press release. It is the fourth time in a row the agency has decided to ...
  • 11 Mar 2016

    The future of nuclear power / Low bidders for Vattenfall lignite ops?

    11 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Ministry for Environment “5 years after Fukushima: Nuclear power has no future” The nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima five years ago showed that atomic power was never 100 percent controllable, ...
  • 21 Oct 2014

    Germany’s energy transition in the media on 21 Oct 2014

    21 Oct 2014, 00:00 Der Tagesspiegel "Greenpeace enters roof of Willy-Brandt-House" Activists from environmental campaign organisation Greenpeace have protested against the climate policy of German Economy and 鶹 Minister Sigmar Gabriel at ...
  • 22 Feb 2016

    Industry softens Energiewende bashing / New support for PV storage

    22 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Die Welt Industry softens Energiewende-bashing At the latest meeting of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party’s economic council (CDU Wirtschaftsrat), business leaders softened their ...
  • 09 Jan 2019 |

    Utility manager takes crucial energy state secretary job in Germany's econ ministry

    09 Jan 2019, 13:53 Municipal utility chief executive Andreas Feicht will take on the role as Germany's energy state secretary on 1 February. With his appointment, economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier fills a position crucial to the progress of ...
  • "We’re not here to protect German carmakers"

    28 Apr 2017, 00:00 No other party has been part of a German federal government longer than the Free Democrats (FDP). They also governed together with Angela Merkel's CDU at the time of the Fukushima disaster and supported the second nuclear phase-out ...
  • 22 Jun 2021 |

    Conservatives’ “business-as-usual” election manifesto weak on climate details

    22 Jun 2021, 12:56 The manifesto of Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance for the upcoming national election remains vague on climate and energy, leaving plenty of leeway for possible government coalition negotiations with competitors like the Green ...
  • 13 Apr 2021 |

    German Left Party outflanks Greens on climate action- Tagesspiegel Background

    13 Apr 2021, 12:32 Expert Left Party Die Linke Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Edgar Meza Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background [UPDATE adds draft programme key content] The German Left Party (Die Linke) looks set to out ...
  • 03 Feb 2020 |

    German econ min’s draft strategy criticised for including ‘blue hydrogen’

    03 Feb 2020, 13:44 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Gas ...
  • Merkel at second diesel summit: must avoid driving bans "by all means"

    04 Sep 2017, 00:00 For the second time within one month, Germany’s government has held a “diesel summit” to discuss the consequences of the emissions fraud scandal of the country’s major carmakers. After a first summit in early August with industry ...
  • 10 Jun 2016

    Call for changes to Climate Action Plan / State dispute over power grid

    10 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 鶹 鶹 Reuters “Gabriel hints at changes to environment minister’s climate action plan” Based on statements by Germany’s economy minister Sigmar Gabriel,  Reuters reports  there could be ...
  • 22 Oct 2015

    G7 decarbonisation efforts assessed

    22 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) “The energy transition in Europe: initial lessons from Germany, the UK and France” The experience of Germany, the UK and France shows that the transition to a ...
  • 30 Mar 2022 |

    Germany prepares for Russian cuts to gas supplies by issuing 'early warning'

    30 Mar 2022, 13:49 Germany has triggered the first stage of its national gas supply emergency plan over fears that Russia might soon cut supplies if it doesn't receive payments from foreign buyers in roubles. The government called on all consumers to ...
  • 04 Jul 2017 |

    Conservatives' election programme sticks to national climate goals

    The conservative alliance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU and its Bavarian sister party CSU has pledged to stick to the country’s national climate targets, including the long fought-over Climate Action Plan 2050. The two parties’ joint programme ...
  • 03 Jul 2017 |

    Conservatives' election programme sticks to national climate goals

    The conservative alliance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU and its Bavarian sister party CSU has pledged to stick to the country’s national climate targets, including the long fought-over Climate Action Plan 2050. The two parties’ joint programme ...
  • 03 Jul 2023 |

    French and German energy discrepancies hamper joint EU climate strategy

    03 Jul 2023, 14:15 The two most influential members of the EU, Germany and France, agree on the urgent need to jointly decarbonise Europe’s energy system and put supply security on a safer footing after the tumultuous energy crisis year 2022. Russia’s war ...
  • 24 Jul 2015

    In the media: "Prisoners of the atom”

    24 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 鶹 鶹 Süddeutsche Zeitung “Prisoners of the atom” The share of nuclear power in France’s power generation is to be reduced from 75 percent today to 50 percent in 2025. But it’s wrong to think that the ...
  • German renewable power producers face uncertainty as feed-in tariffs expire

    28 Feb 2019, 14:15 Much of Germany’s renewable power capacity is facing uncertainty regarding its business models as generous feed-in tariffs for many wind, solar and biogas plants end in the 2020s. With the country needing more, not less, renewable power ...
  • 28 Jan 2019 |

    German politicians and energy experts praise coal exit deal, say real work starts now

    28 Jan 2019, 11:36 The agreement by Germany's coal exit commission to end the fossil power source's use by 2038 the latest is welcomed by the country's climate activists and energy industry representatives alike. They praise the final ...
  • 21 Feb 2020 |

    Facts on the German state elections in Hamburg

    21 Feb 2020, 12:30 Hamburg, which is home to Europe's third-largest container port on the river Elbe, is particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels and developing climate change adaptation measures. Close to 80 percent of Hamburg citizens said ...
  • 11 May 2023 |

    Ukraine war pushes Germany to build LNG terminals

    11 May 2023, 11:15 The war in Ukraine has pushed efforts to diversify Germany’s gas supply away from Russian deliveries to the top of the government’s agenda. As part of these efforts, the government is going full steam ahead in supporting the build-up of ...
  • German commission proposes coal exit by 2038

    17 May 2019, 09:20 The final report of Germany's coal exit commission sets out a pathway for the country to phase out the fossil power source and make progress on its slow emissions reductions. Delegations from industry, environmental NGOs, civil ...
  • 鶹 Guide – Italy moves on green transition, but fossil ties remain tight

    11 Jul 2025, 12:15 Italy has taken significant steps in its green transition over the past decade but the current government under prime minister Giorgia Meloni is also determined to make the country a "gas hub" in the Mediterranean Sea, ...
  • What does the coalition deal mean for renewables, coal and the power market in Germany?

    08 Dec 2021, 12:13 One of the core topics of the new German government's plan for the next four years is putting the country on track to meet its 2045 climate neutrality target – and key to this goal is the build-up of renewable energies and the ...
  • Balancing the books: Germany's "green energy account"

    12 Feb 2015, 00:00 The green energy account is the basis for calculating what German consumers pay to fund the Energiewende: a levy currently comprising a fifth of their power bills. The rapid rise of renewables over the years has inflated this levy, a ...
  • 12 Jun 2023 |

    Q&A – Climate may get only sporadic attention as economy to dominate Croatia’s “super election year”

    12 Jun 2023, 13:18 The 2024 European Parliamentary elections will kick off what has been coined a “super election year” for Croatia, together with parliamentary and presidential votes later in the year. Political analysts expect heated debate as ...
  • 03 Feb 2023 |

    Q&A- Why Europe needs to adapt to the impacts of climate change

    03 Feb 2023, 09:45 A string of extreme weather events has pushed adaptation to the forefront of climate policy in Europe. This Q&A explains how fast the continent is warming, what the impacts and costs of rising temperatures are, and why emission ...
  • 02 Jan 2023 |

    Q&A – 鶹 crisis reignites debate about fracking in Germany

    02 Jan 2023, 10:20 The energy crisis has revived the German debate into the controversial gas extraction method known as unconventional hydraulic fracturing – or simply fracking – as the country looks for alternatives to Russian supply. However, there is ...
  • Germany’s energy consumption and power mix in charts

    18 Dec 2024, 13:00 A wealth of numbers and statistics describe the energy generation and consumption of nation states. This factsheet provides a range of charts (and data links) about the status of Germany’s energy mix, as well as developments in energy ...
  • 28 Oct 2019 |

    Facts on the German state elections in Thuringia

    28 Oct 2019, 08:40 The forests and fields that give Thuringia its reputation as "the green heart of Germany" are not just useful for agriculture and tourism – biomass also holds a higher share of the state's gross power production (20 %) ...
  • 15 May 2020 |

    A (very) brief timeline of Germany's Energiewende

    15 May 2020, 00:00 In 2014, the Green Party's Julia Verlinden asked the federal government for its definition of a starting date for the "Energiewende". In his reply, parliamentary state secretary in the economy ministry Uwe Beckmeyer ...
  • 09 Jan 2024 |

    Q&A – How are farmers’ protests in Germany linked to climate policy?

    09 Jan 2024, 14:09 The large-scale protests by Germany's agriculture industry are casting a spotlight on the difficulties faced by the government to reconcile decarbonisation efforts with budget restrictions and social cohesion. As thousands of ...
  • 07 Feb 2024 |

    Q&A: The EU industrial carbon management strategy

    07 Feb 2024, 17:40 The European Commission has presented its proposal for an EU strategy for capturing, transporting, trading, permanently storing and using carbon, as an essential part of its move to climate neutrality by 2050. The Commission aims to set ...
  • 28 Nov 2014 |

    Germany’s power market reform: the options on the table

    28 Nov 2014, 00:00 The German government plans to redesign the power market to avoid shortages in power supply. In 2015, a decision will be taken on the introduction of a capacity mechanism – a system to compensate fossil power plants not only for the ...
  • 鶹 Guide – Government turmoil casts doubt over France's transition progress

    28 Jul 2025, 10:30 Focused on the deployment of new nuclear reactors and renewal of its ageing fleet, France still lags far behind other EU member states when it comes to expanding its renewable sources. Whether the pace of the rollout is too slow for ...
  • 25 Jul 2023 |

    A shared challenge: Attitudes about climate action in France and Germany

    25 Jul 2023, 13:30 Concerns over the impacts of climate change and demand for mitigation policy are high in France and Germany alike, which is hardly surprising given their geographic proximity and similar economic structure. However, the French and the ...
  • 16 Mar 2023 |

    Greece must make up for lost time in climate adaptation

    16 Mar 2023, 13:00 A string of devastating wildfires and floods has forced Greece to step up its lagging climate adaptation efforts. The creation of a separate ministry to handle the fallout from climate change signals that the government is starting to ...
  • Government opts for alternative to coal levy

    02 Jul 2015, 00:00 The government has agreed on a keenly awaited package of measures to further the Energiewende. But it gave in to pressure from trade unions and utilities and abandoned the idea of fining coal power plants for emitting greenhouse gases ...
  • 31 Jan 2025 |

    German onshore wind power – output, business and perspectives

    31 Jan 2025, 10:00 Wind power is Germany's most important renewable electricity source. It is projected to become the backbone of the country's entire energy system in its shift away from fossil fuels. The country boasts one of the largest ...
  • 11 Jul 2023 |
    EU

    Q&A – Italy strives to become EU energy leader a year ahead of 2024 EU vote

    11 Jul 2023, 10:35 In early June 2024, Italian citizens will head to the polls to elect their representatives in the European Parliament, along with the other member states. Public debate remains fierce with continued inflation and energy woes, and ...
  • Next German government's key climate and energy plans in 2021 coalition agreement

    25 Nov 2021, 11:56 Two months after the general election in Germany, the prospective government parties have agreed on a coalition treaty that is to guide their policies in the next four years. Entitled "Daring more progress- Alliance for Freedom, ...
  • Positions of key stakeholders on the EEG: Research Institutes

    06 Oct 2014, 00:00 This Factsheet lists views and positions of some German research institutes on the new Renewable 鶹 Act (EEG) which came into effect on 1 August 2014. Energiewende Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Institute for ...
  • 30 Mar 2023 |

    Lack of coordination and monitoring slows climate adaptation in Poland

    30 Mar 2023, 10:53 Poland is increasingly affected by heatwaves, droughts and floods as the impacts of climate change become ever more apparent. The country has had adaptation plans in place for a decade, but a lack of coordination and monitoring is ...
  • 04 Apr 2024 |
    EU

    Climate in the 2024 EU elections and the making of the union’s next leadership

    04 Apr 2024, 09:10 Voters in the EU will head to the polls on 6-9 June 2024 to elect the next European Parliament and help shape the union’s climate policy for the next five years. The months building up to the vote provide many opportunities for ...
  • 09 Mar 2023 |

    Climate change adaptation plans fall short in hard-hit Italy

    09 Mar 2023, 09:30 Italy already finds itself reeling from the climate crisis, but the country’s adaptation plans are widely deemed insufficient. In the wake of record temperatures, droughts and floods, the government published its first national ...
  • 20 Sep 2017 |

    Campaign quotes: Greens and Free Democrats on Energiewende issues

    20 Sep 2017, 00:00 The Free Democrats (FDP) want a more market-led Energiewende and abolish "dreadful subsidies" to renewables, while the Green Party favours a CO2 tax and the phase-out of conventional cars. In the run-up to the federal election ...
  • 01 Jun 2018 |

    How much does Germany’s energy transition cost?

    01 Jun 2018, 00:00 The price tag for Germany’s energy transition is one of the project’s most controversial aspects. Estimates on how much money the country will eventually have to invest in the shift to renewables and the good-bye to nuclear power vary ...
  • Q&A: COP28 and the 100 billion U.S. dollar climate finance commitment

    29 Nov 2023, 09:55 Two weeks before the start of the UN climate conference COP28 in Dubai, the OECD has said developed countries might have finally made good on their pledge to mobilise 100 billion U.S. dollars climate finance in 2022, two years later ...
  • 19 Jun 2023 |

    Q&A – Germany faces heated debates over climate policy in 2024 EU election

    19 Jun 2023, 12:45 Voters in Germany, alongside other EU citizens, will head to the polls one year from now to elect a new European Parliament and lay the groundwork for the next European Union executive to shape energy and climate policy for five years. ...
  • 27 May 2019 |

    Facts on the German state elections in the city of Bremen

    27 May 2019, 11:24 As voters across Europe headed to the polls to elect a new European Parliament, German national media paid comparatively little attention to the regional election taking place at the same time in the country’s smallest and least ...
  • Position of key stakeholders on the EEG 2.0: Environmental groups

    07 Oct 2014, 00:00 This Factsheet lists views and positions of some German environmental groups on the new Renewable 鶹 Act (EEG) which came into effect on 1 August 2014. Energiewende Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Nature and ...
  • 23 Feb 2022 |

    Q&A: What does Germany's decision to put Nord Stream 2 on hold mean?

    23 Feb 2022, 14:20 Germany has put the contentious Nord Stream 2 pipeline on hold in reaction to Russian aggression against Ukraine – but what does this decision mean? Is this the end of the project? Is Europe's gas supply at risk? And does the ...
  • 鶹 crunch- How does it affect Germany’s climate policy & what can be done?

    10 Feb 2022, 13:25 Gas supply shortages and geopolitical tensions between Russia and the West are hitting the EU at a time when the bloc wants to focus on phasing out fossil fuels to achieve climate neutrality by the middle of the century. Plans in Berlin ...
  • 09 Jun 2023 |
    EU

    Q&A – French torn between energy price fears and climate threat a year before EU vote

    09 Jun 2023, 12:51 One year from now, French citizens will go to the polls to have their say in the makeup of the European Parliament, together with citizens from across the EU. 鶹 and climate policy could play a decisive role in the elections, as ...
  • 05 Jul 2016 |

    RWE’s plans for new renewable subsidiary

    05 Jul 2016, 00:00 Similar to domestic rival E.ON, German energy giant RWE hopes the separation of its renewable business from ailing fossil fuel generation will help it to adjust to the sweeping changes triggered in the sector by the country’s ...
  • Q&A – What the German top court’s ‘debt brake’ ruling means for climate policy

    11 Jan 2024, 14:14 A ruling by Germany's highest court in November 2023 declared an integral part of the government's funding plan for climate and energy programmes unlawful, dealing a major blow to the coalition of chancellor Olaf Scholz. The ...
  • Q&A: How the EU aims to reign in false green claims on products

    08 May 2023, 11:00 The European Commission has proposed a set of detailed rules for companies to back up their green claims on products, ranging from “carbon-neutral” sunscreen to “biodegradable” plastic packaging. The proposal for a directive on green ...
  • 14 Jan 2021 |
    EU

    Who sets the targets? Expert Q&A on European energy and climate policy

    14 Jan 2021, 08:50 鶹 targets and climate policies in European countries have never been set only at national level. On a continent where small states share multiple borders, their energy systems are becoming increasingly interlinked, and thus ...
  • Combined heat and power- an Energiewende cornerstone?

    04 May 2015, 00:00 Combined heat and power has become one of the hotly debated issues of the 2015 power market reform, with the government wanting to reduce support costs and utilities worried that these efficient plants will become unprofitable. This ...
  • Global surveys show people’s growing concern about climate change

    20 Jun 2024, 11:00 Polls show that climate change has become a key concern for a majority of people across the globe. However, views about personal impacts or on how to tackle the global challenge differ widely. Some call for more ambition, others ...
  • 27 Sep 2016 |

    Bioenergy in Germany – facts and figures on development, support and investment

    27 Sep 2016, 00:00 Bioenergy has played a major role in the Energiewende to date, not just contributing to renewable power, but in heating too. This factsheet details the facts and figures of bioenergy development in Germany, how much it costs consumers, ...
  • What are the best technologies to heat homes cleanly?

    14 Jul 2023, 13:46 Boilers that burn fossil fuels to heat homes spew gasses that also heat the planet. Several technologies to heat homes cleanly already exist, but many come with trade-offs that hold them back. So how do technologies like heat pumps, ...
  • Electric highways offer the most efficient path to decarbonise trucks

    01 Feb 2021, 16:20 Connecting electric trucks to overhead power lines on so-called electric highways is the most energy-efficient route to zero-emission road freight. The technology is being tested in a number of pilot projects, with Germany and Sweden ...
  • Positions of key stakeholders on the EEG: Government and federal states

    06 Oct 2014, 00:00 This Factsheet lists views and positions of Germany's federal government and the 16 states (Bundesländer) on the new Renewable 鶹 Act (EEG) which came into effect on 1 August 2014. Energiewende Renewable 鶹 Act | EEG 2014 ...
  • 16 Jan 2019 |

    鶹 use in the city of Berlin

    16 Jan 2019, 12:08 Germany's capital Berlin plans to become climate-neutral by 2050. The densely populated, emissions-intensive city phased out lignite coal for power production in 2017 and plans to exit hard coal by 2030. However, renewables only ...
  • 12 Nov 2018 |

    Facts on the German state elections in Bavaria

    12 Nov 2018, 17:05 Bavaria, the picture-book state with its rich green alpine landscapes, Walt Disney-inspiring Neuschwanstein Castle, Oktoberfest and champion football club FC Bayern Munich boasts the highest amount of installed capacity of solar PV, ...
  • 21 Mar 2019 |

    The task force in charge of steering Germany to clean mobility

    21 Mar 2019, 11:52 Germany struggles to lower emissions in the transport sector and has launched an advisory panel to clean up the sector according to national climate targets. Its findings, to be published by spring, are meant to feed into the government ...
  • 21 Jul 2023 |
    EU

    Covering climate and energy policy during Spain’s EU Council presidency

    21 Jul 2023, 08:50 Spain is set to be a key driver of the European Union’s climate and energy agenda for the coming six months as it has taken over leadership of the Council of the EU, a crucial institution of the 27-member bloc. At a time when Russia’s ...
  • 05 Nov 2014 |

    Facts and figures on the social impact of the Energiewende

    05 Nov 2014, 00:00 German society is transforming under the twin pressures of the legislation that frames the country’s energy transition, and the drive from ordinary people now playing an active role in decentralised energy production, and making choices ...
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  • 05 Aug 2025 |

    Stay updated on online journalism and energy events

    05 Aug 2025, 15:49 Milou Dirkx International Events offer journalists the opportunity to learn, share and connect with sources and colleagues. At 鶹, we collect all online webinars, gatherings, meetings and conferences on energy transition, ...
  • Beneath headlines of disappointment, 2019 may have set scene for a 2020 full of climate ambition

    20 Dec 2019, 16:30 Sven Egenter Coal Climate & CO2 Renewables COP25 "Disappointing", "not enough", "climate emergency" – many headlines in 2019 gave a damning verdict on climate policy and the energy transition globally ...
  • VDE- Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies

    VDE, the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies is one of the largest technical and scientific associations in Europe with more than 36,000 members, their website states. VDE has offices in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and ...
  • Left Party

    The Left Party currently makes up part of the opposition in the German federal parliament. They advocate decentralised energy production and distribution and a 100 percent renewable energy sector by 2050. Costs of the energy transition should be ...
  • EWI- Institute of 鶹 Economics at the University of Cologne

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

    The German 鶹 Agency (Deutsche Energie-Agentur, Dena) is a profit-oriented company working on topics such as energy efficiency, renewable energy sources and intelligent energy systems and is funded by a large number of public and private investors. ...
  • FDP- Free Democratic Party

    The Free Democrats are Germany's liberal, market-oriented party. Although the party was not elected to federal parliament in 2013 for the first time in post-war history, it still holds political sway, especially in some state politics. The FDP wants ...
  • Electricity and gas transmission grid operator Denmark

    Energinet owns, operates and develops Denmark’s electricity and natural gas transmission systems. It is an independent public enterprise owned by the Danish Ministry of Climate, 鶹 and Utilities. www.energinet.dk Jesper Nørskov Rasmussen jnr@energinet ...
  • 鶹 Masterclass: How to report on climate adaptation

    31 May 2023 Berlin In the face of ever more destructive heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, and floods, adaptation remains a keystone of climate action. Cities, regions, and entire countries across the globe must act now to prepare for the full impact of ...
  • 24 Nov 2020 |
    EU

    Deep dive: Making the most of Europe's renewables potential

    24 Nov 2020 Berlin Hydro power from Norway, wind power from Portugal and solar PV from Greece? Europe’s potential for renewable energy varies significantly depending on the geological and geographical conditions in individual regions. While each country ...
  • Is Germany the laboratory for the energy transformation of the 21st century?

    14- 16 Mar 2016 Berlin Is Germany on the right track to reinvent its energy system? The three-day workshop will allow participants to take a deep-dive into Germany's ambitious Energiewende. The programme is designed to meet the special interests of ...
  • 20 Dec 2016 |

    "The energy transition in Germany explained"

    20- 31 Dec 2016 Berlin A series of five media study tours for international media in cooperation with the International Journalists' Programmes and think tank ecologic Workshop series: September-December 2016 The Energiewende (“energy transition”) is ...
  • Germany's Energiewende in brief

    0J Easy Guide The Energiewende – literally, the “energy turnaround” – is Germany’s effort to reduce climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions without relying on nuclear energy. It has enjoyed broad public backing and cross-party support, even as the ...
  • Raunio

    Finland Electricity Fossil fuels Renewables Transport Freight Finnish Helena is 鶹 ambassador for the Nordic countries, based in Helsinki. She is a freelance journalist from Finland. After a long career working for magazines such as Tekniikka & ...
  • 鶹 Calendar- 鶹 & Climate Policy Events

    Upcoming events 14 August: German government has been in office for 100 days.  29 August: Panel discussion " From ‘Dark Doldrums’ to Solar Surge? Grid integration of high shares of renewables " hosted by Swiss embassy, BERLIN. 7 September: End ...
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