22 Jul 2025, 13:18 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Utilities Policy S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / 麻豆无码版 Amid growing uncertainty about the new German government鈥檚 future energy policy, both energy supplier Vattenfall and the country鈥檚 central bank, the ...
23 Jan 2025, 14:07 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 麻豆无码版 Almost three years after the peak of Europe鈥檚 energy crisis in 2022, many people in Germany are ...
26 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025, 12:00 麻豆无码版 Team Reuters: Vattenfall to build Germany's largest offshore wind farm Swedish power utility Vattenfall said it has made a final investment decision for two wind farm projects in the German North Sea, Nordlicht 1 and 2, the ...
28 Jan 2025
28 Jan 2025, 11:44 麻豆无码版 Team Reuters: Germany election 2025: Parties, polls and key issues Here are the main parties contending, their poll standings, and the key policy issues ahead of a snap national election on 23 February. Bloomberg: Germany fears ...
31 Jul 2025
31 Jul 2025, 12:00 麻豆无码版 Team Reuters: EU climate goals at risk as ailing forests absorb less CO2, scientists say Damage to European forests from increased logging, wildfires, drought and pests is reducing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide, putting ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:50 Expert Vattenfall 麻豆无码版 company Electricity market Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Cost & Prices Tagesschau / 麻豆无码版 The modern coal plant Moorbug owned by Swedish energy company Vattenfall had turned into a liability ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:41 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Wind Handelsblatt 麻豆无码版 company Vattenfall would like to expand its involvement in wind energy in Germany, J眉rgen Flauger writes in the ...
13 Mar 2024, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities 麻豆无码版 / rbb Construction of one of the largest heat pumps in Europe has started in Berlin in a bid to bring the German capital closer to its goal of decarbonising its heating system. The heat ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall will use salt to store solar and wind power as heat in a Berlin pilot project. 鈥溌槎刮蘼氚� can be stored in salt without loss over weeks and months until it is needed,鈥� said Vattenfall project manager Markus Witt in a press release. ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall, which operates many conventional power plants in Germany and is selling its German lignite operations to Czech investor EPH, has published its half-year 2016 figures. It says that challenging market conditions forced it to make ...
厂飞别诲别苍鈥檚 Vattenfall has signed a supply contract with German carmaker BMW for batteries 鈥� normally used in BMW鈥檚 i3 鈥� which the utility plans to use for storage projects in wind farms in Hamburg, near Amsterdam, and in Wales, Vattenfall said in a press ...
Germany鈥檚 capital Berlin has halved its emissions from power and heat supplied by utility Vattenfall since 1990. Vattenfall thereby reaches its emissions reduction target three years earlier than agreed in the climate action agreement of 2009 with the ...
The January-September interim report by Swedish utility Vattenfall showed that the company鈥檚 prospects have improved after the sale of its eastern German lignite operations to Czech EPH, writes Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Profit ...
08 Apr 2016, 00:00 In Czech company EPH, Vattenfall might have found a buyer for its lignite coal mines and power stations in Lusatia. But as the companies involved refuse to comment, environmentalists warn that coal has no future in a country that wants ...
18 Apr 2016, 00:00 State-owned Swedish utility Vattenfall has agreed to sell its east German lignite operations to Czech utility EPH, the company said on Monday. While the affected regions stressed the sale would finally put an end to employees' ...
12 Nov 2020, 14:18 Germany鈥檚 highest court has ruled that the compensation clauses in the country鈥檚 nuclear exit law are unconstitutional. The decision forces the government to make changes to the law yet again, after the original legislation had to be ...
Swedish state-owned utility Vattenfall posted a pretax profit in 2017 despite sluggish electricity demand, helped in part by new wind power capacity, writes news agency Reuters. Vattenfall started operation of two new wind parks in 2017, one of them the ...
Vattenfall plans to cut up to 60 percent of its 420 full-time employees working in its German hydro power division, the company announced in a press release. 鈥淒ue to the price development on the German electricity market and the regulatory framework for ...
01 Nov 2024
01 Nov 2024, 11:32 麻豆无码版 Team European Commission: EU gas storages 95% full ahead of 1 November, surpassing the 90% target The current gas storage level EU-wide is over 95 percent, according to the latest figures released by Gas Infrastructure Europe. ...
28 Apr 2015
28 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 E.ON E.ON to move headquarters, founds "Uniper" Germany鈥檚 top utility E.ON announced details of its planned split into two companies, one focused on renewables, power grids and energy ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall said it will replace all its vehicles by electric cars over the next five years, reports Deutsche Welle. The company noted the measure was required to become "climate-neutral" by 2050. Starting in January 2017, ...
08 Jul 2021, 13:32 Expert Vattenfall 麻豆无码版 company Electricity market Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal 麻豆无码版 / Tagesschau The hard coal power station Moorburg in Hamburg was closed down for good on 7 July, reported public broadcaster Tagesschau ...
22 Jan 2021, 14:13 S枚ren Amelang Coal Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Germany's most prominent hard coal power plant to be decommissioned as part of the country's coal exit is set to become a production site for renewable hydrogen. Oil major Shell, ...
31 Mar 2022, 13:47 Kerstine Appunn Heating In a聽 12-point plan 聽for a heat transition in Germany, utility Vattenfall has proposed to expand city heating networks and convert them to climate-neutral fuels. To achieve this, Vattenfall is calling for a rapid ...
The Federal Constitutional Court is to rule on utilities鈥� rights in their case against the government over the shut-down of nuclear power plants, Corinna Budras writes for FAZ. Nuclear power plant operators RWE, E.ON and Vattenfall are suing the German ...
Swedish Utility Vattenfall has made 鈥渙ne of the single biggest investments in renewables 鈥� in its history by ordering 113 modern 8 megawatt (MW) offshore wind turbines from Spanish-German manufacturer Siemens-Gamesa, Vattenfall says in a press release. ...
Swedish state owned utility Vattenfall鈥檚 sale of its German lignite coal operations is facing a new delay, writes J眉rgen Flauger in the Handelsblatt. The necessary approval by the European Commission was pending and will probably not be ready before ...
The European Commission has cleared the sale of Vattenfall鈥檚 German lignite plants and mines to Czech utility EPH. 鈥淭he Commission found the deal would not adversely affect competition in the relevant markets,鈥� it said in a press release. 鈥淟ignite will ...
Vattenfall鈥檚 lignite business results ahead of the sale of its coal mining and production facilities in eastern Germany offer some insight into why the Swedish utility is selling. They also raise the question of why Czech investor EPH is interested in the ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall will not sell its financially struggling Moorburg coal plant in Hamburg despite revamping its business model towards more renewable energy sources and digitalisation of the energy system, Bj枚rn Hartmann writes in Hambuger ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall expects Germany鈥檚 capital Berlin to boast about 250,000 electric cars by the end of the next decade, compared to 1,700 currently registered in the city, Jens Tartler writes in the Tagesspiegel. Vattenfall鈥檚 Thomas Sch盲fer says ...
Helmar Rendez, chairman of Germany鈥檚 newest lignite company LEAG, has pushed for a swift decision over the possible expansion of open pit mining in the Eastern German region of Lusatia, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. 鈥淭his is no decision that we can ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:20 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Coal dpa / Spiegel / 麻豆无码版 Eastern German lignite mine and power plant operator LEAG has rejected ...
23 Mar 2022, 12:37 Kerstine Appunn Coal Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 The site of the closed-down coal power station Moorburg in the city state of Hamburg would lend itself to producing green hydrogen at a capacity of up to 500 megawatt (MW), a feasibility ...
Utility Vattenfall wants to sell its Hamburg coal power plant Moorburg, according to a report by daily tageszeitung. Vattenfall CEO Magnus Hall did not rule out a sale within five years, as the company did not need Moorburg in the long term. A Vattenfall ...
Lignite mining and power generation in eastern German region Lusatia could be profitable, Helmar Rendez, CEO of Germany鈥檚 newest lignite company Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG (LEAG) told German daily BILD in an interview. 鈥淲e assume that we can earn money ...
Czech investor Daniel Kretinsky鈥檚 purchase of Vattenfall鈥檚 German brown coal business, officially completed on Friday, is a bet that Germany will not end coal-fired energy production anytime soon, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. Kretinsky鈥檚 holding EPH ...
17 Oct 2014
17 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Die Welt 聽鈥� 麻豆无码版 transition: think-tank proposes new green power surcharge鈥� 聽 Green electricity is priced so cheaply that these renewable facilities will have to be paid a 鈥渃apacity premium鈥� in the future to ensure ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:01 Expert Vattenfall 麻豆无码版 company Electricity market Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Grid 麻豆无码版 The Moorburg coal plant in Hamburg will be taken offline completely in July 2021, after Germany's four grid operators ...
30 Oct 2014
30 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Der Tagesspiegel "Vattenfall wants to sell lignite operations" The Tagesspiegel reports that Swedish government-owned utility Vattenfall is looking to sell its German lignite mining and ...
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 ...
For a successful energy transition, Germany needs a well-ordered coal exit and accelerated wind power expansion, Vattenfall鈥檚 Senior Executive Vice President Tuomo Hatakka told the Funke Mediengruppe. The next federal government must organise the phase ...
02 Oct 2020, 14:16 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out 麻豆无码版 Costs are mounting for the German government鈥檚 legal defence in a six-billion-euro lawsuit initiated by ...
29 Jul 2025, 13:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Government 麻豆无码版 Uncertainty over the course of the energy transition and high energy prices are causing distress to one in three companies in Germany, a聽 survey 聽by the Association of ...
Vattenfall started operation of a battery storage with its pilot project 鈥淏attery 2 nd Life鈥� in Hamburg. The storage is made up of 2,600 used battery modules from more than 100 electric vehicles. It has a power capacity of 2 megawatts and a storage ...
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington will soon rule on Swedish utility Vattenfall鈥檚 claim against the German government for damages from Germany鈥檚 accelerated nuclear exit in 2011, Daniel Wetzel writes for ...
04 Sep 2020, 16:24 Swedish utility Vattenfall wants to shut down its youngest and most efficient coal-fired power plant in Germany because it is unprofitable. After participating in the first hard coal phase-out tender, CEO Magnus Hall said that if his ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall wants to grow in Germany after selling all of its lignite activities in the country, report Vera Eckert, Christoph Steitz and Tom Kaeckenhoff for Reuters. The company counts on promising heat operations in its largest foreign ...
An international arbitration court in Washington, DC will decide within the coming weeks whether or not the German government must pay billions in damages to Swedish utility Vattenfall, writes Corinna Budras in a long background article in the Frankfurter ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall reaffirmed that it is seeking billions in damages from the German government after a two-week hearing in front of an international arbitration court in Washington, DC, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Vattenfall ...
Czech investor EPH has announced plans to move 鈥渟everal hundred鈥� administrative jobs to the city of Cottbus in Lusatia- one of Germany鈥檚 lignite mining and power production regions- once the acquisition of 聽Vattenfall鈥檚 German lignite plants and mines is ...
22 Dec 2015
22 Dec 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Handelsblatt 鈥淪everal companies dig for Vattenfall's brown coal鈥� The timing of the sale of Vattenfall鈥檚 lignite operations, only days after the end of the Paris Climate Summit, could hardly be worse, writes ...
Swedish energy group Vattenfall has acquired a wind development project consisting of up to 79 turbines in the German North Sea. Currently under development, the Global Tech II wind project is located some 85 kilometres north of the island of Borkum and ...
The state government of Brandenburg was involved in sales talks concerning Vattenfall鈥檚 former German lignite operations much sooner and more intensively than previously thought, according to Greenpeace Germany. And it failed to use its legal options to ...
03 Dec 2018, 14:42 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Fossil fuels Cost & Prices State government of Brandenburg / Greenpeace An expert report shows that eastern German energy company LEAG takes adequate financial precautions for the ...
The misery of fossil utilities means lignite mines and power plants no longer ensure regional prosperity, writes Jeffrey Michel in a blog post for energytransition.de. The situation in eastern German lignite mining region Lusatia is particularly dramatic ...
The Swedish government approved the sale of Vattenfall鈥檚 German lignite plants and mines to Czech utility EPH, writes Bloomberg. 鈥淭he divestment is strategically correct and the best financial alternative,鈥� Swedish enterprise minister Mikael Damberg said. ...
Swedish power company Vattenfall reported a fourth-quarter and full-year net loss on the back of low electricity prices and write-downs, press agency dpa reports. For the full year 2016, Vattenfall said its net loss was聽2.7 billion euros, including the ...
27 Oct 2015
27 Oct 2015, 00:00 CORRECTION- Vattenfall's underlying operating profit was 3,388 million SEK in the third quarter of 2015, not 3,388 billion. Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Vattenfall 3rd quarter results / Two 500 MW lignite units will be ...
The governments of the federal states of Saxony and Brandenburg do not require insolvency-proof guarantees for the recultivation of pits from the new owners of Vattenfall鈥檚 lignite operations, the TV channel ZDF鈥檚 magazine frontal21 reports. Czech ...
17 Dec 2014
17 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淣uclear power companies should pay 17 billion euros into fund鈥� The German government plans to establish a fund for the costs of dismantling and disposal of nuclear power ...
16 Mar 2016
16 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Rundschau 鈥淰erdi lets go of pro-coal attitude鈥� Trade union Verdi is open to more climate action and a coal exit before 2050, board member Andreas Scheidt told the Frankfurter Rundschau. ...
25 Jan 2019, 14:25 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Renewables Handelsblatt / Wuppertal Institut As members of the coal exit commission debate a concrete timetable for ...
Phasing out German lignite in the Lusatia region by 2030 can be financed by future owner EPH in a way that avoids a taxpayer-funded lignite bailout, according to a new report by Institute for 麻豆无码版 Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). According to ...
17 Feb 2015
17 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淲orries about solar eclipse鈥� On March 20, a solar eclipse will cover up to 80 percent of the sun in Germany and grid operators are concerned that massively ...
Sweden and Germany should set a precedent with Vattenfall鈥檚 lignite assets in the eastern German region of Lusatia and transfer the operations into a state-owned foundation with the clear goal of a socially acceptable and environmentally responsible ...
25 Feb 2015
25 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Handelsblatt 鈥淏rave new world鈥� The single market for European energy that EU citizens have been waiting for for years, is now called the 麻豆无码版 Union, Thomas Ludwig writes in an opinion piece for ...
Hearings begin in Washington this week in the 鈥渉eated court case鈥� of Swedish utility Vattenfall suing Germany for almost 4.7 billion euros at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), write Michael Bauchm眉ller and Claus ...
Vattenfall will invest about three billion euros in Germany over the coming years, said the company鈥檚 president and CEO Magnus Hall in an interview with Handelsblatt. 鈥淭here is significant growth potential in cities like Berlin or Hamburg, for example in ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:18 Edgar Meza Grid Storage Handelsblatt Sales of large-scale battery storage units are booming in Germany but their role in facilitating and advancing the energy transition appears to have been impeded by their increasing use for profit, ...
24 Mar 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 government cabinet today approved an amendment to the Nuclear 麻豆无码版 Act which provides for financial compensation to nuclear power plant operators due to the country鈥檚 phase ...
19 Apr 2016
19 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 sandbag.org A 鈥渓ose-lose-lose鈥� situation The Vattenfall lignite sale to EPH is a lose for the climate, a lose for the Swedish government and a lose for German workers ...
20 Jul 2015
20 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 WirtschaftsWoche 鈥淕abriel鈥檚 energy concept will cost Germany dearly鈥� 麻豆无码版 minister Sigmar Gabriel has called his energy concept a 鈥渉istoric pact for new prosperity鈥� but what he didn鈥檛 say was ...
05 Mar 2021, 13:12 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market ...
17 Dec 2021, 12:27 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Vattenfall Germany ...
27 Apr 2015
27 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淩esistance at the bucket wheel鈥� 10,000 coal workers demonstrated聽 in Berlin on Saturday 聽against energy minister Sigmar Gabriel鈥檚 planned climate levy. These were supported by ...
19 Aug 2020, 13:52 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Society 麻豆无码版 Climate change is still perceived as the top problem facing humanity, a survey 聽carried out in seven European ...
09 Aug 2019, 13:42 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Heating 麻豆无码版 Germany's armed forces are phasing out the use of hard coal for heating. The last heating system ...
02 Mar 2015
02 Mar 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Spiegel Online 鈥�Vattenfall connects coal-fired power plant Moorburg to the grid鈥� After trial runs lasting over a year, the controversial coal-fired Moorburg聽power plant in Hamburg has begun commercial operation, ...
Angela Merkel鈥檚 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 ...
30 Dec 2014
30 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel / BMUB 鈥淕ermany produces fewer carbon emissions鈥� Germany鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions are likely to have fallen by three percent in 2014, according to Environment Minister ...
11 Nov 2014, 00:00 Germany still needs electricity from coal while shifting to a green economy, 麻豆无码版 Minister Sigmar Gabriel said, reassuring utilities that a quick phase-out of the fossil fuel was not his plan. Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for ...
13 May 2016
13 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Bundesregierung / dpa-AFX 鈥淔ederal and state governments stall on green electricity reform鈥� Chancellor Angela Merkel and the state premiers postponed a decision on contentious issues ...
22 Apr 2020, 15:09 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy ...
21 Mar 2016
21 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Reuters / EnBW 鈥淕ermany's EnBW cuts dividend, sees lower profits in 2016鈥� Germany鈥檚 third largest utility EnBW posted a 125-million-euro net profit in 2015, but the adjusted operating result ...
21 Jul 2015
21 Jul 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Vattenfall Impairment losses and higher provisions for German operations Impairment losses and higher provisions for its German activities, as well as low electricity prices, widened losses at Swedish utility ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:34 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology 麻豆无码版 A new project in northern Germany aims at establishing "the world鈥檚 first" power ...
Higher prices for emissions allowances and rising gas and coal prices squeezed Vattenfall in the second quarter of 2018, news agency Reuters reports. The company reported a drop in its core business鈥檚 operating profit by about 366 million euros, according ...
07 Mar 2022, 14:19 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Expert ...
Vattenfall鈥檚 business clients can use their roofs to produce solar energy without having to invest into the construction of the array, according to a company press release. The Swedish utility will pay for the construction and maintenance of the system ...
15 Feb 2016
15 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Bild 鈥淒obrindt plans doping tests for cars鈥� In response to the VW emissions scandal, Germany鈥檚 transport minister Alexander Dobrindt plans to introduce spot checks for car emissions. 鈥淭here will be ...
11 Mar 2016
11 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Ministry for Environment 鈥�5 years after Fukushima: Nuclear power has no future鈥� The nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima five years ago showed that atomic power was never 100 percent controllable, ...
05 Feb 2015
05 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Vattenfall / Reuters Vattenfall Annual report: Focus on renewables in Germany Swedish utility Vattenfall, who operates power stations, mines and other energy businesses across Europe, highlights in ...
Germany鈥檚 approval of Vattenfalls Moorburg coal-fired power plant was in breach of EU environmental rules because its cooling system endangers protected fish species, according to a ruling by the European Court of Justice, reports Montel. Find the Montel ...
Utility Vattenfall will invest 100 million euros in a new 120 megawatt power-to-heat plant in Berlin, the company said in a press release. The new unit will replace a hard-coal fired one, and will work like a giant kettle: electricity will be used to heat ...
A documentary by public television station Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) discusses the role of lignite mining and power production in the Lusatia region of eastern Germany. With Germany鈥檚 targets to limit greenhouse gas emissions, the country鈥檚 switch ...
25 Mar 2015
25 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Institute for Applied Ecology / Friends of the Earth Germany Exit from lignite possible by 2030 Germany鈥檚 national and regional climate goals imply that lignite mining will have to stop much ...
麻豆无码版 start-up Lumenion, Vattenfall 麻豆无码版 Solutions and Berlin-based housing company Gewobag have kicked off a steel storage pilot project in Germany鈥檚 capital to store excess regional wind and solar power, the companies announced in a press release. ...
05 Dec 2014
05 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Rundschau "We need a fund" J枚rg Sommer, chairman of the German Environment Foundation, says more money is needed to treat nuclear waste in Germany. In an ...
17 May 2016
17 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Der Tagesspiegel / Vattenfall 鈥淎round 3,000 participants end blockade鈥� As part of the worldwide protests 鈥淏reak free from fossil fuels鈥� around 3,000 demonstrators from all over ...
08 Jul 2015
08 Jul 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 聽 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淭ricky Exit鈥� Getting rid of a nuclear power station after decommissioning it is as complex as building it in the first place, writes Thomas Hahn in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. A public hearing ...
15 Dec 2014
15 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淓lectricity crime story鈥� Wherever they can afford it, German towns and municipalities have been buying back power grids and gas supply networks and are beginning to generate ...
厂飞别诲别苍鈥檚 Vattenfall AB and Norway鈥檚 Statkraft AS say they might close some pumped-hydro plants in Germany, while Alpiq Holding AG may sell some units in Switzerland because they are no longer as profitable as they once were, write Weixin Zha and Jesper ...
21 Dec 2015
21 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 AG Energiebilanzen German CO2 emissions rise in 2015 Germany鈥檚 CO2 emissions have increased slightly in 2015, according to preliminary calculations by energy market research group AG ...
Companies for whom offshore wind parks are a core business, but were not successful in Germany鈥檚 first competitive auction for the technology, will 鈥渉ave a problem鈥�, as only one more auction was planned for offshore expansion until 2025, writes Andreas ...
After campaigners鈥� hopes were dashed that the Swedish government would veto the sale of state-owned utility Vattenfall鈥檚 German lignite coal assets to Czech investor EPH, a number of NGOs have called on German and international banks to stop funding the ...
A project in Hamburg combines dozens of old e-car batteries to form a large power storage plant in the city鈥檚 industrial port, industry newspaper THB reports. Carmaker BMW, Bosch and energy company Vattenfall jointly operate the project, called Battery 2 ...
Czech investor EPH鈥檚 acquisition of Vattenfall鈥檚 German lignite operations could be 鈥渁 high stakes game鈥� because lignite is 鈥渇ront and centre among risks facing investors from global efforts to slow climate change鈥�, writes Gerard Wynn on the 麻豆无码版 & ...
The German federal government and the states have agreed to allocate 7.3 million euros over the next four years to help the eastern German Lusatia region cope with the structural changes resulting from a 鈥済radual adaptation process in lignite-based power ...
Renewable energy generation in Germany is being disadvantaged by the practice of leading utilities RWE, E.ON and Vattenfall of selling electricity well into the future, Germany鈥檚 Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR) reports. By ...
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 ...
An extensive underground thermal heat storage system proposed in Hamburg could supply roughly a quarter of the city鈥檚 heating needs with waste heat from industrial and power plants, Jeffrey Michel reports for energypost.eu. 鈥淚f successful, it would make ...
12 Feb 2016
12 Feb 2016, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版transition.de 鈥淕as makes a (small) comeback in Germany鈥� There are signs that gas turbines have become profitable again in Germany, even though they continue to produce very little power, Craig Morris reports ...
Continued power production from lignite in Germany is in stark contrast to the country鈥檚 reputation 鈥渁s a pioneer of clean, green energy鈥�, writes Tom Morton for ABC News. 鈥淭he energy transition has a dirty secret. Renewables have been so successful that ...
12 Jan 2016
12 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Die Welt 鈥淗ead lobbyist of the energy sector goes to RWE鈥� Hildegard M眉ller, who was chairwoman at the German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries (BDEW) for seven years, will become member of ...
20 Oct 2015
20 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Fraunhofer ISE 鈥淓xported power more expensive than imported power鈥� Germany makes billions of euros from exporting power every year, researchers at the Fraunhofer ISE found. The country made 1.7 ...
Operators of pumped hydro power plants warn a planned law will increase operating costs to the point where the stations will have to be closed, reports Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The government cabinet will vote on Wednesday to ...
18 Nov 2014
18 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Handelsblatt 鈥淪tate premier Kraft fights for lignite鈥� North Rhine-Westphalia鈥檚 state premier Hannelore Kraft (Social Democrats) advocates the preservation of coal power in her state, since a ...
Germany鈥檚 two biggest utilities E.ON and RWE, together with smaller energy providers EnBW and Vattenfall, paid over 24 billion euros in June to 鈥渇inally rid themselves of the consequences of the government-induced nuclear exit鈥�, Thomas Klemm writes in ...
The German government and the country鈥檚 nuclear plant operators will sign a long-awaited contract about the funding for the final storage of nuclear waste today, Andreas Mihm writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The contract formally ensures that ...
The German federal and state governments should start soon to secure the financing of long-term effects of lignite operations in order to be prepared for the possible scenario that Czech EPH evades having to fund liabilities and provisions in connection ...
German offshore wind power costs are set to fall significantly, due to industrialisation of the sector, more efficient turbine construction, the switch from feed-in tariffs to auctions, and better coordination with grid operators, Olaf Preu脽 writes for ...
17 Mar 2016
17 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Federal Environment Agency (UBA) Emissions data 2015 鈥� 6 million tonnes more聽CO2 2015 has seen a slight increase in greenhouse gas emissions, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) reports. According ...
27 May 2016
27 May 2016, 00:00 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Panorama (ARD) 鈥淎bsurd Energiewende: climate law rewards electricity waste鈥� To be exempted from Germany's聽 Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG)聽 surcharge, 聽some companies just on 聽the threshold of ...
The governments of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, two of Germany鈥檚 northernmost federal states, have announced the goal to supply the region with 100 percent renewable power by 2035, reports Andreas Dey in Hamburger Abendblatt. Hamburg Mayor Peter ...
New problems at its Datteln 4 hard-coal power plant have caused a hefty impairment charge at German fossil power generator Uniper. First quarter adjusted EBIT was 350 million euros, down from 514 million euros in the same period a year earlier, the ...
22 Sep 2015
22 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) 鈥淭he VW scandal鈥� It is a mystery why VW decided to take the risk of manipulating emission results with rather limited benefits, writes Holger Appel in FAZ. Why ...
27 Jun 2017
Germany's economy ministry (BMWi) has signed a contract with the country's nuclear plant operators that regulates the funding of nuclear waste disposal, the BMWi has said in a press release. The BMWi and the four utilities E.ON, EnBW, RWE and ...
In a far-reaching decision, eastern German energy company and operator of one of the country鈥檚 largest lignite mining operations LEAG scrapped plans by former owner Vattenfall to expand one of its lignite mines, and downsizing or putting on hold other ...
18 Jun 2021, 13:07 Edgar Meza Grid Solar Spiegel, rbb As expected, the Berlin House of Representatives has passed a law making solar photovoltaic (PV) systems mandatory on residential and non-residential buildings in the city, Spiegel writes. The Berlin ...
29 Jun 2015
29 Jun 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung 鈥淯nemployment benefit for coal鈥� The apparent death of the levy on old coal-fired power plants is bad news because the alternative presented by major utilities and mining ...
28 Nov 2018, 16:19 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Wind Technology International Stiftung Offshore Wind 麻豆无码版 Together with international partners, the German economy and energy ministry (BMWi) has initiated a project to study the removal of ...
29 Dec 2014
29 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Hamburger Abendblatt 鈥淗amburg puts focus on development of green energies鈥� The city-state of Hamburg is profiting from Germany's Energiewende in the form of investment and new jobs, the ...
Talks between the federal government and the big four utilities E.ON, RWE EnBW and Vattenfall on nuclear waste storage are not as close to conclusion as a report by B枚rsen-Zeitung suggested, writes Reuters. The stock market newspaper had reported that the ...
27 Oct 2014
27 Oct 2014, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淓on and Vattenfall join forces in nuclear power lawsuit鈥� German taxpayers may shoulder as much as 9 million euros in fees from a US lawsuit filed by Swedish energy group Vattenfall against ...
The approval of the sale of Vattenfall鈥檚 German lignite plants and mines to Czech utility EPH showed that Germany and Sweden were not willing to implement the Paris Climate Agreement, says Johan Rockstr枚m, executive director of the Stockholm Resilience ...
19 Oct 2016, 00:00 The German government decided on a pact to free nuclear power plant operators of responsibility for storing radioactive waste, and transfer it into the hands of the state. Utilities welcomed the decision made on Wednesday, while critics ...
Wind power analysts believe prices for offshore power generation in Germany are going to drop significantly in the near future, J枚rg Staude writes in Frankfurter Rundschau. Swedish energy provider Vattenfall鈥檚 award of a contract to build the offshore ...
Members of Germany鈥檚 coal-exit commission used their second plenary meeting on Friday, 13 July to hear presentations about the 鈥渢asks, framework conditions and structural policy challenges鈥� that are to form the basis for their decision-making in the ...
02 Nov 2015
02 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Greenpeace 鈥淕reenpeace excluded from Vattenfall bidding process鈥� Citigroup has excluded Greenpeace from the sale process of Swedish utility Vattenfall鈥檚 German lignite operations. The bank said the ...
25 Mar 2015, 00:00 The protests against government proposals for a carbon emissions levy for older power plants are gaining momentum in Germany鈥檚 coal mining regions. Unions warn the plans put tens of thousands of jobs at risk because they will make ...
13 Mar 2015
13 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淒eserted鈥� 100 works councils of the four big German utilities held a crisis summit in Berlin on Thursday, Markus Balser writes in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Because the big ...
11 Jan 2016
11 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Agora Energiewende 鈥淗ow the exit from coal power generation by 2040 can be managed鈥� Germany can exit coal by 2040 without significant effects on power prices or supply security, and the government ...
08 Dec 2015
08 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 DENA "Only one third of households know their electricity bills exactly" Only about one third of German households know the exact amount they pay for electricity, a survey by the German ...
The Moorburg coal power plant in Hamburg wastes the energy equivalent of 36 tonnes of hard coal per hour during normal operation because environmental organisations and citizen initiatives prevent it from聽 using waste heat for district heating, Olaf Preu脽 ...
29 Mar 2016
29 Mar 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Handelsblatt 鈥�Vattenfall delays coal sale鈥� Vattenfall has postponed the sale of its German lignite operations, insiders told Handelsblatt鈥檚 J眉rgen Flauger. The Swedish utility initially planned to make a ...
07 Oct 2015
07 Oct 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Bloomberg Business, Greenpeace,聽S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淕reenpeace says can find cash to buy Vattenfall coal assets鈥� Bloomberg Business reports that Greenpeace has registered its interest in buying ...
26 Aug 2015
26 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Handelsblatt 鈥淯pwind鈥� Germany鈥檚 offshore wind development is accelerating, write Franz Hubik and Daniel Delhaes in the Handelsblatt. While the first wind parks suffered from delays, exploding costs ...
12 Aug 2015
12 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 E.ON Conventional power business causes E.ON loss in profits / debt reduced Half way into its 鈥渢ransformative year,鈥� Germany鈥檚 largest utility E.ON has reported a reduced operating profit and ...
03 Feb 2016
03 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Federal Environment Agency 鈥淕erman greenhouse gas emissions fall considerably in 2014鈥� New data shows that Germany鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions fell to 901.9 million tonnes of聽CO2聽equivalents in 2014 ...
Following the German constitutional court鈥檚 ruling this week upholding the government's 2011 decision to accelerate the nuclear exit, nuclear plant operators are continuing legal proceedings against the state, Jost M眉ller-Neuhof writes in ...
04 May 2015
04 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Bild/Lichtblick 鈥淭esla and Lichtblick plan energy revolution鈥� Hamburg-based renewable electricity provider Lichtblick is cooperating with Tesla to integrate the e-car company鈥檚 new 鈥淧owerwall Home ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Technology Heating 麻豆无码版 A local utility in southern Germany city Mannheim is building one of Europe鈥檚 largest heat pumps in a trial project attempting to use energy from the Rhine River for heating. The ...
07 Dec 2018, 10:05 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Fossil fuels Low water levels on the Rhine and other rivers following the extremely dry summer continue to have a strong impact on Germany鈥檚 coal power supply, according to an argus report. 鈥淭he ...
25 Apr 2023, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 district heating networks should be planned more efficiently in the long term and operators need better financial incentives to convert the infrastructure, so that the technology can ...
26 Jun 2015
26 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Berliner Morgenpost /dpa 鈥�Vattenfall stops resettlement plans near lignite mine in Nochten鈥� 麻豆无码版 utility Vattenfall has stopped plans to resettle around 1700 people near its open cast lignite ...
11 Aug 2023, 13:16 S枚ren Amelang Wind Business & Jobs Utilities 麻豆无码版 Investors have agreed to pay 784 million euros for the right to build wind farms in four locations in the North Sea in Germany鈥檚 latest offshore wind tender. The wind ...
The 鈥渂ig four鈥� utilities in Germany- RWE, E.ON, Vattenfall Germany, and EnBW- have all disappeared from a list of the country鈥檚 100 largest companies compiled by the German Monopolies Commission, the competition watchdog says in its annual report. The ...
The introduction of auctions for new wind power projects off the German coast will lead to a significant fall in costs for the industry, Andreas Mihm and Hemut B眉nder write in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Foreign companies 鈥� as well as major ...
A referendum in Hamburg, Germany鈥檚 second largest city, seeks to ban the use of coal power for heating and electricity generation by 2030, Sven-Michael Veit writes for the Tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淲e in Hamburg have to take the coal exit in our own hands,鈥� ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:51 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices Reuters The state-run fund created to pay for the intermediate and final storage of 聽nuclear power station waste 聽in Germany has so far coped well throughout the ...
18 Feb 2022, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Utilities 麻豆无码版 German energy company RWE has a dominant position among the country鈥檚 electricity suppliers, the country's competition authority said in its report on last year鈥檚 power market. An ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Coal 麻豆无码版 Plans to sell the western German coal plant operator STEAG could present a significant hurdle to government plans to pull the country鈥檚 coal exit forward to 2030, unless the company puts in place ...
02 May 2016
02 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Handelsblatt 鈥淒windling chances for fracking鈥� The proposed fracking law has been delayed and might not be adopted in the current legislative period, writes Klaus Stratmann in ...
06 Jan 2016
06 Jan 2016, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Rheinische Post 鈥淕rand coalition plans buyers鈥� incentives for electric cars鈥� The German government plans to introduce new incentives for e-cars, transport minister Alexander Dobrindt told the Rheinische Post. 鈥淎 ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 A group of five major companies has called on the German government to do more to promote electric vehicles (EVs). In a joint initiative under the umbrella of global business ...
03 Aug 2018, 08:44 Conventional power stations, like hard coal, gas-fired or nuclear plants, are forced to curb generation because of the heat wave hitting Germany. While the stability of the power system as such is not in peril and most renewables are ...
09 May 2016
09 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Agora Energiewende Preliminary data suggests renewable record in Germany Strong winds and sun all over Germany might have pushed renewable power production to a new record share on Sunday. Renewable ...
14 Aug 2020, 13:56 Renewables Industry industrie.de Engineering and technology firm Bosch is expanding its use of renewable electricity, with the goal of reaching climate neutrality at its 400 worldwide locations by the end of the year. According to聽 ...
19 Jan 2021, 13:14 Expert RAG German Coal RAG Deutsche Steinkohle AG Coal Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Kerstine Appunn Coal 麻豆无码版 German hard coal companies RAG Sales and RAG Mining Solutions have announced the end of their business ...
07 Dec 2023, 13:07 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities ...
06 Feb 2015
06 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 DIW studies 鈥淓lectricity Grids and Climate Targets: New Approaches to Grid Planning鈥� The latest assumptions that will be used in the government's grid development plan take new climate ...
31 May 2022, 14:14 Edgar Meza Industry Heating Handelsblatt As Germany reorients its energy policy in the wake of the Ukraine war and seeks to increase gas imports from other sources than Russia, it should also promote greater energy efficiency and make ...
09 Feb 2021, 13:34 Kerstine Appunn Electricity market Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Europe鈥檚 CO2 price for the energy and industry sector (EU ETS) has reached a record 38 euros per tonne. In Germany this has caused electricity production from ...
09 Dec 2014
09 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 EurActiv 鈥淕lobal comparison reveals Germany's 'Energiewende dilemma'鈥� Germany scored average results (place 22 of 61) in the global climate protection index, compiled by the NGO ...
Nuclear plant operators in Germany revoked around 20 lawsuits against the state in return for government guarantees of a limited financial liability for the country鈥檚 nuclear phase-out, Stefan Schultz writes on Spiegel Online. The utilities E.ON, RWE, ...
Nuclear plant operators affected by Germany鈥檚 accelerated nuclear exit after the 2011 Fukushima disaster are eligible for an 鈥渁dequate鈥� compensation, the Federal Constitutional Court has ruled. The court explained in a press release that the legal ...
25 May 2016
25 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Reuters Campaigners urge Germany to stop financing coal projects abroad Environmental groups urged G7 nations led by Japan and Germany to stop financing coal projects abroad, reports ...
20 Aug 2021, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Nuclear phase-out AFP / n-tv / 麻豆无码版 Germany has agreed to repatriate several tonnes of highly radioactive nuclear waste from the French reprocessing plant La Hague, news agency AFP ...
03 Aug 2022, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Heating Cities 麻豆无码版 The European ...
16 Jan 2015
16 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Business Green "Germany breezes past 1GW offshore wind milestone" Germany's renewables industry is celebrating another milestone this week, as an industry-backed report confirmed ...
11 Nov 2015
11 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Reuters 鈥淓.ON sticks to spin-off plans after record net loss鈥� E.ON says it is sticking to its plans to spin off its conventional power operations, after posting a record net loss in the first nine months of 2015 on the ...
29 Apr 2016
29 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 VW / Handelsblatt 鈥淲e plan to make electric cars one of Volkswagen鈥檚 new hallmarks鈥� German carmaker Volkswagen wants to be at the forefront of big changes in the auto industry, in ...
20 Apr 2016
20 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 BMUB / Deutsche Welle 鈥淕ermany asks Belgium to hit the switch on disputed Tihange and Doel nuclear reactors鈥� Environment minister Barbara Hendricks submitted an ...
11 Sep 2015
11 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Die Welt 鈥淭here鈥檚 no alternative to a nuclear fund鈥� In the fight over who will provide the billions of euros needed for nuclear decommissioning and storage, the utilities always seem to be two ...
The federal cabinet today decided on draft legislation for a nuclear clean-up pact that would rid utilities of the responsibility for storing Germany鈥檚 radioactive waste. Germany鈥檚 four nuclear power station operators, RWE, E.ON, EnBW and Vattenfall, are ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Hydrogen Elections & Politics Hamburger Abendblatt The mayor of Hamburg, Peter Tschentscher, has proposed shutting down the city's coal plant Moorburg "many years" earlier than the current end ...
21 Nov 2014, 00:00 Ten days before the plan to fix Germany鈥檚 "climate gap" is set for cabinet approval, it is still unclear how much the power sector will contribute toward the carbon emissions target of a 40 percent cut by 2020. Expert BMWi- ...
27 Oct 2020, 13:47 Coal Hamburger Abendblatt Hamburg鈥檚 Wedel coal-fired district heating plant is lowering its coal combustion, which will lead to lower CO2 emissions in the years until its planned shutdown in 2025, Jens Meyer-Wellmann writes in the ...
12 Dec 2014
12 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Data-Project: Fraunhofer-ISI / 脰ko-Institut / Enerdata et al. "Research for more climate protection through buildings" Around 60 percent of the EU鈥檚 total energy consumption comes from ...
10 Sep 2015, 00:00 Major utility E.ON has abandoned plans to spin off its nuclear power plants when it splits in two next year. The operation and decommissioning of the company鈥檚 German nuclear activities will not be transferred to the new spin-off Uniper ...
10 Dec 2015, 12:00 The question is no longer whether Germany鈥檚 future will be nuclear-free 鈥� or even when, since the government is committed to completing the phase-out by 2022. But the logistics of pulling the plug on what was until recently one of the ...
31 Mar 2017, 00:00 LEAG, the owner of one of Germany鈥檚 largest lignite-mining operations, has scrapped plans by former owner Vattenfall to expand one of its lignite mines. The company is also downsizing or putting on hold development of two other mines. ...
10 Aug 2020, 13:25 Coal Society n-tv Climate activists demanding an end to coal power occupied two German coal-fired powered stations over the weekend, news website n-tv reports. Around 20 members of Direkte Aktion Berlin, which campaigns for an end to ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:32 Business & Jobs International Tagesspiegel Background Germany has faced multiple setbacks over the last month in two separate cases over its energy transition plans before an international arbitration court, Christian Schaudwet ...
12 Feb 2015
12 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Windmesse/Handelsblatt 鈥淕E and Deutsche Telekom join forces for energy transition鈥� US industrial conglomerate General Electric and Deutsche Telekom will cooperate to offer new solutions for smart ...
14 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 聽 Ernst & Young 鈥淐autious upward trend: Approval of the Energiewende rises slightly鈥� Business approval for Germany鈥檚 energy is gradually rising, according to Ernst & Young鈥檚 quarterly Energiewende Index ...
11 Dec 2014
11 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Study: Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) 鈥淗ow the world sees the Energiewende鈥� Germany鈥檚 Energiewende 鈥� the shift from conventional and nuclear energy to a renewable power supply 鈥� is the focus of ...
19 Dec 2014
19 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 taz 鈥淭he blind spot has to go鈥� It is good and important that the future of coal power in Germany is finally being discussed, Patrick Graichen, head of the Berlin based think-tank Agora Energiewende ...
14 Feb 2023, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background While heat pump sales increased more than 50 percent in 2022, oil and gas boilers continued to dominate the German heating market, according to the annual heating ...
27 Apr 2016, 00:00 A government appointed commission has unanimously suggested that Germany's four large utilities should pay a large share of their provisions made for storing nuclear waste into a state administered fund. While the idea of a fund is ...
11 Dec 2019, 13:04 Julian Wettengel Storage Start-ups 麻豆无码版 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鈥檚 capital. The technology would allow ...
19 May 2016
19 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) / Institute for Applied Ecology / European Climate Foundation (ECF) 鈥淚ndustry鈥檚 energy bills fall by a tenth鈥� German manufacturing ...
25 Nov 2014
25 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Dow Jones Newswires "Gabriel's coal proposal: utilities keep calm" German utilities are prepared to shut down some power stations, reports Dow Jones Newswires. They agreed to Economy ...
24 Feb 2021, 12:37 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen Heating 麻豆无码版 German energy companies Uniper and Siemens 麻豆无码版 have proposed a project to set up a renewable power-based energy plant at the site of ...
22 Jan 2021, 14:10 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background The German offshore wind industry is bracing for difficult times ahead as no new constructions are planned this year and the timing of new ...
31 Oct 2014
31 Oct 2014, 00:00 Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Stuttgarter Nachrichten "The transition works" The cut in retail power prices announced by EnBW- one of the four largest utilities in Germany- for most of its 2.5 million customers, shows an ...
30 Nov 2020, 14:25 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities dpa / Die Welt The involvement of German state Baden-Wurttemberg in the utility EnBW appears ...
15 Mar 2016
15 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淲as the nuclear phase-out unconstitutional?鈥� Germany鈥檚 Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe will on Tuesday and Wednesday hear parties in the case of the country鈥檚 nuclear phase ...
07 Oct 2020, 13:39 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities S枚ren Amelang Coal Utilities 麻豆无码版 German power company EnBW has committed to becoming climate-neutral within 15 years. "The ...
11 Apr 2016
11 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online/AFP/S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淯tilities increase nuclear provisions鈥� The utilities have increased their provisions for the nuclear exit in the last year, according to a report by press agency AFP ...
05 Mar 2021, 13:49 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Coal Grid 麻豆无码版 Three German hard coal power plants ...
20 May 2015
20 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) 鈥淭he godmother of climate receives visitors鈥� The Petersberg Climate Dialogue is Angela Merkel鈥檚 reaction to the failed climate summit of Copenhagen ...
13 Aug 2020, 12:33 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Utilities 麻豆无码版/Focus Online/Rheinische Post Utility RWE鈥檚 production from lignite coal fell sharply over the first half of 2020, even before the effects ...
22 Jun 2016
22 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Spiegel Online 鈥淐oalition wants to push through fracking law on Friday鈥� The government has scheduled 聽the Bundestag聽vote on a law restricting fracking in Germany for ...
24 Jul 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Rheinische Post / Die Welt The German fund for nuclear waste management is set to make a profit in 2019, putting the long-term disposal of radioactive waste on a financially sound basis, the fund鈥檚 ...
10 Feb 2016
10 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Spiegel Online 鈥淚nternal market analysis: EU member states鈥� nuclear provisions more than 100 billion euros short鈥� An EU analysis has revealed that the member states are not well prepared for the ...
12 Nov 2015
12 Nov 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Reuters/RWE RWE says it will 鈥榦nly just鈥� meet 2015 earnings forecast German utility RWE on Thursday said it would just manage to meet its 1.1-1.3 billion-euro adjusted net income forecast for 2015, after a 29 ...
04 Apr 2019, 14:09 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Gas Hydrogen Technology 麻豆无码版 German steelmaker Salzgitter has expressed confidence that policymakers will provide the support necessary to realise a large-scale hydrogen project to ...
24 Apr 2015, 00:00 [Updates explanation of climate contribution] The Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (BMWi) has signalled it might make changes to its climate levy to ease concerns over potential job losses, media report on Friday as supporters ...
11 Feb 2015, 00:00 Analysts have welcomed a new planning framework for the German grid that works on the basis of less lignite being burned in Germany, saying grid development must serve the country鈥檚 climate targets. Expert DIW- German Institute for ...
19 Jan 2016
19 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Federal Ministry for 麻豆无码版 and Economic Affairs (BMWi) Gabriel says wants round table on future of coal Germany鈥檚 energy minister Sigmar Gabriel has said he wants to establish a round table on the ...
23 Sep 2015
23 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Carl Morris 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Die Welt 鈥淭he German government knew the cheating technology鈥� The German ministry for transport has known for a long time that car manufacturers are using technologies that interfere ...
02 Feb 2016
02 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淭he government, the e-car and the subsidy trap鈥� Chancellor Angela Merkel would be well advised not to adopt a buyer鈥檚 premium for electric cars after her meeting with industry ...
30 Dec 2014, 00:00 After an eventful 2014 鈥� marked by the reform of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG), a new climate action package and the first fall in CO2 emissions for two years 鈥� German energy policy is primed for action in 2015. Expert AGEB- AG ...
05 Jan 2016
05 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 dpa/Frankfurter Rundschau 鈥淕rowth of wind power sluggish in 2015鈥� 2015 will enter the history of German renewables as a year of disillusionment, according to a report by press agency dpa. ...
12 Nov 2014
12 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 聽 Reactions to energy minister's warning against quick exit from coal power Frankfurter Rundschau 鈥淭oo much coal鈥� Everything points to a show-down between energy minister Sigmar Gabriel and environment ...
11 May 2015, 00:00 Large utilities are being forced to take radical steps to reshape their business models to fit the new energy landscape. But experts say it remains to be seen if they can innovate their way out of the crisis. Expert BDEW-German ...
27 Nov 2015
27 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 dpa Criticism of environment minister鈥檚 鈥榮olo鈥� push for coal exit North-Rhine Westphalia鈥檚 state premier Hannelore Kraft and her economy minister Garrelt Duin have criticised Federal Environment ...
18 Apr 2016
18 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 聽 Der Tagesspiegel 鈥淐zech investor wants to take over brown coal operations鈥� A year and a half after Sweden's Vattenfall said it would sell its German lignite ...
24 Mar 2016
24 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Spiegel Online 鈥淓-car subsidies 鈥� Sch盲uble dampens hopes of a buyer鈥檚 premium鈥� There is increasing scepticism within the federal government concerning subsidies for e-cars. Vice ...
14 Mar 2016
14 Mar 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Green Budget Germany / Frankfurter Rundschau 鈥淭en million tonnes more CO2鈥� Germany鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions increased again in 2015, compared to 2014, researchers from Green Budget Germany (F脰S) say. ...
18 May 2015
18 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Tagesspiegel / Petersberg Climate Dialogue VI Merkel wants carbon trading scheme for the whole world Environment ministers from around the world meet in Berlin today and tomorrow to discuss and ...
04 Jan 2016
04 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 E.ON Separation of E.ON and Uniper operations completed Effective 1 January 2016 E.ON has completed separation of operations from its planned spin-off Uniper. E.ON will focus on renewables, energy ...
26 Nov 2014, 00:00 The German government looks set to approve plans to force the power sector to reduce carbon emissions by an additional 22 million tons by 2020. Environmentalists worry the plans don't go far enough and are calling for more coal ...
18 Aug 2015
18 Aug 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淭he Goliath in open-cast mining鈥� The illegal protests against open-cast mining in Western Germany over the weekend are strongly reminiscent of the violent demonstrations in the country against ...
09 Jul 2015
09 Jul 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Die Zeit 鈥淲e have to exit within 25 or 30 years鈥� German environment minister Barbara Hendricks expects coal to be phased out in Germany by 2045 at the very latest. 鈥淲e have to exit the burning of coal step by step ...
30 Apr 2015
30 Apr 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Rheinische Post 鈥淐DU鈥檚 economic council want to lower Merkel鈥檚 climate goals鈥� A group representing business interests within Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 CDU demand a lowering of Germany鈥檚 climate goals, reports the ...
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 The first block of a large coal-fired power station has just gone online in Hamburg, even as two thirds of German fossil-fuelled facilities fail to turn a profit and their operators are applying for many to be mothballed. So is the ...
10 Mar 2016
10 Mar 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate Action Network 鈥淏reak free from fossil fuels鈥� Climate activist movement 350.org and Climate Action Network have announced a series of peaceful, coordinated actions 鈥渢o disrupt ...
20 Nov 2017, 00:00 After almost five weeks of deliberations, the pro-business Free Democratic Party has pulled the plug on Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 efforts to form a coalition government made up of her conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the Greens and the ...
02 Jul 2015
02 Jul 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Die Zeit "Energiewende: Coalition agrees to put coal plants on reserve" Many German media reported the government decision to place 2.7 gigawatts-worth of coal-fired plants into a reserve for use when ...
02 Apr 2015
02 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Handelsblatt Fracking law: 鈥淕erman Angst鈥� There is no rational explanation for the resistance against fracking among German parliamentarians, Thomas Sigmund writes in an opinion piece for the ...
03 Mar 2015
03 Mar 2015, 00:00 Correction: Corrects spelling of Marijn Dekkers, CEO of Bayer and President of the German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI). Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 聽S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淕reetings from the Stone Age鈥� The new Moorburg ...
19 Nov 2014
19 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 German Institute for Economic Research 鈥淪hutting down old coal-fired power stations could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 23 million tones and stabilise the power market鈥� A new study by the German ...
26 Nov 2014
26 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 FAZ/dpa 鈥淐oal sector resists Gabriel鈥檚 plans鈥� Germany鈥檚 energy sector believes it has already done plenty to increase efficiency and reach climate protection targets, according to the German ...
08 Feb 2016
08 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Der Tagesspiegel 鈥淕overnment could use mercury limits to take coal plants offline鈥� The government 鈥渉as a plan B up its sleeve" in case there is no political agreement on a coal exit, reports ...
25 Jan 2016
25 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淪upport for wind power in windless locations鈥� Current proposals for the reform of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) from Economy and 麻豆无码版 Minister Sigmar Gabriel ...
25 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Hydrogen Greenpeace 麻豆无码版 鈥淧ower-to-gas reduces costs for Energiewende by billions and enables 100-percent renewable power supply鈥� By using technology to store excess wind and solar power as ...
11 Mar 2015
11 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Reuters 鈥淓.ON paves way for spin-off following record loss鈥� Germany鈥檚 biggest utility, E.ON, booked its largest ever annual loss, as a result of its ailing power plants, Reuters reports. The ...
08 Dec 2014
08 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Der Spiegel 鈥淧ower monster eats the Chancellor鈥� Frank Dohmen und Gerald Trautfetter in Der Spiegel say the government is under pressure to draft and pass a law on the power market design by summer ...
04 Feb 2016
04 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Decision on e-car support postponed The German government has postponed the decision about how to boost e-cars until March after a high-level meeting with ...
10 Aug 2015
10 Aug 2015, 00:00 Germany's second-largest utility announces it is consolidating its operations under one roof and shaking up its management structure. Spinning off the conventional power business was kept as an option but not planned, CEO Peter ...
01 Jul 2015
01 Jul 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淒irty deal鈥� At a high-level meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel tonight, the German government looks set to abandon plans for an additional levy on old coal-fired plants and instead adopt ...
07 May 2015
07 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 The New York Times 鈥淕ermany, the Green Superpower鈥� With a generous feed-in tariff 鈥渢hat made it a no-brainer for Germans to install solar power (or wind) at home,鈥� Germany has made a 鈥渨orld-saving ...
22 Apr 2016
22 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 UBA Record high CO2 measurements in Germany Germany鈥檚 Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has measured the highest annual CO2 concentrations ever in 2015. In its research stations on ...
05 Oct 2015
05 Oct 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/WAZ 鈥淢inister Gabriel does not want to 鈥榮have鈥� utilities鈥� German energy minister Sigmar Gabriel surprised stockmarkets with conciliatory remarks about the country鈥檚 troubled ...
12 Oct 2015
12 Oct 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Reuters 鈥淕ermany says firms set aside enough nuclear decommissioning funds鈥� According to the government, stress tests show that nuclear power plant operators have set aside enough funds to pay for decommissioning ...
19 May 2015, 00:00 UPDATE: Angela Merkel weighs into the dispute about the proposed climate levy on old fossil-fuelled power stations and summons ministers to the chancellery on Wednesday. The climate levy could be reduced and special rules applied to ...
Germany鈥檚 big four utilities want greater security and clarity on costs they will incur from the nuclear phase-out, and are proposing detailed contracts with the government, writes Angela Hennersdorf in Wirtschaftswoche. The contracts would establish how ...
25 Feb 2016
25 Feb 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Fraunhofer ISE 鈥淕ermany鈥檚 electricity export surplus brings record revenue of over two billion euros鈥� Net electricity exports earned Germany a record 2.07 billion euros last year, according to think tank Fraunhofer ISE. ...
03 Nov 2015
03 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 BDEW / ZSW 鈥淩enewables share will likely rise to 33 percent in 2015鈥� Renewable energies are likely to cover around 33 percent of Germany鈥檚 gross power consumption in 2015, research institute ZSW ...
26 Oct 2015
26 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 鈥淕abriel: Brown coal agreement is important contribution to reaching climate targets鈥� Coal power plant operators will gradually transfer 2.7 ...
13 Aug 2015
13 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 RWE RWE operating result down by 11 percent / increased earnings from renewables Germany鈥檚 second biggest energy utility RWE reported a reduced operating result and EBITDA for the first six months ...
28 May 2015
28 May 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Eurostat/ZEW German households pay second highest power price in EU Household electricity prices in Germany are among the highest in the EU. According to the EU鈥檚 statistics office Eurostat, German households on ...
16 Apr 2015
16 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 IG BCE / Friends of the Earth Germany Supporters and opponents of coal gear up for mass protests The heated debate over the future of coal in Germany will be taken to the streets next weekend, as ...
16 Dec 2014
16 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Study: Federal Environmental Agency (UBA) 鈥淓nvironmentally harmful subsidies amount to over 52 billion euros鈥� Even as Germany聽 focuses much effort and funding on climate protection measures, it ...
05 Apr 2016
05 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Federal Environment Agency 鈥淓missions trading: industry鈥檚 emissions almost unchanged in 2015鈥� The CO鈧� emissions of German energy intensive industry remained virtually unchanged for the ...
21 Oct 2015
21 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Environment State Secretary Flasbarth (BMUB) Germany must exit coal in the next 25-30 years A well-organised exit from coal which considers social aspects is needed in the next 25 to 30 years if ...
02 Jun 2015
02 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淏ad atmosphere in the power sector鈥� One of Germany鈥檚 four largest utilities, EnBW, has come out in favour of the government鈥檚 proposal for an additional levy on old coal-fired ...
19 May 2015
19 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Bloomberg / Handelsblatt 鈥淕ermany, France Seek Curb on Fossil Fuel Pollution This Century鈥� To control the risks of climate change, Germany and France want to almost completely forego the use of ...
21 Feb 2020, 13:25 Greta Thunberg will travel to Hamburg to participate in the student climate protests preceding local elections in the maritime city on 23 February, according to media reports. The Swedish activist's presence at the "Hamburg ...
07 Apr 2015
07 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 聽 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Unions 鈥� 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 ...
20 Mar 2015, 00:00 UPDATE-- Germany needs a national instrument to reduce carbon emissions from the power sector to meet climate targets by 2020 because even a reformed European Emissions Trading System (ETS) alone will not have enough impact, leaked ...
08 Apr 2016
08 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Berliner Zeitung 鈥淭he federal government is shifting into reverse gear concerning Energiewende鈥� The federal government鈥檚 plans to reform the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) will lead to ...
02 Mar 2016
02 Mar 2016, 00:00 tageszeitung 鈥淪hort-sighted cap fans鈥� Despite fighting climate change being a national objective and renewables now the cheapest source of energy, leading conservative politicians want to use reform of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) to ...
07 Mar 2016
07 Mar 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Federal Motor Transport Authority Number of e-cars on German roads rises to 25,502 The number of pure electric vehicles on German roads rose to 25,502 at the beginning of the year, an increase of 35 percent compared to ...
11 Feb 2016
11 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Der Tagesspiegel 鈥淕overnment sees no future for two thirds of ski regions鈥� The government predicts that with a 2 degree Celsius warming, 61 percent of Germany鈥檚 ski regions would not be suitable ...
11 Mar 2015, 00:00 E.ON posts record loss for 2014 and RWE鈥檚 outlook is bleak, fuelling debate over their future. 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Utilities Electricity market Germany's largest utility, E.ON, posted a loss of 3.16 billion聽euros for 2014- ...
18 Dec 2014, 00:00 A leaked document outlines plans to transfer some provisions German utilities have put aside for nuclear decommissioning and waste disposal to a state-managed fund. The 麻豆无码版 spoke to two policy analysts about the ...
08 Jun 2016
08 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Federal government Renewables law reform gets government approval Angela Merkel鈥檚 cabinet has decided on the reform of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) that is to take ...
13 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Hydrogen Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (BMWi) State secretary Baake says Germany must stop registering fossil fuel vehicles by 2030 At a panel discussion Tuesday, ...
08 Oct 2015
08 Oct 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) 鈥淎verage duration of power supply cuts per consumer and year less than 12 minutes for first time鈥� The average power consumer in Germany ...
05 Oct 2020, 10:45 Stepping up the 2030 EU climate target to an emission reduction of at least 55 percent as proposed by the European Commission would very likely require the bloc to phase out coal almost entirely by that date, according to experts. The ...
30 Jan 2015
30 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Zeit Online "Germany warns against overly strict thresholds for cars" Under EU regulations, by 2021 CO2 emissions from new cars must not exceed an average of 95 grams per kilometre. By ...
12 Nov 2014, 00:00 After more than a decade of rising electricity prices, German utilities are passing on some of their savings from lower wholesale prices and a cut in the renewable energy surcharge. But with a number of government decisions on the next ...
20 May 2016
20 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Institute for Renewable 麻豆无码版 (IWR) 鈥淲ind power overtakes nuclear energy for first time in Germany鈥� Germany鈥檚 wind turbines will generate more electricity this year than nuclear ...
12 May 2016
12 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Ministry for 麻豆无码版 and Economic Affairs (BMWi) Germany aims to give energy efficiency new push The German government has launched a new offensive to increase energy efficiency. ...
27 Apr 2016
27 Apr 2016, 00:00 (CORRECTION- In first paragraph on e-car premium: Government and industry will invest 600 million euros each, not 600,000 million euros; government will invest an additional 400 million euros in charging stations, not 400,000 million ...
03 Sep 2015
03 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Die Zeit / Spiegel Online / Reuters Utilities must remain liable for nuclear clean-up costs 麻豆无码版 companies are to remain liable for the cost of decommissioning nuclear power plants and storing ...
27 Apr 2020, 14:17 Top politicians from Germany and more than 60 large companies have warned that the climate crisis must continue to be a top priority, even as the world economies grapple with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Ahead of this week鈥檚 ...
24 Mar 2015, 00:00 German utilities say plans to cut 22 millions tonnes of CO2 emissions from the energy sector by demanding additional emissions trading allowances from older power plants amount to an exit plan for the brown coal industry. But despite ...
05 Jun 2015
05 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Carbon Tracker Initiative "Coal: caught in the EU utility death spiral" New coal-fired power plants fail to generate positive cash-flows even under the most optimistic ...
15 Apr 2016
15 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 New draft version of Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act released The Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 has released a new draft of the Renewable ...
20 Nov 2017, 00:00 After almost five weeks of deliberations, the pro-business Free Democratic Party has pulled the plug on Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 efforts to form a coalition government made up of her conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the Greens and the ...
21 Apr 2016, 00:00 On 26 April 1986 a nuclear meltdown at a Soviet reactor in today鈥檚 Ukraine sent radioactive particles across Europe and shockwaves through the political debate over nuclear safety. 30 years on from the Chernobyl accident, Germany is in ...
22 May 2019, 11:33 Volker Hille鈥檚 passion project could cut Germany鈥檚 entire CO2 output by almost one percent. He is head of corporate technology at Salzgitter Group, one of Europe鈥檚 largest steelmakers, which currently emits around eight million tonnes ...
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 ...
31 Aug 2018, 13:36 With its vast amounts of hydro energy, many would like Norway to become Europe鈥檚 鈥済reen battery鈥�, supplying neighbours with steady power when there is little wind or sun. An extreme heat wave and dry weather in the first half of 2018 ...
23 Sep 2021, 12:45 鈥淎chieving net-zero鈥� emissions by the middle of the century is a goal that few would fault. But when it comes to reaching a balance of greenhouse gases and carbon removal 鈥� as not all emissions from food and industrial production can be ...
27 May 2016, 00:00 Update 27 May 2016 [European Commission approves state aid for closure of lignite power plants] | The government has approved wide reaching power market reform, including a phase-out plan for some lignite plants. A "coal reserve ...
29 Apr 2021, 12:30 With its Climate Action Law and the Climate Action Programme 2030, Germany's government coalition has presented a far-reaching climate strategy that is aimed at putting the country on track towards reaching its climate targets. The ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:30 In a bid to improve Germany's poor emission reduction record and to identify economic perspectives for people employed in the waning coal industry, the grand coalition government in 2018 set up a commission tasked with managing the ...
