11 Aug 2020, 12:22 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands EEG 2.0 | Law Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The German Social Democrats (SPD) will make the transformation towards a more ...
10 Aug 2020, 14:15 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands EEG 2.0 | Law Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Clean Energy Wire Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) have nominated current ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:17 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen EEG 2.0 | Law Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Elections & Politics Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland The Green Party has called for an investment programme worth 800 million euros to make ...
12 Aug 2020, 13:55 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Alex Dziadosz Gas Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Süddeutsche Zeitung Utility Uniper says there could be further delays to the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, or possibly ...
12 Aug 2020, 13:52 Alex Dziadosz Storage Tagesspiegel Online A large electric battery unit in the German town of Schwarze Pumpe, in the state of Brandenburg, will soon help stabilise the grid as renewable energy sources make up a larger portion of power ...
12 Aug 2020, 13:50 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Policy Clean Energy Wire Germany’s federal government has appointed the members of the “Expert Council on Climate Issues”, an independent body that is to advice the government on the implementation of ...
12 Aug 2020, 13:48 Kerstine Appunn Wind Transport Freight Clean Energy Wire Germany’s government has set out to accelerate planning procedures for infrastructure projects linked to the energy transition. Angela Merkel’s cabinet today approved the draft ...
11 Aug 2020, 11:43 Expert ifeu- Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Edgar Meza Transport Freight Clean Energy Wire Germany’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg (ifeu) has published ...
11 Aug 2020, 11:42 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany’s new CO₂ price on transport and heating fuels, which goes into effect on 1 January 2021, could mean some companies initially pay twice for their emissions, ...
11 Aug 2020, 11:40 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator ...
10 Aug 2020, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society dpa / n-tv / Tageszeitung An intense heat wave and lack of rain is causing severe water shortages in German municipalities that could foreshadow global warming's impact on the country as ...
10 Aug 2020, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 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 writes in ...
10 Aug 2020, 13:30 David Reay Cars Frankfurter Rundschau The reality of having to shift to climate-neutral production and products has finally hit German automakers, writes Rolf Obertreis in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter Rundschau. A combination of ...
10 Aug 2020, 13:25 David Reay 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 ...
07 Aug 2020, 15:11 Alex Dziadosz Hydrogen Industry Clean Energy Wire A pilot plant for producing green hydrogen energy for low-emission production of chemicals and fuel has opened in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Fraunhofer Centre for Chemical ...
07 Aug 2020, 15:05 Alex Dziadosz Coal Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The British green energy transition has proven cheaper and more effective than Germany’s because of factors including its use of market mechanisms and its embrace of ...
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 ...
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 ...
07 Aug 2020, 14:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Die Welt / WirtschaftsWoche / Tagesspiegel Three Republican senators have threatened the US will impose "crushing legal and economic sanctions" on the port of Sassnitz on the German Baltic Sea ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:15 Alex Dziadosz Finance International Clean Energy Wire Economists at Sparkasse, Germany’s largest public bank, have criticised a planned carbon border tax, saying that a study of potential effects on the European economy’s openness and ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:13 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Alex Dziadosz Gas International Clean Energy Wire The environmental group Environmental Action Germany (DUH) says it is suing to stop the ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:10 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire The role of global warming and climate action in German media has grown ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance International Handelsblatt The German business association CDU Economic Council, associated with Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, opposes plans by the European Central Bank (ECB) to make ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:32 Alex Dziadosz 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 ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:30 Alex Dziadosz Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt Despite the much-anticipated release of its National Hydrogen Strategy this summer, uncertainty still surrounds Germany’s green hydrogen plans, making the path forward unclear despite the ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Start-ups Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A start-up from Munich has developed a programme that could help e-car producers to massively improve their assessment of the residual value of used car batteries, ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:14 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices EEG 2.0 | Law Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government dpa / Weser Kurier The ...
04 Aug 2020, 14:56 An abrupt halt to economic activity and greatly reduced mobility in reaction to the coronavirus outbreak have let Germany's energy consumption plummet in the first half of 2020. While all fossil fuels and especially coal ...
04 Aug 2020, 14:50 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Coal Clean Energy Wire Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) ...
04 Aug 2020, 14:38 Expert BAFA- Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle Renewables Fossil fuels Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und ...
04 Aug 2020, 14:24 Edgar Meza Gas Security Die Welt The US government's threat of sanctions against companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project has led to angry calls of defiance by government officials and business leaders in ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:52 Edgar Meza Solar Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Despite plans by a major solar energy company from Switzerland to revive solar pv manufacturing in Germany, there is no chance that a large-scale industry will return under current ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:46 Edgar Meza Transport Government Welt am Sonntag German government employees last year took 27,216 more individual flights than in 2018, with a particular increase in short inland flights that are considered to be particularly harmful to ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:23 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Rheinische Post / Clean Energy Wire A group of villagers living in towns threatened by coal mine expansion in western Germany plan ...
31 Jul 2020, 12:22 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Alex Dziadosz Coal Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Hard coal power station operator Steag’s petition to the German Federal Constitutional Court to improve ...
31 Jul 2020, 12:20 Expert GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel Climate & CO2 Technology Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Alex Dziadosz Climate & CO2 Gas Clean Energy Wire Large amounts of methane, a ...
31 Jul 2020, 12:19 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Business & Jobs Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) ...
30 Jul 2020, 13:37 The construction of new wind turbines in Germany picked up slightly again in the first six months of 2020, but expansion figures are still far too low to bolster an industry that suffered two years of steeply declining growth. As the ...
30 Jul 2020, 13:34 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Alex Dziadosz Gas Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Clean Energy Wire The companies involved in the controversial Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project, which connects Germany with ...
30 Jul 2020, 13:31 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Elections & Politics Policy Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen EEG 2.0 | Law Policy Expert Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy ...
30 Jul 2020, 13:30 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Alex Dziadosz Coal Handelsblatt Hard coal power station operator Steag is suing to get better compensation for the shutdown of its plants under Germany’s coal exit plan, writes ...
29 Jul 2020, 13:47 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Alex Dziadosz Grid dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany is making modest progess ...
29 Jul 2020, 13:43 Alex Dziadosz Grid Cars Clean Energy Wire Germany’s federal government believes the country has sufficient power generation capacity to accommodate a major expansion in the number of electric cars, according to a parliamentary report. ...
29 Jul 2020, 13:31 Expert Nordex Business & Jobs Renewables Wind Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs NDR / Recharge News Wind turbine manufacturer Nordex might be seeking help from the German government to cover losses in earnings due to ...
29 Jul 2020, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt / TASS The Russian government is urging the country's leading energy companies to quickly expand their hydrogen production capacities and is considering using the controversial offshore ...
28 Jul 2020, 12:44 Edgar Meza Technology Tagesspiegel Background The German government’s recently published draft amendment to the country’s battery law aimed at improving battery recycling in the country does not go far enough for waste management ...
28 Jul 2020, 12:23 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Edgar Meza Wind Clean Energy Wire Dutch transmission grid operator TenneT recorded a more than 21 percent increase in offshore wind energy transmission from the North Sea to ...
28 Jul 2020, 12:21 Edgar Meza Coal Finance Clean Energy Wire Environmental groups and campaigners have welcomed Deutsche Bank’s move to end its global business activities in coal mining by 2025 at the latest, and while some see a positive signal heralding ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:11 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Clean Energy Wire The demand for energy-efficient building renovation programmes offered by Germany's government ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:09 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Cars Transport Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices EEG 2.0 | Law ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:07 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs International Clean Energy Wire Ensuring compliance with a possible supply chain act that makes certain ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:05 Edgar Meza Storage Cars manager magazin US electric car manufacturer Tesla will be manufacturing battery cells along with electric vehicles at its planned German factory in Grünheide near Berlin, manager magazine reported citing ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:03 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Society dpa / WirtschaftsWoche / Clean Energy Wire The COVID-19 pandemic is leading German companies to rethink the need for business trips and promote video conferencing instead, according to a report by ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:01 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Coal Business Tagesspiegel Siemens Energy has signed a supply contract with South Korean plant manufacturer Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction for a planned coal-fired power plant on ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:50 Expert Federal Foreign Office Auswärtiges Amt International Security Alex Dziadosz Climate & CO2 Security dpa / n-tv The United States has, for the moment, put a halt to Germany’s ambitions to set up a system to monitor climate ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:38 Alex Dziadosz Storage Cars Clean Energy Wire A test of power consumption in electric cars shows that they consume between 10 and 25 percent more electricity than their on-board computers show, largely due to charging station losses, car ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire Customs investigators in Bavaria have revealed the smuggling of solar modules from China sold at dumping prices in Germany worth at least 33 million euros. The customs office said it ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Clean Energy Wire 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 ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire The climate activist movement Fridays for Future (FfF) has announced a new "global climate action day" on 25 September on which it will hold protest events in ...
09 Jul 2020, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics tageszeitung (taz) Chancellor Angela Merkel must now walk the walk when it comes to making sure climate action “tops” the German EU Council presidency agenda and ensuring that ...
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, ...
23 Jul 2020, 14:20 Alex Dziadosz Solar International Die Zeit A Swiss solar energy company is looking to revive eastern Germany’s “Solar Valley”, write Barbara Achermann and Martin Nejezchleba in Zeit Schweiz. The solar park, covering 160 hectares in the ...
23 Jul 2020, 14:14 Alex Dziadosz Bioenergy Cities Die Welt A biogas plant has started operation in Hamburg which can supply around 5,700 households with energy by producing methane from the city’s largest sewage treatment facility, Julia Witte writes in ...
23 Jul 2020, 13:50 Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Business & Jobs Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Clean Energy Wire The number of biogas plants installed in Germany is set to fall ...
24 Jul 2020, 10:40 The rivalry between Europe and China in emission-free hydrogen technologies could become one of the defining business stories in the global effort to stop climate change. Scarred by its painful experience in solar PV manufacturing, ...
23 Jul 2020, 13:44 Expert PwC Electricity market Transport Cars Business & Jobs Efficiency Heating Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Clean Energy Wire The increasing demand for electric vehicles in Germany could become an important pillar of the country's ...
23 Jul 2020, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars ARD The German transport minister, Andreas Scheuer, has proposed the introduction of a road toll for passenger cars in the whole European Union, public broadcaster ARD reports in its daily news programme ...
22 Jul 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire The production of green hydrogen and prevention of pandemics are prime examples for promising research cooperation in the EU, German education minister Anja Karliczek said on ...
22 Jul 2020, 13:32 Expert VW- Volkswagen Cars Transport Alex Dziadosz Cars International manager magazin / Reuters Car-makers Volkswagen and Ford say that a legal battle between two South Korean battery manufacturers in the United States could hamper the ...
22 Jul 2020, 13:22 Expert UFZ- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung- UFZ Climate & CO2 Renewables Society Alex Dziadosz Climate & CO2 Focus Online / Rheinische Post Despite recent increases in rainfall, ...
22 Jul 2020, 13:48 After four days of negotiations, the EU member states have agreed on an unprecedented funding package to cushion the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and secure the bloc's budget until 2027. The 27 governments greenlighted a ...
21 Jul 2020, 13:41 Expert RWI- Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Utilities Cost & Prices Electricity market Business & Jobs Expert ZEW- Centre for European Economic ...
21 Jul 2020, 13:34 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Business & Jobs Electricity market Utilities David Reay Wind Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German energy company Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) is running trials of a floating ...
21 Jul 2020, 13:28 David Reay Bioenergy Berliner Zeitung A German startup reportedly is on the verge of industrialising a process that can increase biogas energy yields by 40 percent – and even turn leaves into fuel, the Berliner Zeitung reports. LXP, ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:13 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy David Reay Government International Clean Energy Wire ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:08 Expert Federal Motor Transport Authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt Cars Transport David Reay Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung New vehicles in Germany are getting greener: average CO2 emissions of cars registered in the first half of 2020 ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sustainability aspects are gaining in importance at a very quick pace and are poised to bring about "fundamental change" to the way financial market actors operate, ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars rbb24 US carmaker Tesla’s planned gigafactory near Berlin continues to cause worries about the production site's water consumption, public broadcaster rbb24 reports. The local water supplier in the ...
23 Jul 2020, 12:30 The EU's and Germany's plans to push the use of green hydrogen to decarbonise the economy are likely to trigger a competitive race with China that will be crucial for a global breakthrough of the technology, says Kobad ...
17 Jul 2020, 14:12 Expert VW- Volkswagen Cars Transport Alex Dziadosz Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Volkswagen does not expect the pandemic to slow the introduction of its flagship e-car model ID.3, Carsten Germis writes in the Frankfurter ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:49 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Alex Dziadosz Gas International Handelsblatt Tumbling prices for liquefied natural gas (LNG) due to the coronavirus pandemic are worsening conditions for planned gas import terminals in Germany, ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Supporters of different climate action organisations have protested in Frankfurt against the European Central Bank's (ECB) monetary policy during the coronavirus ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:31 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Clean Energy Wire / Reuters The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:28 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Technology Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Wind dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung The number of newly installed wind power ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Security Clean Energy Wire German energy industry lobby ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:52 Expert VW- Volkswagen Cars Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Hydrogen Die Welt German car industry heavyweights Volkswagen and Bosch are at odds over the use of hydrogen in mobility, with the world's largest carmaker clinging to a ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:50 Expert BASF Business & Jobs Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A cooperation with Russian resource company Nornickel could stain the sustainability credentials of Europe's planned ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:44 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Business & Jobs Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Clean Energy Wire Germany's railway service Deutsche Bahn has inked an order worth one billion euros for new ICE high speed ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire The increasing risk of prolonged droughts in central Europe warrants a "paradigm shift" in Germany's water management in order to avoid supply bottlenecks, the ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Clean Energy Wire The output of Europe's solar power panels is influenced by particulate matter in the atmosphere that can partly block sunlight from reaching the earth's surface, researchers from the ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:41 Expert German Steel Federation Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Industry Clean Energy Wire A new " steel strategy " for establishing low-carbon ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The German government is preparing legislation that will hold companies operating in the country to account for ensuring that social and environmental minimum standards ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:38 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy David Reay Government International Clean Energy Wire ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:31 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology David Reay Cars Clean Energy Wire The share of renewable energies used in Germany’s transport sector stagnated at 5.6% in 2019 ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:15 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire CLEW Industry The use of new low-emission technology across all sectors ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany's most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has exceeded its own emissions reductions goal, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by the ...
14 Jul 2020, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire CLEW Business & Jobs Finance Handelsblatt The strategic shift of US investment management firm BlackRock to align its financial operations with sustainability criteria starts having an impact on ...
13 Jul 2020, 14:12 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Business & Jobs Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables David Reay Solar Die Welt Germany’s hollowed-out solar industry is hoping that the coronavirus ...
13 Jul 2020, 14:04 David Reay Coal International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German-based construction group Hochtief is enjoying a coal boom in Australia despite growing criticism of mining in its home country, write Jonas Jansen and Christoph ...
13 Jul 2020, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Politics Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background More than two years after quitting his job due to differences with the new government at the time, Rainer Baake, former German state secretary in ...
13 Jul 2020, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices International Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The European Union should introduce a carbon border tax on imports as a source of income to finance the bloc's coronavirus recovery programmes ...
13 Jul 2020, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / 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 ...
10 Jul 2020, 12:52 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme Renewables Julian Wettengel Solar Clean Energy Wire Research institutions in Austria and Germany have launched a joint project aiming to develop a solar rooftop ...
10 Jul 2020, 12:50 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Clean Energy Wire Germany’s coronavirus crisis economic stimulus package must undergo a climate impact assessment to ensure ...
10 Jul 2020, 12:48 Expert VW- Volkswagen Cars Transport Sören Amelang Cars Automobilwoche German premium carmaker Audi, a VW subsidiary, will continue to invest heavily in the development of combustion engines. According to CEO Markus Duesmann, combustion ...
10 Jul 2020, 12:41 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 E3G- Third generation enviromentalism ...
09 Jul 2020, 13:35 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire CLEW Industry Clean Energy Wire Newly formed technology company Siemens Energy wants to phase-out any operations to do with coal-fired power production, Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser said at an extraordinary ...
09 Jul 2020, 13:25 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire CLEW Transport Freight Clean Energy Wire In Germany, 238 railway connections with a total length of 4,016 kilometres could be reactivated, the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) and the Pro ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:51 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire CLEW Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices Reuters The state-run fund created to pay for the intermediate and final storage of nuclear power station waste in Germany has so far coped well throughout the ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:50 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Business & Jobs Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EEG 2.0 | Law Electricity market Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire CLEW Climate & ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:14 The European Union wants to establish itself as the world leader in hydrogen technologies and will focus on ramping up electrolyser capacities in the next four years. According to the European Commission's hydrogen strategy, the ...
07 Jul 2020, 13:25 David Reay Clean Energy Wire CLEW Green stimulus Die Welt The head of Germany’s waste management association BDE has criticised the German government for ignoring recycling in its massive post-coronavirus stimulus package. In an ...
07 Jul 2020, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Business & Jobs Electricity market Utilities David Reay Clean Energy Wire CLEW Grid Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire German energy company E.ON has called for a green gas quota to help to reduce the share of fossil gas ...
07 Jul 2020, 13:22 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Efficiency Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire CLEW Cost & Prices Green stimulus Clean Energy Wire German households ...
06 Jul 2020, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire The council of German state governments has called for a speedy and comprehensive reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) to ensure the country reaches its 2030 target of expanding ...
06 Jul 2020, 12:23 David Reay Coal Spiegel / Süddeutsche Zeitung / DW / NDR Following the German parliament’s vote on Friday in favour of a law ending all coal power production by 2038, the country’s media has been reacting to the controversial bill. As ...
06 Jul 2020, 12:22 David Reay Gas Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Germans still get a relatively good deal on gas prices, and will continue to do so even after the introduction of a CO2 price in transport and buildings next year, a report by price ...
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& ...
03 Jul 2020, 12:37 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Edgar Meza Cars Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background New car registrations in Germany fell 35 percent in the first half of 2020 to 1.21 million cars, reaching ...
03 Jul 2020, 12:35 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Investigate Europe / Tagesspiegel Background While the EU aims to tackle the climate crisis with its Green Deal, member states, including Germany, continue to subsidise fossil fuels to the tune ...
02 Jul 2020, 13:03 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire CLEW Gas Clean Energy ...
02 Jul 2020, 13:01 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Clean Energy Wire / Welt Online / Handelsblatt German housing companies have invested over 340 billion euros in energy modernisation since 2010 but household energy consumption is stagnating regardless, the ...
02 Jul 2020, 13:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Kerstine Appunn Society Clean Energy Wire The government must make acceptance issues a key focus of its energy ...
02 Jul 2020, 12:57 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Technology Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:18 Expert E.ON Utility Business & Jobs Electricity market Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:17 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Business & Jobs Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire CLEW Solar pv magazine The expansion of solar power in ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire CLEW Gas International Security Clean Energy Wire German government officials, MPs and experts have criticised U.S. plans to tighten sanctions on the contentious natural gas pipeline project Nord ...
30 Jun 2020, 13:44 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Business & Jobs Transport David Reay Clean Energy ...
30 Jun 2020, 13:41 Expert German-French Office for the Energiewende Office franco-allemand pour la transition énergétique Energiewende Renewables David Reay Clean Energy Wire CLEW Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire Germany and France have ...
30 Jun 2020, 13:38 Expert BASF Business & Jobs Fossil fuels Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices EEG 2.0 | Law Policy Kerstine Appunn Clean ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:15 Germany's government has removed the last hurdles to finalising the country's much-anticipated coal exit law, clearing the way for a passage of the bill in parliament at the end of the week. The draft agreement grants ...
29 Jun 2020, 13:07 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy ...
29 Jun 2020, 13:06 David Reay Industry Handelsblatt Politicians must urgently implement EU-wide mechanisms that help Germany’s heavy industry to continue to be successful while transitioning to greenhouse gas neutrality, says Klaus Stratmann in ...
29 Jun 2020, 13:05 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy David Reay Climate & CO2 EU tageszeitung (taz) ...
29 Jun 2020, 12:53 Renewables covered more than half of Germany’s power consumption in the first six months of 2020, according to a first estimate by think tank Agora Energiewende*. As coal use dropped and demand was low due to the coronavirus crisis and ...
26 Jun 2020, 12:15 Sören Amelang Cars WirtschaftsWoche German car industry association VDA will launch a working group to look into the sustainability of plug-in hybrid cars because these are often driven in combustion engine mode rather than using the ...
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 ...
26 Jun 2020, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Tagesschau / Frankfurter Rundschau Shareholders of Germany's Lufthansa have accepted the conditions of a multi-billion euro bailout which gives the government a stake in the company and – according ...
25 Jun 2020, 13:28 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Solar Wind Clean Energy Wire / pv magazine Germany's latest renewable auctions have ...
25 Jun 2020, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Coal tageszeitung (taz) / Tagesspiegel Background / Rheinische Post German media commentators have said that the draft contract between the state and lignite operators presented by the cabinet on 24 June keeps open the ...
25 Jun 2020, 13:24 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel EU Clean Energy Wire The German government cabinet has approved the programme for its EU Council presidency one week before the start of its six-month tenure next week (1 July) with ...
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 ...
24 Jun 2020, 14:20 Expert World Energy Council Germany Weltenergierat Electricity market Fossil fuels Kerstine Appunn Technology EU Clean Energy Wire More and more countries and businesses have set the goal of becoming climate neutral but few of them have ...
23 Jun 2020, 13:52 David Reay EU Clean Energy Wire A group of non-governmental organisations warns in a report that corporate interests could push for and achieve climate-damaging EU legislation during the country’s upcoming EU Council presidency. ...
23 Jun 2020, 13:48 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices EEG 2.0 | Law Policy Expert ...
23 Jun 2020, 15:13 Tough talks on how to make the European Union climate neutral by 2050 are a major challenge for Germany’s 6-month EU Council presidency in the second half of 2020. The negotiations for a European economic recovery programme will be a ...
22 Jun 2020, 12:40 Edgar Meza Hydrogen dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s push for greater hydrogen use is gaining momentum. Some 50 representatives from business, science and government have come together to promote 25 projects in northern Germany that ...
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 ...
22 Jun 2020, 12:33 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 EU Leopoldina / Acatech / Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities In a joint statement, leading German scientific institutions, including the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, ...
23 Jun 2020, 14:00 Helping European Union member states find a compromise on a coronavirus recovery package in July will be a first test for the German EU Council presidency in the second half of 2020, says Sophie Pornschlegel, senior policy analyst at ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:46 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A Swiss study has shed light on the efficiency gains of so-called “grey energy” ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:17 Alex Dziadosz Nuclear phase-out International Tageszeitung (taz) Thousands of tons of nuclear waste will be transported from Germany to Russia through the Netherlands next year after getting approval from Dutch nuclear safety ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:04 Expert E.ON Utility Business & Jobs Electricity market Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Clean Energy Wire The amount of electricity produced with renewable energy sources in Germany within one year could theoretically power ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:01 Expert RNE- German Council for Sustainable Development Rat für nachhaltige Entwicklung Society Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Germany’s government and industry should enter into a "hydrogen pact" to make the gas ...
18 Jun 2020, 15:16 Alex Dziadosz Solar Wind Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt Germany’s parliament is preparing to pass regulation about the minimum distance of wind turbines and support payments for solar power, resolving two major points of contention ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:47 Alex Dziadosz Cars dpa / Focus Online / Auto Motor und Sport The new brand chief of VW, Ralf Brandstätter, has appeared to play down the group’s transition to a full focus on electric vehicles, news agency dpa reports in an article ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire CLEW Gas Security Clean Energy Wire All of the parties represented in the German parliament reject the economic sanctions threatened by the United States over the construction of the controversial ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:29 Expert Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire CLEW Finance EU Clean Energy Wire The German government has said green and sustainable finance criteria will not influence investment ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:23 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Business & Jobs Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:16 Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire CLEW Solar Cities Clean Energy Wire Many of Germany's biggest cities are squandering vast renewable energy ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:04 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire CLEW Policy EU Clean Energy Wire Germany will focus its upcoming EU Council presidency on the dual challenges of overcoming the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and making the continent more ...
17 Jun 2020, 15:16 Sören Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire German carmakers BMW, Mercedes, and Audi have recorded above-average sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles this year, according to a report by the Center of Automotive Management (CAM). While these ...
17 Jun 2020, 15:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Heating Clean Energy Wire Germany is seeking to make progress on greenhouse gas reduction in the building sector with a new long-term renovation strategy. The strategy is meant to help with implementation of ...
17 Jun 2020, 15:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility Clean Energy Wire The external costs caused by traffic and other mobility activities in Germany are in the range of 149 billion euros per year, transport NGO Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) has stated in a ...
17 Jun 2020, 15:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Handelsblatt The economic downturn due to the coronavirus pandemic has had little effect on many German companies' plans to invest in emissions reduction measures so far, Steffen Ermisch writes in ...
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16 Jun 2020, 15:06 David Reay Clean Energy Wire The German government’s proposed Building Energy Act is lightweight and should be scrapped in favour of laws that enshrine climate neutrality in all new construction and renovation projects, an environmental ...
16 Jun 2020, 15:03 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy David Reay Transport Clean Energy Wire Germany’s ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:59 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Clean Energy Wire / Spiegel Online CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this article, the authors's name was misspelled as "Heckling". The correct name is " ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:57 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices EEG 2.0 | Law Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire A group of ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:53 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Business & Jobs Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Business & ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:50 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal MDR / Clean Energy Wire The German coal exit law should be finalised quickly and get parliamentary approval before the summer break ...
18 Jun 2020, 12:00 A joint push by the EU and China remains the best hope to drive global climate action and build momentum ahead of next year’s UN climate talks, researchers and NGOs say. The coronavirus pandemic has shifted national priorities, raised ...
15 Jun 2020, 15:11 Expert BGR- Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Heating Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Spiegel Online A model ...
15 Jun 2020, 14:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars The German car sector may face a "series of bankruptcies”, leading industry representatives have warned. This is due to an almost unprecedented drop in demand caused by the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, ...
15 Jun 2020, 14:43 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Clean Energy Wire Newly registered cars in Germany with high CO2 emissions will be charged an increased tax by 2021 in order to "align the ...
15 Jun 2020, 08:46 The independent expert commission in charge of monitoring Germany's energy transition says the European Green Deal requires the country to do more to fight climate change. The government advisors say a quicker-than-planned coal ...
12 Jun 2020, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire CLEW Wind Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel The energy output of most wind turbines around the world could be increased by changing their direction of rotation from clockwise to anti-clockwise, a study ...
12 Jun 2020, 13:37 Sören Amelang Clean Energy Wire CLEW Mobility Digitalisation Clean Energy Wire The coronavirus pandemic has boosted digitalisation because it forced many people to do without business trips, work remotely and shop online, which offers ...
12 Jun 2020, 13:31 Sören Amelang Clean Energy Wire CLEW Coal Electricity market Tagesspiegel Background Energy markets have largely recovered from the upheaval caused by the coronavirus, and most experts expect few lasting consequences except that coal ...
11 Jun 2020, 14:20 Expert UFZ- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung- UFZ Climate & CO2 Renewables Society Sören Amelang Clean Energy Wire CLEW Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel Following two extremely hot and ...
11 Jun 2020, 14:15 Sören Amelang Clean Energy Wire CLEW Technology dpa / Clean Energy Wire Three Western German towns are launching a trial to run the local energy supply without coal and gas, reports the newswire dpa in an article carried by the ...
11 Jun 2020, 14:11 Sören Amelang Clean Energy Wire CLEW Cars Der Spiegel The doubling of government subsidies for electric cars agreed last week as part of Germany's economic stimulus programme has considerably boosted interest for such vehicles on ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:45 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices EEG 2.0 | Law Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany’s ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:34 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Industry Clean Energy Wire Germany's hydrogen strategy is a "quantum leap" that will lift the energy transition and climate protection to a "new qualitative level," according to the ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:03 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Business & Jobs Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Freja Eriksen Solar Storage Clean Energy Wire The number of solar power storage devices installed ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:01 Freja Eriksen Cars Focus Online / RND Twenty-one percent of Germans would opt for an electric model when buying a new car after the German government has announced it will double the existing buyer's premium for electric vehicles ...
10 Jun 2020, 12:15 Extreme droughts and prolonged heat waves have significantly raised awareness of climate change dangers in Germany in the past years. And the changing weather patterns are also having a huge impact on the country's environment, as ...
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 ...
09 Jun 2020, 13:15 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
09 Jun 2020, 12:55 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate ...
09 Jun 2020, 12:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Clean Energy Wire The volume of financial investments classified as sustainable increased by nearly one quarter in Germany last year, according to the latest figures published by the financial industry ...
09 Jun 2020, 12:48 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt ...
08 Jun 2020, 13:14 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices EEG 2.0 | Law Policy Freja Eriksen Gas Security Handelsblatt German officials have ...
08 Jun 2020, 13:13 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Business & Jobs Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Freja Eriksen Solar Clean Energy Wire Representatives of the German solar industry have lodged a ...
08 Jun 2020, 13:11 Freja Eriksen Industry Rheinische Post The German government is working on an action plan to support the country's steel industry in becoming more competitive and climate friendly, writes Antje Höning in the Rheinische Post. ...
08 Jun 2020, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Clean Energy Wire The price drop on electricity markets due to the coronavirus pandemic has led to calls for extending Germany's renewable energy support for wind turbines that are poised to fall out ...
15 Jun 2020, 09:20 While geothermal energy is a viable alternative to curb emissions for heating and cooling, fears and high costs have limited its expansion. But Bavaria and now Baden Wurttemberg are forging ahead. The potential of geothermal energy, ...
05 Jun 2020, 13:22 Sven Egenter Cars Green stimulus Tageszeitung (taz) / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Süddeutsche Zeitung The German government’s decision to focus its 130 billion euro economic stimulus programme on future, more climate-friendly ...
05 Jun 2020, 13:07 Sören Amelang Green stimulus Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The heads of state of Germany, Austria and Switzerland have warned against neglecting climate protection during the pandemic and urged an economic restart with investments in ...
05 Jun 2020, 13:06 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza Cars Clean Energy Wire [CORRECTION: Greenpeace corrected its press release clarifying that currently available plug-in hybrids in Germany have the average ...
05 Jun 2020, 15:13 The German government coalition has decided to reboot Europe's largest economy with a 130 billion euros stimulus package that contains many steps to further the country's landmark energy transition. The Clean Energy Wire ...
04 Jun 2020, 14:06 The German government coalition has decided to reboot Europe's largest economy with a 130 billion euros stimulus package that contains steps to further the country's landmark energy transition. Aside from comprehensive actions ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:25 Expert E3G- Third generation enviromentalism European non profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Sören Amelang Clean Energy Wire CLEW Coal Clean Energy Wire The sharp decline of coal use in ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Sören Amelang Clean Energy Wire CLEW Solar pv magazine The coronavirus crisis ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:15 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices EEG 2.0 | Law Policy Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der ...
02 Jun 2020, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Green stimulus Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German government's coronavirus recovery programme will likely mobilise funds of about 80 billion to 100 billion euros, Kerstin Schwenn reports in newspaper ...
02 Jun 2020, 13:26 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Freja Eriksen Industry Handelsblatt The German industry federation for metal-processing companies, WVMetalle, is calling for an ...
02 Jun 2020, 13:23 Expert ICCT- International Council on Clean Transportation Transport Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Business & Jobs Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Electricity market David ...
29 May 2020, 13:11 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire This year’s spring in Germany was “extremely sunny, quite warm and much too dry”, ...
29 May 2020, 13:09 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Elections & Politics Policy Julian Wettengel Cars Green stimulus Süddeutsche Zeitung There is significant opposition among Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative ...
29 May 2020, 13:01 The German government is set to make the large-scale use of offshore wind power to produce emission-free hydrogen a cornerstone of its long-anticipated national hydrogen strategy, reports Tagesspiegel Background. With additional ...
29 May 2020, 10:31 The corona pandemic has upended the transition to sustainable urban mobility around the world. While the fear of infection has put people off public transport and vehicle sharing schemes, it has boosted private cars, cycling and walking ...
28 May 2020, 12:34 German industry and energy sector associations have welcomed the coronavirus recovery proposal presented by the European Commission. Lobby group BDI said the funds should focus on sustainability not only in regard to climate and ...
28 May 2020, 17:30 A slowing economy and mild weather lowered Germany's energy demand significantly in the first quarter of 2020. Latest data also confirmed that renewable energy sources accounted for more than half of the electricity fed into ...
28 May 2020, 12:29 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands EEG 2.0 | Law Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Clean Energy Wire A coordinated European green hydrogen production infrastructure is a prime example for possible EU ...
27 May 2020, 13:44 Julian Wettengel Transport Green stimulus Clean Energy Wire While some media commentators welcome the deal to rescue Germany’s national airline Lufthansa and say a lack of concrete sustainability criteria is justified, others write that ...
27 May 2020, 13:38 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Utilities Clean Energy ...
27 May 2020, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Clean Energy Wire Dealing with the coronavirus crisis will be the main priority of the German EU Council presidency in the second half of 2020, chancellor Angela Merkel told leaders of the European ...
27 May 2020, 13:32 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Clean Energy Wire Costs of stabilising the German power ...
26 May 2020, 12:45 Expert VW- Volkswagen Cars Transport David Reay Cars Hessische Niedersächsische Allgemeine / NZZ / Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Volkswagen lost a key legal battle in the long-running Dieselgate scandal on 25 May when a court ordered that a ...
26 May 2020, 12:43 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik G20 International Policy Security Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire An active removal of several hundred million ...
26 May 2020, 12:40 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel EEG2016 | Law Cost & Prices Green stimulus Clean Energy Wire Germany’s power customers ...
26 May 2020, 12:38 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices EEG 2.0 | Law Policy Expert Left Party Die Linke EEG 2.0 | Law Policy David Reay Business ...
25 May 2020, 14:58 Experts have criticised the German government's draft coal exit law for deviating from the compromise found by the coal commission in early 2019. At a parliamentary committee hearing, representatives from industry, research ...
25 May 2020, 12:41 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research ...
25 May 2020, 12:40 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale ...
25 May 2020, 12:38 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables EEG2016 | Law Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Julian Wettengel Solar Wind Clean Energy Wire Solar and wind power in Germany could supply three times the ...
22 May 2020, 14:11 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Cost & Prices Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Green stimulus Clean Energy Wire / Die Welt Energy-intensive industry groups short ...
22 May 2020, 14:07 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Business & Jobs Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EEG 2.0 | Law Electricity market Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland ...
22 May 2020, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland An alliance of hard coal plant operators plans to achieve an expansion of the runtime of Germany's seven most modern hard coal plants by ...
22 May 2020, 14:02 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs Clean ...
20 May 2020, 13:55 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
20 May 2020, 13:44 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln Business & Jobs Cost & ...
20 May 2020, 13:38 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid International Clean Energy Wire The German government is preparing to buy a stake in Dutch transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT as part of a ...
20 May 2020, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Bioenergy Agriculture Tageszeitung (taz) Power suppliers in Germany have begun offering "bee power" contracts that charge customers one additional cent per kilowatt hour to help preserve the industrious ...
20 May 2020, 13:50 Months of dispute within the government coalition and the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have significantly slowed down progress on a number of important German energy transition projects. The coal exit law has yet to be adopted by ...
20 May 2020, 12:30 Implementing social distancing in trams, buses and underground trains at peak times creates massive problems for urban public transport, says Barbara Lenz, who heads the Institute of Transport Research at the German Aerospace Centre DLR ...
19 May 2020, 14:38 Edgar Meza Coal Renewables Tageszeitung (taz) Germany's controversial new Datteln 4 coal plant in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is running at full capacity in test operation despite the low demand for electricity on the ...
19 May 2020, 14:23 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Business & Jobs Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Business & ...
19 May 2020, 14:17 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government The governing conservative CDU/CSU alliance has shrugged off concerns by the German Advisory Council on the ...
19 May 2020, 14:12 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire A drop in the use of public transport due to passengers’ coronavirus fears could increase Germany's transport ...
18 May 2020, 18:14 The German government has agreed to remove key hurdles to the rollout of renewable energies that had begun to slow the country's landmark energy transition. The deal between chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance ...
18 May 2020, 14:16 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands EEG 2.0 | Law Policy Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Clean Energy Wire Germany should aim to build up large capacities of hydrogen production from renewables as ...
18 May 2020, 14:13 Edgar Meza Cars Business & Jobs Der Spiegel The German government is weighing an 11,000 euro subsidy for electric cars in a bid to help the country’s hard-hit auto industry in the coronavirus crisis, even though the sector is having ...
18 May 2020, 14:08 Expert ICCT- International Council on Clean Transportation Transport Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Edgar Meza Gas Cars Focus Online / Öko-Institut Despite ...
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 ...
18 May 2020, 14:02 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert German-French Office for the Energiewende Office franco-allemand pour la transition énergétique ...
15 May 2020, 14:21 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Business & Jobs Transport 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, ...
15 May 2020, 14:20 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The effects of climate change outside of Europe pose a much larger risk to Germany's ...
15 May 2020, 14:17 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Julian Wettengel Gas Security Clean Energy Wire Several German parliamentarians have criticised government plans to set up a domestic infrastructure ...
15 May 2020, 14:07 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany is on track to widely miss its EU obligations to reduce CO2 emissions ...
15 May 2020, 16:34 The U.S. administration is aggressively promoting the country’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) to European partners, portraying it both as a supply that would help them diversify away from Russian gas and as a way to reduce greenhouse gas ...
14 May 2020, 14:17 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire CLEW Transport Freight Clean Energy Wire The introduction of automated heavy trucks could further shift transport from rail to road, according to a report by Germany’s Aerospace Center (DLR) on the ...
14 May 2020, 14:15 Edgar Meza Heating Clean Energy Wire A broad coalition comprising unions, utilities, and climate protection organisations in Germany is pushing for new momentum in the country’s lagging efforts to lower emissions from heating. The ...
14 May 2020, 14:07 Sören Amelang Clean Energy Wire CLEW Climate & CO2 Policy Germany should base its climate policy on a CO2 budget in line with the Paris Climate Agreement, which would require fast-tracking efforts to reach climate neutrality, ...
14 May 2020, 14:03 Sören Amelang Gas Clean Energy Wire Germany can establish an initial grid for transporting green hydrogen made with renewables by 2030 at limited costs, according to the country's gas transmission grid operator umbrella ...
13 May 2020, 13:39 Sören Amelang Transport Clean Energy Wire The total number of rail passengers on Germany&
