09 May 2025
09 May 2025, 12:00 威力彩玩法 Team Montel: German zone split plan 鈥渉alf-baked鈥�, may lead to extreme prices聽 Large impact of weather on green output expected in the smaller of five proposed areas. Reuters: Germany's energy transition hits reverse so far in ...
09 May 2025, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Security 威力彩玩法 Germany must speed up the electrification of its rail network for military purposes as well as for environmental reasons, said the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) ...
09 May 2025, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Government EU ARD / Tagesspiegel / 威力彩玩法 The new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has called for a 鈥渞estart鈥� of Franco-German relations at his first international trip on Wednesday (7 May), after his ...
09 May 2025, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government 威力彩玩法 The new German economy and energy minister, conservative Christian Democrat (CDU) politician Katherina Reiche, has said that Germany had to 鈥渇ind a new agreement on the ...
07 May 2025, 15:00 The six-month wait for a new German government came to an end when Friedrich Merz was finally confirmed as chancellor in a day of high drama in parliament on 6 May. Stakeholders and observers have urged the new chancellor to keep energy ...
07 May 2025, 13:03 S枚ren Amelang Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 The election of Friedrich Merz as Germany鈥檚 new chancellor in an unprecedented second parliamentary vote was greeted with relief by the country鈥檚 energy, industry, and ...
07 May 2025, 11:40 威力彩玩法 Team Climate & CO2 Bloomberg: Orsted cancels major UK offshore wind farm as costs jump The move is a significant blow to UK plans to boost the clean energy source in the coming years, and also a setback for the offshore wind ...
06 May 2025, 14:00 Germany鈥檚 designated next environment minister Carsten Schneider may not have much background in climate policy, but his experience in navigating political divide in the country鈥檚 east and its population鈥檚 fatigue of constant changes ...
06 May 2025
06 May 2025, 12:00 威力彩玩法 Team DW: Why is Germany's Friedrich Merz, so unpopular? Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has hit a snag in his attempt to form Germany's new government. His personal popularity is low.聽Most Germans don't trust ...
06 May 2025, 13:18 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Society 威力彩玩法 The new German government should push ahead with income-based financial support for key energy transition technologies to allow low- and medium-income households to transition ...
06 May 2025, 17:15 In a bumpy start to Germany鈥檚 new coalition government, conservative leader Friedrich Merz managed to secure a majority in parliament to become the next chancellor only in the second round of voting. The unprecedented failure to ...
05 May 2025, 15:32 The choice for Germany鈥檚 new transport minister suggests the country is unlikely to face a profound policy overhaul to get the emission-intensive sector on track to meet ambitious 2030 climate targets. Long-serving conservative ...
05 May 2025
05 May 2025, 11:30 威力彩玩法 Team Bloomberg: Germany鈥檚 red tape creates a Berlin-sized hole in energy shift Military airspace restrictions are holding up wind-power projects, highlighting the challenges for Germany鈥檚 energy and defence plans. Montel: Critics ...
05 May 2025, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Gas 威力彩玩法 Several environmental and political NGOs have called on Germany鈥檚 new government to force state-owned gas company SEFE to halt purchases of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) and make a clear ...
02 May 2025, 14:40 Against the backdrop of the major blackout on the Iberian Peninsula in late April, which also affected parts of France, the country is heading for controversial discussions about its energy strategy for the coming decade. A focus will ...
02 May 2025, 11:30 威力彩玩法 Team Government International T&E: How to defuse the EU鈥檚 carbon tax time bomb The decision to create a Europe-wide carbon price was right but creates significant political risk. The good news is it can still be fixed. Carbon ...
02 May 2025, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Table Media / Handelsblatt Several international climate policy experts have warned that the next German government鈥檚 decision to strip the foreign office of its responsibility for ...
02 May 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU 威力彩玩法 EU member states鈥� national climate plans insufficiently address just transition issues, a crucial deficiency ahead of the introduction of a carbon price on ...
02 May 2025, 09:30 The European Union should strive for a well-connected energy system designed in a way that allows different national strengths to complement each other, says Nikos Tsafos, deputy energy minister of Greece. The country is expected to ...
30 Apr 2025
30 Apr 2025, 11:14 威力彩玩法 Team ESA: Satellite launched to count forest carbon The European Space Agency鈥檚 Biomass satellite was designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world鈥檚 forests and their crucial role in Earth鈥檚 carbon cycle. IEEFA: EU ...
30 Apr 2025, 13:19 Julian Wettengel Government 威力彩玩法 The Social Democratic Party (SPD) has approved the coalition agreement with the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, led by chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz, clearing the final major hurdle to ...
30 Apr 2025, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal 威力彩玩法 In the waters of the German North and Baltic Seas, the options for marine carbon dioxide removal and geological storage are limited to just a few approaches, said researchers from the ...
29 Apr 2025, 13:37 Germany is unlikely to face the kind of massive power outage which hit Spain and Portugal on 28 April, as the country鈥檚 system is based on redundancies and many safeguard measures are in place, said grid agency BNetzA. The two countries ...
29 Apr 2025
29 Apr 2025, 13:45 威力彩玩法 Team Bloomberg: Spain slowly returning to normal after crippling blackout Spain and Portugal were returning to some semblance of normality early on 29 April, with many questions remaining about what caused one of Europe鈥檚 worst ...
29 Apr 2025, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 Germany鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) predicts the country will need lower reserve power plant capacity, and projects a reduced demand for grid management measures in winter ...
28 Apr 2025
28 Apr 2025, 13:45 威力彩玩法 Team Euronews: Spain, Portugal and parts of France hit by massive power outage A nationwide power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday, leaving millions without electricity. Reports indicate issues with the European electric ...
28 Apr 2025, 13:55 Conservative CDU member Katherina Reiche looks set to become Germany鈥檚 new economy and energy minister in a government led by Friedrich Merz as chancellor. Reiche looks back at ten years in the energy industry, where she assumed leading ...
28 Apr 2025, 13:38 European transmission system operators (TSOs) have recommended that Germany split its single electricity price zone into up to five bidding zones. This should maximise economic efficiency across the whole market area, ensuring security ...
28 Apr 2025, 10:45 Insufficient grid connections mean that Central Europe and Northern Europe cannot benefit from cheap, competitive solar power from the Iberian Peninsula, says Joan Groizard, Spain鈥檚 secretary of state for energy. Better interconnection ...
25 Apr 2025
25 Apr 2025, 12:30 威力彩玩法 Team Politico: German coalition member backs US easing Nord Stream sanctions in Russia peace talks One of Germany's leading Social Democrats said Thursday that a potential U.S. move to ease sanctions on Russian energy could be ...
25 Apr 2025, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Heating Society 威力彩玩法 People in Germany would like to see more factual information around policies to make heating and transport more climate-friendly, such as carbon pricing, and they attach great ...
25 Apr 2025, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 威力彩玩法 Setting up multiple local pricing zones instead of having one big market area could help bring electricity prices down in Germany and increase supply security, according to a report ...
25 Apr 2025, 14:00 The aspiring German coalition government under conservative leader Friedrich Merz is set to assume control at a time of unprecedented transatlantic turmoil for the EU. Amid a backlash against global climate policy led by the new US ...
25 Apr 2025, 09:00 European and UK leaders have pledged to cooperate closely to strengthen energy supply security, and said bringing down fossil fuel imports and ramping up domestic clean sources is the only way to do so. At an energy security summit in ...
24 Apr 2025, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables 威力彩玩法 Unfavourable weather conditions led to a decrease of renewable energy generation in Germany at the start of the year, outweighing a growth in renewable capacity, figures released by energy ...
24 Apr 2025, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Heating 威力彩玩法 / ZDF Many people in Germany have no idea that the planned expansion of EU carbon pricing could significantly push up their fossil fuel heating costs, in some ...
24 Apr 2025, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Solar Tagesspiegel The number of sunshine hours registered in Germany has constantly been on the rise over the past few decades, data by Germany鈥檚 Meteorological Service (DWD) has shown. Between 2011 ...
24 Apr 2025
24 Apr 2025, 13:14 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: German economy to flatline in 2025 as tariff turmoil hits, government says The German government cut its economic growth forecast and now sees stagnation in 2025 instead of a 0.3% expansion as uncertainty from global ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:45 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Business & Jobs Society 威力彩玩法 More attractive conditions are needed to make people join civil protection and disaster relief volunteer units as Germany faces more frequent extreme weather ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:42 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Business Company climate claims 威力彩玩法 Large food retailers in Germany have a long way to go to make good on their sustainability promises, according to a report by Dutch think tank Questionmark. ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:39 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 威力彩玩法 / Tagesspiegel Background Germany should act quickly to kickstart the hydrogen economy with concrete steps as not enough has been done in practice so far, said the Association of German Engineers ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:21 Jack McGovan Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling 威力彩玩法 / ntv The majority of rare earth imports into Germany in 2024 came from China, according to data by the country's statistical offce (Destatis). Rare earth ...
23 Apr 2025
23 Apr 2025, 10:57 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: German regulator plans to cut 1.5 billion euros of power grid fee costs Germany's energy grid regulator BNetzA said the payments are no longer necessary because green power has now reached such high volumes that ...
22 Apr 2025
22 Apr 2025, 12:35 威力彩玩法 Team FT: Germany鈥檚 neighbours eye share of Friedrich Merz鈥檚 big spending plans Germany鈥檚 economically liberal neighbours are warming to relaxing EU state subsidy rules for the long term, as they bet on their national industries ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Society 威力彩玩法 Concern about the impact of climate change is rising, while fewer people feel individual action is needed to combat the problem, according to a survey in 32 countries on ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating 威力彩玩法 The average heating consumption of oil, gas and district heating rose by over 23 percent in Germany between October 2024 and February 2025 compared to the previous heating ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Storage Hydrogen 威力彩玩法 / Tagesspiegel Background Germany can store enough hydrogen in salt caverns alone to meet more than the maximum expected national and European demand needs, the economy ministry (BMWK ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 / dpa A drop in energy prices has led to an overall reduction in production prices in Germany over the past twelve months, the country鈥檚 statistical office Destatis has聽 ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Gas dpa / ntv / Handelsblatt Deutsche ReGas, the operator of Germany鈥檚 liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on the island of R眉gen, expects a much higher utilisation rate of the installation this ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 威力彩玩法 Germany鈥檚 onshore wind power capacity continued to grow apace in early 2025 after four gigawatts (GW) of new turbines were licensed in the first three months of the year, industry ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar ZfK / Montel Cloudy weather conditions expected for the Easter weekend have alleviated fears by grid operators in Germany that a high supply of solar power during a period of low consumption could lead to ...
17 Apr 2025
17 Apr 2025, 11:28 威力彩玩法 Team Euronews: "The West as we knew it no longer exists," von der Leyen argues amid Trump tensions聽 "We don't have bros or oligarchs making the rules," European Commission head says in interview. Bloomberg: ...
16 Apr 2025, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 威力彩玩法 Germany has seen its driest February to mid-April months since 1931,聽 according to the country's meteorological service DWD. 聽聽 DWD 聽recorded about 40 litres of rain per square ...
16 Apr 2025, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Wind Handelsblatt The sweeping tariffs introduced by US president Donald Trump could lead to higher electricity prices around the world, said Hendrik Andersen, CEO of Danish wind turbine manufacturer ...
16 Apr 2025, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars WirtschaftsWoche The tariff policies of US president Donald Trump are likely to lead to a massive drop in global automobile production, the CEO of German automotive industry supplier Mahle, Arnd Franz, has warned ...
17 Apr 2025, 15:00 The return of nuclear energy in Italy is slowly but steadily shifting from possibility to concrete political project. The transition to renewables, meanwhile, has entered a paradoxical phase: installation numbers are solid yet local ...
16 Apr 2025
16 Apr 2025, 11:50 威力彩玩法 Team DW: Euro emerges as safe haven amid Trump tariff turmoil聽 Anticipating European recovery amid US uncertainty, foreign investors shift capital from dollars into European stocks and bonds. EnergyTransition.org: New German ...
15 Apr 2025
15 Apr 2025, 11:55 威力彩玩法 Team Copernicus/WMO: European State of the Climate Report- 2024 warmest year on record During the year, there was a striking east-west contrast in climate conditions, with extremely dry and often record-warm conditions in the east, ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:24 Jennifer Collins Cars Business & Jobs Die Welt Every second e lectric car sold in Germany in the first quarter of 2025 was made by Vol kswagen, while two out of three newly register ed e-vehicles came from German manufacturers, ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Business & Jobs Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung French energy company TotalEnergies says it plans to stay on its expansion course in Germany, welcoming the CDU/CSU and SDP coalition deal that will continue ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann International EU Handelsblatt France and Germany are preparing a relaunch of their cooperation on energy policy, competitiveness, and technology for when conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz has formed his ...
14 Apr 2025
14 Apr 2025, 12:20 威力彩玩法 Team UN: Countries reach historic deal to cut shipping emissions聽 Under new system, ships exceeding emissions limits need to acquire remedial units to offset excess pollution. BBC: Race to keep furnaces burning at British Steel ...
14 Apr 2025, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables RBB East German energy company LEAG plans to put a major lignite plant in partial reserve from May to September due to the projected high output of renewable power installations in that period, public ...
14 Apr 2025, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Handelsblatt / ARD Railway and road infrastructure are priority areas for Germany鈥檚 major investment package for infrastructure and climate neutrality, the country鈥檚 chancellor-in ...
14 Apr 2025, 13:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Technology 威力彩玩法 Electric vehicles (EVs) tend to function more reliably and have fewer breakdowns than internal combustion engine cars (ICEs), the German Automobile Club (ADAC) has found in an聽 ...
11 Apr 2025, 13:21 Joey Grostern Adaptation 威力彩玩法 Topsoil across much of Germany is significantly drier than usual for the beginning of April which could impact crop yields, with some of the driest springtime conditions since records began, ...
11 Apr 2025
11 Apr 2025, 12:00 威力彩玩法 Team Politico: Friedrich Merz鈥檚 cabinet: Who will lead Germany鈥檚 key ministries? Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives and their Social Democratic Party (SPD) counterparts have struck a coalition deal, but party ...
11 Apr 2025, 15:30 The biggest hurdles to building Germany's next government have fallen: a historic spending package has laid the groundwork for coalition negotiations between the conservative CDU/CSU alliance 鈥� winner of February鈥檚 snap election 鈥� ...
11 Apr 2025, 12:30 Climate will play a smaller role under Germany鈥檚 next government and greater ambition will be mostly pushed by the opposition, says Johannes Hillje, a political communication advisor who has worked with several German ministries. The ...
10 Apr 2025, 14:11 Germany鈥檚 prospective government has agreed in its coalition treaty to continue the country鈥檚 landmark energy transition without major adjustments and stick to existing climate targets. Faced with economic stagnation and the ...
11 Apr 2025, 13:00 Germany鈥檚 prospective coalition government has agreed to continue the country鈥檚 landmark energy transition without major adjustments, and stick to existing climate targets. In their coalition treaty,聽conservatives and Social Democrats ...
10 Apr 2025
10 Apr 2025, 13:30 威力彩玩法 Team Bloomberg: AI data center growth means more coal and gas plants, IEA says Growth in artificial intelligence-focused data centers will drive demand for gas- and coal-fired power plants, according to new report. Tennet: 12 ...
09 Apr 2025
09 Apr 2025, 12:00 威力彩玩法 Team Bloomberg: German power prices to stay high as link to gas seen stronger Electricity prices in Germany will remain elevated as their link to natural gas is poised to strengthen over the coming years, analysts say. DPA: Trump ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:41 S枚ren Amelang Adaptation Society Die Welt / Main Post One of Germany鈥檚 final traditional wooden sled manufacturers is halting production because of climate change, report ed daily paper Die Welt. 鈥淭he fact that there is virtually no ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Water levels at Lake Constance are nearing a historic low point following a lack of rain and reduced snow meltwater coming from the Alps, reported public broadcaster ARD. While low water ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:20 S枚ren Amelang Fossil fuels Handelsblatt The German government is concerned about the country鈥檚 oil refineries, which are facing the most serious crisis in decades caused by the rising cost of emissions, cheap fuel imports, weak demand ...
08 Apr 2025
08 Apr 2025, 11:31 威力彩玩法 Team Copernicus: Warmest March in Europe and lowest Arctic winter sea ice The average temperature over European land for March 2025 was 6.03掳C, 2.41掳C above the 1991-2020 average for March, making it the warmest March for Europe. ...
08 Apr 2025, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Security 威力彩玩法 Accelerating the transition to largely domestically produced sustainable energy such as wind and solar electricity is the only way to really ensure energy security in Europe, said the European ...
08 Apr 2025, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Construction 威力彩玩法 Germany's first database of materials for the country's entire building stock could provide an important foundation for increasing the rate of reuse and recycling of ...
08 Apr 2025, 13:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables 威力彩玩法 Germany needs more clarity on the future role of fossil gas in its energy system to allow industry to make the right investment choices, said the International Energy Agency (IEA) in a ...
07 Apr 2025
07 Apr 2025, 13:36 威力彩玩法 Team International Energy Agency (IEA)-聽 Our latest review of Germany鈥檚 energy policies is out now聽 Report explores how making Germany's electricity system more efficient & resilient can support the energy transition, ...
07 Apr 2025, 13:15 S枚ren Amelang Transport Industry 威力彩玩法 Climate-neutral industrial alcohol made with renewable electricity appears to be the most suitable synthetic fuel to decarbonise international shipping, researchers from the Institute ...
07 Apr 2025, 13:13 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Solar 威力彩玩法 Following a rapid rise in household solar panel installations, Germany鈥檚 total number of PV arrays has passed the five million 鈥渕ilestone,鈥� according to industry association BSW-Solar. ...
04 Apr 2025
04 Apr 2025, 11:05 威力彩玩法 Team NYTimes: Volkswagen to add 鈥榠mport fee鈥� to cars sold in US The company鈥檚 move is one of the first and clearest examples of automakers using price increases to deal with the 25 percent tariffs President Trump imposed on car and ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 The volume and costs of measures required to manage the stability of Germany鈥檚 power grid decreased in 2024, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. These so-called re ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Industry International energate messenger / Tagesspiegel Background / 威力彩玩法 German energy and industry representatives have expressed concern over the new tariff announcements by US president Donald Trump, ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal 威力彩玩法 Limited capacity and environmental risks mean that carbon storage in the German North Sea should only be used for residual emissions that remain unavoidable, said ...
07 Apr 2025, 09:39 Croatia is making moves on renewable energy reform, including new rules for self-supply, storage, and energy communities, but long-standing challenges persist. Grid bottlenecks continue to slow solar expansion, and major energy ...
03 Apr 2025, 11:46 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Agriculture 威力彩玩法 Regions in Poland, Belarus and Ukraine are at a high risk of experiencing a drought in 2025, as an "extremely dry" winter could not regenerate ...
03 Apr 2025
03 Apr 2025, 10:35 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: Deutsche Bank-owned asset manager DWS fined 鈧�25 million for greenwashing German prosecutors have fined asset manager DWS 25 million euros after a lengthy probe found the firm guilty of greenwashing, or making ...
03 Apr 2025, 11:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 Germany could achieve climate neutrality by 2045 at a much lower cost through a combination of energy efficiency measures and a slower expansion of power generation and ...
03 Apr 2025, 11:27 Julian Wettengel Finance S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Reuters The 25-million-euro greenwashing fine for Deutsche Bank-owned asset manager DWS is a clear sign that deception regarding sustainable funds will be penalised, wrote journalist Meike ...
02 Apr 2025, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 威力彩玩法 Europe could reduce its spending on security and defence by cutting its reliance on fossil fuels 鈥� thereby starving Russia of funds from oil exports which are critical ...
02 Apr 2025
02 Apr 2025, 11:06 威力彩玩法 Team IEA: Promising new technologies face market uncertainty in pivotal moment for global energy innovation New IEA report highlights recent progress and emerging risks across the energy innovation landscape worldwide, with ...
01 Apr 2025, 17:38 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 威力彩玩法 Planned investments to expand and modernise the EU's electricity grids by 2050 fall short of the necessary amounts of money required to support the bloc's move to climate neutrality, ...
01 Apr 2025, 12:50 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 威力彩玩法 Germany is already experiencing the consequences of climate change and undergoing accelerated warming, according to a report by the country鈥檚 National Meteorological Service (DWD). The DWD ...
01 Apr 2025
01 Apr 2025, 11:22 威力彩玩法 Team Politico: EU exploring weaker 2040 climate goal The European Commission wants to keep a 90 percent emissions-cutting target but to change how countries calculate their progress. Eurelectric: Solar breaks historical record in ...
01 Apr 2025, 12:20 Edgar Meza Resources & Recycling 威力彩玩法 / MDR / epd / Tagesspiegel Background UK mining and metals company Zinnwald Lithium could begin lithium mining operations in Germany鈥檚 Eastern Ore Mountains as soon as in 2030 in ...
31 Mar 2025
31 Mar 2025, 13:48 威力彩玩法 Team DLR: Harvesting the sun, protecting the vines 鈥� innovation for sustainable agriculture聽 Agrivoltaic pilot project in Spain combines photovoltaics with sustainable, organic viticulture and improves water and energy efficiency. ...
31 Mar 2025, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Der Spiegel / Die Welt Germany鈥檚 carmakers have fallen behind competitors from Japan and the US in sales and profits throughout 2024, an analysis by consultancy EY has found. Volkswagen, ...
31 Mar 2025, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Merkur An election promise by German conservative alliance of the Christian Democrat Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) to abolish parts ...
31 Mar 2025, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Tagesspiegel Background Plans to adapt Germany鈥檚 Climate Action Law to allow for national emissions compensation measures to also take place in countries outside of the European Union ...
28 Mar 2025, 13:48 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims 威力彩玩法 NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has won separate greenwashing lawsuits against airline Lufthansa and apparel company Adidas on the grounds of misleading consumers with ...
28 Mar 2025, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Policy 威力彩玩法 Germany should develop a binding strategic framework for "good enough", in the form of a national sufficiency strategy, to reduce emissions as well as energy and raw ...
28 Mar 2025, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency 威力彩玩法 Reducing the energy consumption of Germany's least energy efficient buildings is essential for聽letting clean heating technologies achieve the sector's climate targets, a report by ...
28 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025, 11:48 威力彩玩法 Team Bloomberg: Porsche has nowhere to hide as Trump unleashes next tariff wave While Mercedes and BMW have some flexibility due to factories in the US, Porsche has no plants in North America. Bloomberg: German minister says Trump ...
02 Apr 2025, 10:05 They may rail against immigration and climate action on stage but behind the scenes, far-right leaders across Europe welcome labour migrants who are needed for the continent鈥檚 energy transition. To fill its rapidly widening skill gaps, ...
27 Mar 2025, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility 威力彩玩法 People in Germany's cities are completing more journeys by bicycle or foot, while the dominance of cars is decreasing, the latest 'Mobility in Germany ' report commissioned by ...
27 Mar 2025
27 Mar 2025, 12:11 威力彩玩法 Team Bloomberg: Trump unveils 25% auto tariff, threatens new levies on allies The new tariffs, which will hit German automakers in particular, will take effect on 3 April 鈥� one day after a broader range of so-called reciprocal ...
28 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025, 12:00 As the European Union鈥檚 focus shifts away from climate action and towards increasing security and competitiveness, the question whether it will set a 90 percent emissions reduction target for 2040 has become central. Dave Keating *** ...
26 Mar 2025, 13:53 Julian Wettengel International 威力彩玩法 Representatives of around 40 governments have used a climate conference in Germany to call for multilateral cooperation in combatting climate change, even as some countries are stepping ...
26 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025, 12:00 威力彩玩法 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 ...
26 Mar 2025, 13:43 Bennet Ribbeck Society 威力彩玩法 Human rights organisation Amnesty International and other NGOs have criticised official charges against members of the German Last Generation climate movement because of 鈥渟uspicion of forming a ...
27 Mar 2025, 12:57 Germany's prospective next government is stepping back from its predecessor's ambition to speed up the country鈥檚 coal exit to 2030, sticking instead to the original 2038 deadline. Leaked negotiation documents reveal that many ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:30 Edgar Meza Adaptation Society 威力彩玩法 Germany's major aid organisations are urging the future government to increase civil protections in light of " the disasters resulting from rapidly increasing global warming and ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:21 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Freight 威力彩玩法 A consortium linked to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has built a plant at the Mannheim wastewater treatment plant that cleans generated biogas and uses the resulting ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal Renewables Policy Tagesspiegel Background Germany's economy ministry (BMWK), which is currently run by the Greens, who will likely not be part of the new coalition government, has presented ...
27 Mar 2025, 10:12 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal Industry 威力彩玩法 / Table Media [UPDATES article to include support for scheme in coalition talks.] The European Commission has approved a support scheme worth five billion euros to help ...
25 Mar 2025
25 Mar 2025, 11:25 威力彩玩法 Team The Guardian: German parliament sits for first time with AfD as main opposition Germany鈥檚 new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday with the far-right Alternative f眉r Deutschland (AfD) the strongest opposition faction, ...
24 Mar 2025
24 Mar 2025, 12:30 威力彩玩法 Team IEA: Growth in global energy demand surged in 2024 to almost twice its recent average IEA鈥檚 Global Energy Review is the first global assessment of 2024 trends across the energy sector. Based on the most recent data, it covers ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:34 Edgar Meza Mobility Freight 威力彩玩法 Economic experts in Germany and France are calling for the two countries to coordinate strategies in the decarbonisation of road freight transport. In a joint statement, the Franco-German ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:32 Edgar Meza Mobility Transport 威力彩玩法 More than 25 percent of Germans have poor access to local public transport, according to a report by Greenpeace, which is calling on the government to improve the situation. Based on data ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Government International 威力彩玩法 Several climate and environmental NGOs have called on the German government to step up its leadership efforts and remain a reliable climate protection advocate ahead of the ...
24 Mar 2025, 11:00 Geopolitical disruption through events like Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine or a new transatlantic rift can speed up the rapid build-up of renewable energies, says Francesco La Camera, director-general of the International Renewable Energy ...
21 Mar 2025, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy Elections & Politics ARD / ntv / Der Spiegel Germany鈥檚 major spending package that contains a reform of the country鈥檚 debt brake and hundreds of billions of euros of investments in defence, infrastructure ...
21 Mar 2025, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Electricity market 威力彩玩法 A projected increase in electricity demand and a reduction of power plant capacity able to supply electricity at any moment are set to represent concrete challenges for Germany' ...
21 Mar 2025
21 Mar 2025, 12:00 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: German energy transition could be 300 billion euros cheaper with more efficiency, finds report BCG & BDI industry association say investments currently planned in renewables, power grids and hydrogen far exceed ...
20 Mar 2025
20 Mar 2025, 14:00 威力彩玩法 Team AP: Jury finds Greenpeace USA must pay over $660 million in case over Dakota Access protest activities NGO plans to appeal and had said earlier that a large award to the Texan pipeline company could threaten to bankrupt the ...
20 Mar 2025, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices Die Welt / 威力彩玩法 A new round of purchase incentives for electric vehicles planned by the prospective next German government has aroused scepticism among the country鈥檚 car industry, ...
20 Mar 2025, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Tagesspiegel / 威力彩玩法 In the landmark climate litigation case brought by a Peruvian farmer against German energy company RWE, the judge responsible for the case at a German ...
20 Mar 2025, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International Handelsblatt / 威力彩玩法 Enthusiasm for Tesla purchases has waned considerably in Germany in the wake of the political activities of the US car company鈥檚 CEO, Elon Musk, according to market ...
21 Mar 2025, 15:30 French prime minister Francois Bayrou may have fended off a vote of no-confidence in parliament for the adoption of the 2025 finance bill, but the nation still has a long way to go to recover from the political turmoil brought by last ...
19 Mar 2025, 13:31 Bennet Ribbeck Business & Jobs International 威力彩玩法 European industry could profit from a possible US drawback in climate-policy related collaborations, said Germany鈥檚 foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock. Climate ...
19 Mar 2025, 13:16 Jack McGovan Adaptation Cities 威力彩玩法 Areas destroyed by floods in western Germany in 2021 should not only be restored, but be rebuilt in a way that makes them more sustainable and resilient against future flood events, said ...
19 Mar 2025, 13:06 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Government n-tv There are not enough skilled workers to carry out infrastructure modernisation improvements set out in Germany's historic investment agreement, the Association of German ...
19 Mar 2025
19 Mar 2025, 10:40 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: Germany's energy use dropped 1.1% in 2024, AGEB says Germany's energy use dropped 1.1 percent in 2024 on mild weather and a weak economy, but the decline slowed its pace after an 8 percent drop in 2023 ...
18 Mar 2025
18 Mar 2025, 12:02 威力彩玩法 Team BETD: German government hosts 11th Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue聽 Event brings together representatives from over 130 countries to discuss the financing and roll-out of the global energy transition. S&P Global: Gascade ...
18 Mar 2025, 13:57 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 International 威力彩玩法 / ZDF A landmark court hearing initiated by a Peruvian farmer and ...
18 Mar 2025, 13:42 Jack McGovan Efficiency Construction 威力彩玩法 Buildings in the worst energy efficiency categories have above-average carbon emissions, so targeting them first for refurbishments would have a significant climate impact, ...
18 Mar 2025, 16:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Government 威力彩玩法 Germany's parliament has adopted a constitutional reform to allow the country to take up hundreds of billions of euros in new debt to finance ...
18 Mar 2025, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Security 威力彩玩法 / rbb Germany鈥檚 outgoing economy minister, Robert Habeck from the Green Party, has warned that the next government must not create new energy dependencies and should instead ...
17 Mar 2025
17 Mar 2025, 13:00 威力彩玩法 Team FT: Green energy stocks fall back to levels last seen 5 years ago聽 Uncertainty over political support for clean transition depresses market. Reuters: Peruvian farmer takes German energy giant RWE to court in landmark climate ...
17 Mar 2025, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables 威力彩玩法 The German energy transition requires a 鈥渞estart鈥� as the country is on the verge of establishing a climate neutral energy system and renewables already account for about ...
17 Mar 2025, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / BR The plan to reform Germany鈥檚 debt brake to allow greater defence spending and set up a 500-billion-euro special fund for infrastructure faces another hurdle ...
14 Mar 2025, 13:47 The public debate in Poland in recent weeks has been dominated by international security and the implications of the rift between the new US administration and Europe on Ukraine. Beyond the frontpage news, there has been progress on ...
14 Mar 2025
14 Mar 2025, 12:00 威力彩玩法 Team Economist: Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany? 聽 Bombshell fiscal package鈥攃urrently under negotiation鈥攔epresents more than just the start of deficit spending on defence. It is the beginning of a new European growth ...
14 Mar 2025, 13:10 S枚ren Amelang Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 Germany's chancellor-in-waiting, conservative Christian Democrat Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz, has reached a breakthrough deal on the 500-billion-euros ...
14 Mar 2025, 13:15 Germany is increasingly at risk of failing EU-mandated climate targets for the transport and building sectors, show projections by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). The agency聽 warned that despite shrinking overall emissions, ...
13 Mar 2025
13 Mar 2025, 12:02 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: German parliament debates borrowing bonanza as clock ticks down Germany's outgoing lower house of parliament began a special session on Thursday (13 March) to debate a 500 billion euro fund for infrastructure and ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 Thousands of scientists from a broad section of fields have come together to urge Germany's next government to prioritise climate policy. "We are very ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:42 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Gas Tagesspiegel Background U.S. gas turbine manufacturer GE Vernova has expressed doubts about the plans by Germany鈥檚 prospective next government to connect 20 gigawatts of gas-fired power plants to the ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang Transport Cost & Prices Elections & Politics dpa / Der Spiegel / DVZ Germany鈥檚 railway operator Deutsche Bahn has laid claims to almost one third of the entire 500-billion-euro infrastructure fund planned by the ...
12 Mar 2025, 13:25 Edgar Meza Grid Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 The expansion of European electricity grid infrastructure and measures to increase demand flexibility could lead to a significant reduction in power prices, according to a report by ...
12 Mar 2025, 13:20 Edgar Meza Grid Society 威力彩玩法 Berlin-based think tank Zukunft KlimaSozial has called for alternative methods to finance electricity grid expansion in Germany. The current financing of electricity grid expansion via grid fees ...
12 Mar 2025, 13:14 Edgar Meza Wind Security WirtschaftsWoche Despite warnings of potential security risks posed by Chinese components in wind turbines, major energy companies oppose a ban in Germany, arguing that the country's planned expansion path ...
12 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025, 10:57 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: RWE, TotalEnergies agree long-term green hydrogen supply deal聽 Germany's top utility agrees to supply French oil major with around 30,000 t of green hydrogen a year from 2030, in one of the sector's biggest ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:51 Bennet Ribbeck Carbon removal 威力彩玩法 Germany and the EU need a short-term strategy for enabling the necessary ramp-up of carbon dioxide removals (CDR), said the think tank German Institute for International and Security ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:47 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Utilities 威力彩玩法 More than two-thirds of municipal utilities in a survey by the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) consider the country's target to reach climate neutrality by 2045 ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:40 Edgar Meza Grid Solar Handelsblatt German transmission grid operator 50Hertz has called for a more balanced and careful approach when it comes to the further expansion of solar photovoltaics (PV), saying there is a risk of overloading ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Handelsblatt Germany is stepping up its research on geothermal energy storage, a way of storing heat energy between seasons using water, business daily Handelsblatt reported. Research is currently underway in ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating 威力彩玩法 The cost of buying and running a new gas boiler in Germany is predicted to be twice as high as a heat pump over a 20-year period, according to a report by non-profit ...
11 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025, 12:00 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: Clock ticks for German fiscal bonanza but Merz ally optimistic A senior ally of Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday (11 March) was optimistic about securing support for a massive increase ...
10 Mar 2025, 13:28 Germany鈥檚 likely next coalition government has agreed to a substantial electricity price cut to relieve households and companies and honour national and European climate targets. The Conservatives, under probable next chancellor ...
10 Mar 2025
10 Mar 2025, 11:30 威力彩玩法 Team E3G: Europe鈥檚 competitiveness push and what it means for climate action In its first 100 days, the European Commission has put into motion a series of flagship plans intended to boost the EU鈥檚 economy in difficult times. So ...
07 Mar 2025
07 Mar 2025, 11:28 威力彩玩法 Team Politico: Germany鈥檚 Merz has 2 weeks to deliver historic spending revolution Losing faith in Washington as a military ally, Berlin wants to rip up the old fiscal orthodoxy. But it鈥檚 now a race against the clock. DW: Peruvian ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Grid Utilities 威力彩玩法 Germany should restart its transition away from fossil fuel-based energy with a larger focus on cost-efficiency, said local utility association VKU. Among the proposals for the country鈥檚 ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:23 Julian Wettengel International 威力彩玩法 / Reuters The German state secretary Jochen Flasbarth has said the government regretted the U.S. withdrawal from international partnerships to support major global polluters鈥� socially ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:21 Julian Wettengel EU Politico / 威力彩玩法 / Reuters The European Union as a business location is set to profit from additional infrastructure investments planned by the likely next German government, Philipp J盲ger of the Jacques ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Government Table Media / dpa / 威力彩玩法 First draft proposals for changes to the constitution to introduce a special fund for up to 500 billion euros worth of infrastructure investments ...
07 Mar 2025, 15:00 Winter may finally be on the way out but Italy is still grappling with high electricity prices, with average wholesale prices in February among the highest in Europe. Under increasing pressure to halt further rises, the government ...
06 Mar 2025
06 Mar 2025, 11:29 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: Germany's nuclear lobby says up to six reactors could restart Germany's nuclear engineering lobby said up to half a dozen nuclear power stations could, in theory, be reopened despite closing in 2023 as a ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Grid Renewables 威力彩玩法 Dividing Germany鈥檚 single power price zone into several individual regions could reduce final electricity prices for consumers across the country,聽 said a report by ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:23 Jack McGovan Cars 威力彩玩法 Germany's economy and climate ministry has welcomed the European Commission鈥檚 plans for the automotive sector, arguing it will increase the sector's international competitiveness. "With ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:20 Jack McGovan Storage Resources & Recycling 威力彩玩法 Deep bodies of water in northern Germany have been found to contain large amounts of lithium that could be used to help produce batteries for the energy transition, ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:12 Jack McGovan Renewables Business & Jobs 威力彩玩法 The proportion of advertised jobs related to the energy transition rose from 1.8 to 3.8 percent between 2019 and 2024 in Germany despite multiple economic crises during that ...
05 Mar 2025, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 威力彩玩法 The German offshore wind power industry has proposed a range of measures for the country鈥檚 next government that could set off 鈥渁 Germany-wide economic miracle at sea鈥� by boosting the output of ...
05 Mar 2025
05 Mar 2025, 11:25 威力彩玩法 Team European Commission boosts European automotive industry's global competitiveness As part of an action plan for the sector, the Commission proposed to weaken CO2 limit rules for carmakers. Bloomberg: Europe鈥檚 EV market ...
05 Mar 2025, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas 威力彩玩法 Fossil gas is set to continue to play a crucial role in Germany鈥檚 energy supply throughout this decade, and consumption will fall slower than authorities currently plan, said consultancy McKinsey ...
05 Mar 2025, 17:07 Germany鈥檚 likely next government coalition parties have proposed an overhaul of state debt rules to make hundreds of billions of euros available for defence and infrastructure investments. The agreement, which faces a big hurdle in the ...
04 Mar 2025
04 Mar 2025, 11:39 威力彩玩法 Team Euractiv: Von der Leyen proposes more relaxed CO2 target compliance for new cars European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has announced she will propose a more relaxed three-year timeframe for the automotive industry ...
04 Mar 2025, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Heating Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 Germany鈥檚 next coalition government should push to decarbonise the country鈥檚 heating systems, said a wide alliance of sector associations in a joint appeal. The ...
04 Mar 2025, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Cars 威力彩玩法 Following a 27 percent reduction in sales of new battery electric cars (BEV) in Germany in 2024, a total of 1.65 million BEVs were registered in the country by 1 January 2025, showed existing ...
03 Mar 2025
03 Mar 2025, 12:15 威力彩玩法 Team DW: Social Democrats lead Hamburg state election: early results The Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens look set to be able to continue their coalition in the northern city state of Hamburg following a regional election ...
03 Mar 2025, 13:43 Edgar Meza Wind Handelsblatt The planned installation of 16 Chinese wind turbines off the German coast should be prevented on the grounds of public safety, business daily Handelsblatt reported based on an advisory paper from the German ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Hamburger Morgenpost / Tagesspiegel / Die Zeit / Merkur / Radio Hamburg Just one week after their defeat at Germany鈥檚 snap election, the Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing chancellor Olaf ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating Handelsblatt / 威力彩玩法 Chemicals company BASF has started tests in the depths of the Upper Rhine Plain to explore the potential of using geothermal energy, business daily Handelsblatt ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Wind EU 威力彩玩法 Europe installed a total 16.4 gigawatt (GW) of new wind power capacity in 2024, down from 18.4 GW achieved in the previous year, according to data by industry association WindEurope. " ...
28 Feb 2025, 15:00 Last week鈥檚 parliamentary snap election changed Germany鈥檚 political landscape: The former tripartite 鈥渢raffic light coalition鈥� of chancellor Olaf Scholz has been clearly voted out- and conservative CDU opposition leader Friedrich Merz ...
28 Feb 2025
28 Feb 2025, 11:54 威力彩玩法 Team AP: UN talks end in Rome with nations backing $200 billion a year plan to protect nature Global negotiators concluded an extended session of the United Nations biodiversity conference, COP16, with key commitments on funds ...
27 Feb 2025, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Heating Handelsblatt / 威力彩玩法 Germany could continue to emit greenhouse gases past its 2045 deadline to become climate neutral, with Norwegian certification company DNV forecasting emission ...
27 Feb 2025
27 Feb 2025, 13:14 威力彩玩法 Team Bloomberg: Don't sound the death knell for Germany's green wave yet The nation鈥檚 industrial giants believe clean technology is the best bet for the future. That should be an incentive for Friedrich Merz to stay the ...
27 Feb 2025, 13:51 The European Commission unveiled a series of plans to make the bloc's industry more competitive, reduce energy costs and cut red tape. Germany's industry associations called the proposals an important first step in the right ...
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, ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:16 Bennet Ribbeck Climate & CO2 Policy 威力彩玩法 Progress of German energy transition continues to be mostly stagnating, 聽a report by research centre Prognos carried out on behalf of the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) said ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Policy S眉ddeutsche Zeitung A proposal from Germany鈥檚 likely next chancellor for a 鈥渕oratorium on dismantling鈥� the remaining decommissioned nuclear reactors in the country has been met with reluctance ...
26 Feb 2025
26 Feb 2025, 10:30 S枚ren Amelang Bloomberg: EU pitches new Clean Deal as industries struggle to compete European Commission to outline measures to reduce energy costs. Politico: Europe鈥檚 impossible choice: Which industries should survive the green ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:44 Edgar Meza Industry Policy EU 威力彩玩法 Expectations among industrial players and environmental NGOs are high for the EU鈥檚 highly anticipated Clean Industrial Deal, a follow-up to the European Green Deal that aims to build on ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:40 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs 威力彩玩法 The biggest bottleneck in skilled labour supply affecting Germany's energy transition is in electrical construction, according to a report by the German Economic Institute鈥檚 (IW) ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Energy sector experts as well as industry representatives have warned that a shortage of constantly available electricity capacity could lead to new short-lived but ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Digitalisation Der Spiegel Almost 500 of the 879 companies that operate metering points in Germany are still to install their first smart meter, news magazine Der Spiegel reported. The Federal Network ...
24 Feb 2025, 13:57 Conservative CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz wants to enter coalition talks with the Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz, after the German elections鈥� result has paved the way for the two parties to form a government ...
24 Feb 2025, 13:22 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 Households in Germany continue to pay higher energy prices compared to pre-energy crisis levels, price comparison website Verivox said on the three-year mark of Russia's war of ...
24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025, 10:30 威力彩玩法 Team DW: German election results explained in graphics Here's a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats in parliament, possible coalition outcomes and voter demographics. Bloomberg: German Social Democrats ditch Scholz ...
23 Feb 2025, 20:42 Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz鈥� conservatives have won Germany鈥檚 snap election, while the current government parties booked significant losses, indicating a reduced focus on climate policies in a future government. But it remained ...
24 Feb 2025, 11:00 German businesses, researchers and civil society have called for speedy coalition negotiations following the country's snap elections on 23 February. Planning security and clarity are essential in view of the stagnating economy and ...
06 May 2025, 13:00 Germans cast their vote in the country's federal election on 23 February. Conservative CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz is set to become the next chancellor and will now lead the formal coalition negotiations with the Social Democrats ...
21 Feb 2025, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Carbon removal EU 威力彩玩法 EU scientific advisors聽 have called 聽for a rapid scale-up of methods to take CO2 out of the atmosphere. Both nature-based carbon removal solutions, such as plants, and modern ...
21 Feb 2025, 13:38 Expert Allensbach Institute The Institut f眉r Demoskopie Allensbach (IfD Allensbach) Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Der Spiegel Most German citizens still believe the energy transition is ...
21 Feb 2025, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics ZDF Most of Germany鈥檚 leading parties say they are committed to the country鈥檚 2045 climate neutrality target. In the last major聽 TV debate 聽on public broadcaster ZDF before ...
21 Feb 2025
21 Feb 2025, 12:18 威力彩玩法 Team E3G: German election 鈥� What鈥檚 at stake? Next government must develop joint EU strategy for competitiveness and decarbonisation. DW: German election: Parties face off over Ukraine, NATO, Trump Top German politicians traded ...
21 Feb 2025, 15:00 Croatia is exploring the possibility of constructing small modular nuclear reactors, a technology not yet commercially available. The economy ministry has set up a taskforce to investigate possibilities and locations, as well as ...
20 Feb 2025, 13:45 Jack McGovan Electricity Heating 威力彩玩法 Corrects third paragraph to specify share of heat pump sales compared to all heating sytems sold, a previous version of the article incorrectly stated this was the share of heat pumps ...
20 Feb 2025, 13:38 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Policy 威力彩玩法 The German government has started its largest green hydrogen import auction yet. For the first time, one portion of the tender worth 2.5 billion euros in total will be funded jointly by ...
20 Feb 2025
20 Feb 2025, 10:16 威力彩玩法 Team Carbon Brief: Profile: Germany The nation with both the most renewable power and the highest emissions in Europe. Agora Energiewende: Update FAQ on Germany's Energiewende An interactive dashboard with data and FAQs on the ...
19 Feb 2025, 13:00 As the new U.S. administration under president Donald Trump upends decades of transatlantic relations and the wider geopolitical order, Germany faces the challenging task of resetting relations with its neighbours to ensure a strong EU ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Nuclear phase-out BR Southern German state Bavaria will retire its last major coal plant this week because the plant in Zolling near Munich was used less and less, also after the country completed its nuclear ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology 威力彩玩法 A debate about the possibilities for treating nuclear waste in a way that greatly reduces the time that radioactive materials are considered a health hazard and thus ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Cities 威力彩玩法 Municipalities in Germany warn that they could be running out of money soon and are struggling to implement a wide range of their tasks, including guaranteeing a reliable ...
18 Feb 2025
18 Feb 2025, 12:00 威力彩玩法 Team Bloomberg: Germany set to scale down climate ambitions- Billions in climate subsidies have been frozen for months- Main parties focusing on security, migration before election CNBC: Wind energy just had a record year in ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:25 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Jack McGovan Grid Solar 威力彩玩法 Necessary regulatory and technical precautions ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:22 Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 High energy prices have little influence on the transformation needs of most of the 100 companies on Germany鈥檚 HDAX stock market index compared to four other ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Technology Heating 威力彩玩法 Research institute Fraunhofer IGE is setting up a research laboratory for geothermal energy generation in western German North Rhine-Westphalia, the country鈥檚 most populous state. ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars dpa / WirtschaftsWoche While sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in Germany have stalled recently, the share of citizens who would consider buying one in the future has risen considerably, a survey ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Cost & Prices dpa / Stern Protecting Germany鈥檚 North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts is expected to cost billions of euros in the coming years, government members of coastal states have warned and called for ...
17 Feb 2025
17 Feb 2025, 12:30 威力彩玩法 Team Jacques Delors Centre: One month into Trump: Europe鈥檚 hour New U.S. president means dangers for rest of the world by demolishing rules-based international system, disdain for environment. Building defensive and dissuasive ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:05 The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) 鈥� the second strongest polling party ahead of Germany's snap elections on 23 February 鈥� is the only major party to outright reject the scientific consensus behind human-induced climate ...
14 Feb 2025, 13:20 Bennet Ribbeck Society Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 A climate strike in Berlin by the youth movement Fridays for Future (FfF) ahead of Germany鈥檚 snap election at the end of next week ended up attracting far fewer ...
14 Feb 2025
14 Feb 2025, 10:50 威力彩玩法 Team Eurelectric: Europe needs an energy security strategy based on clean electrification A new report demonstrates the need for a new approach to energy security based on clean electrification to reduce fuel imports dependence, ...
14 Feb 2025, 14:20 The conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz is widely tipped to become Germany鈥檚 next chancellor 鈥� but remains ambiguous on a range of policy fields, notably on energy and climate. Despite being known as a senior policymaker for decades, ...
14 Feb 2025
14 Feb 2025, 13:57 Administrative "simplification" will be a key focus of the European Commission's 2025 work programme, trade and economic security聽 commissioner Maro拧 艩ef膷ovi膷 told MEPs during the European Parliament鈥檚 plenary session in ...
14 Feb 2025, 10:00 Germany鈥檚 snap elections on 23 February take place against the backdrop of massive changes in geopolitics, presenting the next government with the opportunity to reset its relationships with major European partners, says Rafael Loss, ...
13 Feb 2025
13 Feb 2025, 13:49 威力彩玩法 Team Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)- Little potential for "climate plantations" within planetary boundaries Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is being discussed as a way to remove ...
13 Feb 2025, 13:45 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Transport 威力彩玩法 Germany鈥檚 government has agreed on the country鈥檚 first ever聽 pedestrian transport strategy 聽that aims to strengthen walking as a sustainable and healthy way of getting around. Transport ...
13 Feb 2025, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Security 威力彩玩法 Climate change poses the greatest threat to German and European security because it destabilises states, undermines food security, increases conflicts over resources like water, according to ...
13 Feb 2025, 13:36 Bennet Ribbeck Renewables Wind Focus Online Many autobahn exits in northern Germany are too small to handle the transportation of modern wind turbine rotor blades and should be enlarged, according to several German states,聽Focus Online ...
12 Feb 2025, 13:55 Jack McGovan Renewables Wind 威力彩玩法 Germany has started a multi-year campaign to measure wind speeds around 280 kilometres off the German Noth Sea coast to prepare the expansion of wind farms in the area. The government is ...
12 Feb 2025, 13:39 Bennet Ribbeck Cost & Prices Policy Most Germans say that the country鈥檚 landmark energy transition is not implemented in a socially just way as the burdens are not fairly distributed (63%), and they have little trust in politicians ...
12 Feb 2025, 13:33 Bennet Ribbeck Climate & CO2 Adaptation 威力彩玩法 Extreme droughts and floods hit Italy, Greece and Spain more than most other countries across the globe in the past 30 years, causing many deaths and high economical losses, ...
12 Feb 2025
12 Feb 2025, 10:35 威力彩玩法 Team European Commission presents 2025 work programme The Commission has adopted its 2025 work programme, outlining its ambition to boost competitiveness, enhance security, and bolster economic resilience in the EU. EIB Investment ...
11 Feb 2025
11 Feb 2025, 11:00 威力彩玩法 Team PIK: Research institute compiles 85,000 individual studies about climate policy, offering "wealth of evidence" Over a quarter of studies reviewed from 2020 or later; Potsdam Institute for Cliamte Impact Research ...
11 Feb 2025, 14:06 Bennet Ribbeck Gas Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 The price of gas for new customers in Germany has risen sharply over the past year, said price comparison website Verivox. The average price across Germany increased by 43 percent, ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:57 Jack McGovan Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt Plasma technologies could open new options for decarbonising heat supply in industrial processes, offering an alternative to the use of green hydrogen, newspaper Handelsblatt reported. Swedish ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:43 Jack McGovan Heating Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 The new German government after the election on 23 February should implement an ambitious heating package that promotes the expansion of climate-neutral heat supply, said ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 威力彩玩法 More people in Germany say they want the government to invest CO2 price revenues in renewable energy sources and to lower grid fees, than compensating citizens through an ...
10 Feb 2025
10 Feb 2025, 13:25 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: Baltic states switch to European power grid, ending Russia ties The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a switch from Russia's electricity grid to the EU's system, severing Soviet-era ...
10 Feb 2025, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Industry WirtschaftsWoche Parties鈥� failure to agree on final details of a reform to allow carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Germany ahead of the election on 23 February will set efforts back significantly, industry ...
10 Feb 2025, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Solar 威力彩玩法 Bids for Germany鈥檚 latest solar photovoltaics (PV) support tender exceeded the auctioned total capacity by more than twice, said the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in a press release. Projects ...
10 Feb 2025, 13:21 Bennet Ribbeck Industry Handelsblatt The German steel industry, which is central to Europe鈥檚 plans to establish a green hydrogen economy, is calling for postponing existing deadlines for using the climate-neutral gas, reported business ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 The upcoming snap election in Germany will bring a 鈥渃hoice of direction鈥� for the country鈥檚 energy transition, as energy and climate policy positions vary among the different ...
07 Feb 2025
07 Feb 2025, 11:27 威力彩玩法 Team Climate Home: UN gives countries more time to submit 鈥渜uality鈥� climate plans for 2035 The head of the UN climate change body has urged countries to submit new 鈥渇irst-rate鈥� climate targets by September, after only a handful of ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:24 Joey Grostern Gas dpa / 威力彩玩法 State-owned liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals on the North Sea at Wilhelmshaven and Brunsb眉ttel handled the majority of Germany鈥檚 imported LNG last year, and operated at 65 percent capacity, ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:22 Joey Grostern Wind 威力彩玩法 Germany looks set to exceed its 2030 onshore wind power target by 2.6 percent, according to an analysis by the Google-backed think tank Goal100. Considering the number of applications and permits for ...
07 Feb 2025, 14:40 The fallout triggered by the dissolution of the French National Assembly last June continues to afflict political decisionmaking in France. The collapse of the Barnier government 聽in December, and the resulting ministerial reshuffle, ...
06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025, 11:30 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: Year begins with warmest January despite shift towards cooling La Nina Last month was the world's warmest January on record, continuing a streak of extreme global temperatures despite a shift towards the cooling ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Storage Handelsblatt The surging interest of potential operators of large-scale battery storage units that seek connections to Germany鈥檚 transmission grid could聽put聽network operators in a difficult situation, reported ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:24 Bennet Ribbeck Industry 威力彩玩法 The electrification of industrial processes with renewable energy is the most cost-effective transformation path for the sector, the research consortium IND-E has stated in a report. The authors ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Efficiency Heating 威力彩玩法 State support granted for energy efficiency and renewable energy measures in private households increased to 14.4 billion euros in 2024, up from 12.3 billion euros in 2023, said ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 Twenty-seven youth organisations from the fields of climate, social affairs, trade unions, development, religion, civil protection, environment and sport have ...
05 Feb 2025
05 Feb 2025, 11:30 威力彩玩法 Team Agora Energiewende: Stronger incentives needed to fast-track Europe鈥檚 heating transition With current policies, Europe may end up installing tens of millions of new fossil fuel boilers by 2040, jeopardising climate and energy ...
05 Feb 2025, 13:30 Leading climate experts have called on the next German government voted in after the February snap election to reintroduce the so-called 鈥榗limate cabinet鈥�. In its report on emissions developments and the direction of Germany鈥檚 future ...
05 Feb 2025, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Handelsblatt The German government and industry players are considering using parts of the contentious Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline connecting Russia and Germany through the Baltic Sea for hydrogen deliveries ...
05 Feb 2025, 13:35 Germany's outgoing government made important moves to protect the country against the worsening effects of climate change. Notably, it introduced the first legally-binding climate adaptation law and presented a strategy to protect ...
04 Feb 2025
04 Feb 2025, 12:00 威力彩玩法 Team EEA: EU maritime transport: progress made but environmental, sustainability challenges persist Europe鈥檚 maritime sector is making progress towards greater sustainability but will need to increase its efforts over the coming ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:41 Jennifer Collins Fossil fuels 威力彩玩法 The G7 group of industrialised nations failed on a 2016 pledge to phase out "inefficient fossil fuel subsidies" by 2025, according to a report commissioned by NGO Greenpeace ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:30 Jennifer Collins Heating Elections & Politics Rheinische Post Ahead of Germany's snap elections, economy minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) has warned that overturning a law aimed at reducing stubbornly high heating emissions ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Wind 威力彩玩法 Germany is likely to reach its target of having a total offshore wind electricity capacity of 30 gigawatt (GW) in 2031, one year later than planned, said several industry groups in a joint press ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:25 Bennet Ribbeck Industry Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 German industry association BDI has called on the next government to focus on lowering energy prices at both the national and European level. In its recommendations for ...
03 Feb 2025
03 Feb 2025, 12:00 威力彩玩法 Team Bloomberg: Germany opens way for gas beyond 2035 with subsidy extension Germany鈥檚 parliament has extended a support scheme for some gas plants by four years to 2030, in a law hurried through just before the general election on ...
03 Feb 2025, 13:36 Jennifer Collins Solar Cars Heating 威力彩玩法 Around two-thirds of homeowners in Germany plan to have a solar power system installed by 2029, according to a survey commissioned by Munich-based climate NGO Initiative ...
03 Feb 2025, 13:35 Jennifer Collins International K枚lner Stadtanzeiger / Tagesspiegel / 威力彩玩法 / Politico The German government has warned U.S. president Donald Trump against starting a trade war with Europe, saying that if the country imposes ...
03 Feb 2025, 14:49 Germany is increasingly looking outwards to find skilled workers to fill its green labour gap, especially to India. Joint collaborations aim to tackle a critical challenge faced by both nations: securing a skilled workforce capable of ...
31 Jan 2025, 13:06 Joey Grostern Carbon market Business EU 威力彩玩法 Around three quarters of German companies are not able or only partially able to report emissions data from their suppliers outside of the EU, with two-thirds fearing that this ...
31 Jan 2025, 11:50 Joey Grostern Wind Society SWR A group of about 6,660 people are behind a slew of over 440,000 letters objecting to plans for wind farm developments in 40 areas in the Neckar-Alb region of Baden-W眉rttemberg, according to reporting from ...
31 Jan 2025, 11:49 Joey Grostern Storage 威力彩玩法 Almost 600,000 new stationary battery storage systems were installed across Germany in 2024, increasing the country鈥檚 storage capacity by 50 percent year-on-year, according to preliminary data ...
31 Jan 2025
31 Jan 2025, 11:39 威力彩玩法 Team Euractiv: Norway鈥檚 governing coalition breaks over EU energy rules row Norway is bound to adopt EU energy laws as a member of the European Economic Area 鈥� which the eurosceptic Centre Party has opposed. FT: 脴rsted replaces ...
31 Jan 2025, 14:00 Poland鈥檚 energy transition is lagging and set to rely on natural gas as a bridge fuel and nuclear energy for baseload capacity. A far-right party is pushing against new renewable investment with a referendum on a pending new wind farm ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 The absence of climate mitigation measures is the greatest threat to prosperity and security in Germany and Europe, a group of environmental organisations said in a joint ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 The next German government must restructure climate policy to make sure the whole population can participate in the transition, the Climate Neutrality Foundation ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 Germany's economy ministry expects the country's GDP to rise 0.3 percent in 2025, according to its annual report. A report from autumn put growth at 1.1 percent, however, ...
29 Jan 2025
29 Jan 2025, 11:30 威力彩玩法 Team Economist: Who is ahead in the race for Germany鈥檚 next parliament? Model gives the CDU/CSU "Union" a 97 in 100 chance of winning the most seats. Bloomberg: German industry lobby sees economy shrinking 0.1% this year ...
29 Jan 2025, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Society 威力彩玩法 The energy transition is placing an uneven financial burden on Germany鈥榮 poorest households 鈥� and transition costs related to heating are impacting these citizens ...
29 Jan 2025, 13:14 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Security 威力彩玩法 Germany and Europe are well prepared to deal with serious disruptions to their gas supply in the long term, according to a report by consultancy PwC assessing the reliability of gas ...
29 Jan 2025, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Finance S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Banks and insurers have not been sufficiently accounting for the impacts of climate change, according to a risk report by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). ...
29 Jan 2025, 11:18 As Germans prepare to head to the polls for the 23 February snap election, the weakness of the country鈥檚 large industrial base has become a campaign focus. Some opposition policymakers blame exaggerated climate policies for the troubles ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:17 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:13 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Elections & Politics dts Significant parts of the population聽in Germany are not sufficiently prepared for the expected cost increases in fossil heating and mobility due to carbon pricing, said Dirk ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Business Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 Bureaucracy and energy are the top issues that German companies say the next government to should prioritise, according to a survey by economic research institute ifo ...
28 Jan 2025
28 Jan 2025, 11:44 威力彩玩法 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 ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:51 Julian Wettengel Gas Politics Handelsblatt German chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed the buildout of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export infrastructure and increased efforts to extract fossil fuels in the U.S. in聽 an interview with ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Policy 威力彩玩法 / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's parliament is set to pass a package of energy laws after the minority government of the Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens found agreements with the ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Fossil fuels Cost & Prices RND / Tagesspiegel Background Germany is reducing its fossil fuel imports even as the cost of buying them has increased from 2021 to 2023, according to a report by the 脰ko-Institut ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 Solar and heating industry associations have appealed to politicians at the federal and state levels to show clear policy commitments to the energy transition after ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Wind 威力彩玩法 / dpa / Handelsbatt Offshore wind farms in the German North Sea generated around eight percent more wind power last year compared to 2023, transmission system operator TenneT said. At 20.8 ...
27 Jan 2025
27 Jan 2025, 13:00 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: BASF 2024 earnings miss estimate by 1 billion euros on impairments Germany's top chemical maker BASF reported a drop in annual earnings below estimates on Friday (24 January), weighed by impairments on surface ...
28 Jan 2025, 12:58 Slowing down industry decarbonisation in Germany would result in a dangerous loss of competitiveness in emerging green markets, says Philipp Verpoort, a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Instead, the ...
24 Jan 2025
24 Jan 2025, 12:00 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: German power grids need higher earnings to fund energy transition, TSO says Grid operator Amprion argues regulator should raise the cap on returns on infrastructure spending. Germany Trade&Invest: Germany Earns ...
24 Jan 2025, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating 威力彩玩法 German households had to pay significantly less for heating in 2024 than in the previous year, as the prices for gas and heating oil fell during this period and the weather ...
24 Jan 2025, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Die Welt / Handelsblatt The slow uptake of electric mobility by German motorists could get a boost in 2025 thanks to changing attitudes and the availability of more affordable electric vehicles ...
24 Jan 2025, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics BR / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Merkur A controversial decision by the government of Bavaria to delay the German state鈥檚 climate neutrality target to 2045 has drawn heavy criticism ...
24 Jan 2025, 12:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables 威力彩玩法 The Association of German Engineers (VDI) has cautioned that new-found enthusiasm for nuclear power, as a means to mitigate global warming, must not slow the rollout of ...
24 Jan 2025, 15:30 Germany has fully switched into election campaign mode ahead of the national vote on 23 February. Parties have presented their manifestos, with key energy transition issues including the future of industry, boosting investments, energy ...
23 Jan 2025, 14:07 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 威力彩玩法 Almost three years after the peak of Europe鈥檚 energy crisis in 2022, many people in Germany are ...
23 Jan 2025, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Cost & Prices Die Welt Representatives of the German energy industry say that the policy announcements by the new U.S. administration could benefit their country鈥檚 competitiveness if the next government ...
23 Jan 2025, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International 威力彩玩法 Government representatives from Algeria, Austria, Italy, Germany, and Tunisia have signed a joint letter of intent for a new hydrogen corridor that should connect southern ...
23 Jan 2025, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU 威力彩玩法 French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz have vowed to uphold close Franco-German cooperation to ensure European sovereignty in key industrial areas as the new U ...
23 Jan 2025
23 Jan 2025, 12:28 威力彩玩法 Team Ember: Record 47% of the European Union鈥檚 electricity now comes from solar and other renewables聽 Another year of coal and gas decline cut EU power sector emissions to below half their 2007 peak and reduced reliance on imported ...
22 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025, 11:30 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: Europe extends hand to US, warns of 'race to bottom' German chancellor Scholz voices cautious optimism after first contact with Trump administration. Politico: EU鈥檚 Clean Industrial Deal to cover 6 themes ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Construction Handelsblatt / 威力彩玩法 With a new label for low-carbon cement, Germany's industry aims to ramp up production and sales of the climate friendlier construction material, business ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:19 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:13 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU dpa / t-online The sales of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in Germany must grow by about 75 percent this year compared to 2024 for carmakers ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Heating 威力彩玩法 Sales of heat pumps in Germany dropped by almost half (46%) in 2024 but the industry is confident that support mechanisms will quickly lead to a strong increase in ...
23 Jan 2025, 10:30 Making German homes less climate-damaging and keeping them affordable for residents at the same time will be a central task for the country's next government. The heated controversy over a phaseout law for oil and gas boilers is ...
21 Jan 2025
21 Jan 2025, 11:00 威力彩玩法 Team AP: Trump signs executive order directing US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement 鈥� again Move is blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the U.S. from its closest allies. Ursula von ...
21 Jan 2025, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Elections & Politics Die Welt The mayor of Hamburg has warned against burdening citizens with too ambitious climate targets, as Germany鈥檚 second largest city might be headed for a referendum on its emissions ...
21 Jan 2025, 13:01 The beginning of reelected U.S. president Donald Trump鈥檚 second term in office has prompted calls from German government representatives, researchers and civil society actors to strengthen European efforts to uphold global efforts to ...
21 Jan 2025, 12:45 Edgar Meza Storage Start-ups 威力彩玩法 Industrial cold storage facilities could become more efficient and be transformed into cost-saving energy storage facilities that contribute to grid stability,聽 the German Federal ...
21 Jan 2025, 12:35 Edgar Meza Electricity Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 Net electricity consumption in Germany may not rise as much in the coming years as assumed in current regulatory planning, according to a report by consultancy McKinsey. ...
20 Jan 2025
20 Jan 2025, 12:00 威力彩玩法 Team Bloomberg: Trump to declare national energy emergency, unlocking new powers Actions set to touch full spectrum of the US energy industry in bid to unleash domestic production. European Commission: Strategic dialogue on the ...
20 Jan 2025, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Security Welt am Sonntag / 威力彩玩法 A new law planned for the better integration of solar energy sources into Germany鈥檚 electricity system bears the risk that foreign powers gain control over relevant ...
20 Jan 2025, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 Grid fees for users in urban and in rural areas of Germany have, for the first time, been brought to similar levels, according to price comparison website Verivox. After a nine ...
17 Jan 2025, 15:00 Energy prices are becoming increasingly expensive for Italian businesses and households due to delays in the development of renewables and increases in the cost of gas on international markets. The rise in energy costs will be, along ...
17 Jan 2025, 13:14 S枚ren Amelang Heating 威力彩玩法 Germany must systematically collect building efficiency data like all other EU countries, which would boost its lagging efforts to make its housing stock climate-neutral,聽 according to 聽the ...
17 Jan 2025, 13:12 S枚ren Amelang Transport Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 The next German government must ensure that aviation can become climate-neutral within 20 years, which will require a plethora of policy initiatives, an alliance of ...
17 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025, 11:35 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: Chinese buyers interested in unwanted German Volkswagen factories, source says Buying a factory would allow China to build influence in Germany's prized auto industry, home to some of the oldest and most ...
16 Jan 2025, 13:15 S枚ren Amelang Agriculture Business & Jobs 威力彩玩法 The largest German supermarket chains have increased their efforts to become more sustainable, but still don鈥檛 do justice to their central role in the transformation of the ...
16 Jan 2025, 13:09 S枚ren Amelang Technology Heating NDR The northern German city of Flensburg has commissioned one of the world鈥檚 largest seawater heat pumps to supply climate-neutral heat through its district heating system, reports regional public ...
16 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025, 12:00 S枚ren Amelang World Economic Forum:聽 These are the biggest risks we face now and in the next 10 years "Extreme weather events" rank second in the short term of two years and first in the long term of 10 years. Bloomberg: ...
16 Jan 2025, 12:00 Europe's ageing buildings are particularly vulnerable to the damaging effects of climate change, with homes increasingly threatened by floods or at risk of becoming unbearably hot to live in. The job of adapting the spaces where ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:11 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 威力彩玩法 The past year was 鈥渁 record year鈥� for ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:09 S枚ren Amelang Heating Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 Electrical and IT companies in Germany have called on Germany's parties to not discredit the energy transition in the federal election campaign leading up to the vote ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:06 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Storage Technology pv magazine Large-scale battery projects with a combined capacity of 226 gigawatts (GW) seek to be connected to Germany鈥檚 transmission grid, fanning industry speculation that the ...
15 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025, 11:45 威力彩玩法 Team dpa: Parties row over Germany's shift to 'green' steel Conservative leader Merz doubts viability of climate-friendly steel, but labour union says it's industry's only chance of survival. Andreas ...
15 Jan 2025, 11:20 As geopolitical tensions escalate and make UN climate negotiations increasingly difficult, the next German government should continue to explore alternative alliances to push for decarbonisation, says Marian Feist, senior research ...
14 Jan 2025, 13:08 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 威力彩玩法 A robust political strategy based on realistic expectations for hydrogen production is needed as demand for the gas remains low due to its high costs and other factors, researchers at the Potsdam ...
14 Jan 2025, 13:06 Edgar Meza Renewables Policy Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung Grid operators and energy industry representatives in Germany are calling on political leaders to approve immediate measures to better control small solar installations following the ...
14 Jan 2025, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 A majority of people in Germany (53%) agree that the next government should do more for climate protection, according to a survey commissioned by environmental NGO ...
14 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025, 11:26 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: German premium carmakers' sales battered in China and Germany amid slowdown Germany's top-end carmakers took a battering at home and in China in 2024, sales volume data showed, as wealthier consumers held ...
13 Jan 2025, 13:45 S枚ren Amelang Technology Heating dpa A growing number of towns on the shores of Lake Constance are planning to use the water鈥檚 thermal energy to switch to carbon-neutral heating,聽 reports 聽newswire dpa. 鈥淟ake thermal energy offers ...
13 Jan 2025, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Electricity Cost & Prices Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 / Tagesspiegel Background With just six weeks to go before Germany鈥檚 parliamentary elections in late February, several parties have specified their ...
13 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025, 11:50 威力彩玩法 Team Science Direct: CO2-tax on emission-intensive agricultural goods could cut German agricultural emissions by 22.5% The CO2-tax could generate over 8.2 billion euros in annual revenue, analysis finds. Bloomberg: Europe threatens ...
13 Jan 2025, 10:15 A last-minute move by Germany鈥檚 government to call for a delay to key EU sustainable finance legislation has caused dismay among observers from the finance industry and beyond. At a time when economic and political uncertainty is ...
10 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025, 10:21 威力彩玩法 Team Copernicus Climate Change Service: 2024 鈥� a second record-breaking year, following the exceptional 2023 Multiple global records were broken, for greenhouse gas levels, and for both air temperature and sea surface temperature, ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Heating 威力彩玩法 Climate-friendly heating technologies may now be predominant in new builds in Germany but the country鈥檚 existing buildings continue to rely on fossil fuels, shows a report by the German Energy ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Adaptation Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 Natural disasters worldwide caused losses of 320 billion U.S. dollars in 2024, up from an inflation-adjusted 268 billion in 2023, of which around 140 ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Tagesspiegel Background / 威力彩玩法 The German government is open to partnering with African countries on fossil gas projects, as well as blue hydrogen production (made from fossil gas, ...
10 Jan 2025, 09:59 Croatian citizens ended 2024 with a first round of presidential elections, marking the finale of a super election year. In terms of the climate, it was yet another year of above-average warmth, accompanied by numerous extreme weather ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:29 Future nuclear fusion power plants will not be able to complement wind and solar electricity production because they will likely need to run around the clock for economic and technical reasons, a German parliamentary report concludes. ...
09 Jan 2025
09 Jan 2025, 12:00 威力彩玩法 Team Bloomberg: Northvolt owners back battery output as funding search continues EV supplier has been seeking investors post-Chapter 11 filing in US Swedish law requires shareholder assent after equity declines Bloomberg: Amundi, ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars dpa / Ingenieur U.S. carmaker Tesla, which is headed by highly controversial CEO Elon Musk, registered the biggest slump of new registrations among all electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers in Germany last year. ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:24 Norway now provides about half of the fossil gas flows to Germany, putting a spotlight on energy security. Industry experts warn that Europe's biggest economy is not prepared for a disruption of supply, for example due to sabotage ...
08 Jan 2025
08 Jan 2025, 10:14 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: Automakers to pool CO2 emissions with Tesla, Polestar to meet EU 2025 rules Automakers facing tougher European Union 2025 emissions rules are planning to buy carbon credits from electric vehicle companies including ...
08 Jan 2025, 13:08 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 威力彩玩法 In 2024, Germany recorded the highest surface temperatures in its North Sea since records began, with temperatures rising by up to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the long-term average, ...
08 Jan 2025, 13:02 Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices Efficiency Heating 威力彩玩法 Some 10 percent of 30 million households in Germany still reliant on fossil fuels for heating are unable to adequately warm their homes or are "heavily ...
08 Jan 2025, 12:57 Jennifer Collins Industry Tagesspiegel / 威力彩玩法 Companies in Germany are increasingly experiencing short power outages of up to three minutes, with the number of companies reporting such "flickers", as they are ...
07 Jan 2025, 14:01 Jennifer Collins Heating dpa / 威力彩玩法 More than a third of Germany's municipalities are working on municipal heat planning to help phase out fossil fuel systems, with 13 percent already finished with their plans, reports ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:44 Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 Germany's revenue from carbon pricing rose to a record 18.5 billion euros in 2024, up around 100 million euros from the previous year, said the country's Federal Environment ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:37 Jennifer Collins Cars 威力彩玩法 / Handelsblatt Registrations of new plug-in electric cars in Germany fell by more than a quarter in 2024 compared to the previous year, while the average CO2 emissions of newly registered ...
08 Jan 2025, 12:06 The application of sustainable finance principles across the EU will take a major step forward in 2025 as reporting duties for environmental data are expanded to cover a much wider range of companies, says Matthias H眉bner, head of the ...
07 Jan 2025
07 Jan 2025, 10:12 威力彩玩法 Team E3G: Four tests driving EU politics in 2025 鈥� and what they mean for climate action Think tank E3G's 2025 EU climate policy briefing, includes timeline of events and developments. ICIS: Net imports of LNG from Russia into ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:30 Burning less coal and an increase in renewable electricity has helped cause a drop in greenhouse gas emissions of three percent in Germany last year, said think tank Agora Energiewende. Preliminary calculations show that real ...
06 Jan 2025, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Solar 威力彩玩法 The German solar industry marked a milestone at the turn of the year, as the total capacity of all installed solar power systems surpassed 100 gigawatts (GW), said industry association BSW Solar. ...
08 Jan 2025, 10:08 Jennifer Collins Electricity Renewables 威力彩玩法 The share of renewable energy in net public electricity generation in Germany in 2024 reached a record high of 62.7 percent, with solar power smashing government expansion ...
06 Jan 2025, 12:45 Jennifer Collins Grid Hydrogen dpa / 威力彩玩法 The buildout of crucial energy infrastructure in Germany is making progress: The first 525 kilometres of Germany's hydrogen core grid will be built in 2025, with gas operators ...
06 Jan 2025, 12:12 Germany is of central importance when it comes to the EU defining its priorities in energy and industrial policies, says Simone Tagliapietra, senior fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. He argues that the country鈥檚 next ...
06 Jan 2025
06 Jan 2025, 10:43 威力彩玩法 Team HydrogenInsight: German chancellor calls on EU to shelve 'excessively strict' green hydrogen definition Scholz argues that planned projects cannot compete based on what the European Commission will accept is a ...
20 Dec 2024, 13:07 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 威力彩玩法 Wind power output in Germany is not at risk of increasingly being decimated by so ...
20 Dec 2024, 12:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Lower demand for electricity could substantially reduce Germany鈥檚 bill for expanding the power grid to accommodate its growing fleet of renewable power installations, business daily ...
20 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024, 12:00 威力彩玩法 Team Ember: EU generated record 30% of electricity from wind and solar in first half of 2024, surpassing fossil fuels for first time Ember's 2024 review shows highlights of energy transition's development. The Guardian: & ...
20 Dec 2024, 08:44 Germany鈥檚 next government will inherit a major policy predicament: How can it finally initiate serious transport emission cuts against a backdrop of tight finances, a struggling car industry, and a crumbling transport infrastructure? ...
20 Dec 2024, 10:13 Large-scale solar PV developers have not been able to overcome Nigeria鈥檚 reputation as a risky place to do business, a problem which can be seen across sub-Saharan Africa. Despite tremendous solar potential, very little of it has been ...
20 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024, 14:57 Dave Keating *** Our weekly Dispatches provide an overview of the most relevant recent and upcoming developments for the shift to climate neutrality i n selected European countries, from policy and diplomacy to society and industry. For ...
19 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024, 11:48 威力彩玩法 Team Eurostat: Renewables account for 24.5% of EU energy use in 2023 In 2023, 24.5 percent of gross final energy consumption in the EU came from renewable sources, up by 1.4 percentage points compared with 2022. IISD: Fossil fuels ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 German chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 Social Democratic Party (SPD) has said in聽 its draft election campaign programme 聽that it aims to ensure the country is competitive in industry ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Society Spiegel / 威力彩玩法 The 鈥淟ast Generation鈥� (Letzte Generation) climate activist group has said it is dropping its name and will change its tactics by focusing on social issues related to climate change. ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars 威力彩玩法 The contentious debate about a general speed limit on Germany鈥檚 famed Autobahn (motorway) has flared up again as the campaign for the country鈥檚 snap election on 23 February gets underway ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Gas Table Media Germany鈥檚 LNG import terminals are under pressure as technical issues and a wait for approval from the European Commission regarding state aid could lead to months-long disruptions, reported news service ...
18 Dec 2024, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 威力彩玩法 Primary energy consumption in Germany dropped to a new low in 2024 amid聽warmer weather, a continued weakness of the country鈥檚 economy, and ongoing efficiency gains, the Federation of ...
18 Dec 2024, 13:06 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 威力彩玩法 Temperatures in Germany will this year be the hottest since records began for the third consecutive year, the country鈥檚 weather service DWD said. "Never since the end of the ...
18 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024, 11:15 威力彩玩法 Team Bertelsmann Stiftung: Climate neutrality: The OECD and EU countries best equipped to lead the way The analysis compares the effectiveness of national policies in climate protection, energy transition and circular economy ...
18 Dec 2024, 10:13 Italy is considering a return to nuclear power as part of its strategy to achieve carbon neutrality and increase energy independence. The debate has reignited political tensions over the issue, with proponents arguing that nuclear ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:15 The next German government must achieve what the previous few have not: increasing digitalisation, says Robert Busch, managing director of the Association of Energy Market Innovators (bne). Electricity system flexibility can only be ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:15 Germany made significant progress in the area of climate adaptation in the past legislative period, said Andrea Fischer-Hotzel from the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu). From the national to the municipal level, there is now ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:53 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 威力彩玩法 In addition to electrification and a massive ramp-up of renewables, a greater use of diverse technologies such as seasonal heat storage or feed additives that reduce methane emissions from ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 The Green Party is calling for major investments in Germany鈥檚 infrastructure, energy system, industry and administration to use decarbonisation and the energy transition as an ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:38 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 The conservative alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) has said it aims to strengthen Germany鈥檚 competitiveness as a basis for ...
17 Dec 2024
17 Dec 2024, 12:28 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: Europe's carmakers discount EVs, hike petrol car prices as new emissions rules loom The European Union will drastically lower its cap on automotive carbon dioxide emissions from Jan. 1, meaning at least one-fifth ...
16 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024, 10:45 威力彩玩法 Team The Guardian: Germany: parliament to declare no confidence in chancellor Olaf Scholz Chancellor triggered path to elections, due to take place on 23 February, by firing finance minister Christian Lindner last month. DeSmog: ...
16 Dec 2024, 14:02 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Society S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Many people in Germany associate climate policy with state control and the fear of being financially overburdened due to decisions made by the departing coalition government, ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:51 Jack McGovan Cars Cost & Prices S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt The CEO of German car manufacturer Mercedes, Ola K盲llenius, has called for more long-term subsidies for electric vehicles as demand weakens. By the end of the decade ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Government Tagesspiegel / 威力彩玩法 An earlier phase-out of coal-fired power production in Germany by 2030 is unlikely if the country does not manage to install sufficient alternative backup capacity to ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:36 A sudden and sharp electricity price spike during a day of very little wind and solar power output in Germany has prompted the country鈥檚 grid regulator to investigate a possible market manipulation. Fossil backup plants that are meant ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:15 Next year will be a difficult one for climate policy, says Susanne Dr枚ge, head of climate protection and energy at the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Governments will have to show whether they are still committed to strong climate ...
13 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024, 12:03 威力彩玩法 Team Carbon Brief: State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming Strong El Ni帽o event contributed to exceptionally high global temperatures early in the year. IEA: Technology breakthroughs are unlocking ...
13 Dec 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Renewables 威力彩玩法 About 54 percent of gross power production in Germany is set to come from renewables in 2024, figures published 聽by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) have shown. With an ...
13 Dec 2024, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Staatsanzeiger Baden-W眉rttemberg / 威力彩玩法 Dissatisfaction with Germany鈥檚 energy policy and soaring prices are driving company investments out of the southwestern ...
13 Dec 2024, 13:38 Unusually low wind power output has caused another 'Dunkelflaute' period in Germany with significantly reduced renewable power production and extreme price hikes in short-term electricity trading. Most customers are shielded ...
13 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024, 15:30 The coming year will show whether the EU can use a new strategy to clean its industry and continue the path laid out over the past five years in the European Green Deal, or whether increasing global competition and protectionist efforts ...
12 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024, 13:23 威力彩玩法 Team Financial Times: Norway campaigns to cut energy links to Europe as power prices soar Country鈥檚 energy minister describes 鈥榮hit situation鈥� as domestic prices hit highest level since 2009. Electrive: Germany's economy ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:35 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Finance 威力彩玩法 / Handelsblatt The upcoming requirements on sustainability reporting for credit ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas 威力彩玩法 / Tagesspiegel / WDR The construction of new gas-fired power plants that are supposed to provide backup capacity for the German electricity system amid the transition to renewable power needs ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Government 威力彩玩法 The German government has approved its climate adaptation strategy to better prepare the country for dealing with extreme weather events, such as heat waves, droughts, heavy ...
11 Dec 2024, 13:10 Importing green hydrogen via ships is not a viable strategy for the decarbonisation of Germany鈥檚 steel and chemical industries, the country鈥檚 government-funded Ariadne energy transition research alliance聽 has warned. These sectors ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Der Spiegel / 威力彩玩法 The decommissioning of local gas grids in German cities should be flagged ten years in advance to allow households to prepare accordingly and avoid the purchase ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 威力彩玩法 Onshore wind power auctions held in November in Germany have led to a new record in submitted bids, the country鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. Bidders submitted ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Resources & Recycling 威力彩玩法 / ARD Serbia鈥檚 president Aleksandr Vucic visited a lithium mining project in eastern Germany together with German chancellor Olaf Scholz in a bid to underline the two ...
11 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024, 11:42 威力彩玩法 Team France24: Germany's Scholz calls for European EV subsidy plan Chancellor's call comes as country's flagship auto industry struggles with the transition to battery-powered cars. WEF: The Cost of Inaction: A CEO ...
10 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024, 12:00 威力彩玩法 Team RWE: Head of German energy company "not concerned" about Trump's effect on renewables "It鈥檚 not all down to politics," says CEO Krebber, expects U.S. green power business to flourish. dpa: Ford's ...
10 Dec 2024, 14:45 The early end of Olaf Scholz鈥檚 coalition government follows a three-year term marked by crises and a deep internal dispute over funding for future climate and energy policies. Despite its noisy demise, the chancellor鈥檚 three-party ...
10 Dec 2024, 13:33 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs 威力彩玩法 Achieving climate neutrality before mid ...
10 Dec 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The steel industry is 鈥渙f geopolitical importance鈥� for German industry and will therefore receive assistance from the government in mastering its ...
09 Dec 2024, 14:00 The break-up of Germany's coalition government could further undermine public acceptance of the energy transition's costs, warns Brigitte Knopf, head of the think tank Zukunft KlimaSozial, which focuses on climate policy' ...
09 Dec 2024, 13:58 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background It remains unclear whether Germany鈥檚 planned reform of its carbon storage law will make it through parliament ahead of the snap election in February 2025,聽 ...
09 Dec 2024, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas dpa / Die Welt A legislative standstill in plans to build new gas-fired power plants poses a threat to the transformation of East German coal-mining regions, the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) has said ...
09 Dec 2024
09 Dec 2024, 13:40 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: Germany's Scholz not ruling out Berlin taking stake in Thyssenkrupp steel Chancellor meets top representatives of ailing steel sector to discuss high energy prices, cheap competition and shift to decarbonisation. ...
09 Dec 2024, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The state premier of southern German Baden-Wurttemberg, Green Party politician Winfried Kretschmann, has called for the suspension of possible EU climate ...
06 Dec 2024, 12:56 S枚ren Amelang Society Elections & Politics 威力彩玩法 Climate action has dropped in German voters鈥� priorities vs economic growth over the course of the past five years, according to a聽 survey 聽conducted by the Konrad Adenauer ...
06 Dec 2024, 12:50 S枚ren Amelang Cars Electrive The average price of newly registered electric cars rose by around 4,000 euros to 56,669 euros in Germany this year, slowing the transition to climate-friendly mobility, according to the Center of Automotive ...
06 Dec 2024, 11:14 The appointment of Michel Barnier as France鈥檚 new prime minister in September sparked as many concerns as it ignited hopes for advocates of more ambitious climate action. But the former environment minister, who had laid some of the ...
06 Dec 2024
06 Dec 2024, 12:28 威力彩玩法 Team S&P Globa l: Spain's Grenergy sees Germany, US as prime markets for battery storage expansion "Fantastic opportunity in Germany for stand-alone [battery] projects," chairman says. AFP: Europe's oldest ...
05 Dec 2024
05 Dec 2024, 10:30 威力彩玩法 Team Corporate Europe Observatory: How frontline communities are impacted by the EU鈥檚 green extractivism Europe鈥檚 scramble for green hydrogen in South Africa will have a devastating impact on local communities, report says. ...
05 Dec 2024, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics ARD The leader of Germany's largest opposition party, Friedrich Merz, has ruled out helping the minority government of chancellor Olaf Scholz to get major policy projects across the line ...
05 Dec 2024, 13:11 S枚ren Amelang Grid 威力彩玩法 Germany will have to invest around 650 billion euros into the expansion of its electricity grids by 2045, according to a聽 report 聽by the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) of the Hans B枚ckler ...
05 Dec 2024, 13:05 S枚ren Amelang Electricity Industry Hydrogen 威力彩玩法 German industry demand for electricity will rise steeply during the sector鈥檚 decarbonisation even if it opts for intensive use of hydrogen, according to a聽 report 聽by a ...
05 Dec 2024, 11:49 Germany鈥檚 next government must focus on the shift to climate-friendly mobility to secure industry competitiveness and ensure a socially just energy transition, says Christian Hochfeld, director of green mobility think tank Agora ...
06 Dec 2024, 09:25 Ensuring the timely construction of new hydrogen-ready gas power plants must be a top priority in energy policy for Germany's next government, says the head of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). Lobby ...
04 Dec 2024, 12:58 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 威力彩玩法 Comparatively high salaries and a lack of similarly paid job alternatives present significant hurdles to the transition of the workforce in emission-intensive manufacturing (EIM) in ...
04 Dec 2024, 12:31 Jack McGovan Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background The CDU/CSU conservative alliance in Germany has called for revenues from the upcoming Emissions Trading System (ETS II) for fuels used in transport and heating to ...
04 Dec 2024, 12:23 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market 威力彩玩法 An energy system dominated by solar and wind energy does not require baseload power stations to guarantee supply security, German research academies聽 have said. 鈥淭he academy project ...
04 Dec 2024
04 Dec 2024, 11:44 威力彩玩法 Team Argus: Germany's 2030 coal phase-out ambitions called into question Earlier phase-out target is being reassessed owing to likelihood of further delays to power plant security act, which is meant to secure back-up capacity ...
03 Dec 2024
03 Dec 2024, 11:35 威力彩玩法 Team Nature: Why the EU must reset its Green Deal 鈥� or be left behind- comment The world has changed since Europe鈥檚 ambitious climate package was designed. Here鈥檚 how the agreement should evolve. Reuters: Dutch power grid group ...
03 Dec 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling 威力彩玩法 Germany's government cabinet is set to adopt a national circular economy strategy tomorrow (4 December), said the environment ministry. The ministry spells out targets ...
03 Dec 2024, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Adaptation Spiegel Germany鈥檚 government had aimed to reform several laws to improve flood protection in the country, but environment minister Steffi Lemke told news magazine Spiegel that the reform is no longer possible ...
02 Dec 2024, 12:47 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs International 威力彩玩法 The expansion of renewable energies, in particular geothermal, as well as Germany鈥檚 shortage of skilled workers needed to implement its landmark energy transition will be ...
02 Dec 2024, 12:44 S枚ren Amelang Cars 威力彩玩法 / taz The switch to electric vehicles is not yet possible for all income groups equally in Germany, according to a report by clean mobility NGO International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).聽聽 ...
02 Dec 2024
02 Dec 2024, 11:47 威力彩玩法 Team Reuters: Nine Volkswagen plants on strike as labour battle escalates Strikes could escalate into 24-hour or unlimited strikes if a deal is not struck in the next round of wage negotiations. Politico: The powerlessness of ...
29 Nov 2024
29 Nov 2024, 11:05 威力彩玩法 Team Bloomberg: German government plans about 鈧�2 billion in new chip subsidies-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Part of a push to build chip supply resilience in Europe-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Intel recently delayed a 30-billion-euro chip factory in Magdeburg EU: ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Industry 威力彩玩法 Ahead of the German snap election, an alliance of industry associations has called on political parties to push for a government strategy to decarbonise heat that businesses use in their ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Industry Handelsblatt / 威力彩玩法 The break-up of the coalition government and insecure funding mean that it is unclear whether Germany鈥檚 pioneering 鈥榗limate contract鈥� subsidy scheme to slash industry emissions ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:19 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / 威力彩玩法 Germany's energy industry has warned that the country might struggle to find investors to build new hydrogen-ready gas power plants, following the end of a ...
29 Nov 2024, 11:00 Military and energy security are key priorities for Poland as it prepares to assume the EU鈥檚 rotating presidency in January 2025. The country plans to achieve these targets by pushing for nuclear energy, sanctions on Russia, and EU ...
28 Nov 2024
28 Nov 2024, 10:30 威力彩玩法 Team BPIE: EU buildings sector significantly off track to meet 2030 and 2050 climate goals Overall, the four key indicators of the EU Buildings Climate Tracker 鈥� CO2 emissions reduction, final energy consumption, renewable energy ...
