23 Nov 2021, 13:16 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables ...
15 Apr 2019, 12:01 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Grid Agora Energiewende With the new offshore grid fee ...
The German government has agreed to abolish large regional differences in transmission grid fees by standardising them across the country in five equal steps. The implementation will begin at the start of next year, and completion is planned by early 2023 ...
Eighty-six companies and business associations from Germany鈥檚 North, East, and South have complained to Chancellor Angela Merkel about 鈥渦nfair鈥� grid fees, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. They argue in a letter that grid fees must be the same all ...
Western German grid operator Amprion鈥檚 decision to raise power grid fees by about 45 percent in 2018 is in large part due to French supply issues this past winter, reports Andreas Macho in WirtschaftsWoche. Amprion was forced to frequently employ grid ...
Saxony鈥檚 federal state parliament has voted for aligning grid fees across Germany, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. The parliament called on Saxony鈥檚 state government to work towards repealing 鈥渆xisting regional imbalances on ...
The government of central German federal state Thuringia strictly opposes the construction of major high-voltage transmission lines on its territory, Th眉ringer Allgemeine reports. The government led by the Left Party (Linke) argues the grid operators鈥� ...
Power transmission grid operators Amprion, TenneT and Transnet-BW are planning to increase grid fees by between 9 and 45 percent, Andreas Mihm聽writes聽for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Grid expansion and measures to stabilise the grid 鈥� such as re ...
There will be no nationwide grid fee alignment in Germany according to a proposal by the economy ministry approved by the government cabinet, contrary to聽 earlier press reports. However, the proposal for a grid fee reform will gradually abolish payments ...
The number of companies in Germany that do not pay grid fees is set to rise further, Spiegel Online reports. According to an answer by the federal government to a parliamentary inquiry by the Green Party, there were about 3,670 fee exemptions in 2016 and ...
The government of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein wants a fairer distribution of grid fees in Germany and will introduce a draft law in the council of federal state governments (Bundesrat). 鈥淭he draft is to enable the federal government to bring ...
Consumer grid fees rose by nine percent last year, and are unlikely to decrease much next year, according to a market report drafted by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), which is due to be published soon and was leaked to the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
The national alignment of expansion costs for Germany鈥檚 power transmission grid- a core energy policy demand of eastern German states- could fall prey to dispute between the ruling social democratic (SPD) and conservative (CDU/CSU) parliamentary groups, ...
The Social Democratic Union (SPD) wants a nationwide alignment of grid fees, SPD鈥檚 energy politician and member of the Bundestag Hubertus Heil told news agency Dow Jones. The grand coalition鈥檚 (CDU/CSU, SPD) federal cabinet had introduced a draft for a ...
Welt Online / dpa East German state premier criticises power price differences Once again, an eastern German state premier has criticised regional discrepancies in the power price, dpa news agency reports in an article carried by Welt Online. Brandenburg ...
Protestors have called on the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state premier to call an immediate halt to the construction of wind turbines in the state, Welt reports. They argue that the construction of wind farms unfairly burdens state citizens and ...
The German power market will not be split into two separate price zones, Germany鈥檚 council of federal state governments, the Bundesrat, has said in a press release. The council greenlighted a legal ordinance by the acting federal government that prevents ...
Distribution grids used to have a reputation as a boring low-profit business but have become a key source of revenue for German utility innogy, Helmut B眉nder writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Just like its competitor E.ON, the subsidiary of RWE ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the parliament (German Bundestag) to find an agreement on national power grid fee alignment before the summer break, said economy minister Brigitte Zypries at the German energy industry conference BDEW Congress in ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid 威力彩玩法 / MDR The government of central German state Thuringia has criticised neighbouring state Bavaria and the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) for opaque planning of one of the country鈥檚 important ...
Germany hosts about 120 generating units capable of a 鈥渂lack start鈥�, meaning they will be available for repowering the grid from scratch in the event of a, so far unprecedented, major blackout, Anna Ringle writes in Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten. ...
07 Jun 2023, 11:48 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 Germany鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has decided to improve investment conditions for new electricity grid infrastructure by raising the equity interest rates for new ...
A combination of lack of transparency and denial of legal protection means that German power grid fees cannot be sufficiently checked by consumers, consumer organisations, or even politicians, according to a legal analysis published by the Regulatory ...
Germany needs to recover millions of euros in illegal aid from certain large electricity users exempted from grid charges in Germany in 2012-2013 after the European Commission declared past regulation was against EU State aid rules. 鈥淔ully exempting ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:28 S枚ren Amelang 威力彩玩法 Grid Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 Germany鈥檚 Federal Court of Justice has forced the country鈥檚 grid agency (BNetzA) to further reduce transparency on grid fees. Following a ruling by the court, ...
The need for, and costs of, power grid stabilising measures grew to a record high in 2017 for transmission grid operator TenneT, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. According to preliminary data, TenneT said it ...
The German government has reached a compromise on aligning contested regional differences in power grid fees paid by consumers, according to the Social Democratic Party (SPD). 鈥淎ccording to the draft law, grid fees will be aligned in four yearly steps ...
Companies in Germany鈥檚 industrial powerhouse North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have called for the postponement of the grid fee reform, which the government plans to pass this week, the regional newspaper Rheinische Post reports. Some local branches of the ...
25 May 2020, 12:40 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale ...
01 Dec 2023, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 威力彩玩法 Germany's grid agency has proposed to reduce electricity grid fees in areas with a high share of renewables, in a bid to distribute the costs of rolling out wind and solar energy more fairly ...
In 2017, at least 5.4 billion euros were spent by the German government from the federal budget on the country鈥檚 energy transition, up about 20 percent from the previous year, writes the German Taxpayers Federation in a study. Four billion euros were ...
Germany鈥檚 failure to聽resolve national alignment of power grid fees is down to politicians 聽stalling in order to appease voters in the country鈥檚 most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Former ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that federal and state governments were 鈥渢rying to find a solution鈥� in the dispute about nationwide grid fee alignment. 鈥淎t the moment, a difficult battle is raging on how we best succeed in managing this surcharge ...
Europe and Germany should 鈥渟hare in America鈥檚 abundance鈥� and cooperate with the US in energy policy by buying natural gas from America, the US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, writes together with US deputy secretary of energy Dan Brouillette in a ...
Under a ruling by a regional court in Germany in favour of the country鈥檚 grid operators, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) cannot聽 cut the guaranteed rate of return 聽on power and natural gas grids, meaning that customers鈥� hopes for lower power prices ...
26 Jun 2020, 12:12 Expert F脰S- Green Budget Germany Forum 脰kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Coal Tagesspiegel Background Experts have criticised the lack of transparency in the contract between lignite ...
17 Sep 2021, 12:45 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations ...
15 Oct 2020, 13:56 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices 威力彩玩法 Prices at electric car charging points in Germany are not ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:06 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
06 Nov 2020, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities EU 威力彩玩法 An alliance of smaller energy companies in Germany is organising opposition to the asset-swap deal of industry heavyweights RWE and E.ON, arguing it would turn "competitors into ...
17 May 2021, 13:29 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Ember Climate & energy think tank Climate ...
10 Jul 2019, 12:56 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche ...
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 ...
25 Nov 2020, 15:04 Germany's phase-out plan for hard coal plants can largely be carried out as planned by inviting operators to submit compensation claims in tender procedures, the European Commission has decided. The German government welcomed the ...
08 Jun 2016
08 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 威力彩玩法 Federal government Renewables law reform gets government approval Angela Merkel鈥檚 cabinet has decided on the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) that is to take ...
28 Sep 2020, 13:18 Germany has made the first step in finding a final resting place for its nuclear waste in what will be an intricate, drawn-out process over the coming decade. An initial report by the Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal ...
12 Dec 2018, 17:52 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
14 Jun 2019, 09:07 威力彩玩法 is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world鈥檚 fourth largest economy, we' ...
