Tag: carbon price
Habeck in East Germany: Welcome to foreign countries!
Habeck in a workshop of Flender Industrietrieb GmbH in front of the model of a turbine Business representatives in Saxony have complained to the minister about the negative aspects of…
This is how the price of CO2 would affect private households
Cost factor oil heating It could be expensive, especially for families who rely on fossil fuel heating. (Photo: imago images/Westend61) Berlin If the liberals have their way, the planned Building…
This is how the price of CO2 would affect private households
Cost factor oil heating It could be expensive, especially for families who rely on fossil fuel heating. (Photo: imago images/Westend61) Berlin If the liberals have their way, the planned Building…
CO2 price or heating law? These solutions are possible
Berlin The dispute over the draft of the Building Energy Act (GEG) takes a surprising turn: while the traffic light coalition partners are bickering about the design of the heating…
How does Germany save its industry from the electricity price shock?
Ulrike Malmendier and Michael Niese The economy is critical of an industrial electricity price, the industry representative demands affordable electricity as quickly as possible. (Photo: Imago, Getty, PR) Berlin The…
“It is likely that the traffic light will fall hard in 2025”
Clemens Fuest The Ifo boss advises the traffic light to settle their disputes quickly. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Mr. Fuest, the leaders of the coalition have adjourned after around 19 hours…
“It is likely that the traffic light will fall hard in 2025”
Clemens Fuest The Ifo boss advises the traffic light to settle their disputes quickly. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Mr. Fuest, the leaders of the coalition have adjourned after around 19 hours…
“It is likely that the traffic light will fall hard in 2025”
Clemens Fuest The Ifo boss advises the traffic light to settle their disputes quickly. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Mr. Fuest, the leaders of the coalition have adjourned after around 19 hours…
Hydrogen, the beacon of hope, will remain scarce for years to come
Production of green hydrogen in Spain Experts do not expect a global market for hydrogen to develop until the 2030s. (Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images) Berlin Germany can only become climate-neutral if…
Europe: Brussels wants to tighten emissions trading
Good morning dear readers, economics has truly produced many beautiful neologisms. One of them is the so-called present-time preference. A concept that summarizes that today is more important to us…
Endgame for German industry
Good morning dear readers, some readers have asked me, like my esteemed predecessor, to include occasional quotations from great poets and thinkers in the morning briefing. A reader even sent…
FDP stops traffic light plans to relieve tenants
Berlin The dispute in the traffic light coalition about how to deal with the increased energy costs is now also affecting housing policy. Originally, landlords and tenants should share the…
FDP stops traffic light plans to relieve tenants
Cranked up thermostat According to the wishes of the FDP, tenants should bear the CO2 price alone. (Photo: dpa) Berlin A dispute has broken out in the traffic light coalition…
The government wants to split the CO2 price between tenants and landlords
Berlin The debate on how to split the CO2 price between tenants and landlords is entering the next round. Parliamentary deliberations on the government’s plan to also allow landlords to…
A lot of explosives at the inflation summit in the Chancellery – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
You can tell from the onset of the wave of “summer interviews” that another six months are over and the evenings of mild air are coming. ARD and ZDF began…
Subsidies for the energy conversion
insulation A house from the 1930s in Berlin is insulated with Styrofoam panels on the outside wall. The federal government promotes many measures that make houses more energy-efficient. (Photo: dpa)…
Industry and the energy sector are at odds over emissions trading
Steam cloud from the Staudinger coal-fired power plant The energy industry sees emissions trading endangered by the reform plans. (Photo: dpa) Berlin From the point of view of the industry,…
Climate money: Liberals criticize Heil’s proposal
The climate money for small and medium incomes proposed by Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) is causing tension in the traffic light coalition. The Liberals are critical. FDP parliamentary…
CO2 price: Tenant relief does not convince consumer advocates
Berlin The traffic light government’s plans to relieve many tenants of the heating cost climate tax are met with sharp criticism from consumer advocates. Thomas Engelke, head of the energy…
CO2 sharing between tenants and landlords
Berlin From the federal government’s point of view, the participation of landlords in the heating costs aimed for by the traffic light coalition could become a case for the courts.…