Tag: Energy policy
Hüther: For a climate policy consensus
Robert Habeck has created political transparency with the “opening balance sheet on climate protection”: “The current climate protection measures are inadequate in all sectors.” The climate neutrality targeted for 2045…
EU commissioner wants to vote against EU taxonomy
Johannes Hahn and Ursula von der Leyen in December The final EU taxonomy proposal is expected next week. (Photo: Reuters) Brussels It is one of the EU’s most sensitive political…
German Energy Agency wants to speed up grid expansion
High-voltage pylons in North Rhine-Westphalia The expansion of the energy infrastructure is years behind the plans. (Photo: Photodisc/Getty Images) Berlin The German Energy Agency (Dena) advises a change of course…
Podcast Handelsblatt Green: How green is nuclear power?
Dusseldorf Nuclear power – yes, please! This is how the EU Commission could paraphrase the original slogan of the opponents of nuclear power. EU politicians plan to classify energy from…
Countries are pushing for earlier abolition of the EEG surcharge
“The EEG surcharge remains a central point,” said the SPD politician to the Handelsblatt. It must be reduced to zero, which will reduce the price of electricity by around four…
Europe is at risk of years of stagflation because of climate policy
IW director Michael Hüther “The risk that the EU economies will barely grow anymore is real.” (Photo: dpa) Berlin The employer-oriented institute of the German economy (IW Cologne) warns of…
Law reform planned – government wants more protection for electricity customers
Berlin With a legal reform, the federal government wants to put a stop to short-term terminations of electricity and gas contracts by cheap suppliers and price jumps. “We must not…
Annalena Baerbock is on the right track
Annalena Bärbock The foreign minister has announced an office for “hydrogen diplomacy” in the Ukrainian capital. (Photo: Reuters) Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock tried last week to send German support to…
Controversy over taxonomy becomes a reality check for the Greens
Vattenfall gas power plant in Berlin-Lichterfelde The federal government sees the use of gas power plants as a transitional technology. (Photo: Paul Langrock/laif) Steffi Lemke and Robert Habeck quietly and…
ECB council member warns of price fluctuations through Germany
Olli Rehn The central banker expects “that the drivers of inflation will subside over the course of the year”. (Photo: Bloomberg) Frankfurt The head of the Finnish central bank, Olli…
Federal government accepts natural gas for the transition – energy industry is relieved
Minister Habeck, Wissing, Baerbock with Chancellor Scholz Berlin The German government is clearly opposed to the EU Commission classifying nuclear power as a sustainable energy source. At the same time,…
The federal government gives a clear no to nuclear power in the EU – gas as a bridging technology
Minister Habeck, Wissing, Baerbock with Chancellor Scholz Berlin The Federal Government is clearly opposed to the EU Commission classifying nuclear power as a sustainable energy source, but supports a corresponding…
The federal government gives a clear no to nuclear power in the EU – gas as a bridging technology
Berlin The Federal Government is clearly opposed to the EU Commission classifying nuclear power as a sustainable energy source, but supports a corresponding classification of gas as a bridge solution.…
Unlike Baerbock, Scholz and Habeck see an additional role for gas
Minister Habeck, Wissing, Baerbock with Chancellor Scholz Berlin Apparently there are different estimates in the federal government as to how large Germany’s gas requirements will be in the coming years.…
End of the EEG surcharge: climate fund to finance abolition
Berlin The previous plan of the traffic light coalition is clear: At the turn of the year 2022/2023, the levy under the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) should be completely…
The quick end of the EEG surcharge
The previous plan of the traffic light coalition is clear: At the turn of the year 2022/2023, the levy under the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) should be completely eliminated.…
If Russia invades, Europe will appease
The tragedy of Europe is that Germany is not against Russia and the EU is not against Germany. A Russian invasion of Ukraine will have many losers. I expect that…
There is a risk of green inflation
A functioning system of flexible prices is at the heart of a market economy. Adam Smith, the founder of economics, already knew this in the 18th century. As if controlled…
This is how e-cars should relieve the grids
Berlin Anyone who buys an electric car today usually wants to support the switch to renewable energies. After all, only potentially green electricity ends up in the battery instead of…
Habeck demands from Söder proposals for exceptions for wind power
Markus Soeder and Robert Habeck The Green politician calls on the CSU leader to be ecologically patriotic about wind energy. (Photo: Reuters) Munich In the dispute over the expansion of…