Energiewende.

Both the grand coalition and the current one have made the mistake of telling people that in the near future we can only rely on renewables, and give up nuclear and coal. If we want to get out of something, we have to say where we want to leave – says Steffen Große, chairman of […]

The Nord Stream 2 project does not fit well with our times. It goes against the EU plans to protect the climate and the bloc’s geostrategic interests. The pipeline is a threat to the stability of Ukraine, which is why it should be stopped, but that’s impossible – says Julia Verlinden, PhD, spokesperson of the […]

Current polls have shown that climate and energy policy is an important issue for a majority of the people in Germany. Nevertheless, the current focus of political discussions on climate change is not as productive as it should be – says Frank Steffe, Senior Associate Key Questions focusing on national and European policy at Agora […]

The German Superwahljahr is in full swing. Last Sunday a state election in Saxony-Anhalt, the poorest state in the republic that is also struggling with lignite phase-out, took place. The election results are a conspicuous success of CDU’s new chairman Armin Laschet and the state’s Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff, whereas the Greens and AfD are […]

In an interview with BiznesAlert.pl, professor Claudia Kemfert from Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung think tank talks about the challenges standing before Germany’s energy transition, a.k.a. Energiewende.

The proponents of Datteln 4 claim that this plant will be very modern and clean and emphasize that it will be delivering the necessary „base load”. But actually, to complement fluctuating renewables like solar and wind, we don’t need „base load” but rather highly flexible means of supply, such as turbines running on renewable gas, […]

There is a big discussion in Germany right now: to what extent can we use existing infrastructure to transport and distribute hydrogen? Can Germany at least partially move its infrastructure from natural gas to hydrogen? Therefore, it will be interesting to see what the federal government writes in its announced national hydrogen strategy – says […]

Europe and Germany should “share in America’s abundance” 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 guest article in the Handelsblatt.

By 2030, the share of coal in energy production may fall by half with no harm for the stability of supply – said the president of German Bundesnetzagentur Jochen Homann in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. However, in order for this to happen, new gas blocks must be connected to the network. BiznesAlert.pl […]

Reserve power plants in Germany are the missing half of the Energiewende – Piotr Grądzik writes, a co-worker of BiznesAlert.pl.