Sentences with phrase «german energy policy»

German energy policy had «permanently taken away the basis for us to sell our products and solutions in the fossil energy sector in Germany,» he said in an interview to explain the job cuts.

«How a Court Threw Out a Major Obama Environmental Regulation and EPA Refused to Say How Global Temperatures Would Change under the Paris Treaty German Energy Policy Sticks It to the Poor and Small Businesses»

Clearly, German energy policy has a «death wish» for the historical paradigm.

Not exact matches

Living in Germany, Mr Teske has witnessed first hand the decline in employment in the German coal sector in the 1990s and, as a result of some of the most progressive renewable energy industry development policies in the world, seen the German renewable energy workforce grow to 250,000 employees.

In September 2010, the German government announced a new energy policy with the target of increasing the relative share of renewable energy in gross electrical generation to 35 % by 2020, 50 % by 2030, 65 % by 2040, and 80 % by 2050.

Because German law requires renewable energy to be used first on the German grid, when Germany exports excess electricity to its European neighbors it primarily comes from coal plants... «If you want to use fluctuating renewable power, you have to upgrade the grids across Europe,» says Daniel Genz, a policy adviser with Vattenfall.

Moving Targets: Negotiations on the EU's Energy and Climate Policy Objectives for the Post-2020 Period and Implications for the German Energy Transition.

Belgium, France, and Japan from Seth Dunn, «King Coal's Weakening Grip on Power,» World Watch, September / October 1999, pp. 10 — 19; coal subsidy reduction in Germany from Robin Pomeroy, «EU Ministers Clear German Coal Subsidies,» Reuters, 10 June 2002; DOE, EIA, International Energy Annual 2005 (Washington, DC: June — October 2007), Table E. 4; Craig Whitlock, «German Hard - Coal Production to Cease by 2018,» Washington Post, 30 July 2007; China, Indonesia, and Nigeria subsidy cuts from GTZ Transport Policy Advisory Service, International Fuel Prices 2007 (Eschborn, Germany: April 2007), p. 3.

Prior to this he covered global solar policy, markets and technology for Solar Server, and has written about renewable energy for CleanTechnica, German Energy Transition, Truthout, The Guardian (UK), and IEEE Speenergy for CleanTechnica, German Energy Transition, Truthout, The Guardian (UK), and IEEE SpeEnergy Transition, Truthout, The Guardian (UK), and IEEE Spectrum.

At the end of May, the German government decided to take a turn in its energy policy: By 2022, nuclear power will be completely abandoned - which will inevitably lead to a greater reliance on renewable energy, not least wind power.

According to one count, Germany's energy policy (Energiewende) to increase renewables, wean off of nuclear power, and cut CO2 emissions by 2022 has added more than $ 134 billion to power bills for Germans so far.

The results have implications for utilities of all sizes, said Katharina Klein, who served as a policy expert at the German Association for Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) through August 2016.

German policy leaders have talked about a transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy — an Energiewende — since the 1980s.

The country's energy policy has already forced it to pay wind farms $ 548 million to switch off last year to prevent damage to the electric grid, according to a survey of power companies by the German newspaper Wirtschaftswoche.

And because of a seismic shift in German policy, the government has to find a quick solution to a daunting problem, namely how to move large amounts of renewable energy from one region to another.

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has caught the German government distorting the latest IPCC's report on the effectiveness of «green» energy subsidies.

Schily advised Swiss citizens «not to repeat the far reaching energy policy of the German Energiewende ``.

Leading German Economics Professor Calls Germany's Energiewende An Energy Policy Calamity NoTricksZone

But there it is: That is how much Angela Merkel's «green» energy transition policy — getting rid of nuclear power and installing subsidized wind and solar power — will cost the German taxpayers.

Tveten, ÅG, Bolkesjø, TF, Martinsen, T & Hvarnes, H 2013, «Solar feed - in tariffs and the merit order effect: A study of the German electricity market», Energy Policy, vol.

This policy was then backed by the German Association of Energy and Water Industries, BDEW, which said that nuclear should be phased out by 2020 or at the latest by 2023.

Moving targets: negotiations on the EU's energy and climate policy objectives for the post-2020 period and implications for the German energy transition.

«It's a legal process that take some time,» says Susanna Dröge, a senior global energy and climate policy analyst at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, a Berlin think tank.

According to the analyst, popular opinion against German Chancellor Angela Merkel's «Energiewende» (energy transition) policies, which had doubled electricity prices, played no small part in Merkel's terrible showing in last month's national elections.

Socio (s): New Energy Finance Limited, German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, United Nations Foundation, Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy, Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century

It is worth noting that Peter Terium, the 50 - year old Dutchman who has been CEO of the German energy giant since July 2012, was among one of ten CEO's of European energy companies who on 11 October gave a joint press conference in Brussels in which they warned that the EU's energy and climate policy is having a disastrous effect on the power production sector, even leading to the risk of major blackouts.

Among other positions, Prof. Dr. Nakicenovic is Member of the United Nations Secretary General High - Level Technical Group on Sustainable for Energy for All Initiative; Member of the Advisory Council of the German Government on Global Change (WBGU); Member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Committee on Scientific Planning and Review; Co-Chair, Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Carbon Project (GCP); Member of the Board, Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA); Member of the Working Group of the Austrian Panel on Climate Change (AG - APCC); Member of the Panel on Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Impact and Response Assessments; Member of the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) Steering Committee; Member of the International Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Programme on Technology, and Member of the Earth League.

With concerns over climate change and health impacts of air pollution growing and due to cost reductions in renewable technology, similar developments are taking place in many parts of the world, making the German experience an interesting case study for energy policy in other countries.

Martin Seyfarth chairs the German Public Policy Practice and co-chairs the German Energy Industry Group.

The German Federal Constitutional Court has declared the nuclear fuel tax unconstitutional this week, which is bad news for the German treasury and the government's nuclear energy policy.