Electricity from biogas power plants in Germany can currently be fed into the grid at a guaranteed price. But the country’s renewable energy law faces revision that could end subsidies; operators fear for their business.

https://www.netzerowatch.com/green-flop-germanys-biogas-plants-face-bankruptcy/

Revelations that engineers for German car giant Volkswagen and its subsidiaries used technology to cheat emission regulations shook the industry. Five years on, those at the helm during the scandal are standing trial. Former-Audi CEO Rupert Stadler on Wednesday became _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/germany-first-ceo-faces-trial-over-dieselgate-scandal/

The EU Commission President will probably present her proposal for a stricter climate target next week. Resistance is forming. Brussels, Berlin, Düsseldorf: The plan was already foreseeable, it should become concrete next week: EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/green-deal-germany-industry-rejects-more-stringent-eu-climate-targets/

With Germany facing the possibility of its worst recession since the second world war, public attention is shifting away from the Greens and climate activists. As protesters unfurl their banner along the canal beneath Germany’s newest coal plant, a barge piled _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/greens-on-back-foot-as-germanys-newest-coal-plant-opens/

The German program that’s spurred the nation’s switch to green power is buckling under the weight of surging costs and needs an urgent fix. That’s the assessment of one of the scheme’s chief designers, Hans Josef Fell. Designed in 2000 to enable Germany _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/germanys-green-energy-is-becoming-unaffordable/

German ministers met Tuesday to thrash out an economic stimulus package to speed recovery from the coronavirus shutdown, with the vital auto industry and possible subsidies for it a key sticking point. Much of the wrangling is along familiar lines _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/car-subsidies-or-climate-subsidies-germany-divided-over-stimulus-plans/

German power utility Uniper’s new Datteln 4 coal-fired power station will begin operating on May 30, it said on Tuesday. The 1,050 megawatt (MW) plant that has cost Uniper 1.5 billion euros was granted an exemption from Germany’s plan to _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/germany-to-open-new-coal-power-plant-next-week/

Germany’s multi-billion euro bailout of Deutsche Lufthansa AG may cost the airline some precious airport slots, but one thing it won’t have to do is meet any new environmental rules. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government on Monday offered Lufthansa a 9 _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/reality-check-no-climate-strings-attached-in-lufthansas-bailout/

Germany is on track to widely miss its EU obligations to reduce CO2 emissions. Germany is on track to widely miss its EU obligations to reduce CO2 emissions, even if the EU does not follow through plans to step up _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/germany-on-course-to-widely-miss-eu-emission-targets/

Germany’s solar industry is in deep crisis and may implode in the summer as a legal end to subsidies looms. Solutions have been around for a long time, but internal power struggles and debates over distance rules between wind turbines _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/without-subsidies-germanys-solar-industry-could-implode-this-summer/

The coronavirus has had, at least, the unanticipated benefit of obscuring and diminishing the tedious public clamoring about climate change. It is a slightly redeeming virtue of crises that they tend to supersede and diminish previous crises; if a crisis _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/conrad-black-germanys-course-could-signal-end-of-clamor-over-climate-change/

Experts have been debating Germany’s ‘coronavirus anomaly’, as cases continue to grow in the country but deaths caused by the virus remain low. Currently, Germany has confirmed over 16,000 cases of coronavirus infections among its citizens – the virus which _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/germanys-coronavirus-infections-climb-but-deaths-remain-low/