Around 60% of European energy experts don’t think the German energy transition can serve as a global blueprint. That’s according to a new survey from Weltenergierat Deutschland, the German member committee of the World Energy Council. The German shift from nuclear and fossil fuels to renewables, known as the Energiewende, is being closely followed by a large majority of respondents […]

Germany has made a €1 billion (£860m) mistake by over-investing in renewable energy. That’s according to Professor Fritz Vahrenholt, one of the founders of Germany’s environmental movement and the former Director of Innogy, one of Europe’s largest renewable energy companies. The professor told ELN that German consumers and industry will pay a hefty price for the nation’s hurried approach […]

No matter what country you’re in, energy is and always will be big business. But for Germans when it comes to energy, they REALLY mean business. That’s massively apparent when it comes to the huge trade fairs like eWorld, which I flew back from this week. The largest energy fair in Europe, it’s held in […]

Germany plans to share out the cost of renewable energy subsidies among big energy users to take the weight of consumer energy bills. The German Environment Minister Peter Altmaier (pictured) reportedly wants to counter the huge cost of the country’s “Energiewende”, or energy revolution. The shift away from nuclear power towards renewable energy was prompted […]