The country’s “red-green” government is expanding its wind energy in North Rhine-Westphalia. “Their share of the power supply should grow from three percent to 15 percent by the year 2020 announced John Remmel, the environment minister (Green Party) on Tuesday at the energy fair in Essen. This will bring the Bundesland back to its leading [...]

In an interview with the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, Thomas Duveau, finance and climate expert at the environmental organization WWF said that in restructuring energy policies, the economy should plan and think on a long term basis. He predicts that in 2050 Germany will generate 95% less emissions when compared with today and that a German climate [...]

The second German parliamentary chamber, the Bundesrat, has recently overturned German minister for the environment Norbert Röttgen’s plans to cut German subisidies for the generation of solar power. Leading the revolt against the plans were eastern German regions who are host to some of Germany’s largest solar companies. Röttgen had planned to cut subsidies by [...]