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Sven Egenter             Kerstine Appunn   Sören Amelang       Julian Wettengel   Benjamin Wehrmann    Carel Carlowitz Mohn    Eva Freundorfer
Editor in Chief          Correspondent     Correspondent       Correspondent      Correspondent        Dir. Media Programmes   Programme Officer

                                                   The repercussions of the country’s En-         commitment to work towards a cli-
            A Note from CLEW                       ergiewende (energy transition) are felt        mate-neutral economy in order to limit
                                                   across society and the business sector,        the impact of man-made climate change.
The global energy transition to win the            offering journalists a wealth of exciting
race against harmful man-made climate              and important stories. But researching         CLEW’s “A Reporter’s Guide to the
change is slowly gaining momentum. As              this massive event from outside the            Energy Transition”, now in its sixth edi-
part of this, Germany is trying to step            country is no easy task, even for the          tion, offers journalists a useful starting
up its climate action activities, and its          most seasoned reporter. The huge com-          point by outlining the main story lines of
decades-long effort to fundamentally               plexity of the technology and econom-          the energy transition, providing contact
shift its energy supply provides valuable          ics behind energy policy make things           details for experts, as well as links to key
lessons on weaning a major economy off             harder. Yet strong fact-based and critical     literature and articles.
fossil fuels.                                      journalism is essential to inform the
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Contents

      Martha Otwinowski            Hedwig Gradmann   Yannick Haas
                                                                          What is the Energiewende? And where                                   Energiewende legislation – the Renew­
      Journalism Network Manager   Assistant         Research Assistant   did it come from? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .              4    able Energy Act and beyond . . . . . . . . . 28
                                                                          #Energiewende – Targets  . . . . . . . . . . .                   6    Nuclear phase-out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
                                                                          #Energiewende – Key Figures . . . . . . . .                      8    Industry and Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
      working on energy transition stories, to
                                                                          #Energiewende – Dates 2019 / 2020  . . 11                             Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
      collaborate on cross-border stories, ex-
                                                                          #Energiewende – Contacts & Hotspots . 12                              Electricity market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
      change tips and views or collect back-
      ground information from other coun-                                 #Energiewende – Reading in English . . 13                             Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
      tries. We invite all reporters and editors                          Climate, CO2 emissions and fossil fuels  . 14                         Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
      with an interest in the energy transition                           A planned coal exit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16               Citizens’ Energy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
      and climate policy to join.                                         Energiewende history – the first four                                 Agriculture  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
                                                                          decades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18        Technology and Storage  . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
      We also organise workshops for journal-                             Power grid expansion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20                  Natural gas as a bridging
      ists, offering a first-hand account of the                          Transforming the transport sector . . . . 22                          tech­nology?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
      Energiewende. But, most importantly,                                The car industry and the energy                                       Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
      we provide assistance, answer your                                  transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24   Digitalisation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
      questions, and put you in touch with                                Renewables (wind, solar, biogas) . . . . . 26                         Geo-politics and the European Union . . 54
      experts and fellow journalists across the
      globe – so don’t hesitate to ask CLEW.                                                                                           Energiewende in Germany: Timeline

      Sven Egenter and
                         		 1973-1975                                                                                                                                         1979/1980

                             the Clean Energy Wire team                                                                                    “Nuclear power?                    Enter the Greens
                                                                                                                                           No thanks!” Birth of               Germany’s Green
                                                                                                                                           Germany’s anti-nuclear             Party is founded, with
                                                                                                                                           movement as protests               an exit from nuclear
                                                                                                                                           force plans for a nuclear          energy and a renew-
                                                                                                                                           power plant in Wyhl to             able future as key
                                                                                                                                           be aborted                         demands
                                                                                                                                                                              Activists first use the
                                                                                                                                                                              term “Energiewende”               3
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What is the Energiewende?
And where did it come from?

T  he energy transition, known in Ger-
   many as the Energiewende, is the
country’s planned transformation to a
                                                           The process has these key elements:                       in the 1990s, the project has been
                                                                                                                     radically reshaping the energy system
                                                                                                                     as a whole. As the traditional model
                                                                 the phase-out of nuclear power
low-carbon, nuclear free economy.                                  (by 2022) and fossil fuels                        of centralised power generation is being
                                                                  the development of renewable energy               replaced by diverse sources of energy
                                                                   sources and low-carbon technologies               that fluctuate with the weather, the
                                                                 increased energy efficiency                         project’s influence goes beyond the grid
                                                                                                                     and the power market. While for now
                                                                                                                     mainly focused on electricity, the Ener-
                                                           However, since the introduction of                        giewende is also expected to transform
                                                           feed-in tariffs for renewable energies                    other sectors like industry, housing,

… Energiewende in Germany: Timeline

 1986                       1991                     1997/2005               2000                       2007                   2010                       2011

 Chernobyl disaster         Kick-starting renew-     Kyoto Protocol          Renewable Energy Act       EU targets             Extending nuclear          Nuclear phase-out #2
 solid­if­ies Germans’      ables                    Germany, the world’s    Renewables granted         EU sets 2020 climate   The nuclear consensus is   Merkel government
 resist­ance to nuclear     New legislation intro-   sixth largest emitter   feed-in tariffs and grid   targets: 20% renew­    reversed by a conserva-    formulates new nuclear
 energy                     duces feed-in tariffs    at the time, has to     priority                   ables share, 20% GHG   tive government            phase-out by 2022 with
                            for renewable power      reduce CO2 emissions                               reduction, 20% more                               large parliamentary
  Climate change                                     under the agreement     Nuclear phase-out #1       efficiency             Energy concept             majority after Fukushi-
  enters the discourse –                                                     SPD-Green government                              Govt. sets out renewa-     ma disaster
  a magazine story leads                                                     and utilities agree                               bles and climate targets
  parliament to establish                                                    to phase out nuclear                              for 2020 and 2050
4 an advisory council                                                        by 2022
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Energiewende

  construction, heating, and transport as                          was the first to benefit from the nuclear
  all stakeholders are looking for ways to                         phase-out, but its future is now uncertain
  shape Germany’s “all-electric” future.                           as the government has taken the first
  For Germany’s specific energy transition                         steps to a coal exit path by 2038 in order
  targets, see pages 6- 7.                                         to step up efforts to cut greenhouse gas
                                                                   emissions. Meanwhile, entirely new busi-
  There are already winners and losers. The                        nesses have sprung up.
  big utilities’ traditional business models
  have been hit hard, while consumers and
  some businesses are concerned about
  higher electricity costs. The coal industry

2014                          2015                      2016                       2017                     2018                     2019

New EEG & climate             Slow progress             Spin-off                   Renewables               New government           Coal exit pathway
action                        The Energiewende          Utilities E.ON and RWE     Reform                   Wants to focus on grid   Multi-stakeholder
Govt. lowers feed-in          monitoring report         split to separate renew­   Auctions determine       expansion and sector     commission proposes
tariffs, starts PV auctions   shows climate targets     ables from fossil plants   renewables payments      coupling                 gradual coal phase-out
and introduces plan to        are “in serious danger”                                                                                by 2038
achieve 2020 climate                                    Climate Action Plan        G20 & COP23              Utilities shakeup
targets                                                 Govt. adopts ambitious     Germany tries to main-   RWE and E.ON split up Climate Action Law
                                                        2030 emission targets      tain climate             utility innogy, separating Government plans to
                                                        for individual economic    leadership, but emis-    grids from generation      enshrine 2030 climate
                                                        sectors                    sions stagnate                                      targets into law                       5
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#Energiewende – Targets

T  he overall objective of the Energie­    country’s gross power consump-                          Sector targets for greenhouse gas reductions
   wende is to reduce Germany’s            tion (36 percent in 2017).                     Sector                  2018 status*              2030 target
                                                                                                                  cut from 1990 levels      cut from 1990 levels
greenhouse gas emissions and phase
                                                                                          Energy                          33 %                     61-62 %
out nuclear power, making the economy     In November 2016, Germany’s govern-
                                                                                          Buildings                       44 %                     66-67 %
more environmentally sustainable.         ment agreed on a basic framework - the
                                                                                          Transport                      0.6 %                     40-42 %
                                          Climate Action Plan 2050 - for largely
                                                                                          Industry                        31 %                     49-51 %
On a national level, Germany's official   decarbonising the country’s economy             Agriculture                     22 %                     31-34 %
goals are to cut greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of this century. In accord-       Other                           74 %                       87 %
by 40 percent by 2020, by 55 percent by   ance with the Paris Climate Agreement,          Total                           31 %                     55-56 %
2030, and by up to 95 percent by 2050.    the plan fine-tunes Germany’s climate         *2018 data preliminary.            Source: Climate Action Plan 2050, UBA (2019).

The share of renewables in final ener-    goals. It includes target corridors for re-
gy consumption is to rise to 60 percent   ducing greenhouse gas emissions in the        credibility. The economy ministry’s 2014
(from 15.9 percent in 2017) by 2050.      individual economic sectors as interim        Climate Action Programme detailing ad-
By the middle of the century, renewables goals for the year 2030. The energy sec-       ditional measures and identifying CO₂2
are to cover at least 80 percent of the   tor will have to cut its emissions roughly    saving potential, is likely to be less effec-
                                          by half compared to 2014 levels.              tive than predicted. The Energiewende
                                                                                        monitoring expert commission in 2018
                                           As for the progress made on these tar-       warned that there were considerable de-
                                           gets: In autumn 2017, the environment        ficiencies in improving energy efficiency,
                                           ministry warned that Germany was set         and that developments in the transport
                                           to widely miss its 2020 emission targets,    sector were going in the wrong direction
                                           thereby threatening the entire project’s     (i. e. higher instead of lower emissions).

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Energy transition targets

Quantitative targets of the energy transition
                  1990    2005    2008    2017               2020           2030        2040    2050

 Reduce                                                      -40 %
 greenhouse gas                                                             -55 %
 emissions                                                                              -70 %

                                          72.5 %
                  100 %

                                                                                                -80 - 95 %

                                                                            45 %
                                                             60 %

                                                                                        30 %
                                                                                                  5-20 %

 Reduce                                                                                                              Increase share
 electricity                                                                                                         of renewables in
 consumption
                                                                            50 -65 %*   65 %
                                                                                                         80 %
                                                                                                                     gross electricity

                                          96.7 %
                                                                                                                     consumption
                                  100 %

                                                             90 %

                                                                                                  75 %
                                                    36 %             35 %

                                                             -20 %                                                   Increase share
 Reduce
                                                                                                                     of renewables in
 primary energy                                                                                  -50 %
                                                                                                                     gross final energy
 consumption
                                          93.5 %

                                                                                                                     consumption
                                  100 %

                                                                                                  50 %
                                                             80 %
                                                                                        45 %             60 %
                                                                            30 %
                                                    15.9 %           18 %

 Reduce primary
                                           (2016)

 energy demand
 in buildings
                                          81.7 %
                                  100 %

                                                                                                  20 %

 Reduce
 final energy                                                                                                            * New conditional target
 consumption                                                                                                             accord­ing to coalition
                                          103.6 %

                                                                                                                         treaty 2018.
 in transport
                          100 %

                                                             90 %

                                                                                                  60 %
                                                                                                                         Sources: AG Energiebilan-
                                                                                                                         zen (2018), BMWi (2018),
                  1990    2005    2008    2017               2020           2030        2040    2050                     UBA (2018), BMU (2018).

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#Energiewende – Key Figures
                                                                                                                               3.6 % Renewables’ share
                                                                                                                               in gross German power
                                                                                                                               generation in 1990
    47.1 m Passenger cars           83,175 Pure electric cars      1st rank for Germany          17th rank                     34.9 % Renewables’
    registered in Germany           registered = 0.17 %            in energy efficiency policy   for Germany in the overall    share in gross power
    (01/2019)                       (01/2019)                      and performance score-        “Energy Transition Index”     generation in 2018
                                                                   card (ACEEE, 2018)            (WEF, 2019)
                                                                                                                               15.1 minutes:
                                                                                                                               Average power outage
                                                                                                                               in Germany 2017
    93 % of Germans                 € 24.6 bn Renewable            338,500 People                20,766 People                 USA: 4 hours (2016)
    believe use and roll-out of     surcharge paid by power        employed in the               employed in the lignite       GB:     47 mins (2016)
    renewables is very impor-       consumers in 2018              renew­ables sector (2016)     industry                      France: 53 mins (2016)
    tant or important (2018)                                                                     (01/2019)                     Poland: 192 mins (2016)

    23.7       30.22 ct/kWh            8.7 % Drop in energy        € 17 bn the government            14 % Renewables’ share    37.8 % Renewables’
    Average household power            demand for heating houses   pays to energy efficiency         in primary energy con-    share in gross power con-
    price 2010 and 2019 –              2008 – 2017                 measures in housing               sumption in 2018          sumption in 2018
    there­of 6.4 ct/kWh re­new­­­                                  (by 2020)                         (up from 1.3 % in 1990)   (up from 3.1 % in 1991)
    able surcharge in 2019

    5.1      4.4 ct/kWh
    Average electricity spot           92 % of natural gas         97 % of crude oil                 53.4 % rise in GDP        13 % fall in primary en-
    market price in 2010               used in Germany             is imported (2017)                since 1990 (2018)         ergy consumption since
    and 2018                           is imported (2017)                                                                      1990 (2018)

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Energy transition data

                                                                                                                                                                                       30.8 % green house gas reduction
Emission trends for Germany by sector 1990-2018
                                                                                                                                                                                       since 19 90
                                               1,252
                                     1,200
                                               79

                                                                                                             1,045
                                                       71

                                                                                                                                             993 1,001 974 976
                                     1,000
 CO2 equivalents in million tonnes

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                                                                                           67
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                                                  Energy industries                        Manufacturing industries and construction                                                  Transport                           Fugitive emissions from fuels                                        Industry       Households

                                                  Agriculture                   Waste                  Other                 Total emissions without LULUCF

                                             Without emissions from land use,                     *According to federal environment ministry calculations from October 2017, Germany is set to widely miss its goal
                                             land-use change and forestry (LULUCF)                 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020.                                                                                                                                                      Source: UBA, 2019.

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                                                                                                        equal share of renewables& coa l
Development of gross power production in Germany 1990-2018
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Mineral oil     Others
                                                                                                                                                                       27.3 26.8 27.0
                                                                                                                        Other                           26.2 27.0 27.3                                                                                        0.8%           4.3%
                        600
                                                                                                            Renewables                                                         189.8
                                                                                                                                                                       188.6        216.3                                                       Natural gas
                                                                                                     Mineral oil                                               162.5                        225.7
                                                                                                                                                      152.5                                                                                       12.9%                                             Wind onshore     14.3%
                        500                                                                     Natural gas
terawatt-hours (TWh)

                                                                                                                                                        67.5                                                                        Hard coal
                        400                                                                                                                                     61.1

                                                                                                                                                                                                               % shares in 2018
                                                                                                    Hard coal                                                          62.0 81.3            5.2
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      12.9%
                                                                                                                                                      127.3
                                                                                                                                                                                    86.7
                                                                                                                                                                                            83.4                                                                      Renewables
                        300                                                                                                                                    118.6                                                                                                    34.9%                       Wind offshore     3.0%
                                                                                                                                                                    117.7
                                                                                                                                                                            112.2
                                                                                                                                                                                 93.6 83.2                                                                                                          Hydro power       2.6%
                                                                                                    Lignite
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Biomass           7.0%
                        200                                                                                                                           160.9
                                                                                                                                                           155.8
                                                                                                                                                                       154.5
                                                                                                                                                                               149.5                                                 Lignite
                                                                                                                                                                                   148.4 145.5                                                                                                      Solar             7.2%
                        100                                                                                                                                                                                                             22.5%
                                                                                               Nuclear power
                                                                                                                                                        97.3 97.1 91.8                                                                                  Nuclear
                                                                                                                                                                               84.6 76.3 76.0
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         11.8%                                      Waste             1.0%
                         0
                              1990      1992      1994      1996      1998       2000        2002      2004        2006      2008      2010        2012        2014        2016        2018
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Source: AG Energiebilanzen (2018).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Share of energy sources
Germany’s power export balance 1990-2018                                                                                                                                                                                 in primary energy consumption 2018
                        675                                                                                                                                                            60
                                               Power export balance                                                                                                                                                                                 Mineral oil

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Net export
                        650                    Gross power generation                                                                                                                   50                                                            34.3%                          Others          Waste            0.9%
                                               Gross power consumption                                                                                                                                                                                                                0.3%          Hydro power       0.5%
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Wind power        3.1%
                        625                                                                                                                                                             40
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                        600                                                                                                                                                             30                                                                                                          Solar             1.5%
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Renewables                Biomass           7.5%
                        575                                                                                                                                                             20                                        Natural gas                               14.0%
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    23.7%
                        550                                                                                                                                                             10
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Nuclear
                                                                                                                                                                                                  Net import                                                                6.4%
                        525                                                                                                                                                             0
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  10.0%         11.3%                               Geothermal        0.5%
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                                                                                                                                                                        Source: BMWi (2019).                                                                                              Source: AG Energiebilanzen (2018).

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Calendar

#Energiewende – Dates 2019/2020

2019
8 - 9 April: Future Mobility Summit,          1 September: State elections in Branden-   25 - 26 November: dena Congress,
BERLIN.                                       burg and Saxony.                           by German Energy Agency (dena),
                                                                                         BERLIN.
9 - 10 April: Berlin Energy Transition        10 - 11 September: 14th German Energy
Dialogue, BERLIN.                             Congress, SV Veranstaltungen,              2 – 13 December: COP25, CHILE.
                                              MUNICH.
12 - 14 May: 10th Petersberg Climate                                                     2020
Dialogue, BERLIN.                             12 - 22 September: 68th International
                                              Motor Show (IAA), FRANKFURT/MAIN.          20 – 22 January: Handelsblatt Energy
15 - 17 May: Intersolar Europe, trade fair,                                              Conference 2020, BERLIN.
MUNICH.                                       23 September: UN 2019 Climate Summit,
                                              NEW YORK.                                  11 – 13 February: E-World energy & water
20 - 22 May: Berliner Energietage 2019                                                   trade fair, ESSEN.
“Energiewende in Germany”, BERLIN.            27 October: State elections
                                              in Thuringia.
22 - 23 May: International Conference on
Climate Action – ICCA2019, HEIDELBERG.
26 May: European elections in Germany.

                                                                       Ca lendar
26 May: State elections in Bremen.
4 - 6 June: BDEW Congress, energy con-
ference by German Association of Energy
and Water Industries (BDEW), BERLIN.

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#Energiewende – Contacts & Hotspots

… for official statements                             Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut)           … for industry comment
                                                      Sustainable development consultancy and research
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs                 institute. +49 30 405085 334, m.schossig@oeko.de,      German Association of Energy and Water Indus-
and Energy (BMWi), +49 30 18 615 6121,                www.oeko.de/en                                         tries (BDEW), Germany’s largest energy industry as-
pressestelle@bmwi.bund.de, www.bmwi.de/en                                                                    sociation. +49 30 300 199-1160, presse@bdew.de,
                                                      Agora Energiewende, Think tank focusing on             www.bdew.de
Federal Ministry for the Environment,                 dialogue with energy policymakers in the pow-
Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU),         er sector. +49 30 700 1435-110,                        German Association of Local Utilities (VKU)
+49 30 18 305 2010, presse@bmu.bund.de,               christoph.podewils@agora-energiewende.de,              Representing the many local and regional utilities
www.bmu.bund.de/en                                    www.agora-energiewende.de                              (Stadtwerke) in Germany. +49 30 58580-226,
                                                                                                             luig@vku.de, www.vku.de
Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital
                                                      German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)
Infrastructure (BMVI), +49 30 18300-7200,                                                                    Federation of German Industries (BDI)
                                                      DIW’s energy, transportation and environment,
presse@bmvi-bund.de, www.bmvi.de/en                                                                          +49 30 2028-1565, j.wiskow@bdi.eu, www.bdi.eu
                                                      and climate policy departments study the eco­
Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Com-   nomics and politics of climate change and energy.      German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE)
munity, +49 30 18681 11022, presse@bmi.bund.de        Mathilde Richter, +49 30 89789-152,                    +49 30 275 81 70-16, presse@bee-ev.de,

                                                                                                            the experts
                                                      mrichter@diw.de, www.diw.de                            www.bee-ev.de
… for latest data and research                        Fraunhofer ISE, Solar energy research institute and
                                                      publisher of electricity production data. Also see
Agora Verkehrswende, Think tank focusing on the       their data and graphs at www.energy-charts.de,
energy transition in the transport sector.            +49 761 4588-5147, www.ise.fraunhofer.de
+49 30 700 1435-305, fritz.vorholz@agora-
verkehrswende.de, www.agora-verkehrswende.de          German Renewable Energies Agency (AEE)
                                                      +49 30 200 535 52, a.schwalbe@unendlich-
AG Energiebilanzen, Energy market research group.
                                                      viel-energie.de, www.unendlich-viel-energie.de
+49 30 8913987, hziesing@t-online.de,

                                                                                                          www. clean energy wire.org /experts
                                                                                                             tut­ ions with insights
www.ag-energiebilanzen.de                                         … for a list of over 250 experts and insti
                                                                  into the Energie­wende see:
                                                                                                              the CLEW Research Map
                                                                     or find energy transition hotspots on
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Contacts & Sources

#Energiewende – Reading in English

cleanenergywire.org Our website provides in-depth         Federal Foreign Office Who is Who of the Energie-       Federation of German
analyses (dossiers), factsheets, news articles, a daily   wende in Germany. Brochure of Contact Partners          Industries (BDI) (2018)
press digest, an expert database, and more.               in Politics, Industry and Society (2015) & Online       Climate Paths for Ger­
                                                          database (2019).                                        many – Executive Summary
Agora Energiewende (2019) The European Power
Sector in 2018; (2013) 12 Insights on Germany’s           Federal Environment Agency (UBA) (2017) Data on         National Geographic (2015) Germany Could Be a
Energiewende.                                             the Environment.                                        Model for How We’ll Get Power in the Future.

Agora Verkehrswende (2017) Transforming Trans-            Hager, Carol and Christoph H. Stefes (eds.) (2016)      PwC (2015) Energiewende Outlook: Transportation
port to Ensure Tomorrow’s Mobility.                       Germany’s Energy Transition. A Comparative Per-         sector; Energiewende Outlook: Electricity sector;
                                                          spective.                                               Energiewende Outlook: Heating sector.
The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and
Energy (BMWi) website offers a wide range of              Ecologic Institute (2016) Understanding the Energy      Centre on Regulation in Europe (2015) The energy
publications in English, including the newsletter         Transition in Germany.                                  transition in Europe: initial lessons from Germany,
’Energiewende direkt‘.                                                                                            the UK and France.
                                                          Energy Research and Social Science (2016) Putting
Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU)                an energy system transformation into practice: The      World Economic Forum (2019) Fostering Effective
(2018) Climate Action in Figures. Facts, Trends and       case of the German Energiewende.                        Energy Transition
Incentives for German Climate Policy; (2016) Climate
                                                          German Institute for Economic Research (2015)
Action Plan 2050.
                                                          Deep Decarbonisation in Germany. A Macro-Analy-
energytransition.org A website/blog, funded by the        sis of the Economic and Political Challenges of the
Heinrich Böll Foundation, explaining what the ener-       ‘Energiewende’.
gy transition is, how it works, and what challenges
                                                          International Association for Energy Economics (2014)
lie ahead.
                                                          The German “Energiewende”— An Introduction.
Federal Foreign Office (2018) The German Ener­
                                                          AG Energiebilanzen (2018) Evaluation Tables of the
giewende.
                                                          Energy Balance for Germany 1990 to 2017.

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      #Climate
      xxx      and CO2 #Fossil Fuels

      xxx
      Green pioneer Germany struggles
      to make climate protection a reality

                                  A    s the home country of the Energie­
                                       wende, Germany is considered a
                                  pioneer in the fight against man-made
                                                                                It is set to miss its 2020 climate targets.
                                                                                Germany is now aiming at 2030 targets
                                                                                with its Climate Action Plan 2050, a road­
                                  climate change. But despite a spectacular     map to a climate neutral economy by mid-
                                  rise in power generation from renew­­ables,   century. The government has pledged to
                                  the country’s track record on cut­ting        enshrine these targets and how sectors
                                  greenhouse gas emissions is mixed:            are responsible to reach them into law in
©[hansenn] Fotolia.

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#Climate and CO2 #Fossil Fuels

   Contacts                                     Climate Alliance Germany                            Germanwatch / Climate Action Network (2018)
                                                +49 30 780 899 514, presse@klima-allianz.de         The Climate Change Performance Index 2019
Fraunhofer ISE
+49 761 4588-5147,                              Stiftung 2°
karin.schneider@ise.fraunhofer.de               +49 30 204 537 34, laura.toerkel@2grad.org               On cleanenergywire.org
IKEM – Institute for Climate Protection and     Patrick Graichen, Agora Energiewende                  Dossier:
Mobility                                        +49 30 700 1435-110,
                                                                                                    The energy transition and climate change
+49 30 4081870-17, dominik.dicken@ikem.de       christoph.podewils@agora-energiewende.de
                                                                                                    Political uncertainty weighs heavily on energy policy
The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact        Claudia Kemfert, German Institute for Economic      crunch time year for Germany
Research (PIK)                                  Research (DIW)
+49 331 288 25 07, press@pik-potsdam.de         +49 30 89789-663, ckemfert@diw.de                      Article:
                                                                                                    Germany's government coalition divided over draft
Camilla Bausch, Ecologic Institute                                                                  Climate Action Law
+49 30 86880-0, berlin@ecologic.eu                 Reading
                                                                                                       Factsheets:
Corinna Seide, WWF Germany                      Agora Energiewende (2017) The Energiewende
                                                                                                    Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions and
+49 30 311777-422, corinna.seide@wwf.de         in a nutshell
                                                                                                    climate targets
Germanwatch                                     Agora Energiewende (2019) European Energy           Germany’s Climate Action Plan 2050
+49 228 60492-23, presse@germanwatch.org        Transition 2030: The Big Picture
                                                                                                    Germany's Climate Action Law begins to take shape
Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons   Agora Energiewende (2014) The German Energie-       Putting a price on emissions: What are the pros-
and Climate Change (MCC)                        wende and its Climate Paradox                       pects for carbon pricing in Germany?
+49 30 3385537-201, lampe@mcc-berlin.net
                                                Fraunhofer ISE (2019) Energy Charts
                                                Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU) (2016)
2019. But the protracted battle over the        Climate Action Plan 2050

                                                                                                         for heating or
details of the law and the accompanying
measures revealed it will be a bumpy ride
                                                          os al is th at w  e m  ake fos sil fuels used
to turn climate ambition into practice,
                                                 “My prop                                        m  ake electric ity cheaper.”
as the country needs to kick its habit of
burning coal for power production – and
                                                 transport more ex  pe ns ive an d, in ret ur n,
                                                                                                                                               PD)
                                                                                        Environ ment M inister Svenja Sc hulze (S
say goodbye to petrol and diesel cars.

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      #Coal

      Europe's largest economy aims
      to exit coal to reach climate goals

                                  G   ermany has officially set in motion
                                      the gradual withdrawal from coal,
                                  joining other major economies in the
                                                                            Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition
                                                                            government set up a multi-stakeholder
                                                                            expert coal exit commission to come up
                                  global farewell to the climate-damag-     with a plan. The task force recommended
                                  ing fossil fuel. Faced with stagnating    shutting the last coal-fired power plant
                                  greenhouse gas emissions despite a        by 2038 at the latest. It is now up to the
                                  rapid expansion of renewable power,       government to move on the propos-
© Pixabay.

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#Coal

   Contacts                                       Reading                                                    On cleanenergywire.org
BDEW-German Association of Energy and          Commission on Growth, Structural Change and                Dossiers:
Water Industries                               Employment (2019) Final report (in German)               Germany’s coal phase-out
+49 30 300 199 1160, presse@bdew.de
                                               Ecologic et al. (2019) Phasing out coal in the Ger-      The next German government and the energy
DEBRIV – Federal German Association for        man energy sector                                        transition
Brown Coal
                                               Agora Energiewende (2018) A Future for Lusatia             Articles:
+49 2234 1864-0, uwe.maassen@braunkohle.de
                                               Agora Energiewende (2017) Renewables versus fos-         German government stands ready to move on
Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut)                                                            coal exit proposal
                                               sil fuels – comparing the costs of electricity systems
+49 30 405085-334, m.schossig@oeko.de
                                                                                                        Relief about German coal exit deal fades as focus
                                               Climate Analytics (2018) Coal Phase Out Germany          turns to implementation challenges
BMWi - Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs
and Energy                                     Agora Energiewende (2016) Eleven Principles for
+49 30 18 615 6121 and -6131,                                                                             Factsheets:
                                               Reaching a Consensus on Coal
pressestelle@bmwi.bund.de                                                                               Implementing Germany’s coal exit proposal –
                                                                                                        the road ahead
Barbara Praetorius, co-chair of coal exit
                                                                                                        German commission proposes coal exit by 2038
commission
+49 30 5019-2532,                                                                                       Coal in Germany
Barbara.Praetorius@HTW-Berlin.de                                                                        Germany's three lignite mining regions
                                                                                                        Climate, energy and transport in Germany’s
                                                                                                        coalition treaty

al and mould it into legislative drafts
before parliamentarians get the final
say. Electricity generation from coal has
long served German industry, supplied
                                                     “The [coa l commission] deal shows responsibility for
whole regions with jobs and wealth and,
to date, remains a pillar of the country’s
                                                     society as a whole and we want to live up to it.”
energy supply.
                                                       			                                     Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)
                                                                                                                                                            17
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      #Energiewende #History

      Energiewende – the first four decades

                                  F   or many observers, the energy
                                      transition in Germany began with
                                  Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision
                                                                           govern­ment reinstated plans to exit nu-
                                                                           clear power. A long process deeply rooted
                                                                           in German history and society led to
                                  to phase out nuclear power, following    policies that triggered a strong increase in
                                  the accident at the Fukushima nuclear    renewable energy sources and are now at
                                  plant in Japan. But the societal pro-    the heart of a move to a low-carbon econ-
                                  ject started decades before the Merkel   omy. The Energiewende – a full-scale
©[nullplus] iStock.

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#Energiewende #History

                                               Contacts                                                 On cleanenergywire.org
                                           Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut)              Dossier:
                                           +49 30 405085-334, m.schossig@oeko.de                   The history of the Energiewende

 “ The renewable energy act                Heinrich Böll Foundation
                                           +49 30 285 34 217, lorenz@boell.de
                                                                                                     Factsheets:
                                                                                                   Milestones of the German Energiewende

 sparked a real grassroots                 Green Party
                                           +49 30 284 42 130, presse@gruene.de
                                                                                                   The history behind Germany’s nuclear phase-out

citizens’ movement.                        Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND)
                                           +49 30 27586 425, sigrid.wolff@bund.net

Germans turned the                         Greenpeace Germany
                                           +49 40 306 18 340, presse@greenpeace.de

Energiewende into their                    Nina Scheer, Social Democrats MP
                                           +49 30 227 76539, nina.scheer@bundestag.de

own project.”                                 Reading
   Nina Scheer, Social Democrats MP        energytransition.de Timeline Energiewende
                                           Paul Hockenos (2008) Joschka Fischer and the Mak-
                                           ing of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of
                                           Postwar Germany
transformation of society and the          Carbon Brief (2016) The history History of the
economy – arose out of enduring grass-     Energiewende
roots movements, evidence-based
discourse, concern about climate change,
and key technological advances, as well
as hands-on experience garnered along
the way in Germany and elsewhere.

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      #Grid

      Success of Energiewende hinges
      on unblocking the power grid

                                  G    ermany must update its electricity
                                       network to handle the fluctuat-
                                  ing supply of power from decentral-
                                                                              But too much power can be as big a prob-
                                                                              lem for the stability of the grid as too
                                                                              little would be. Furthermore, not every-
                                  ised sources, while pursuing the shift to   one is in favour of building new power
                                  an integrated renewable energy system.      lines to carry electricity to the country’s
                                  The rapid expansion of wind power           industrial south. The debate revolves
                                  capacity in the north means a bounti-       around the Energiewende’s public ac-
                                  ful supply of low-cost electricity there.   ceptance, and it also centres on how the
©[Gina Sanders] Fotolia.

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#Grid

   Contacts                                          TransnetBW (grid operator)                                On cleanenergywire.org
                                                     +49 711 21858-3155, r.koenig@transnetbw.de
Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur)                                                                  Dossier:
+49 228 14 9921, pressestelle@bnetza.de              Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK)             The energy transition and Germany’s power grid
                                                     +49 30 20308-1607, renner.thomas@dihk.de
Andreas Jahn, Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP)                                                           Article:
+49 30 700 1435 421, ajahn@raponline.org                                                                  New “Power Grid Action Plan” to accelerate net-
                                                        Reading                                           work development
Oliver Brückl, OTH Regensburg
+49 941 943-9881, oliver.brueckl@oth-regensburg.de   Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur)             Factsheets:
                                                     (2017) Annual Report 2017: Networks for the future
Institute of Energy Economics at the University of                                                        Set-up and challenges of Germany’s power grid
Cologne (EWI)                                        Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy     Interconnectors & blockages – German grid at odds
+49 221 277 29-108,                                  (BMWi) (2017) Grids and Grid Expansion               with EU power market
claudia.pichonnier@ewi.uni-koeln.de
                                                     German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)         Setting the power price: the merit order effect
50Hertz Transmission (grid operator)                 (2015) Electricity grids and climate targets:        Re-dispatch costs in the German power grid
+49 30 5150-3417, volker.kamm@50hertz.com            New approaches to grid planning
                                                                                                          Loop flows: Why is wind power from northern Ger-
TenneT (grid operator)                               Pentalateral Energy Forum (2018) Second regional     many putting east European grids under pressure?
+49 921 50740 4045, Ulrike.Hoerchens@tennet.eu       generation adequacy assessment report                Germany’s electricity grid stable amid energy
Amprion (grid operator)                                                                                   transition
                                                     German TSOs Grid development plans
+49 231 5849-13785, andreas.preuss@amprion.net                                                            Power grid fees – Unfair and opaque?
                                                                                                          How can Germany keep the lights on in a renewable
                                                                                                          energy future?
central govern­ment should work with                                                                      Volatile but predictable: Forecasting renewable
the states to make this project a suc-                                                                    power generation
cess. In 2019 the government wants to                                                                     Germany’s renewable generation peaks remain
                                                                                                          shrouded in data fog

                                                               “Germany’s grid expansion is a marathon – and we
introduce a power grid acceleration law
to make sure that enough of the large

                                                                don ’t just want to complete it but also finish in a
north-south lines are completed by the
time the last nuclear power stations in

                                                                  good time.” Energy Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU)
the south are shut down in 2022.

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      #Transport

      Car giant Germany struggles to spark
      Energiewende in transport

                                  W      hen it comes to the automobile,
                                         Germany has unique gravitas. But
                                  so far, the country has made little head-
                                                                              port will be crucial in the country’s quest
                                                                              for a low-carbon economy, emissions
                                                                              from the transport sector continue to
                                  way in creating a strong link between its   rise. The high level of NOx pollution in
                                  transport system and the transition to      cities, which has been linked to the
                                  renewable energy. While it is clear that    Dieselgate affair, has led to the first
                                  extending the Energiewende to trans-        diesel driving bans, and the uptake of
© Pixabay.

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#Transport

“Decarbonisation isn’t                         Contacts                                             Agency for Renewable Energies (2015) Renewables
                                                                                                    in the transport sector: Which routes are open?
happening anyw here in                      Urs Maier, Agora Verkehrswende
                                            +49 30 700 1435-302,                                    Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastruc-

the sector. Measures are
                                            urs.maier@agora-verkehrswende.de                        ture (BMVI) Electric mobility
                                            Andreas Knie, Innovation Center for Mobility and        German Institute for Economic Research (2015)

expensive and interfere                     Social Change (Innoz)                                   Power System Impacts of Electric Vehicles in Germa-
                                            +49 30 23 88 84-101, andreas.knie@innoz.de              ny: Charging with Coal or Renewables?

with our daily life.                        Peter Kasten, Institute for Applied Ecology
                                            (Öko-Institut)
                                                                                                    Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut) (2016)
                                                                                                    Assessing the status of electrification of the road

Thus, it just hasn’t been
                                            +49 30 405085 349, p.kasten@oeko.de                     transport passenger vehicles and potential future
                                            Oliver Lah, Wuppertal Institute for Climate,            implications for the environment and European
                                                                                                    energy system
pushed by either
                                            Environment and Energy
                                            +49 30 2887458-16, oliver.lah@wupperinst.org            McKinsey (2016) Urban Mobility 2030: Berlin

politicians or industry.”                   Werner Reh, Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND)
                                            +49 176 45719292, rehwerner2@gmail.com
                                                                                                         On cleanenergywire.org
                                            Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastruc-
       Peter Kasten,                        ture (BMVI)                                               Dossiers:

     Institute for Applied Ecology          +49 30 183 00-7200, presse@bmvi-bund.de
                                            Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH)
                                                                                                    The energy transition and Germany’s transport sector
                                                                                                    How Germany is greening its growing freight sector
                                            +49 30 2400867-20, presse@duh.de                        to meet climate targets

                                                                                                       Factsheets:
electric vehicles has remained slow.           Reading                                              The task force in charge of steering Germany to
But the government has started to                                                                   clean mobility
                                            Agora Verkehrswende (2017) Transforming Trans-
tackle the thorny issue. It has set up a    port to Ensure Tomorrow’s Mobility – 12 Insights        Rail cargo emissions in Germany
commission to ensure the sector meets                                                               "Dieselgate" – a timeline of Germany's car emissions
                                            Agora Verkehrswende (2018) Towards Decarbonis-
                                                                                                    fraud scandal
highly ambitious 2030 climate targets,      ing Transport
a move that has triggered a lively public                                                           Diesel driving bans in Germany – The Q&A
                                            PricewaterhouseCoopers (2015) Energiewende
debate on how to achieve them.              Outlook: Transportation sector

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       #Cars

      BMW, Daimler, and VW vow to fight
      in green transport revolution

                                  I n Germany, the birthplace of the
                                    automobile, three iconic carmakers
                                  - BMW, Daimler, and Volkswagen - are
                                                                           Tarnished by the Dieselgate scandal
                                                                           and facing new and powerful competi-
                                                                           tors in Google, Tesla, Apple, and Uber,
                                  facing the greatest challenge in their   the future of Germany’s horsepower-
                                  history: the mobility revolution that    proud carmakers is less certain than
                                  is turning the transport system green.   ever, especially in this age of decar­boni­
©[mirpic] Fotolia.

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#Cars

   Contacts                                            Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA)            Alix Partners (2018) Global Automotive Outlook
                                                       +49 461 316-1293, pressestelle@kba.de
Kerstin Meyer, Agora Verkehrswende                                                                        McKinsey&Company (2016) Automotive revolu-
+49 30 700 1435-303,                                   German Association of the Automotive               tion – perspective towards 2030
kerstin.meyer@agora-verkehrswende.de                   Industry (VDA)
                                                       +49 30 897842-124, courant@vda.de                  Roland Berger (2016) Global Automotive
Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, Center Automotive                                                                  Supplier Study
                                                       Henning Kagermann, National Platform for
Research, University of Duisburg-Essen
                                                       Electric Mobility
+49 203 379-1111,
                                                       +49 89 520309-43, schultz@acatech.de                    On cleanenergywire.org
ferdinand.dudenhoeffer@uni-due.de
                                                       BMW Group                                            Dossier:
Stefan Bratzel, Center of Automotive
                                                       +49 89 382-72652, wieland.bruch@bmwgroup.com
Manage­ment, University of Applied Sciences                                                               BMW, Daimler and VW vow to fight in green trans-
Bergisch Gladbach                                      Daimler                                            port revolution
+49 22 02 2 85 77-0, stefan.bratzel@auto-institut.de   +49 711 17-76409,
                                                       madeleine.herdlitschka@daimler.com                   Factsheets:
Peter Mock, The International Council on Clean                                                            Reluctant Daimler plans “radical” push into new
Transportation (ICCT)                                  Volkswagen
                                                                                                          mobility world
+49 30 847 129-102, peter@theicct.org                  +49 5361 9-77639, tim.fronzek@volkswagen.de
                                                                                                          Early e-car starter BMW plans new mobility sprint
Nicolai Müller, McKinsey&Company                                                                          Diesel driving bans in Germany – The Q&A
                                                          Reading
+49 211 136-4516,
                                                                                                          Dieselgate forces VW to embrace green mobility
Martin_Hattrup-Silberberg@mckinsey.com                 Transport & Environment (2018) Roadmap to decar-
                                                       bonising European cars                             "Dieselgate" – a timeline of Germany's car emissions
Wolfgang Bernhart, Roland Berger                                                                          fraud scandal
+49 711 3275-7421,                                     Institute for Applied Ecology (2018) Electro­
                                                                                                          The debate over an end to combustion engines in
Wolfgang.Bernhart@rolandberger.com                     mobility – Fact check
                                                                                                          Germany
                                                                                                          The task force in charge of steering Germany to
sation, self-driving vehicles, and                     ogies. But all three firms have now                clean mobility
carsharing. The carmakers have lobbied                 launched ambitious plans to switch to
hard – and with some success – against                 e-mobility, and experts say it is far
stricter emissions limits, and they risk               too early to write off these automotive
falling behind in the global compe-                    powerhouses in the global race to the
tition in the field of battery technol-                future of mobility.

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      #Renewables #Wind #Solar #Bioenergy

     Renewables are now Germany’s No. 1
     power source – but key challenges remain

                                  S   ince their launch on a large scale
                                      in the year 2000, renewables have
                                  become a cornerstone of Germany's
                                                                           feed-in tariffs. But their perfor-
                                                                           mance in recent years has been mixed.
                                                                           Once a global technology leader,
                                  power mix. Wind, solar and biogas        Germany's solar sector suffered from
                                  plant manufacturers made up the heart    increased competition abroad and
                                  of the growing German renewables         declining expansion rates at home.
                                  industry, supported by generous          Wind turbine manufacturers have
© E.ON.

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#Renewables #Wind #Solar #Bioenergy

   Contacts                                       Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy       Frankfurt School of Finance / UN Environment
                                                  System Technology (IWES) +49 471 14290-205,           Programme (2018) Global Trends in Renewable
German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE)          antje.wagenknecht@iwes.fraunhofer.de                  Energy Investment 2018
+49 30 275 8170 16, presse@bee-ev.de
                                                  Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and
German Wind Energy Association (BWE)              Innovation Research (ISI) +49 721 6809-100,                On cleanenergywire.org
+49 30 212341-210,                                anne-catherine.jung@isi.fraunhofer.de                   Dossiers:
presse@wind-energie.de
                                                  Citizens’ Energy Alliance (BBEn)                      Bioenergy in Germany
Federal Association for Bioenergy                 +49 30 30 88 17 89,                                   Onshore wind power in Germany
+49 228 81 002 58, info@bioenergie.de             presse@buendnis-buergerenergie.de
                                                                                                        Offshore wind power in Germany
German Solar Industry Association (BSW)                                                                 Solar power in Germany
+49 30 29 777 88-30, hallerberg@bsw-solar.de         Reading
                                                                                                          Factsheets:
Volker Quaschning, University of Applied          Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
                                                  (BMWi) (2018) Renewable Energy Sources in Fig-        Solar power in Germany – output, business
Sciences Berlin                                                                                         and perspectives
+49 30 5019-3656,                                 ures: National and International Development, 2017
                                                                                                        Bioenergy in Germany – facts and figures on devel-
Volker.Quaschning@HTW-Berlin.de                   International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA)    opment, support and investment
                                                  (2018) Renewable Energy Prospects for the EU
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and                                                               German onshore wind power – output, business
Energy (BMWi)                                     Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE)   and perspectives
+49 30 18615 6133, philipp.jornitz@bmwi.bund.de   (2018) Recent Facts about Photovoltaics in Germany    German offshore wind power – output, business
Renewable Energy Research Association             German Wind Energy Association (BWE)                  and perspectives
+49 30 288 7565-72, fvee@helmholtz-berlin.de      Year Book Wind Power 2018                             Environmental concerns accompany German
                                                                                                        offshore wind expansion
                                                                                                        Tenant electricity – feeble start for Germany’s
enjoyed a long expansion period,                  idation phase and is also looking for                 ‘Energiewende at home’

                                                                                                          “Renewables are no longer just the
but a change in political conditions,             business abroad. But achieving the
intensified competition and rejec-                government's 2030 goal – 65 percent
tion by parts of the population have              of power consumption supplied by
                                                                                                            better choice from an ecologic
                                                                                                          perspective, but also from an economic
led them to seek more independ-                   renewables – could give the domes-
ence from their home market. The                  tic market new momentum in years

                                                                                                           point of view.” EconomymaandierEne(CDrgyU)Minister
biogas industry underwent a consol-               to come.

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      #EEG/Law

      Renewables weather new auction
      schemes but face uncertainty in 2020 s

                                  T   he German Renewable Energy Act
                                      (EEG), which established feed-in tar-
                                  iffs, is the mechanism that has made the
                                                                              on investment, which in turn helped to
                                                                              bring down the costs of installing renew-
                                                                              able generation capacity. In 2016, law-
                                  energy transition possible. It guaranteed   makers deemed the sector to be mature
                                  renewable energy producers high returns     enough to take the training wheels off
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#EEG/ Law

   Contacts                                            Reading                                               On cleanenergywire.org
Lars Holstenkamp, Energion, Leuphana University     Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy       Dossier:
+49 4131 677-1931, holstenkamp@uni.leuphana.de      (BMWi) (2017) Renewable Energy Sources Act 2017     The reform of the Renewable Energy Act
Clearingstelle EEG|KWKG                             BMWi (2015) Revision amending the Renewable            Factsheets:
+49 30 2061416-0,                                   Energy Sources Act – Key points
                                                                                                        From ideas to laws – how Energiewende policy
presseanfragen@clearingstelle-eeg-kwkg.de
                                                    BMWi (2017) For a future of green energy            is shaped
Enervis – energy sector consulting                                                                      High hopes and concerns over onshore wind
                                                    Craig Morris and Arne Jungjohann (2016) Energy
+49 30 695175-34, nicolai.herrmann@enervis.de                                                           power auctions
                                                    Democracy: Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables
Fraunhofer IEE                                                                                          Germany ponders how to finance renewable
                                                    German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) (2015)     expansion in the future
+49 561 7294-319, Uwe Krengel
                                                    Factsheet: Renewables from Germany
Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic                                                             EEG reform 2016 – switching to auctions for
                                                    Deutsche Windguard Statistics on wind energy        renewables
Research
                                                    development                                         Defining features of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG)
+49 201 8149-213, sabine.weiler@rwi-essen.de
                                                    Agora Energiewende (2016) Energiewende:
Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND)
+49 30 27586 425, sigrid.wolff@bund.net             What do the new laws mean?

                                                                                                          other countries
                                                                “Economic logic and all experiences from an advantage.”
Matthias Lang, Bird & Bird lawyers
+49 211 2005 6293, matthias.lang@twobirds.com

                                                                                                         ve
                                                                show : In tenders, the largest bidders ha
Volker Quaschning, University of Applied Sciences
+49 30 5019-3656, volker.quaschning@htw-berlin.de

                                                                   			                             Lars Holstenka mp, Leuph ana University
and expose it to market forces: they in-            challenge for renewable operators is
troduced tenders to determine payments              already looming – how to deal with true
to new renewable installa­tions. These              market exposure after the first installa-
auctions have indeed lowered payments               tions cease to receive feed-in payments
to large new installations. But the next            altogether in the early 2020s?

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     #Nuclear phase-out

     Managing the nuclear legacy –
     a project into the next century

                                  T   he question is no longer whether
                                      Germany’s future will be
                                  nuclear-free – or even when, since the
                                                                            primary sources of power are proving
                                                                            an immense challenge. Legal hurdles,
                                                                            decommissioning technicalities, and
                                  government is committed to complet-       above all, the question of where to store
                                  ing the phase-out by 2022. But the        the radioactive waste, are the main
                                  logistics of pulling the plug on what     issues at hand. In 2016, an agreement
                                  was until recently one of the country’s   between plant operators and the state
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#Nuclear phase-out

   Contacts                                           Reading                                               Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and
                                                                                                            Energy (2007) Comparison of Different Decommis-
Wolfgang Irrek, Ruhr West University of Ap-        German Institute for Economic Research (2015)            sioning Fund Methodologies for Nuclear Installations
plied Sciences                                     German Nuclear Phase-out Enters the Next Stage:
+49 208 88254-838, wolfgang.irrek@hs-ruhrwest.de   Electricity Supply Remains Secure
Energiewerke Nord GmbH (EWN)                                                                                     On cleanenergywire.org
                                                   Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
+49 38354 4-8030, marlies.philipp@ewn-gmbh.de      (2015) Germany’s decision to phase out nuclear             Dossier:
Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS)      power is fundamentally sensible from an economic         The challenges of Germany’s nuclear phase-out
+49 30 18 333-11 30, presse@bfs.de                 perspective
                                                                                                               Articles:
Becker Bückner Held energy law firm (BBH)          Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) Online
                                                                                                            German utilities buy out of nuclear waste liability
+49 30 611 28 40-179, ines.zenke@bbh-online.de     information on nuclear safety and nuclear waste
                                                                                                            for 23.6 bln euros
                                                   management
Green Budget Germany (FÖS)                                                                                  Germany’s constitutional court backs speedy
+49 30 7623991-41, andrea.woerle@foes.de           Brunnengräber et. al. (2015) Nuclear Waste Govern-       nuclear exit
                                                   ance – An International Comparison
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature
                                                                                                              Factsheets:
Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)              BBH (2014) Financial provisions in the nuclear sec-
+49 30 18 305-2010, presse@bmu.bund.de                                                                      The history behind Germany’s nuclear phase-out
                                                   tor – Possible risks of the status quo and options for
                                                   reform (in German)                                       What to do with the nuclear waste – the storage
Forschungszentrum Jülich
                                                                                                            question
+49 2461 61-2388, a.stettien@fz-juelich.de         BMWi / Warth & Klein Grant Thornton (2015) Evalu-
                                                                                                            Nuclear clean-up costs
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)       ation of nuclear clean-up provisions (in German)
+49 30 89789-152, mrichter@diw.de                                                                           Securing utility payments for the nuclear clean-up
                                                                                                            Legal disputes over the nuclear phase-out

at least established financial clarity: In                   “In 2050, when the final repository is ready,
addition to paying for the decommis-
sioning of their plants, operators will                      I will be 98 years old . So I am not sure
fund the disposal of nuclear waste with
up to 23.6 billion euros. The rest of                        I will live to see it happen, but I certainly feel
the yet unknown bill will be footed
by taxpayers.
                                                             that it is my responsibility to organise this now.”
                                                                              Barbara Hendricks, Former Environ ment Minister (SPD)
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      #Industry #Jobs #Cost & Prices

     German industry embraces
     transformation challenge

                                   A    fter balking at the Energiewende
                                        for many years, German industry
                                   is now fervently embracing the energy
                                                                            world’s fourth largest economy – both
                                                                            among companies and regions. But
                                                                            businesses increasingly see profits
                                   transition. There is no doubt that the   in the move to a low-carbon future,
                                   efforts to curb climate change through   and they also believe that the process
                                   a far-reaching shift to clean energy     benefits the economy as a whole. Many
                                   will produce winners and losers in the   say that now is the time for Germany
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#Industry #Jobs #Cost & Prices

   Contacts                                         German Industry Initiative for Energy                       The Greens / European Free Alliance (2017)
                                                    Efficiency (DENEFF)                                         The current electricity costs of energy-intensive
Ulrike Lehr, Institute of Economic Structures       +49 30 364 097 02, christian.noll@deneff.org                industries in Germany
Research (GWS)
                                                    Kirsten Best, McKinsey & Company                            Destatis (2018) Data on energy price trends
+49 541 40933-280, lehr@gws-os.com
                                                    +49 211 136-4688, kirsten_best@mckinsey.com
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)                                                                    Centre for European Economic Research (2015)
                                                    Frank Peter, Agora Energiewende                             Social Implications of Green Growth Policy from the
+49 30 89789-152, mrichter@diw.de
                                                    +49 30 700 1435-123,                                        Perspective of Energy Sector Reform and its Impact
Sebastian Bolay, Chambers of Commerce and           frank.peter@agora-energiewende.de                           on Households
Industry (DIHK)
                                                    Achim Wambach, President of the Mannheim Cen-               United Nations Environment Programme (2017)
+49 30 20308-2202, bolay.sebastian@dihk.de
                                                    tre for European Economic Research (ZEW)                    Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2017
Federation of German Industries (BDI)               +49 621 1235-100, achim.wambach@zew.de
+49 30 2028 1565, J.Wiskow@bdi.eu
                                                                                                                     On cleanenergywire.org
Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA)                Reading
+49 228 3894 223, fallak@iza.org                                                                                  Dossiers:
                                                    Federation of German Industries BDI (2018)
Institute for Employment Research (IAB)             Climate paths for Germany                                   The energy transition’s effect on the economy
+49 911 179-1946, wolfgang.braun@iab.de                                                                         Energiewende effects on power prices, costs
                                                    German Energy Agency (2018) Integrated
Institute for Economic Research (Ifo)                                                                           and industry
                                                    Energy Transition
+49 89 9224-1218, schultz@ifo.de                                                                                The energy transition’s effect on jobs and business
                                                    Energy Systems of the Future (2018) Coupling the
Institute for Futures Studies and Technology As-    different energy sectors – options for the next phase        Factsheets:
sessment (IZT) +49 30 80 30 88-45, b.debus@izt.de   of the energy transition
                                                                                                                What business thinks of the energy transition
                                                    BMWi (2018) The Energy of the Future – Sixth                Germany’s Siemens: a case study in Energiewende
                                                    “Energy Transition” Monitoring Report                       industry upheaval
to ensure that it remains a global                  BMWi (2019) Macroeconomic effects and distribu-             Where the Energiewende creates jobs
                                                    tional issues of the energy transition
economic powerhouse – not by                                                                                    Industrial power prices and the Energiewende
shunning the Energiewende, but by                   Studies by the BMWi on the energy transition and
                                                                                                                What German households pay for power
                                                    its impact on investment, growth and jobs
harnessing its innovative momentum.                                                                             How much does Germany’s energy transition cost?
This includes industries barely in-                 Ecofys / Fraunhofer ISI (2015) Electricity Costs of Ener-
                                                    gy Intensive Industries – An International Comparison

                                                                 “The Energiewende will turn the GerEuromapeann eco nomy inside out.”
volved in the transformation (yet),
such as steelmaking and cement.

                                                                      Achim Wambach, President of the Centre for Economic Research (ZEW)
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      #Utilities

      Battered utilities take on start-ups
      in innovation race

                                                      A   s more and more countries around
                                                          the globe embark on the transi-
                                                      tion to a low-carbon economy, there
                                                                                               the energy transition, the utilities are
                                                                                               scrambling to find new business models.
                                                                                               While digital technologies disrupt the
                                                      are many lessons that can be learned     power market, the incumbents hope the
                                                      from the fate of Germany’s embattled     pending electrification of transport and
                                                      power companies. Shaken to the core by   heating will offer new growth opportu-
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#Utilities

“Traditional power companies                        RWE AG                                           Deloitte (2018) Power Market Study 2030 – A new

 have become obsolete.”
                                                    +49 201 12-22088, stephanie.schunck@rwe.com      outlook for the energy industry
                                                    E.ON                                             McKinsey (2018) How utilities can keep the lights on
                                                    +49 201 184-4224, alexander.ihl@eon.com

     Philipp Sc hröder, CEO Sonnen
                                                                                                     Agora Energiewende (2019) European Energy Tran-
                                                    Vattenfall                                       sition 2030 – The Big Picture
                                                    +49 30 8182-2320, stefan.mueller@vattenfall.de
                                                                                                     EY (2017) Digital Utilities: From Behind the Curve to
                                                    EnBW                                             Innovation
                                                    +49 721 6314320, je.schreiber@enbw.com
   Contacts
                                                    innogy                                                On cleanenergywire.org
Thorsten Lenck, Agora Energiewende
                                                    +49 201 12 15250, alexander.stechert-mayer-
+49 30 700 1435-134,                                                                                   Dossiers:
                                                    hoefer@innogy.com
thorsten.lenck@agora-energiewende.de
                                                                                                     Utilities and the energy transition
                                                    Uniper
Helmuth Groscurth, Arrhenius Institute for Energy                                                    Digitalisation ignites new phase in energy transition
                                                    +49 211 4579-3570, leif.erichsen@uniper.energy
and Climate Policy
+49 40 3708 4420, info@arrhenius.de                 Philipp Schröder, CEO Sonnen                       Factsheets:
                                                    +49 8304 92933426, m.bloch@sonnen.de             Germany’s largest utilities at a glance
Simon Skillings, Trilemma UK
+44 1926 842 016, simon@trilemma-uk.co.uk           Gerard Reid, Alexa Capital                       RWE and E.ON overhaul power sector – Reactions
                                                    +44 20 3931 7652, info@alexa-capital.com         to innogy deal
German Association of Energy and Water Indus-
                                                                                                     Small, but powerful: Germany’s municipal utilities
tries (BDEW)
+49 30 300 199-1160, presse@bdew.de                                                                  Securing utility payments for the nuclear clean-up
                                                       Reading
                                                    IEEFA (2017) – Global Electricity Utilities in
                                                    Transition
nities in the Energiewende’s next phase.
                                                    Federation of German Industries BDI (2018)
In the innovation race against agile new
                                                    Climate paths for Germany
players, the overhaul of the former mo-
nopolies is far from over – as evidenced            RWE/E.ON (2018) Two European energy companies
                                                    focus their activities
by the landmark asset swap of former
market leaders RWE and E.ON.

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      #Electricity market

      Power market between competition,
      flexibility, supply security

                                  H    ow will Germany organise the
                                       market around the ever-in-
                                  creasing share of renewable energy?
                                                                           and to market design. In its most
                                                                           recent power market overhaul, the
                                                                           German government opted to stick
                                  What happens to energy security when     with the generation cost-oriented
                                  the sun doesn’t shine and the wind       ‘energy-only’ market, and avoided a
                                  doesn’t blow? Fluctuating electricity    full-on capacity market. With a coal
                                  production with near zero operation-     exit in the making and rising prices
                                  al costs poses a challenge to the grid   for European carbon emission allow-
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